Chasing the Sun (CMGQ Spin Off)
- Thread starter Crystalwatcher
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- Original
- Location
- Queensland, Australia
[X] Being with the Sun.
Yeah, going to be rather interested in seeing how Adriel turns out. Because I can't help but feel like, between being born as an Angel from a Magical Girl who seems like she's in the higher weight classes and a Greater Nightmare born of the same wish? Adriel is going to apply some of Humanity's Bullshit Escalation to the Angelic Might, helped by how Nightmares, especially Greater Nightmares, twist reality and...
Well, there's a reason that I suspect our 'secondary' Affinity of Imaginary is going to pull out some really insane things. Even more in combination with Selene.
Yeah, going to be rather interested in seeing how Adriel turns out. Because I can't help but feel like, between being born as an Angel from a Magical Girl who seems like she's in the higher weight classes and a Greater Nightmare born of the same wish? Adriel is going to apply some of Humanity's Bullshit Escalation to the Angelic Might, helped by how Nightmares, especially Greater Nightmares, twist reality and...
Well, there's a reason that I suspect our 'secondary' Affinity of Imaginary is going to pull out some really insane things. Even more in combination with Selene.
- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Comforting the Sun.
Though I could easily flip over to Being With in case a tiebreaker is ever needed
Wait, you can just ask for commentary and people will genuinely give it? Huh
It might be a little too early in the Quest for me to say that much, but from memory there aren't that many Angel Quests on SV, especially not about angels created by Magical Girls, so already this stands out. Doubly so since it's a CWMGQ spinoff actually run by Crystalwatcher (though eh, maybe I'm just jealous 'cause nobody's run a spinoff of my stuff~)
Though I could easily flip over to Being With in case a tiebreaker is ever needed
Wait, you can just ask for commentary and people will genuinely give it? Huh
It might be a little too early in the Quest for me to say that much, but from memory there aren't that many Angel Quests on SV, especially not about angels created by Magical Girls, so already this stands out. Doubly so since it's a CWMGQ spinoff actually run by Crystalwatcher (though eh, maybe I'm just jealous 'cause nobody's run a spinoff of my stuff~)
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- Location
- over there
[X] Being with the Sun.
SleepyCaterpilar
Just a Rapariga
[X] Being with the Sun.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
[X] Being with the Sun.
- Location
- St. Petersburg
What are the stories referenced here? I'd love to hear the setting's version of why Lucifer turned the way she did... and what is that about the Valkyrie?
[x] Being with the Sun.
Selene lacks a companion who could keep up with her, the one she would not destroy on accident. To live up to our Prayer is to become one who can survive the Sun.
Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
Peril's Origin by @Naron. It's another spinoff that's linked in the original quest which is linked under "Useful Links and Other Stuff".
Something that the vets are aware of, but newcomers might not, is that Angel names are only technically unique: When an Angel is born, they're granted a Name. When they die, a new Angel can inherit their name.
So there's been multiple Lucifers. The most recent one is a Valkyrie, which are a special breed of Angel, while the last Lucifer was super famous for... reasons. You'll need to read Naron's quest if you want the details.
Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
Voting closed, you're to be with the Sun.
I'll write the update tomorrow after work.
I'll write the update tomorrow after work.
- Pronouns
- They/Them/Their
Alrighty then...
Alright. Being with the Sun. That feels like it's a self-buff of some sort, and with knowledge of what the standard War Angel self buff is, it's not terrible.
Judgement
Level 5
Base Damage: 1,500
Magic Modifier: 250
Affinity: Hope
Ability: Armor Pierce | Boost-Self
However, based on the vote, I don't think we're getting something that will help Adriel cut through foes on her way to Solar Annihilation. I suspect that instead, we're getting something more similar to this:
To Glory!
Level 1
Base Resilience: 400
Magic Modifier: 50
Affinity: Battle
Ability: Boost-Self | Adamantine
Something to help Adriel survive being close to the sun, so probably a Resilience buff, Damage Block, or Damage Barrier of some kind. However, Adriel doesn't have Battle as one of her affinities. Both War Angels and Valkyrie's self-buffs are typically based on their second affinity, which is Imaginary for Adriel. So something likely based in Imaginary, that helps buffer against the annihilating heat and radiation that comes from approaching too close to the Sun.
