It has been too long Ensou! Time to re-read! 
Paradoxical [Destiny/Worm Post-GM]
- Thread starter ensou
- Start date
- Crossover
Okibruez
(Verified Mid-Boss)
- Location
- Dreams
Hugs. All the hugs. Seriously, if you ever need someone to talk to, at, or just sit quietly with, ask.
Depression is a many-tentacled sucking void that I wrestle with too, so I know exactly what it's like and how bad it gets.
On the other hand: Yay, an update! And it's awesome! yaaaaay.
- Location
- Somewhere over the Rainbow
Agreed
why gender neutral terms here...
...But right afterward you use 'her'?
The level of insight/advice here makes me think of Tikki, a Kwamii from Miraculous Ladybug!
i feel like the underlined word should be replaced with 'what'... the double use of 'why' feels weird to me.
- Location
- Belfast
Because they aren't gender neutral, they're plural.
Those I'd read as Taylor referring to both herself and Kali her Ghost.
Glitchrr36
Slick's Short Company, CEO
- Location
- The Wastes
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Probably because it's plural? Both Weaver and Kali are being led.
- Location
- Somewhere over the Rainbow
I had that thought, but it still felt odd.
are we going to get an explanation on why/how Kali looks different then the other ghost we've seen?
(Also, I want to see some shenanigans with QA playing with Light...
The fact that Taylor can Respawn means that QA could reconfigure their connection. After all, the disconnect Killing Taylor isn't an issue. I could see QA, with Taylor's halp/permission, shifting to try and control Light Constructs. Meaning they could manage FAR more complex feats than most.)
Also, I would find it amusing for Kali to figure out a way to talk to QA... and now I'm picturing QA getting a Ghost avatar.
Cue spit-takes at the idea that a Risen has TWO Ghosts.
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- Location
- Belfast
Nah, QA figures out how to flash forge herself a body using Light and Darkness, then suddenly Taylor has to explain where her overenthusiastic and highly curious identical twin with absolutely no concept of personal space just came from...
deadcrystal
Slaaneshi Cultist
- Location
- The Warp
There's nothing special about that, Kali is using a fancy black spiky shell, whilst Zachary's Ghost is using the default shell, at least at the beginning of the fic.
Don't believe Kali's appearance is a direct reference to any specific in-game shell, but it's entirely within the normal range.
Then Kali copies QA and Taylor has to explain why she now has two physically identical sisters with very different minds.
94000130FFF70000
Absolutely the Worst
- Location
- Midwest USA
Then QA and Kali "accidentally" upload the trick to some kind of network and suddenly every single Ghost in the system can turn into an identical sister of Taylor Hebert.
ensou
Magical G̶i̶r̶l̶ Servant Mordred-chan
- Location
- NEW YORK CITY!??
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I mean, in this chapter she doesn't. She's just got the generic generalist shell. Her shell-pieces being white are noted a couple times, I think. Other Ghosts sometimes get new shells before they meet their Guardian (as with Pulled Pork), but Kali focused more on finding Weaver. She rather romanticized the idea of she and her Guardian making a new shell for her together... once she actually found them.
Her current shell in the present isn't too much weirder than any other exotic shell, especially the ones that are on fire and stuff. Rather than have discrete segments, the shell is made up of hundreds of little metal shards or scales that Kali then collects into larger pieces to make her shell's "design", often spikes or tetrahedral shapes surrounding her core. Each of the shards moves independently, creating a whole that is almost fluid in appearance, and display her emotions both conscious and unconscious just like any Ghost's shell: flaring up when irritated, shifting faster when excited or agitated, expanding and even puffing out when angry, etc.
The basic idea I had in mind was "What would a ferrofluid Ghost shell look like if the ferrofluid was actually thousands of little razor blades?" The idea of a spiky Ghost shell at all was of course inspired by Sagira.
Kali likes fancy intricate things, especially weapons and Weaver both wants to keep her safe and enjoys humoring her, so I imagine them making it so Kali's shell can become a murderblender (if just as a last resort) is completely within the realm of possibility.
