10-06-2025, 04:58 PM
I was SO sure I had added some more comments to my post here but now I can't see them.
oh well.
- There was a very specific reason I linked the video I used to watch the myth, and it's precisely because Lavender censored everything and consistently chose the less spicy options! I request that you do two things: 1) check the first kindled scene where they give you both outcome options to the lip biting. If you bite him he heals the little wound and you try to run away (clue the leash), but if you don't complete the action in time with the trigger then it's very delicious. 2) that scene on the balcony where she can either seduce him or intoxicate him, watch the seduce option! (the video I linked has it)
- Yes to his hair! They really did such a good job. I'll confess I'm not really into his hairstyle in the present timeline, there's something about his bangs and how his hair curves that bothers me but I can't pinpoint exactly what's wrong. Maybe it's just a matter of proportions and balance with his face. Anyway, long hair fixed it entirely, I'm very very happy with the result.
- "This space doesn't truly exist. It's simply a shadow cast from somewhere else."
The wedding banner card and its temporarily created spaces.
- "but if you just take the written word at face value, he's so awesome."
100% agree. I truly think he would shine in novel format. It's interesting how his other VAs give him a slightly different vibe, but yeah, there's always the fact that he's animated like a proper kuudere.
- "If I don't destroy the remaining magical arrays, she and Niava will face an even greater disaster."
The whole thing with the arrays was kinda difficult to follow for me, but I think that was him blocking the points of contact between Niava and that other very close world that was already on its way to destruction. That world collapsing would drag Niava with it (I think?) so Zayne was trying to save MC's world by isolating it from everything else, so that it could stay suspended in time and never die. But swimming against the current of fate was only going to accelerate its death (the arrays turning into monsters, calamities falling on the world etc.), so in the end Zayne opted for fixing whatever he could and let Niava follow its original path (while he tried to find a way to send MC somewhere else?).
- "is the whole problem with the Wanderers and EVER and Philos lost to the destruction of immortality, all to do with the fact that Zayne, keeper of fate, brought back the Creation stone from beyond the veil just to save me with it - and like, doomed EVERYTHING ELSE?"
We still don't have canon evidence that one LI's route is influencing the others that directly. This is fuel for a lot of fandom wars ("my LI is the origin!" "my LI is more important!" "my LI is endgame!") and I don't think infold would go that way. It's safe to assume that in Zayne's route he might be the cause of the mess with fate. More than that, and you'd have Zayne destined to kill the LIs who are going against predetermined fate (Raf and Xav on top of the list).
- "IT'S DOING CALCULATIONS?!?"
One of the comments that I was sure I had posted mentioned that the specific route that is mentioned in the myth starts with Z (Zayne?) and then follows with the date of his birth. Possibly hinting at the fact that the computer was talking about the present timeline. Interestingly, it says that it's not a successful path.
- "this world is so modern"
It's a direct reference to a World Underneath text! In the other thread where I listed the remaining texts you have to read there's a little summary for each and you'll see which one ties into this myth.
- "timey winey shenanigans, as usual?"
With Zayne more than with any other LI, you have to always think about alternative universes and alternative timelines. Xav's new myth was an alternative sequel to his other myth (only we erased that sequel because it had a bad ending), Raf's new myth was a sequel to his other myth (and as far as we know, it's all linear till the present timeline because Raf has quotes that mirror that myth like he remembers it), but Zayne's isn't tied to his other myths if not for recurring themes and fate.
You know a bit about the Fractal Library, and the fact that at the end of the myth it's revealed we had just witnessed the events of one book tells you that we were just seeing one possible route/world of infinite other routes/worlds. So we don't have to ask ourselves how the Cratio stone ended up in Astra's hands (who then entrusted it to Zayne?) if it was Zayne's before, because those are different worlds. We didn't get any mention or reference to Astra in this myth, so I think we can assume Astra doesn't exist here.
- For protocores you're still missing a World Underneath text and a whole video essay about it. That should help you put a few things in order, still considering how we don't have that many info in the canon story anyway.
- "I did not catch whatever reference was there to Death & Rebirth"
Your luck is that you haven't read all his cards, so D&R got lost in between the other quotes you also didn't recognize!
- "I don't think that was the end of Earth and our modern EVER to be honest"
I can confirm it's not, because of that World Underneath reference I mentioned! But whenever humans try to gain immortality, things always seem to go very, very wrong.
- "Because in that timeline, he didn't love her (yet)!"
Or, more directly, because they hadn't fucked lol
But yes, I love the idea that MC being the variable doesn't have to do with /her/ specifically, but more with the fact that Zayne loves her, thus making her a variable in the rigid web of fate he knows he can't and shouldn't escape. Which ties into Astra erasing his memories of her, and forbidding him from looking into his own fate (because he would then see her).
oh well.
