Shards of a Broken Sun [Deprecated; see link in final post for remake]
- Thread starter Baughn
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Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
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- Brazil
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I'm late, but not absent!
Pixie!Io is certainly being affected by those Demonic instincts and had to take a moment to remind herself hat the big thing she was sitting on was her body, which makes me even more suspicious she is not really Io herself.
I'm late, but not absent!
Pixie!Io is certainly being affected by those Demonic instincts and had to take a moment to remind herself hat the big thing she was sitting on was her body, which makes me even more suspicious she is not really Io herself.
Baughn
Healing-type writer
- Location
- Dublin
"Pixie!Io" is a bit longwinded though, don't you think? Although she doesn't have a name in my notes, other than "Io". Hmm...
She needs a default, at least, or people will keep saying "Pixie!Io". Let's call her "Chara".
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
- Location
- Brazil
I'm sure there isn't.
But her being Io's Chara makes sense, even more so if we take into consideration the fact the transformation into a Demon could be responsible for her bloodthirst.
Quantumboost
Now with 50% more dots in Dimensional Science
- Location
- Ensemble Space
I hereby propose that we refer to Io's new Chara as... hm. Callisto.
Yes, Callisto sounds good.
Yes, Callisto sounds good.
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Twei
I have a face!
- Location
- the land where they write things
- Pronouns
- They/Them
I don't think I actually have opinion on the vote. At least, not a good opinion. Sorry. 
That said, I've been reading through the archives and it suddenly occurred to me just how many things could have been. (Specifically, at the potential of stopping the Conception, and that's not even getting into the other character choices!) If there was ever a quest with replay value, this would probably be it. So. Many. Possibilities. It's kind of insane. Also awesome. Probably a bit of both.
(also, sorry if this is approaching necromancy or anything)
That said, I've been reading through the archives and it suddenly occurred to me just how many things could have been. (Specifically, at the potential of stopping the Conception, and that's not even getting into the other character choices!) If there was ever a quest with replay value, this would probably be it. So. Many. Possibilities. It's kind of insane. Also awesome. Probably a bit of both.
(also, sorry if this is approaching necromancy or anything)
Baughn
Healing-type writer
- Location
- Dublin
SV doesn't have thread necromancy, and in this case it's only been a week, so I think not. I'm also going to call this vote closed, though.
And if we ever finish the quest, I may consider looking at that. That said, if anyone ever feels like writing fanfiction and/or branching off an alternate route, I'd be happy to help.
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Giygas
Cutest Sawk i could find. Lucario is a nice extra.
Well, now my future but incoming analysis of a Nocturnal Amu can grow past being an analysis! (I had almost finished Rereading the Nocturnal book, but then i decided to get sad because i will never see any of the Charms used anywhere.)And if we ever finish the quest, I may consider looking at that. That said, if anyone ever feels like writing fanfiction and/or branching off an alternate route, I'd be happy to help.
Twei
I have a face!
- Location
- the land where they write things
- Pronouns
- They/Them
And if we ever finish the quest, I may consider looking at that. That said, if anyone ever feels like writing fanfiction and/or branching off an alternate route, I'd be happy to help.
Lunar Matou, perhaps? But, wait, would she be alive to have that encounter with Dubhe without Solar Amu's intervention? (Because replacing solar with lunar seems better than adding a lunar. outright. Easy enough to swap the shard that sacrificed itself, I think.) HMMMMMMMM
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Baughn
Healing-type writer
- Location
- Dublin
Amu's intervention also dramatically changed Dubhe's behavior. Without her actions, it wouldn't have gone to Osaka at all.
That said, Osaka is one of the cities that was canonically protected by Fumi's work, and in DeSu2 canon it took several days for Japan to go away anyway. Mato would have still been alive, but without her meeting with Dubhe she'd have been her 'normal' human self. Alcor's app won't even work properly for her.
That that said said, it wouldn't be very difficult to find a Lunar-worthy event in this world. For... anyone, really.
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Giygas
Cutest Sawk i could find. Lucario is a nice extra.
And thus, in an alternate universe, everyone's plan were smashed to pieces as all the Lunar exaltations decided to descend on mass on the world. There was many screams of "Not as planned!!!" and a lot of Butterfly War Form Lunars. (Meanwhile, Nyarlatothep was laughing.)
*Goes off into a corner to be depressed about having No Lunars again... especially for Matou*
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
- Location
- Brazil
There, there. We can always write Omakes with Lunar Matou, possibly ones where she is Amu's Lunar Mate* and they have fun adventures together.
Baughn
Healing-type writer
- Location
- Dublin
I'd do it, but I know far too little about Lunars to pull it off. That said—
<Ikuto> I don't know why, but this prospect upsets me.
*Sigh* Thematically: As a Lunar, Matou would have been amazing. But for the purposes of having a fated bond/being a Lunar Mate, Utau or Ikuto would have fit better. With how we've taken it in the quest so far, Utau more so than Ikuto probably.
