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Let's be real....we are dr Ratio in this one..

but irl moments😃

he is DONE hearing about idrila

2.2 penacony spoilers

okay so aventurine.

know this is wrong img cause this one is dream him (he shows up at the end though in reality) but im lazy

which. i mean. we know he wasnt dead. but also. i thought he was faking his death. and would stay 'dead' so he could be away from IPC? (he didnt state this i assumed it) then again he kind of chose to go join the IPc anyway so im. very confused. someone please help explain this to me

but so. his plan was to show the 'truth' of the dreams, where death is not possible (remember that line of him attempting multiple times but being forced awake) however dormancy is. however meant to seem 'impossible' (dormancy = coma irl ig)

cause remember dr ratio's advice

The impossible in the Dreamscape is not "Death," but rather "Dormancy."

but dormancy exists. (but we also originally thought it was death and didnt understand what it meant by dormancy until 2.2) so then the dreamscape is also flawed. that is the flaw of the dream (like how misha was the flaw, the impossible that shouldnt have happened)

so then i guess. while thered be confusion i guess he couldnt really 'fake' his death in that chaos? cause there'd eventually be the understanding that it was not death but dormancy. and dormancy doesnt necessarily equal death

and if we consider that actually 'dying' in the dream would wake them up (yknow that person who went coma and then woke up. either that was the fake robin or that person experienced dormancy, 'died', and then woke up.) then aventurine couldnt die (we also knew he lived because of his messages after iirc before 2.2)

and thus i guess people could conclude that he isnt dead either. (like in game) so he couldnt really but i mean. now i dont know how to feel about current aventurine. like. cause. ipc not really good (i know theres different branches and so on and so on but still) so i dont really want him there? but. hes. still. working there... so im just. :((

but so anyway im still confused so someone please explain to me what we know of aventurines plan so far, thank you

2.2 penacony spoilers

honestly i have questions

did we actually go all the way back to the beginning of penacony (but with our companions having their memories), considering we were dreaming the entire time if we saw misha in 'reality'?

is misha dead? i. i mean i dont think its possible for him to interact with the real world outside of dreams considering he was considered the flaw of the dream that woke us up. so then he wouldnt have been able to join as a trailblazer, would he? ..but then what was that line about being the future mechanic of the astral express or something? ???

i mean. up to aventurine mustve happened at least if he 'discovered teh truth' and got saved by argenti (mentioned during both the end and during the audition thingy iirc)

or is it more a case of one timeline happened and then those memories ended up another timeline that was at the beginning. which then faced off sunday in his boss form? ?

penacony spoilers

UM

dolls

2.3 spoilers

does the airship even exist in real life

im dead omg

in the background is sparkles trailer music. im so fucking paranoid with this countdown but im not actually timed

i just realized the doll moves around. fucking creepy well its more accurate to say that its head is moving around but hhh

how tf do we know this

end of 2.3

what the fuck what is it with one option being '..but ive seen you before' and the other uh. whatever.

THERES A CHEST

deja vu (the amount of times ive heard acheron repeat herself) then again maybe it says something about how the more you repeat something the more important it is to know

ah. it kicked me to the parlor car…

AH HOLY SHIT

i thought i took a screenshot but i forgot to send it 😭so here from this video because i cant go back obv lMFAO

for a second i thought that was blood on the chains but AH SUNDAY??

okay so we probably arent getting playable sunday 😭 (i didnt have high hopes anyways since he was like the big ol boss at the end so)

sundays voice sounds so different (i mean thats fair. usually he sounds so composed but..)

idk why i didnt expect the ending description on 2.2 of like sister and brother separated (or something like that) to actually be a thing. im sad.

what if robin went to the bonajade exchange shop whatever and had a wish (what did she give up then i wonder)

… ..im. finally caught up. for the first time. now i know how yall feel WAITING holy shit

i dont trust you sparkle

2.3 spoilers

this is about a note left on the astral express (i was watching cyyu go through it but he accidentally exited out of the note before he could read it and there was no longer an opportunity to read it, so for all yall im sharing it here

Note Left by Gallagher

To the new generation of Nameless,

By the time you read this, I will likely have gone to where Mikhail went.

