lore-discussion

[torpid ruin]

What you meeeean

I am fiine

I am gentle

Like listen

[stiff magnet]

Ming has soft spot to every kid

[torpid ruin]

I can give you my yvette/kokona one

[mystic mantle]

No i mean scissors bribe her with the most shark and she still follow pus

[torpid ruin]

i will send the link in DMS

[torpid ruin]

*Urbino

[mystic mantle]

I can read that...

According to this gentleman

[stiff magnet]

[idle anchor]

Guys, please tell me if someone knows the lore: was Louin a member of P.U.S., or did she just sneak in at the beginning? Also, what choice does Nobunaga Reiichi talk about in the voicelines: "Why, Reiichi? You had another choice." and "Reiichi, are we past the point of no return?"? (I know they are brothers, but I don't know the reason for their divergence of paths)

[stiff magnet]

Yes, lavine was member of pus

[somber turtle]

Lawine joined with her own will before she realized the behind the scenes of pus

and then pus sent assassins towards her

she was at first someone with no place to take shelter so pus is the only thing she had before the betrayal

[idle anchor]

Did I imagine it or did I see Kokona in the cutscene where they shot at Lawine?

[somber turtle]

yes kokona was involved in the cutscene

[bronze marten]

As of now PUS lost three people to Scissors

Meredith, Lawine and Reiichi

[somber turtle]

honestly if that isn't a red flag side for pus, I don't know what that is

[idle anchor]

It's just that Kokona in the game looks like a rather positive and not very serious person.

[bronze marten]

It is complicated. PUS team in game are okay people, they are, sadly, just a bunch of grunts

Kokona holds the highest rank but her authority is strictly related to combat operation, not politics

[somber turtle]

that's her front. she is actually a competent person that mentored juniors

[bronze marten]

Lawine and Meredith dug up something so grave that PUS was willing to send assassins to kill them off

[torpid ruin]

I am sure its the side effects or even the dangers of reconstruction and memory whip

[somber turtle]

I think it may be the reincarnation project

[bronze marten]

As voicelines go, Meredith is trying to drag Nobu to her too

But according to the manhua it seems Urbino threw their lot with PUS, or at least, PUS field team

If they wanna make it a gray vs gray morality, they are not doing it well because PUS looks increasingly unhinged while Urbino and Scissors have their own sanctuary to save people, and Eika background mentioned her hometown was abandoned by PUS

[stiff magnet]

I wonder what Lawine's real name is
Given her background and that she loves and even grows orchids (she struggled a bit with making them grow in first place), it may be Lan or Lanhua
Kinda fits her?

[bronze marten]

Might be eh

Also

Give more Kanami lore plox

All we know is that she willingly joined Sciss after Ming saved her

[stiff magnet]

there's plenty to her story in her room

[bronze marten]

I've read through those. She really joined Scissors without being a defector

[stiff magnet]

she joined scissors because Ming adopted her too xD

[bronze marten]

Most other Scissors have a direct beef with PUS

Kanami was like: they are good me gonna join

[stiff magnet]

Ming just kicks doors and "I'M ADOPTING YOU TO SCISSORS" at every cute person she meets

[torpid ruin]

Ming very big sis behavior

[wraith parrot]

Meredith was already on PUS's kill list tbh

[bronze marten]

Notice the pattern

[wraith parrot]

Even before she knew what she knew

[bronze marten]

Meredith recruited disillutioned high profiles

Ming recruited wide-eyed idealists

That makes the bulk of Scissors

[somber turtle]

Honestly, Kanami looks like she shouldn’t be in scissors. Her dealing with pus is the last thing she want for her problems

[wraith parrot]

Meredith was sent off to be killed like twice before they just decided to use her by removing bits of her memory and leaving only the wibbly wobbly science stuff that makes her important

[bronze marten]

She's a secret member tho

And as the lore goes, active combat does not really kill them

[torpid ruin]

Wanna bet that the only reason she wants to join PUS is because her parents or someone close to her died due to Collapse and PUS did nothing ?

Remember she sings to bring hope to people

And in this world hope is quite a rare pearl

[somber turtle]

If anything Kanami looks to be someone who can be cultivated by Urbino since they recruit talented members

[stiff magnet]

Meredith was brought to scissors by a doctor who was with them.
With Lawine it's said that she escaped with Meredith, so Mer started to get her memories back through dreams, and when it clicked that PUS did some shady stuff to her, she began to dig again. Lawine was in the investigation team, so she could catch Mer digging and Mer showed her the truth. They both ran away?
more or less

[wraith parrot]

We only know that she's kanami because of the pv and ingame stuff

But in-universe, They definitely make her switch bodies

Whenever they do their operations

[idle anchor]

Wait, is there a manhwa about Strinova?

[somber turtle]

Wait what? That’s news for me

[bronze marten]

That depends

I guess Ming got to her first. And the fact that her stranded opened her eyes to the condition of people abandoned by PUS

[wraith parrot]

It's not really a secret now that they can switch bodies whenever they want

[dull elk]

https://discord.com/channels/1182952140684136470/1363958141859004506

[stiff magnet]

Kanami was recruited by scissors because they noticed that her songs can bring back memories.
Ming probably thought "hey - Meredith may have use of this, i'm gonna kidnapadopt my idol"

[somber turtle]

So do they have like decoy bodies to use for Kanami?

[bronze marten]

That's the pattern

[idle anchor]

Thank you very much

[torpid ruin]

AHAHAHHA

[wraith parrot]

It's been revealed in Operation Outbreak that artists can make bodies, Navigator can collect and reassemble souls and that soul to body transfusion exists

[stiff magnet]

Kanami is a sniper, she stays in the shadows.

[bronze marten]

Ming recruits idealists. Meredith recruits jaded veterans

[somber turtle]

I see, similar to Bleach’s body inhabition I suppose

[bronze marten]

The downside is serious tho

If they succumb to collapse, they risk the possibility of personality's death

Worse, becoming deviant

And guys we ARE GOING TO SEE those Crystalline cultists soon

Not the zombies

[wraith parrot]

There literally was a line where someone gets asked if they "prepared their spare body just incase something happens"
I think it was Michele that got asked that or maybe it was just some random elite agent of the PUS

[bronze marten]

The human

[wraith parrot]

But yeah, Spare bodies exist

[stiff magnet]

There's interesting thing about navigator in Fragrans story.

“Why did the Navigator choose me?”

A navigator will record the other party's language, behavior, emotions, and even will, to help people rebuild themselves with this data after reincarnation. This is a job that a navigator needs to skillfully master.

[bronze marten]

Navigators are people who can still remember

Record keepers, they are

Needed in a world where your past and memories are like trash ready to be wiped should you contract collapse syndrome

[stiff magnet]

"...for her, smell is more representative of memory."

“Since you don’t have any smell on your body, you should be able to understand everything The Scissors and I do.”

[bronze marten]

And PUS can fabricate your identity.

[torpid ruin]

Its so corrupt and fascinating

[somber turtle]

Thanks to their reincarnation project?

[bronze marten]

Kinda.

They havent perfected it though

[stiff magnet]

Officially it's called "Reincarnation" but Meredith calls it by the real name "Recycling"

[bronze marten]

Like a used bottle. You wash the residue out, and fill it with new shit

[stiff magnet]

Exactly

[bronze marten]

Tear off the brand, clean it up, and fill it with something else. Gone your cola bottle, come their beer bottle

Audrey literally lives on fabricated memories

[somber turtle]

Come to think of it Audrey doesn’t remember the infight within her family right?

[bronze marten]

Kinda. She used to be a meek and incompetent heir

[stiff magnet]

It's kinda hinted that Audrey was a member of NB before

[bronze marten]

Post-wipe she became a capable matriarch. Guess why

[stiff magnet]

or associated at least

[somber turtle]

Well her storyline is gonna be retconned so audrey will have a different kind of memory

[wraith parrot]

Tbh, Once people got associated with NB, they become very highly competent

[low field]

Nb for the win

[wraith parrot]

Like, Gala started popping off in the art scene after she became a NB member

[bronze marten]

Audrey story is easy to work on since she herself lives a fake life

Her whole existence is a fabricated doll

[low field]

My guess is a hijack of the reincarnation process

[somber turtle]

I suppose, this is why Fuchsia was recruited, to gain intel on her and be a mitigator

[low field]

Probably yeah

[bronze marten]

Clearly why Urbino still does not want to completely oppose Scissors

[low field]

Is that a question or a comment

[bronze marten]

Comment.