Alright. Being with the Sun. That feels like it's a self-buff of some sort, and with knowledge of what the standard War Angel self buff is, it's not terrible.
Judgement
Level 5
Base Damage: 1,500
Magic Modifier: 250
Affinity: Hope
Ability: Armor Pierce | Boost-Self
However, based on the vote, I don't think we're getting something that will help Adriel cut through foes on her way to Solar Annihilation. I suspect that instead, we're getting something more similar to this:
To Glory!
Level 1
Base Resilience: 400
Magic Modifier: 50
Affinity: Battle
Ability: Boost-Self | Adamantine
Something to help Adriel survive being close to the sun, so probably a Resilience buff, Damage Block, or Damage Barrier of some kind. However, Adriel doesn't have Battle as one of her affinities. Both War Angels and Valkyrie's self-buffs are typically based on their second affinity, which is Imaginary for Adriel. So something likely based in Imaginary, that helps buffer against the annihilating heat and radiation that comes from approaching too close to the Sun.
- Location
- over there
Since the affinity this is building off of is imaginary, clearly the buff will just be Adriel going "the sun isn't real, it can't hurt me"
Born of Light 3
Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
You picture the Sun.
It is everything to you. Your beginning. Your end. The reason you were born, and likely the reason you will eventually die.
Veere wanted you to save it… but what does that mean? How do you save the Sun? The Sun is untouchable…
Ah, maybe that's how. The Sun's curse is its isolation. Unreachable and untouchable, none can even get close without burning away. So the best way to save the sun, is to be selfish; to be with it. But in order to be with the sun then you need to dive into that impossible heat and not burn away.
You need to become a…
"Sun Diver."
Your Transient Light envelopes you, and you feel your connection to the real slip just a little more away.
Looking down at your hand, you can't help but feel a bit put off by your power; your form has become blurry even to your eyes, and every motion makes your eyes hurt as you move through space in some kind of motion blur. On the other hand though, you somehow know that it will help you get close without instantly vanishing from the heat. Or at least, that is the intent because the feeling Selene left you of her own power tells you that it's not enough. Not even close… but the potential is there.
If you work with your Grace enough, you'll eventually be able to hold the Sun and be with her.
"Interesting effect." Sister Mist's voice pulls you out of your musings. "It's definitely not some kind of barrier; if anything it feels more like an alteration to your own relative existence."
"I'm not meant to exist." You comment idly, fascinated by the feel of your magic. "If anything… This just reminds the world of that. So I can go where I shouldn't be, and touch what I shouldn't be able to touch. It-"
Your gut clenches and your perspective suddenly lurches.
Balance disrupted you suddenly tilt far to the right, and it's only Sister Mist's fast reaction in catching you that you don't suddenly find yourself flopping face first into the ground. "Woah! Looks like whatever it does doesn't agree with your relationship with Cosmos, does it?"
"N-no, I don't think it was on her side." You groan out, "More me; suddenly super nauseous."
"Drawback of the spell you think?"
You think about it a moment before sighing, "Only on a technicality I think. A bit of practice and I should be able to adjust: it's my Grace, isn't it?"
Sister Mist doesn't look like she wants to let the conversation go, but seems to come to some kind of decision before nodding, "Yes, an Angel's Grace is an Angel's Grace and nothing can really change that. Some can come with side effects, but it's always because either the Grace isn't complete, or they're using it wrong. So you just need some more practice with it."
Incomplete, huh? Your instincts say you're using it correctly, but the thought that something is missing nudges something within you. So the idea that it's just not complete feels more accurate than the other option to you right now. Sadly, Sister Mist is correct; all you can really do is practice with it.
Figuring out what's missing won't be easy, but the simple fact that you know something is missing is enough to point you in the right direction. An Angel's Grace is meant to be a power to help them achieve their Prayer; War Angels and Valkyr are the two most common Angels because of the War, but it doesn't mean they're the only Angels born. Brother Raguel for example had a healing Grace, because he was born from the Prayers of the injured and infirm. Or Sister Angelo who had a travel Grace.