Thank you for everything you have contributed to Penacony. It's a pity that I won't be able to witness its rebirth with my own eyes, but your unwavering determination gives me confidence in the future of the Planet of Festivities.

Also, please say sorry to my naughty pet "Sleepie" on my behalf. It suffers from severe separation anxiety, and it must feel terribly lonely without me. Please release it into the Memory Zone, as that's where a meme truly belongs.

Life and death are merely parts of the fiction on the road of Enigmata, just like farewells and reunions. I wish you the very best in your future journey. As for me, it's time to depart. Enclosed is a gift for you. To the imperfect tomorrow.

Gallagher

---

corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures /hj

(from this post translating the departure ova, or basically the prequel to world heroes mission bc idk where to find it normally)

screenshot from this video cuz i cant replay cutscenes lmfao

like. okay so i started thinking about hawks and aventurine in the same thought train and i just. couldnt let it go. and then i remembered that departure ova where he had those sunglasses(?) (IDK The name of stuff. im just gonna call them glasses.)

didnt realize that they're kind of doing similar poses. thats because hawks had the glasses on his eyes but he pushed them up, and here aventurine is about to remove his glasses during the cutscene

MAJOR MHA & HSR spoilers

(if it gets confusing im begging you to read parts of it with the other character's part because im trying to connect them but it might get confusing reading it first)

no but listen me thinks of two boys with not great childhood in greedy corporation who h as. probably wronged them-

well in all honesty i dont remember shit about if the hpsc has done horrible things. scratch that they have because literally nagant. sorry ive forgotten so much mha story its been awhile (i was gonna go on a rant about how its just another thing the fandom considers canon because yes. like. i dont think tsukauchi has ever been confirmed to have a lie detector quirk, its just that his sister who appears in the vigilantes(?) manga does)

hawks cozying up to the league to get secrets (i almost said league of assassins im crying. batman go brr.) backfires

forced to reveal shit (remember dabi revealing in like his video in Dabi's Dance Hawks' backstory?? also portrays him in a negative light, viewing him as a murderer)

he also tries to make himself seem righteous like 'i couldnt let these injustices stand!'

(from wiki. also his wings get damaged, they can regrow but not to what it was before) ALSO fakes death (temporarily. LMFAO tokoyami)

also this is kinda weak but gets hit while hes down

(technically) hawks is still alive but his quirk is still kinda gone forever i think

anyway i think he appeared in the latest chapter. he seems to be doing well. tbh i have such a shit memory. uhm spoilers for that chapter but i just got so distracted by the todoroki family and dabi like holy shit

FHSOIfh i think hes the HPSC president now.???? DAMN good for him ?

bACK ON TRACK. aventurine cozying up to the family to find out the 'truth'

sunday does his weird shit to force aventurine to say the truth or get punished (asks him about his past and personal shit like 'do you love your family more than yourself' or something, asks about him being an avgin, if hes the only survivor, if he wants to destroy the world) (also sunday thinks of aventurine as like a liar?? like. like. i forgot what it was but he viewed him as like an ill-intentioned person he needed to get rid of. thinking of him in a negative light and probably partially because he was associated with the IPC.)

he calls him a villain. i. DAMN (from the wiki) so like. you see what i mean? also acts righteous acting like aventurines the bad guy while hes the one in the right

bruh gets told he has seventeen system hours to live

cheeses through it (nihility able to cut through it if you were confused during the story on how he lived) but fakes his death (temporarily. he can come back out around 2.3 lOl but it still took a strain on him)

gets threatened while hes still recovering from the aftereffects of the nihility and everything

genuinely dont remember hawks getting hurt during afo fight (and toga) but i also got so confused on what was going on reading the manga cause it was a lot. i dont think he got saved tho

aventurine survived but the cornerstones gone forever

also while im here since yall probably dont know

also he bet that he'd get a promotion but we dont know whats going on about that (and it doesnt seem like we will. or. theres implications that that the xianzhou(?) war dance is connected to the IPC cause of the special program where owlbert said he was gonna quit and that he got a better offer for the wardance. and it was revealed that actually it was them who gave him that better offer?? so maybe we'll see in next update(?))

