#also when she appears in unusual poses in cutscenes

[horsyunicorn]

@haeluin

#i like it when my Tav has expressions and emotions #also when she appears in unusual poses in cutscenes #emerald tav #horsy plays bg3

[starsoverthehorizon]

Mod #4 - Puella Outfit Mod

Bit of a short one today.

The Puella Outfit Mod, aka the Time Lord Outfit, was posted December 8th, 2017.

The description reads:

A young Moon Child walked through a dream and saw the memories of another.

There she journeyed to the Origin, realm of the Enlightened. On top of the Tower of Judgement overlooking the Edge of the Existence she rejected her false gods and made a difficult decision.

Choosing The Void, she was reborn as an Enlightened and watched over her flame until Time's Beginning. (Even though she Ghosted)

This mod gives us Puella’s dark outfit, her red eyes, and her hat. Her hat is called the “Time Lord Hat” and functions the same way as the Sprint Hat. I’ve tested it, and can confirm it works with the Scooter Badge. It doesn’t change hair color. You’ll have to use a dye with black hair (like the Widower) if you want to match Puella 1-to-1.

In my humble opinion, the mod looks pretty good with the Blood Moon dye.

This mod also gives us Puella’s umbrella, which is pretty… unusual-looking. We never saw Puella wielding an umbrella in the videos, so this might just be what her umbrella looks like. When used with the Hover Badge, the umbrella is black with patches of glowing red. The color scheme does match her.

Discussion It’s interesting that the icon for the mod has Puella with her right eye shut—we saw in 11:10 that she survived (?) the fight with Cavum, but her right eye remained shut. That she’s still keeping it shut might be visual shorthand for the loss of her eye. She’s posed in front of the Time’s End bookstore from the cut beta ending. It’s not clear if there’s significance to that or if it’s Aesthetic™.

Now, let’s dissect that description.

“A young Moon Child walked through a dream and saw the memories of another.” In “11:?? – Farewell,” Cavum called Hat Kid “Moon Child.” Ergo, this description is telling us that in White Tower Forest, Hat Kid witnessed the memories of Puella. This matches up with the fact that we saw Hat Kid in cutscenes, but the NPCs called us “Puella.”

“There she journeyed to the Origin, realm of the Enlightened.” For me, this sentence parses strangely. We know both the “Moon Child” and the “another” in the previous line is female, so it’s not clear who the subject is now. Either way, Puella made it to the place the shade of Cavum called the Origin. The Origin could be just the dark space with the Piece and the flame or if it includes the Edge of Existence. It would make more sense to me if it were just the dark place, since including the Edge would make the spirits we see Enlightened, and I feel confident in saying Cavum probably didn’t become an Enlightened. There might be some overlap, in that some Enlightened appears as the light spirits, but not all spirits are Enlightened.

Side note—the Founders looked a lot like those spirits. Were they Enlightened?

“On top of the Tower of Judgement overlooking the Edge of the Existence she rejected her false gods and made a difficult decision.” Whatever she chose, it couldn’t have been easy. To choose one was to sacrifice another, and as we heard from Cavum and Puella, Master Tempus taught against the sacrifice, since doing so leads to Unbalance and therefore destruction.

“Choosing The Void, she was reborn as an Enlightened and watched over her flame until Time's Beginning.” Puella’s canonical choice WAS the Void. It’s curious how it’s framed as a positive thing, since making this choice required casting off “false gods.” Contrast that to “11:7 – The Realm of Dreams,” where Master Tempus frames the Void as incredibly dangerous.

Was this really the right choice, Puella?

Theoretically, Puella only knows what happens when she chooses the Void. She doesn’t actually know what would have happened when she sacrificed the Sun or the Moon. So, what Hat Kid sees when she picks those routes might be Puella’s extrapolations based on what she knows of picking the Void.

There’s a few things that no longer line up now that we have this information. Puella definitely ascended to Enlightenment, which is fine, but then it states that she watched over her flame until Time’s Beginning… but we met the original Tempus when we went the Void route. It’s possible that Time’s Beginning has already happened, so Puella the Enlightened doesn’t need to watch over her flame.

But why did we meet Tempus with the Void rather than Puella? Since Puella chose the Void, I’d associate her more strongly with the Void than Tempus. Admittedly, it’s implied in “11:7 – The Realm of Dreams” that Tempus had a traumatic experience regarding the Void. That might be enough for a thematic association.

Still, Puella’s ultimate rejection of the Moon (and the Founders) and acceptance of the Void makes her placement with the Moon strange. Hell, even Puella’s color scheme of black and red is STRONGLY associated with the Void.

It feels like we’re missing something :T

“(Even though she Ghosted)” Ghosting is a valid tactic when you’re trapped in Platforming Hell.

#a hat in time #ahit #moleman #Also Sprach Moleman #Puella #(in spirit) #Hat Kid #I originally put this before White Tower Forest #which was a thematic goof #this mod translates White Tower Forest #...sort of #lots of questions remain