Bai Mo might looks like a joke, but he is no fool

[low field]

Baimillionaire

[somber turtle]

Baimo has the businessman guy behind the face

He once made a deal with Meredith iirc

And that she owes him

[low field]

Yes

[bronze marten]

They work for whichever sides giving them what they want

[low field]

Its literally a mercantile conglomerate

[bronze marten]

Clearly if they want to get access to better materials for their research..... They are going to have to take it from the monopoly guy

[low field]

God i hate how good the lore is and that we don't know what gets retconned

[somber turtle]

Makes me think that Baimo probably runs a loan business

[bronze marten]

The strinova politics is a mess. PUS cant even control their own territory

[low field]

We have confirmation he does through the astral sanctuary

[bronze marten]

Urbino effectively stays outside their power

[low field]

Its basically an urban civil war

[somber turtle]

Hmmm I see, then that asks the question if he has debt collectors or loan sharks

[bronze marten]

Scissors, for all the terrorists label PUS put on them, actually enjoys popular support, making them a proper resistance and revolution than radical terrorists

[low field]

[somber turtle]

Wait…her?

[low field]

This is a joke btw

[somber turtle]

Oh

[stiff magnet]

baimo... dude shot a lot of people in the back

[bronze marten]

Biased I am, but I think Sciss idea of using bablo tech to solve Earth problem is better than using it to make everyone's existence a mass of digitized string sequences

[low field]

I honestly see this as both goals being morally gray

Since we know earth is a mess

[somber turtle]

Pus prevents scissors to do such thing for what reason again?

[bronze marten]

Monopoly of power

[low field]

Bablo crystal rarity and loss of control

[dull elk]

^

[bronze marten]

Whoever holds the right to the tech, rules the world. PUS is pretty much the church in a kingdom

[stiff magnet]

Earth is a frozen, desolated wasteland after ...whatever happened. The moon is gone, so that may be the reason why.
Scissors need not only blablo to open the portal but also need to stabilize the earth somehow if they want to live there again.

PUS just wants to live in their utopia, where no one really dies, ages and all this shit

[bronze marten]

That is their goal. They do need to research. But nothing comes if the bablo tech is out of their reach

[somber turtle]

Unfortunately for pus, scissors discovered that utopia is similar to living in hell

[low field]

I love gray morals, it makes stories so interesting

[bronze marten]

They have such complex use for Bablo, and here we are, using Bablo tech to buy Kanami her beach wear.

[low field]

Worth

[bronze marten]

You become unreal the longer you live in Stri

What are you after countless of reconstruction and memories filtering

[low field]

That and also that utopia is by its nature dystopian

[bronze marten]

Pretty sure the tech is limited to the privileged class. Leaders, business powerhouse, etc

Look at Mich's dad

He was a legendary investigator of PUS

And they didnt spare a single crap to fabri him back

They CAN, Audrey got it.

[low field]

Do we even know if that tech works on non superstrings

[bronze marten]

It's the matter of whether they WILL or not

That is one thing too. The general population still suffer the risk

[graceful crown]

Quick question, how likely do civvies know of the scissor's goals?

[bronze marten]

Enough for them to support Scissors

Scissors have transparent goals. It is their way of conducting their operation that is the problem

[mystic mantle]

True

[low field]

I feel like the further away fron pus occupancy we get, the more civies support the scissor

[bronze marten]

Sciss enjoys support from working classes and downtrodden people abandoned by PUS

Get the hell outta here

[tepid helm]

Free money

Whoa mods work fast

Very nice

[eternal moat]

[mystic mantle]

Scammer again?

[dull elk]

Like clockwork…

[mystic mantle]

Compared to AO3 standards, yours is...not bad at all

[stiff magnet]

PUS - using bablo for weapons and collapse cure
Scissors - using bablo to return to earth
Navigator - Using bablo to buy cute clothes for their new friends

[graceful crown]

insert "from the hit lesbian game strinova" tag copypasta

[mystic mantle]

💀

[mystic mantle]

"Men...women...all must dress up nicely"

[graceful crown]

someone will use the bablo better than me
-Navi

[stiff magnet]

Navi just swipes the card and bablo crystals appear

THIS IS WHY NAVI IS IN URBINO
THEY HAVE THE MONEY

[mystic mantle]

Dude is sensei of blue archive...

[torpid ruin]

Its a sweet fic come on

[mystic mantle]

You really cooked.

[bronze marten]

[mystic mantle]

Gosh

I just look at the gate of hell (or in reality, i think its just Meredith alt account)

[dull elk]

There’s fanfic and then there’s fanfic.

[mystic mantle]

Anyway, the ultimate of kokona is reconstruction?

I guess that it reconstruct a superstring? Would it work on a normal human?

[stiff magnet]

Lore wise? She makes spare copies of everyone's bodies and carries them on missions just IN CASE they die

basically? copy and paste when necessary

[dull elk]

At least from what I can tell, it could probably reconstruct a Superstring or a non-Superstring. It’s just not frequently used or used willy-nilly due to associated costs or drawbacks, whatever they might be.

(something like technology limitations, how expensive it is, whatever. It’s infrequent enough that it’s tied to an Ultimate and not instead thrown around all the time like Ghosts from Destiny 2)

[stiff magnet]

I think it's more of a "when I reconstruct, I would lose all memories till that point, so it's better to be reconstructed with the most recent backup?

[mystic mantle]

So it can reconstruct human (eg navi)?

[dull elk]

Don’t see a reason why it couldn’t. The reason why it’s not more commonplace is probably due to other limiting factors.

[stiff magnet]

if she would get a copy of navigator, she can reconstruct them

[mystic mantle]

I see, thanks

[dull elk]

I also feel like there’s a distinction between reconstruction (physical damage, but no String Sequence damage), and reincarnation (the Collapse Syndrome stopgap measure).

[stiff magnet]

Remember that Kokona and Celestia studied together, both the same topic. In PUS they were probably both on same team too.
Kokona can reconstruct the body, while Celestia (and Navi) can reconstruct the mind (technically)

All they need is to WORK TOGETHER LIKE THE GIRLFRIENDS THEY ARE

[mystic mantle]

Navigator and his wives

[stiff magnet]

Navi and his (counts) 21 wives

[blazing pewter]

Either there are 3 imposters or navigator does not care

[stiff magnet]

Ahi, don't make baimo backshots pun...don't make baimo backshots pun....don't

[blazing pewter]

Baimo about to frontshot

[mystic mantle]

Kokona messed up the body reconstruction part

[blazing pewter]

Uhh

[stiff magnet]

(The Wright Institute of Technology is holding an Open Day.)
(The Institute has opened its doors to the general public and is holding a variety of academic exchanges.)
(To promote its **consciousness restoration treatment **and another “secret reason,” the Astral Sanctuary is also taking part.)

[blazing pewter]

One moment

How could this happen? As the Strinova Navigator, I live in the Star Shelter.

This morning, Xinghui lightly crawled to the bedside and called me to enjoy the breakfast she hand made. When I went outside, my childhood friend, Lawine, was already waiting for me, smiling sweetly, and together we went to school.

In class, the new transfer student, Galatea-San, became my desk mate. When the teacher turned around, she secretly passed me a note. However, it was discovered by the disciplinary committee member, Audrey, who pulled me out of the classroom to an empty corner and, blushing, adjusted my tie.

During the break, the energetic Michele dragged me to the playground to play hide and seek; the cold and aloof Flavia passed by, her eyes containing a hint of concern; Maddelena rushed by holding books, accidentally bumping into me. After apologizing in a panic, she shyly ran off; Ming approached and mysteriously shared the latest campus rumors she had heard.

