IM CONSIDERING!!!!! in my mind liu shu notably has the brat thing going on where like. she’s actively looking for a challenge or something that interests her, and she’s kind of got that same thing going on in ids like seven and kurokumo. yknow, that specific brand of ryoshu id that Loves getting a rise out of people and loves a good challenge because it proves to her her own abilities And serves as entertainment in the meantime. she needs to be doing Something. so she likes provoking gregor for shits and giggles, trying to get that rise out of someone that will give her a response she Likes. THIS is the kind of response she wants. And i’ve talked about this before but i think people forego ryoshu’s masochism in favor of a focus on her sadism, and just… idk. she will ALWAYS be a sadomasochist to me! she loves being hurt and pushed to her limits just as much as she loves doing it to other people. anyway that is to say i think she would be Very eager to get that prosthetic hand in her. she’s happy to do it too though.

OKAY I LOOOOVE TALKING ABOUT MY THOUGHTS ON GRETCHEN. in my mind, what i think hermann is trying to do is essentially get her own “faust”. in the play, gretchen dies because of faust, only to come back as an angel in the second act and save him from mephistopheles because he’s realized that knowledge alone cannot satiate him and has been actually working to help people. i think gretchen is from the same lab/program whatever that faust came from, only to have died, perhaps due to faust’s own actions. so what hermann is trying to do with that “dough” from canto 6 is to bring “back” gretchen/create an alternative identity of her that will give her access to the information the geschellshaft holds. i think this is what everything she’s been doing with the mirror tech and with aseah is going to accumulate to— acquiring a similarly obedient servant similar to faust with a connection to the geschellshaft, and one loyal to Her rather than limbus company. and of course, all of this build up is going to come to a head in, you guessed it, faust’s canto!

we’ve seen how motwe is basically the beginning of faust truly doubting the geschellshaft and her role in the company, the way she’s coming to realize she can be cared for outside of her usefulness to others, and her doubt is only going to grow and grow as time goes on. we’ve seen it— shes called out for dante and don quixote to get them out of danger where she NEVER would have done that before. shes internalizing that she can be cared for and care for others, and that might even be connected to gretchen’s possible death. “gretchen” comes back in some way as a result of herrman’s work with the dough, and her influence is what ultimately causes the final snap. and like… that is to say, i don think its going to be a good or pleasant dynamic. gretchen coming “back to life” and now being a part of hermann’s group, its that influence of someone so important from her past but simultaneously someone that’s Not the gretchen she knew when she was young, that’s going to break her. im imagining gretchen here as similarly blunt in the way faust is, being completely direct about the fact that they are on different sides now— but then she offers her hand to her, smiles softly, like an angel, and says they don’t have to be.

soo peak honestly, especially after all the information and characterization we got out of canto 7. i love thinking about just how much angela reminded her of don quixote before she got him on her way. that one line about him being his most dangerous when he’s Not doing anything? yeah. same thing for bad end angela. the library and its knowledge ever expands, but angela never leaves, and never decides to use her powers like in the good end to make the city better. and that also brings up the idea of how many times bari/ “a” bari has seen don quixote/“a” don quixote from another time or place fail to accept the journey. bari recognizes the mark of someone who simply will not do anything anymore, and i think seeing it in angela makes her very sad, especially considering the way angela talks to bari. it’s acceptance. its thanks. she trusted angela and regretted it the end. they make me really sad. the yuri possibilities..

i got to be totally honest with you anon like 90% of the ships i like come directly from my brain going hey i think they would have a fun dynamic. but anyway that’s beside the point. to some degree they kind of understand each other; faust and yi sang are generally on a similar intellectual level, just in different ways. they both respect each other as well, and out of everyone i feel like yi sang early on pre-limbus could have gotten attached to her as the person who had saved him after he’d escaped gubo. over time it of course becomes less than dependence out of fear and much more a sense of understanding. yi sang gets People very well and recognizes parts of himself in faust and it ultimately (coupled with his thoughts at the end of c6) makes him genuinely want to be by her side when/if she needs it like when she got him off the street. you know? and that interaction in c4 about yi sang being talented and faust being a genius— they recognize parts of themselves in eachother just as they recognize the parts they each don’t have in the same way. faust is logical and direct (especially in a way that could have benefitted gubo) where yi sang is more emotional and connected to others, and yi sang is more open where faust suffers from such extreme suppression and the additional fear(?) of being watched. it’s things that they recognize and don’t know if they want to have or not.

oohhh!!! well. the coldblooded thing goes for all of them so im not particularly including that but oh… i’ve been thinking about dulcie So much lately…. id love for us to get some background for her in rodya’s uptie story because i really like the idea of her serving a sort of aldonza man of la mancha reality esque role before she had been turned. there was nothing distinctly special or important about “aldonza”. but when she was turned, suddenly, there was something important about “dulcinea”. she indulges in the grandiosity of the parade, believing the fame and love would make her feel more special, but it just… never did. and also. beautiful spanish farm girl turned princess of the parade? please? please? she Thougjt it would make her feel so special with this second chance but she just became bitter so quickly despite it.