This planet is allegedly supposed to be called the "Land of Frost and Artifacts," but it's mostly just liquid water and weirdly-placed torii. ...I guess if "artifact" is referring to visual noise, it'd make sense, though.
All this aggressively-in-your-face boundary symbolism does kind of fit with the actual experience of developing my aspect skills, though.
When I was younger, I was trapped physically in a claustrophobic town, and trapped mentally in an identity that was chosen for me. Even though I was living as my real gender, it was like I wasn't fully allowed to hatch. I was stuck in an in-between state, simultaneously existing in life and death.
...A "necrofantasia," if you will. Faha.
Anyway, when all was said and done and the snowglobe had caved in, the one thing I knew more than anything was that I had to get as far away from that state of undeath as I possibly could. Leave my deadname to fade into dust.
And since then, I've never been able to really know for sure how much I was able to stop being [deadname]. I have a new identity now, a new life that actually fits for once, but the afterimage of the girl I used to be keeps coming back to haunt me.
Now, here I am, actualizing my potential in the most literal way possible. And it's the same power that the girl I used to be was chosen for, the power at the center of the Angel. But now I'm the one in control.
And so I slip under the water's surface, and pass through the line of torii. After years of standing on the border of life and death, finally, I pick a side.
So, please watch my dream, and I'll prove it can become reality.
This is my evolution.
