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It's not wrong to make Friends in the Dungeon (Danmachi / Sanctioned [Worm])

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How can it be?! The Awesomeness Level of this fic is over 9000 now and it's still rising!
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Seriously, everything is just so perfect. Dreamer's such a Dreamer. And, ofc QA's gotta QA. And Hestia's still Bestia. And Oreo's not prepared. And it's still getting better.
 
After binging this, it's become entirely clear that "Taylor" has suffered a complete death of personality, with little to no chance of coming back. Dreamer is, at closest, a mind-child of hers and qa's with some of Taylor's biases, beliefs and morals.
 
OnceMoreWithFeel said:
After binging this, it's become entirely clear that "Taylor" has suffered a complete death of personality, with little to no chance of coming back. Dreamer is, at closest, a mind-child of hers and qa's with some of Taylor's biases, beliefs and morals.
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She is actively repressing most of the Taylor in her because those memories make her feel bad, she could get them back and possibly some personality, but she appears to actively avoid letting them come back and remove the emotional connection to them (if they come back I doubt she will let them change her personality), Taylor is there, she just doesn't want to be Taylor, and as a shard, she can also do it.
 
Here's a thought- making suggestion to Wolff about Magic Swords, leading him to attempt to make one like Bel's Knife in canon.

Or, make a Magic BOW. Which shoots spells and draws on the users reserves (basically constructing the spell, but due to fueling it separately won't break)
 
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captain_belgica said:
I really like how Dreamer always gets lost in thought, but that can't be pleasant to talk to someone who does that right?
Like you are just talking to her and after the first sentence she just spaces out and everything you say gets ignored, that's got to be irritating right?
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It depends if the people in question know that person X does that, I sometimes do what dreamer does and my acquaintances are aware of that fact so they bear with it. Of course it's annoying for the ignored one but it's not like it's voluntary so I try to stay focused and they try to be patient. As all things it works most of the time and sometimes it fails, we learn to live with it.
 
ROTH963 said:
She is actively repressing most of the Taylor in her because those memories make her feel bad, she could get them back and possibly some personality, but she appears to actively avoid letting them come back and remove the emotional connection to them (if they come back I doubt she will let them change her personality), Taylor is there, she just doesn't want to be Taylor, and as a shard, she can also do it.
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Which means, when she inevitably comes back to herself (as all of her self) because the situation's gotten that desperate, that it's going to be AMAZING.
 
Joshua Coffin said:
Which means, when she inevitably comes back to herself (as all of her self) because the situation's gotten that desperate, that it's going to be AMAZING.
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Not sure if she will let it happen, I think we had a WoG that her flowers only slow her recovery, doesn't stop it, so she might let her Taylor tickle extremely slowly, let it be overwhelmed each time by her positive life and let happiness burn it, until eventually she remembers everything but doesn't have to deal with depression and all of Taylor's other problems, the thing with Dreamer is that she doesn't want to be Taylor.

And pre trigger Taylor isn't all that amazing, the thing that made her so successful in canon is there in Dreamer if it is required, but she assassinated her former personality extremely well with her new child brain and her flowers, and she is happy, so I don't see her letting herself revert to Taylor.
 
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Ah, yes, the most important function of the corpus: Millinery display.

Also, FYI: I always thought hats were haberdashery, but it turned out that is mens hats specifically, where is Millinery seems to be all hats.
 
Joshua Coffin said:
Which means, when she inevitably comes back to herself (as all of her self) because the situation's gotten that desperate, that it's going to be AMAZING.
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The chance of the situation getting desperate is exceedingly small. The only beings that can threaten her are other shards, gods in their full power and probably the dungeon entity. The first isn't happening, as by WoG any other existing shards won't appear in the story. The second isn't an issue as long as Dreamer plays by the rules, and even if she breaks them, I don't think the gods will jump straight to the kill or indefinite imprisonment. The third, admittedly, is a possibility, though it will have to be awakened first. Dreamer (and QA) knows not to disturb the Dungeon and I don't think any god will be so foolish.
 
The best/worst part is that I can see exactly how Queen Administrator would explain her view of the current situation to Shaper:

:Mother: and :Father: impose restrictions and limitations so that their :children:
1) Don't wreck the world do things :Mother: and :Father: don't like.
2) Need to grow to overcome those restrictions.

