Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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[x] Sixiang the confidant, the friend, the fun older cousin to her other spirits. Things might not be the same, but that was the path she wanted to walk.
[X] Sixiang the confidant, the friend, the fun older cousin to her other spirits. Things might not be the same, but that was the path she wanted to walk.
[X] Sixiang the confidant, the friend, the fun older cousin to her other spirits. Things might not be the same, but that was the path she wanted to walk.
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Hell yeah! Preach, my dude, preach!
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[X] Sixiang the confidant, the friend, the fun older cousin to her other spirits. Things might not be the same, but that was the path she wanted to walk.
I agree with the idea that SixQi would have been a much stronger ship if we had taken the Sect route, with the inbuilt parallels to Jiao and Xin. However we didn't take that route, and I don't think the relationship that has developed is one that would be best served by taking the romantic direction.
I agree with the idea that SixQi would have been a much stronger ship if we had taken the Sect route, with the inbuilt parallels to Jiao and Xin. However we didn't take that route, and I don't think the relationship that has developed is one that would be best served by taking the romantic direction.
[X] Sixiang the confidant, the friend, the fun older cousin to her other spirits. Things might not be the same, but that was the path she wanted to walk.
Wouldn't platonic life partners mean exploring something more? Perhaps it would not but that is part of the exploring. I don't get the same closeness from confident, friend and fun older cousin personally though of course this would also be an interesting dynamic, just different.
It looks like that is the way the vote is going though, I look forward to seeing how their relationship grows either way.
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[X] Sixiang the companion, the friend… and perhaps something more, it would make her already tricky situation trickier, but… she felt she could try.
I've really never seen their relationship as the platonic one the first option forces us into. Even if I don't particularly want a more traditional sort of romance between them, this option seems to provide the opportunity to just keep exploring the more subtle shades of queerness that SixQi have had up to this point. There's so much space within the spectrum of ace relationships that rarely get explored, and the gender fluidity only amplifies that. And try to lock them into a purely platonic relationship kinda feels like a betrayal of everything they've had together.
Anyways, that's some of the thoughts I've had simmering on this for awhile, though I'm not particularly invested in the whole shipping wars as a whole.
I've really never seen their relationship as the platonic one the first option forces us into. Even if I don't particularly want a more traditional sort of romance between them, this option seems to provide the opportunity to just keep exploring the more subtle shades of queerness that SixQi have had up to this point. There's so much space within the spectrum of ace relationships that rarely get explored, and the gender fluidity only amplifies that. And try to lock them into a purely platonic relationship kinda feels like a betrayal of everything they've had together.
Anyways, that's some of the thoughts I've had simmering on this for awhile, though I'm not particularly invested in the whole shipping wars as a whole.
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[x] Sixiang the companion, the friend… and perhaps something more, it would make her already tricky situation trickier, but… she felt she could try.
[X] Sixiang the companion, the friend… and perhaps something more, it would make her already tricky situation trickier, but… she felt she could try.
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[X] Sixiang the confidant, the friend, the fun older cousin to her other spirits. Things might not be the same, but that was the path she wanted to walk.
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[X] Sixiang the confidant, the friend, the fun older cousin to her other spirits. Things might not be the same, but that was the path she wanted to walk.
[X] Sixiang the confidant, the friend, the fun older cousin to her other spirits. Things might not be the same, but that was the path she wanted to walk.
Sorry Six, to the Friend Zone!
Sorry Six, to the Friend Zone!
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Why would it? Platonic is the opposite of romantic or sexual, why would 'exploring something more,' which in this context is romance, be something that has to be explored before you can be lifelong friends?
Also not sure why you're not feeling enough closeness from the other option, "confidant, friend, and fun older cousin (to our spirits)" is "friend who's as close as family that we share all our secrets with" There's not much closer we can get without sharing a body, but we do that too anyway.
[X] Sixiang the companion, the friend… and perhaps something more, it would make her already tricky situation trickier, but… she felt she could try.
I think part of that is, well, @Erebeal's post about the timing feeling wrong got me thinking, though it took a few hours of chewing on it to figure out what I was thinking about.
Ling Qi's romantic awakening is directly, textually, thanks to Sixiang and the tribulation they went through. So going through that awakening without involving Sixiang, and their feelings, just feels... wrong.
And we haven't. Sixiang's been largely absent from the story as a whole, mostly appearing to run around as an assistant, and otherwise dipping out or having the looming topic ignored. Space haven't been given to their feelings, or even really how Ling Qi feels about them. Erebeal's right that there's a dynamic missing from earlier in the story where it should have been.
This isn't about the final, far-off results. Whether they ultimately will or won't isn't that important, and it isn't even strictly the question in front of us.
The issue is the shape of the story being told and how that story treats Sixiang, as a character and as a person.
I see concerns about their agency. Okay. Let them have room in the story to have wants and a path to at least pursue them.
I see concerns about Sixiang's core nature as a person as it relates to Ling Qi. Okay. Let them have room in the story to boldly assert the relationship they want, not an unbroken chain of cringing and compressing themselves down to fit within Ling Qi's ideals.
The prospect of never having allowed Sixiang's side of the interpersonal quandary actually reach Ling Qi's tale leaves me with a deep unease and a sour taste in my mouth. Yeah, earlier would have been better, in so many ways, but to never give weight to the feelings on Sixiang's side of the equation, despite them being the catalyst for so much?
No, the shape's wrong. The shape that telling requires Sixiang be limited to. It's not right. Not for us, not for Ling Qi, not for Sixiang.
[X] Sixiang the companion, the friend… and perhaps something more, it would make her already tricky situation trickier, but… she felt she could try.
Ling Qi's romantic awakening is directly, textually, thanks to Sixiang and the tribulation they went through. So going through that awakening without involving Sixiang, and their feelings, just feels... wrong.
And we haven't. Sixiang's been largely absent from the story as a whole, mostly appearing to run around as an assistant, and otherwise dipping out or having the looming topic ignored. Space haven't been given to their feelings, or even really how Ling Qi feels about them. Erebeal's right that there's a dynamic missing from earlier in the story where it should have been.
This isn't about the final, far-off results. Whether they ultimately will or won't isn't that important, and it isn't even strictly the question in front of us.
The issue is the shape of the story being told and how that story treats Sixiang, as a character and as a person.
I see concerns about their agency. Okay. Let them have room in the story to have wants and a path to at least pursue them.
I see concerns about Sixiang's core nature as a person as it relates to Ling Qi. Okay. Let them have room in the story to boldly assert the relationship they want, not an unbroken chain of cringing and compressing themselves down to fit within Ling Qi's ideals.
The prospect of never having allowed Sixiang's side of the interpersonal quandary actually reach Ling Qi's tale leaves me with a deep unease and a sour taste in my mouth. Yeah, earlier would have been better, in so many ways, but to never give weight to the feelings on Sixiang's side of the equation, despite them being the catalyst for so much?
No, the shape's wrong. The shape that telling requires Sixiang be limited to. It's not right. Not for us, not for Ling Qi, not for Sixiang.
[X] Sixiang the companion, the friend… and perhaps something more, it would make her already tricky situation trickier, but… she felt she could try.
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[X] Sixiang the companion, the friend… and perhaps something more, it would make her already tricky situation trickier, but… she felt she could try.