There was some Destiny/Fate thing going on between him and Amu. Pretty heavily implied by him having the "Key" to her "Lock" as well. *Sighs at Japan being Japan*
That said, I like the idea that Utau could just as easily ended up in Ikuto's position. Utau and Amu just... click. They did in canon and they're doing the same here except even more so.
There are *so* many time loops. Here's one of them.
Baughn
Healing-type writer
- Location
- Dublin
There's actually an explanation for this, of sorts. It's not what you'd expect.
In short, it's all Tadase's fault. He goes back in time one or two decades, probably with Dia's help, and sets up the entire scenario.
Amu getting the Lock? Tadase stole it. The existence of the Guardians? Tadase set it up. Most of the show is his doing somehow. Hell, the shape of the school? It may have been a whim of his, but having a castle was his childhood dream.
He does this entirely for her happiness, without thought for his own. So I get a little upset whenever people badmouth him, because... it's a stable time loop now, but there was a timeline before this all happened, and it's implied that it wasn't a nice one.
Utau's escape from Easter? Amu's friendship with the two? Her Charas not fading away like they're supposed to, even? All Tadase's doing. I'm not sure how healthy it is, but he's definitely the nicest person in canon, and he's effective at it as well. Amu is in love with Ikuto instead of him? Doesn't matter, set things up so they have the option of a happy ending.
Of course, I'm doing my own spin on things in this story.
Amu getting the Lock? Tadase stole it. The existence of the Guardians? Tadase set it up. Most of the show is his doing somehow. Hell, the shape of the school? It may have been a whim of his, but having a castle was his childhood dream.
He does this entirely for her happiness, without thought for his own. So I get a little upset whenever people badmouth him, because... it's a stable time loop now, but there was a timeline before this all happened, and it's implied that it wasn't a nice one.
Utau's escape from Easter? Amu's friendship with the two? Her Charas not fading away like they're supposed to, even? All Tadase's doing. I'm not sure how healthy it is, but he's definitely the nicest person in canon, and he's effective at it as well. Amu is in love with Ikuto instead of him? Doesn't matter, set things up so they have the option of a happy ending.
Of course, I'm doing my own spin on things in this story.
Some of it may be penance for what he did to Utau, though.
But, well, yeah. If things had been different, then I'm sure it's Utau who would have ended up with a massive number of seemingly random encounters with Amu instead.
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Wow, did not know that. On one hand, I want to see that timeline now. On the other hand, got some nostalgia induced fond memories of it and I'd rather not have them ruined.There's actually an explanation for this, of sorts. It's not what you'd expect.
In short, it's all Tadase's fault. He goes back in time one or two decades, probably with Dia's help, and sets up the entire scenario.
Amu getting the Lock? Tadase stole it. The existence of the Guardians? Tadase set it up. Most of the show is his doing somehow. Hell, the shape of the school? It may have been a whim of his, but having a castle was his childhood dream.
He does this entirely for her happiness, without thought for his own. So I get a little upset whenever people badmouth him, because... it's a stable time loop now, but there was a timeline before this all happened, and it's implied that it wasn't a nice one.
Utau's escape from Easter? Amu's friendship with the two? Her Charas not fading away like they're supposed to, even? All Tadase's doing. I'm not sure how healthy it is, but he's definitely the nicest person in canon, and he's effective at it as well. Amu is in love with Ikuto instead of him? Doesn't matter, set things up so they have the option of a happy ending.
Of course, I'm doing my own spin on things in this story.
Some of it may be penance for what he did to Utau, though.
But, well, yeah. If things had been different, then I'm sure it's Utau who would have ended up with a massive number of seemingly random encounters with Amu instead.
Thank you for that.
I never particularly disliked Tadase as a character... I think. Its been a long while.
I disliked liked him in the context of the romantic subplot going on. It just... Amu tried hard to convince herself she liked him, and she did have a crush on him, but... well, when you're doing that you can't really say you like them, can you? It kind of irritated me with how long it seemed to drag on.
I only ever watched the show though, and stuck to the recommended episodes to skip the bad filler, so there is that.
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
- Location
- Brazil
The knowledge I've absorbed by lurking threads where Exalted is involved leads me to believe that the Bond between a Solar and a Lunar doesn't have to be romantic in nature. Hell, it doesn't even need to be a positive intimacy in the first place, it could very well be Instinctive Hatred. My image of a Matou who is Amu's Mate is more along the lines of Best Friends or at most a Bromance.
Well now, that's very interesting to know.There's actually an explanation for this, of sorts. It's not what you'd expect.
In short, it's all Tadase's fault. He goes back in time one or two decades, probably with Dia's help, and sets up the entire scenario.
Amu getting the Lock? Tadase stole it. The existence of the Guardians? Tadase set it up. Most of the show is his doing somehow. Hell, the shape of the school? It may have been a whim of his, but having a castle was his childhood dream.
