#ash rants

GUESS WHO WOKE UP TO YOUNG JAMES ORTIZ HOLY FUCKING******** JGXJXJGCHCKGXJ

- no, you don't have to ship a pair just because most people in the fandom do it or they're canon.

- yes, you can ship two people that haven't met, hate eachother, whatever. If you like it, make them kiss

- yes, you can headcanon a character to be disabled or have a different appearance than in canon.

- yes, you should go draw yourself kissing that fictional character

- yes, you can make a fanfiction just to insert yourself in canon and save that one character

- yes, you can assign yourself (or anyone) a dere type

- yes, you can still like something if its creator is problematic

- yes, you should wear whatever you want and feel better in.

- yes, go make a hundred bracelets themed around your favourite pieces of media

- yes, go make an amv or a glmv

- yes, make a thousand AUs!!

- yes, read that manga, watch that anime

- yes, use 'eyestrain' filters for your pics

- yes, go make a kin list

"cringe culture" is bullshit. Do whatever you want. Be happy.

I can't be the only one that thinks Al-An and Noa are pretty similar, right? Al-An seems to have more of a lisp than Noa so far but their cadence and pitch in voice sound pretty close to each other. Not only that but Noa has proven to be far more sentimental and empathetic than a normal AI in these games would be. He commemorates the dead, he shares his opinions on each colonist you learn about. And he's gone rogue multiple times before. The player can hear other colonists calling out to him for assistance in life threatening situations on multiple PDA recordings only for Noa to ignore them, resulting in their demise.

Hell, The Frozen Titan file found at the top of the first camp base is about Noa. Nahema discusses how Noa doesn't have a real mind of his own and can't change how he thinks but how did he develop this behavior in the first place? Why is Noa a frozen AI and unable to modify his own cephalopod inspired architecture? If Noa is wiping the crew's mind in an effort to keep them pliable and obedient why isn't he wiping out the incriminating audio logs the player can find about him even if players play it right in front of him? What does Noa gain from gaslighting the colonists into working for him if he doesn't have a stake in the game? And if he doesn't have a stake in the game why is he so intelligent and affable at first? Is Noa even a man made system if the manual itself describes the human operators using him as "less intelligent systems"?

And where did he even come from? That, I think, is something we get a hint about thanks to the manual mentioned in Nahema's Frozen Titan log. Al-An had an equine adjacent centaur body with limbs he controlled telekinetically to aid in his operations. And his body was constructed artificially, meaning that the form could be modified in whatever way the Architects would need them to be.

My theory with all of this in mind is that Noa is an Architect. His humanity in comparison to the other AIs is palpable and his motivations are contradictory. In the very beginning of the game he is the one helping the player's pioneer escape. He is the one pushing the player to find a cure to this new virus and locate the colonists later on. Yet he's also the one killing colonists on multiple different occasions. He bucks against the programming Alterra has given him yet people believe he cannot think. I believe that Noa's only stake at this point is to cure this new virus because it is connected to the Kharha virus or poses a similar threat to life that the virus has. And considering that he's repeatedly gone rogue to kill colonists it's not for the sake of humanity, it's for the sake of his species. Alterra probably tracked down the Architects through Robin and Al-An, intercepting them at some point after the events of Below Zero. And from there I think they used what they learned from Robin's PDA to find another Architect stuck on planet or they stole that fragment of Al-An in Robin's mind from her. Personally I'm inclined to believe the latter since Noa's voice and cadence resembles Al-An but he speaks in the casual manner Robin would. Alterra stole this being made from Al-An and Robin's mental connection and enslaved him, forcing him to become a glorified assistant without any real bodily or mental autonomy. I believe that Noa's original state is the one you see of him in game and that he's been programmed to be genuinely helpful to the colonization efforts Alterra has in mind. It's only when his memories of his true self resurfaced that he started lashing out and letting people die. From there he's only decided to follow his programming for the sake of curing this new virus and knows that no matter how he treats the colonists in the long run that they will ultimately need to cure the virus too. Maybe he's been rogue longer than people suspected and intentionally veered off course from Zetura to nip this virus in the bud before it could fester into something worse.

And then this is my first pair that I got a few Christmases ago

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