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also, i saw ch19 got released 4 hours ago... i haven't read it yet, but i'm in such suspense... what's gonna happen!?!? (⁠°⁠□⁠°)

oh, right! i almost forgot, here's my ask: how many arcs do you think you'll write before penacony arrives?

omgggg another lore enjoyer !! i loveee hsr’s lore sm and this fic is kinda my love letter to it, in a way. it’s also meant to be a rewarding read for other lore enjoyers so i’m rly happy u felt it <33

YOUR FIRST FIC … ratio vs the universe is truly a story that cannot be separated from the original material, so it’s absolutely, 100%, FANfiction, and i will try to be the best example i can i promise !! (i’m also very proud of strawberry moon hehe.)

arcs-wise, i have 3 planned before dr ratio’s first ingame appearance, but 2 of them will be VERY short, as in maybe 3-5 chapters max. after that will be a BIG arc, although idk if it’ll be as long as briros, and then crown of mundane + divine which is quite short, then penacony! i’ll also have a LOT more spare time next year so hopefully i will be able to finish those short, snappy arcs much quicker.

I got to ch 18 Ratio va Universe and a part confused me, hoping it’s okay if i ask it here!

The cannon. That, Veritas remembers. “But then — ” his mind whirls, unable to fit this new piece of information anywhere into the puzzle called Briros. “Who proposed to Aventurine?”

“Prince Naorem did.”

How come Ratio called him Aventurine here and not John to Princess Sihomy? She calls him John usually, but was she made aware who John really is since he’s a “performer” and all so Ratio calls him Aventurine in front of her now in private?

i loved ch 18 and am truly terrified what’ll happen next, even if i know *eventually* they’ll be safe & away from briros but i fear for how traumatized will they be… sobs…

thank you for sharing this beautiful story with us!! i love reading all the theories in the comments on your fic too, we’ve all got charlie pepe silvia whiteboards going on in our brains LOL

THANK YOU SO MUCH i’m so happy you’re enjoying my writing so far !!

As for what Sihomy said … uh . That was NOT meant to be Aventurine BFDGFDGSFFSF thanks for pointing it out I’ve changed it to John now. Unfortunately I am not infallible and sometimes I make mistakes … sigh

on a sidenote, i’m super curious abt your background. do you do anything with science? (and if not, would you be interested in feedback on that?)

hehehe thank you !! we’ll see how those theories turn out ;)

ahhh thank you so much !!! i do a lot of planning and worldbuilding for the fic so i’m really happy my readers appreciate it <3 i’m working on a new chapter as we speak so i hope you enjoy the next update tooooo

HSR Lore

The part about Paths being congregations of imaginary energy is canon! Since quantum as an element exists in the Honkai universe and is consistently posited as the complementary element to imaginary, it wouldn’t be too far off to say imaginary energy, much like most unexplained phenomena irl, is mostly observed / has an explanation at the quantum level. And extrapolating explanations for behavior of stuff like in-universe magic is much easier if it’s based on in-universe canon science, i.e. Herta’s solution to the solitary waves theory.

Ratio’s salary was calculated based on what I call the Boba Index. Basically, I take the credit value of Immortal’s Delight, compare it to the average prices of brown sugar boba milk tea irl (usually 5-7ish USD), then use that value and multiply it by how much I need the final item to cost in irl terms. So yes, Ratio is being severely underpaid here for a lecturer whose expertise spans 8(+?) subjects.

In the recent drink event, Sushang mentions his teaching channel is named “A Thinking Reed”! It was also in the photography event.

Aiden (Genius Society #2)’s nine-worded theorem canonically replaced traditional algebra and geometry. The paradox only works because it doesn’t use traditional algebra and geometry (for a more detailed explanation, refer to Other Notes), AND requires the usage of set theory, which wasn’t replaced.

According to TB mission Cat Among the Pigeons, Sigonia-IV is on the border of 3 intersecting star clusters, including Dnies.

Other Notes

Neighboring Normal is the HSR version of Next to Normal, a musical that indeed uses event-based amnesia as a central element of the plot.

The Banach-Tarski paradox is real! I took the explanation from the comments of this reddit post here. Or do a Wikipedia search if you prefer, either way works

HSR Lore

Does this count as lore? Idk. But basically, the original A:SR only showed Aventurine’s past as the sole survivor of the Avgins. Ergo, Ratio has no idea about Aventurine’s time as a slave.

Other Notes

Room 1408 is a paranormal torture room in a hotel named The Dolphin in the 1999 horror movie “1408”.

“The Pagemaster” is a children’s movie that predominantly features a library.

According to Reddit, “The Haunting of Julia” is a classic horror movie. Unfortunately, I, like Ratio, am not the biggest fan of horror movies (this is the most I’ve projected onto him so far ngl), and as such I really don’t want to search it up while I’m writing this at midnight. Googling Suspiria was enough for me. You, the reader, are free to do as you wish, obviously.

Hominids are members of the taxonomic family that includes humans and all great apes like chimps, gorillas etc.

Where Aventurine’s past is more reflective of the Atlantic slave trade, Brirosian slavery is more like that of antiquity (i.e. slavery in Greco-Roman time periods). As such, attitudes towards slavery on Briros are similar to the attitudes towards slavery during that time — abolitionist views were nonexistent, with most of the moral debate around slaves being about their treatment, because slavery was so widespread society simply could not conceive of a world where it didn’t exist.

Briros exists in a vacuum — the average Brirosian doesn’t know slavery is illegal or looked down on in the larger universe. It’s normal and natural to us (+ Ratio and especially Aven) to condemn it because we have a concept of human rights and know all humans are equal, but their morality doesn’t take that as evil into account in the first place!

https://archiveofourown.org/content#II.C

hihi tysm for the reminder !! i reworded it so that it doesn’t make explicit referral to commercial activity, just “would anyone be interested if i released a physical copy” … which isn’t explicitly commercial so it should be fine? fingers crossed …… i did put the link in a linktree instead so hopefully that works! it’s a bit annoying bc hsr does explicitly allow commercial activity using their IP but i understand why a blanket rule is needed ..