- Location
- Queensland, Australia
Depending on how Ghost Shells work, it also works as a rather effective ablative armour. Because instead of just punching through the outer layer to wreck havoc on the irreparable insides, she can have the scales create several 'layers' of scales in the direction of any attack.
James D. Fawkes
Court Scribe
- Location
- Avalon (Isle of Mists)
- Location
- Canada
That sounds adorable. Please have that happen in the story at some point.
Just Kalli gets mad and *puffs up like a angry chicken*.
..If a angry chicken was made of razorblades appearently. Maybe have the segments rattle like a snake?
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
That's sort of an issue with both flashback/flashforward stories and with serialized fanfics (of which this is both). This is the continuation of the "How Weaver became one of Mara Sov's lieutenants" directly following Audience and Prince. It makes sense to put it here because A. the Crota plotline just finished up in the "present day" segment, with the plot hook of The Darkness sitting up and paying attention and B. the story coming back from a ~6 month haitus is a good time to open a new plotline
johnwedd
Above Average man
- Location
- usa
I genuinely feel bad that I forgot how much I love this story, so much so I made sure to re.read it. I love how Kali and QA have buddy cop moments, how Taylor matured into a genuinely wholesome person, and how she loves Kali and QA as her own family. I like how all three are growing in small ways together as people to form a voltron type protagonist I can cheer on.
The flash foreward/back format is a bit disorienting, but not a real breaker of SoD, and it gives enough context and back story without being exposition dump-ish. One minor n nitpick I have is kind of an odd thing really, fan fiction is usually built in the premise that the world is already built and both the audience and the writer are familiar enough with it that some things that in an independent world would require a lot of building just reference's the source material expecting the reader to get it.
Only having a passing knowledge of Destiny lore, something's go over my head. This however, is not a deal breaker; fan fiction is just like that. And it has encouraged.me to explore the lore of the game a bit more.
Maybe if you want, after you finish the story you want to tell. You can use this as a first draft and try to fill in the blanks so that those without our nerdy knowledge could read without references. Do it well enough and it becomes it's own world similar but very different from it's source material, basically evolve it into it's own story and world.
The fact that an idiot like.me can see this story and think, "not only is this cool as fan fiction, it would be awesome as it own original story too" says that you r natural talent for storycraft is amazing and you are doing a Damn good job!
You're strong enough to get through depression, you have survived 100% of your worst days so far, @ensou do what you need to do to get yourself happy.
And thank you for sharing your creativity with us as we.also look for ways foreward through every thing we are dealing with. I helps us to remind under are.not alone in our struggles and neither are you.
The flash foreward/back format is a bit disorienting, but not a real breaker of SoD, and it gives enough context and back story without being exposition dump-ish. One minor n nitpick I have is kind of an odd thing really, fan fiction is usually built in the premise that the world is already built and both the audience and the writer are familiar enough with it that some things that in an independent world would require a lot of building just reference's the source material expecting the reader to get it.
Only having a passing knowledge of Destiny lore, something's go over my head. This however, is not a deal breaker; fan fiction is just like that. And it has encouraged.me to explore the lore of the game a bit more.
Maybe if you want, after you finish the story you want to tell. You can use this as a first draft and try to fill in the blanks so that those without our nerdy knowledge could read without references. Do it well enough and it becomes it's own world similar but very different from it's source material, basically evolve it into it's own story and world.
The fact that an idiot like.me can see this story and think, "not only is this cool as fan fiction, it would be awesome as it own original story too" says that you r natural talent for storycraft is amazing and you are doing a Damn good job!
You're strong enough to get through depression, you have survived 100% of your worst days so far, @ensou do what you need to do to get yourself happy.
And thank you for sharing your creativity with us as we.also look for ways foreward through every thing we are dealing with. I helps us to remind under are.not alone in our struggles and neither are you.
- Location
- Germany
Ah thanks for the explanation.😉
I guess I will reread it, since I didn't remember these 20 year flashbacks.
