#judith lcb

Judith’s Identities:

00s:

-Zwei Association South Section 4 | Uses Aggro, and is Keywordless.

-W Corp. Cleanup Agent L2 | Does Charge and Rupture. Uses dimension-ripping sickle.

-LCCA Unit 2 Team Leader | Based on Caiman. Does Discard and Sinking, uses Ammo.

-Marcher Bloodfiend of the Parade of La Manchaland | Does Bleed potency, focusing on unopposed attack combos and passive SP-based buffs. Not particularly damage-focused.

-Lobotomy E.G.O:: Wrist Cutter | Does Bleed and Self-Bleed. Uptie story features references to both 1.) Judith’s failed suicide attempt, and 2.) the diy abortion she couldn’t go through with from the original text of Weeds.

000s:

-Effloresced E.G.O:: Farmwatch | Does Aggro, is a tank. Does a little bit of Rupture and Tremor, but mainly uses Seeds status effect, both to heal and to inflict fragile. Has numerous On-Kill effects.

-Little Sister of The Middle | Does Bleed and Bind. The Uptie story of this one would contain a slightly altered passage from Weeds: “Like a dog tied by a strong chain, what had she to gain by continually pulling at the leash? What hope was there in rebellion for her or hers? The Little Siblings would grow up to bury their youth in the pages of the Book of Vengeance, as the Big and Great Siblings had done. They would be in years to come a prim and dull old brutalizer like Ricardo or a harassed Vengeance-slaver like herself. Which fate was worse, she asked herself, and did not dare to try to form an answer. She had grown timid about many things since the days of her forthright girlhood. Peace was better than struggle, peace and a decent acquiescence before the things which had to be.”

-Time Ripper of T Corp. | Does Tremor, has many Haste and Speed-based conditionals, and is, generally, a glass canon. Heavy emphasis on ramping up and maintaining momentum.

-Devyat’ Association North Section 3 | Does Rupture, as well as Haste and Defense Level Down on self. Has low-SP conditionals. Her Uptie story would feature Judith trying to smash her Poludnitsa, but fails.

-Lobotomy E.G.O:: Harvest | Does Rupture and Bleed. Same mirror world as the Wrist Cutter identity. Makes reference to the alienation of people from their labor, and the physical numbness that Judith feels + the fatigue that she can’t shake off. A negative-coin identity.

-Pinky Nursefather | Does Poise, has different forms based on if in Negative SP or Positive SP, linked to Backwards Flow/Forward Flow status effects. Also does Afterimage Entanglement (Burn/Bleed/Bind/Poison). I imagine that this identity would be in a different Mirror World from the other House of Spiders identities, sorta like how Drifting Blade Ryoshu to the primary Hongyuan mirror world.

-R Corp. Hatchery Technician | Does Charge and Burn. Notably, despite this being big identity of hers for her season in my brain, this identity would NOT synchronize particularly well with her seasonal Battle Pass E.G.O. In fact, I imagine her having a passive effect that specifically nullifies the effects of the E.G.O.’s unique tremor type and changes what it does. She would act as a team leader for the R Corp. identities, as well as any Scott County identities.

N Corp E.G.O.: Ya Śūnyatā Tad Rūpam | Does Sinking, and changing between Pierce and Blunt damage types. The Uptie story will be very introspective, with a lot of talk about cycles and Judith’s feelings of emptiness with her life in Scott County vs her feelings of emptiness in N Corp. Judith wonders if her having escaped Scott County means that she has escaped reincarnation, and what Jabez would say to her in the present.

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Judith’s E.G.O.:

ZAYIN:

Sowing Season | Wrath Affinity. Does Burn, haste on self.

Drunkard E.G.O. | Sloth Affinity. Does Tremor, does additional damage if the target is staggered. Passive has user gain offense level and lose defense level. References how the people of Scott County would rely on alcohol to make their terrible lives at least slightly more bearable.

TETH:

Move-in Reg | Wrath Affinity. Uses Charge, Inflicts Burn and Bind on targets, inflicts Bind + Offense Level on self based on Envy resonance. Yes it would do that in spite of being a Wrath (NOT Envy) skill.

Sunshower | Sloth Affinity. Does Poise and inflicts Sloth Defense Down. The Corrosion dialogue would have Judith scream something along the lines of “Stop tryin’ to pull on the umbrellas! Y’all don’t know how much it hurts me!” continuing a theme with Judith where other people assume that they know what she needs. Also, it would dir with the human-animal hybrid drawings symbol from Weeds.

HE:

Roseate Desire | Gloom Affinity. Inflicts a little bit of Defense Level Down and Attack Power Down, and the unit gains Offense Level, at the expense of self-Bind. Also inflicts Desirous or Urge (though they’re adjusted from how they work in the Pink Shoes thrall fights) in the Corrosion form, depending on Resonance. Importantly, the E.G.O. animation for this one would not have Judith being overtaken by the shoes, unlike Hong Lu’s and Ishmael’s Roseate Desires, even in the Corrosion.

Thoracalgia | Wrath Affinity. Does Poise and converts Poise count into Offense Level Up. The dialogue would have Judith speak about how other people (specifically the women of Scott County) assumed that they understood perfectly what she was going through, and imposed themselves onto her life.

Binds | Wrath Affinity. Does Tremor and Sinking, maybe Discard. This one feels really obvious for Judith but idk how to make it unique. Maybe it shouldn’t be unique, though, because the circumstances that contribute to Judith’s feelings of being bound are widespread?

WAW:

Spider of Marriage E.G.O. | Wrath Affinity. Does Bleed, Sinking, and Bind on self and enemies. Gains Protection.

Impending Day | Envy Affinity. Based on Doomsday Calendar's Universe Aflame skill, inflicts Burn and Sinking, and lowers Stagger Threshold on self. I imagine the Corrosion's dialogue would draw on what Yi Sang wrote about being sacrificed to the Calendar in the Observation Logs, and tie it to the way that the cut chapter of Weeds describes Judith's first birth. Also, it would play with the idea of dread for the "inevitable" pregnancy, which women "must" do, which Judith is expected to do.

Observation Log: "There, I may have seen the end. You could say it was a doomsday I witnessed.

No perhaps I may have been the end and the doomsday I was present at the end but not existent and while it may be misleading to say that it was there but even still I witnessed man and sky and earth tear into thousands of pieces"

Weeds passage: this Tumblr post of mine. The whole passage is important to why I think Impending Day fits Judith, but I don't want to put the whole thing in this post.

ALEPH:

For the God of Toil | Sloth Affinity. Does Teemor and self-Tremor, uses tremor bursts on self to boost damage and fulfill coin re-use conditionals. Inflicts unique tremor type (Tremor—Quake) on self and targets. Also adds a Bloodfeast-like field effect based on how much Tremor has been bursted, which increases how much the E.G.O. raises the Stagger Thresholds of targets and self, and impacts coin-reuse conditionals. This is her big seasonal battle pass E.G.O. This E.G.O. is derived from a new Abnormality, the ALEPH The God of Toil, based on this passage from Weeds: “At the far end of the ridge, the tobacco barn lifted its weathered bulk into the sky. Built on the highest point of land, the wide sweep of lonely fields and pastures dropped away from it in every direction. Its roofs fell from the ridgepole with the broad sweep of a buzzard's wing; and it seemed like some great bird brooding over the wide, solitary expanse, or like some gigantic, incense-breathing temple built by these poor shanty dwellers to their one god, the all-powerful god of toil. From its point of vantage it dominated the landscape, somber, strong, and implacable.”

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