In the infirmary, Fragrans asked with a devious smile about my love life, while Fuchsia always buried her head in a shark pillow, occasionally lifting her head to give a mysterious smile.

After school, the quiet Kokona came to ask me questions, her face red; the cute Junior, Aika, excitedly dragged me to the ghost club's activity room; Leona saw me from afar, waved, and flashed a bright smile; the emotionless student council president, Meredith, approached under the pretense of inspecting the club room, with a meaningful smile at the corner of her lips.

Just as I stepped out of the school gate, the neighboring girls' school’s Kanami enthusiastically invited me to karaoke, while Yvette and she competed for beauty.

At night, while bathing, I unexpectedly ran into Yugiri changing clothes. Late at night, a drunk Bai Mo climbed into bed and hugged me tightly, saying that the DMR brothers wouldn't play with him and that if he couldn’t get married, he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me.

Is all of this just my imagination?

Yup I remember I had this story stored somewhere

[stiff magnet]

So I guess, the girls are worki.....WHAT THE

HAREM END

[blazing pewter]

Baimo can stay, everyone else get out 😋

[mystic mantle]

Dude where did you pull this out 💀

[blazing pewter]

• most upvoted comment on the thread I where I found the story

[blazing pewter]

I found it on Bilibili a while back

Google translated it to English cause I ain't translating it all

[stiff magnet]

I'm confused
manga says that kokona is rank above Nobu
but her dorm story says she's deputy captain (so basically right below him)
I guess it's safer to go with the dorm/game version

[bleak plover]

iirc nobu is the highest ranking pus member

it's either him or flavia

don't remember which

[stiff magnet]

Flavia is above him

[dull elk]

In general, probably roll with this (given the manhwa likes to take some creative liberties from the looks of things, chief among them that people will point out is a certain Fuchsia)

[stiff magnet]

let's say... she got inflated in some places xD

[dull elk]

The other one being how Celestia allegedly never met Bai Mo in person as of the beginning of the S2 story, and yet the manhwa (which is likely a prequel to the events of the game) has Bai Mo literally show up.

[stiff magnet]

Yeah, there's some changes

[mystic mantle]

Guys, are there any lores behind base 404?

[stiff magnet]

aside it holding the weapon known as ZERO, which can turn anything to atoms (or even nothing I guess?) ... not much

[low field]

Classified base abandoned after scissors discovery

[dull elk]

At least officially. The only real other things is that you can probably infer that it's part of the greater "secret weapons testing facility" mentioned in Meredith's recent character stories on BilliBilli, and might be a potential continuation of the "space weaponry research" going on there.

(translation progress on that is still a WIP, but Ahi has a pretty good summary of the overall gist of the story as far as I can see)

[stiff magnet]

Yeah, the one Mere worked on could be a prototype

[dull elk]

Actually, on that note, I've once again run into the ever-present localization problem of "names are hard." This time it's 摇篮之手 as a "secret organization name."

(I've opted to localize that into "Hand That Cradles")

...actually, I may be reading too much into it, but Hand That Cradles might make the MOST sense. This might be a far-fetched reference to the 1865 William Ross poem 'The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" which is thematically about morphing/nurturing the future.

[stiff magnet]

I'm in game, but I was about to bring up that poem xD

[manic plover]

I think it’s funny how the story about Ming and lawine in preton implies PUS has been basically kidnapping children and memory wiping them (when Ming sees a childhood friend who now works for PUS and acts completely different, who also didn’t like PUS before)

[dull elk]

Yeah, it really sounds like they're doubling down on the idea that "at minimum, top brass of PUS are abusing the Reincarnation Project to their own ends," given that the Ming extended story lines up with Lawine's character bios as far as that's concerned.

[torpid ruin]

WAIT

HOLD

hold the phone for two second

IF

this is right

And the idea in my brain is right

THEN GALATEA GOT RECONSTRUCTED ???

I mean okay

Lets putt his to bed I know Strinova is getting a new canon lore and all but

Like

[dull elk]

If they want to write an in-lore EXPLANATION for some of the retconning, perhaps. No confirmation for that theory as of now.

[torpid ruin]

IF that's the case and we look at Maddie's lore, Galatea never came to see her sister because she discovered (or Flavia told her since those two seemed to be close) And she is guilty for what was said before ? So she avoids seeing her ?

[torpid ruin]

...I will be right back. goes to write

[dull elk]

(FYI, I may not be able to reply for a while. About to board a flight)

[stiff magnet]

safe flight!

[dull elk]

Also, Meredith story has been translated, finally. https://discord.com/channels/1182952140684136470/1354939539512098857

[wraith parrot]

I mean, Audrey hints at being done by it as well tbh

[manic plover]

Isn’t that Audrey’s story

Like

She had collapse

She did the PUS treatment

Or has that been retconned

[covert sand]

is there more lore than the intro cutscenes? because i cant find any TwT

[low field]

@dull elk

[covert sand]

after searching this server i have found character lore docs, glad my main (eika) has one :3

[mellow river]

there’s character lore docs? mind to share

[covert sand]

yea i found it, let me try and find it, its on the server

[mellow river]

OKOK ping me if u find it or etc please ty reaper

[covert sand]

here, and no problem^^

[dull elk]

That. The Strinova wiki should also have a few other character bio entries and translations of the Season 2/Season 3 CN story. There’s also this for the supplemental Strinova manhwa: https://discord.com/channels/1182952140684136470/1363958141859004506

[young wagon]

wait, we have lore more than pus vs scissor and urbino being in the middle?

[dull elk]

Yes…

[fickle drift]

well, we had* would be correct

god knows what we have now

[mystic mantle]

Retconned

[fickle drift]

As it stands story doesn't exist outside of S1, and probably Outbreak, depending on how canon that is

[dull elk]

And whatever backstory stuff the official Strinova BilliBilli account is churning out.

[stiff magnet]

come to think of it, we've been getting 2 stories bi-weekly, so since there was nothing yesterday I guess no stories this week

[mystic mantle]

apparently, navigator is good at singing

[graceful crown]

I mean ming would make it hard

[ripe ledge]

hard 🤤

[stiff magnet]

https://tenor.com/view/bonk-doge-gif-24837098

[mystic mantle]

uhh

i feel like

audrey voice is a lot higher and she is way more expressive after this update

[ripe ledge]

AUDREY UPDATE????????

[mystic mantle]

yeah

she sounds a lot girlier this update

instead of sounding like your average math teacher

[ripe ledge]

:(

[inland gyro]

Navigator lore goes hard

[sharp badger]

Leona mains are crying for joy rn

she can now attach blocks to walls from the beginning instead of saving for it

look what i had to put up with for 4 months

[mystic mantle]

lmfao

i usually build bunkers in base 404

[torpid ruin]

good lord

[torpid ruin]

blud is playing minecraft the hell is this xD

[sharp badger]

it's mincraft, what else is this game?

[torpid ruin]

True true

[torpid ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-tease-its-over-high-ground-gif-14651206

[sharp badger]

I like to build stop signs

[mystic mantle]

strinova has become minecraft with wallclimb and free elytra the moment they add Leona

[mystic mantle]

i build one ways

reichii cant go through but celes can

troll

conclusion, character height is buff/nerf by itself

[sharp badger]

OMG that's huge for my strinova tactics I'm working on

I also use it on windy town to deny wall climbing on point A

[mystic mantle]

so its justified in strinova that female character has smaller hitboxes and more advantageous

kokona is very short

[stiff magnet]

Standing next to my team's Michele who got stuck floating under the blocks, both of us laughing as I try to break them as fast as I can so she can move, laughing harder with each passing second 'cause Awakening 2

[mystic mantle]

moment

[graceful crown]

as i said, devs asked if they could not if they should. they barely playtest. that shit should not have passed QA if they got valve level of QA

[torpid ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/twisted-fate-league-of-legends-gif-13222245

Is it bad that i see Galatea do this when she is bored ?