Theoretically you could learn other Grace like the more mortal species learned Magic, but it would never be as easy to you as the one you were born with. Or even learn mortal Magic yourself, but if so that would be something for the far future. For now though, your unique Grace somehow manipulated your nature as something that exists in relation to your source being something that didn't.
In essence, it was pulling on the fact Veere was a False Existence to change your own relationship with reality to be closer to the imaginary.
Maybe…
No, you don't have the time right now to explore that. "Sister Mist, what next?"
"Well, the first thing would be to test your Judgment; using it should come instinctually. Test it on one of the dummies." Sister Mist motions to said dummies with a hand.
"Alright." Looking at them, you find yourself stuck in a moment of uncertainty. A sword is a sword, but your new gauntlets aren't just gauntlets. They're more a grip you think.
Raising a hand, you stare at the back of the gauntlet for a moment before twisting it at the wrist and-
Something warps the space between you and the dummy before the wooden construct explodes into a small cloud of splinters. You and Sister Mist both blink at the annihilated dummy for a moment before she chuckles.
"Wow, what did that dummy ever do to you?"
"It dared to get between me and my Sun." You snark back on reflex. Silence reigns for a moment before Sister Mist slowly turns to look at you with a raised brow and you bury your face in your hands. There are moments where Selene's influence on you can be a little much at times, you've just decided. "Please, can we forget I just said that?"
"Nope, that was far too adorable. Wait until I tell everyone else that the sweet anxiety-ridden Adriel has a snark streak buried under everything." You give her your best look of betrayal, but Sister Mist just smiles wider at you, "I can hear them now, 'No way! Adriel is far too innocent and cuddly to be a snarker!'."
"Sister Mist, no!"
"Sister Mist, yes!"
(Touch of Reality ability revealed: Vacuum.)
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Thankfully, Sister Mist doesn't actually announce your horrible personality secret to everyone she meets. The Valkyr being far too nice to do something that embarrassing. What she's not too nice to do though, is immediately nickname you 'Solar Snarker' much to everyone else's complete confusion and your abject humiliation.
Okay, maybe not that bad, but it's still extremely embarrassing to tell the third person in an hour that no you're not explaining your new nickname to anyone thank you very much.
Either way though, your little one on one training session with Sister Mist to learn a bit more about your Judgment has led to a couple useful details. To begin with, your gauntlets really are what you thought they were; namely little more than decoration for your real Judgment, namely your Light. When you focus and flex your Judgment, then your light does something to space at the point you focused on to cause it to 'flex'. (It's a poor description of what's happening, but you really don't know any better way to describe it. You're functionally inducing wobbles in something you can't accurately define.) The more energy you dump into the spot you're focusing on, the harder it 'wobbles'.
Good news means that it's really hard to block unless you know what to look for.
Bad news is, it's really hard to aim for you, because one distraction can mean you 'wobbling' a place completely different from what you were aiming at because something moved out of the corner of your eye at the wrong time and you reflexively ducked.
Super bad news is that if you get really unlucky it means you can accidentally wobble the insides of a friendly.
Super good news though, is apparently whatever it is you're doing to 'reach out and touch' things, you can't hurt yourself with it. So no accidentally doing something horrible like blowing out your own eyes because you blinked.
You can potentially do a lot more than just 'wobble' space, but you don't have a clue what nor how, with no real idea on how to find out either. It's… not something you're very happy with if you're honest about it.
Regardless though, it's a powerful Judgment and like it or not, it's strong and useful. And yours.
It'll be the thing you rely on to catch up to the Sun.
Until then though, now that you've Formed, training has changed some. Sword lessons are still an option, but no longer mandatory for you, instead Sister Mist has you practice with your Judgment by having a volunteer Angel chuck rocks randomly into a large open space while you try to blast them with your Touch, trying to improve your speed, the amount of power you put into it, and the accuracy of each 'wobble'.
Grace practice has also picked up. Though instead of trying to guide your energy into a practice sword, you're now instead working through how long you can keep it up passively, seeing the effects of dropping it early has on the side effects, what focusing on keeping it up for as long as possible does, and even on one occasion trying to use it on someone else.
