#atlasrambles

Timeloop getting hinted aside, the apple bit and symbolism of it being bit makes me think of 'apple of eden'. Besides it being the cause of humanity being expelled from eden, it also gave them the 'forbidden' knowledge about themselves. Smth, smth, he's aware of timeloop and someone is responisble for it (my bets on nrc chairman, seeing that they were the ones who chosen him to be headmaster

I got used to the fact Malleus would be missing a horn, so now I will need to get used back to him having it, due to illusion spell. Also, yuu, I get why you were staring.

Spend half of my mourning crying from sadness and then from happiness, as I completed Victoria's route and went for BE first and then GE.

I got many thoughts and ramble incoming, so spoilers under the cut off !!

Look me in the eyes and tell me this doesn't scream Malleus?

So far, the plot is so intersting, I love the writing and the sci-fi elements in it,, The characters are so good too !!

Few of my ramblings (spoilers incoming)

Smth about the fact that Ran Jin's password was Chi Yu's bday date, her putting the rose that she got from Chi Yu in resin to preserve it forever and the fact that the only times she was seen crying was at the possibility of losing her is making me feel ill. Especially since we don't know the true way her and Chi li's relationship looked like. We only have Chi Yu, who sees it through rose-tinted glasses (like all of her memories tbh) and since we can deduct from how Ran Jin was behaving after she run away from her family, they weren't good either, so there is non zero chance that the first time Ran Jin experienced kindness was from Chi Yu, the same woman who now hates her X,ddddd

I have a feeling like Ch Li wasn't a good person, or atleast she was 'good' to Chi Yu. I can't rlly say, as we only have Chi Yu memories to go off, as Ran Jin doesn't think of her ex anymore (and based on a few times she does, it doesn't seem like their relationship was actually good). Tbh that's one of the aspects I'm liking rn, as Chi Li haunts the narrative through both of them, in their own way. With Chi Yu it's her reminiscing about her deceased sister (and the whole revenge thing) and with Ran Jin it's small things, like getting told by her friend that she thought Chi Li's death will free her, or her having to take a minute to get used to the bedroom where she and Chi Li used to sleep (especially with her feeling uncomfortable about the bed)

Maleficia reveal, please. I want to see her and draw the Draconias

Maybe zigvolt fam mention

Raverne mention and hints to what happened to him.

Nrc' chairman, maybe. As I'm 99% sure he's behind everything bad that happens in that school.

The self questioning and reassurance that ''this is what everybody wants, where nothing bad happens''... I do think that it could be also reflective of Malleus's own upbringing, with how the senate basically kept him inside and never allowed him to experience the world.

Been thinking recently about Mirka and an old idea of him starting his own club (after getting Grim on the idea) won't leave me. The basic idea is that it's ''Magic Study Club''. Mirka started it to have access to school funds + resources, to find a way back home on their own.

Nobody else decide to join it bc ''why would I study such magic, in a club with a magicless human??''. Grim joined in on the idea bc Mirka promised him that he can learn whichever magic he wants in it (aka, do whatever he wants AS LONG AS it isn't destructive) also, that when Mirka finds a way back home due to his research, then Mirka would sent him a monthly amount of tuna from various contries from his world.

Mirka and magic, or saying precisly, his lack of it and his approach of more scientific way to it is important to his character overall. Starting an entire club to get better understanding of it, his best subject being enigmics, due to it explaining magic in a way he can understand it better and tinkering with blot are examples of how he got around the limitations and used his mentality.