O Nameless one, you need only keep stepping forward.
Toward the brightest star to begin your journey.
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Damn you seeing this blog?? Must mean you're familiar (or about to be) with the Jace brand.
That's right, your ol' pal has tacked in a new RP blog the Trailblazer (Caelus) of Honkai:Star Rail!/ Double it! Lighter from Zenless Zone Zero has also been added! Been having me a lil too much fun, so I was like what the hell!
That said. Gonna be keeping this dash only, all-a that good stuff. Why not link the ruleset from a once blog of mine to get the point across. The rest will come in due time.
RULES. (Mind you I'm a 33 yr old mun. Can't update my old profile.)
Below are pretty much bonds for the muses on my blog that really expanded not just their personal stories in those continuities, but also play a good part in the creative factor for my ideas overall.
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About below the cut. Just some ground work for my interp.
Name: Caelus
Age: Old. He appears in his twenties. Despite being 'reborn' into a new body, the experiences of those years with the Stellaron Hunters. (outside of his central memory of past journeys) carried over in making him knowledgeable. So its a new him but at the same time its not.
Personality: Headstrong, brazen and rough edged to his faults. Caelus is someone who from the beginning his new tale in Herta's spaceship came to be with a lot of confusion, anger and a thirst for answers. Given how the 'Greater Threads of Destiny' and all that hot mess hangs over his head like Damacle's blade, it made him particularly prickly, and readily set to approach his problems with vigor or outside the norm of typical 'Class.'
That only applies to his stance against adversity and dangerous potentials. Beyond that? Caelus happens to be someone who values 'Experience' above all else. Whether its his, others and the unexpected they come to share. That's where his fixation on the 'Moment' above all else comes to be. In kind, why time outside of how much is shared together really doesn't matter on the prophetic scale.
Coming to innate get a grasp on HIS values of Destruction and the stalwart ward of Preservation (and soon many more paths) via the Trailblaze's path. His roots of grow are centered on bringing these conceptual approaches to their reality into a form he can grasp. Beyond that? His core value of enjoying life, and ensuring that such a thing knows its value carries him forward. Just as he respects things that be, he respects the same life that also has to meet its end if it's a threat.
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I'm going to get the crown moment clear out the way. In terms of contextual clues based on this core info they offered before the following scene of Caelus utilizing Trailblaze adjacent Stellaron.
Caelus had simulated the act of going beyond the essence of being 'Akivili's' gaze at Himeko, her outright transformed her and Motoko's soul into Emanator of the Trailblaze. He served as the central piece to bring inexhaustible strength into the Starblazer and the Express, Igniting the Engine. The act of this alone is showing that a once Masterless path is finding not a mere substitute, but a force that can actively operate on the scale of an Aeon in terms of influencing more decisive actions from said Path.
As far as we known this in unprecedented in the essence of Path usage. It's no different than discovering how Akivili may have found a route that works to transcend the essence of Paths itself. It falls back into another saying offered the possibilities etched into the nature of this strength.
Which in itself sounds like pure insanity and that in itself is exactly why it's being etched into possibility. Things like this are actively being demanded to be known by another ripple of possibility that's likely become the Finality. We can find it in a unique conversation amidst the realm made by Caelus' will and Himeko's wish.
That crossing once again has taken part. Set before him is a demand to actually capitalize not merely upon greed, but to really tap into that restless possibility as an embodiment of the Trailblaze itself. The way it comes off as a challenge, as if the very Finality before him (another key hint on this said identity here--)
The aspect of Finality itself in the HSR context was described a certain chant.
Now what Dahlia hadn't known is how both the Trailblaze and Finality finds itself woven into the TB's existence. In a way, it'll always be among the currents of high scaled regret that their being is conjured, that the challenge is set to ensure the Trailblaze doesn't 'distort' this case into a realm of Finality. In terms of seeing this double, this is what they want as if watching a way for the endless regret through loss, through sacrifice and the very definition of those concepts get shattered.
Upon this particular precipice, Cyrene's wisdom has worked as a key, something that struck deep at that meticulous balance.
Within the situation involving these two there's really no realm of coincidence. If the worst comes to past they can step in, it's drawing upon that precipice where Terminus' voice (I imagine as the other TB in this case) can be heard distinctly. The fact it even can is another 'impossibility' brought to life, as for almost everyone else Terminus' 'Sleep addled mutterings' is something that finds itself attempting to be dechipered.
It feels like a challenge set by the Finality itself for the Trailblaze, to discover a road where you can burn away the worst outcomes and for the TB to find themselves willing to damn every personal rule in that pursuit. The nature of Paths will serve both as a guide and strength, and at this point in HSR it feels as if this route is an important 'preparation stage' to reach the similar field where the birth of said Finality awaits, and likely other trues such as elements that can even pose dangers to these paths in itself.