In order the answer to those questions have been: ten seconds so far, lessening to the point you barely noticed them, literally face planting after getting an extra five seconds out of it, and literally nothing.
The most interesting thing to happen though was when Sister Mist had you try your rock blast practice with it up: if you didn't focus too hard on it then you could see something reaching out to grab at what you were trying to 'wobble'. If you tried to focus on whatever it is though, your wobble would go wildly off course, and you'd lose sight of whatever it is.
Either way though, the last two days have felt like more progress than the last month. You still have a long way to go, but you finally feel like you're getting somewhere! The first things to do right now though, are figure out what you want to learn, if anything, or just focus on what you currently have.
The former will give you more options in the future, but the latter would get you out into the LDC far sooner.
It is everything to you. Your beginning. Your end. The reason you were born, and likely the reason you will eventually die.
Veere wanted you to save it… but what does that mean? How do you save the Sun? The Sun is untouchable…
Ah, maybe that's how. The Sun's curse is its isolation. Unreachable and untouchable, none can even get close without burning away. So the best way to save the sun, is to be selfish; to be with it. But in order to be with the sun then you need to dive into that impossible heat and not burn away.
You need to become a…
"Sun Diver."
Your Transient Light envelopes you, and you feel your connection to the real slip just a little more away.
(Spell Identified: Sun Diver.)
Looking down at your hand, you can't help but feel a bit put off by your power; your form has become blurry even to your eyes, and every motion makes your eyes hurt as you move through space in some kind of motion blur. On the other hand though, you somehow know that it will help you get close without instantly vanishing from the heat. Or at least, that is the intent because the feeling Selene left you of her own power tells you that it's not enough. Not even close… but the potential is there.
If you work with your Grace enough, you'll eventually be able to hold the Sun and be with her.
"Interesting effect." Sister Mist's voice pulls you out of your musings. "It's definitely not some kind of barrier; if anything it feels more like an alteration to your own relative existence."
"I'm not meant to exist." You comment idly, fascinated by the feel of your magic. "If anything… This just reminds the world of that. So I can go where I shouldn't be, and touch what I shouldn't be able to touch. It-"
Your gut clenches and your perspective suddenly lurches.
Balance disrupted you suddenly tilt far to the right, and it's only Sister Mist's fast reaction in catching you that you don't suddenly find yourself flopping face first into the ground. "Woah! Looks like whatever it does doesn't agree with your relationship with Cosmos, does it?"
"N-no, I don't think it was on her side." You groan out, "More me; suddenly super nauseous."
"Drawback of the spell you think?"
You think about it a moment before sighing, "Only on a technicality I think. A bit of practice and I should be able to adjust: it's my Grace, isn't it?"
Sister Mist doesn't look like she wants to let the conversation go, but seems to come to some kind of decision before nodding, "Yes, an Angel's Grace is an Angel's Grace and nothing can really change that. Some can come with side effects, but it's always because either the Grace isn't complete, or they're using it wrong. So you just need some more practice with it."
Incomplete, huh? Your instincts say you're using it correctly, but the thought that something is missing nudges something within you. So the idea that it's just not complete feels more accurate than the other option to you right now. Sadly, Sister Mist is correct; all you can really do is practice with it.
Figuring out what's missing won't be easy, but the simple fact that you know something is missing is enough to point you in the right direction. An Angel's Grace is meant to be a power to help them achieve their Prayer; War Angels and Valkyr are the two most common Angels because of the War, but it doesn't mean they're the only Angels born. Brother Raguel for example had a healing Grace, because he was born from the Prayers of the injured and infirm. Or Sister Angelo who had a travel Grace.
Theoretically you could learn other Grace like the more mortal species learned Magic, but it would never be as easy to you as the one you were born with. Or even learn mortal Magic yourself, but if so that would be something for the far future. For now though, your unique Grace somehow manipulated your nature as something that exists in relation to your source being something that didn't.
In essence, it was pulling on the fact Veere was a False Existence to change your own relationship with reality to be closer to the imaginary.
Maybe…
No, you don't have the time right now to explore that. "Sister Mist, what next?"
"Well, the first thing would be to test your Judgment; using it should come instinctually. Test it on one of the dummies." Sister Mist motions to said dummies with a hand.
