I just want an excuse to make Moses call Outis an old hag.

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Lowkey kinda fuck with this ship ngl, It's one of the funniest crackships in this fandom I could unironically get behind with.

Finished another Limbus Company OC commission!

This is Gracia, an N Corp. Identity using E.G.O:: Contempt, Awe.

The silhouette in the background is Gubo with E.G.O:: Fell Bullet.

Feedback is always appreciated!

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It might sound stupid asf, but Im a big fan of a Library of Ruina character who... didn't really get any screen time or proper appearance besides being a husk of his former self being used as a marionette. I’m a fan of a Color Fixer with barely any listed feats, mostly because of his design and my interest in christianity ( i love refrences so much ). I personally think the Vermilion Cross is one of the most interesting Fixers in the PM universe, despite the lack of information about him and the fact that when we finally meet him during elena fight, he’s just a vessel/puppet serving as an energy source for this bloodfiend.

Recently, we’ve seen a few things related to him that caught me off guard because i didnt think he would be mentioned at all after library of ruina. For starters, we got the first mention of him in over 5 years in Salvador Gregor's Uptie Story, which emphasizes his legendary status. We also got a mention of him in one of the passives stating that he was one of the strongest users of burning weapons (makes sense, he was a Color Fixer after all ). On top of that, we saw a very interesting teaser related to the new game mode in Limbus Company, where Meursault is the victim of an execution involving a very similar weapon to the one held by this Color Fixer —a massive, metal cross. The sheer amount of recent references or things potentially tied to him shows that Project Moon hasn't completely forgotten about him. This Color Fixer's lore remains a huge question mark, either because Project Moon didn't get around to expanding his lore due to budget, time, a lack of ideas, or simply a desire to expand his story later on.

This has been sitting in the back of my head for a long time, and I wanted to share my observations and talk about my ideas in a single post. I don't really have anyone to share them with, and since I'm only just getting back into creative writing after a long break, i dont have great drawing skills that give me option to repressent what i want to make in full excent, writing a high-quality fan-fiction on the level of leviathan is out of the question for now. So I thought maybe someone in the community might find this interesting and it could spark a cool discussion. With Canto X fast approaching, I figured this is a great time to talk about him, as well as religion in the PM universe.

To kick things off, the Vermilion Cross is a Color Fixer who made a brief debut after the full release of Library of Ruina. As we know, this Color was killed during a mission to eliminate the Reverberation Ensemble and turned into a bloodbag for Elena the Blood-Red Night, ending his story by being completely finished off by Binah and her floor. Whether he’s a fraud or not isn't something I want to debate on here but personally, even with Hana’s support, I think his death is justified given the sheer power of the Ensemble and their forces ( bloodbagged soldatos of thumb, the Circus, Crying Children, Puppets, etc.). The fact that he died shouldn't be the sole measure of his strength, especially since we don't know his full backstoory and the circumstances he found himself in were to say at least tragic. That said, I won't try to change the minds of those who think he's the worst Color Fixer just due to the lack of info about him, but after all every color fixer is or was color for a reason. Very little is actually known about him beyond a few key facts.

He was a Color Fixer entrusted with an entire branch of the Hana Association to take down the Reverberation Ensemble, which points to him being deeply trusted by the Association. He is also the only named Color Fixer in Library of Ruina whose actual name was never given to us—making him the 'John Doe' of Color Fixers. Dong-Hwan was his friend, mentioning him in his Key Page (without revealing his name either, leading some in the community to guess that even Dong-Hwan didn't know it). Most importantly, Vermilion wielded a massive, burning cross as a heavy blunt weapon of mass destruction— being the strongest person in the Fixer industry using 'burn it all down' weapons (according to Salvador Gregor in the Dawnherald passive).

His weapon, as you can guess, is 99% likely a massive refrence to Catholic religion - further reinforced by the way the cross is held even after his transformation into the monster he became. I am convinced that Vermilion is heavily inspired by the Bible and Jesus himself, though he isn't Christ per se, mainly because:

1) I don't believe they would use a figure as important as Jesus Christ directly in their work, or at least not as a Color Fixer involved in an industry as dirty as Fixer work (it would spark massive outrage and be too risky, but they could do it).

2) To repeat — Jesus is a symbol of Christianity: an immaculate figure that couldn't be implemented 1:1 into this brutal world, at least i dont believe it. It would be too difficult to introduce such a figure with good taste not making controversy out of it.

The choice of color and the name 'Vermilion Cross' itself isn't accidental either. In 1147, Pope Eugene III granted the symbol of the Vermilion Cross to the Order of the Knights Templar (Fratres Militiae Templi). This symbol represented the blood shed by Jesus Christ on the cross, the readiness of the knights to shed their own blood in defense of the faith and pilgrims, the personal sacrifice of each member, as well as salvation, courage, and martyrdom in fighting non-believers to earn a place in heaven.

