....no camp plot summary post because I was out of town for half of it anyway. /o/

ANYWAY, so I don't forget, notes on the Black Hawks' corner of the dungeons/labs as it applies to the new setting. :D

• The Black Hawks lair is now a storm cellar. Which means yes, there is a wooden door somewhere in a middle of a field that serves as its entrance.
  
• It totally has dirt floors.
  
• The torture equipment is still all there!
  
• As is the leftover lab equipment that's never used anymore. Which mysteriously still works perfectly fine.
  
• There's probably spiders. And mice, maybe rats. Though this was probably true before.
  
• The layout otherwise hasn't really changed much, it's just much more..... earthier.

...and I think that covers it. GUYS AM I MISSING ANYTHING?

*in the portion of the underground labs that now serves as the Black Hawks' lair, a certain Chief of Staff is busy with his paperwork*

....so I actually started this essay back in.... May, and never actually finished it. WHOOPS. Anyway, given that canon recently very clearly spelled out some answers to a few things I'd been uncertain on before, now seems a good time to revisit the subject of what, exactly, the deal with Ayanami and Verloren is.

SPOILERS for 07-Ghost up to and including some recent chapters!

( Or, on how a thousand year old demon has to do with EVERYTHING )

Since when I originally did a post like this it was before canon went and clarified a few things for us, I figured I might as well do a nice, clean, updated version of this. So! Various things about Ayanami that might hit on peoples' pings in camp. Spoilery bits have been whited out.

( Pings of all kinds here... )

And I thiiiink that's everything? If there are questions go ahead and ask, etc. Now I should go actually finish that one essay....

This is entirely the fault of #babydragon and especially some comments from Devit the other day that just would not get out of my head. Technically spoilers for.... stuff, otherwise no warnings to note.

( Insert dramatically appropriate blurb here )

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid Disorder:	High
Schizoid Disorder:	Very High
Schizotypal Disorder:	Moderate
Antisocial Disorder:	High
Borderline Disorder:	Low
Histrionic Disorder:	Moderate
Narcissistic Disorder:	Very High
Avoidant Disorder:	Low
Dependent Disorder:	Low
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:	Low
-- Personality Disorder Test - Take It! -- -- Personality Disorders --

HAHAHA y-yeah sounds about right.

Alright, since canon was oh so kind as to explain a whole bunch of stuff to do with Verloren and the Ghosts, here's an up to date explanation of just what all is going on there. Characters able to see/sense/are otherwise pinged by spiritual-type stuff may want to have a look, though naturally there are spoilers for recently revealed background information.

( Summing up this chapter's infodump in nice simple format )

Aaaand I think that's it! ANY QUESTIONS AND SUCH can go here. :|b

For those who haven't already heard (or generally noticed our cast's collective spazzing), the latest chapter of 07-Ghost delivered a few interesting new tidbits. And by "a few tidbits" I mean holy crap backstory infodump.

So uh, needless to say, there's a lot to analyze! A looot of this pertains to Ayanami anyway, though there's some interesting bits relating to the Ghosts and so on as well. Needless to say, this will be full of spoilers and also probably rambling as I'm not really following any particular guideline, just trying to sort out what the heck's going on with all this new info. |Db

( Essay-ish summary thing goes here )

Hahaha so APPARENTLY I FOUND MY APP PATTERN:

<Laguna> Hyuuga also needs to pester Ayanami about the situation in camp sometime, too... Ayanami's kind of constantly >/ about it and it's certainly not getting any BETTER.... XD;;
* Devit pets o Ayatan
<Laguna> It grates on him okay. :|
<Laguna> He's at a standstill and KNOWS it and while yeah Teito and the bishops aren't going anywhere either it's still.... YOU KNOW. >|
<Laguna> ...man half the characters I app have ISSUES.......
<Laguna> I mean, I have my ZEN characters which are Shunsui and Laguna
<Laguna> And then I have AYANAMI and MEWTWO
<Laguna> ...and including drops I had Kenpachi and Horatio and THEY KINDA FIT THAT TOO
<Devit> XDDD
<Devit> ISSUES ARE FUN
<Laguna> I LIKE HOW IT'S LIKE
<Laguna> BALANCED

So like. THIS ACTUALLY WORKS AS AN APP PATTERN weirdly enough, because seriously every other app I've gotten in so far has alternated between ZEN and ISSUES. SEE FOR YOURSELF:

Shunsui - ZEN
Horatio - kinda hidden in this case, but ISSUES here yeah, lol Hamlet
Kenpachi - ZEN
Ayanami - ISSUES
Laguna - ZEN
Mewtwo - ISSUES

I, for one, am amused. |D