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Has lots of spoilers for the story so ✨below the cut✨

Okay, I'ma go in depth with this a little bit.

So. In the main story, we are shown that Humanities resurrection is carried out in phases. Specifically, in the time with Ivy and Vanessa 2, it's shown that the architects are rebuilding humanity, and They have never even met humans. Ivy and Vanessa have to constantly speculate ideas as to what humans might be like, only having Cytus records to go off of.

This means, by the time OG Vanessa is gone and turned into Cytus 2 Vanessa, humanity is not out of cryostasis yet. But it is heavily implied in Alive: Buried that she did, absolutely, destroy all the other Operators. And then, presumably, herself as well.

By the sheer fact of what happened to Vanessa herself, we can tell what happened to them all. Cytus 2 Vanessa only has scant memories of her old self, but it is shown to be the same core, if not the same person. Their bodies and basic functions were repurposed from Operators to Architects.

And with the side story of Hans, we see this is a key distinction. Hans is an Operator. Designed to basically be a pre-existing human in a mechanical body. Architects are not that. In fact, aside from Colin himself, most people don't even know Operators existed at all. He talks about it like a rare, niche field of research you only get when doing the kind of shit he does.

This means that, the framework that as used to recreate humans was repurposed to make the Architects. And the Architects have only one clear goal. Rebuild the world for humanity.

They are not supposed to be sentient. Given the protocol outright does not allow for such sentience, it means Vanessa distinctly did not want the Architects becoming a new flavor of Operator. And yet, all the things that made them human are still in there, so it was inevitable in the end.

Then the Purge happened, and this initial wave of Architects, Like Ivy and others, were lost. And then later, a second group was made. This is the one Rin is a part of, and they actually did get to work with humans. But were still usually treated as if they are mindless robots, with sentience as a side value. Any that do awaken sentience are considered anomalies or glitches, and it's usually seen as a problem.

We can come to the conclusion that, as OG Vanessa was the one setting up this entire thing, as she's the one setting up the conditions for there to even be Achitects, that she set all this up as well.

Meaning every single bad thing that occurred to her latter self and every single other Architect is in part because she did this. Was it done out of malice? Unlikely, but after her crisis she probably didn't look very kindly on the sentient robot thing. She was likely just trying to ensure nobody tried bringing back Operators, unaware that the 'operators' themselves might try coming back.

The chip ConnoR found that is made of complex technology he can't make sense of is probably from Rald's time, when the Awakened/Blessed were first experimenting with... Mind control. Scary that they were, but they were. There's a lot of dramatic irony of like... Shit. You had no idea what was coming and it's simultaneously beautiful and heartbreaking.

In Cytus 1, each of the albums has a secret song embedded in the title screen. While playing, scenes would play on screen in between gameplay, much like with other songs in that game. It's very show-don't-tell. (I could write a whole essay about the differences between Cytus and Cytus 2 methods of storytelling and why they work so well thematically, but later.)

I think there is a variation of the game that does have actual text attached for the stories, but I can't seem to find it right now. I believe that game made some of the details more explicit, but you might have to dig for it.

Point is, in the song Buried, the story beats we get are Vanessa turning off a switch, and then several Operator bodies falling away afterwards. The album itself has a spiderlily, representing a funeral, which combined with the title makes the implications fairly clear.

Tanislav sacrificed his wife to save his son Roirr, who grew up obsessed with immortality, ignoring his children. His daughter Pandora lashes out at everyone, and in turn her son Aspar froms the Corrupted Seven, which proceed to torment the world. His other daughter Oyva isolates herself from everyone else, and eventually her descendant Vaal becomes a megalomaniac, who comes to support Roirr's bloody path, eventually culminating in the two of them getting sent back in time to give Tanislav the ritual to save his son in the first place.

Wargoth enslaved the Atealans, and when his son tried to overthrow him he was banished and reincarnated as a human. Falling back on what he had learned from his father, Warlic comes to set his rival Alexander on fire and sealing their mutual friend Jaania into an ice crystal. When Jaania is freed, she decides that magic is too dangerous and has caused too much pain, proceeding to seal Warlic, Xan and the Hero in a crystal, inflicting that very same pain on other people.

The dragon Akriloth burned down Konnan's hometown, and blaming the Hero, Konnan pursued fire magic to exact revenge, becoming Drakonnan and eventually being considered a dragon in mindset.

When King Slugwrath was overthrown, his son Drakath began searching for a way to reclaim his birthright, eventually becoming a dragon. Even after death, his corpse was used to consume the Sun and plunge Lore into Darkness.

And then upstream of basically everything else, you have the Exaltia turning on their creators the Aequilibria. Magic, Lore, the Wastes and Elemental Plains are the aftermath of a gun designed to kill God that uses cities as ammunition.