Since the Stellaron Hunter's goal has to be taken into account, which offers a heavy glance given how Asat puts it.
In this way given how the Trailblaze and Finality in it's current iterations (and potential futures) are under threat like this, it gives the idea how there's a wealth of truths involving how vividly Paths may be getting manipulated/guided in kind that still needs to be taken into account. The fact that Stellaron's themselves are literal creations of Path fragments says it all.
Woops this wound up primarily being TB centric but y'know, who's really surprised about that at this point.
My thoughts on the quest (which I loved) will have to wait till I return from work.
BUT in the meantime HSR 4.4 spoilers inbound. Warning here! Oh the things in this conversation..
I'm getting a realm of characterization and Trailblazer lore that has been absolutely Elated. Cross checking Asat's answers (The crit success choices) with other events corroborates the offered lore too. For instance, if we go on the four Paths bit--
Nous has made a mention of this. (Ironic he mentioned THEM too in this case.)
Tonight is going to be a feast of mental chewing, especially as we get both a deeper understanding on the TB's nature and how the Stellaron that etched the 'Alive' moments of the Trailblaze path. (Mainly, how this energy thrives in a way similar to when Akivili was alive in their set cosmos. That Aeon might've just tore beyond the aspect of Aeonhood itself, for better or worse.)
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Alright. I'm going to keep this short and concise.
After catching that literal RP tags are also getting set in the crossfire. It's time for me to stamp down the pedal on this particular rule.
Over the past month I have seen no shortage of matters ranging from people being disgruntled, in the ground zero, or just asinine crossing in this whole Sparky debacle. The one valid cause for concern is also being spiraled with more bullshit. I've reached my own point and I will be acting this from the moment you see this post.
So I'm keeping to my rules and getting to the point. As a forewarning, anyone who has reactionary positions (Ex: I feel like leaving the commute, this is annoying) will be just getting unfollowed by me for the forseeable future. I've made my stance clear for a hot minute in how I carve out my piece on this blog, I'm sticking to that. All I see with these actions is one more branch to have it prolonged. (To a degree I'm guilty for this even MAKING this, but this is the first and final.)
I don't have anything against you for said reactions, that's just something, by my decision, that I will not have around me. Let the people stewing in that do what they do, but I will not let my own experiences just be warped into having this witnessed like some newspaper event.
My muse pulls your muse into a tight hug, as if afraid to let go.
His arms were far from a stranger in becoming the foundation will can steady her. It was impulsive, but the nodes of her mood, that tremor that ripples akin to concern more than anything else just snagged his attention. Herta will always find this warmth wholly prepared if the moment ever felt fitting, conversations themselves don't need to be a mere 'ice breaker' onto the matter at hand.
At times, the emotions themselves are enough to lead him into action. That current of protectiveness always had this touch of finality to it, as if he truly was always carving these moments of keeping her in his arms into the finest memory, regardless of the circumstance. "Let's slow it down for a good moment." Despite the strength of his words, it never tilted beyond the realm of suggestion. A warm, gentle intensity lingers within his gaze as he proceeds to take an appropriate look at her.
We'll always make a moment.
"You've been looking a little frantic. Has somethin' troublesome sprung up?" (Caelus to Herta!)
Would it ever stop surprising her that he sometimes knew her feelings before she did? Gifting him that mirror fragment enabled her to resonate with his emotions, to communicate with him without the spoken word and across great distances — but, in obtaining those things, she had to grant the same permissions to him in return. He knew when she was deep in concentration, on the verge of a breakthrough. He knew when she was annoyed or irritated by something. And he knew when this stubborn, persistent thread of anxiety was permeating her mood.
That was why Caelus didn't say a word as he crossed the room towards her ( she hadn't even been expecting him at the Clocktower today ) and simply pulled her into an embrace.
To say the gesture came as a surprise was an understatement.
Eyes widening, Herta instinctively tensed as his arms wound around her, unsure initially of how to respond — and with a what are you doing? ready and settled on the tip of her tongue. Yet, as she felt the warmth of his body, as she recognised that same warmth and affection and concern radiate within their shared connection... the words died in her throat. She relaxed, slowly returning the gesture, letting her arms wind around him and her head rest against the crook of his shoulder before he drew back.
