#concept overflow

in echo, you play as a man who gets dragged into a mass hysteria event that materializes rumors, superstitions, and the ghosts that haunt his ghost hometown.

in urban myth dissolution center, you play as a young woman who, in search of a way to cure her seeing-ghosts problems, solves mysteries that involve rumors and the occult.

what i'm saying is that we need to crossover these things.

wouldn't it be fucked up? leo alvarez using a persona after defeating his own tulpa. azami fukurai dismantling dangerous rumors with her dissolution problem-solving that manifests as literally dissolving the rumor-borne manifestations. tatsuya making weird-ass impressions and confusing everyone to no end.

and the butterflies. so much butterflies. it's not the butterfly effect anymore, it's the mothra lostbelt.

the wonderland crew would be terrified by the prospect of two highly explosive mages in the same room infodumping about their own time periods and showing off their songs

simple: he boots into a command window!

jamil will have to contend with giving him precise orders in hymmnos, even if he can't consciously do anything about them

you know, to keep everything in line... mostly

canary, fafnir, i respond to either. my special interests include:

warframe

EXA_PICO (both ar tonelico and surge concerto)

twisted wonderland... kind of

various furry media, as i am furry trash myself if some of the reblogs weren't obvious enough

persona (sometimes)

metaphor refantazio (sometimes)

picayune dreams

path of achra

kingdom hearts

sonic (sometimes)

splatoon (sometimes)

little tail bronx (my beloved)

project moon

monster hunter

final fantasy

guilty gear

whatever else my hyperfixation has or will latch onto, hard to remember as i write this

no seriously i am looking through my image gallery looking for which memes i actually feel affinity for in the images

since i tend to bury my own posts under mass reblogs, and i do kinda care about people actually seeing the stuff i write, here's some tags:

#writing == "As the name suggests, all the literary-themed posts and reblogs I make. Most of my actual posts fall under this tag."

#concept overflow == "When an idea gets too urgent to contain, it has to overflow somewhere. This tag is that somewhere, filled with both half-thoughts and important meanderings to the accompanying tags. Almost invariably part of #writing posts."

#twisted tonelico: mage-rider wonder == "My Twisted Wonderland x EXA_PICO crossover 'fic', inspired by a certain someone else's Twisted Tonelico series. Achronal format. Follows various moments in Yuuki Gyenshire, a male Reyvateil (Reyvaroid), as he plays the role of Twisted Wonderland's Yuu. Much tokusatsu punching and Song Magic shenanigans ensue."

#planetarium mobile == "I guess you could call it an original fiction. Linear format. Follows the journey of a freshly-rebirthed dullahan as he climbs out of a deep abyss, the journey of some freedom fighters as they chip away at a digital demiurge, and the strange conversations they have over text messages. I intend to use pieces of this in a Fabula Ultima setting."

"Hi!"

"Um... what's your name?"

"I'm Milgram. What about you?"

"I'm Yuuki. I'm a Reyvateil."

"Woah, cool! But aren't Reyvateils supposed to be girls?"

"Yeah, but then they made it so we could be boys too."

"Wow..."

"Mhm. I think it's called being a "Reyvaroid.""

"Why the different name?"

"...I dunno."

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"Ar Ciel sounds awesome! You get to use Song Magic whenever you want, and there's so much lights and sounds!"

"Yeah... but Ra Ciela is cooler. You don't get made fun of for looking weird when you Sing, and people get to share their [feelings] way better."

"You think so?"

"Mhm. Plus it's where you live."

"If you say so?"

"It's true!"

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"I don't wanna go..."

"But if you stay here, you'll never wake up. What about all the yummy food? And those cool masked hero shows you told me about? And- and the robots!"

"But if I wake up, I'll forget you."

...

"...Milgram?"

"Hey, I know. Here."

"...a plush?"

"His name is Beast Chaser. He'll remember for you."

"Wow... Beast Chaser... wait, like the bike robot I made up?!"

"Mhm!"

"Milgram... thank you!"

"Yup!"

"Wait- promise!"

"Promise?"

"That we'll meet again! Pinky swear on it!"

"...okay...!"

...

"Why're you crying, Yuuki?"

"...I'll just forget the promise, too..."

"H-hey, don't cry. Remember, Beast Chaser will remember for you!"

"...uh huh."

"And besides, there's a thing that my Mama likes to say."

"Yeah?"

