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So I’m trying to become familiar enough with the lore of this game to start a YouTube channel around it.
I think I’m doing pretty decent, but I cannot for the love of god figure out Dissolution. So I’m going to go over my understanding and maybe someone smarter than me can help. Thank you very much.

So how I understand it Dissolution is the dissolution of a concept that also spreads like a disease to any concept.
It destroys the very concept and memory of a thing, but that only mostly affects people because no one’s going to remember some random brick.

Bodies who are subjected to dissolution don’t vanish, they erode into D-slime and other D-enemies who no longer exist as people but something else entirely.

A D-Mark appears on an infected individual and begins to expand outward until that person is nothing but the mark, sometimes it continues to expand creating a D-Rift, which becomes an infection point.
A D-Rift often has a “Boss”, assumedly the individual whose body became the rift, and with the help of Silver they can be defeated. I imagine lore wise they’re usually D-enemies and not Awakeners or other beasts.

So I got distracted and had to put this post off for like 4 days and I swear to god they changed the Library in that time. so I feel I understand it a lot better now, maybe I’m less tired who knows, but regardless I’d like to know what I’ve gotten wrong.
I want to be a lore keeper for this game, if people are interested, but before that I need to know the facts. So thank you very much and have a lovely day!

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With how hostile the world is to us it takes so much willpower and courage to put yourself in that position, we are all jumping in front of bullets just for the opportunity to be ourselves.
We have to fight to justify our existence each and everyday, we have to brave a system quite literally designed to destroy us.
Queer people as a whole, but especially trans people today are a very unique minority. It’s one of the only oppressed groups people willingly put themselves in.
Being trans isn’t a choice, but putting yourself in that situation is. Putting that target on your head, making yourself hyper aware of everything. When you do this you can’t not have fear unless you’re the most privileged person on the planet, but we all do it anyway.
It’s hard. It’s probably the hardest thing any of us will ever do and it’ll only get harder by the looks of it because I don’t think this’ll ever go away. At least in North America we have no allies, no group or people who will leave us alone, let alone help us. We’re all alone, literally everyone is trying to kill us constantly, most of us aren’t safe in our own homes and fear death every time we step outside. Many of our hero’s and those we looked up to have been applauded for saying we need to be eradicated, many of our friends have abandoned us because they think our very existence is dangerous to them and many more awful situations I can’t even think of.
But we do this anyway. Because while we are afraid, we can’t let that fear stop us from trying because I would rather die a girl when the government guns me down, than live a depressed boy, dying slowly as I drag myself from day to day.

I’d say that beats the willpower some midwestern white straight cis guy can put out any day of the week.

So I am making something about Lob Corp from the perspective of like a file clerk at the main L. Corp branch but I’m having trouble with ideas.

Do you all think they should learn of the time loops, I have to imagine some employees would figure it out. Getting some kind of Déjà vu or something and putting it together.

How often do you think the employees socialize? We know sometimes but how long.
Do they go home? I have to imagine not.
I know they’re like frozen or something like that. I did read the story I just don’t have the time to read through it all again I want this project started fully this month.

Personally I’m leaning towards the character figuring out there’s a loop and partially remembering things then witnessing events like core suppressions but not really understanding them. But I’m open to suggestions and ideas if anyone has any. Thank you very much.

Buffalo Bill, despite not being trans explicitly, relies on a lot of transphobic tropes. It’s super obvious to anyone with eyes this show is like the gayest thing ever made, and the actors support that greatly so it seems the crew is very pro-queer. (Maybe they’re LGB without T idk, I doubt it though they seem like decent people from what I’ve seen.)

So how do you think they would have handled them? I personally have to imagine the crew would have been aware of the potential problems with the character and given the many incredible liberties the show took I wonder how they would have changed them.

What I would have personally have liked the most was to make Buffalo Bill trans and actually explore that. How ostracizing a person creates a monster. I know the show doesn’t really do backstories and all the info is focused on Hannibal so I’m not sure how this would work, but it’s just my idea as someone who barely knows how to write. I’d love to hear your ideas.

I have one of those season 7 3 star Identity Tickets but currently have every single one. Will there be another one to come out or should I just use it now to get the shards. Because I’m pretty sure Hong Lu isn’t technically season 7 but I’ve never seen a standard ID come out.
Thank you in advance.

Now i know that this is obvious as soon as you think about it, but i still just wanted to talk about it.

