WiretrippaDisplacement of an existing Archetype has been covered in depth in the book, but can someone please give me a slightly better rundown on what happens when a person fills a brand-new spot in the Statosphere? All we’ve been given is the Naked Goddess, which seems to make the act and aftermath of Ascension “You dissapear in a blaze of light and no-one can remember your name”.
I’d be interested to hear some takes on Ascension, including how reality deals with a chunk of space previously occupied with a physical body and conscious mind being suddenly emptied permanently and with little warning, and why certain Archetypes have been filled by people we don’t know about (for example, professional sports in the United States must be one of the best-documented passtimes in the history of western civilisation, and yet we have NO IDEA who Ascended to the role of the MVP).
Confused and a little mind-fucked,
Wire.
The TimIt isn’t always the case that the identity of the person is cleared away. From what I gather that was a special effect of the Naked Goddess Ascension.
When someone Ascends a direct channel is opened between the spot and the statosphere. The actual person is drawn up into the statosphere while the body seems to be unmade. So it doesn’t just vanish and go somewhere else because the statosphere isn’t really a where. The white light is probably some of the body being returned to the universe as energy.
So reality doesn’t really have to deal with a vanishing, or at least the vanishing is the least of the problems caused for reality. The statosphere has smacked into it. Metaphorically the wires are exposed, the man behind the current is glimpsed and for a moment the audiance may get to see back stage. That’s why seeing an Ascension is mind blowing. You see how things Really Work.
I’m almost convinced that the weird stuff that happens is reality’s attempt to distract people from the real deal. Drop a few natural artifacts, turn someone inside out and make a dog that speaks Latin and suddenly people are no longer interested in the cosmic truth that was just reveiled. Instead they are hunting for blades of grass made of titanium.
URNOVI“for example, professional sports in the United States must be one of the best-documented passtimes in the history of western civilisation, and yet we have NO IDEA who Ascended to the role of the MVP”
Fame is not nessecarily a key element of Ascension. Odds are that the MVP ascended from a relatively minor area of the sporting world. Perhaps it was a local company softball champion or even a high school sports star who brought much needed attention to their otherwise failing school
I’m guessing this is one of those “no canon answer” questions, but personally I’m quite enamoured of the therory that whoever it was replaed the earlier Archetype of the Perfect Knight
MenzoaI think the Champion would be a better fit than the Perfect Knight, though we’re likely using different terms for the same idea.
Then again, I’d say the True King was remade as the CEO in the mid ’90s. Of course, world events actually forced it into reversion, actually switched back to a national sovreign ideal.
Red DragonPerhaps such a thing may have happened after an athlete retired. Being booted out causes them to become the antithesis of their archetype. Look at OJ (could he have ascended only to be kicked out again?), how about Jordan (once had a teflon reputation and was god of his sport, after “retirement” he’s not very good and surrounded by scandal, or perhaps he broke Taboo?)
Neville Yale CrontenMaybe the first MVP was Aztec, Olmec, Mayan… or a rogue Gladiator. Organized sports have been around for a long, long time. And they’ve nearly always been important.
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