"Alright." Looking at them, you find yourself stuck in a moment of uncertainty. A sword is a sword, but your new gauntlets aren't just gauntlets. They're more a grip you think.
Raising a hand, you stare at the back of the gauntlet for a moment before twisting it at the wrist and-
(Touch of Reality: 30 Base Damage, +222 Magic Modifier, -25 Don't Really Know What You're Doing = 227 Total Damage
Dummy The Wooden Elf: 10 Base Resilience, No Magic Modifier = 10 Damage Reduction
??? Between the Real and Imaginary
217 Total End Damage
Dummy The Wooden Elf: 50 - 217 = -167 Health Remaining)
Dummy The Wooden Elf: 10 Base Resilience, No Magic Modifier = 10 Damage Reduction
??? Between the Real and Imaginary
217 Total End Damage
Dummy The Wooden Elf: 50 - 217 = -167 Health Remaining)
Something warps the space between you and the dummy before the wooden construct explodes into a small cloud of splinters. You and Sister Mist both blink at the annihilated dummy for a moment before she chuckles.
"Wow, what did that dummy ever do to you?"
"It dared to get between me and my Sun." You snark back on reflex. Silence reigns for a moment before Sister Mist slowly turns to look at you with a raised brow and you bury your face in your hands. There are moments where Selene's influence on you can be a little much at times, you've just decided. "Please, can we forget I just said that?"
"Nope, that was far too adorable. Wait until I tell everyone else that the sweet anxiety-ridden Adriel has a snark streak buried under everything." You give her your best look of betrayal, but Sister Mist just smiles wider at you, "I can hear them now, 'No way! Adriel is far too innocent and cuddly to be a snarker!'."
"Sister Mist, no!"
"Sister Mist, yes!"
(Touch of Reality ability revealed: Vacuum.)
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Thankfully, Sister Mist doesn't actually announce your horrible personality secret to everyone she meets. The Valkyr being far too nice to do something that embarrassing. What she's not too nice to do though, is immediately nickname you 'Solar Snarker' much to everyone else's complete confusion and your abject humiliation.
Okay, maybe not that bad, but it's still extremely embarrassing to tell the third person in an hour that no you're not explaining your new nickname to anyone thank you very much.
Either way though, your little one on one training session with Sister Mist to learn a bit more about your Judgment has led to a couple useful details. To begin with, your gauntlets really are what you thought they were; namely little more than decoration for your real Judgment, namely your Light. When you focus and flex your Judgment, then your light does something to space at the point you focused on to cause it to 'flex'. (It's a poor description of what's happening, but you really don't know any better way to describe it. You're functionally inducing wobbles in something you can't accurately define.) The more energy you dump into the spot you're focusing on, the harder it 'wobbles'.
Good news means that it's really hard to block unless you know what to look for.
Bad news is, it's really hard to aim for you, because one distraction can mean you 'wobbling' a place completely different from what you were aiming at because something moved out of the corner of your eye at the wrong time and you reflexively ducked.
Super bad news is that if you get really unlucky it means you can accidentally wobble the insides of a friendly.
Super good news though, is apparently whatever it is you're doing to 'reach out and touch' things, you can't hurt yourself with it. So no accidentally doing something horrible like blowing out your own eyes because you blinked.
You can potentially do a lot more than just 'wobble' space, but you don't have a clue what nor how, with no real idea on how to find out either. It's… not something you're very happy with if you're honest about it.
Regardless though, it's a powerful Judgment and like it or not, it's strong and useful. And yours.
It'll be the thing you rely on to catch up to the Sun.
Until then though, now that you've Formed, training has changed some. Sword lessons are still an option, but no longer mandatory for you, instead Sister Mist has you practice with your Judgment by having a volunteer Angel chuck rocks randomly into a large open space while you try to blast them with your Touch, trying to improve your speed, the amount of power you put into it, and the accuracy of each 'wobble'.
Grace practice has also picked up. Though instead of trying to guide your energy into a practice sword, you're now instead working through how long you can keep it up passively, seeing the effects of dropping it early has on the side effects, what focusing on keeping it up for as long as possible does, and even on one occasion trying to use it on someone else.
