☀️ Arselia and Akonia

- Never trust experts who will tell you something about this with an expression of unwavering confidence, even if they publish a smart book or speak on television or the internet, - gathering her thoughts, Ayano finally says. - Except for me, because my method is empirical. So, over time, I came to the conclusion that the "designation" of colors is very conditional and limited by the peculiarities of our personal human perception at the species level. You know, like it is believed that some animals do not distinguish colors, but are only able to determine a dark and light shade, or like a bug is not able to feel human emotions, so our spectrum of perception is not very complete. For example... If we start with the simplest and take the blue color, which represents an inanimate soul - it will be an undead, for example. It seems simple, clear, and without frills, because it does not think, but exists in automatic mode. But what if it's a ghost or your vampire, who are aware of themselves? Perhaps you will see some minimal difference in shade, but it will not be comparable to the actual difference between these entities. Therefore, our eye puts these different entities under the same heading, unable to understand the nature of once-living matter. Perhaps this is something like a block in the human psyche that arose during its development as a species, or maybe it was laid down by the gods at the creation - whatever form it takes, but dead is dead, and the only approach to pacification applies to it. Something similar can be said about aliens - despite their complete similarity, you will not see anything like the aura of a local person in them. Why is that? I think this is the result of the astrological transfer process. Perhaps this is the "energy" used for this transfer. If this is true, then perhaps, if the alien is not constrained by the swiftness of human existence, then someday it may have a chance to gradually get rid of this side effect? Who knows, maybe by "naturalizing," it will be able to gain an additional chance to get into the Anuzish cycle after death? Or maybe this is wrong, and the same system described above applies here, with the rejection of foreign matter. But if you think about it, "foreignness" is an artificial concept. We all live in the same universe, and our existence is quite natural for it, - she paused thoughtfully. - And let's take other species examples. Purple is the color of cosmic squid invaders. Why not green? It's unclear, but the theory of residual energy can explain it. Again, there are no fundamentally different shades in them - something like this is incomprehensible to a local person. And what can be said about pink? As I was told, Stallia-sama is a relic of many millennia ago. Okay. What about Akonia? Can she be considered a weakened version of herself? And what was there before her, or has she existed since the beginning of time? Let's add Trude-sama to this list. She is not a singularity, and I highly doubt that she has half a million hit points, but in this row, she will look quite organic. Our eye will not see any difference, probably because chthonic and divine matter, even if it is only a small grain of it, is just as fundamentally incomprehensible? And let's take cyan, like Ahuli and Ahuri. Again, no significant diversity, although nothing that is inherent to us is alien to them. A mystery? A mystery.
Taking a few sips of mineral water, she moves on:
- And finally, we come to the most ordinary people. We have white, gray, black, gold, and red. In my house, red meant a demon, but here it means a curse that has enslaved a person's soul, and if before I saw something like this only in the context of Akonia's fragments, then over time I realized that it can also happen "in everyday life," when the curse arose for some other reasons. Okay. So, nominally, a book-television expert will tell you that white is good, gray is not very good, and black is bad. But this is an absolute dilettantism, based on vague cultural and perceptual aspects. In my tradition, for example, white is the color of death. And not just the shroud in which the dead are wrapped, but at the most folklore level. And how many "broken" whites I have met - it's hard to remember right away. So, I came to the conclusion that this shade means something... like the level of a person's reflection and faith in their own infallibility. This is not a strictly strict dependence, but mathematically speaking, if a person is carefree, does not strain too much about what his actions will lead to or how he is perceived from the outside, and sometimes does not even put much mental effort into realizing his life, then with a high probability you can expect exactly the white color. Someone might tactfully rephrase this as "being in a state of harmony," and such a definition may make sense, but it can also lead perception down the wrong path. In contrast, by black, I mean a person who is inclined to a high level of reflection and awareness, understanding both himself and the world around him. He may or may not commit bad deeds, be happy or unhappy in life - in fact, this will not matter, so I consider this distinction from experts to be the most false. And if we take gray... In this format, it can mean both a transitional stage between awareness and thoughtlessness, and the presence of some problems that burden the heart. But in reality, due to being on the border of temperaments, it can mean almost anything, it is the most vague of all options. And gold, for example, is possessed by our grandfather-blacksmith, Linetta-dono, Kayasa-kocho, Mellis-sama. What do they all have in common? That they have dedicated their lives to a specific craft or path, or have some super-unique abilities in their arsenal? Well, okay, but they are not golems, they also have their own emotions, hopes, and reasons for concern, so why do we only see gold, but not black, white, or gray? Does this mean that a person has rejected everything earthly, plunging headlong into work? ... It sounds doubtful. An expert will say - "they have the potential for great deeds," but many others have it too, who do not share this pigment, and sometimes even more than they do. I once saw a golden bandit who lived like a homeless person and robbed random passers-by for a couple of hundred rem. Soooooo......... returning to what I started with - all this division is very conditional, it "means" exactly what you can derive empirically yourself. Perhaps my experience is limited only to my sample, yours would be different, the patriarch's would be the third, and if we combine all the studies, then we could get a cross-sectional picture, but even so, it will still not correspond to all possible cases, - shrugging, the priestess-scientist-psychiatrist finally finishes this boring highly intellectual lecture.

- Oh-oh-oh! - Lord rejoiced. - See, you said so.

- Colonialism, - Ayano muttered. - Just a slightly exotic design that they hadn't seen before, and now they decided to appreciate it highly in order to show off their taste for the cultures of small oppressed peoples...
Despite the grumbling, she still felt a little better, because a lot of physical and mental effort was ultimately put into something that began as vague melancholic scribbles.

- Innocent purity, virginal beauty... - He looks at Ayano. - Well, yes, you can't argue with the truth.

- Please don't go there... - innocence sighs, covering her face with her hand. - I don't believe in this result - the beauty contest showed my real rating - but I believe in Penelope-san's damage control. It's not the actual votes of people that matter, but how they will be counted...