[Coldsaturn]

ZAYNE
protocore cluster:
in my head, the idea is that protocores will take the shape of the vessel they're in, and based on how much energy it is fed, it will grow larger or stay small

"bloody tears stream down from William's empty eye sockets." ewwww "An array of faces emerges from the cluster's projection."
Honestly Dawnbreaker's sections would be cool AF as a cinematic video

"oh great, now the dead people are berating Zayne / Dawnbreaker for not being able to anything but spare them pain."
That always hits me so hard ;__;

"i'm begging him to kill me."
put a pin on it!

"... uh flashback? 'its too dangerous' -- "can't control it... leave"
Put a pin on this too!

Your theories regarding zayne's problems with his evol are half right, but I won't tell you which half is correct
what I understood from his actions when MC was passed out after trying to put his evol under control is that he took back the frost that had settled on her, so whatever help she was trying to offer he nullified it by reabsorbing the black frost.



XAVIER
he really does look like he should be in a boyband. k/j/c-pop edits are pretty common for the LADS boys, unsurprisingly

"their power comes from the very core of the cosmos."
You know it... I know it... put a pin on it.

"i am suddenly picturing a crystalline monster with bear paws for hands hunkered over an office terminal, straining its eyes in the blue light to tap out somebody's last name to find out when their next class is so they can intercept on the way."
I am once again deeply mourning my inability to draw ffs

"how many diplomas do you have, Xavier, if you can't remember??"
Edward Cullen moment lol

- Can we also talk about the symbolism behind the name Ulysses? A lost voyager trying to go back home.

"he was, always facing forward which is how he kept making eye contact with someone who kept turning around in their chair."
Anecdote reference! Awww.

"You can't.. and neither can SHE."
Put a pin on this!

"It can't be her. She's not a sacrifice."
And this!

"a planet that uses.... to survive... doesn't deserve to be saved."
PIN!

"its a spaceship?"
If you look at its overall shape, the big circular arcs above, you might recall the spaceship of the prologue when we have the voice over talking about traceback II entering the black hole.

"something is suppressing his evol"
idk something that might look like a collar that activates every time he uses too much power

"what was Traceback II for?"
We know half of this answer. We know that traceback II had Backtrackers on board. and backtrackers backtrack. what we need to find out is their goal.