In order the answer to those questions have been: ten seconds so far, lessening to the point you barely noticed them, literally face planting after getting an extra five seconds out of it, and literally nothing.
The most interesting thing to happen though was when Sister Mist had you try your rock blast practice with it up: if you didn't focus too hard on it then you could see something reaching out to grab at what you were trying to 'wobble'. If you tried to focus on whatever it is though, your wobble would go wildly off course, and you'd lose sight of whatever it is.
Either way though, the last two days have felt like more progress than the last month. You still have a long way to go, but you finally feel like you're getting somewhere! The first things to do right now though, are figure out what you want to learn, if anything, or just focus on what you currently have.
The former will give you more options in the future, but the latter would get you out into the LDC far sooner.
(When it comes to training Extra Stuff, you can choose literally every option, but know that means you're going to be spreading EXP and Training time between them all.)
[] Train Extra Stuff
[] A weapon
[] Sword
[] Spear
[] Bow
[] Spear
[] Bow
[] A Grace
[] Shining Light (Healing)
[] Judgment (Weapon Boost)
[] Glory (Personal Boost)
[] Fury (Attack Spell)
[] Judgment (Weapon Boost)
[] Glory (Personal Boost)
[] Fury (Attack Spell)
[] Double down on Touch and Diver
+7 Touch of Reality EXP
+4 Sun Diver EXP
+2 Flight EXP
+6 Transcendent Presence of False Light EXP
+5 Newborn Training EXP
+4 Sun Diver EXP
+2 Flight EXP
+6 Transcendent Presence of False Light EXP
+5 Newborn Training EXP
The Chase Begins...
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Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
To give you all a heads up, voting times are likely going to expand dramatically in the near future due to real life stuff and growing complexity as the quest moves forward.
- Location
- SV's Only Complete Persona Quest
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Train Extra Stuff
- [X] A Grace
-- [X] Glory (Personal Boost)
Empowering the self before a weapon seems like the wiser idea to me
Also, has there been a Yuuko Ichihara expy in the CWMGQ-verse yet (been looking through the cast list but haven't seen any)? I ask because I already have an idea for an Omake, albeit one I expect to be declared non-canon since it's a crossover (though not with xxxHolic or Tsubasa as you may think)
- [X] A Grace
-- [X] Glory (Personal Boost)
Empowering the self before a weapon seems like the wiser idea to me
Also, has there been a Yuuko Ichihara expy in the CWMGQ-verse yet (been looking through the cast list but haven't seen any)? I ask because I already have an idea for an Omake, albeit one I expect to be declared non-canon since it's a crossover (though not with xxxHolic or Tsubasa as you may think)
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- Pronouns
- They/Them/Their
Sun Diver currently increases Base Damage by 250, Base Resilience by 75, and Magic Modifier by 30. It's not uniquely applied to strings, aside from Thick Armor.
Woops, I misread that. Not used to spells having a Base Resilience line. And have seen defensive buffs that scale with the spell's Base Damage.
Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
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This is actually something I've been intending to fix going forward. Changing defense buffs from "Base Damage" to "Base Resilience" and such.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
Gurl, your yandere is showing.
- Pronouns
- They/Them/Their
Between a Magical Girl, and a Greater Nightmare's joint wishes spawning her, I'm not actually surprised that there's some yandere mixed up in all of Adriel. Just means that our votes will have to channel it into a productive outlet. As for the vote itself... Well, I'm looking at Adriel's Sun Chaser ( which seems to be her shop equivalent ), and there are these options:
So while Flight is something that she'll pick up anyway, weapons or Sun Diver would be points of focus. I'm not really sure what weapon would go well with Touch Of Reality beyond something melee that she could potentially yank enemies onto with training. But if we're going to get Sun Diver up to snuff, and get the most benefit ApT-wise out of Transcendent Presence Of False Light, then I'm voting this way for the moment:
[X] Double down on Touch and Diver
Understand the fundamentals, and build the foundation upon which you can grow more.
- Location
- Attached to a wall
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Really afraid someone else is gonna get to her Sunny spot first.
The only thing we need is someone breaking a promise in a way to cause a demon to join the cuddle pile.