[stiff magnet]

I think that's a feature
you should expect to get stuck under it xD

[stiff magnet]

She makes items move places/vanish randomly when you talk to her, just to mess up with you

[brittle canyon]

to close

[brittle canyon]

if i can build nether portal

[stiff magnet]

What Navigator can't do?

• can sing
• can play DDR on extreme
• cleans your dorm when you sleep

they're perfect

[brittle canyon]

thats me as navigator

[torpid ruin]

xDDD

[ripe ledge]

what happened to michele's mom?

usually it's the mom that's having troubles in anime but for michele it's her dad

does that mean her mom is free

[cinder loom]

just glide to other side

[stiff magnet]

I don't recall if her mother was ever mentioned, so I assume George was single father?

[ripe ledge]

how did she

you know?

[stiff magnet]

No clue

Strinovians are practically immortal, so she either left them when Michele was just a babu, or mister Lee decided that he wants a daughter to raise and play games with after shift. So he downloaded a cat

[cursive jewel]

Wait so all the characters are immortal?

[stiff magnet]

they don't age, don't get sick, even the pain, hunger and what not are artificial

You commission body to look like this and that and reupload your data into it

[fickle drift]

They are immortal*

-# *terms and conditions apply

[sharp badger]

you might be surprised how often people do NOT bother

[stiff magnet]

I'm still curious how Scissors want to live on earth with their superstring bodies.
Kinda misses the point, as they will be still artificial.
Unless their real bodies are stored somewhere safe
(Lawine for example was from Earth)

[ripe ledge]

Lawiwi~

[mystic mantle]

Lawife

[pliant ivy]

Is there somewhere stated that Earth is destroyed or smth? There was a lot of people saying that it is then if you want their bodies to be stored somewhere safe then i think that there is close to none safe space

And still, will they be able to reupload their memories to their original bodies

I suppose that its harder to get your memories inside a working brain than to a digital(?) body

Idk what they are made of

Go Ask Galatea

Now that i think about it

How people Born in strinova learn about Earth

Do they teach about that in schools?

[low field]

Earth is a confirmed frozen wasteland

[pliant ivy]

Then they would need a bunker or something like that

To store the real bodies

[ripe ledge]

I thought the Scissors' theory was that their real selves were anchored on earth

and they were intending to return to form

[stiff magnet]

return to blob

[torpid ruin]

who wants to get emotional damage ?

:3c

[stiff magnet]

[torpid ruin]

Can i send you a small preview of something I am cooking ?

Its about Galatea and Maddie

:3c

[pliant ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/war-vietnam-ptsd-shell-shock-moment-gif-3022747568394546158

[graceful crown]

CN S2 lore iirc. @dull elk pls correct me

Eika was being taught exactly that in strinova. (Which also hilariously confirms Eika is a highschooler and a minor)

[pliant ivy]

[torpid ruin]

You want to read ? :3c

Its nothing bad i swear !

[graceful crown]

Send

[torpid ruin]

Its more about their siblings relaitonsiop

[torpid ruin]

May i invade your dms ?

[graceful crown]

Yes

[torpid ruin]

I sent

Tell me your impressions later (and please ignore the grammar errors i am still working on it

[graceful crown]

I didn't receive

[mystic mantle]

I am the one who gave him the idea to the galatea x maddelena fanfic

I regret deeply

[torpid ruin]

I know you dont :3c

[wraith parrot]

Moon cracked and fell on Earth iirc

[pliant ivy]

oh

why did it cracked tho

T-T

[graceful crown]

un mentioned

[dull elk]

CN S4 lore.

[mystic mantle]

where u read this can i have sauce

[wraith parrot]

It's in one of the alpha pvs

Shows the moon in orbit, broken and cracker

[graceful crown]

thanks

[graceful crown]

#lore-discussion message

[mystic mantle]

thank you champ

[manic plover]

So I wasn’t tripping

I heard her turret lines so many times

I was like

Is it different now?

[mystic mantle]

sounds less brit now

[wraith parrot]

They don't reupload shit

Their memories and bodies are separate entities

Kinda like Brain in a Jar type shit

Brain can absolutely function without needing the body anymore but if it wants to do physical shit, It can be transplanted/transfused with any spare body they have

Frankenstein without the lightning style

[pliant ivy]

but

in what form are their memories rn

like on a disc or what\

[low field]

Probably a server

[sleek remnant]

Sounds like they re-recorded some of her lines for some reason, but not all of them

It's like Kokona having different lines but a lot of her unlockable ones are the old voice

[manic plover]

Mara lore on the wiki is interesting

Also shows more about Flavia

seems like she’s against the shady stuff (at least, the big stuff) PUS is doing?

[torpid ruin]

Oh Falcooon ~

Guess who is editing the first part of the storyyy ~?

[hasty lynx]

[graceful crown]

Dunno. But strinova is not a digital world. It's a seperate reality

[low field]

Isnt it an artificial reality which is why collapse syndrome happens in the first place, because the afflicted cannot tell if what they're witnessing is accurate and real

[wraith parrot]

It isn't

Ugh

It's a hyperdimensional space

One where the travel to caused then to evolve not biologically, on their literal make-up within the confines of physics

.

.

.

.

.

[tepid helm]

Imo a soul

[sleek remnant]

Just realised they changed Eika's EN voice too, what is the lore implications of this

[ripe ledge]

Maybe they grew up

[mystic mantle]

Did she?

[sleek remnant]

Yep

[mystic mantle]

How does it sounds like?

[stiff magnet]

Are the va's changed, or just lines got re-recorded?

[sleek remnant]

Eika sounds slightly girlier

It might just be re-recorded, they still sound relatively similar

[ripe ledge]

It's re-recorded, I was there in the studio with them

[sleek remnant]

I'll believe you

[stiff magnet]

My dad works at nintendo too xD

Jokes aside,
Strinova eng cast is really good. To the point that it's the only game I play with eng dub as the voices really fit each character and their vibe

[ripe ledge]

it's surprisingly good

[stiff magnet]

Plus, the VA's are very sweet. I got in touch with some and they're always happy to do some recordings for you.
I'm definitely upping next valentine's day project with animation and voice over xDDD

[ripe ledge]

lots of indie vas i've been seeing

some of them were even in this discord on launch

ik its pr but the fact that they have discord accounts to begin with is something

bunch of lovely peeps. unlike a certain sister gacha game

[stiff magnet]

xD

[cosmic saffron]

i know this reference

[sleek remnant]

I know some of them def aren't indie, Lawine's VA has been in quite a few notable things now

[jagged saddle]

Is genshin the gacha?

[mystic mantle]

🙏

[fickle drift]

guys did they secretly buff Euler chance in ranked pool

I feel like I'm getting Euler a lot

[torpid ruin]

Can we consider the Navigator a superstring ?

🤔

Or that outside of reconstructing memory they have another ability ?

asking for a friend

[torpid ruin]

I will still not get over Su Ling Chan is the VA for Meredith because her range is CRAAAAAAZY

[stiff magnet]

No, they are not

[torpid ruin]

Shame

[graceful crown]

our navi is not but since there are more than on, it's possible there is

[stiff magnet]

I think the "more" may refer to Navigators previous "versions" not that there's more people like him

[graceful crown]

fair

though from how i read it, it sounded more like a job title

[stiff magnet]

Well, yea
But oficially he's (let's say it's he) is a doctor

a psychologist to be precise

Kokona's story shows how he works and what he does.

https://strinova.org/wiki/Kokona/Story/1

Speaking of Kokona.
She's so real with that

[graceful crown]

Honestly, knowing a place inside out is actual military sniper things. There's a reason why marine snipers are scout snipers.

Also cute

Kokona really is a bundle of sunshine

Very extroverted

[stiff magnet]

she's just there for food xD
I love how everyone after going to eat with her once, they always find excuse to not go out another time 'cause this girl will drag you to try everything or bring enough food to feed an army

[graceful crown]

Honestly, shame on them. Free food is free food. It's also hard to find good eating buddies.