- There was a very specific reason I linked the video I used to watch the myth, and it's precisely because Lavender censored everything and consistently chose the less spicy options! I request that you do two things: 1) check the first kindled scene where they give you both outcome options to the lip biting. If you bite him he heals the little wound and you try to run away (clue the leash), but if you don't complete the action in time with the trigger then it's very delicious. 2) that scene on the balcony where she can either seduce him or intoxicate him, watch the seduce option! (the video I linked has it)
- Yes to his hair! They really did such a good job. I'll confess I'm not really into his hairstyle in the present timeline, there's something about his bangs and how his hair curves that bothers me but I can't pinpoint exactly what's wrong. Maybe it's just a matter of proportions and balance with his face. Anyway, long hair fixed it entirely, I'm very very happy with the result.
- "This space doesn't truly exist. It's simply a shadow cast from somewhere else."
The wedding banner card and its temporarily created spaces.
- "but if you just take the written word at face value, he's so awesome."
100% agree. I truly think he would shine in novel format. It's interesting how his other VAs give him a slightly different vibe, but yeah, there's always the fact that he's animated like a proper kuudere.
- "If I don't destroy the remaining magical arrays, she and Niava will face an even greater disaster."
The whole thing with the arrays was kinda difficult to follow for me, but I think that was him blocking the points of contact between Niava and that other very close world that was already on its way to destruction. That world collapsing would drag Niava with it (I think?) so Zayne was trying to save MC's world by isolating it from everything else, so that it could stay suspended in time and never die. But swimming against the current of fate was only going to accelerate its death (the arrays turning into monsters, calamities falling on the world etc.), so in the end Zayne opted for fixing whatever he could and let Niava follow its original path (while he tried to find a way to send MC somewhere else?).
- "is the whole problem with the Wanderers and EVER and Philos lost to the destruction of immortality, all to do with the fact that Zayne, keeper of fate, brought back the Creation stone from beyond the veil just to save me with it - and like, doomed EVERYTHING ELSE?"
We still don't have canon evidence that one LI's route is influencing the others that directly. This is fuel for a lot of fandom wars ("my LI is the origin!" "my LI is more important!" "my LI is endgame!") and I don't think infold would go that way. It's safe to assume that in Zayne's route he might be the cause of the mess with fate. More than that, and you'd have Zayne destined to kill the LIs who are going against predetermined fate (Raf and Xav on top of the list).
- "IT'S DOING CALCULATIONS?!?"
One of the comments that I was sure I had posted mentioned that the specific route that is mentioned in the myth starts with Z (Zayne?) and then follows with the date of his birth. Possibly hinting at the fact that the computer was talking about the present timeline. Interestingly, it says that it's not a successful path.
- "this world is so modern"
It's a direct reference to a World Underneath text! In the other thread where I listed the remaining texts you have to read there's a little summary for each and you'll see which one ties into this myth.
- "timey winey shenanigans, as usual?"
With Zayne more than with any other LI, you have to always think about alternative universes and alternative timelines. Xav's new myth was an alternative sequel to his other myth (only we erased that sequel because it had a bad ending), Raf's new myth was a sequel to his other myth (and as far as we know, it's all linear till the present timeline because Raf has quotes that mirror that myth like he remembers it), but Zayne's isn't tied to his other myths if not for recurring themes and fate.
You know a bit about the Fractal Library, and the fact that at the end of the myth it's revealed we had just witnessed the events of one book tells you that we were just seeing one possible route/world of infinite other routes/worlds. So we don't have to ask ourselves how the Cratio stone ended up in Astra's hands (who then entrusted it to Zayne?) if it was Zayne's before, because those are different worlds. We didn't get any mention or reference to Astra in this myth, so I think we can assume Astra doesn't exist here.
- For protocores you're still missing a World Underneath text and a whole video essay about it. That should help you put a few things in order, still considering how we don't have that many info in the canon story anyway.
- "I did not catch whatever reference was there to Death & Rebirth"
Your luck is that you haven't read all his cards, so D&R got lost in between the other quotes you also didn't recognize!
- "I don't think that was the end of Earth and our modern EVER to be honest"
I can confirm it's not, because of that World Underneath reference I mentioned! But whenever humans try to gain immortality, things always seem to go very, very wrong.
- "Because in that timeline, he didn't love her (yet)!"
Or, more directly, because they hadn't fucked lol
But yes, I love the idea that MC being the variable doesn't have to do with /her/ specifically, but more with the fact that Zayne loves her, thus making her a variable in the rigid web of fate he knows he can't and shouldn't escape. Which ties into Astra erasing his memories of her, and forbidding him from looking into his own fate (because he would then see her).
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