05-08-2025, 09:37 PM
- i am deleting NOTHING. I have two terabyte hard drives plus a terabyte external, you will pry these audio and video files from my cold dead corpse.
- oh yes, i DO remember the crow from way back that was spying on me and Xavier at the time. It was more that in that particular cut scene, it was flying straight into the camera and i was not expecting it and kinda flinched
- since I know that Caleb's evol is gravity based, that can't be it. I would guess.. blood-based? visually its red and black. he's shown telekineses, possibly telepathy, both of which could be explained by acting in living things, aka anything with a heartbeat. well, he did pull the gun out of the guy's hand? i'm trying to think if i've seen him do anything yet to an inanimate object and not remember anything, so i'm going to guess his evol has to do with manipulation of living matter. (EDIT: no, he pulled a gun to him in the last chapter, so its not specific to living things. nuts. hmm.)
- its just weird to me (i didn't write this story, okay?) that out of what feels like nowhere, I take a knife to his face. the MC has NOT been obsessing on camera about Grandma and Caleb, beyond the first quest or two after they died and I know that a decent time has definitely passed since that event. And at no point does the MC come across as unhinged in the murder department; that's ever so slightly more Rafayel's thing. It seems very much out of nowhere at least to me -- its not like the MC was muttering to herself in The Nest about how as soon as she baits the leader of Onychinus, she's going to rip out something tender in vengeance. I grant the idea, sure, but if that's the motivation it was awkwardly executed.
- hah! i dunno "daddy", although i bet more than half the fandom's latched onto that (magic eight ball says: 90%) so i'm with you there. i was originally attracted to Zayne over the other two because he was, in fact, a grown up man; job, responsibilities, potentially bad choices he can't backtrack on.. you know, having that kind of weight that you just accumulate after living awhile. Which, you gotta be fair, neither of the other two guys present up front. Xavier is very innocent and sweet, Rafayel is flighty and kinda annoying kid brother-ish with his constant demands for attention.
But Sylus here - his voice is definitely VERY male, much lower than the others and less smooth. he presents a confidence in the first five seconds where he just takes control without hesitation and that's very attractive in a fictional guy and in the last cutscene i watched, he was still in hard control of the situation. he is indeed walking the walk and talking the talk and i'm over here clapping my ghost hands going "yippee!" in the background :D
(EDIT By the way, this thing Sylus has with MC where he sees her as not just an equal, but literally a mirror reflection is so good because it creates a partners-in-crime dynamic that she doesn't really have with the others in this flavor. If that's the situation here, I am VERY much into it. That is right up my alley in the absolute best way - I, too, want to be bad ass and have a Clyde to my Bonnie. While MC is very .. ditzy? .. at times in the side stories, I like to envision her as slightly more intent and focused in the "real" world, capable of actually getting things done. She IS a Hunter, after all. If Sylus is just waiting for us/her to remember our full potential so we can tear off into the distance, chewing landscape as we go, I am ALL IN)
- re/resonating and motivations thereof: no, i agree. whatever he's got going on, he's obviously on top of his pile and i very much doubt he's in any sort of struggle that he suddenly needs a living aether core as an ace in the hole or anything. but since resonance itself hasn't been explained well, other than what i do makes other people stronger and that makes me valuable, i am stumped on what else could be going on here. if my current power level is pitiful and he knows it should be much stronger, that kind of implies that at one point it WAS much stronger and further impllies he was there to see it, so maybe he wants me return to who i ought to be? and if he can get me to resonate with him in particular with his power oozing five ways from Sunday everywhere, maybe that's a shortcut to jump some levels without a ton of time and hard work.
-- aaaand your next point is exactly what i just expanded on above! i gotta start reading things all the way through before replying, instead of doing it point by point (although i find it very amusing that we're being level 1 drift compatible here).
- goddamn pieces of relevance hiding inside cards that one may or may not have.
thank the lord it's nearly the weekend.
- oh yes, i DO remember the crow from way back that was spying on me and Xavier at the time. It was more that in that particular cut scene, it was flying straight into the camera and i was not expecting it and kinda flinched
- since I know that Caleb's evol is gravity based, that can't be it. I would guess.. blood-based? visually its red and black. he's shown telekineses, possibly telepathy, both of which could be explained by acting in living things, aka anything with a heartbeat. well, he did pull the gun out of the guy's hand? i'm trying to think if i've seen him do anything yet to an inanimate object and not remember anything, so i'm going to guess his evol has to do with manipulation of living matter. (EDIT: no, he pulled a gun to him in the last chapter, so its not specific to living things. nuts. hmm.)
- its just weird to me (i didn't write this story, okay?) that out of what feels like nowhere, I take a knife to his face. the MC has NOT been obsessing on camera about Grandma and Caleb, beyond the first quest or two after they died and I know that a decent time has definitely passed since that event. And at no point does the MC come across as unhinged in the murder department; that's ever so slightly more Rafayel's thing. It seems very much out of nowhere at least to me -- its not like the MC was muttering to herself in The Nest about how as soon as she baits the leader of Onychinus, she's going to rip out something tender in vengeance. I grant the idea, sure, but if that's the motivation it was awkwardly executed.
- hah! i dunno "daddy", although i bet more than half the fandom's latched onto that (magic eight ball says: 90%) so i'm with you there. i was originally attracted to Zayne over the other two because he was, in fact, a grown up man; job, responsibilities, potentially bad choices he can't backtrack on.. you know, having that kind of weight that you just accumulate after living awhile. Which, you gotta be fair, neither of the other two guys present up front. Xavier is very innocent and sweet, Rafayel is flighty and kinda annoying kid brother-ish with his constant demands for attention.
But Sylus here - his voice is definitely VERY male, much lower than the others and less smooth. he presents a confidence in the first five seconds where he just takes control without hesitation and that's very attractive in a fictional guy and in the last cutscene i watched, he was still in hard control of the situation. he is indeed walking the walk and talking the talk and i'm over here clapping my ghost hands going "yippee!" in the background :D
(EDIT By the way, this thing Sylus has with MC where he sees her as not just an equal, but literally a mirror reflection is so good because it creates a partners-in-crime dynamic that she doesn't really have with the others in this flavor. If that's the situation here, I am VERY much into it. That is right up my alley in the absolute best way - I, too, want to be bad ass and have a Clyde to my Bonnie. While MC is very .. ditzy? .. at times in the side stories, I like to envision her as slightly more intent and focused in the "real" world, capable of actually getting things done. She IS a Hunter, after all. If Sylus is just waiting for us/her to remember our full potential so we can tear off into the distance, chewing landscape as we go, I am ALL IN)
- re/resonating and motivations thereof: no, i agree. whatever he's got going on, he's obviously on top of his pile and i very much doubt he's in any sort of struggle that he suddenly needs a living aether core as an ace in the hole or anything. but since resonance itself hasn't been explained well, other than what i do makes other people stronger and that makes me valuable, i am stumped on what else could be going on here. if my current power level is pitiful and he knows it should be much stronger, that kind of implies that at one point it WAS much stronger and further impllies he was there to see it, so maybe he wants me return to who i ought to be? and if he can get me to resonate with him in particular with his power oozing five ways from Sunday everywhere, maybe that's a shortcut to jump some levels without a ton of time and hard work.
-- aaaand your next point is exactly what i just expanded on above! i gotta start reading things all the way through before replying, instead of doing it point by point (although i find it very amusing that we're being level 1 drift compatible here).
- goddamn pieces of relevance hiding inside cards that one may or may not have.
thank the lord it's nearly the weekend.