[stiff magnet]

she a cutie xD

A GOOFBALL

Oh, Navigator likes games

Superstitious Report
May 3, Windy Town assault, poor fortune: Why do frag grenades look so similar to healing mines?

...ok, I chuckled xD

[ripe ledge]

What

[stiff magnet]

I'm going through Lawine's story files

[ripe ledge]

That was lawine's report??

[stiff magnet]

No, someone who's Kanami fan
She was looking through team reports

Another interesting bit
... they bleed normally

I thought their wounds appear only as the blue distortion

[torpid ruin]

TAKING NOTES OF THAT

??????

[ripe ledge]

Free $50?? Satisfactory!

@eternal moat come get your free steam gift card here!!

[stiff magnet]

A little more info about lawine's old partner

[wraith parrot]

So her partner has been recycled

[stiff magnet]

Yes

xDDD

her family may be italian xD

[eternal moat]

YES, YES!!!

she also has a Italian flag in her backpack

[delicate ice]

Navigator got that rizz

I will be your Mighty meow!

[chrome palm]

AHAHA

[chrome palm]

Also
KOKONA IS SO MEANNN

[chrome palm]

I wonder how many of the English VAs are actually based in EU

[spare ore]

WIFEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I love my wife Kokona!

[thin gust]

Hey were can i learn more about the lore? I read the events and chats but i feel like im missing a lot

[wise palm]

Agent_RAF’s translated a bunch of character stories and the manhwa as well as made a document for a lore primer.

[thin gust]

WHAT THANK YOU THAT'S MORE THAN I WANTED

[blazing pewter]

Pineapple pizza is goated

[dark garnet]

Nah Pizza with seafood topping is more goated than pineapple pizza

[torpid ruin]

I need

opinions about reconstruction

🤔

Do you believe that some patients after reconstruction still remembers their old memories ? Like a few of their childhood and such ?

Asking for a friend

[tough badger]

whats reconstruction?

is it just memory wipe

[dull elk]

There's no need to speculate that - Meredith's recent character story STRONGLY indicates that people can remember some stuff even after Reconstruction.

(well, at least in the form of flashbacks not helped by her specific circumstances)

[torpid ruin]

Thank you very much ! So i can put that in my writing

https://tenor.com/view/lorandez1-gif-18536065

[dull elk]

Would recommend reading it over if you want to be consistent with what lore we have. It's not exactly as simple as "yeah, I just remember." https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yyV3VMx0UqkWIhtT1nasFOl0uIOsCR4_C6MnbGOVO40/edit?tab=t.w8lb88ewd8iv

[torpid ruin]

I am reminded why i love meredith so much

[torpid ruin]

Alright

[torpid ruin]

I finally finished the sisters repariing their relationship fic

Who wants a piece ?

Falcon :3c

[stiff magnet]

[blazing pewter]

Hmm I haven't tried it yet

But it sounds good

[brittle canyon]

cant believe navi-gator would pull that rizz

[ripe ledge]

Is it me or I kind of dislike Kokona

[brittle canyon]

why

[stiff magnet]

Oh? What causes the dislike?
She is a bit weird, but not in a bad way.
She's the type who won't speak out her mind and will do everything on her own, without asking for help. That's a bad trait to have, but common with kids that became independent early in life.

[obsidian coyote]

i wish i could stringify

does it hurt

[ripe ledge]

I don't think shes weird

nevermind, i think i'm looking too deep into it

but irl i would stay far away from kokona

[stiff magnet]

There's nothing wrong with how you feel about her, I'm just curious what it is.
I kinda like that she's not really demonising Scissors, and can also see PUS dark side, acknowledging that some sacrifices need to be made.
It works neat with her "I want to be a hero" personality, cause it can backfire on her.

(yes, I like complex characters)

[dull elk]

It's almost like we have relatable yet imperfect characters in a world where all three factions are also imperfect.

[stiff magnet]

Except for Navigator xD

[dull elk]

(well, given the Navigator's backstory is basically entirely in retcon territory, sure)

[spare ore]

That's why I had put a wedding ring on her finger and call her my wife!

[lilac gyro]

soo kokona is semi officially 17yo

[stiff magnet]

With what she says, it's like 25-27 year old woman in 17y old body xD
Unless college in Strinova works differently

[fading pagoda]

all characters have an age in the game files, so not fully official they are in the files

[lilac gyro]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[lilac gyro]

kinda bizarre that ming (21) is older than audrey (19)

[fading pagoda]

i mean i think it’s weird how we letting 17 year olds go fight

[lilac gyro]

michelle is 16

[stiff magnet]

LET THEM FIGHT

[dark garnet]

Guys

Next legendary skin is Flavia right

Then eika and Meredith?

[lilac gyro]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[stiff magnet]

Seems like it

[runic forum]

True, it's anime anyway, let them fight

[stiff magnet]

[runic forum]

Also, Chat, what do you think of this one

And at that moment, I saw a beautiful dance of white stars. Their light so far, millions of light years away, seeing a glimpse of the past in each every star.

Kanami said, "And what can you deduce from that?"

"That stars, and their light, are everlasting, beautiful, and timeless."

Kanami nodded her head. 


"YOU IDIOT, OUR TENT GOT STOLEN"```

It's not a lore, but I just made a somewhat comedic (I guess) fiction

[pliant ivy]

[mystic mantle]

Absolute cinema

Star theme fits celestia more, but you do you

[runic forum]

I'm thinking of copypasta it in English chat in strinover

[jagged saddle]

What does P.U.S means?

[mystic mantle]

Painting utopia security

[ripe ledge]

security

[stiff magnet]

People Using Strings
Publicly Untrusted Squad
Propaganda Until Submission
and my favorite - Pushers of Useless Systems

[graceful crown]

Scissors propaganda goes hard

[stiff magnet]

:3

[mystic mantle]

Oops lol, thanks for the correction

[mystic mantle]

Yes maam, glory to the scissors

(I assumed that you're Meredith's alt account)

[dark garnet]

GLORY TO SCISSORS

[stiff magnet]

I'm too grumpy old cat

[spare ore]

nuh uh

[somber turtle]

hmmm theoretical question

what if I became Kokona's wife?

[ripe ledge]

i want to become your wife

[somber turtle]

well if you are into yuri then I think that's possible lol

by the way guys do you think with Kokona's character, she will be the drunk type in parties?

[mystic mantle]

i think shes the type to say a lot of random things, then say something that makes people feel sad, then hug everyone at the party and throw a tantrum before fell asleep

[somber turtle]

I mean that's also something drunk people would do

"Hey Michelllleeee......can you hic pass me the schedule planner?"

"Kokona senpai, what's wrong? You are not yourself toda--"
"Huh!? You wanna fight with me!? ...huh wait a minute....is it just me or did you became much more cuter Michele?"

[ripe ledge]

I feel like Kokona would trauma dump when she's drunk

or she'll get a lot more aggressive and rude

[stiff magnet]

she would start to babble confidencial stuff to the point of nobunaga and Flavia having to drag her out of the place

[mental trellis]

free 100 dollars

[eternal moat]

hmpf...

[low field]

its censored idk how

[wraith parrot]

Propaganda's Unbreakable System

[low field]

please use sunscreen

[wraith parrot]

For what?

