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Cleaned up mine since they're now superfluous o3o
It's obvious that whatever now exactly happened when things went pear-shaped, it was a wake-up call that caused the known project staff members take a good long look at what they were doing and not like what they saw at all. Saria and Silence definitely have nagging consciences over the whole thing (though the latter's seems more Ifrit-specific as many of her lines still carry a certain mad-scientist undertone). Ptilopsis might too but it's hard to tell given she's currently busy pretending to be a damn computer to hang on to what's left of her sanity; "-- a necessary measure to prevent the system nexus from being devoured by that other voice." Creepy, esp. if it's somehow connected to the "enormous apparitions" in Iffy's hallucinations...
Incidentally the fact that Rhine was apparently willing to let Silence just walk away with the valuable if volatile research subject (instead of doing the usual villainous megacorp routine) implies the company probably considers the project finished and that line of inquiry exhausted. The ex-staffers are presumably nevertheless under some heavy NDAs, which are probably further reinforced by the implicit threat of hit squads if they're found to have blabbered about sensitive details...
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"Bullshit."
- Mochi au Lait, probably
Where Exu's wings at tho >:|
#notmyapplepie
Joke’s on you guys, they said no homo off-screen.
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"Please tell Ifrit on my behalf, "No matter what happens, I will protect you"... Face her? No, I'm not ready for that."
- Saria, trust 2 voice line
Ifrit OTOH has very different ideas: "Saria's here? Let me talk to- Silence said I can't? C'mon, what's the big deal? Bring me to her and just keep it off the record!"
She's also pretty :c over those two fighting; "What's going on between Silence and Saria? I don't understand... Hey! You know how to get them to make up?"
...yeah that's some big "divorced parents and their distraught child" energy right there, disturbing backstory or no.
Why Silence's so pissed at Saria is very much a question mark but one of her voice lines suggests she felt abandoned and betrayed when the latter quit Rhine and still isn't over that: "You mean she's here at Rhodes Island too? Is she here for Ifrit...? She walked out without a second thought, so why has she returned...?!" (She also describes Saria as "one of the people responsible for the creation of Ifrit" which sounds like Hell of a case of the pot calling the kettle black and more than a bit like externalising her own guilt.)
^^Silence tends to have bit of a mad-scientist vibe to her lines whenever Originium and its applications come up. Point being, whatever the reasons for their changes of heart it's pretty heavily implied Silence in particular is atoning for a lot of unpleasantness inflicted upon Ifrit FOR SCIENCE!!! and the latter's almost fanatical devotion to her has more than a few echoes of some kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
Curiously, both Silence and Saria seem to independently agree that letting Ifrit come into contact with the latter would be a Bad Idea. Probably has something to do with whatever exactly triggered the aforementioned "Incident" and whatever exactly Saria did to suppress it; the cause of the disturbing hallucinations Iffy occasionally suffers is likely also relevant, borderline Lovecraftian vibes and all.
^eh, they aren't necessarily standing or anything.
last edited at Jun 27, 2020 3:10AM