If this will be one of those techniques that has a slight name change as it evolves and powers up, Tightening the Purse Strings might work better for its current form, and a later more versatile upgrade can become Plucking the Purse Strings
Playing on the "thief" imagery, especially pickpocketing, and "purse strings" as a metaphor for spending power
Thief of Names
[ ] Tugging the Purse Strings
[ ] Weighing the Purse
[ ] Knotting the Purse Strings
[ ] Puckering the Purse
that last one playing off "puckered asshole" the feeling of...
[X] I would wield it to encourage glory-seeking, to make them willing to sacrifice what they should not for their dreams.
I like the idea of little Ith using so many small sacrifices that when the commanders go for a big one, it's so much less powerful because there's not enough left to make an...
I mean, they weren't NOT involved...
Xin gave LQ the map with the cave on it!
And what's the fun of having powerful grumpy uncles if ya don't keep them grumpy? :p
Ain't that the TRUTH
It's a whole new way of thinking. Huge swaths of population now verifyably trustworthy or untrustworthy with just a few moments of interaction. Not the typical outlook of an inexperienced teenager.
Good analysis all around, y'all.
So it's taken me the better part of a day to articulate, but I think I've figured out what I don't like about the recent MD dance scene.
LQ told him to stop and he responded with a smug little quip about honesty.
There's a lot of cultivator BS going on, plus the usually inaccessible layer of...
[x] She would ingratiate herself with the group of foundations region nobles, they liked her best, and could give her a closer eye on how sentiment about the summit was spreading under the ones most effected.
[X] To a blazing brazier, where percussion rolled out, and partners circled in energetic motion.
Ah! Poor Gan Guangli! I wonder who all his pursuers are. I doubt he can shake all of them off definitively for a while.
Xia Lin is surprisingly unconcerned with her own social situation, given how...
I wonder if LQ gives folks the looking-straight-through-you tingles when she gets extra "curious"
Also likely, if Mu Wuye's teacher is perception focused, it could just be a somewhat familiar sensation.
Probably getting annoyed at folks looking at them too hard and pausing in the middle of...
[X] The future lies at the intersection between reality and perception. By Communication, perception is changed; by perception, reality shape is carved, chip by chip.
One of Ling Qi's most valuable features to CRX and the Emerald Seas is her perspective as a former street rat, and her...