on the purpose of references in r1999
I was thinking about how meta the writing gets while playing Blonney’s anecdote. To an extent, it’s due to just how many references they put in it, but it’s also not the first time the narration has been directly commenting onto itself.
I find it interesting because usually, this tends to put a distance between the story and the reader, since you’re expected to no longer experience the narrative « first hand » but actually reflect on the way a story is constructed. It’s expecting a certain level of prerequisite knowledge from its readers in a sense.
It got me thinking into wether this has a purpose beyond Bluepoch enjoying the settings that much. I don’t think this is necessarily what they intended with it, but actually, the way we’re expected to interact with those stories, the distance, the callbacks, that’s kind of similar to how Vertin interacts with the world around her isn’t it?
She cannot experience the flow of time earnestly anymore, humanity has already been through all of this before. And since the Manus seems to be fucking with the timeline, those historical references have an investigative purpose for her. Things are no longer just happening, time is reflecting upon itself.
So that kind of unconsciously brings us closer to Vertin in a way.
Idk this is nothing but i just thought it was kind of neat.
reading these analysis posts on vertin's relationships with others and both the O.P.'s getting it right and its got me like
voice of unknown origin
Theopil, comma dead guy who appears in half a side story as a background character Isolde practically ignores after he runs away from her as a child from grief over Trista and her similarities to their mother, is genuinely one of my favs. Like top 3 at LEAST if not favorite. I care about the tragic and ignored Dittarsdorf very deeply unfortunately. Trista is the forgotten Dittarsdorf who haunts like a poltergeist still terrorizing those they hold a grudge against, but Theopil has been ignored by everyone since the start and there’s so much more I could go on but I love him. My blorbo supreme I fear
Forgot to add her freckles in. It's probably not noticeable, but hey.
(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)
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"
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.