like. like. hah ha hawks getting promoted? eh?? eh?? you see????

tbh i didnt think i could connect them at all but here i am now finding more and more

also off topic

i thought this was a mistake or jab at mineta im CRYING his names GRAPE JUICE???

your brain when you want to go to sleep because you have something you're looking forward to to do tomorrow (or today because its THREE AM) but you need to not be tired for it but then it pulls this thing out of nowhere to fixate over knowing you cant ignore it because they're characters you love and that the idea wont go away until you express your thoughts so you get the keyboard out to make a short post but then you keep thinking about it and it gets longer and longer cause you keep remembering more shit to add:

MAJOR spoilers for 2.4 trailblaze continuance mission (thats right, right?)

i played through the wardance story until we got to negotiating with feixiao cause i was nervous and tired and its been kind of too long but here i am now and i think in 8 hours we get the new update i havent seen the livestream for it i wanna see it AFTER i finish story so i gotta rush through this but awe dan heng

you. kind of make me feel really bad that im roaming with imbitior lunae you 💀

anyway i am very uncomfortable being here just thinking of dan heng being in here aghh

but also first thoughts on the shackling prison: hoooly shit this is laggy (i think it was just laggy at first trying to load in everything since its smooth now but oh my god LMFAO)

..me who is STILL not done with that event: uh. uh huh.. yepp. (im like partially done i think on that tho i just got tired of reading words tbh)

AA

IM SO FUCKING SAD THAT CUTSCENES LAG FOR ME

its just freezing at hanyas face and i just hear "Watch out!" and im just like what?? whats happening?

and then it speeds up to catch up to where it currently is at so then i have no idea wtf just happened im

wait sorry is jiaoqiu supposed to be there or is it like he cant do anything cause theres a guy right behind him

idk i just got so caught off guard

oh wait yeah he is meant to be. sorry it just kind of felt like. yknow how in genshin your character is still there and enemies can attack you or npcs can push you away while youre stuck in dialogue. it felt like me with the character jiaoqiu as the one im playing just randomly loaded in here and is not meant to be here

but i guess he is 💀

..gonna be honest. this is starting to sound like the start of a fanfiction. im sorry for harboring these thoughts but HMMMMMM i can certainly imagine what people will write out of this scene.

i guess ill see what happens next tomorrow. i gotta watch the livestream now fhsuidfhsif

going through 2.5

2.5 STORY SPOILERS

trigger warning later of minor character death. shown off screen but is described in a way that could sound horrible to the faint of heart

WHAT

i know i joked in my previous post when going through 2.4 that it sounded like the start of a fanfiction but im genuinely disgusted by this ew i was really fucking tempted to just write a fic where jiaoqiu beats his ass (even though i know hoolay is way more powerful then him) but also 2.5 already came out so i gotta get through the story before i get spoiled

the smart choice would be to do 2. but also fuck you hoolay im doing 1. HHH jiaoqiu's voice sounds so like. stressed. like trying to have composure but you can tell hes struggling a little.

also im sorry but hoolays human form looks so fucking ugly (okay maybe im biased but also FUCK YOU HOOLAY) idk ppl might still simp for him but also fuck you im on jiaoqius side >:(

STOPPP USING THE WORD ALPHA like ive heard it so many times in media im DONE i cant hear it the same 😭

"💀 " "None Can Hurt Me" UHHMSOFJFO i sure hope nothing happens to you buddy but

BURN BABY BURN

what the fuck im scared

wait but so i CAN go try to get help? IM SCARED WHAT HAPPENS. uh. uh. uh. FUCK YOU HOOLAY IM DOING IT

wait if i do this will he die. like the the the npc?!?!??!?! GUYSS

AHAHa.. AHgahah.... im. so fucing nervous

im. ohhhh fuck literal chills. im. should i look at what other options i can do to escape or. im so fucking stressed holy shit. logically speaking if jiaoqiu leaves and the ship gets sabotaged or whatever he could die (both him and npc). if he asks him to send a message then the npc will die. guys i hate this what the fuck

