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A Little Vice (Trans Magical Girl fic)
- Thread starter Shadell
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ltmauve
"Excuse me?"
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You are not the first person to make that observation.
By the time Chiro accepts that she's a girl, she'll have reached the second stage.
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Believe it or not, the oldest thermometers I'm familiar with were mercury thermometers meant to be used orally, with the actual fluid encased in a lot of safety glass and the conductive metal tip that actually sensed the temperature. Those got replaced by electronic oral thermometers some time fairly early in my childhood for reasons I hope are obvious.
Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
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- Cold snow fields of Finland
Lupin: "Cause I don't want to, and I'm willing to do anything to keep it so!"
"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, little girl?!"
Because she has not clad herself in egg shell, but the shell of a neutronium star's core.
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Michael, watching this kid hurt herself and her friends for so many episodes in her density. And finally, finally, getting to cut to the heart of the matter, tell it straight to ehr about her issues, and give a bracelet even if Weird Shit might ensue.
"Please, just let Temperance shove you into a dress already. A significant part of her allowance goes into buying potential outfits for you. Satisfy her, beforethe banks tart noticing all the money I 'appropriated'."
Yeah, she has advantage against Superbia by being able to make him shut the fuck up.
For me it's
"Oh, maybe a disaster is coming soon! It could be fun!"
Oh, thermometers where I live have always been armpit ones, within my lifetime.
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Mercury thermometers can be oral. The mercury's only on the inside.
(IIRC, Electric ones are a lot faster, which means less time with a hard object under your tongue. Also no worries about the glass breaking.)
Nice people become support mains. Support mains become jaded. It's a whole "How will I know if I'm doing enough?" to "Here's some HP, don't spend it all in one place" pipeline.
"Let's save it for a future season. Let the fans marinate in the possibilities, build up hype."
Humanitas has healing powers, and that kind of thing is necessary for her mental health.
Who else would she be? Michael? Uriel? Avaritia?
...it would be really funny if he thought she was Avaritia.
I: "She's not anywhere near as bad as Temperance."
T: "Thank you."
Technically he was in that situation before, with Avaritia around. He just didn't care.
Three months ago:
T: "Temperantia Wet Cascade!"
I: "...good, good, maybe workshop the name a little."
Yeah. This is, like, a thought experiment that death penalty proponents will suggest to try and guilt you into saying maybe we should slaughter criminals.
Look, she's gone through a lot of character development. We can't expect her to finish that journey all at once.
S: "Why has no one killed me yet?"
Look, she's gone through some character development. We can't expect her to reach the halfway point all at once.
More magical girls should embrace being cringe. You're gonna cringe at your past self if you don't convince your bestie to roast you with a thousand flaming arrows, so enjoy it while you can.
The token straight ditz. I give 30% odds that she thinks Inessa is straight and just wanted fashion advice or something from Lupin.
Kindness Sweetwind is such a terrible name. It's so much worse than Temperance Atwater. She must know what she's doing, right? She's being a troll again, right?!?
Look, she's gone through a little character development. We can't expect—
Bluespark9
Goddess of Magic and Passion
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I suspect she will bounce between those 2 depending on the mood, especially since she considers Inessa a sibling, and I can honestly say I've felt both of these at various points of time.
Never let Temperance name anything ever again, she is medically lacking the part of the brain that can make up new names at this point, she needs an intervention
ComfyOfy
A dreamy Trans Witch
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- Lost
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You are not the first person to make that observation.
By the time Chiro accepts that she's a girl, she'll have reached the second stage.
this is so accurate, every time I heal my friends they do the dumbest moves I've ever seen so I let them die to teach them a lesson
ComfyOfy
A dreamy Trans Witch
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I still use mercury thermometers, they are more accurate in my experience, also I have never put them in my mouth usually under my armpit, having mercury almost inside me it's scary
Bluespark9
Goddess of Magic and Passion
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Temperance at this point needs to just tell Chiro that she can be trans, or at least get her talking to other trans gals so that she actually understand what trans people are. At this point, she's sticking to the prime directive even while chiro is halfway to discovering warp travel.
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I mean she did try that but I think what's needed here is a different tactic. Something that makes her confront the issue without simply presuming it to her face as Tempe and Avaritia have been doing, but also much more direct than Inessa's "I'll support you no matter what bestie" tack.