[low field]

thats what the acronym stands for in my mind

[wraith parrot]

Ah

@eternal moat

[runic forum]

@eternal moat

[low field]

i lovbe how you piing the mod whos not online

[mental trellis]

money

[fading pagoda]

ping me trust

[mystic mantle]

Huh, possible

Character bio said she do make inappropriate joke sometimes

28 years old businesswoman that spent almost all day at work and night drunk ahhh type

I can imagine shes gonna jump on Michele and ask if she got any boyfriend yet

[ripe ledge]

nah i feel like she has a lot of pent-up negativity

[mystic mantle]

ye, stress

Shes an instructor right

That could involve in leading newbies (godawful)

Cussing, then mumbling some random stuffs about life, starts crying, continue complaining, says some random stuff in an angry manner, then cry again, then fell asleep

I observed that from someone at the age of my aunt

[somber turtle]

hmm this and above is possible yeah

[waxen latch]

Can someone explain to me why people draw Michelle with lemons a lot

[blazing pewter]

Idfk

I made the emote in gimp last year and for some reason it blew up and has become a staple of the community

Originally it's to throw lemoncat who is my friend but well these days it's just a funny emote, there is no lore reason

[vale urchin]

She taught michele

[somber turtle]

Huolidameow I think?

i think that ult voiceline pronunciation got mixed in with lemon

[blazing pewter]

I didn't get mixed up I just swapped Miao with lemon cause I thought it was funny

[bleak plover]

[fickle drift]

Plus ngl that Michele emote is very memeable

[lucid viper]

HuoliDaLore

[manic plover]

HuoLiDaStory

[stiff magnet]

basically her ult 火力大喵 (Mighty Meow) sounds similar to 火力大柠檬 (mighty lemon firepower)
The Chinese word for lemon is 柠檬 (Níng Meng). The syllable "Miao" (喵) (meow), sounds like 柠檬 "Meng" (lemon) in casual chinese

[ripe ledge]

lemon

[stiff magnet]

remon

[ripe ledge]

wemon

[mystic mantle]

demon

[stiff magnet]

It's sunday, I wanna have some laughs.
Headcanon pairings (lore version)

Celestia + Navigator
Celestia + Kokona
Ming + Lawine

[graceful crown]

Navigator
Job description: Celestia's pet.

[wraith parrot]

Who wouldn't wanna be?
Her current position is basically like a small downtown clinic that has the full financial support of something like Alphabet Inc.

[graceful crown]

Plus she's cute

[ripe ledge]

Is there an anime girl that isn't cute?

[graceful crown]

Fair but she's very soft

[ripe ledge]

Is there an anime girl that isn't very soft?

[tepid helm]

there are some that created with the purpose of ugly looking and annoying to make ppl hate that character

[graceful crown]

Ummmm. Ahem
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/lagooncompany/images/2/2e/Revygun.png/revision/latest?cb=20210403163109

Brother

Tomboys exist

[ripe ledge]

Oh my M9 Beretta

Oh she smokes.. nvm that's a turn off

[stiff magnet]

Mara
Netiher cute nor soft.
She's hot and you can shreed cheese on her tummy

[ripe ledge]

Mara gives me mixed vibes, specifically her en dub

[stiff magnet]

REVY ❤️

[ripe ledge]

It's a good voice but it doesn't seem like it fits the character

[stiff magnet]

It took me a bit to get used to her eng voice. It gives me chills, and that perfectly fits her character

[ripe ledge]

my voice fits the character better

[stiff magnet]

xD

If there's one character I can't listen to, it's the streamer Baimo lines
THEY MOCK YOU

[graceful crown]

Okay. They knew the assignment

[somber turtle]

"DYAAAAASHHHHH!!!"

[graceful crown]

JP Galatea > EN Galatea

[somber turtle]

streamer baimo everytime he dashes in

[graceful crown]

But then en Galatea makes her sound 19

[stiff magnet]

Bailo: "haha nailed it"
ME: YOU ********** ***** ************* ***** * ** ***********

[mystic mantle]

Lore channel? More like thirstpost channel

[graceful crown]

At least it's not the oc RP channel, ronald

Btw. What happened to ronald

[pliant ivy]

[tepid helm]

Gone with the down hype wave I guess

[somber turtle]

guys I just realized something
P.U.S
P -Painting (Utopia Security)
U - Urbino
S - Scissors

are we perhaps playing PUS' game perhaps?

[ripe ledge]

God I want ming to scissors me

Like literally take a scissors and cut my fingers off in the torture room one by one before I break

[sleek remnant]

Real quick, I noticed in some of the relationship stories on the Strinova wiki that frequently they sometimes refer to Celestia as Asterrierd?
I know that's not Celestia's CN name so what's up with that

[ripe ledge]

Probably translated

[fickle drift]

It's her old name

It's what the devs localised for S2/S3 story translation

Which of course, never made it to EN

And by then they'd changed her name to Celestia, which isn't all that bad in context anyway

[stiff magnet]

That's her last name xD

[mystic mantle]

Cinema

[ripe ledge]

Celestia "Xinghui" Astierred

Chong Xing Hui, Celestia

[stiff magnet]

Audrey Grove
Maddalena and Galatea Leary
Michele Lee
Celestia Astierred

rest doesn't have last names revealed

[ripe ledge]

Flavia Flavia

Bai Mo

[wraith parrot]

Bai mo is Bai

[somber turtle]

Hmmm how about country proximity for characters?

Like Baimo and Ming are definitely from China

Reiichi, Nobunaga and Kanami are from Japan

Meredith could be from Egypt but from I am not sure with her name

Lawine is hinted as japanese though her codename is of a different country

[ripe ledge]

Flavia is from Flavia prob?

[low field]

i'm guessing Audrey is british

[sleek remnant]

Isn't lawine supposed to be chinese tho?

Thats why she has a china legendary

[wraith parrot]

Speaking of Lawine

Anyone read her gear?

Her belt pack reads "External Fuel Pack"

Her belt has
"Warning
Maintenance has [][][][] the panel
Deactivate Electricity before Opening"

Her shorts? Pants? has
"EP
External Power Receptacles
Level 6 Service Panel
715/200V 40HZ30"

Then her cloak has
"Instructions
Release Mechanism rotate the plug anti-clockwise until it stops, push sleeve forward, rotate knurled rjng anti clockwise (5ft lies)//(5ft lbs) tongue, pull lanyard and detach the cord

[vale urchin]

instructions on how to get dressed

[ripe ledge]

instructions on how to quickly undress when she needs to pee

[stiff magnet]

Meredith and "Stop Ente"

[mystic mantle]

I think i joined the chat at wrong time

Ill take my leave again until someone discuss some cool stuffs about the lore again...

[ripe ledge]

Why is she named Ming?

Isn't it Chinese for name?

[stiff magnet]

Yeaaa, how strange.
A Chinese game has Chinese names. XD

[ripe ledge]

Why would her name be name

is her last name name too

Ming Ming?

[wraith parrot]

... It's a codename....

...You wouldn't want to use your real name just for it to be plastered everywhere when you're a bounty target as an underworld mercenary do you?

That's like going on discord and putting your irl dox instead of a nickname or handle...

[somber turtle]

well her homeland hints that she is of a japanese ethnicity since she practices budo

[ripe ledge]

no, I demand to know Ming's real name

And that her last name isn't also Ming

We have Flavia Flavia, now we also have Ming Ming

[mystic mantle]

character.ai goes hard

[timid basin]

her EN dub amplifies that by 5 fold

[ripe ledge]

She does come from a place of royalty

[lucid viper]

Mao Mao

[sharp badger]

Boi ah fai-f'oh

[stiff magnet]

Ming's name is Ming, but she's an orphan remember, so she probably doesn't know her last name.

[remote lily]

Ming Mingelton

[runic forum]

The Ai goes crazy

[mystic mantle]

Random opinion

Could it be possible that flavia is a glass cannon type of character like hanako from blue archive

She goes full offense on teasing but get flushtered easily when got teased back, things like that

[stiff magnet]

Thare's not enough info about her, nor not much chit chat with others to really know much about Flavia and her personality.
She is confident, a tease. Plays games according to her own rules.
When you'll read some of her costume notes, it's implied she wants to rank high in PUS.
So to my lil peanut brain it's like she want to reach the top, and take down the corrupted side.
In Yugiri's story she's the one who took her in after the snail destroyed the facility and everyone in it, believing that the girl would be of use/value for her.

I think it would be hard to get her flustered xD

[ripe ledge]

Didn't Galatea somewhat frustrate her during the CN story

[fleet girder]

i read lawine wiki and about how she have a chatter of a friend when she in PUS and how she's very close to her and how she betrayed her, this remind me of the scene when she get shot form the tower by Flavia, are Flavia like lawine old friend or something?