We've gotten "a lot" of information about him recently, and I feel like Project Moon is cooking up something related to him. While his actual return seems impossible (especially after being turned into a bloodbag and not getting turned into book), getting more lore about him in Canto X feels much more likely. Canto X will take place in District 14 (N Corp / Nagel und Hammer) — one of the most fascinating districts we've heard of, standing out from any other we've seen. Looking at how this district operates—such as holding funerals unlike other parts of the City and creating mementos for the dead — and considering Albert Camus 'The Stranger' (which Meursault's character is based on), we can expect a deeper look into religiosity, faith, and Christian church references in the PM world i believe. The belief that one isn't human without suffering of Ncorp directly parallels some Christian beliefs. Also, N Corp seems to be the second most 'European' district we've heard of, right after T Corp.

Religion in the City is a topic that Kim Ji-hoon hasn't explored deeply enough in any of his works to be fully satisfying for me yet. All we've really seen are extremely twisted cults like the Church of Gears or even the Index, but we haven't seen any equivalents of more 'common' real-world religions like Christianity. And yes, I know this world is grotesque, people die in the streets, messed-up monsters run wild everywhere, and it's a cyberpunk dystopia where the average person has lost faith in everything. But wouldn't it be interesting to see some twisted 'remnants' of our world's religions here? Especially knowing the cultural diversity of the City—having larger gatherings of believers rather than just tiny cults hiding in the Backstreets or something like the Index (which is basically the Scientology of pm world cryingemoji).

It could serve as a really cool avenue for writing interesting stories and making the world even more complex. For example, it could show how Fixer work ties into religious beliefs. Take the Dieci Association: besides gathering knowledge, they could oversee sanctioned religions and tax institutions like churches of common faiths in the City, drawing a real line between approved 'good' (in their eyes) religion and "aggressive" cults. It could also be a neat expansion for Bloodfiend lore—churches of various faiths across the City collectively condemning Vampires as heretics to humanity, fueling fear, greater disgust among ordinary people, and fueling Fixer businesses specializing in exterminating bloodsuckers (which we already saw a bit of in Canto VII). By 'fueling fear,' I mean creating even greater dread toward Bloodfiends than toward a typical Syndicate member who would kill you on a whim anyway. Or maybe even churches having their own executioners specifically tasked with hunting Bloodfiends! (I actually got this idea after recently reading Tsukihime, which gave me a few concepts and which I also love—it features a really cool system involving Vampires and the Church. Plus, I'm a huge Bloodborne fan, so seeing hunters/executioners serving a religious organization or even Dieci Association would be awesome to see in this world).

At the end of his novella, Meursault has a very profound conversation with a chaplain, and the book itself shows him being rejected by society due to his lack of religious faith. I've seen theories on X suggesting Vermilion could be the equivalent of that chaplain from the book, but as I said, he's most likely a dead character whose chances of appearing in future PM content are slim, with probably only his cross remaining after the Library shifted out of the City. We did see Meursault undergoing an execution, and even if it's tied to the new game mode, this is just a minor guess of mine—I feel like this game mode might be a temporary part of the new Canto, just like the minigame in Spring Culvination was tied to an Intervallo, meaning what we got is at least loosely connected to Meursault's Canto, and that scene might happen somewhere in the middle of it.

Given his design, the Vermilion Cross has a very high chance of being tied to Christianity and works related to it, serving as one massive Biblical reference in this world. I wanted to chat about him here since Canto X is approaching. I'm super curious about what kind of character he was (maybe he belonged to some Bloodfiend executioner agency and killed Vergilius's bloodfiend elder friend whose eyes he now has~ just kidding, but that'd be hilarious if true). I'm also curious about how much more this world is hiding — after all, it's one of my absolute favorite fictional universes that I've held close to my heart for years.

Thank you if anyone read all of this! Even if you disagree with something, have a different perspective, or if I missed/got something wrong, I really appreciate you taking the time to read this wall of yap. Like I said, I just wanted to share the ideas and thoughts that i had in my head, and this post is the most I have the energy for right now, writing a worthwhile fanfic isn't something I could take on at the moment due to illness and not enough experience. I think Vermilion himself is a fascinating character with unused potential, which I personally put down to a lack of time, the studio wanting to move on to a new project, or simply not having a fully fleshed-out idea for him (or the most likely - he was just meant to show off how strong the Ensemble was, albeit executed poorly). Let me know if you have any ideas regarding what I wrote or anything else, because I love reading creative ideas or takes. Thank you again, it means a lot to me!!!

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i was rereading leviathan (i got about halfway through it a year ago but then stopped reading it so i'm reading it as a whole again) and i noticed that garnet mentions turning 20, which vergilius comments on by saying how much time it has been alredy (presumably since the orphanage incident), but then shortly later garnet mentions the orphanage incident being half a year ago? garnet and lapis should be around the same age (they're close friends, lapis was supposed to be getting employed and garnet is now a fixer at 20), but i thought they were supposed to be children during the orphanage incident?

Was the light so big that the train that was in the outskirts were visible or is there a train system in the city/backstreets?

