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Been thinking about Casra I and Casra II's history a lot lately. The absence of canonical appearances Casra I and sparse statements regarding both characters in-game and in supplemental material means there's a LOT of room to ~go wild~ with speculation and headcanons, and making up stuff based on a few lines of text is my #1 favorite thing to do in fandom! So here’s is my personal timeline for pre-PSO2 Lucasra. please clap

Warnings: underage relationship, psychological manipulation, Luther at his absolute worst

( Timeline from Casra II’s conception to AP 220 )

Many thanks if you made it this far! But also: SORRY, I can’t stop yelling about these two (individually AND together) so here’s some Additional Thoughts on pre-PSO2 Lucasra that don’t fit neatly into the timeline format:

Since the successors of the Three Heroes take on their predecessor’s name...it’s possible that Casra II has a different birth name. At the same time, I can absolutely see Casra I and Luther having zero originality and just name him Casra II anyway, especially since his “purpose” is set and I doubt Casra II was known to anyone outside Void Apparatus before his placement on the Council (meaning there’s no need to hide the fact that he’s intended to be Casra I’s successor). Also I just find it hard to refer to Casra II as anything besides Casra, lol.

Thematically, I think of Lucasra as a bleak inversion/corruption of Luther’s relationship with Hariette. In EP5 Luther understands he has a duty to raise and care for Hariette, and is actually capable of choosing her safety at the cost of his own. Oracle Luther has completely lost these qualities and can only see people as tools to be used. At most he views his creations as extensions of himself or symbols of his brilliance—not individuals with their own wills. So whenever there’s a question on how Luther would treat Casra in a given situation I think “well the exact opposite of how he would treat Hariette.” Gotta live up to the “Fallen” and “Loser” titles, after all.

I had some thoughts about Luther taking an interest in Casra’s Draconian research because it potentially offers an alternate path to omniscience through “completing” Terr’yiotr or Kasheena, but it’s not something I’ve fully fleshed out yet. 🫠

Title: your eyes close as I fall asleep
Fandom: Phantasy Star Online 2
Characters: Casra, Luther; Luther/Casra
Rating: M
Words: 1,828
Summary: On the anniversary of the sealing of the Profound Darkness, a despondent Luther reveals his plans for Casra's future. Casra bears this revelation as best he can.
Notes: Takes place during EP2, after Casra's made his pact with Quna.

( You have the means to discover any secret of the universe you desire...what is this fixation on entering the heart of the Mothership? )

Bluesky, one of the million twitter clones that popped up after the elon musk buyout, removed their invitation sign-up requirement, so naturally i signed up because trying out new social media sites while being intensely asocial is one of my hobbies now. it's alright i guess; i'm mostly lurking for the most part.

you can also embed bsky posts so i figured why not make a lil' post of Fun Things I Have Found There?

I found out legendary weirdposter of very Old Twitter utilitylimb is back, transitioned, married, and part of a 3 person indie game studio putting out an rpg where you can fuck bears and a whole bunch of other, more abstract entities? I think that's what it's about.

gently setting expectations so no one gets surprised that our game is about a bunch of transsexual misfits doing murders in a wasteland. if you thought it was weird to fuck the bear in bg3 our paths must diverge here.
— nattie winters (utilitylimb) May 8, 2024 at 4:17 PM

anyways great to know they're having a good time!

PSO2 stuff:

Artist Noise (who I vaguely remember meeting once when NPC meetups were still A Thing) had an art request thread and drew my current hyperfixation Varuna ^_^ He is very adorable and has little hearts in his eyes! I love it ♥

Here he is! owo~~
Thank you for requesting Varuna and for joining this event! ♪(´▽｀)

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— Noise💜🖊 (noisebun) Apr 27, 2024 at 4:54 PM

on the other end of the fanart spectrum, i finally got the guts to commission some pin-up style artwork of my husbando from the lovely ThanatosRequiem, who does incredibly hot art of androgynous elfin characters; if you're looking for an artist i HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

Varuna for janejana Thank you for allowing the opportunity to draw this character! 👉👈

#art #digitalart #pso2 #varuna

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— Thanatos 🌹 (thanatosrequiem) Apr 26, 2024 at 9:06 PM

that's all for now. ~~i have decided to leave "best skeets about the kendrick/drake beef" for another entry~~

May 10th is メイドの日 / Maid Day so I ~~pressured~~ asked some friends to join me for ~cute maid screenshots~

( Cuento Royal Maid Service (+12 images) )

( Credits )

Varuna and Luther standing side-by-side in a snowy landscape.

Varuna coaxes Luther out of Cuento Castle to spend a relaxing afternoon in the snow. ❄️ 💞

made with

nex3's grid generator

snowball fight!!!

