Thank ye! Brushed off the old phonetics knowledge for that... I do my best to be somewhat cryptic LMAO

The first half of my name syllabically is a plosive followed by a diphthong, but the back half is a voiced alveolar stop so it gets missed a lot so people accidentally shorten it lol
Veeery convoluted explanation for "People think my name's just a single syllable bc I am bad at enunciating"

Also it means I get to write Aeternum as the deuteragonist that he is supposed to be! As cool as a potential POV from him is, being in his thoughts kinda dispels some of that unease/uncertainty he's supposed to make people feel
He just feels better as a tricky, elusive personality foil.

I really like writing on subjects of isolation/connection, I've noticed. There's a lot to be explored in that space.
Ascension already lends itself to my own mind-wanderings regarding existentialism, so... yeah, there's a coherent thread to be made there, maybe.

even try to make a case for preferring the artificial.
This gets real interesting when I (without much thought back then) introduced the idea of them modifying non-Precursor specimens, and all those constructs are noticeably *inorganic-based*. PRAXIS is an organic mind controlling a machine body.

Where they can find a way to resolve things by manipulating biology, they will. Hence the obsession with gene modification and preference of regeneration over mechanical integration.
It's a point that prosthetics are seen as something only for lesser houses/the lower class. Nobody of nobility would-

Something I've really been interested in thinking about recently is the tension between their super advanced technology and their clear reverence for natural form and biology.
Many see inorganics as something lesser, without the "spark" of living things, consciousness of inorganics irrelevant.

Lmaoo yep! Honestly props for getting through the fight against all the watchers lol

Always found it neat that the game rewards you for paying attention to the environment like that though, very satisfying bit of detail

Not sure if you've heard it already, but there's a little wall right before the Watcher Knights' room where you can do a little thing to make it a little easier
But yeah, this fight in particular is one of the pretty long ones hahah

Yeah, it's quite grim... I ended up digging around for details and it's set to be hosted at a major arts venue here which is a real shame.
I did spot a few threads here and there of people complaining about a previous attempt at running a similar event so at least there's some decent pushback

Still absolutely adore this!! <3

THE FELLAS!!

Dudeee, I get the pins and needles/static so often because I always crouch in my chair like a little goblin, I gotta hit them with the "Cut that shit out" move all the time lmao