Teaching a spirit very different from using an art in the presence of them. Teaching is, after all, inherently about imparting concepts. More importantly, we were learning from six, not the other around.
I mean, we've never had the option to teach Hanyi FSS, despite the fact that I am sure she'd love it, and it would be useful for her.
I doubt it's because LQ just didn't think of it.
She has Frozen Peak Serenade, which is roughly equivalent. It even shares some of the moveset.
In general, though... the reason that we share arts with Hanyi and Sixiang in a way that we don't with Zhengui is that we pretty much picked up Hanyi and Sixiang in ways that were strongly in our themes to begin with. Sixiang was a spirit that joined us because we were super-musical at a Moon party. We connected to Hanyi while learning arts from her mother. In both cases, they came to us very much inside our themes already. We picked up Zhengui because he was there, and he's awesome, but he doesn't naturally fit inside our themes. Seriously - Hany and Sixiang both give multipliers to
Music arts.
Zhengui doesn't naturally fit with our cultivation like they do. That's just part of the nature of the relationship. It does make certain things harder, yes, but that doesn't mean that everything is broken, and we are working on fixing things with him, with some success. This party we're at? A big part of it was about learning to work with him on the battlefield, and we just got told about how yes, that's working. We're learning to layer Zhengui killzone and movement control on top of Ling Qi killzone and movement control and the combination is kind of brutal - brutal enough that the next time we get into a major fight, having the two stay in the same place and back each other up will be the clearly correct answer... just like it was in our most recent fight. Zhengui was having problems feeling useless, which was fair, because we
weren't using him properly. Now we've got the thing going on with Bao Qian that's letting him make some money and feel like he's contributing, and the fact that it's so profitable is what smoothed the way to letting Hanyi get her little music thing started. He's literally providing the startup capital for his little sister's dreams. He stood up and took the sacrifice for the group when it came to the dream-eater. It sucked, and it'll take a while for that dream to grow back, but he's managed to claim a valuable role in the family now. That's a big deal as far as healthy small-group relationships.
Now, it's not all fixed. That's true. It
would be good to improve further, but don't get confused about what this vote is. In general, votes don't get offered when one path is the obvious correct path. This whole meeting is already a great big chunk of "We get closer to Zhengui, and also he helps us complete the mission." We're learning to work with him, we're impressing the little nobles by being obviously badass while also having an obviously badass spirit, and we're working together to both provide a double threat and demonstrate what kind of synergies you can pull with your spirits if you work at it. This vote isn't "abandon mission or abandon Zhengui". It's "You've just finished a bunch of stuff which is both. Now, which one do you want to push further right now?"
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