IonAddis

I realized today that Allison has seven friends. Also, there are seven demiurges.

I think, given White Chain got Solomon David's key, it's entirely possible that the seven demiurges are replaced by Allison's allies.

I've been wondering why Nukoku is Incubus-colored of late. Usually, given that Nukoku once had Mammon's key in a previous "life", and Maya had Incubus', you'd think that Nukoku would get Mammon's key again, and then Maya Incubus', if the series was trying to traditionally tie up loose ends.

But...something's caught my attention with White Chain's colors.

With Solomon David's key, her purple flame has hints of blue. But blue is Jadis' color, and Jadis represented sloth.

White Chain's arc was waking up and opening her eyes. Her angelic brothers slumber in the void after being slain, but her strength is that she keeps reincarnating, she keeps waking up, she opens her eyes. Still, it did take her a while to do it--her angelic nature makes her prone to sloth, which is thus her vice. So if she had Jadis' key, she would be a demiurge. But she got a different key, and Solomon David's key is aligned with her virtues.

(But, for HIM, it was aligned with his vices...maybe each person has two ways they can go, towards virtue or vice, and something that is a virtue in one person is not in another?)

What if you become a demiurge when the aspect of YISUN you embrace is the one that represents your flaws--rather than your virtues?

So, that would also suggest that Yabalchoath had the "wrong" key. Mammon's key represented her worst vice.

But what if Incubus' key turns into love and blossoming growth instead if she has it? What if that's the key aligned with her virtue?

Ok, I think I have a decent theory here.

So what of the others? What keys would they have if aligned with their virtues rather than vices?

Maya seems at her best when she's nurturing and motherly. She had a scene where children called her auntie, she likes to cook, young people gravitate to her (like the student following her in some of her earlier scenes.)

What if she gets Jagganoth's key? Not to destroy the world, but to protect her "rats"? Although that key might also be too close to her flaw of following the sword. Maybe there's a better key for her...but for now, let's say she uses the sword for protection rather than war.

Allison's other allies are Nyave, Princess, Vigilant Gaze, and Zaid.

Nyave might get Mottom's key, and become a world-builder rather than a world-devourer. It would fit, too, with her originally being a tribute to Mottom, if she has the same key as Mottom, but it's aligned with her virtues rather than her flaws.

The others are murkier...we have Jadis' key, Mammon's key, and Gog-Agog to distribute among them.

Vigilant Gaze might align his virtues with Jadis' key. He's slow, he's a thinker--BUT he gets to the right place, a place of wisdom, instead of freezing.

So we'd have Mammon's key and Gog-Agog's for Princess and Zaid.

OH. Zaid Nazari. Nazari. Jesus of Nazareth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazari

Yeah, he totally gets Mammon's key, and spawns the myths of Jesus (lol). Maybe 001 adopts him or something...she's clearly a mix of Sophia (mother of the demiurge in gnostic lore) and Mary, mother of Jesus. Maybe she's already mentoring him, and we don't know it yet.

So that means Princess would get Gog-Agog's key. Ok, yeah, that would fit with her chaotic, demonic nature...but where Gog-Agog uses the multitude inside of her one way, Princess uses it in another, I think.

...of course, I could be totally wrong here.

Any thoughts on what key fits which of Allison's allies?

I got a little single-serving crock pot on Black Friday, so I'm curious what your favorite things to make in one are.

So, I ABSOLUTELY know there's massive variation in this. Just want to get ahead of that.

What I'm looking for is...what do finances look like, casually, when you have a 100% paid off small (SMALL!) home. When a mortgage is out of the way, what's left to eat up your paycheck?

I suppose I'm looking for the sort of casual knowledge of expenses for this sort of life that your kids might pick up if they lived in your area with you in your home. En mass, pulled from multiple lemmy folks, so I can get an idea of general trends. I'm partial for info from the USA, but others reading this might appreciate statistics from other areas. :)

(People mistake how valuable this sort of "general idea" info is, I always see people going into the weeds on how every situation is different without bothering even giving a crappy signpost so I can see if I'm looking at a $5 expense or $500 or $5000. Knowing if something is going to be $5 or $5000 is very valuable, even if it's not some exact precise number. But I don't need to know if it's going to be exactly $392.29 if I wiggle my ears and tug my nose to get the right loophole, I just need to know that closer to $500 is correct, or whatever.)

I don't have family, so I missed out on "casual learning" opportunities, and don't have anyone to talk to IRL to get this info, so it's really hard to apply my city-living experience to try to extrapolate what life might be like if I make a goal to buy a small home in Nowheretown, USA to retire in 20 years down the line.

Anyway. So what do expenses look like if you have a small paid off house? What range do utilities run in for you (in your particular climate), what's home insurance like, what sort of unexpected expenses pop up when you own instead of rent?

What's utilities like for sewer and trash, especially? Those have always been rolled into my rent. Is rural internet still limited to DSL or satellite (or Starlink I guess these days), or has better infrastructure been rolled out in places over the past 20 years since I last looked for this info?

Edit: Also...talk to me about well water and well expenses, and septic tanks instead of sewer lines, and oil heating. I promise I'll listen!

Edit 2: Also talk to me about how propane works.

Thanks everyone. :)