Basic Notes - Yew's Blackboard

Hey all! To clarify, this article isn't meant to be from the perspective of any particular character or describing any scene from the hopefully eventual book of Infinity Protocol.

This will just be prompts for ideas later. Any of those moments I have an "Aha!" I will put them here to see if they develop into something more later.

1. Vice overshadowing you, makes you see disasters occurring moments before your "afterlife" ends. You then "cease to exist" returning to Eterna or "the collective unconscious."
2. Vice feeds on emotion. The consuming process begins when one runs from emotions. This consuming process can easily make you hallucinate and appear to have the effects of something like psychosis.
3. One of the main character's powerset should involve the creation of a sort of "reality string" whereby pulling at strings invisible to everyone else, they could shift the physical world around them, creating a mirror shattering effect in front of them. Essentially, causing her and anyone else caught in the strings to shift forward in the direction of the shattering.
4. Vice represents a corrupted "Puer Aeternus." No, I will not be describing publicly what that means. You'll have to figure it out yourselves if you're curious~
5. Eclipse has a strange issue. Often when he's stressed, people will notice him spin his head around or do so when they are idle. It has a deeper, darker meaning that will be revealed in time.
6. Now that I'm finally taking time to read the bible again, I have a few ideas for interesting parts of my recent readings I'd like to allude to.
   
   Following my reading of Mathew 28, a few lines showed up that interested me.
   
   Verse 3 - (describing the angel bringing news of Jesus' rising) "His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes white as snow." One of the main things I'd like Chronias to be able to control is lightning, so this stuck out. I'm DEFINITELY not going to say anything like he's the same angel, because well, he's a demon after all silly~ I just think it was a fun connection I might use.
   
   and Verse 11 - (a longer quote describing how a guard's report was changed by the priests against the faithful. Trying to "spin" what had happened.) "... the Chief Priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, telling them, 'You are to say, his disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep. If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.'"
   
   "And this story has been circulated among the Jews to this very day" - Now I want to especially say, that I'm not intending anything inflammatory by including that last piece. In fact, it is a point I intend to criticize. I think what I'd like Eclipse to represent in Infinitum is the form of an apostle. My priest in a way described them as "ambassadors" to God. Now what if in the story, let us say, this exact situation is reflected in an event that's happening in the holy city of Infinitum? A cover story being used to gloss over the falling of an angel previously trusted? I think that could make a compelling reversal and critique.
7. Mark 4 for me is a really interesting series of parables that I just love! The main one I think will be reflected is the Parable of the Mustard Seed describing heaven. Both maybe in a creation of heaven and in the building up of an angel from even the smallest bit of good and love inside them.
8. (NEWEST ADD) Mark 5 also describes the interesting idea of a decapolis (a conglomerate of ten cities) which a man goes to explain how Jesus expelled from him the demon "Legion" (yes like that demon in the Ghost Rider movie for Nick Cage fans). Might be fun to say that Infinitum has ten distinct cities or districts for now.
9. Going away from the bible for a moment, I recently submitted an entry into the Summer Camp contest which covers the Illuminare Guard. I describe part of their attire, at least in Eclipse's section of the city, to be bowler hats! In research I discovered two possible origins of the phrase "Mad as a hatter." I think it might be interesting to parody or reflect the 1920's version especially, where it was used because the hats were being made from Mercury which caused symptoms akin to insanity. However, the supposed original is much more interesting to me.
   
   It says, "mad as an atter," referring more to mad as "venomous" and hatter as a corruption of "adder" or "viper." With how much raw power even a single Illuminare wields, they can sting with a lot of "venom" if they need to. They often also cause subjects being brought in to die of poison if they are inclined to run. That poison however being from Vice and his overshadowing. When we reach the first of September, I might add this into an edited version in a separate article for preservation's sake.
   
   (Also, there is going to be a big project I'm working on soon that will be linked in this world. I'll give a notification when it's done, and it will be a video that I think I must share about something I did during World Ember. I just need to deal with a lot of my emotions over... well a lot of things. Follow through on what I hope for the character of Eclipse and get a lot of how I feel out so I can handle this professionally. Hope you'll stay tuned!)