The "esoteric character set" is just Roman numerals (with iiii for 4).
What I find most interesting about this comparison is the doodles that look like EVA-t. We see these kind of loopy fantasies regularly in the work of medieval scribes - I think it's a combination of human nature and the mechanics of pen writing that leads to similar patterns made by the absent or playful mind. It's interesting that gallow characters and more excessive doodles inhabit the same world, as they do in the VM. But clearly gallows have a more defined purpose in the VM than just absent doodles, whatever that might be.
What I find most interesting about this comparison is the doodles that look like EVA-t. We see these kind of loopy fantasies regularly in the work of medieval scribes - I think it's a combination of human nature and the mechanics of pen writing that leads to similar patterns made by the absent or playful mind. It's interesting that gallow characters and more excessive doodles inhabit the same world, as they do in the VM. But clearly gallows have a more defined purpose in the VM than just absent doodles, whatever that might be.