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Glory of the Emerald Empire (Legend of the 5 Rings Quest)

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[x] Timeskip to heading out for battle

Let us go and wreck face. Sosuke gets to find an enemy he can defeat by smacking it with a Tetsubo, we get to engage in dramatic fight scenes.
 
Winged Knight said:
That last battle affected more than just the Dragon, however. Every Clan was unified to combat Moto Shinichiro, even still exhausted from Yasuki Goro himself lived through some of that conflict, fought at the edges before everything was settled. What old scars might he have hidden away, masked by his experience and age?
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Is it just me or is there something missing in this section? Or something got moved around?

[X] Timeskip to heading out for battle.
 
[x] Train with Shirou

Monkbro though.

We also might want to know if he's also allowed to join in battle. His abilities in Jiujustu and Kiho would come handy here.

EDIT: Whoops. Got the names mixed up.
 
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I'd like to train with Shirou, but I'd also like to keep things moving.
Besides I have a feeling our illustrious QM is eager to do so.

[X] Timeskip to heading out for battle.
 
A look into what I think Hanabi is going through.

'We must be sure to meet at a later date' he said.

My heart seizes on that, drinking in the words, to quench it's dried out husk. I reply, the smile never leaving from my face.

He...doesn't hate me. That's… about as much as I can expect at this point.

I stare at Wanli. A part of me hates her, hates her for being here, for talking to Hiruma-san. Another part knows that if I can't even call him by his first name, with kun in my own head, well I really have no room to talk.

But it doesn't matter, not really.

Hiruma-san is my salvation.

Salvation from being just Mirumoto Hanabi, from being a stupid samurai-ko with nothing to her name, and even less to her spirit.

I can't blame Wanli for being drawn into him, not when I am too. I can be jealous of her figure though; does Hiruma-san prefer women who look like that?

No don't think like that Hanabi. You… you have a chance, he'll understand.

He has to understand...if he doesn't....if he doesn't, I'll make him understand somehow. I need him. I need him to make me complete, to be more than I am.

I couldn't help that if I tried, and Fortune's know I'm not trying. Why would I?

My mind slides back to a very naughty series of thoughts...and the image that inspired them. It hadn't been intentional to see him like that. Not before the wedding night …er …um...Hanabi you aren't making sense in your own head.

A bath a bath to relax that was all it had been. A bath where I dreamed about the hero, about the Hiruma Sousuke, and then he showed up across from me.

And he was polite, I think, his voice surprised me, it wasn't the rich smooth baritone I expected, more of a bass really, but still somehow mesmerizing.

I'm glad there was no one else to see my instinctive reaction of getting up and bowing, even though he couldn't see me.
And as I bowed, I saw through the smallest of cracks to see him. To see a defined rippling chest, not unscarred no, but one that was perfect all the same. Exuding a protective masculinity...that his arms did nothing to change; I would feel safe in those arms protected.

I had thought...I thought I could control it. That even if I admired him, admired him as a legend, even if he doesn't know it. That my heart would be safe, that I wouldn't dare to dream like I had before, and lost like I had before. But when I saw him I shattered, my defenses meaningless as I took him In.

He could have commanded me to kill myself in that moment, and I would have been happy to just be acknowledged. Then miracle of miracles he talked to me as a normal person. Not as the strange Dragon... he even called me sama.

I know he did that to be polite, but to one who was always...me; it felt precious. As he agreed to go to dinner, my adoration
grew. I don't think it can ever stop growing.

And it nearly cost me him. I know that even if that bitch of Lion got in the way--
Calm down Hanabi.

We hold one of the larger temples to Benten in our lands...and yet she is very cruel.

When I saw him...there could be no other; I needed him. I needed him to look at me with love, to hold me, to be the one person who understood...understood that whatever else happened, I was broken without him, only whole with him.

Seeing him just now only makes it grow, a fire burning me within consuming everything. Will his touch quench this agonizing desire that curls around my chest?

Fortunes...why is this...why is this me? I need him, I love him.

My On holds strong as we escort the Unicorn, at last to the Daimyo, and wait.

Hiruma-san...you'll understand won't you? That this foolish Dragon was never meant to be this way, to be this thing that clings to others like a limpet. (I'm not entirely sure what a limpet is exactly, but its how father described me once)
And so as I bow, I whisper another invocation to the Fortunes...please, please let him understand, let him be my salvation.

My hands flex, almost grabbing my sword.

No he will be my salvation.

He has to.
 
WK's call. I was admittedly annoyed to have everyone be like 'kill the chick' because yeah she's going to cause problems, but she isn't exactly doing this with malice afore thought.
 
Simonbob said:
I......

Well, that's Hug's-ish.

Hope it isn't canon.
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It's... actually a reasonable and pretty sympathetic interpretation of Hanabi, to my eyes. I would not mind having it be canon. Why would you hope it was not?

Or another way to put it... she would do anything to have us. If we take that literally (I don't see any reason to believe that we should not) then it's pretty much a given that she's at least somewhat broken. It means that one way or another, having us isn't just more important to her than anything else, it's more important to her than *everything* else. That means either that she essentially does not care about anything else in the world - that the rest of her life is and has been just going through the motions - or that she needs us so badly that everything else pales by comparison.
 