If the light was that big, what happened to the other wings? It just looks like L wing and the outskirts but there's V wing between them. Or the wings that small, idk

Hey I know where to read distortion detective and subsequently leviathan, but uh is it translated well on the website? Also what’s wonderland? I’ve seen it mentioned with those two but I dunno what it is

need it for conversation im in rn

I am close to get enough shard for KoDion,the only ID I am really aching to get still from this Walpipi and that I kept missing in the previous ones and I am determined to get her this time. I have the limbus pass and getting one more MD full weekly hard mode pass would get me enough to shard her,it's basically impossible otherwise with the number of module I have rn and my complete lunacy bankruptcy can't give me more.

Is there a way to like start a MD right at midnight and finish it to get the rewards? Or does the reset only happen after server maintenance(Which would probably close walpipi)?

This goddamn magical girl has been taunting me for so long as a sinking lover,I'm already salty enough I didn't manage to get the solemn lament ego I gotta see if there's something I can use here. (BTW I'm a veteran player I just,again,always kept messing up with KoDion so no worries on using technical terms.)

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I just want to say first, I want to credit this guy for the first idea of V Corp. But since his idea was actually taken by Mnestic Experience I believe this deserves a new lens.

This narrative revolves around the intense educational competition and civic expectations prevalent in East Asia. Many renowned Fixers work in V Corp, where a culture of excellence is the norm. Children from all walks of life strive for higher evaluations, while the Singularity benefits from their contributions. Every exam, duel, unpaid internship, and failure feeds into the Singularity.

The Nest also is ran by a disjointed familial oligarchy. The elders have instituted a “democracy” based on evaluations, asserting that without them, unfair individuals would rise to power and disrupt the harmonious society. One elder famously stated,

“We inherited a City where worth was determined by wealth and violence. Evaluation made it fair.”

While they speak this and submit to the Evaluations publicly they secretly control how Evaluations are interpreted. If an Elders score drops, the family can decide under “comprehensive review” that the Evaluation has determined the Elder remains fit for office.

In this system, the people’s choices are mere illusions. Citizens whose civic evaluations fall below the acceptable threshold are relocated for “vocational reassignment.” Consequently, only the Elders remain in power, unchallenged in their positions. Voting and running for office are highly discouraged, and the people believe that the Elders have earned their roles, regardless of the truth.

The Executive branch constantly violates the rights of its citizens even if the law permits them under the reasoning of unsuitable Evaluations. The Singularity and Evaluation systems play a significant role in this power dynamics. T Corp’s time is measured alongside V Corp’s Evaluation singularity, ranging from small scales to massive statues. The singularity collects all relevant information about individuals and determines their standing in the hierarchy. For instance, a V Corp money counter not only assesses its worth within a district but also its value on a broader city scale and its potential future value.

However, there are hidden costs associated with this system. It doesn’t genuinely measure value; instead, it creates it the Evaluation continuously compares every object and person against all others it has ever analyzed. As these comparisons accumulate, the Singularity gradually overwrites objective reality with statistically derived value.

It’s akin to an AI consuming everything it can, creating something that may not be entirely real.

Furthermore, students who receive repeated poor Evaluations slowly become less talented, as their potential is transferred to the top, said students are treated as lower-valued humans are deemed “worthless” and subjected to exploitation and redistribution.

Outside, people wear a standard-issued Valor Plate that continuously updates their evaluation. Shown their rank by a rank ranging from Ash Ninth Class to Crown First Class with elders above those categories. Before their name, people ask about their rating. As their value increases, more people silently resent their perception of their worth, while those below them are viewed as lesser.

Since The Ring holds such a significant presence within V Corp, certain activities can be carried out even further inside the nest. Additionally, since The Ring believes Evaluation is the greatest artistic medium. most high-ranking Ring members reside here, blending seamlessly with the nest’s civilian population.

After the devastating attack by the Crying Children, a significant gap emerged in the system. Overcome with fear, the Elder adopted a new motto:

“Too many gifted individuals perished because we failed to swiftly identify humanity’s most remarkable talents.”

The district will have a social expectation of Nordic countries and professional and academic expectations from Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.

The Nest will also feature architecture reminiscent of India, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Rashtrapati Bhavan, and Mysore Palace.

Hello. I have played both limbus company and library of ruina. I'm currently beat star of the city and I have yet to do a reception of impuritus.

In limbus I learned about something called quiloph deterence which nerfs abnormalities to the point where some can be suppressed by a group a maniacs who are barely stronger than rats.

In library of ruina we fight abnormalities to earn their power in receptions by beating them in a fight.

So my question is this: In these abnormality fights are they still being nerfed in some way?

If so how? because as far as I'm aware quiloph deterence ceased as soon as the library was formed.

If so than does that mean that some abnos like forsaken murderer are just very weak? Does that mean that an abno like nothing there at full strength can still be harmed by physical weaponry? Or is their something im missing?

Thank you for taking your time to answer my question.

My bet is Paradise Lost Ex Nugget

I love the setting, but come on bro. Be for real and not be powerslop brained

Wrong season twinso

This time, it was Malkuth's Suppression Theme.

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