I HATE THAT ITS RED TEXT. okay with acheron it was a little startling but we never got like a warning that OUR ACTIONS have CONSEQUENCES. im so fucking scared

me too man. me too. idont want jiaoqiu to die thoguh what if what we choose changes whether or not he dies in canon im

okay ive talked to everyone. and the warning text for everyone is

the skarskiff(?) guy is just an ordinary person the realm keeping person is not prepared for this kind of emergency and that the cloud knight doesnt have backup (has the same choice options as the realm keeping person of borisin are here and introducing ourself)

also that we're being watched. who the fuck

okay the best option would be to cloud knight. but also is it a good idea? no. but. hiusgh. oh my god i hate this.

IM GOING TO BITE THE BULLET. i dont trust that this will end well for me but the logical option even if i get fucked later is to alert someone. a cloud knight knows what risks and responsibilities they're taking on by becoming one and if they die well fuck man but i REFUSE to just not do anything because that'd be like. playing into hoolays hands which 1. i hate him. 2. as a person who very much values my independence I NEED OUT OF THIS SITUATION

and maybe its what hoolay wants, for us to fail his 'test' but whatever. IM REBELLIOUS. (and probably really dumb)

cant wait to see how this affects story in the future. and also seeing how different choices affect things when i watch other people do this. haha. but predicting that they might not talk to anyone out of fear IM going to talk to someone

uhh im going to introduce myself first. its like how you're meant to share your address first in emergencies or something i think maybe? because if the call cuts out then they can find you quickly (i think your phone can be tracked but it takes awhile its not that easy i think?)

okay i did it. wheres the guy who was watching me i cant remember where he was. is he gone? did he disappear? i acnt tell im so fuckings tressed

nothing happened but. but the cloud knights gone now (presumably to spread the news)

i. do i tell other people ? do i. im. okay im

i only talked to the cloud knight. and then im going to do what hoolay asked. thats it. im not brave or reckless enough to tell eVEryone

HIS VOICE IS TREMBLING for the 100th time i hate this

GUH

I FORGOT THEY HAVE OFFICIAL IDENTITIES PRETENDING TO BE--

oh fuck MY DUMBASS

his voice... AGHH JIAOQIUUU

GO FUCK YOURSELF YOURE NOT THE BOSS OF ME

i knew it. i fucking knew it. IM JUSTIFYING IT TO MYSELF BECAUSE CLOUD KNIGHT YOU BECOME IT KNOWING YOU COULD DIE OKAY. id rather have tried to escape then not at all and prove his racist belief 'right'. okay i know im probably in the wrong because they couldve lived if i didnt do anything and i had a hunch that they wouldve died if i asked for help. but. okay at my core i am selfish. and for all i knew there was a teeny tiny chance that it couldve succeeded

and listen. im quoting twisted wonderland now.

"Zero is zero no matter what you multiply it by, right? But if you take some form of action, that zero could potentially become 0.001. And 0.001 has a chance of becoming 100. In which case, there's no reason NOT to do it." (Book 6 - Chapter 48 • A Sequel Cut Short)

i hate these kinds of mind games.

hoolay fucking yapping and i know we're in a tough situation meant to demonstrate how jiaoqiu's kind of powerless but hoolays just talking about how jiaoqiu will eventually crumble and im just. yeah okay big talk. and like i get that hoolay does have connections still and ppl pretending to be foxians keeping a close eye on everything and genuinely wont hesitate to kill someone but okay i just hate him

god he sounds like one of those people who are like. when you refuse their advances and they go 'oh so youre playing hard to get huh?' and keep going with the belief that we definitely want them or some shit💀

i should pretend. but no i cant. thats not the kind of person i am.

oh shit. yeah okay remind me that maybe this could potentially lead to jiaoqiu dying in canon. i mean. its happened in npc stories before right? like that one person in penacony who we could choose to stop her from falling or let her fall

but fucking OW. hoolay talking doesnt terrify me. and maybe thats why im choosing all the dumb options. but ow.

does he have this pose if we pretend to show weakness? i mean maybe its cause we got hurt and hes exaggerating it and showing weakness then. or maybe it actually hurts like a bitch and he cant help but show reaction.

