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Wrath

[INDISCRIMINATE] Targets randomly

Wildfire

Boiling over

Rage and frenzy

Symbol: Flame

Keyword choice reasons:

[Indiscriminate] is derived from the description of... 99% of E.G.O Corrosions.

"Wildfire" is because of the Sin's association with raging fire.

Wrath tends to "explode" out, like a boiling pot bubbling over.

Wrath is considered "wild" and "uncontrollable", so rage and frenzy would fit.

Lust

Blood bonds

Contagion and contamination

Two-way street

Family

Symbol: DNA helix with an arrow on each end

Keyword choice reasons:

Lust is associated with the Bleed status and with Bloodfiends, and a common term for non-romantic relationships in English is "bound by blood".

Lust is described as "An obsession to spread a fragment of what forms the self" and "To share one's knowledge, one's ideas, to invite others into gaining the understanding of a sliver of oneself" by Honenheim and Yi Sang, respectively. To spread parts of oneself... like a disease, possibly, contaminating others with "you".

When one "spreads" themself, they're bound to take in parts of others, hence Lust being a "two-way street" (and the reason for me putting the two-way arrow).

Family is... well, again, Bloodfiends, along with association with cults and, yes, "carnal" lust.

Sloth

Inertia

Stubborn and stalwart

Aimless

Adamant

Symbol: Cracked mountain

Keyword choice reasons:

"Inertia" is taken from the Sin Fragment name found in Mirror Dungeons: The Sin Fragment for Tremor E.G.Os, colored yellow, is called "Fragment of Inertia".

Sloth is similar to Pride in the sense that they're both associated with stubbornness in some form.

...Which is funny, considering that Sloth can also manifest as not being able to make one's own choices and needing to rely on others to take any action.

See above.

Gluttony

Hands seeking something

Desire

Greed

Insatiable

Symbol: Tree with root system

Keyword choice reasons:

"Hands seeking something" is derived from Gluttony's endless hunger for more material satisfaction, and is also based off of the name of one of the Drifting Fox's more powerful skills (though the skill itself is Gloom-affinity): Cries Seeking Something. The fox also has Gluttony-affinity skills and a Gluttony-affinity version of its E.G.O (Outis's version of Sunshower).

"Desire" is taken from the Sin Fragment name found in Mirror Dungeons: The Sin Fragment for Rupture E.G.Os, colored green, is called "Fragment of Desire".

"Greed" is not its own Sin Affinity, instead replaced with Gloom, while Greed's association with material wealth is subsumed into Gluttony.

The themes of "hunger" associated with Gluttony make "insatiable" a given.

Gloom

Aimless and adrift

Stagnation

(Self-) Pity

Melancholy

Symbol: Bubbles and dripping water

Keyword choice reasons:

Gloom is associated with water, as seen with Ishmael and Hong Lu's base E.G.Os both being Gloom-affinity and utilizing water in some form, along with the Sin's Peccatulum also being associated with water. "Adrift" often has nautical connotations.

More water comparisons: Gloom-heavy folk tend to stagnate and wallow in their own misery, like a pool of stagnant water becoming infested with parasites and disease.

Gloom loves pity. The Drifting Fox and Blubbering Toad are both associated with self-pity and wallowing in their own misery.

Melancholy is a given.

Pride

Self-aggrandizing

Confidence

Selfishness

Arrogance

Symbol: Ornate (and double-edged) sword

Keyword choice reasons:

Pride is associated with being self-absorbed and very sure of their own superiority, hence "self-aggrandizing".

See above.

Again, see above.

Yet again, see above. Pride is very self-explanatory lmao.

Envy

Barbed wire/electric fence

Revenge

Remember

Resentment

Self-Dissatisfaction

Symbol: Ring of barbed wire

Keyword choice reasons:

Envy is associated with retaliation. The name of its associated Sin Fragment, colored purple, is called "Fragment of Friction", and its in-game symbol is a bramble of thorns: One cannot become the subject of Envy without coming into contact with the Envious one first, similarly to how one can't get pricked by brambles or shocked by static electricity without touching their source first. It is also associated with the Charge status, which is associated with electricity and "gaining steam" to consume for stronger attacks. So, comparing it to barbed wire and an electric fence seemed fitting.

Continuing off of the themes of retaliation: Revenge. It's shown off clearly with Heathcliff and the Middle syndicate.

Remember... They will not forget perceived wrongs. Whether done by the subject of their envy, or done to the subject of their envy... (again, see Heathcliff)

With the reveal of the next batch of Protoframes (Frost, Saryn, Nova, Temple), and that the Frost and Saryn are a (shaky) couple and the adoptive parents of Neci Rusalka, I saw some people do jokes about cold and toxin making viral and in-turn Neci being a viral-based Protoframe. Bouncing off of that, I saw some people do jokes about her possibly being Proto-Dagath, and one person did a joke about making a hole in her face. That talk about faces and losing them reminded me of one of Eleanor's KIM chats, where she talks about having tried to read Neci's mind and finding...

Not Neci.

Spoilers for the Hex quest: Neci's possessed by the Man In the Wall. Eleanor described trying to read possessed Neci's mind like:

"...as if my fingers touched her face and went right through. The mask just collapsed. What was underneath was like… There’s a word. ‘Calenture.’ It’s a kind of madness that used to affect sailors. They’d become convinced that the green sea all around them wasn’t water at all, but green grass.

They'd be compelled to jump from the ship down into the beautiful green meadows and go running across them. If a shipmate held them back, they’d fight. I jumped, expecting grass. Next second I was in over my head in the freezing dark."

And, after realizing that it's Wally directly:

"I've touched that thing with my mind. I thought I’d be probing Rusalka’s mind, but… the outer layers just caved in like wet, spongy plasterboard and then I was immersed in it. Floundering."

Going straight through her face, like a flimsy mask, the face ripped from her by another... Hmmm...

I also noticed that her had also slightly resembles Dagath's weird "hair"... if you squint... lmao.

So yeah, have this weirdness.

I made her body a silhouette with a hollowed-out face/head (a-la Dagath), the silhouette colored with the scene of a green, blooming field (specifically the one shown on the Pom-2 computers' desktops, the sky of which also resembled a Spiral in Duviri, which was made real by the Void) to go along with the "calenture" thing 83. The Man in the Wall is also known as "the Lidless Eye", so I put both a pained Neci's eye and very harsh, unnatural "Void" eyes that extend forever and both in front and behind her like a video game bug. The "Void" eyes were influenced, aesthetics-wise, by corru.observer (btw PLAY CORRU.OBSERVER [as long as you aren't photosensitive]), which also has major themes around eyes (i.e. imagery associated with the ever-capricious Obesk deity Velzie).