Credits

Luther, video capture, screenshots: zetchi
Varuna, screenshots: terabient

A short piece that takes place in a post-Episode 6 setting that I've talked about previously here, where Varuna is sent to Oracle on Hariette's request in order to help establish a permanent connection to Omega, and Casra is designated as a handler of sorts given Varuna's previous status as a dangerous enemy. ~~and then they fall in love, of course huhuhuhu~~

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After investigating a convergence of Falspawn in the Naverius forests and coming to an unpleasant conclusion as to its cause, Casra and Varuna return to the Gateship and discuss more personal matters...

( Read more... )

( Credits )

A big old messy Casruna...headcanon? Musing? Thoughts on how they’d interact in specific scenarios? This is basically a rambling conversation I have with myself every now and then, as I try to work through a zillion AU fics that will never be finished.

( fashion is endgame )

Lake Luisa is rarely placid. The constant breeze churns the crystal clear waters into rolling waves and carries a damp chill that cuts to the bone, a chill even the heat of the afternoon sun cannot burn away.

When Luther traps Varuna at the edge of wood and shore, he supposes the setting suits them well enough.

( An afternoon by the lake )

( credits )

I know it's common to associate songs with characters and ships but I've not done that personally for a long time. A lot of it comes down to the fact that my musical tastes tend towards light and cheerful dance pop while my fictional preferences are sad gay morally grey pretty boys getting in terrible relationships, which isn't the most natural fit for fanmix things.

BUT!!! yesterday I was listening to a kpop ballad, Red Velvet's One of these Nights and when it got to this verse I screamed internally because OMG IT'S LUTHERUNA. THESE ARE THE FEELINGS THIS SHIP IS MEANT TO EVOKE!! An all too brief moment of joy in incalculably long lives, the significance of which is not fully grasped until long after is it gone... 😭 I had a moment for sure.

In the same time span, just for a minute
In the same space, stay for a minute
In that short moment, everything
Stops for us, in that moment
Why did we not know that was a miracle?

( Full lyrics + music video under the cut, along with some song history, if you would like to wallow in the feels with me :') )

I've wanted to do some general character/pairing analysis lately--to go over the emotions, conflicts, and themes I see as central to understanding them--so idk maybe you'll see some more "image songs" posted about my faves while I plug away at kinkfic. or not! i really shouldn't keep making work for myself like this ;p

Current Mood: melodramatic

Not actually an AU this time--it's an "after EP6" idea, one that serves as the set up for an eventual "Varuna & Hariette on Halpha" fic ~~and also my crackship you're welcome :)~~

( 'I will let my actions speak to my devotion:' Repentance )

A more developed summary of the "Varuna on Oracle" AU I've talked about here and there. It's also the setting for the frankly insane Luther/Varuna/Casra OT3 idea that still relentlessly haunts my brain, but I don't really get into that part here. :P

( Varuna, the Faithless )

getting started early on the costume swap ideas 👀

9/23 edit: Some elaboration on the concept, and formatting changes

( Prince Regent Varuna La Shiec )

Current Mood: sleepy

When I visited my brother in Vermont this month, I did something to my foot that made it rather painful but not impossible to put weight on it, so I've spent the rest of this month feeling sorry for myself, scanning things and playing video games mostly solo because i'm surly when i'm ~recuperating~

anyway here's some phantasy star stuff i've been meaning to post.

first, this Glen/Crawford fanart (DW won't display tweet images, but the link itself should work even with the Twitter anon block going on)~ not deeply interested on any NGS stuff but cute boys are cute

以前やっといたの線画の範囲別けがんばるわよ。 pic.twitter.com/nqZnuccq5r
— おおつのけい (@Valac_Kei) August 15, 2023

Aaaand a bunch of Shivaruna screenshots I've taken while working on my Creative Space. Earlier I was trying to make a cohesive, area-wide theme and gave up on it b/c doing anything, large-scale or not, is a PITA with the current toolset. Working on little scenes that can act as screenshot settings has been just as time-consuming but at least i get cute SS ideas out of it.

I've also been thinking about Shiva and her relationship to Varuna and Mitra, in the context that she knows the universe is in a timeloop and that her lack of emotion towards her loyal subjects is probably a reaction to seeing them willingly die for her in every timeline while she can never save them or herself :') Anyway that's why I'm making an island where they can do things like run a maid cafe <3

1-2: Bunny Day 👯

3-5: Night-time beach date 🌙

6-8: Mothership Shiva Cafe 🍰

Shiva in a red bunny suit, winking and blowing a kiss

Varuna in a black-and-white reverse bunny suit, making a heart with a displeased expression on his face.

Shiva and Varuna on the beach at night, grilling fish

Shiva and Varuna side-by-side, wearing matching maid outfits

Shiva and Varuna stand together while Mitra, mimicking Shiva, looks on.

made with

nex3's grid generator

so one of the kinktober nonsexual prompts is clothes swapping/sharing, and I do like costume swap stuff especially in video games where costume design is such a prominent aspect of characterization.

would love to do something like, a series of role reversal AUs or post-EP6 vignettes with Varuna + other NPCs...I am still not sure what I want to make for kinktober but I think something like this would be fun to do and also ~~low effort~~ simple enough to do alongside actual fic writing.

