Perhaps I should begin by stating that in the last post I forgot to touch on the most important aspect of the objective side's manifestation; namely the central thing all my writing orbits around. Unfortunately I cannot go into detail about this phenomenon, for it is a crucial, nigh all-encompassing theme, and explaining it in length would nullify some of the effects the stories will inevitably have for the reader when they start uncovering it themselves. However, what I can explain is the difference of the Truth of Being (the idea, the concept), and the physical manifestation that bears the same name.
For, indeed, if we take the example of mathematics; the language of the universe, an abstract idea, which only manifests itself into the world via indirect ways - ie. numbers & individuals utilizing them. Let us consider the zero, not as self-evident a concept, one which only relatively late came into widespread use. Roman numerals, as you may know, do not have it, and for quite some time people used clever - or not so clever - workarounds. It wasn't until the concept itself was invented and accepted into everyday use that people realized how much easier things were now, with this new, strange-but relatively straightforward idea. If we think on the zero, the idea of it, it obviously is a separate thing than the symbol one makes when writing it down. This symbol is the physical manifestation into the world via human interaction, and this much became evident in the last post, as, in our "real" world ideas only come to being via conscious actors channeling them. This is not true in the world of Whitend, where ideas & emotions can take form and have curious effects in the objective world, altering the very laws of physics in unexpected ways. Sometimes these effects are clear, observable anomalies such as the dust of melancholy, a perplexing but benign mist that can be found in certain locations... or the travelling holes, even more perplexing, and perhaps not as benign things that nevertheless have their own uses... or further, greater anomalies, huge constructs that can warp locations, affecting whole houses, suburbs, towns... even grander-scale landscapes. Sometimes, on the other hand, this effect is extremely localized, focusing on a singular person. These effects, affecting individuals rather than locales, is what I've come to call the "dreaded subjective side", and this post was supposed to be an examination of it. I will get to it next time, but for now, as a reconciliation I can state that in the aforeseen artist's interpretation you can see someone who's in the very center of this subjective side of the coin - one of the two sisters of melancholy, sisters recently torn apart from each other, leaving this unfortunate individual alone, warping the effects of grief, torment, melancholy and delirium into something out-of-this-world, even out of the world of Whitend, creating something entirely new, something what I came to call Perennial Sophia; the mysterious lady that still walks the woods.
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