[IT'S MEME TIME AGAIN]

[antreegonist]

I NEED...A DISTRACTION!

Questions meme, you know how it goes! I play Mithos and Firebird, and you can ask about Lark if you want.

I probably won't pick up full steam on answering questions until tonight after class, Persona answers may be vague, etc.

Comments

[antreegonist]

Similar, except with more of a focus on strong internal duality of natures in some way :|a Physical, moral or philosophical dichotomy. He would wind up patronning people like Sion or Yuri if they didn't wander into Onyx's arms first.

AATHER GETS ACCESS TO THE INTERNET, WHAT WEBSITES WOULD LLOYD ACCESS REGULARLY

[brotagonist]

Etsy.

If Mithos had the opportunity of making Kiriko's bone manipulation favor permanent, would he take it?

[antreegonist]

It...probably depends a lot on context and what more is revealed about the nature of the knight role / why only Sterling knights can individually contract with Personae / what the reason was for the opportunity to be offered / etc. Mithos does have a suspicion ICly that a knight who is not perma-allied with any one Persona will have a lot more general leverage in big picture terms than one who is, so that'd have bearing on his decision too.

Something Lloyd would like to ask Firebird about if she hung around long enough to have a good conversation.

[brotagonist]

Who she remembers trapping her in the past!

Your favorite object to symbolize Mithos! Like — you'd be pleased to see him represented as that thing in other peoples' heartgames. Hard mode: not a tree.

[antreegonist]

First aid kit or similar :|a Stuffed animal maybe since he's given some of those to people. H-he'd be really touched to go in an Emerald member's heart and see himself indicated as part of the team no matter the form, also. IC/OOC preferences towards him being represented in 'safe' forms as opposed to weapons/other dangerous forms.

Rrreverse? Hard mode: not two swords.

[brotagonist]

Some kind of craft object! :U Preferably something he'd made someone.

What exactly was it that made Mithos stop being dependent on Lloyd being around to sleep? Was there a particular catalyst or was it just a thing.

[antreegonist]

No particular catalyst; just a psychological move away from dependence :|a That particular hangup just eroded and disappeared without ever having come out explicitly. Mithos's heart!Lloyd still wears the traces of it, though, which are physical comfort and assurance.

On the whole it's unnoticeable though, because what tends to happen are that things that drive them to not room together are things that stress Mithos out so hard he fails to sleep anyway.

What would have happened if they'd actually found out about it, d'you think :|a

[brotagonist]

Probably not much on Lloyd's side! Lloyd wouldn't have felt much guilt about staying away from Mithos the time it really came up (the worldbreak memory) and otherwise he'd just have been more careful about not leaving super early in the morning etc.

Would Mithos have been embarrassed?

[antreegonist]

Nah, just confused. He might have eventually gone to a Persona for a sleep thing (like the one he's getting Emil now, ideally) so he wouldn't be so nonfunctional.

Thoughts on canons that would make interesting AU crossovers with Symphonia?

[brotagonist]

. . . . . . I'm not good at this one, my default for it is Temeraire and we did that one already '^' maybe Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer. I can't talk to you much more about that one without spoiling it though so you should read it already, but basically it is very much about individual will within a set system so seeing how Symphonia characters subverted the system in different ways than the canon characters might be interesting.

Name a new CR type you'd like to see Mithos acquire!

[antreegonist]

Antagonistic :B Someone he actively dislikes who actively dislikes him back with a lot less mitigation by moral/social/being-a-castmate circumstances.

On the other hand that is a really tiring CR type for me to play out so I am good having or not having it.

. . . I think I am all questioned out .o. DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE

[brotagonist]

NOPE

a pleasure completing this transaction

[doesnothappen]

Mau's canon is a YA Terry Pratchett book, but not set in Discworld. One might assume that it's set in the South Pacific, but as the Author's Note makes clear, "Nothing could be further from the truth!!!!!"

Which is to say, it's set in AU!South Pacific in what... should... be the Victorian Era, but isn't, and it is all about SCIENCE and RELIGION and JOURNEYS OF PERSONAL DISCOVERY and THE IMPORTANCE AND SUBJECTIVITY OF TRUTH and HUMANISM and it just gets me very excited about critical thinking... I am not sure what else to say without spoilers...

I don't know, it's just one of my favorite books, even though it apparently had a very poor copy editor who didn't notice inconsistencies such as a club that mysteriously is an axe on one page. I like the philosophy it presents and think it manages to wander through some dicey topics in tasteful ways, and do you want me to vague it up a little more?

Also it has a footnote about at tree climbing octopus.

How did the giant frogdog come into being?

[antreegonist]

CHESHIRE RAN THIS DELIGHTFUL KNIGHT GAME! Edmund Zack and Mithos somehow fumbled their way into making a creature that was actually super friendly and they did a joint quest for Cheshire to let them keep him. Otherwise he would have eaten it.

So I heard Sapphire is getting a puppy :3 Any plans for names?

[doesnothappen]

Mau and Van discussed naming it Whistle or Puff (as it is meant to be big and fluffy), but so far no solid plans! idk, I'm sure it will adorable.

What are Mithos's favorite and least favorite things about Aather?

(look I have a kitty too)

[antreegonist]

oh noooo kitty

He has huge amounts of dere for 95% of the people he meets in Aather. He has a pretty deep appreciation for the magic that goes into everything and what it can create. He is also intensely glad to get a second shot at life and people and friends and doing it right in general -- as awful as the slog through bad games and bad memories can be, Aather is legit the best thing that has every happened to him in some ways.

On the other hand, he has some huge frustrations. The unfairness of the knight/team divide wears on him; the game system upsets him, particularly when it messes people up and kills them; the storybound nature of Persona and their subsequent inability to change themselves and work to fix their own world sucks. Mithos is a worldchanger and a system-flipper and he chafes hard when he feels like he's not doing enough towards that, especially when the world is so broken and the system is so flawed. He keeps trucking, though, and he does get enough scraps and puzzles and hints on a regular enough basis that he feels like he's still working towards making the difference he wants.

Reverse.

[doesnothappen]

Mau is constantly amazed by the variety of skills, magical and otherwise, that people have in Aather. He loves being able to learn about different worlds and the different ways that things can work -- alternate universe theories are a big thing for him in canon, and being able to make contact is very exciting. It's also a great experience for him to have real peers, but that's not something he consciously appreciates.

He has similar frustrations to the ones you described with the world system, though, for similar reasons. But I'd say the hardest thing about Aather for Mau is just that it isn't home. His identity and sense of purpose are interwoven with his Nation. It's a struggle for him to maintain a clear sense of self when he's separated from that.

Have you been surprised by how Mithos reacted to any particular memories?