Lovely darkness
Yrene, blessed with raw healing magic, describes the darkness she interacts with in Silba’s Womb:
And the darkness above her … it was different from what she had spied in Lord Westfall’s body. The opposite of that blackness. The darkness above her was that of creation, of rest, of unformed thought.
Yrene stared into it, into the womb of Silba herself. And could have sworn she felt something staring back. Listening, while she thought through all Lord Westfall had told her. (tod)
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You must enter, the sweet darkness whispered, the water singing along with it while it flowed around and past her. As if she were swimming in Silba’s veins.
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To fight that festering force within the lord, to risk it for some test of Hafiza’s, to risk it for a son of Adarlan when her own people were being attacked or battling in that distant war and every day delayed her … I can’t.
You won’t, the lovely darkness challenged. (tod)
It’s a darkness of creation and rest.
The gates to her mind…solid iron, covered in vines of flowers—or it would have been. The blossoms were all sealed, sleeping buds tucked into tangles of leaves and thorns. (acowar)
A sweet darkness.
Elain had always been gentle and sweet—and I had considered it a different sort of strength. A better strength. To look at the hardness of the world and choose, over and over, to be kind. She had always been so full of light.
Perhaps that was why she now kept all the curtains open. To fill the void that existed where all of that light had been.
And now nothing remained. (acowar)
A lovely darkness.
The Cauldron seemed to realize what she’d done, too, as his head thumped onto the mossy ground. That Elain … Elain had defended this thief. Elain, who it had gifted with such powers, found her so lovely it had wanted to give her something…It would not harm Elain, even in its hunt to reclaim what had been taken. (acowar)
Hm. That would certainly explain some things. ✨
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because I’ve seen someone insinuate ugly things, let me be very clear: yes, adam and ronan are going to find each other in every life, every time. yes, they are soulmates, if you will. but they’re not together because of some predestination; they are together because they chose to be. ronan recognized adam from his dream and knew it had to mean something, but he wasn’t magically in love with him before actually getting to know him. as we know, adam didn’t like ronan much at first. need I remind you it took four books for them to kiss? it was a slow burn because neither of them were ready to be together before going through their own personal growth. when adam starts noticing ronan’s attention, it’s after a lot of change has occurred in his life. ronan fell first, sure, because he’d paid a lot of attention to adam, had learned him so thoroughly, and loved what he found. only when adam allowed himself to see ronan’s vulnerable side, and therefore came to know things about ronan that he hadn’t, did his feelings come to the surface. they fell in love because they couldn’t help recognizing the truth of each other. they will always choose that. haters can suck it 🫶
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Reclaimed bur/tropesona lore post
🟢DSMP
Parker Crow (Pogtopia arc) CW: Character death
After being exiled from L’Manburg, Wilson (Lmanbur) found out that Schlatt had placed a bounty on his head. What a cruel joke that he would force him out only to have the entire SMP hunt him for sport the next day. So, Wilson changed his name. Everyone was out to get Wilson Minecraft, but no one even knew who Parker Crow (pogbur) was.
Tommy, Parker, Techno, and a few others who were still loyal to their former president hid out in a ravine in the northern part of the SMP. (They named the ravine and their group Pogtopia). This region was already freezing by September and would only get colder in the coming months; however, it was the safest place they could find. The cold forced them to stay inside the caves for weeks at a time.
Confined in darkness with little sleep and food, Parker’s mental state rapidly deteriorated. One day Parker had a nervous breakdown and lashed out at Tommy when he tried to comfort him, punching his poor brother in the face and nearly breaking his nose. After that, Parker was constantly scared of hurting Tommy again and tried his best to avoid him. Tommy watched on from afar as his brother’s condition continued to worsen.
The week before Pogtopia launched their final attack against L’Manberg was when Parker’s mental state was at its worst. He began having episodes where he would randomly act very timid and confused, wandering around as if in a trance. The strangest of these episodes was the day before the attack, November 15th, when Tommy went outside to find Parker hunched over in the snow and picking blue flowers. When asked what he was doing Parker simply responded, “I don’t want the flowers to die.” in a voice that wasn’t quite his own.
After Pogtopia won the battle against L’Manberg, Parker appointed Tubbo to be the country’s next president. Philza came to L’Manberg so he could be there for Tubbo’s inauguration.
During Tubbo’s inaugural address, Parker came up to Tommy and said he was sorry for everything before walking away. 15 minutes later, L’Manberg was little more than a smoldering crater.
Philza, Tommy, and Techno searched the wreckage for hours, desperately trying to find Parker. Eventually they found him leaning against a rock, about 10 feet from the crater, a trail of blood leading to him. He had horrific injuries but by some miracle was alive. Parker looked up at his father and could only muster up the strength to say two words, “kill me.” Philza, not wanting to see his son suffer, drove his sword into Parker’s chest, putting him out of his misery.