OMG MOZE

okay actually other idea of jiaoqius plan. contacting someone for help and deliberately being caught so its not suspicious if we go along with his demands too easily (but having another plan to get help thats more secret)

like okay i know it was my choice to try to get help and fucking it up but still canon-like right. although i doubt he'd be okay sacrificing an innocent life so um oops

AHHH FUCKING LITERAL CHILLS. we got jiaoqiu flashback where he was like a healer on the battlefield. i dont think im saying that right i forgot what theyre called. but like remember feixiao mentioning in 2.4 how jiaoqiu healed her, and later became her like main healer or something something i forget the wording

and then it goes black and we hear hoolays voice. i have a little hunch that it might be the thing to stop the lupitoxin's effects starting to fade, nad thus the toxin starting to affect him

hh his voice... :(

yeah okay so let us go

sorry did he just bite someone and they turned into a borisin or did it just get rid of the guys disguise

i wasnt paying attention to who it was. i know it wasnt mok tok (different appearance, also it showed jiaoqiu turning away to not see it and mok tok standing there while that was happening)

its genuinely so confusing trying to tell who is a foxian and whose a borisin cause disguises but i assume its an actual borisin who was disguised...

hes talking to moze but all i can hear is monke from ben's stream (aka moze's EN VA LMFAO)

OH IT WAS A NORMAL FOXIAN

what if he does it on jiaoqiu but then they figure out how to turn jiaoqiu back to normal and learn how to cure feixiao. right? right??? probably not but im so stressed

HOLY SHIT JIAOQIU. he sounds so.. wrung out. exhausted.

acting is fucking 10/10 he sounds kind of unhinged but in the slow still exhausted but with emphasis on some of the words?? like. like he still has fight in him. i dont know how to explain this but its really cool

oh shit does he die now

hooly fucking shit literal chills the text appearing on the black screen actually like communicating in a way to us and helping us get an idea of whats going on

okay major manga spoilers for demon slayer. but here is my next prediction: he has poison in his blood that will affect the borisins if they drink it, like how shinobu kocho had like a shit ton of wisteria in her blood (it was also under her fingernails and shit like that, she put it EVERYWHERE) so that when douma (who killed her sister) ate her he'd be poisoned and severely weakened

AM I RIGHT??

I. FUCKING. KNEW ITTTTTT

okay well it was pretty obvious because right before it mentioned the green peppers(?) thing and how to get a picky child to eat it, it re-mentioned that conversation. and then changed it how to get a wolf to something something i already forgot so it was obvious

but JIAOQIU LETS GOOOO i really hope you didnt die

no wait but shit

okay so i cant share any more images i hit the limit on tumblr but okay so if he consumed poison (ist tumbledust. i already forgor. was it like the thing thats like a sedative thats good in small quantities but lethal in large quantities? or was that like yabruh or something)

does that mean he'll die anyway or

i dont think jiaoqiu said it in front of hoolay but anyway im so unhappy that cutscenes lag for me (hoolay immediately clocks on that it was probably jiaoqiu who poisoned him but sdhfuf. this MEANS that hoolay drank JIAOQIUS BLOOD?!?!?!?!? is he DEAD??? )

also i HATE the hoolay fight im struggling so bad ahuisdhdisuad

YANQING LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO (boutta trigger hoolays jingliu trauma)

im sorry for accusing you of being a disguised borisin, sparkle traumatized me ok (and im sorry for pinching your cheeks in 2.4 being cautious of if you were a fake but also i didnt know that was what that option meant)

you were just acting really weird so i got stressed but LETS GOOOO

WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING HIM AGAIN????? YOURE FUCKING WITH ME

oh shit feixiao boss fight

heyy her character. trailer?? i think thats what it was called teased this. like cause she got drunk and couldnt recognize jing yuan and fought him (briefly)

YANQING FUCKING POPPED OFF THIS STORY

i (think) all thats left is feixiao boss fight that we saw in the livestream

some stuff. ill do wardance later. but im gonna end this post here. havent gotten to the end but i dont think ill have anything else to share and i dont have space here anyway so brr

