My Bf And I Did The Final Shape Mission Where We Went To Europa With Mithrax And Ikora Was On The Comms.

My bf and I did the Final Shape mission where we went to Europa with Mithrax and Ikora was on the comms. Afterwards, Mithrax comments on how Eido looks up to the "Great Ikora Rey." I didn't even have time to comment about how Mithrax is talking about my favorite nerdy eliksni when my bf says, "just date Eido already. You like her. She's nerdy. You just want a cute date in the city where you two can have tea and discuss human/eliksni culture, and also talk about how you both look up to Ikora. And probably a dreaming city star cat would be there that you would be petting." My bf knows all too well I just want to go on a cute tea date with Eido.

I LOVE YOU GHOST

Hello fellow Ikora simps! I was looking at random stuff with Ghost in the Pale heart when I accidentally clicked on the button to look at the lore of the chest piece. And I'm glad I accidentally did that! Because it has sent me down a rabbit hole. Of course, I saw the flavor text and instantly knew it was about Ikora, so I had to read it. Here it is for people who haven't read it:

I love when we get little bits about Ikora's past that aren't crucible and her being Osiris's student. Another one of Ikora's comfort books! I love the mental image of Ikora reading it after a bad crucible match and Ophiuchus acting as a light so she could read. It sounds like a time where they were closer, long before the 61 years of them not talking.

And then the other detail, "And [Ikora] thought of other moments, of a warm hand covering her own as she read the text out loud for the thousandth time." A lover perhaps? I love how it's open ended, so you can insert any ship with Ikora (sorry Eris x Ikora shippers, but I'm totally reading this as Ikora on a date with Chalco Yong). I kinda wish bungie would give us her romantic/sexual orientation.

But other than simping for Ikora content, the whole detail about the traveler having a book based off of her memories with such detail is a really interesting rabbit hole. Like are all the things based off of our memory in the traveler because of the darkness inside of it? If the Pale Heart didn't have the witness in it, would it still look like these memories? It seems like it is most likely the traveler itself retaining these memories, not the darkness. So, does the light actually remember as well? Or is the traveler a being of both light and dark, but mainly light and so it can make these memories? I think it would make most sense if the traveler was made of both light and dark like the Veil. But these memories in the traveler just opens up another rabbit hole about the light and dark and I am glad they had Ikora ponder it a bit in the lore.

Some new artwork I did based off the final fight during the "Iconoclasm" mission during Final Shape! My bf and I spent a few nights trying to do that fight on legend and I just knew I had to draw fanart of it. So, here is my warlock with my prismatic load out during the Final Shape and her weapons! I used AdorkaStock on deviantart once again for the pose (check them out if you are looking for fun poses).

I must make a post gushing about them adding Micah-10 to the Final Shape. I first read about her through the story of Micah, the 10 year old who was writing letters to the traveler in the lore book, "Your Friend, Micah Abram." I started reading the chapters as I found all the penguins scattered across Europa. It's interesting seeing a perspective of a kid who has no idea about the exos being actual people, assuming they are robots and her fathers making sure that is what she thinks they are. And the other interesting part are the dreams she has about the traveler. It always seemed like a point in the lore that could go farther.

After reading the lore book, I quickly looked up more about her. She became an exo. Then she was rezzed by a ghost and she used her name from her past life. She always has a pack of ghosts who follow her around, and she protects them. She has become known as the Den Mother of the Ghosts, because of the little pack of ghosts following her. One of the ghosts we actually know was Andal Brask's ghost, and Micah warned the first hunter vanguard, Tallulah, that Andal would be a handful. And then the lore around the Six Coyotes, that she and other lightbearers protected a small village from the House of Kings, which is why she has the coyote on her cloak and chest plate.

I just really found these stories about her interesting. And then to see the preview of Cayde's deck of cards and the one with Micah on it, I was super stoked to see her in the Final Shape. And I just love all the little lore bits that are coming up about her. She mentioned in the mission to save the ghost Link that she has to write her gratitude to the Traveler in her next letter, implying she still writes the Traveler letters in this second life. Or how when you pick up one of the Final Shape collectibles, she is able to interpret visions she sees from them. I love the theory that Micah might become the next Speaker.

I hope whatever Bungie is planning for her, that they at least continue to have her in the game, like how they integrated Eido into the narrative more when they gave us her character model in Season of the Plunder. And I think with the way Episodes are, it might be easier to have Micah involved at some point. Bungie has been doing a great job incorporating Micah into the story and the Final Shape was a perfect opportunity to do so. Now if Bungie gave us Chalco Yong as a proper character instead of an obscure hidden agent, I would be writing a post like this as soon as we get that info lol.

Eidoooo!!! My favorite nerdy scribe of house light! I really need to do a full marker drawing of her, I haven't done that yet and we've had her character model for nearly two years.