As someone who really think Hanabi is adorable, I wouldn't mind having this as cannon.

Hmm... Yeah, her very reactions to things around Sosuke is quite troubling but nothing that we couldn't handle so far. Hope things stay this way, though.
 
Sirrocco said:
It's... actually a reasonable and pretty sympathetic interpretation of Hanabi, to my eyes. I would not mind having it be canon. Why would you hope it was not?

Or another way to put it... she would do anything to have us. If we take that literally (I don't see any reason to believe that we should not) then it's pretty much a given that she's at least somewhat broken. It means that one way or another, having us isn't just more important to her than anything else, it's more important to her than *everything* else. That means either that she essentially does not care about anything else in the world - that the rest of her life is and has been just going through the motions - or that she needs us so badly that everything else pales by comparison.
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On one level, I agree. She's obviously messed up.

It's just.... I'm not sure what we could do with her, if it's acurate. Sure, take her in, but taming that yandere-ness? That's going to be an issue, I think.

Even if we do end up with her as a minion, we'd still have to get her to the point that she's useful around females. What I'm not so sure of, is our abillity to get her to the point where we can walk away without her going to hell in a subcription of baskets.

We might be stuck with her, as a really unstable retainer.
 
Simonbob said:
On one level, I agree. She's obviously messed up.

It's just.... I'm not sure what we could do with her, if it's acurate. Sure, take her in, but taming that yandere-ness? That's going to be an issue, I think.

Even if we do end up with her as a minion, we'd still have to get her to the point that she's useful around females. What I'm not so sure of, is our abillity to get her to the point where we can walk away without her going to hell in a subcription of baskets.

We might be stuck with her, as a really unstable retainer.
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People like this can be fixed. They are plagued by deep insecurity. If you provide them with security, eventually they grow to accept it, and they get better. Speaking both from personal experience, and from having observed others, this can be a valid mate-finding strategy, if you have the personality makeup to do it right, happen to be looking for the sorts of things that come with it, and are picky enough that the payoff in mate quality when you're done is worth it.

"Stuck with her as a retainer (and eventual wife)" is entirely possible, but she doesn't have to be really unstable. She just has to be assured of Sousuke's affection. You are overstating the level of difficulty associated with keeping her happy. You're also overstating the level of difficult she is right now. She can totally be useful around females. As long as we're obviously not flirting with them, and possibly maybe sorta flirting with her (or better), she has no problems. Throw her some reassurances from time to time, and she's fine.

Now, if we walk away? Yeah. If she starts getting convinced that she's losing us or has lost us, then Bad Things Happen... but yandere has dere as well as yan, and we *can* keep her on the one side rather than the other, as long as it is clear to her that she's first in our heart. It's not like having a fanatically loyal follower who is also a competent bushi is all bad.
 
Thanks for the omake, Gman! I always appreciate people writing their own work in relation to my Quest. It gives me a nice, warm feeling and I'm supremely flattered by the attention. As for its canonicity, I'll say the snippet is semi-canon. It's a close enough insight into Hanabi's thoughts that I feel comfortable listing it under the canon omake list in the index.
 
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I think this is the coolest shit our character can get. A Katana with a Tetsubo as the sheath. Kaiu Blade with an Kaiu Tetsubo.

Do Kaiu Tetsubo exist? if Not, get an Jade/Crystal Tetsubo Sheath or something.

Can an Kaiu Katana be embedded with Jade or Crystal so that it can do extra damage against the agents of shadow and hell?
 
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There is no Sacred Weapon called the Kaiu Tetsubo, though I have little doubt a Kaiu smith could whip something up for us. The issue is that we need to prove we deserve the resources, not to mention that Jade degrades over time when exposed to Taint meaning that we'd need access to a source of jade to replace the jade spikes. Crystal also works, but that's even rarer and more expensive than jade.

I also wouldn't take that weapon design as something common as that's Yuruginai, the Celestial Sword of the Crab, and was forged by the Fortune of Steel.
 
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A Nation's Virtue said:
There is no Sacred Weapon called the Kaiu Tetsubo, though I have little doubt a Kaiu smith could whip something up for us. The issue is that we need to prove we deserve the resources, not to mention that Jade degrades over time when exposed to Taint.

I also wouldn't take that weapon design as something common as that's Yuruginai, the Celestial Sword of the Crab, and was forged by the Fortune of Steel.
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Standard jade (made into jade fingers, for example) will consume taint and corrode into uselessness as it does. Forged properly into nemuranai, however, you can get the taint-warding (and shadowlands-smiting) effects without the decay.

Also... that's awfully shiny, but it seems more suited to someone who uses both katana and tetsubo. We'd probably do better with something a bit more workmanlike. A tetsubo worked with Crystal and Jade, so that it might smite the followers of Jikogu and of the Shadow alike, made by the arts of the Kuni and the Kaiu. Something forged with enough skill that we ourselves can wield it against the foe, and that when we die another bushi of the crab can pick it up and wield it in our stead. Call it something like "Stone of the Wall". We do not need a weapon that comes weighted down with the stories of previous generations. We can provide it with enough stories of our own.
 
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