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I've been thinking about this for a long time now but is Jing Yuan paler than the other characters or is it my game? I could've sworn he didn't look like this years ago (mostly his outfit's faded color) but the realization hit me during Amphoreus and more in Planarcadia. I did lower my graphics later so I'm confused and I genuinely needs answers because I'm losing my mind. IS IT BECAUSE OF SHADING? He looks normal at times too.

HIM STANDING WITH YAO GUANG MADE ME CURIOUS AGAIN

Old screenshots:

HE LOOKS NORMAL HERE AND HIS OUTFIT ISN'T DULL LOOKING?

FOR REFERENCE:
Recent screenshots from game because it's mostly noticeable when he stands beside them.

https://preview.redd.it/p0wuxlhen3ih1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=46fa7db73ca1a3358653cfa1191958244358f602

This is an example of my current graphics

HE LOOKS NORMAL AGAIN!!!

I read the texts about the experiment of Lygus multiple times but it's too vague and there is something I'm unclear about and it's not addressed anywhere. It's been making me restless for days. Strangely "Eternal Recurrence" are easier to understand than cycles to me because it was shown in the game unlike the cycles of Lygus. I apologize if I made some mistakes, I recently got into Amphoreus lore so I might be wrong.

How did the cycles start?

Starting from Archive 01(Inorganic) in "As I've written", it's mentioned in a single line that the first cycle started with formation of inorganic entities.
In 9,910th cycle: "the Unified Entity had learned module specialization and self-reflection after forming specific structures" and so on.
And then the rest cycles (Organic) follow similar evolution patterns with the organic phase.

This is what I'm confused about. If the first cycle had inorganics forms then did the second cycle start entirely differently or did it also have similarities to the first cycle? And did the rest cycles, for example, the organic phase also had inorganic forms?

Now to the even more confusing section: Human phase

Did a cycle suddenly begin with humans in it or did it take years for humans to be introduced in one cycle through evolution (like it happened on earth)?

To the final question (not much important to me than the previous questions): How did the cycles end?
Did it end abruptly as Irontomb developed or did it end with a pattern?

"Eternal Recurrence" answers that all the ER start from the very beginning (even if it's the last cycle repeating, it still confuses me about how it's connected to the old cycles and how it's started in relation with the previous ones) but I don't remember if something similar was said about the experimental cycles.