Dragonfable is about cycles. The balance of lore is such that there will always be saviors to face its destroyers, and destroyers to face its saviors, in perpetuity.

Has lots of spoilers for the story so ✨below the cut✨

Okay, I'ma go in depth with this a little bit.

So. In the main story, we are shown that Humanities resurrection is carried out in phases. Specifically, in the time with Ivy and Vanessa 2, it's shown that the architects are rebuilding humanity, and They have never even met humans. Ivy and Vanessa have to constantly speculate ideas as to what humans might be like, only having Cytus records to go off of.

This means, by the time OG Vanessa is gone and turned into Cytus 2 Vanessa, humanity is not out of cryostasis yet. But it is heavily implied in Alive: Buried that she did, absolutely, destroy all the other Operators. And then, presumably, herself as well.

By the sheer fact of what happened to Vanessa herself, we can tell what happened to them all. Cytus 2 Vanessa only has scant memories of her old self, but it is shown to be the same core, if not the same person. Their bodies and basic functions were repurposed from Operators to Architects.

And with the side story of Hans, we see this is a key distinction. Hans is an Operator. Designed to basically be a pre-existing human in a mechanical body. Architects are not that. In fact, aside from Colin himself, most people don't even know Operators existed at all. He talks about it like a rare, niche field of research you only get when doing the kind of shit he does.

This means that, the framework that as used to recreate humans was repurposed to make the Architects. And the Architects have only one clear goal. Rebuild the world for humanity.

They are not supposed to be sentient. Given the protocol outright does not allow for such sentience, it means Vanessa distinctly did not want the Architects becoming a new flavor of Operator. And yet, all the things that made them human are still in there, so it was inevitable in the end.

Then the Purge happened, and this initial wave of Architects, Like Ivy and others, were lost. And then later, a second group was made. This is the one Rin is a part of, and they actually did get to work with humans. But were still usually treated as if they are mindless robots, with sentience as a side value. Any that do awaken sentience are considered anomalies or glitches, and it's usually seen as a problem.

We can come to the conclusion that, as OG Vanessa was the one setting up this entire thing, as she's the one setting up the conditions for there to even be Achitects, that she set all this up as well.

Meaning every single bad thing that occurred to her latter self and every single other Architect is in part because she did this. Was it done out of malice? Unlikely, but after her crisis she probably didn't look very kindly on the sentient robot thing. She was likely just trying to ensure nobody tried bringing back Operators, unaware that the 'operators' themselves might try coming back.

Has lots of spoilers for the story so ✨below the cut✨

hi have my dissociative identity disorder akechi au. more notes under the cut

Also, Wireless is more annoying to keep track of. Because you have to keep track of your actual phone separately from the phone itself! That's double or maybe even triple the things to keep track of!

And on the point of the port itself, switching devices is such a pain! You have to fully re-pair the device each and every time, where with wired, you can just unplug and replug. One movement!

this is my everybody lives/nobody dies fix-it AU where ivy successfully frees vanessa but berserk!vanessa sticks around as original!vanessa’s alter

at first berserknessa acts like she hates ivy and wants to kill her, and is very very difficult to deal with, always raging and starting conflict

ivy can’t even talk to her because berserknessa will start slinging death threats at her and generally destroying things. ivy tries to be patient throughout this but it really does hurt

berserknessa: this f-f-feeble body w-w-won’t hinder me much longer, i sw-w-ear— paff: i just asked what activity you’d like to do berserknessa: DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. paff: i was thinking more like if you’d be into playing a board game

after paff (& probably a couple of others in a small capacity) talk to her enough, berserknessa admits that she cares for ivy and is pushing her away out of fear

“ivy makes me vulnerable, she has to be out of the picture for me to stay safe”

“i’m scared of ivy hurting me by leaving”

“i need to push her away before she has a chance to hurt me”

“this entire world feels hostile and like it was made to hurt me”

berserknessa was created to hold nothing but fear and rage and pain but over time as people treat her with respect instead of antagonizing her she’s kind of at a loss for how to behave

it’s mostly paff driving the effort to help berserknessa but cherry also tries to help by socializing her like a feral cat and neko tries to help by inviting nessa to hang out and play video games or watch anime with her

oh god gamer berserknessa

she plays first-person shooters

sore loser who gamer rages

she gets muted for screaming through the mic and then spams zalgo text in the chat interspersed with insults and misanthropic diatribes

people start leaving matches as soon as she joins and she’s like “THESE FOOLISH HUMANS REFUSE TO CHALLENGE ME”

neko: “you’ve been hogging the controller for like 6 hours straight”

like neko, berserknessa gets into a lot of fights on the internet. unlike neko who is just trolling for shits and giggles, she’s genuinely getting ragebaited in arguments