Poor Animal Ash :( Left Alone In The Cold And Dark With No Ancients And No One To Help Until The Little Guy Got Reactivated - Tumblr Posts

Hmm maybe some ashes from above info (because cool)

(Hmm I also wonder who this 13 fireflies, many falling leaves is. Surely someone unimportant)

HI HI OKAY I FINALLY HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO ANSWER THIS WOO

ehehehehehehe ash ranting--

fireflies was an artist!! her official job was painting karma murals-- the artwork you see before entering an iterator's puppet chamber (and can find in various important places in the cities) fireflies is a chaos-loving anarchist, though, so she does a lot of graffiti to make up for the pretty artwork >:)

she's actually why ash becomes so chaotic (and angry, eventually)! ash was still a pretty young iterator when they met, and thought her worldview of "ascension is stupid iterators are stupid religion is stupid everything is stupid BURN THE WORLD DOWN" was suuuuuper cool

they don't really vibe with those views until after the mass ascension, though. while fireflies was still alive ash's chaos really only escalated to the point of little harmless pranks, not full on anarchy after the mass ascension, however, they start to see fireflies' points and realize "yeah no this is all really f***ed up i think i'll burn it down"

fireflies was probably ash's closest friend before the mass ascension. ash's colony was pretty chill and flexible with them, so they didn't push back or question too much when ash requested that fireflies got an open-access pass to visit their puppet whenever she wanted to

...they never really got to figure out what they were to each other before fireflies was forced to ascend. which is kinda understandable. i mean, how are you supposed to say 'hey i think i'm in love with you' to a giant sentient metal box

ash's scarf belonged to fireflies. she left it with them when she had to go ascend. ash hasn't taken it off since.