In the coming days, as L’Manberg was being rebuilt, construction workers and volunteers reported seeing an apparition that vaguely resembled Parker prior to being exiled. Eventually, Tommy too would encounter this spirit.
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Chrono Cross Explained
There are something I can talk about for hours because I love talking about them - Majora's Mask, Evangelion, One Piece, and Chrono Cross. I love the needlessly complex story of Chrono Cross, and I get the feeling that most people DON'T get it.
So, he's the MAIN PLOT of Chrono Cross explained. (SPOILERS, obviously)
Despite what some people might tell you, YES, Chrono Cross is a sequel to Chrono Trigger, and and it is intertwined with the original, and there's an explanation why it feels so disconnected. It starts, like all great stories do, at the beginning:
Lavos crashes into the Earth in 65 Million years BC.
Lavos is a unique creature that I theorize exists outside of normal space. What we see in both Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross is just a “shadow” of its real body outside of our dimension.
So, when it arrives, sensing there was a possibility of defeat, Lavos decided to create a back up plan. It used its power over time to drag a copy of itself from the far future into the past. That "Shard of Lavos" was known as the Frozen Flame and was located in a super advanced city known as Chronopolis. Lavos had brought the entire city back in time with the "Shard of Lavos." This way, if the original Lavos was destroyed, the Frozen Flame would be its back up.
Coincidentally, “The Entity” (The spirit of the The Planet) sensed something was wrong, so it was able to open up its own timewarp, and drag another super advanced race to destroy Chronopolis and the "Frozen Flame" and from a timeline where Reptites ruled.
The time displaced people of both cities, didn't get what was going on at first, so they went to war with each other. Ultimately, Chronopolis wins, and they figure out what happened.
The scientist at Chronoplis realize they need to preserve the timeline so they create a plan. They decide to terraform the area, and jut blend in like they were always there. I mean its 12000 BC, no one's gonna know they weren't there before. So, they create a bunch of islands, El Nido Archipelago, and brainwash all of their own citizens to forget about the future.
And they can do that because Chronopolis contains a super advanced computer called FATE, that can run the city by itself, and it constantly mind controls people by using the Save Points scattered. And they hid the city behind a high cliff, strong sea currents, and storms, to keep people away. The Brainwashing keeps the people from wanting to go to the mainland of CT where they could potentially alter the timeline.
Sidenote: When they fought Dinopolis, it had a super weapon called the Dragon God. It was divided into six weaker Dragons by the scientists of Chronopolis and this became part of Lavos's plan, too. If he ever needed an emergency power-up, he could reassemble the Dragon God, and add himself to it, to make a substitute body, because when he was reduced to a "shard" he was relatively vulnerable. That comes into play at the very end.
So, the main idea was the no one is supposed to mess with the timeline of Chrono Trigger, but no one realized Lavos had created his backup plan in El Nido. But, there was another actor that neither Lavos or anyone else considered - Schala.
Schala had disappeared into the time stream during the events of Chrono Trigger and had ended up with the REAL Lavos.
Remember that Lavos is a creature that exists outside of regular space. Both the Lavos from CT and the "Frozen Flame" from CC are just "shadows" of the real creature that exists between dimension / timelines.
Schala was able to do two things... she created a clone of herself which would become "Kid," and she caused a MASSIVE electrical storm that for one night opened up Chronopolis. Coincidentally, on that night, Serge and his father end up inside Chronopolis, and long story short, Serge unknowingly becomes only person able to use the computers at Chronopolis, and FATE doesn't realize this until the next day.
FATE needs to get control back because suddenly the brainwashing is turned off, and who knows how that could affect the timeline. FATE starts its own plan to switch bodies with Serge to regain control, this is why he's acting as Lynx and searching for the Dragon's Tear.
Unknown to them, the Frozen Flame realizes that the body from Chrono Trigger is already destroyed, so it wants to reassemble the Dragon God, to be at full power and destroy these people that tried to destroy it. To do this, during the night of the storm, a secret agent was also born, Harley the "7th Dragon."
Haley is pretending to be an ally of Lynx, hoping to obtain the Frozen Flame, and get it to the dragons to unleash Lavos's revenge.
So, that's what's going on as you play through Chrono Cross. In the end, the only way to really kill Lavos is to destroy the real body in between dimensions. So, in the final battle, you gotta use the Chrono Cross to collapse the dimensions.
Finally, I still don't know why that works.
Also, how exactly did Schala set this up? The only explanation would be that she became able to see the multiple timelines, and realized the best chance to finally end Lavos was her complicated gamble.
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