[wraith parrot]

It's not Flavia

[fleet girder]

i see

[wraith parrot]

She has a partner that got "recycled"

[fleet girder]

oh

oof poor lawine

[fickle drift]

I thought Compound Eye was already really high ranked

Isn't she the equivalent of Spec Ops or something

[stiff magnet]

Yeah, but the PUS team we play are all in the group

[sleek remnant]

Are they? I thought Nobunaga was the captain of another team that Michelle was a part of

Also Leona is from the engineering department

[stiff magnet]

I kinda look at the manga, and how they wanted to make a special ops team.
And they would need Leona to patch all the holes after all the bombings xD

[wraith parrot]

She's basically info, Which in most scifi military org is just lower than the head seat

Means she works just under the heads of PUS

[stiff magnet]

I'm looking forward the big reveal of like Celestia's mother to be one of the heads of PUS, and that George Lee's state is like that 'cause he discovered something he shouldn't.

Totally not 'cause I want to see Celestia's hot mom

[delicate ice]

Def not

[stiff magnet]

noooope uwu

[mystic mantle]

🗣️🔥

[stiff magnet]

[lucid viper]

What is this PUS corrupted side thing?

Also, we don't have much info on the agents released after the CN drama right?

Like PUS Yugiri, Urbino Galatea, Leona and Mara

[lucid viper]

[sleek remnant]

We have like minor Mara lore

She survived a crystalline outbreak, thats about it iirc

[lucid viper]

Sadge

We only have game descriptions then right?

[dull elk]

That and some slightly more cryptic details from additional CN flavor text.

https://strinova.org/wiki/Mara

[lucid viper]

If the in-game zombies are lore accurate, then damn, Mara should be invincible in the lore

[lucid viper]

Ooh, cool

[stiff magnet]

There's one of Mara's quotes that I don't remember to who she says.
(easter egg, so trigger is conditional)
"Clones, huh? Time for a proper massacre."
Anyone got it in game?

[sleek remnant]

I bet it's Galatea

But I've never heard it before so it's a guess

[stiff magnet]

I thought so too, but I literally never had it trigger in game.

[dark garnet]

Trigger by defeating Galatea

[mystic mantle]

I dislike how the package name is called "farewell gifts"

I think we are cooked

[tepid helm]

Farewell tbf more like "you're gonna boom explode, bye!"

[steep relic]

thats some shit i would do

W mans

[verbal pond]

omg I have a theory

What if

Mara is a corruption

Like the deviants in Outbreak

Is this true or a theory or am I stupid 😭

[sleek remnant]

Seeing as it explicitly states she's a "survivor" of the outbreak i don't think she's a crystalline

Listening to some of her voice lines she seems ex-military, so she possibly served with PUS

[wraith parrot]

Most of Scissors are ex-Opals

ie grew disillusioned to the government

[thorny jetty]

imo she seems like she kinda went a bit crazy after surviving the outbreak

possibly seeing her friends get infected and having to kill them

but idk she can take ppls souls and stuff

[bronze marten]

Mara slipped away from outbreak with a sliver of her life while all of her team died. So she became unstable, BUT she discovered something dark after that too, that put the final nail in the coffin and turned her into a complete nutcase

Though not nut enough for Scissors to put her to the backline

Tbh most Scissors people dont really have as much info as the other two factions

Not until Michele meets Eika I guess

[mystic mantle]

Maybe scissors fear her too so they deliberately push her into frontline so she can die faster

[bronze marten]

No. She is that nut

She no longer fear death after all those craps she had to see

If any, pretty sure the other Scissors have to actively rend her in so she does not just die

Scissors people are a tight group on a personal level

[manic plover]

What you said about Flavia makes sense based on Mara's story on the wiki

Something about the agent believing Flavia will be able to guide PUS in the right direction?

[manic plover]

She was apparently (or at least affiliated?)

And then she disappeared for years

And now she's back and completely different in personality

[stiff magnet]

Flavia playing double game fits the narrative.
I loved her talk with Michele in S4 (I hope this part won't be erased in the rewriting)

[Michele]: I suspect someone doesn't want me to know the truth!
[Flavia]: “Suspect”...that’s a good start.
[Flavia]: But have you ever thought that the person you suspect might be your comrade, your trusted superior, or even PUS itself?
[Michele]: That…I didn’t think about that much…
[Flavia]: Then no need to think about that.
[Flavia]: Return to your post to protect the citizens, capture criminals, and fight the enemies that threaten PUS,
[Flavia]: If you do this, they will erect a monument for you and sing your praises... just like your father.
[Michele]: But I want to know the truth! I can't let the cause of my father’s condition be so unclear…
[Flavia]: The truth is heavier than you think. But if you want to step into the abyss, then -
[Flavia]: Go to Preton, where everything started.
[Flavia]: To find the truth, to discover the "real" PUS.
[Flavia]: Until then, if you still have the will to fight... come back to me.
[Flavia]: PUS needs a new Eye.

(Also kudos to our Agent for translation ♥)

[manic plover]

Michele too innocent

Flavia knows things

Seems like she’s trying to warn Michele of digging to deep tbh

It would be safer if she just kept her head down and had a career like her father

[stiff magnet]

She knows things, Kokona kinda shows signs of knowing some stuff too.
Nobunaga either is just as innocent as Michele or pretends not to see xD

Yugiri's memory was wiped, but if it'll return, she may go unstable again

[manic plover]

Istg if nobu does some sort of self sacrifice

he seems like the type

doesn’t know what’s going on in PUS until it’s too late

and he’s gotta save someone or smt (maybe Reiichi? Idk)

I need to know what happened in the nobu-Reiichi betrayal 😭

[stiff magnet]

Michele - she'll learn stuff soon
Yvette - she's good with obtaining classified info, but she seems like she's afraid to look deeper into it, as she's comfy where she is

Leona... Leona needs a day off xD

[manic plover]

Leona doesn’t have time to be digging xD

[stiff magnet]

she has to BUILD

[manic plover]

because you can always count on PUS Engineering

[stiff magnet]

[manic plover]

I hope Michele gets more friends

(and they stay friends and don’t end up being scissors members which means they can’t be)

cough

[stiff magnet]

She has Maddy, Celestia, Kokona and Yvette I guess.
Then Eika (to a point)

[manic plover]

Fuchsia being used as a power scale is funny

she's supposed to be all about fighting so it kinda feels like a big deal if someone beats her?

Anyone know if fuchsia has 1v1'd anyone and won

[bronze marten]

PUS' darker compartment is not very competent

They let their secret exposed to various key individuals

And did a crappy job cleaning the mess

Most of their targets slipped away, and many of them grow to be very formidable

Imagine losing a chief scientist, a competent operator, and their own technician

[stiff magnet]

I don't remember if she won 1:1
usually she kinda lost?

[manic plover]

yeah thats why im saying its funny

writers using her as powerscale

but she usually loses

[bronze marten]

The rest in their rank are mostly clueless punks

[stiff magnet]

The most competent PUS went to scissors xD

[bronze marten]

With the exception of Flavia, the rest either don't really care to dig deep, or are clueless rookies

[manic plover]

thats what happens when the competent people are either dead recycled or defected

[bronze marten]

That pretty much makes Scissors hero antagonists

[stiff magnet]

Toiling in the darkness, serving the light

[bronze marten]

Because despite setting them up as outlaws, they pretty much make it clear that they don't drag citizens into the fight

[stiff magnet]

They don't even want to fight

[bronze marten]

Nobody does, they just have to

[stiff magnet]

They just want to chill on earth and make it habitable again with modern technology of Strinova

But there must be something shady going on that PUS forbids it

[bronze marten]

The sole reason they are still antagonists is because until now most lore events are told from PUS or Urbino view

Restoring Earth means Painting Utopia loses its monopoly

[manic plover]

ming in the manhwa when confronting michele is definitely antagonist energy and i love it

[bronze marten]

Ming pretty much spits on the likes of Mich

Tbh it does not make her less likable, because it shows she has standard while still being a down to earth woman. Her two recruits are jolly people

Mich is a blind rookie in her eyes and Ming seems to think of Mich as a clueless nobody who only fits for the role of a cannon fodder

Most other Scissors have something nice to say to the other side or at least acknowledge the potential. Except Ming and Eika, Ming told Mich that karma hit her, and Eika just shoo Flavia off

[manic plover]

yes

[bronze marten]

Painful for Mich tho, she really liked that Freya lol

[manic plover]

at least in the ending of the manhwa it seems like ming kinda cares?