A moment. “ It's nothing to worry about. ” And how exactly had that same dismissive attitude served her when he'd visited and subsequently scrutinised her condition post-Irontomb? Not very well. Herta exhaled slowly. “ Some bad dreams. It's likely a lingering side-effect of communing with Nous. I connected my brain to THEM and saw into THEIR thoughts. Even for a genius, that's an overload of information that my brain is only now able to parse for itself. ”
Under the weight of those golden irises, Herta felt compelled to continue. “ Droidhead is constantly calculating the future, and anchoring THEIR preferred chain of events using THEIR Instants. What I can't tell... is whether the images being generated in my subconscious are accurate to those future events, and whether Nous chose to reveal them to me for a reason. ”
It still didn't sit entirely easy with Herta to recognise that Zandar was right, that no matter hers or the Trailblaze's efforts in altering Nous' Instant, they were still beholden to the calculations of an aeon nonetheless. But she was not about to embark down the Path of Destruction to change things like her senior had. “ The last thing I want is to chase any of these prophetic images like Destiny's Slave or any of the Stellaron Hunters following his script. But I can't easily get them out of my head, either. ” That was the dilemma. And, even just to voice it to her most trusted confidante like this did lift a weight from her shoulders.
He can feel it in his veins. Terror untold are just aching to make their prominent reach through the surface here! It already has him cracking his knuckles in preparation.
Certainly there's no hidden relations between the Trailblaze and Destruction.
I found this artistic framing a wee bit suspicious given all that we know.
While this has been the longer running but nonetheless firmer glances from back then too, given the fire/sun imagery that's either at the tower's horizon or engulfing it entirely. I imagine it's a unique offshoot/response of Trailblaze but I just don't have the lore bits yet to bite deeper into this.
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@eraba-reta-unmei replied to your post “"So, y'know what they say about the V word in our...”:
miya vc downtime is a lie and the entire universe is laughing
"I'm countin' it as one of Aha's best jokes yet. If I had to jerry rig a way to get a real vacation for a lotta high profile folks out there. You'd need to briefly rip off your whole identity for a couple-a days."
"A literal nobody, because who ever brings worries up to their doorstep?"
@avaere replied to your post “"So, y'know what they say about the V word in our...”:
stelle vc: aw dude did you warts again (she's convinced that's a v-word)
"...?????"
Say what.
"What in the hell is warts in Stelle language? I'm not taking anything you say for granted, there's a catch, some hidden and horribly cursed punchline pal."
[☕️] Her gaze softened a bit as he mentioned the Nameless of Old. After all, they were right, it was good to offer a bit of stardust to those who needed it; to brighten that spark. A soft hum leaving her as she gave a small nod. Golden hues shimmered in amusement as she let her hand fall from her chest as she gently reached with her other to pick up her coffee mug.
He had definitely joined her at a good time, she was winding down with her cuppa and just… enjoying the view. After all, she would never get tired of it. At their words, she couldn’t help but laugh, since he wasn’t wrong in the fact that the options certainly had been quite fruitful. “They certainly weren’t. You definitely picked one of the tamest ones but nonetheless eventful one.”
Leaving was never a thought in his mind, and anything beyond? The idea felt like a daunting one to just spring considering how it was in the issue of a challenge. Brazen he may be, but Caelus was aware that some tact had to exist if anything else came to light. "Heh. Guess that means you got to side that surprisingly still does exist." Given how he's come to redefine shameless in the lexicon of the Nameless, it should be no surprise.
...How would she perceive any of that anyways? She never ushered an impression of unreachable, but the idea of that sort of playfulness felt like the uncanny valley for the time. By now the curiosity was reaching a fever pitch, his elbows propped upon the table and his hands serving as a throne for his head. "So how about you color my world a bit more on this. Just what is your opinion on the kissing scene anyways? Not to be nosy on your private life.. okay, maybe a bit, but the fact you called my option tame there!"
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Now wasn't that a cruelly handsome bastard set in that artwork.
The advent of his arrival? Destined steps that would lead him to this very locale? If Caelus hadn't known any better, this particular Ravager found themselves adamantly searching for his arrival here.
He can't help but feel the joyful fury burn with incandescence within. The very idea that someone wanted to go beyond robbing choice, but to ultimate mold him into the intrusment of untold destruction? Somehow, it only makes the gnawing suspicious that his ties with the Trailblaze runs much deeper than he realizes.
Sorrowful rainfall would wail it's morbid hymns upon the glass that remained, striking ruthlessly upon the roofstop and leaving the Nameless to his own devices. "In a way, I almost can't hate it." At least, the sheer freedom in all ways but one to how those violet hands guided this very course. It should've been a form of freedom unparalleled, damning any and each who dared to get in its way. Howeveer?
Caelus can feel falsity locked upon this entire joke. No one has been better caged by robbing themselves of all forms of malleability, it was a pure, fettered stone locked into the fate of getting ruthlessly based upon the raging currents of time.
"But if you're going this far? Let me rip any form of hope you have clear from those hands, one more time. Predecessor."