And the truth of the matter is that QA has grown in ways that she couldn't have before.

Somehow I suspect that actual Danmachi Spirits are going to take one look at Dreamer and start chanting "One of us! One of us!"

Alivaril said:
just because you can doesn't mean you should."

Was it wrong to look forward to the inevitable kidnapping attempts? Dreamer didn't think so~
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This is good life advice. Dreamer seems to at least remember the concept, even if she sometimes has difficulty with it.

Red Chief nods in approval.

OnceMoreWithFeel said:
After binging this, it's become entirely clear that "Taylor" has suffered a complete death of personality, with little to no chance of coming back. Dreamer is, at closest, a mind-child of hers and qa's with some of Taylor's biases, beliefs and morals.
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Didn't Lisa latch on to Taylor because she realized that T was suicidal? I would rank becoming Dreamer as a better outcome for her than becoming Skitter.

ROTH963 said:
She is actively repressing most of the Taylor in her because those memories make her feel bad, she could get them back and possibly some personality, but she appears to actively avoid letting them come back and remove the emotional connection to them (if they come back I doubt she will let them change her personality), Taylor is there, she just doesn't want to be Taylor, and as a shard, she can also do it.
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This. So much this.
 
I actually quite like how Taylor is in a state where she's very powerful and has mind-boggling potential for greater power and development, but her current focus and needs are very much exploring her identity, who and what she wants to be, developing relationships and good memories, how she wants to change the world she's in (or not change it, as the case may be), and decide what kind of life she wants to live in the short term. Sure, she does have vague, long term plans that are extremely ambitious, but those are things she might only work on here and there in her free time; her focus is on the near future (as in, the next several years to the next century) and mostly inwards.

It's a nice character design that I wish we saw more of in fiction. Less "acquire more and more power so I can beat all the ridiculously powerful bad guys and save the world" you see all the time, and more "I have all the power I need and then some, with plenty of potential for lots more, and no ultimate enemy to fight. Now what?" It's not even a Superman-style "How do I use my overwhelming might responsibly?", it's "What do I want in my life? How much do I even use my power, and in what ways, for self-actualization? If I can choose to be anything, what's most important to me?"
 
My idea for Dreamer's Falna skills:
  • Shape-sister: User can alter their appearance as desired
  • Is Trolling You: ignores all negative status conditions

(note,second one INCLUDES InabilityTo Breathe)

instead of QA sparring with Bell, Dreamer should!
 
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    • captain_belgica said:
    I really like how Dreamer always gets lost in thought, but that can't be pleasant to talk to someone who does that right?
    Like you are just talking to her and after the first sentence she just spaces out and everything you say gets ignored, that's got to be irritating right?
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    ...You haven't interacted with many people with particularly glaring examples of ADD, have you? :p


    OnceMoreWithFeel said:
    After binging this, it's become entirely clear that "Taylor" has suffered a complete death of personality, with little to no chance of coming back. Dreamer is, at closest, a mind-child of hers and qa's with some of Taylor's biases, beliefs and morals.
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    "Personality death" is quite a strong term and one that Dreamer would fight you on. She would vastly prefer something like personal modification. Briefly summarized and simplifying a lot of steps:
    • There were painful problems with her brain, so she started taking brain-numbing painkillers.
    • She remembered most of her memories upon occasion — she just didn't care for the experience, so she decided not to experience it.
    • Desires for active heroism were rather effectively curtailed by listening to the shards of heroes, Phantasm included. So past-Taylor decided to wait until she was an unstoppable juggernaut before heading back in.
    • She hated the idea of aliens playing with her life, so she started deliberately usurping QA's systems and planning to kill a Titan.
    • She didn't enjoy feeling as though she needed to hide from other people or their judgment (and viewed her childhood through rose-tinged glasses), so she decided to change herself until she stopped feeling that way — mostly by migrating to child-based wetware.
    Taylor was an unhappy adolescent given access to the powers of a sufficiently advanced space whale. Dreamer is the result of her using those powers to modify herself until she was happy with the result. (EDIT: But even then, almost the only direct mods were the amnesia flowers and the child-migration. The rest is just consequences of how her life has gone.)

    Would she be horrified and indignant if someone else had done it to her? Most definitely. But since she did it to herself, she'll defend and rationalize her decisions for as long as she possibly can, and possibly double down when challenged.
     
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