OH FINALLY I CAN ACCESS DIFFICULTY MODES

AND YOU CAN CHOOSE THEM WHILE IN STORY OH THANK FUCK casual mode my precious

okay we figfhting preceptor oh

dan heng: the oath of the alliance doesnt matter to me because im not a part of the alliance anymore *attacks*

me using imbitior lunae dan heng in battle: uh. uh. uh. uhm. YEP

anyway jiaoqius alive (he almost died though)

he sounds so more subdued :(

HOLY SHIT HES BLIND? OH MY GOD thats both better and worse than i thought

OH MY GOD TINGYUN

i was so confused on ruan mei appearance but OH MY GOD

WHAT WHAT I HAVEN'T FINISHED THE QUEST YET WHAT WHAT WHAT YOU CANNOT TELL ME THAT JAIOQIU AND FEIXIAO DIE WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT

STAR RAIL 2.5 SPOILERS BELOW!! scroll past or block the tags <3

they were sick and fucking TWISTED for this. what the hell

it's the way that all (all THREE of them Moze is just as bad) of them are undervaluing themselves while literally running around doing Everything to try and save each other.

Jiaoqiu being resigned to his death, knowing he gave Feixiao the best chance at victory and a cure that he had. Feixiao being willing to sacrifice herself, despite his desperation to cure her. when I tell you I sobbed over these scenes

Shadowban test

hey can y'all like this post. I'm trying to see if I'm Still shadowbanned

Holy SHIT

SPOILERS FOR THE 2.1 UPDATE IN HSR

Himeko: The only people we can trust are ourselves March: I'm so glad we have our crew!

Welt, not five minutes later: Acheron you don't tell anyone but me about what you find out. Acheron: What about the crew? Welt: Did I fucking stutter?

HSR PATCH 2.1 SPOILERS AHEAD

MR. YANG WHY ARE YOU BREAKING AND ENTERING? MR. YANG? MR. YANG THIS IS A MAN'S HOUSE

*goes to therapy* *accidentally spends entire session talking about Mikhail from HSR* *10/10 would recommend*

Please help I have so many thoughts about this man

My bet? He's lying. We've seen in the Second Eruption manga that he'll throw his own life and mind on the line to ensure victory and that he can predict what people will do before they even think of it, so it wouldn't be that far of a stretch to say he went into the dream willingly and knowingly with the understanding that everything would probably be fine in the end and if he took all the dangerous jobs (first confrontation with Sunday in 2.2, protecting us from the Family in 2.0 and 2.1) everything would be fine because he has 300,000 souls anyways.

My big question here is how did he not effect the Dreamscape? I mean, he probably can. Like, the big tip off for other people could very well have been "time and space are warping around Welt", but they weren't. Raises some questions for me.

New update spoilers what's the number? It's "then wake to weep"

Ok even though I do in my brain know that they aren't going to have Welt pull any weird herrscher shit this early in the life of the game, part of this kinda came off as a bit of a bait and switch to me? Ok probably not the word but .

So the thing with this update is the reveal that we have been in the dream since we first got to penacony and hallucinated Acheron. She's maybe the first to wake up from the dream because nihility (also detail to note: this probably means that under normal circumstances Acheron is probably a lot less likely to get lost everywhere) alongside others like Robin and Swan. Now what bugs me is this:

Why didn't Welt wake up on his own??? Ok there may be other reasons for that, such as him being unlikely to realize he is already in the dream but it bugs me deeply to remember that he pretty much foreshadowed the end plan by talking about project stigma early on (really fed me there tho) and then he somehow seems more resistant to considering it happened? Also that they brought up Nihility helping people wake and Welt is a nihility character...

This is one of those things where yeah there may be more reasons sure, but looking at it from a writing point of view it feels like the one and only truly loose end of this update. I could retcon it all to make sense though... I have a little bit of an idea that Welt may be like Dan Heng and have his own secret secondary path that isn't nihility cause this is just my thoughts but why did all the other nihility characters wake up before him :( I think we are likely having another update in penacony though and that's awesome cause tackling this or not I feel like the story would benefit from another Acheron and Welt interaction

Idk that was my thoughts today I may have more later but these are the words I have inside

i'm so sorry...

