More teachers au where highschool dropout Suguru is actually trying to follow the curriculum and phd-in-quantum-physics-at-18 Satoru is like "well. No mission today so we can just play soccer if u guys want!!"
in my personal headcanon, before being taken to the tva, mobius was a mathematician who specialized in chaos theory. That's why he studies Lokis at the tva, and has the name mobius (named after the 1800's mathematician August Mobius who invented the mobius strip. He worked in analytic geometry and topology AKA analyzing multiple dimensions including time. This represents his new job here, since he is studying "chaos" from his new identity of a time analyst.)
Okay, weird compliment: I love how obvious it is that you're familiar with Geometric Literature™, which is a weird-ass niche. You've directly referenced Flatland, of course, but you also give the vibes of someone who knows Sagan style science education and might have read Orphans of Chaos. Usually I read stories with a geometric component and they're kind of reinventing the wheel - Which isn't bad or anything! But you are Part of the Literary Tradition, instead of just writing the literature.
Oh thank you!! I have not read Orphans of Chaos, but that's something I'll have to look into now. Love me a good sci-fi/mythology blend.
When I was in college I took a course on the history of science by a dude with a Nobel in physics—not a class to teach science itself but to teach about how philosophers, mathematicians, and eventually scientists conceptualized the idea of what science is—and that's shaped how I've interacted with science and math ever since. (We also talked about cryptography some! All I remember now is the RSA algorithm lol.)
When I'm writing about the cosmology of the multiverse or Bill's backstory, I'm thinking about how math & science were explored in that class and about physics courses I've taken that discussed how major physics discoveries were made in the 19th and 20th centuries and about Flatland and Plato's Cave and old-old-school pre-Lovecraft cosmic horror, and all that together goes into it.
(If you haven't read it already, you might be interested in Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee! It's not quite geometric literature, but it's mathematical literature, and I really enjoyed the ideas it put forth.)
Did you guys know Monica von Ochs is only 3 inches taller than your average Delphox. Anyways as usual her team’s backgrounds’ll be under the cut.
Delphox (Lovelace): Monica's first Pokemon and her most loyal companion. Monica's own proficiency in fire spells is largely thanks to her studying Lovelace's fire type moves and practicing with her. Lovelace was never able to learn Teleport, which caused some friction between her and Euler when he was first captured.
Corvisquire (Asprey): Monica received a Rookidee as part of Adrestia's tradition of nobles raising Pokemon of this line. Monica actually has trained her to be able to say several words and phrases, though she is not fluent in human languages like a certain Meowth. She can remember and repeat messages too sensitive to be written down. Highly intelligent and a capable battler, Asprey elected to stay a Corvisquire for now in order to be less of an obvious target when delivering messages over long distance.
Alakazam (Euler): Monica wanted to study the differences between an Abra's teleport and a Mage's Warp spell, so she tracked one down to try to befriend. She followed him for days as he teleported away. Eventually, she recognized a pattern which could be solved mathematically, and devised a scheme. She would send Lovelace to spook him into teleporting, and she would already be waiting for him at his destination. This feat impressed him so much that he decided to join her.
Crawdaunt (Evelyn): Once, when Monica was visiting Enbarr, she made friends with a Corphish while she was enjoying the beach. She wanted a partner who could swim with her, and wanted a teammate who would eventually be able to cover her team's glaring dark type weakness, so she invited Evelyn along, who enthusiastically joined her.
Metang (Turing): While Monica was captured by TWSITD, her single respite was a friendly Beldum she would talk to when nobody else was around. It was supposed to be guarding her cell, but none of her captors noticed when it fled along with her, assuming it to have perished in the scuffle.
Ekans (Hypatia): Monica's most recently acquired companion. After discovering Edelgard's aversion to rat Pokemon, she quietly went out and captured a snake Pokemon to keep rat Pokmeon away from her.
so I know I talk a lot about 'mathematician Gojo' but has anyone considered how fucking HILARIOUS 'mathematician Suguru' would actually be
ID under cut:
in the Project Runway 'Blood Orange' meme format:
Panel 1: screenshot from the show Jujutsu Kaisen, in which character Gojo Satoru says, "I get what you call a negative natural number"
Panels 2-4: Geto Suguru, reacting as if in a confessional, "'Negative natural number', he's so pretentious. Shut up, it's a fucking integer. 'Negative natural number'."
Laursen is so good with people. He's not even assigned to wardening as a high priority, but whenever he takes a turn at it, he succeeds. I love him so much.
I also love Euclid, she's cool. The psychopath trait will definitely help her fit right in with the cult, I reckon.
Her name is probably supposed to reference the ancient Greek mathematician of the same name, based on the whole "genies are the smart xenotype" thing, but... I can't help but think of it as her SCP object class, lmao.
Euclid immediately set to work proving herself as a capable new member of the cult, and now Vasso is dressed to the nines in his new masterwork cape.
Then poor Cecil got sick, so he's taking a break from helping around the colony and getting some well-deserved rest.
And finally, two bionic thrumbos wandered onto the map and I fell in love immediately. Nobody in the colony has an animal skill high enough to tame them, sadly.
Worry not, though! Our Drakonori prisoner, Magic Man, has a decent animal handling skill. When we recruit him, his first task to prove himself will be taming these thrumbos! No pressure, Magic Man.