Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)

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I hate saccharine.


Way to saccharine. But this forum is filled with people who love this kind of stuff.

Went from being a horror movie villain to maximum hug field. *sigh*
You say that as if we aren't STILL a horror movie villain...


You know... the one where an inhuman ghostly child preceeds, followed by a haunting melody as they take your hand... and dark mists envelop the area with ever intensifying music until the child disappears and the feeling of being ALONE in the DARK, like a SCARED CHILD starts taking you over until the moment the Wraith in the Darkness flashes by the corner of your eye...

... and your head is rolling in the sand...


You never saw it coming.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Killer_Whale on Jan 20, 2020 at 8:48 PM, finished with 71 posts and 23 votes.
 
[X] Work Out (Zhengui, Hanyi, Bao Qian)

I'm way more invested in the other one, which is why I want Ling Qi to practice and get comfortable with her Domain first. A scene where she can't properly express it for her family is way less interesting, and there's a genuine safety concern until she gets some practice in.
Yes, thank you, this is what I wanted to express, but you did it much better.
 
this vote is painful, because my heart tells me HUG FAMILY NOW

My brain says, "your domain needs some training or else you're going to freak every member of the staff the hell out. For their sake, do some training up before exposing them."

[X] Work Out (Zhengui, Hanyi, Bao Qian)

I remember what happened with Shenhua and CRX. Better to train now to avoid trauma later than accidentally freak everyone out and have to repair that after
 
Whoopeee. I have never been more glad to be wrong. You guys were right, this was the right Domain choice, it gave us what I would actually have chosen...

This leads me to think, however... maybe the problem with many strong cultivators is that they discard "flaws"... when "flaws" contain in them more than the pain or the weakness they seem to contain initially? Like, our loveliness contained a certain care, a certain understanding, a certain love, and many would just cut such a thing wholesale.
 
What I think is really interesting about our domain is our lack of control over it. And I don't mean in the general sense, where it's hard to shrink and it leaks away from us. No I mean in how raw and connected it is to us. It is us, very much so in a physical way. We made no choice in that last sequence, as sweet as it was. There was no true conscious decision, and the way it manifested was also extremely interesting. More than that, the mist felt better to us even with a close ally in it. And as people have brought up, this is only a rank 3 bond as well which leaves me so curious what it'd do with our rank 4s.

I think it works pretty much like a human body, because it is Ling Qi's body.

A body is mostly under its human's control, but unless the human is trained and alert, it still does things involuntarily and/or automatically. Nervous ticks, automatic breathing, internal organ functions, muscle memory, unexactness of movement (also known as klutziness), spreading too much when it is relaxed... I think all of them are as real for a domain as they are for a body.
I hate saccharine.


Way to saccharine. But this forum is filled with people who love this kind of stuff.

Went from being a horror movie villain to maximum hug field. *sigh*

To each his own, but I find that no trope is bad when properly executed, and this was imo.
 
Whoopeee. I have never been more glad to be wrong. You guys were right, this was the right Domain choice, it gave us what I would actually have chosen...

This leads me to think, however... maybe the problem with many strong cultivators is that they discard "flaws"... when "flaws" contain in them more than the pain or the weakness they seem to contain initially? Like, our loveliness contained a certain care, a certain understanding, a certain love, and many would just cut such a thing wholesale.
Agree, 'flaws' make your perception more 'human'. There is sad side to it though. When (and it's precisely when, not if) LQ lose someone dear to her it would be mush more painful than if she had chosen Ambition or Want.
 
I hate saccharine.


Way to saccharine. But this forum is filled with people who love this kind of stuff.

Went from being a horror movie villain to maximum hug field. *sigh*

Nothing has changed. This is what happens for level 3 bonds. We've seen what happens to Level 0 bonds: IE a snowy field of batteries to be consumed and discarded.

Just because honey is sweet doesn't mean it's not surrounded by thousands of angry sting crazy bees.

[X] Family Ties (Qingge, Biyu, Household, Su Ling)
 
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