Now all body horror is trans, I apologize but thats just a fact. It’s the horror of not belonging in your own body, about it not being yours but something else entirely. But in most body horror I’ve seen it’s about amalgamations, like becoming an Akira monster, this massive bloated mass of limbs and flesh. That’s body horror anyone can understand, you can look at that and think it would suck, because it would. You’re turning into something fundamentally inhuman. Poppy’s is different, at least how I see it. When you become something different in poppy’s it’s certainly bad, most sound torturous. However in these later chapters we’re seen things that would be a marvel. Like Doey, becoming that would be fantastic, he’s strong, practically un-killable and completely malleable. But his body isn’t a gift, even without the two other personalities, it’s a curse. It feels awful because it isn’t him.

My favourite example of this is Mrs.Gracie and Lily. We know the story so I won’t go over it, but I love how her kind breaks through the conditioning. Not just because it’s cathartic, but because to me it showed what you become when you aren’t allowed to be yourself. You break. Your identity is dissolved and what you are, who You want to be is completely removed.
In case it wasn’t obvious, I’m trans. A trans girl specifically and I thankfully don’t have to pretend to be something else, but I do see the conditioning in other people. So many queer people are constantly told they are wrong about who they are, that they can’t be this person and need to be something else. It’s the same but in reverse. Instead of being conditioned into your new identity, many people are conditioned into their previous identity and as a result they break and do things I likely can’t talk about.

These points are even cemented better in my mind due to what Lily is. She’s a doll. She’s by all intents and purposes (other than that one freaks) is human. But it still broke her. The body horror in that is vastly more disturbing to me because it’s a functional body. Doey is still inhuman physically, I’m sure he could be human but still wouldn’t pass. Lily could pretty easily pass with gloves and long sleeves, maybe a bit of an exaggeration but the point still stands. One who doesn’t understand dysphoria could easily say she’d be able to just keep her mind because it’s essentially the same, both bodies look similar but they feel different. It’s wrong. It feels wrong, looking at it and seeing a stranger looking back at you. It’s hard to put into words and maybe I’m insane idk.

Now this part may get this post removed, but I’d like to talk about the fact they’re children. While writing this I realized it also works as an allegory against being trans, in a way. The fact they’re children forcibly changed into bodies by deranged doctors because they’re impressionable. But it also works for it in a subtler way, children being forced into predetermined roles by these people who don’t care about them. Saying they know best about who you are and not giving you a choice of who you want to be. Not allowing you to see those you care about because they aren’t right for you, they see who you truly are, who you aren’t allowed to be. Without a choice in the matter I think it shows the horror of not being given proper medical care and not being allowed to be the person that you want to be.

This is just something I thought of while learning the lore, I think it’s a neat thing to think about and really shows that Poppy’s really is a mature and deep story despite what others have said.

This is a lot longer than I thought lol, sorry it’s badly written and rambling I should get better at writing.
Anyway that’s just my look at it as a trans girl, you might have other thoughts. If so, let me know. I would love to hear what other people see in this story.
But if you’re going to be a jerk just go away, the best way to punish a post you don’t like is to leave it alone. Anyways, have a good day/night everyone and have fun.

I love this game so much, but I’m not really a gameplay gal. I love the gameplay don’t get me wrong, it’s actually probably the most fun of the Gatcha games I’m addicted to. But I love lore.

Unfortunately I am also a moron whose ADHD makes it hard to process these massive walls of text. So can anyone recommend a lore channel on YouTube or failing that a document or wiki? I’d love to learn more about it, I think I have the basics but I can always learn more.

Thank you in advance and have a wonderful day everyone.

I am mtf Canadian but have the opportunity to go to school in North Dakota with my uncle. He and my family support me but I keep seeing things get worse and worse from this country.
I want to go, I think it’s a great opportunity but I genuinely fear for my safety in that country. I already live in a pretty right wing city but we don’t have nearly as many guns or outwardly murderous people, I’m afraid I’ll be shot the moment someone finds out I’m not a Cristian let alone queer. But if I don’t go I’ll be stuck here for the rest of my life, and I don’t want that either. If I am just murdered it’s sad to say but I’m honestly fine with that, being put into a conversation camp is what I’m afraid of. I am not a strong enough person to survive a concentration camp but not also not strong enough to let myself out if you know what I mean. So I’d just be suffering unimaginably for the rest of my life.

Please help me, I feel trapped and I’m scared. I don’t know what to do. I hate it here, I cannot live a happy life where I am but I also can’t go anywhere else but to that school in America. But if I go to that school I’ll be so ridiculously stressed and paranoid, I’ll be fearing anyone who goes near me because what if they’re in that cult and just kill me or report me to ICE or whoever rounds up trans people. That would be so, so much worse than death.

I saved up a good bit but didn’t end up with it, I could probably pretty easily get enough boxes through doing an ungodly amount of MD for the next week but I don’t want to waste the effort if I can’t shard it, especially with the turn of the season coming soon.