Antagonistic Appropriation
- Thread starter Alivaril
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- Original Fantasy
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- Armenia
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I enjoy that there's enough going on here that Thyme having been locked up and isolated in her rich scumbag dad's mansion for so long that she started hallucinating seems to be flying under the radar.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
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Okay yeah at this rate the only Rainbow we've gotten who didn't have Something Fucky™ going on with them has been... Topaz? Okay now I'm suspicious that I missed something in chapter 2.
Great Greedy Guts
Ceterum censeo Vigilam esse delendam.
We don't know for sure that happened (only) at his mansion. Some boarding schools get away with awful shit, too.
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To be fair, she mentions hallucinating. It was also mentioned how God's who turn people into avatars don't understand the world.
It's funny how everyone who's POV we've seen except Crimson is deliberately holding back. Especially because they're the equivalent of walking nukes and are worried about not being able to turn the yield down enough.
Of course, now that they're getting combat training from elite troops, each of the girls is going to be significantly more capable than they already were. I suspect the nobility won't know what happened. Especially if the girls go the route of exposing the corrupt acts that are technically illegal.
Also, that quartermaster really is an idiot. It's fairly obvious that if Violence's rebelled when she got the return orders, her subordinates would have followed her.
Given the tropes of this story both following and defying narrative convention, I'm betting someone points out to her how bad her mask is, and that she can both be a friend to all animals and an absolutely scarry battlefield combatant.
Topaz wasn't... hmm.
Topaz wasn't holding back her power, but she is holding back her perception, isn't she? Or at least not sharing it with the rest of the Rainbows. And from what we've seen of her, she is very perceptive. Sunflower is acting similarly.
Crimson, meanwhile, is being held back, if by a force that probably can't stand up to an angry goddess.
I'm quite interested in seeing Azure's perspective, especially since her pulling a sword from a stone that sealed Midnight suggests her claim that Midnight is just a ghost might be, hmm, a partial or technical truth.
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Spectrum
Tell me a secret~
- Location
- Behind you~
Oh no she's actually trope-minded, is she the spoony bard?
Is she the real secret Dark Magical Girl all along? ;X
Clearly yes she was, but she doesn't even know.
...I feel like there's an alternate Bad End scenario or even a one or two off time travel to future AU Eternal Empress Herb.
Ha ha ha she doesn't know
Ha ha ha maybe now she knows.
Propagating ricin or something might well be pretty dangerous but not compared to instant concept deletion.
epiccuttlefish
Epic Cuttlefish
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- Earth. Probably.
What if the Rainbows (except Violet) are all collectively an avatar? Perhaps the ritual that turned them into magical girls involved somehow taking a god and ripping it apart, and giving each of them a part of the god?
Spectrum
Tell me a secret~
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- Behind you~
They're hard to see but catch the font changes whenever she feels particular domineering. She's got something similar going on goddess wise to the other signatures.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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I like this theory. I was originally thinking that perhaps it was just Thyme being influenced by something, but the idea of each of the Rainbows getting parts of a god fits pretty well. If Midnight is the god, that might even explain why she's so weak and calls herself a ghost.
Different bet: the ritual is making use of pieces of a goddess that was already ripped apart.
... Which has very nasty implications about where Magenta actually got that ritual and its components.
It's kind of on the nose that you blend the colors of the rainbow together to get white light. It seems likely they are all associated with some sort of Goddess of Light. Violet's power is pretty extreme but kind of one-note in that she destroys stuff rather than creating anything, which sounds like maybe just an important fragment of something even stronger.
I halfway suspect Magenta is more of a hapless dupe than a real baddy, just because Violet's insistence that 'nobody could be stupid enough to ignore x implications' drastically underestimates the human capacity for stupidity.
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I mean, yeah but nah? All exec types are scum with rare exceptions, but think about the alternatives. Instead of Office Supply it could be much worse. Like Nestle, or health-care, big tech with data harvesting and
I mean EA might even be worse. They're nothing on all the ones mentioned above, but business incompetence and short-term greed have resulted in thousands of lay-offs and numerous killed or ruined franchises. Office Supply meanwhile doesn't have such a shifting market to motivate the same over-extension, or the value for insider trading shenanigans. It's just...there steadily making some money. Probably paying lower level employees less then they're worth, and execs/investors more, but also without stupid growth expectations (though probably at least some, friggin Rot Economy).