(This is also an indirect way to tell u, pso2 friends, that i may ask about screenshot collaborations or RP over Discord in the next few days ;)

so there's a Keyword entry for the summons Luther was trying to accomplish in EP5. From what I remember, the technique Luther is researching is not named in global--it's only referred to as a summoning--but the Material Collection uses a specific phrase, "遡行召喚 / sokō shōkan." It also explains that Luther's first summoning attempt has nothing to do with summoning an omniscient being, which is his goal in his second attempt.

I am unsure if the Fleet translation would offer more clarity on this point, but I'm working on the assumption that this information is something only mentioned in the Material Collection. So I want to be sure to present it as accurately as possible...which is hard to do when you're dependent on MT.

Anyway, from what I can tell Luther's first summons (the one that kills Hariette) is an attempt to return something to its original state, to return to a past time. There's not much else mentioned, but I'm wondering if this means Luther realized Alma tampered with Omega's flow of time and tried to correct it. 🤔

遡行召喚
【そこうしょうかん】
ルーサーが密かに行っていた魔術。時間を遡り、肉体と存在をあるべきときまで戻すことを目的とする。その到達点は原初の存在を呼び出すことだった。しかし、召喚は失敗し、そこに居合わせていたハリエットは命を落としてしまう。エフィメラによって暴走し、あらためて召喚に挑む際は【敗者】として全知存在を呼び出そうとしていた。だが、術が完成する前に主人公の手で阻止されたため、何も召喚されていない。

I really enjoyed the "demon" outfit from the Designer Dreams contest and now that's finally been released it's everything that I could have hoped for (´ ▿ `) Just wish there were more basewear options that showed off innerwear. It's pretty much jeans and board shorts for T1 types :c

I've been pairing it with the Premium Jeans basewear, and looks similar to Motoko Kusanagi's SAC 2049 collaboration outfit. Excited that I can have Shiva and Varuna match without burning a Salon Pass to switch body types ^^ I just need to transfer her over before maintenance on Tuesday.

( Innerwear only, cut for 🍑 )

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Current Mood: bouncy

so with the EP6 Keywords mostly complete, I've been thinking about how some of the things mentioned there are in play in NGS...

- I'm not sure if this is clearer in the JP version, but it seems obvious that Zephetto was looking to make a Vessel of the World/Ultimate Vessel. Pure fighting ability appears to be less of a concern than 909's photon sensitivity (which, at the end of the current story, is 100%, whatever that means.) Which would also imply that the rest of ARKS is unnecessary; he only needs one. Not sure if we'll ever get to know what Zephetto's "third phase" was meant to be, but I feel like the sudden DOLLS invasion across the regions (which afaik has yet to be explained) is just Zephetto trying to wipe out the not-ultimate vessels.

- The scene where the protagonist is infused with photons as the NPCs cheer them on is probably meant to be the Great Light on a small scale (the hopes of everyone on Halpha are channeled through the protagonist). Garoa giving the protag encouragement from beyond the grave makes more sense when you consider that the Great Light at the end of PSO2 was made up of the hopes of everything that had ever lived.

- I don't buy Zephetto's version of history--that ARKS had grown so soft that when a powerful enemy showed up for no apparent reason they just rolled over and died, and once the Starless wiped out 7 star systems they were like "okay that's enough lol" and just--went away???? The Starless, notably, wipe out the ARKS research ships first. My theory (that I came up with in the last two hours lol) is that the ARKS of 500 years ago were attempting to create a new ultimate vessel for whatever reason, and the Starless arose in response to that. I also think it's pretty notable that the Starless only discovered Zephetto's 300 years old Galactic Thunderdome after a being achieved 100% photon sensitivity.

tl;dr: The Starless are out to destroy ultimate vessels specifically, and not mindlessly wiping out the universe as Zephetto asserts.

Man I want to work on some gay AUs (and some more general Varuna-in-NGS ideas) but i have put waaaay too much on my plate this month...... ;o;

anyway, here's a screenshot from an RP idea i haven't revisited with friendo yet, but i should bring it up again at some point.

( second thoughts on offering one's self as a sacrifice )

( if you're into a different flavor of maid )

Current Mood: awake

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a sad gay fanon PSO2 timeline

fanfic: your eyes close as I fall asleep [PSO2]

Bluesky...stuff

MAID DAY 2024

[Screenshots] Winter Excursion

[RP log] A New Future (Varuna/Casra)

Phashion as praxis

[RP/microfic] Luisa Lake Excursion, extended (Luther/Varuna)

(fanmix) Music Monday: Red Velvet, One of these Nights

AU October: The new age

AU October: The Last Photoner God

AU October: Cuento's Reluctant Prince

a maid cafe in space currently run by dead people

please dress up in my favorite character's outfits, thank you

Luther's EP5 research

phashion choices

best monsterboy

messy thoughts about the NGS story so far

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