[bronze marten]

[manic plover]

tells her she better not be another expendable PUS agent

[bronze marten]

Very Ming indeed

[manic plover]

michele tho in game to ming "prepare to die" 😭

didnt think cat girl would say something like that

[bronze marten]

Two most jolly people on both sides literally call a death threat on each other

[mystic mantle]

🔥🔥🔥✍️ ✍️ ✍️ ✍️

[bronze marten]

We must not forget that there is Crystalline this fall too

[manic plover]

i like how it sets up the rivalry too

like "i will not lose to you"

[bronze marten]

Ingame though, Mich is more of a mirror to Lawine

[manic plover]

fair

[bronze marten]

Sinc they both idolize Mich's father and both has/had a strong faith in PUS

[manic plover]

michele 1v1 against lawine (in the now retconned lore) was also pretty interesting

bro really said if my eyes dont work ill just close my eyes

[mystic mantle]

WHERE???

[manic plover]

modern day vs past

very interesting theme

for michele vs lawine

[manic plover]

uhhh

@stiff magnet do you know where the s4 lore is

[mystic mantle]

WHERE RETCONNED LORE?

[stiff magnet]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EdNGMiObdUUiran3gfTRbLwCot6duEoNBw8e_VnEEMo/edit?tab=t.0

[manic plover]

@mystic mantle ^

id recommend reading s2 and s3 lore on wiki first

if you havent

its retconned also

https://strinova.org/wiki/Story/Season_2
https://strinova.org/wiki/Story/Season_3

[bronze marten]

Mich has to be the one with the most "connection" to other people

Not entirely a good thing

[manic plover]

hm?

[stiff magnet]

I always keep forgetting that Suprestrings can get 2 types of damage xD

[bronze marten]

Lawine, Eika, Ming

[stiff magnet]

(Unlike the Bablo wounds caused by reverstring bullets, ordinary physical damage cannot completely kill a Superstring.)
(Superstrings that have mastered the changes in string energy and can control the body to stringify have the ability to shape and change the body. In time, any physical injury can be restored to its original state in the same way.)
(But unlike Bablo wounds, physical injuries bring another troublesome byproduct - pain.)

[mystic mantle]

It looks like before?

The s3

[bronze marten]

Sensory dmg and true dmg

[manic plover]

so eika ult is scary fr

[bronze marten]

Normal dmg cant kill them but can shock their senses and disable them

Bablo dmg on the other hand can completely erase them

And Bablo tech is not that, errr, "common"

[stiff magnet]

especially if she shove it up your a

[bronze marten]

Or "advanced" to mass-product

So that's why they don't fear death and constantly fight without the usual protection measures

[stiff magnet]

being a superstring is fun, you can have body of forever 17 year old and your life expectancy is 100 years

imagine... no backpain after turning 30

[manic plover]

galatea is 19 😭

how tf

[stiff magnet]

[Lawine]: Twenty years ago, your father arrived in Eden with the last group of Earth immigrants before the “Sunset” incident.
[Lawine]: --When I was young, I was also in that group of immigrants. We came from the same hometown, a country on the east side of the continent.

WAit a minute... Lawine is 21

and in her story, she still remember Earth

[manic plover]

yeah...

so how is she younger than michele father

😛

(prob why wiki says ages arent canon)

[stiff magnet]

I'll take it that as the confirmation that the datamined ages are age of a body, while some of the characters are older than they appear

that would kinda explain why Kokona is a senior at 17 xD

....aaaand the whole theory went to F itself xD

[Lawine]: Why we, who live in this world, have to work at sunrise and rest at sunset, be bound by gravity, and endure birth, aging, sickness and death?

[manic plover]

1 year older than michele but instructor

moment

[stiff magnet]

Engineering masters graduate, certified medic, basically a vice captain of the Investigation team... all at tender age of 17

Kids nowadays are build different

[manic plover]

koko and Celestia being friends is so wholesome

I need more!

like that one chip skin of them

[stiff magnet]

uwu

[manic plover]

I just realized Celestia is washing the dishes

😭

ship them right now

[stiff magnet]

same

They're too cute

I love how wnhen Celestia does something dangerous (like arriving in Preton) her first thought is "Kokona would scold me for that" xD

Michele: hehe, me too

[mystic mantle]

@torpid ruin

[manic plover]

Kokona would also scold her for being friendly with scissors

[mystic mantle]

Write this down write this down

[stiff magnet]

Kokona the mother hen of all younglings

[manic plover]

neat how Celestia is just the doctor the scissors visit

[mystic mantle]

Perhaps the kokona husband guy was right

[manic plover]

Meredith having problems? Take her to Celestia!

[mystic mantle]

Peak housewife behaviour

[stiff magnet]

I was writing kokona x celestia thing, trying to imagine Celestia's last day in PUS, but since I mainly write when I'm at work, I never finished it

“Are you seriously packing your med kit before your underwear?”

Kokona’s voice cut through the room, light, teasing. She leaned against the doorframe, watching Celestia kneel by her half-filled duffel. Stacks of gels, sealed stim-packs, and glowing vials of liquid were neatly tucked into the bag. Not a sock in sight.

Celestia didn’t even flinch. “Priorities.”

“Guess you won’t be needing anything lacy out there, huh?” Kokona smirked.

Celestia paused just long enough to raise a brow. “And what makes you think I own anything lacy?”

Kokona gave her a look. “C’mon, Celestia. I’ve seen your laundry.”

[mystic mantle]

🔥✍️

[manic plover]

😭

“I’ve seen your laundry”

koko so causal

[stiff magnet]

Kokona actually says a lot of dumb things that may border on inappropriate and I live for that xD

[manic plover]

I’ve never written before but maybe I should try my hand at a base 404 story or smt

attack vs defense

this game has too much lore to pass up

[stiff magnet]

=w=)b

[torpid ruin]

yes ? .3c

you called me ?

[mystic mantle]

I spotted potential ship

Please deliver the best dishes

I entrust this onto you

[tepid helm]

@eternal moat

[torpid ruin]

You mean cel and kokona ?

On the bucket list

Also wanna see something my gf draw

its from the galatea and Flavia i showed you :3c

[eternal moat]

okey

[worldly fractal]

y tf she crying aint sh that serious 💀

[torpid ruin]

hey

give her a hug :((

[blazing pewter]

she deserves a lemon

[runic forum]

As an author, write cringe, write bad, write whatever you want

As long as you're putting words after words

You're doing good

https://tenor.com/view/fujiwara-chika-kaguya-sama-love-is-war-ok-yes-oui-gif-17571104

[ripe ledge]

Are they out on a mission to seduce someone or what

[sly plume]

Can I get a rundown on Flavia lore?

[manic plover]

Ok but who throws mighty meow at round start

[remote lily]

It is me who tells her to do that, don't blame my wife

[graceful crown]

If there's a line up there's a way

https://tenor.com/view/bhibatsam-joker-dark-knight-its-not-about-money-its-about-sending-message-gif-4822874739301846030

[stiff magnet]

Celestia's last day at PUS

[dull elk]

PUS special agent and member of the Eye of PUS. Think of her basically as the equivalent of PUS's "chief intelligence officer."

[stiff magnet]

Also calls Michele "her little kitten" and not by her name

[chrome palm]

Celest is so annoyed by that xD

[brittle canyon]

imagine she call me "little dog"

[stiff magnet]

It'll work well with them, as Celestia is soft spoken untin ANGY
Kokona probably loves to tease her to see the ANGY pouty Celestia.
As Navigator we can flick Celestia's forehead to see her puff cheeks. This image is what fuels Kokona xD

[chrome palm]

Kokona is always so meannn xD

Love it