Hopefully a temp Blog

we know hummer isn't "real" because nobody other than wifies acknowledges him. he never joins the game, has death messages, or talks to anyone other than wifies. he also is the one who shows wifies the way to see levi. now consider arronax: she never appears on screen, only through narrated dialogue coming out of jukeboxes, and her server that explains all of the leviathan (which is supposedly the no.1 spot to know about the leviathan) is not initially on top of wifies search results, no, hummer introduced wifies to arronax's research. when hummer is such a perplexing mysterious figure due to his beliefs about levi, i find it hard to assume that arronax (his foil) is a perfectly normal woman who wifies could just talk to, normally

the central conflict in this story is the conflict between faith and reason. reason dictates that the leviathan has a singular, logical, and definitive reason to exist, while faith hopes that the leviathan can surpass its own shackles of game glitches and code in order to be seen; a true supernatural entity can appear by way of faith (is what the argument of fate suggests). this is reflected in the character of hummer and arronax, where hummer is the representation of faith, while arronax is reason.

personally, both arronax and hummer seem like distant, godlike figures that represent their respective approach to understanding the world. perhaps in the second installment, we can learn more about arronax and why she stopped believing in levi, and decided that her scientific conclusions were correct

bonus side tangent: the difference between "levi" and "the leviathan" in the video is so cool, and highlights the differences in ideology so well. levi is the name given by hummer to humanise it, to turn something that may not exist into something corporeal, with wants and motives. something that he can worship.

the leviathan on the other hand, is a collection of interesting phenomena, recorded and analysed by thousands. this name strips it down to its bare essentials and prioritises the accesibility and useability of the name (if that makes sense) not even considering that the leviathan is something that can have its own desires. how could it? this is merely a game built on code.

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DAWTDE says, don't let your fear stop you from achieving your goals. Whatever you do, it matters. Believe in yourself

TSFTL says, follow your dreams and stay curious; keep wondering, keep searching, keep believeing. And check information for yourself. You may be the one who finds the truth