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This Most Familiar Chain: Tale of Spirit and Magician

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[X] Random Empathy Bursts. You admit that you don't have full control over your emotional state, but lately you've been even more erratic, with odd feelings and bursts of foreign emotions that you get only when you're near her...

A pretty cute and fluffy update, all in all.
 
Cetashwayo said:
...then who is your birth father?

You never really even thought you had a birth father. No one ever mentioned it. It was not a matter of conversation. But you suppose it does make some sense. It's odd, actually. No one has even mentioned Astera much at all. You know she existed, you know that the Moon and Sun cared about her, but they haven't really spoken to you about her behavior or what she was like. Everything around her death and your birth is submerged in a fog that you can't seem to break through.
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Hold up. What if... Death is Starfall's father???

Think about it. There are so many clues. She likes Starfall. Liking Starfall is definitely a fatherish sort of thing. Also, Astera died. Why? Death. Technically, they'd be together now, right? And they'd have a lovely baby child mature and capable and very grownup star. It makes perfect sense, if you put all the pieces together.

The only complication I can think of is that Death might not be physically capable of being a Father. We would need to find a way to determine whether she can even grow a beard and/or moustache.
 
MooseHowl said:
Hold up. What if... Death is Starfall's father???

Think about it. There are so many clues. She likes Starfall. Liking Starfall is definitely a fatherish sort of thing. Also, Astera died. Why? Death. Technically, they'd be together now, right? And they'd have a lovely baby child mature and capable and very grownup star. It makes perfect sense, if you put all the pieces together.

The only complication I can think of is that Death might not be physically capable of being a Father. We would need to find a way to determine whether she can even grow a beard and/or moustache.
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Well we don't know about the parental roles of spirits. Maybe they can be either or because they're just spiris and just uh...tend to have preferred form? -shrug- (edit: and I mean, some concepts are just weird to not think maybe they could be any sex they wanted when personified right?)

But also, going with this, may as well bring up the fact that Death insists on calling us a certain name which...Ive been told is a very parental thing to do
 
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[X] Shared Habits. For whatever reason, lately you have developed a strange and inconsistent impulse to look proper and clean, along with a sudden rush of adrenaline when someone mentions the word 'coffee', and you don't know why...
 
[X] Intrusive Thoughts. Normally, you are used to having someone talking inside your head (hi), but recently when you're near Ariela you have been getting odd thoughts in a mental voice you can only recognize as your magician's...

Would Ariela develop her own parentheses? Perhaps the mighty [Brackets]?
 
[x] Intrusive Thoughts. Normally, you are used to having someone talking inside your head (hi), but recently when you're near Ariela you have been getting odd thoughts in a mental voice you can only recognize as your magician's...
 
[X] Shared Habits. For whatever reason, lately you have developed a strange and inconsistent impulse to look proper and clean, along with a sudden rush of adrenaline when someone mentions the word 'coffee', and you don't know why...
 
[X] Intrusive Thoughts. Normally, you are used to having someone talking inside your head (hi), but recently when you're near Ariela you have been getting odd thoughts in a mental voice you can only recognize as your magician's...
 
Hmmm

[] Shared Habits. For whatever reason, lately you have developed a strange and inconsistent impulse to look proper and clean, along with a sudden rush of adrenaline when someone mentions the word 'coffee', and you don't know why...

I'm not ready for two potato-devouring characters in one story.

[X] Intrusive Thoughts. Normally, you are used to having someone talking inside your head (hi), but recently when you're near Ariela you have been getting odd thoughts in a mental voice you can only recognize as your magician's...

But what about sancticity of Starfall's mind
Actually wait. Does it mean Ariela will get a front seat for the Starfall&Parenthesis show, only today, only here, buy your tickets, good citizens!

Imagine if Ariela starts calling Parenthesis "Brackets". Oh, now I must vote for this.

[] Random Empathy Bursts. You admit that you don't have full control over your emotional state, but lately you've been even more erratic, with odd feelings and bursts of foreign emotions that you get only when you're near her...

Now that's a good, rational choice. What better way to establish rapport than boosted empathy? Unfortunately, I'm here to watch Starfall explode shit and chew potatoes, and you know what? She's all out of potatoes.
So yeah, maybe in another life.
 
About Death is Starfall's daddy theory
Is it just me, or does Starfall always refer to Death as a "she"? That, and we haven't met any gender fluid spirit... yet.

That doesn't prevent Death from being Starfall's parent, you know. The matter of a spirit's conception seems to be, well, conceptual.
So yeah
Death of Astera can be an event of Starfall's birth all by itself.
Something tells me it's a little more complicated than that.
 