Crack theory, Mikhail = Sapphire

YES I DO ACTUALLY- Ok so... First of all, there are two known species associated with wings. He can't be a wingweaver because they seem to all follow the Abundance. He can't be a Halovian because he doesn't have a halo. Since he's male and male halovians (as shown with Gopher and Sunday) have bigger halos, it would be pretty obvious if he had one. That means his wings come from something else. What is that? The Trailblaze. We know that Trailblazers can follow other Aeons as well (Oswaldo being the best example, he's ex Nameless and now IPC). Akivili is referred to as the Cloudstrider in the Xianzhou Alliance. Gives some vaguely bird-like vibes, so it wouldn't be a super far stretch to say Sapphire's bird symbols are associated with Akivili's bird symbols. This is further backed up by the fact that sapphires can represent divine favor, so saying that Akivili gave him wings (probably because he was literally the only full blown Trailblazer (not just Nameless, Astral Express Crew) for probably about 2,300 years (Tiernan fought Zulo 2,400 years ago, Granholm was Navigator at that point and also was the last navigator before Himeko), so yeah, it's not a far stretch to say "divine favor" came into play.

Second! The colors match.

Top one is Misha's coat, bottom is Sapphire's. Same blue, same gold. Also!

Misha's gem, Sapphire's Cornerstone And even the hair colors could very well either match or make perfect sense. Sapphire's hair is dark blue under shadow, which means it could be light blue, and if that isn't true, Mikhail's hair is blue/white to begin with. If stress causes regular human hair to go silver, it seems decently logical that, for a species with hair that is already silver, stress (like having Gopher Wood within ten miles of you... or raising hundreds of children because you can't stop adopting.)

Also this section of the panel with his gryphon (who I have dubbed Estella in honor of the late Razalina Jane Estella) has the warp colors, so more ties to the Trailblaze.

... also the idea of being pushed so far for so long that you lose all sense of what you're here for and just do whatever it takes to survive compels me. The idea that at some point, using every bit of energy he had to just try to keep Dreamflux Reef safe drove Mikhail to seek a source of protection (a Cornerstone) from the very people Penacony proper was founded to fight is just... it itches my brain right. There's also the "everyone broke their promises to me so I hold promises above all else" is just... aughhhhhhh WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

And then there's the symbolism of probably too many things. 1.) Gryphons. Power (blessed by the Trailblaze as established earlier, Cornerstone), Wealth (the IPC is rich, the Watchmaker is rich), Courage (the whole knighthood thing, fighting the IPC, standing up to Gopher) and Prestige (P45 or P46, one of the single most important figures in Penacony) 2.) The name Mikhail. "Mikhail" is derived from "Michael", meaning, roughly, "He who is like god". The Cornerstones are each a piece of Qlipoth's power, but also a piece of Qlipoth's body. Having the body of an Aeon does make you somewhat like God. 3.) The name Char. One of two things. First, fairly simple, the result of fire. Very common name for dragons, a mythical beast. We establish with the gryphon that Sapphire is tied to mythical beasts. Second, "Charles", meaning "free man". Would be interesting with the kind of backwards freedom of the IPC, him having fled the Family and become more free, but of course, as a Stoneheart, "leaving" is probably more complicated than saying "I quit" and walking out the door. 4.) Sapphires. Wisdom (2,400+ years old and parent to many), royalty (major important figure in Penacony AND a super relevant, title-related hat), prophecy (time and related time telling devices), divine favor (covered above). Also, supposedly the 10 commandments were set in sapphire tablets, and Penacony has huge religion related lore drops, so... Also also, Sapphires come in any color but red, and supposedly the Watchmaker has appeared as many people, sooooooo... 5.) September. Sapphire is the birthstone of September, and September symbolizes refocusing of energy. You know, like leaving Penacony to join the IPC.

Anyways, like I said, it's a crack theory. It's almost certainly not true, but the idea does compel my gay ass.

Crack theory, Mikhail = Sapphire