Things ended well with Ishigami after all, so it's okay.
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Blood dregs are an item requested to us by Queen Annalise of the Vilebloods; she believes consuming it will bless her womb with a divine heir. The design reflects that idea, resembling sperm. Yet, Annalise can never become pregnant no matter how many dregs we give her; or the fall of the blood moon. Instead, it's her possible relative Arianna the one to be "blessed".
There are multiple reasons for this. First, immortality. Annalise's body is stagnant, immune to change. Her physical form is basically stuck in time, and that makes gestation, a process that requires change, impossible. This is why Annalise can't become pregnant while Arianna can.
Even so, that is not the explanation for why blood dregs do not produce offspring. What are blood dregs? Their name in japanese gives a clue. "Chi no kegare", the term translates to "blood impurity" or "blood defilement". Kegare is not just physical; it's a spiritual corruption born from a disruption of the natural cycle of life and death, deeply associated with necrosis, stagnant water and wasted bodily fluids.
These dregs appear in hunters, whom the people of Cainhurst call echo fiends. Hunters carry within enormous quantities of blood echoes, which are the manifested will of those who carried the blood they consume; the blood of the great ones. What is the biggest desire of great ones? To beget offspring. Hunters are carrying that desire inside, in so much quantity that it becomes stagnant and rots.
Blood dregs are, then, the physical manifestation of the echoes of great ones' desires that has accumulated, become stagnant and rotten inside the hunters. They are not actual life essence, just waste. In other words, the great ones do not use this sperm to reproduce; instead, they manifest their baby directly inside a human womb. That sperm is merely the physical manifestation of the corrupted accumulation of echoes within hunters. These echoes are largely the desire of the great ones, which, when excessively accumulated, generates this impurity that shouldn't exist and produces no life whatsoever; the very reason why Annalise never gets pregnant despite consuming it.
You think she gave the baby up at an orphanage/church? Maybe she tried to raise the child with the help of other prostitutes? Maybe the baby was taken as a servant by a noble?
I'm not really sure how to explain this, but I need to get this off my chest and see if anyone else has experienced something similar or has any advice.
When I was younger, I was pretty desensitized. I used to consume a lot of grotesque and disturbing content online, and at the time I even found it funny. One day, though, I came across something that completely crossed my limit and left me deeply traumatized. I don't want to go into detail about it, but ever since then, something seems to have changed in the way I react to anything even remotely sexual.
Nowadays, I can't stand anything with sexual undertones, even if it's completely innocent. It doesn't matter whether it's a real person, a fictional character, or even just a drawing. As soon as I see something like that, I feel a mix of fear, disgust, and anxiety that's really hard to describe.
The worst part is that it has even affected the way I perceive the human body, especially the female body. For example, not long ago I saw an official illustration of a video game character wearing a bikini. It wasn't especially revealing or provocative; it was just a fairly normal bikini. Even so, I felt an overwhelming sense of disgust when I saw it. I spent hours trying to justify in my head why the character would be wearing that outfit, almost as if I needed to come up with a completely non-sexual explanation just to calm myself down.
This happens with almost any display of the female body, and to a lesser extent, the male body as well. I've even become afraid of browsing social media because I'm worried I'll unexpectedly come across something sexual, whether it's an illustration, a meme, or a random post. When that happens, I start obsessing over it, trying to come up with some explanation that isn't sexual or suggestive.
I feel like this is affecting my life more and more. I know that most people can see these kinds of things without thinking twice, while my reaction feels completely out of proportion. I don't know if this is a consequence of what I experienced years ago, but it feels like my brain now associates anything even vaguely sexual with that traumatic experience.
Has anyone else gone through something like this? Were you able to overcome it or at least learn how to cope with it? I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who's had a similar experience, because I feel like I've been stuck in this pattern for far too long and I honestly don't know how to move forward.
I'm not really sure how to explain this, but I need to get this off my chest and see if anyone else has experienced something similar or has any advice.
When I was younger, I was pretty desensitized. I used to consume a lot of grotesque and disturbing content online, and at the time I even found it funny. One day, though, I came across something that completely crossed my limit and left me deeply traumatized. I don't want to go into detail about it, but ever since then, something seems to have changed in the way I react to anything even remotely sexual.
Nowadays, I can't stand anything with sexual undertones, even if it's completely innocent. It doesn't matter whether it's a real person, a fictional character, or even just a drawing. As soon as I see something like that, I feel a mix of fear, disgust, and anxiety that's really hard to describe.
The worst part is that it has even affected the way I perceive the human body, especially the female body. For example, not long ago I saw an official illustration of a video game character wearing a bikini. It wasn't especially revealing or provocative; it was just a fairly normal bikini. Even so, I felt an overwhelming sense of disgust when I saw it. I spent hours trying to justify in my head why the character would be wearing that outfit, almost as if I needed to come up with a completely non-sexual explanation just to calm myself down.
This happens with almost any display of the female body, and to a lesser extent, the male body as well. I've even become afraid of browsing social media because I'm worried I'll unexpectedly come across something sexual, whether it's an illustration, a meme, or a random post. When that happens, I start obsessing over it, trying to come up with some explanation that isn't sexual or suggestive.
I feel like this is affecting my life more and more. I know that most people can see these kinds of things without thinking twice, while my reaction feels completely out of proportion. I don't know if this is a consequence of what I experienced years ago, but it feels like my brain now associates anything even vaguely sexual with that traumatic experience.
Has anyone else gone through something like this? Were you able to overcome it or at least learn how to cope with it? I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who's had a similar experience, because I feel like I've been stuck in this pattern for far too long and I honestly don't know how to move forward.
If we believe their story to be true, Andrew and Ashley separated for some reason. Andrew returned with Julia and got to live with her in a rented apartment. Ashley found a boyfriend all of a sudden and went to live with him. Ashley got pregnant, the boyfriend left, and Andrew left Julia to go live with his sister and help with the baby.
Yeah, sure. No way that's the truth. They're definitely lying. Not to mention Andrew getting nervous at the mention of the cataract, and defending that it's not that uncommon. Andrew's 99.9% the father, and Renee probably can tell already.
At the very least, even if Andrew's not the father, their story is bullshit. That's 100% true.
Thou of course, Andrew wouldn't need to be the father for the kid to look like him. But knowing this is Burial, the vision showed that they're very probably going to do the sex. Wren could be the result of what happened in that vision.
I really don't see why or how would Ashley decide to be with another, knowing how she is. And if she did, judging by Decay's SnS and some of the previews we've been given, I think Andrew would've exploded in jealousy and beat Ashley. She doesn't have any aparent wounds.
It makes my brain hurt thinking of an explanation.
When creating a career, you can choose between "Live" and "Original". If I have a career mode in Live, when the servers are shut down, will I still be able to play it? It's a normal career, not a live start point, but it's on the Live menu.
Also, will I be able to create a new career using the manager I created for the Live menu once the servers are shut down?
Everytime I've tried to score with a header, it goes out by a kilometer. I signed Cuti Romero just because of his Precision Header playstyle and yet I can't score. What must I do?