Yes, I don't care. I was just a little annoyed about how you pressed the point on the thematic importance of argent mirror in a response to my post saying I didn't care. I could have just said you were 'talking out of your ass', but I felt like it needed more bite to it as the post you were replying to already showed my disinterest in the theme.
Am I wrong in saying it was insincere though? When you hastily paste some story blocks together and try to sell something so generic as self realization, it's going to sound forced unless you happen to be secretly Shakesphere.
In the very same post you said you didn't care about the lesson - which you said was because the
Art itself was of the lowest tier, and that's why you didn't want it (which, yes, has since been corrected):
I sincerely do not care at all about the 'lesson' as the art itself is the lowest tier we can get for our domain.
I also think you're greatly exaggerating the value of the lesson as well. 'Know thyself', is some of the most cliche stuff in fiction and I wouldn't at all be surprised if we see dozens of other arts that teach the same. The emphasis you're putting on it feels a bit silly to me.
Note how it doesn't say a damn word about the 'theme', and how 'lesson' is directly tied to how 'low tier' the art was?
I took you to mean that you didn't care about the lesson
because you felt the Art wasn't good enough, not that you simply didn't care about the lesson.
And really. 'Generic as self realization?' Damn, you must have let the mass-market morons get to you. Figure yourself out on your own, don't bother with the rest. And 'Hasty'? Is taking twenty five minutes to write a post fast for you, or something? It's a little fast for me, I admit. It usually takes me a lot longer, which means I run into something else someone says and I want to comment on. As seen in figure one, below.
That just means your proposal is even worse.
A Domain ability isn't something you just pick up as an exclusive and discrete component, they are supposed to be inclusive and congruent components of a greater whole. Your argument that Ling Qi should add yet another theme to her dissonant and incoherent abilities utterly flies in the face of what a Domain should be.
Like, my ideal Domain for Ling Qi would be a fortress of respite and comfort -- all her Domain abilities and Arts would be centered on making her family completely inviolate to all forms of harm. Future Arts to add to her Domain would be TRF for hard defense and vitality (so that they can't be hurt, or at least can't be hurt permanently), and maybe Arts like FVM and PLR to create field effects that drive their enemies away (so they aren't even in the way of harm in the first place). Our current build of tanky debuffer and field control means that we can progress Ling Qi's Arts and toward my ideal Domain without having to add to our current build direction.
So, without ephemeral and useless imagery, how are you imaging squaring Ling Qi's current Home Domain with your proposed Self-knowledge Domain? How will that develop into a coherent theme? How are you going to turn Ling Qi's Art suite into something that supports that; what combat strategy do you think that suite will support? Are you going to argue vociferously for more Arts to attain a specialty in anti-illusions? Make Ling Qi into a perfect Cai spymistress and avoid combat?
Which part of my post? Because I wasn't proposing anything in what you quoted, I was making a statement: the elements that are in our primary alignment (Darkness, Music, Moon, Water, Wind) do not care overmuch for Self-Knowledge, and we are therefore highly unlikely to pick up an Art that has such an effect at Mastery as a Domain Lesson - the Lesson imparted by fully understanding and internalizing the Art.
The proposal, that taking the lesson that Argent Mirror is intending to teach and making it a Domain, is one that I support, yes. Why, I'm even voting for the perception reroll option!
Self-knowledge means you know when to ask for help - and when you can
actually provide the help others need, or when you can't and have to recommend someone else. Self-knowledge covers a whole
hell of a lot - It's about knowing who you are, and why you do what you do, whatever that is.
I don't know what I want out of our Domain at this time. I know I want this
specific lesson to be internalized, as I believe it's a critical part of
growing up. More important than even learning how to learn, but it requires you at least know how to think.
'Don't use imagery to describe how you imagine something'? Are you serious?
Your own description of what you wanted was imagery. What part of 'Fortress of Respite and Comfort' is
not imagery? That's mighty hypocritical of you.
On the other hand... how about: 'A safe place that you can reflect upon your actions and deeds?' Does that fit your desire of 'no imagery' and reconcile 'Home' with 'Self Knowledge'? Why, it even fits in with your desires.
As far as your other questions: I've got a set of Arts I'd like to learn, complete with the sorts of Alignments I'd like them to be, upthread - before the most recent update -
right here. You may notice that it's very general, very tight, and includes a direct damage Combat Art.
I think that we can definitely merge a theme of seeing through lies with home. Something like a home where you are seen for who you really are, and accepted and loved anyway.
This is good too.
Anyway, I need to go to bed now. Later.