Or they just let Chiro keep faking it till she makes it till she realizes that she was never faking it.
Bluespark9
Goddess of Magic and Passion
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I think Chiro just needs to talk to a trans person that has lived on earth for more then a year, I think that would help her to have someone to talk about this stuff to that's actually from the same society as her and who didn't use magic to transition, I think that would help her with figuring out that she's trans and all that stuff.
Love Train
stack of bats
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On god, never met a type of player that hates actually doing their job more than support players
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Guess FFXIV is the outlier in bad experiences? It was mostly enjoyable for me, except that one tank that kept losing health too fast, so I had to constantly heal him. It was mostly annoying, but figuring out how to beat one boss fight while the party fell apart and died was fun.
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Your tank should be using cool downs and self heals to keep up with most of the hits they take - you do more damage than them in FFXIV, so you using a GCD ability to heal is a big loss compared to them doing it. Save your healing for if they get very low or tank buster attacks, and getting DPS back up if they eat mechanics. Ideally you should be playing green dps most of the fight.
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Yup, that's how I go. Even if looping two buttons (attack, reapply DoT when it runs out) can get boring. I wait until they get low on health. The tank was just annoying, and I was planning to let him die in the dungeon's last boss. But I got too in the job, and forgot.
Hmm, question now is. What would Chiro actually main in an MMO? She likes supporting, but seems like she'd try to be a DPS
That, I didn't know. Tanks do low damage?
Hmm, question now is. What would Chiro actually main in an MMO? She likes supporting, but seems like she'd try to be a DPS
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You've never met a tank, I ask, while being a terminal tank main.
Love Train
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Tanks hate their job but don't hate doing their job, in my experience, a slight distinction. Although there are a lot of tanks who decide they want to play their characters as DPS, so fair enough
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In my experience, it's not so much a "skill issue" as a "who are you working with" issue. Tanks and DPS are about as enjoyable in any team, but the support experience varies wildly between (say) a team of cautious veterans and a team of foolhardy noobs.
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I think she's default either to whatever felt lowest responsibility or was most obviously fem. If the game had gender locks for classes, she'd absolutely gl on to whatever and insist it was a gameplay choice.
I do think she'd really enjoy healer, both in terms of supporting others and being able to feel a very tangible sense of contributing to the party, but she'd have a lot of performance anxiety in any more demanding content.
Pre-cannon, however, she'd feel really inexplicably embarrassed about playing a "feminine" job in any social circumstances even if her character would obviously be a girl.
Which is to say that if she played XIV, which she doesn't, she would have started out as a summoner main who desperately longed to be a sch instead and would probably be leveling up dancer post-canon and feeling oddly good whenever she got teased about it.
Temperance would go BLM, Inessa RDM for Alisaie reasons, Avaritia DRK or reaper. Superbia would 100% play PLD.
Ida would not have time for mmos in any possible world so she leveled pugilist to 20 something and keeps planning to catch up and play with everyone but cannot find time.
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Tanks out damage healers in single target (less so in aoe), but tanks can mitigate damage with ogcds while still maximum their personal dps.
Healers have a lot of tools they can use between casts to heal, but if they need to use casts on healing instead of damage, they start to lose out.
So the ideal is everyone uses abilities that don't replace an offensive gcds as much as possible to maximize everyone's damage uptime.
It's a little different in high end raids where most damage/tankbusters/etc is structured and planned for and you will see more gcd healing at certain moments.
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? Why is the quote pointing to GreatWyrmGold?
Interesting. I'd guessed she'd go SCH->SMN->RDM. So she prefers low responsibility jobs/classes?
Temperance as a BLM. Interesting, guess she'd be the one teammate to be able to master it.
So Inessa is an Alisae fan?
Superbia as a gamer is such a funny image. Most chuuni war veteran, maybe streaming. Like and subscrive to Vice-roy-of-Sin.
I imagine Michael would pull a "subway Estinien" and just pop up as a vendor in a funny costume. She tries to give advice but it's too vague and the party wipes a few times from not understanding it.
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Eh, at low levels SCH is extremely low responsibility. There are dungeons that SCH can pretty much summon the fairy, set themself to follow the tank, and then go AFK.
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Much as my intuition aligned with the quoted post, it's not mine, it's Lampwitch's. I don't know how you accidentally connected that quote to my "(this AU has a body count)" post.