So...Joyful Devourer is definitely paying a lot of attention now right? And while we all know that Crimson doesn't have a cleverly hiding God in the background talking to her, just a geas pulling her strings...Thyme definitely does have something up to her endless magic. Maybe an unawakened god, maybe she's a selected avatar that hasn't had contact yet compared to the born-together kind like Violence. But whatever it is, JD might be able to detect it now that she's paying attention and not trying to hide so hard.
And here, Violence was clearly talking under the idea that Crimson is actually a duo and the only one(s) courting her. But nobody else knows about her internal and incorrect thoughts on Crimson's avatar status, so she's inadvertently advertised herself as open to polyamory. With an incredibly gay team of adolescent MGs, each of whom seems to get thirstier as we get a new POV of them. Poor Captain Violence is utterly doomed. It's this bad and she doesn't even have her new clothes yet to make it all worse.
Kai Merah
Hound Hearted Hedonist
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- Somewhere in the corners of my imagination
Actually, to me, it didn't read like Thyme had part of a goddess in her. More that her powers are reacting to her subconscious, and Thyme considers herself at least somewhat monstrous due to the influence of her father.
She's scared, she hates fighting, and she's a thinker with an imagination. Of course her subconscious comes up with horrors for her plants, because she considers fighting itself a horror. When things are going well and she's happy, her plants are fine just being decorative.
As for her streak of arrogance and possessiveness... I read that as learning from her arrogant and possessive dad, having that behavior as the formulative attitude to emulate... Only for her to grow older, realise her dad was a huge jerk, and then intensively suppress all the ways she'd learned to be like him. Which is all coming out in her magic now.
She's scared, she hates fighting, and she's a thinker with an imagination. Of course her subconscious comes up with horrors for her plants, because she considers fighting itself a horror. When things are going well and she's happy, her plants are fine just being decorative.
As for her streak of arrogance and possessiveness... I read that as learning from her arrogant and possessive dad, having that behavior as the formulative attitude to emulate... Only for her to grow older, realise her dad was a huge jerk, and then intensively suppress all the ways she'd learned to be like him. Which is all coming out in her magic now.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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But V was born with Joy in her head, and evidently well before the Rainbows arrived in the Shaded Realm. Also, Joy seems capable of creating things (she's mentioned organs, and her own body for example) but V has to be able to explain where she got things from of questioned.
Also Thyme just mused on how Magentism both A: does not give off the same feel she gets from her father of 'slimeball who would burn the world if it left them even slightly in the lead' and B: still feels pain and probably has some issues caused by how many times she's died.
Heck, in the same train of thought as that she was thinking about how Magentism forgot to warn them about her whole comes-back-from-the-dead thing and awkwardly tried to fix the emotional damage watching her die caused, and the methods she chose to do so - trying to give them the magic lessons they'd asked for, baking them desserts - imply someone who's more burnt out, isolated, and unused to close companionship rather than a cunning, malevolent schemer.
For all we know she has the mother of all permanent concussions from having fatal head trauma inflicted on her by Shaded Empire enforcers too many times over her 500-year career, or is otherwise so burnt-out by however many times she's had to claw her way back from death that she's no longer capable of realizing the potential negative consequences of her mass purification plan on her own.
Edit: Oh dear Lord where did that bold text come from - oh wait it was me trying to do it as 'a' and 'b' with square brackets
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I mean, maybe for the arrogance...but;
That doesn't fit. I agree on her internal feelings and loathing. But never running out of energy? Instinctually molding the plane? That's not just negative emotions or a suppressed ego. It's not even her super plants either because she's been making a point to not create those.
She's got enough missing context and negative ego to consider herself the biggest threat on the plane (she's not), but she's probably not wrong to think there's something off.
Thanks for the chapter!
Darik29
Verified Delicious
Considering the deliberate thoughts on how she definitely is 100 percent humans, combined with the instincts for endless war crimes, the desire to drag all her friends into a forest and turn them into a set of living statues to hoard for ages, and thefact she genuinely see's the world in narrative tropes?
I admit, i fully believe Thyme may well be a Changeling, or at least some kind of Fae child who's father was basically torturing her by keeping her away from anything to do with woods, freedom, or life outside of strict regimented hell that is boarding school.
I admit, i fully believe Thyme may well be a Changeling, or at least some kind of Fae child who's father was basically torturing her by keeping her away from anything to do with woods, freedom, or life outside of strict regimented hell that is boarding school.