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A publisher is who actually distributes copies of the book while the Author is the person who actually writes the work, so I just decided to work with it here.
"Scribed" would be in reference to the book it has, it is complete, but "Cascade" would be in reference to an artist in its prime, that the pen is in a flow state, writing down anything that its ink can get its hands on.
The base form is the accepted and widely-distributed (published) work, whereas the alternate form has secret (clandestine) pages cut from the final work. What kind of dark arts were torn from the pages? Were we never meant to restore its original form?
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Collected knowledge for base form, spilled ink and power for item form. Also applies to their demeanors; the base form is collected and calm compared to the more aggressive and crazy item form.
30b'a design looks more friendly and controlled while 30i's design look more demonic and chaotic, so I wanted to go with that motif I decided to go with constrained so the two forms start with different letters.
The name "unwritten" implies that 30b has some kind of plot or story in mind, but hasn't realized it. "Plot Twisted" is a play on the term plot twist and how 30i has become twisted by the ink as well as its now-realized plot.
I liked the idea of a pair of adjectives that fitted together soundwise, in the same kind of vein as Mimikyu's Disguised and Busted forms. I settled on the idea of Poised and Plunged because I believe the strong plosives help to remind us of CAP30's Poison typing and fit the personality of writing with a quill. Poised for a word, or to reink, and Plunged in the pot itself.
Abstract is the summary of the work ahead; an Abstract can be seen as the "base" of a article. An Opus is the final, grand version of the work; promising to be potent and hard-hitting
While the base form of CAP 30 appears to be more restrained given its hidden/unseen pages, the item form has gone berserk due to its head being trapped within an ink bottle.