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dedicated spaces for the media & characters that have shaped me

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what's a shrine?

a shrine is a dedicated page celebrating something i love - complete with art, analysis, memories, and pure devotion. consider them love letters to my favorite things.

✦ SHRINE COLLECTION ✦

sacred spaces for beloved media

✦ Game Shrines

The Dead Square Enix Mobage Graveyard
mobile • gacha • memorial
A loving eulogy for the mobile games that could have been. Remembering the stories cut short and the communities lost to server shutdowns.
established: 2024 • pages: 6
Final Fantasy IX
fantasy • rpg • 2000
A meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to be alive. The last great classical Final Fantasy and my eternal favorite.
established: 2024 • pages: 12
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
tactics • ivalice • 2003
Marche was right. Sometimes you have to destroy paradise to save the people you love from their own escapism.
established: 2024 • pages: 8
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
jrpg • post-apocalyptic • 2002
A brutal meditation on cycles, sacrifice, and the weight of power. The most unforgiving and beautiful game in the series.
established: 2023 • pages: 5
Okage: Shadow King
surreal • rpg • 2001
A fever dream of a game about finding yourself when everyone else insists you're a background character in their story.
established: 2024 • pages: 4
Pathologic
survival • plague • ice-pick lodge
You cannot save everyone. The most important lesson in gaming, delivered through uncompromising Russian surrealism.
established: 2023 • pages: 9

✦ Anime Shrines

Dungeon Meshi
fantasy • cooking • ryoko kui
Found family, the joy of sharing meals, and learning to live with your monsters. Laios taught me that obsession can be a form of love.
established: 2024 • pages: 6
Revolutionary Girl Utena
surreal • revolutionary • kunihiko ikuhara
A queer awakening disguised as a magical girl show. Symbolism dense enough to study for years.
established: 2023 • pages: 9
Kaiba
sci-fi • memory • masaaki yuasa
What makes you "you" when memories can be transferred, stolen, sold? Yuasa's masterpiece of identity and love transcending the physical.
established: 2024 • pages: 7

✦ Character Shrines

Kuja
final fantasy ix • genome
Beautiful, tragic, and utterly convinced of his own superiority. A meditation on mortality, vanity, and the fear of being forgotten.
established: 2024 • pages: 8
Henry
fire emblem awakening • dark mage
Cheerful exterior hiding profound darkness. A study in how trauma shapes us and how we choose to face our own shadows.
established: 2023 • pages: 6
Marianne
fire emblem three houses • noble
Quiet strength in the face of inherited trauma. Her journey from self-isolation to community taught me about healing and hope.
established: 2024 • pages: 7
Aventurine
honkai star rail • stoneheart
A gambler who's already lost everything that matters. Luck as both blessing and curse, survival as its own tragedy.
established: 2024 • pages: 5
Sunday
honkai star rail • family head
What happens when love becomes control? A beautiful tragedy about protection, sacrifice, and the weight of impossible choices.
established: 2024 • pages: 4
Aglaea
honkai star rail • remembrance
Grace incarnate, carrying the weight of memory and loss. A study in divine sorrow and the beauty of remembering.
established: 2025 • pages: 3
Terra
final fantasy vi • esper
Learning to be human when you're something else entirely. Terra's journey of self-discovery resonates across decades.
established: 2023 • pages: 6
Clara
pathologic • the changeling
A child carrying impossible wisdom and terrible responsibility. Clara taught me about faith, sacrifice, and the power of belief.
established: 2023 • pages: 5

✦ Miscellaneous Shrines

Appalachian Mountains
home • nature • heritage
The hills that raised me. Misty mornings, ancient forests, and the quiet strength of mountain people.
established: 2024 • pages: 4
Libraries
sanctuary • knowledge • quiet spaces
Temples of learning and quiet contemplation. Every library is a portal to infinite worlds.
established: 2023 • pages: 3