Hi hi, my fellow! ^-^
A question, if I may:
When deepening Insight, we use books for the Arcanist; now, you could say that the reason Intelligence and Spirit use two is because they're Primal Afflatus (Afflati?), but my question instead is:
What do you think the three tiers contain in terms of information, for each Afflatus? ^-^
I like to think Vertin doesn't have books dedicated to the special afflatus so she decides that if they're so smart/unsettling then they can learn two things at once. You may be smart and/or creepy, but you're not above knowledge 🫵😠
Perhaps the first ones, those papers, include poems and quotes. They're not long enough to contain anything aside from that, but they could still include enough information through their short content.
The second tier must be more into findings, it reminds me a lot of maps so it could be about the origins of their afflatus and how it travels through times and their own body.
And the third are encyclopedias 😞
I MET HER, I FOUND HER, FRIENDS OMG SHE'S SO BEAUTIFUL SO COOL SO STRONG SO PERFECT SO SLAY
she's so confident and SHE'S MARVELOUS
her, her athletic clothes, her PC and the stickers on it >>>>>>>>>>>>> world
I LOVE HER I LOVE HER I LOVE HER GOUOFOYIYCYIHIGKX 🛐🛐🛐🛐❤️🔥🔥💥
so let's say you want to write Vertin x Regulus (if so, pls link me your works) but have a hard time trying to describe their relationship, as it falls in a weird middle point between platonic and romantic
here's some ways you can do it:
-"girls who went to see the red sea together and came back closer to each other but also SO mad that the sea was blue like all the others"
-"what happens in the couch, stays in the couch"
-"bugs bunny and daffy duck in the looney tunes show (2011)"
-"britain's most wanted"
-"Wallace & Gromit"
-"two russians kissing each other before one hits the other in the back with a chair"
-"they found their second home in each other's lap"
-"the amount of stupid bets they do that end up with the loser having to dress in something like a maid suit, or a bunny suit, or like a milkmaid, etc., is becoming concerning for those around them"
(guess which one, I've seen people ship her with both or one of them :\)
It's been awhile since I made animation, this was used by iblispaint..i had to cover with my own watermark.
I hc druvis once had a thing when she was still in the Manus, and whenever she encounter them she'd get awkward and every other adult women (mostly eternity bcs she's a grandma) inside the suitcase wanna know the story (to which druvis always avoiding the questions)
I CAN'T WAIT ANYMORE PLEASE ARGUS MY WIFE I NEED YOU
so i ended up my relationtips with hoyo games and almost immidiately had fallen into another chinese gacha god frkn damn it
maybe i am the problem
So silly post about Vertin's name has me rethinking early game stuff (yippee)
Thinking about how the disk wasnt probably talking to the player but Vertin about her name.
Then.
What about the line when you first spin the wheel? Something along the lines of "spin the wheel as you have done many times before"
Again maybe we all assume its the player in a meta sense they are referring to but I lean towards the voice is asking to Vertin (again someone talking to her not an in-game instruction)
What do you mean "as you have done before", I mean Vertin does imply prior to the Prologue she never went outside of the lobby area to the Wilderness until then, probably even less time inside of the suitcase since she mentions she had to discover its capabilities over time and still is.
People already have theorised the multiple timelines stuff but I wont rehash here - the main thing Im looking at is the "again". Does that mean Vertin has spun the wheel before? Shes not seem entirely familiar with it when we see it in the Prologue.
Again who was the original owner of the suitcase? The Foundation wanting to test it in Book 4 shows they did not necessarily create it. If Vertin was given it then the Foundation at least knew the role of Timekeeper needed this suitcase for whatever reason. Was it her mother? The incantation is in Esperanto so maybe?
(You think sometimes Vertin spins the wheel in hope someone reversed may show up?)
(Its also interesting she is the only one immune to the water's effects, and the water is implied to have properties of the Storm - probably the only true place Vertin can be alone in)
Im running with the assumption its her mother's and maybe it was agreed since the Foundation probably had contact with her mother (I mean Vertin was found there) that Vertin when she was "ready" (Breakaway Incident "ready") she would receive the suitcase and be given the incantation.