ALSO THE ADDITIONS OF KATSUKI IN THE OPENING NOW THAT HE'S BACK TOO 😭😭😭😭

I blame @bakudekuchan.bsky.social for this one 👀

I'm usually not like this with sad books, but something about Patroclus and Achilles' story just 😭😭

of the Iliad I decided to read it before I got further in the Odyssey. And now I don't think I will ever recover. It might just be because I'm on my period and extra emotional but just seeing quotes (you know the ones 😑) from it is making me sob again

is against the rules of the universe. Philos was basically punished for this in a way, their people were sacrificed to keep the planet alive. And then they were made into Wanderers after Philos fell in which they could never truly die.

So eventually, I think in the main story she will get these memories back of Philos and she will have to stop Xavier from going back in Traceback II. Philos is never supposed to exist, just like Carter's experiments on people to live forever, a people that live forever +

In this myth we also see her talk about living in darkness for centuries before she saw a light, meaning after she died as Queen the first time her consciousness still hung around Philos until she was reborn as the new 'chosen one'.

another source for the planet's life.
I think this is also how MC eventually ends up as a gladiator with Sylus and then eventually in EVER's hands. Her physical body was not transported, but her consciousness and her power (one that Dimitri equates to the birth of a new star)

to this divergence point, ending the current Philos because it can no longer exist as it is (if she chose to sacrifice herself once again, it would go back into a cycle nothing would change), this divergence point is Xavier creating the Backtrackers and leaving Philos to find +

So I've always thought that the past lives and memories would play a big part in the main story (especially since it has been a bigger part with a few others at this point), and I think this myth kind of confirms how MC will remember a "future" life with Xavier.
Queen MC returns+

During the Chronorift Catastrophe she would have been 6-7 (Zayne was 13, Rafayel was 10, and Caleb was 11; Xavier and Sylus are outliers as they are not the age they say they are).
Caleb was first experimented on around 9-10
Meaning MC's experiments started around 4-5

NEVERMIND!! I just listened to Tidefall Allure and the sad has all been replaced 👀💀