[X] Intrusive Thoughts. Normally, you are used to having someone talking inside your head (hi), but recently when you're near Ariela you have been getting odd thoughts in a mental voice you can only recognize as your magician's...
 
Also, dad joke time (even though I'm not a dad, but hey Death might be.)

If Death IS starfall's daddy..

That means...

Astera fell for Death
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On a bit more serious note :p

Because we are related to the stars, and there was a prophecy about us, I decided to look up the word 'astera' thinking it might be the name of some unknown star in the sky, but no, I was being a doofus. Astera, as in asteroid, as in falling stars(/shooting stars?). Anyways, I came across Asterian Astrology as a concept and this link: Asteroids in Astrology

And listen, the name Death gives us is "Death of Stars" , which would point to us actually being related instead of just some best friend quirky 'you are family' best friend stuff we may have originally thought.
 
I think maybe I needed to use a half-dozen winking smilies. I was not expecting to get Insightful ratings. :p

I don't really think they're related. Not too closely, at any rate. Death so far acts more like a quirky aunt, or a zany sitcom neighbour. Not so much an estranged Dad.

Crawkid said:
Also, dad joke time (even though I'm not a dad, but hey Death might be.)

If Death IS starfall's daddy..

That means...

Astera fell for Death
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GROAN
 
[X] Shared Habits. For whatever reason, lately you have developed a strange and inconsistent impulse to look proper and clean, along with a sudden rush of adrenaline when someone mentions the word 'coffee', and you don't know why...

Starfall-itisis, a deadly contagion.

This Quest is now Fantasy Plague Inc.
 
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I don't know if we're a separate entity from Death at all.

I mean, it has given us a large amount of help, which even the patrons from our Greater Power (the Heavens) don't easily give us. It's really interested in our ability to create dreams, which it doesn't seem to possess. We know that we have our Heavenly Connection through Astera being our mother, but I don't recall any similar reasoning for the Death connection.

Also: we've been kept in a tower for years, which implies we were sealed away. And our family doesn't appear to be that aligned towards Death, but Starfall still knows where it is and trusts it intuitively. There are these creepy implications that our mother has been with us all along.

It's possible that we're its child, but I think Death just splintered away a part of its self and lobotomized it before riding in Astera's body as a shell to get access to the power of the Heavens. This is why Astera is with us, because we're literally Death riding around in her body. It's why Death calls us Death of Stars, which is just another way of calling us itself (and a simultaneous allusion to how we're the cause of Astera's death). Death even has a motive to do it, since our ability to form dreams was something it needed for the Giant.

Parentheses is probably either Death trying to avoid us being manipulated against it (hence it doesn't like other voices trying to influence us) or Astera's subconscious mind.
 
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RedV said:
Parentheses is probably either Death trying to avoid us being manipulated against it (hence it doesn't like other voices trying to influence us) or Astera's subconscious mind.
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Its an interesting look on it, wanna mention that there was also some mention to Starfall's mind being fractured into lots of pieces or something earlier. ive been waiting to see more of those fractures tbh, see how they affect things or if starfall becomes more sporadic or something

or maybe its just so well written that they've been there but I haven't noticed as much XD
 
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Starfall is in fact seven liberally sprinkled with stardust hamsters that got their hands on the Ring of Levitation.
They got paid by Maugus to impersonate his adopted daughter in order to scam the entire human economy in a clever bid to crash the stock market and quickly buy off all the shares when the truth comes out and the Imperial coinage plummets from the loss of prestige and people's trust in their magocratic rulers.
:/
 
Crawkid said:
Well there's SOME kind of scam by SOMEONE going on here XD
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Who's to say my guess isn't the right one?

Eh. We need to remember it was the Questers' choice to get their Cosmos Major and Death Minor degrees.

Wouldn't it be a little bit odd for the main character to retroactively become Death's fle- ah, starpuppet just because of one character building option?

Btw.

Death of Stars

Death Star

*Vader Breath*

*Drinks a liquidized potato*
 
[X] Random Empathy Bursts. You admit that you don't have full control over your emotional state, but lately you've been even more erratic, with odd feelings and bursts of foreign emotions that you get only when you're near her.
 
[X] Shared Habits. For whatever reason, lately you have developed a strange and inconsistent impulse to look proper and clean, along with a sudden rush of adrenaline when someone mentions the word 'coffee', and you don't know why...

We'll soon have Ariela quaffing potatoes, too, just you wait.
 
[X] Intrusive Thoughts. Normally, you are used to having someone talking inside your head (hi), but recently when you're near Ariela you have been getting odd thoughts in a mental voice you can only recognize as your magician's...

I like this one. Also...

Cetashwayo said:
"Caw, caw, I'm a bird," you shout at the top of your lungs.​
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I finally caught back up. Thank you for this wonderful quest.​
 
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