#dimensional refraction variant

Dimensional Refraction Variant - WAW

Dimensional Refraction Variant from Lobotomy Corporation

"Does static count as a character design?"

I’ve just been thinking about how Huin could possibly become Callisto in another universe since Hong Lu was. He had his elder’s entertainment to motivate him, but what would motivate Huin?

Maybe, Huin saw his art as some kind of favour for the dead people by mutilating them? His whole theme is about mourning, but also duality of choosing violence when his nature is peaceful. So for the Ring’s standard, he’s an outcast because he’s too sympathetic with the corpses, hence why he started an art movement called Corporism, an art to honour dead bodies. No other meaning.

Like with other art movements in the Ring, there is a manner of expression being prioritised here, like dotting, wild brush strokes, cubical shapes and the artist’s raw feelings. But Corporism simply makes art out of the dead bodies. Imagine making art just to honour the paint and the paper you draw on instead of like.. to say anything deeper. That’s why they laughed at him, because it’s so different from the way they grade art in The Ring. If it could be graded, it became almost objective. Squandering the joy of creating art into merely submitting works that will save your life this week. That’s no way to live.

Now here’s the other fun thing that came from this thought experiment. Hyde parallels Faust, so in this universe he is fed to Fascia. In character for Jekyll? Yes. He wanted to throw away his flesh body like a sure fire way to get rid of himself. In doing so, he became one of many Hyde IDs that gave into impulses to murder. And the fact that Albina genuinely wants to have friends? That’s Hyde’s real desires speaking.

But wait there’s more. We have Lamp Gregor, which is paralleled by Fajie. This one is tough, because Fajie has little reasons to resonate with Big Bird besides their shared love for patrolling the night. She doesn’t really protect people, or feel the need to be misguided about it. Diffraction is still on the table though. Oh wait. It’s through combining both that I see a similarity. Something invisible is forcing them to patrol, a fear of losing more people. Because Diffraction forces you to scour the facilities when it breaches, before any employees are killed. That’s what motivates these three to resonate with Lamp.

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