He does this entirely for her happiness, without thought for his own. So I get a little upset whenever people badmouth him, because... it's a stable time loop now, but there was a timeline before this all happened, and it's implied that it wasn't a nice one.
Utau's escape from Easter? Amu's friendship with the two? Her Charas not fading away like they're supposed to, even? All Tadase's doing. I'm not sure how healthy it is, but he's definitely the nicest person in canon, and he's effective at it as well. Amu is in love with Ikuto instead of him? Doesn't matter, set things up so they have the option of a happy ending.
Of course, I'm doing my own spin on things in this story.
Some of it may be penance for what he did to Utau, though.
But, well, yeah. If things had been different, then I'm sure it's Utau who would have ended up with a massive number of seemingly random encounters with Amu instead.
In my Exalted game -- for the Lunar/Solar bonds -- there was only one romance bond... and it was a one-way attraction.
--My guy (Eclipse named Iron Storm [insert thirty other names here]) ended up being a harem protagonist who tried to find a suitable partner for each of his love interests (with said partner not being him) and he got a stellar bromance with his Lunar (Crushing Drift, polar bear totem) who had no luck with the women despite being his tribe's very successful Shaman.
- -The Dawn smith (Titus, the manliest woman who ever was... to the point where I -- in character -- found he was a she one year in) had the unfortunate luck to have the Cuttlefish totem Thousand Tendril (who, in the character introduction, shifted gender three times) having a crush on her. Her in-character response was, "By all the Gods, What did I do to deserve this?!?!?!"
- -Cinder, Night caste who went too far into the spy-thing, got a platonic life partner as a fox (though this was strictly informed as the party never encountered this person, though we did meet Cinder's sister who exalted as a Day-caste Abyssal and proceeded to steal herself away from her masters).
--Quintus, the warrior Twilight, started the quest to find his Lunar when I left the game.
--Catarina -- the party's original Zenith -- had found her Ferret-totem Lunar before I joined the game. They were business partners and good friends.
--Golden Bell -- the party's replacement Zenith after Catarina's player dropped from the game -- Did not start her journey to find her Lunar. Iron Storm and her being together, without anyone else for any period of time, would cause a negative feedback loop as the other's personality would trigger their limit break (as she was based on Pinkie Pie and my guy killed his emotions when possible due to the traumas he had).
--My guy (Eclipse named Iron Storm [insert thirty other names here]) ended up being a harem protagonist who tried to find a suitable partner for each of his love interests (with said partner not being him) and he got a stellar bromance with his Lunar (Crushing Drift, polar bear totem) who had no luck with the women despite being his tribe's very successful Shaman.
- -The Dawn smith (Titus, the manliest woman who ever was... to the point where I -- in character -- found he was a she one year in) had the unfortunate luck to have the Cuttlefish totem Thousand Tendril (who, in the character introduction, shifted gender three times) having a crush on her. Her in-character response was, "By all the Gods, What did I do to deserve this?!?!?!"
- -Cinder, Night caste who went too far into the spy-thing, got a platonic life partner as a fox (though this was strictly informed as the party never encountered this person, though we did meet Cinder's sister who exalted as a Day-caste Abyssal and proceeded to steal herself away from her masters).
--Quintus, the warrior Twilight, started the quest to find his Lunar when I left the game.
--Catarina -- the party's original Zenith -- had found her Ferret-totem Lunar before I joined the game. They were business partners and good friends.
--Golden Bell -- the party's replacement Zenith after Catarina's player dropped from the game -- Did not start her journey to find her Lunar. Iron Storm and her being together, without anyone else for any period of time, would cause a negative feedback loop as the other's personality would trigger their limit break (as she was based on Pinkie Pie and my guy killed his emotions when possible due to the traumas he had).
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al103
Grumpy Russian Bear (SV edition)
- Location
- Russia, Krasnoyarsk
Important notice - if our endgame would be "restore everything from backup" it's a third variable to keep in mind to the company of Conception and DeSu plot. Because while enormously less important on the first glance it can invalidate blocking of other two.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Are you thinking that Tadase going back in time could end up retroactively preventing Amu from exalting etc.?
EDIT: Actually, now that I think of it, this was in the prologue:
I has assumed that the cracking-and-repairing was related to either the DeSu plot or the conception, but it could be something to do with whatever Tadase and Dia did here. Time travel could easily have damaged the integrity of the world.
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Tends to be positive or at least benign for a young Lunar. Its like, you feel an inexplicable bond and easily remember what they do more. For equals, it leads to romance, rivalry, etc, without much real hostility.
The problem is the Solar bonded to a 600 year old monster who only remembers the past life and affection faintly, while moatly insane already, been abused by your past life or nursing an ancient grudge.
Thats where your baby solar finds themselves looking at an Elder Lunar Yandere