"Forgotten, but never gone. If the chain of memories falls apart, its links will remain. Even if you forget - even if I forget too - it'll still be in our hearts."

"...okay."

...

"I still don't wanna go."

"...that's alright. Me neither. Want to Sing again?"

"...alright. One more Song."

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"Mama, Mama!"

"Ah, what is it my little blue star?"

"Lookit! Shiny!"

"Oh, what a beautiful Genometrica Crystal! And just where did you get it?"

"From a dream!"

"What kind of dream?"

"A big one, with a nice person!"

"That's good!"

"...Mama?"

"Yes, dear?"

"How did I get it anyways?"

"Well... let's just say, you are a very lucky boy. The one who you saw in that dream is your soulmate."

"Soulmate?!"

"Yes. Far beyond the stars, there's someone whose heart is intertwined with yours."

"And will we get to meet?"

"Maybe. Maybe not. It's such a long distance away..."

"...aw..."

"But it isn't impossible."

"Is it?"

"Why, yes. In fact, I have just the Song for that!"

"But Moooooooom, you're always singing..."

"Hohoho~ It's my job, blue star! Though... you're right. I have been Singing quite a lot lately. How about one more Song, and then I'll take a break for the day?"

"Okay! One more Song! And then you can teach me how to sew!"

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Мечта прилетит случайно

В час, когда ты спишь

И жизнь с ней не так печальна

Но всё же о ней ты молчишь

И дни пролетят и годы

И в небе заблестит звезда

И если только словно чуду

Мечте я верить буду

in the beginning, there were shadows. ancient, formless thoughtforms given volition by their own interactions, and naught else. aimless things. then they created life, and in the process allowed their equal, knowledge, to exist. and to that knowledge, the shadows clung like tar, combining with it to form the first demons.

over time, these demons, angelic and hellish alike, carved out their own world - separate from the world of life, the material plane - in which their shadows grew and their legends spread. this is what we know as the sea of souls. even in worlds where demons grow weaker, degenerating into simple shadows once more, motes of this power remain.

life is connected to knowledge, and is in turn connected to shadow. the one greatest power of life, "understanding", forms the physical plane, and its laws in the form of science. a supreme logic belonging to the sapient, allowing for the observation and manipulation of phenomena far beyond their usual capabilities. what happens, then, when "understanding" is turned unto the sea of souls, that realm of ancient mysticism?

where the physical understanding and the spiritual knowledge collide; that is the metaverse, realm of cognition. an entire world between dream and reality, mind and matter. only that no contract is necessarily required to trespass upon this strange border. it is here that even formless shadows can take form from collective unconsciousness, even reclaim the knowledge-forms of demons, and the hearts of sapients can carve into being powerful phenomena. the birth of gods, the advent of death and apathy, a small town cast into the fog of ignorance, even great palaces and jails in which desires are interred... all of this is possible through manipulation of the metaverse, and the shadows within.

but no art is so potent as those that ones with the "potential" wield. for although people contribute cognition to the maintenance of shadows as a whole, they still retain personal shadows of their own, collected thoughts and desires that pertain to them as individuals. those with the potential may turn their powerful cognition unto their own shadows, and by accepting what lurks in that shadow, thereby tame it into a form useable for a variety of tasks: the persona. in the form of a persona, a shadow harbors the potential to exert as much power as a demon, much more easily than if a shadow were to cultivate enough power alone.

in the past, this even extended to those with the potential able to use more than one persona; however, with the past world destroyed, a compact between the dreamer and the destroyer confined this power to those who yet maintain a contract with the velvet room, the most stable of locations in the metaverse.

the closest equivalent to such a place in worlds where demons still exist as they are would be the cathedral of shadows, where that ancient essence of demonkind gather in service of forbidden arts.

adastra, except marco is post-freedom ending demi-fiend from smt 3. having experience with people putting weird foreign objects in him in his sleep, his first interaction with amicus involves him waking up just as the lingua is going in his eye, punching him in the face, and immediately going into demon negotiation mode before remembering that 1) this isn't the vortex world anymore 2) he's probably terrifying his captor (which in and of itself is a good demonstration of how weird demifiend!marco is gonna be)

other interactions include:

marco playing pugni with amicus on equal terms

misunderstandings about the mental stability and physical capabilities of baseline humans (with victoria being the only sane person)

parents bickering

cassius becoming the most girlfailure law hero across amala

revelations about the creation of the world screwing with everyone's minds