we interrupt your regularly scheduled Babish rip-off for this important announcement

[otomechapilot]

I'll do the cooking show after the Jaunt, I didn't have time to prepare it, but...

What's this I hear about Tower falling?

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[reallymean]

Allura leans forward, elbows resting on her knees, and watches Sara deal out the cards. This simplified explanation, at least, she's familiar with, but she doesn't interrupt - if nothing else, a refresher on the basics is never a bad idea.

"I'm with you so far."

[otomechapilot]

"Has anyone told you about the Fool's Journey idea, by the way?" Sara shakes her head. "Might matter. Might not."

She holds up the Lovers and the Devil. Visually, they copy a pose - man and woman in stylized nudity, a figure above, a symbol linking them; but for Lovers, it's an angel giving thier blessing above a pomegranate tree, and for the Devil, a classical ramheaded Baphomet chaining them to a treasure chest.

"Lovers and Devil touch where 'I love you' and 'I want you' do," Sara says. "Mirror images. Lovers is that in a healthy way; not only Romance, but Friendship and Relationships as a whole, while Devil is Corruption and Hunger and Instinct."

She pauses.

"Why is the Lovers so bad with people if what they are, is relationships?" she asks. "Why is Lovers so bad at not being the Devil?"

It's rhetorical, but she also wants to know what Allura has figured out.

[reallymean]

"Relationships aren't inherently healthy," Allura replies. "Let alone inclusive. Many of the Arcana seem to behave as the darker side of their idiom as often as the positive side, if not more so."

[otomechapilot]

“Lovers acts more clueless and unhealthy and stalkery than makes sense given her - ideas,” Sara insists. “And a story from Jean, from her - thier? - perspective made me realize why. She was afraid of what I’m talking about. It’s why they attacked the Hermit - to force him to stay.”

“Because Hermit is individuality, and without him, they had nothing left to keep them separated.”

“Without morals -” she flips Hierophant face down - “or Balance -” then Temperance - “There’s not much left keeping Love from being Lust.”

[reallymean]

"So you believe they can be changed by one another's presence or absence, and not just by the impact of their actions, or of ours," Allura sums up. For her own part, she isn't entirely convinced - but the theory certainly has its merits.

[otomechapilot]

“Lovers and Devil were worried enough to try the first Grid,” Sara reminds her. “Magician was worried enough to stop them from killing Hermit, or worse, from rewriting what the current Hermit’s Individuality meant with that virus.”

She frowns. “The Arcana beleive it. Their actions scream that they do from the rooftops. That’s a good enough reason to be worried about Ruin, Revelation and Revolution dying.”

[reallymean]

"For now, at least," Allura says. She straightens, head tipping backward as she searches the leaves of the tree above, as though it might hold some answers. "The Arcana are born or...created somehow. Emperor confirmed it, even if he was cagey with the details. I'm not convinced strengthening the Arcana is in anyone's best interest, but if it is, it might be possible to rekindle one of the ones who was lost."

[otomechapilot]

“Wouldn’t you be cagey with ‘so where do babies come from’ with someone you think of like your child?” Sara says, only half seriously. “Where does any idea come from?”

Sara considers. “All jokes aside... like. I don’t think they’re evil, but I don’t think they’re good. They’re not human. There’s a reason they remind Gil of his Gentry. Maybe if they asked, I would have agreed. They didn’t ask. So now what?”

She thinks of a mace-like weapon, shining as a star.

[otomechapilot]

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