06-18-2025, 05:43 PM
CONTINUATION
One thing I meant to bring up and forgot -- the bond does not seem to carry over between incarnations? He carries it always inscribed on his heart because he cannot die, but we keep coming back and he keeps having to reinstate it? or is it more that the bond is there, but sleeping / needs a love charge? He seems to know / can find his Bride (how DO they find the Bride each time in this City of Mirrors anyways? Its not like we have a pulsating mark over our hearts. Do they just parade all the six year old girls in front of the Tome on their birthday and ask them what it says?) in this myth, but God of Tides kind of established that the Follower could be just anybody. Didn't it?
I need to make a causal chain in writing, I am terrible for detail tracking in my head.
Rafe is SO FLIRTY in this, in a rather cruel and closed off sort of way. I am digging it SO much - this is just how he is, charm and delight and so much focused attention it makes you dizzy, mi sirena novio.
I also noticed very much the cock ring - Twitter absolutely was on point with that, whatever it was they said, because wow what a design choice - i really, really approve. loved that the "womb tattoo" is a stylized fire.
How much Rafayel remembers / does not remember of God of Tides and the Ceremony is really ambiguous. He seems aware that something happened, but also doesn't seem to track or care about any of the details? We also have to keep in mind that Rafe lies sometimes, and not always with a smirk to say "hey, i'm teasing you about this, we both know that i know but i find it more amusing to pretend i don't so you can play along with the scenario i just wrote in my head". and maybe it really is just it was So Long Ago and he Just Woke Up And Is Groggy. Maybe the memories are part and parcel of the power - he just bundled it all up, shoved it under a rock and dusted his hands off before heading for a nap.
The comment about time being this oppressive loss of memory - that's a really good theory, I like it. Maybe he naps frequently over the centuries if its literally been "tens of thousands" of years (mountains to seas, yah) and every time he wakes up again and starts anew, its all this misty recollection of something he can't quite grasp right away.
re/Slumbering Lemurians - I was wondering here if Lemurians are hiding in the human population, instead of, you know, literally sleeping in a pile under the ruins of Whalefall City. I noticed a bunch of times they were using the Whalefall City backdrop (minus the fish and coral) but couldn't figure out if it was laziness on Infold's side or if it was supposed to Mean Something. And by "hiding" I mean completely unaware of their heritage, just wandering around thinking they're human like everybody else, their mermaid forms sleeping inside them. Maybe when the Sea God withdrew from the Deep Sea, the Lemurians forgot themselves?
re/bond mark never completed - i went WUT?! there too! The Ceremony didn't.. Ceremony hard enough? They didn't do the thing properly? which I kind of suspected but also, wha?
the NPC voices are so, so trashy. I cannot believe that with the amount of money this game makes, they couldn't do better than Stuart, The Intern From Marketing.
/spits up coffee
Hanahaki?! how did I not think of that! bwahahaha!
re/Hawkern - I like that Rafayel was all.. yeah, I let him go. Kind of curious what he'll do, actually. Kinda looking forward to it, been a little dull around here.
I was REALLY thrilled at the scene where Rafayel is tending to the Bride's "wound" on her back and the handmaiden just brushes past the curtain and halts on a blue screen. i blue screened. then the handmaiden whirls out, the Bride yanks her top back on and i was like YOU HAD YOUR TOP OFF? so excellent. lovely Sea God hands all over our bare flower patterned back where nobody is supposed to see us only somebody did and the rumors are going to flyyyyy.
Considering that every time the Bride and Her God get together, some civilization collapses - maybe this does not bode well for Linkon City. EVER may have bigger problems than they realize.
One thing I meant to bring up and forgot -- the bond does not seem to carry over between incarnations? He carries it always inscribed on his heart because he cannot die, but we keep coming back and he keeps having to reinstate it? or is it more that the bond is there, but sleeping / needs a love charge? He seems to know / can find his Bride (how DO they find the Bride each time in this City of Mirrors anyways? Its not like we have a pulsating mark over our hearts. Do they just parade all the six year old girls in front of the Tome on their birthday and ask them what it says?) in this myth, but God of Tides kind of established that the Follower could be just anybody. Didn't it?
I need to make a causal chain in writing, I am terrible for detail tracking in my head.
Rafe is SO FLIRTY in this, in a rather cruel and closed off sort of way. I am digging it SO much - this is just how he is, charm and delight and so much focused attention it makes you dizzy, mi sirena novio.
I also noticed very much the cock ring - Twitter absolutely was on point with that, whatever it was they said, because wow what a design choice - i really, really approve. loved that the "womb tattoo" is a stylized fire.
How much Rafayel remembers / does not remember of God of Tides and the Ceremony is really ambiguous. He seems aware that something happened, but also doesn't seem to track or care about any of the details? We also have to keep in mind that Rafe lies sometimes, and not always with a smirk to say "hey, i'm teasing you about this, we both know that i know but i find it more amusing to pretend i don't so you can play along with the scenario i just wrote in my head". and maybe it really is just it was So Long Ago and he Just Woke Up And Is Groggy. Maybe the memories are part and parcel of the power - he just bundled it all up, shoved it under a rock and dusted his hands off before heading for a nap.
The comment about time being this oppressive loss of memory - that's a really good theory, I like it. Maybe he naps frequently over the centuries if its literally been "tens of thousands" of years (mountains to seas, yah) and every time he wakes up again and starts anew, its all this misty recollection of something he can't quite grasp right away.
re/Slumbering Lemurians - I was wondering here if Lemurians are hiding in the human population, instead of, you know, literally sleeping in a pile under the ruins of Whalefall City. I noticed a bunch of times they were using the Whalefall City backdrop (minus the fish and coral) but couldn't figure out if it was laziness on Infold's side or if it was supposed to Mean Something. And by "hiding" I mean completely unaware of their heritage, just wandering around thinking they're human like everybody else, their mermaid forms sleeping inside them. Maybe when the Sea God withdrew from the Deep Sea, the Lemurians forgot themselves?
re/bond mark never completed - i went WUT?! there too! The Ceremony didn't.. Ceremony hard enough? They didn't do the thing properly? which I kind of suspected but also, wha?
the NPC voices are so, so trashy. I cannot believe that with the amount of money this game makes, they couldn't do better than Stuart, The Intern From Marketing.
/spits up coffee
Hanahaki?! how did I not think of that! bwahahaha!
re/Hawkern - I like that Rafayel was all.. yeah, I let him go. Kind of curious what he'll do, actually. Kinda looking forward to it, been a little dull around here.
I was REALLY thrilled at the scene where Rafayel is tending to the Bride's "wound" on her back and the handmaiden just brushes past the curtain and halts on a blue screen. i blue screened. then the handmaiden whirls out, the Bride yanks her top back on and i was like YOU HAD YOUR TOP OFF? so excellent. lovely Sea God hands all over our bare flower patterned back where nobody is supposed to see us only somebody did and the rumors are going to flyyyyy.
Considering that every time the Bride and Her God get together, some civilization collapses - maybe this does not bode well for Linkon City. EVER may have bigger problems than they realize.