Here's a question, do we ever see female or child fallen (equivalents) in the game and will we see tham here?
Walker of the Yellow Path
Ho There!
- Location
- The Land of Memes
So yes to the first: There are known female fallen in the game such as Araskes the Trickster and Eramis the Shipstealer, though fallen models are such that theirs no ingame difference that humans can pick out. And Taylor has met female fallen in this such as the bartender she first meets when she enters the Reef.
Fallen children: We have not encountered Fallen children in game. I dont even know how fallen reproduce to be honest.
- Location
- Midwest USA
The lore entry on the Truth rocket launcher describes a Fallen/Eliksni child as very small, with a still-soft shell. And they hatch from eggs. That's all I got on the alien kids.
Thank you for that, don't really know Destiny lore.
- Location
- Somewhere over the Rainbow
Did a re-read. Had many thoughts.
The last...
I have a feeling a lot of Taylor's ability to understand/figure out techniques & technology is QA halping!
And we see here a summary of what got expanded into the newest chapter~
The fact that you understand her so well is due to being so alike. In your sense of humor, just to start.
Even Zion had a Pocket Dimention!
New idea: the Traveler & the Beast (new name for the thing in the first Raid) we once Entities, which figured out that Darkness & Light solve their Thermodynamics issue ( the Traveler In particular we could say it was enlightened. Pun hadn't been intentional when I thought of it, but once I did I couldn't not use it!) Which prompted reconfiguring thier methods. Traveler is going around helping as a kind of penance. (Also, darkness is lack of light, which fits the taking of Cycle methodology to the next level.)
Hard to link to a time on mobile, go to 2
Ruby Chibi like versions.
challenge accepted.
There was a part just before that doesn't seem to match up with this...
Not me...
The first thing that messes with Chronometer makes sense, the second a bit of sense (save for the detail that they aren't computers ... but it would still be a high energy environment. Relatively and all that)
The last...
Kali/QA interactions are amusing. We need more!
Teach it language, Kali!
Signs start pointing to interesting things~
Tinker Taylor (Soldier Spy).
I have a feeling a lot of Taylor's ability to understand/figure out techniques & technology is QA halping!
I figure that Card Nights are going to remain Noodle Incidents... but maybe we see the first time they play cards with someone?
Looks like Taylor has picked up Mara's habit of messing with people.
I wonder what the reaction to Endbringers will be like...
Taylor REALLY has taken to screwing with people...
That's... a Clockblocker level pun.
And we see here a summary of what got expanded into the newest chapter~
Weaver eventually wielding both Light & Darkeness... which would make her somewhat like Mara!
hypocrite.
The fact that you understand her so well is due to being so alike. In your sense of humor, just to start.
The beginning of the implied dual Risen Taylor starts.
agreed.
Even Zion had a Pocket Dimention!
New idea: the Traveler & the Beast (new name for the thing in the first Raid) we once Entities, which figured out that Darkness & Light solve their Thermodynamics issue ( the Traveler In particular we could say it was enlightened. Pun hadn't been intentional when I thought of it, but once I did I couldn't not use it!) Which prompted reconfiguring thier methods. Traveler is going around helping as a kind of penance. (Also, darkness is lack of light, which fits the taking of Cycle methodology to the next level.)
Hard to link to a time on mobile, go to 2
New Headcanon: Kali LOVES video games. Especially older ones. I can see her playing Protoss to Taylor's Zerg. QA, eventually, playing Terran.
More evidence that Taylor will eventually wield both Light and Darkness. The overlap will prevent being consumed by either.
Looks like the Conflict Drive has taken its toll. It would take time for QA to reconfigure, likely not fully happening until the connection
It was, at this moment, that Taylor understood how her peers had felt.
Reflect on this Taylor, you will come to understand the feeling.
It looks like Taylor STARTED with a similar snark to the Queen.
MORE evidence of Tinker Taylor!
Make that a Trinity.
Actually, I realized that QA will become the Yang to Kali's Yin. Wielding Darkness rather than Light.
No, not full sized.
Ruby Chibi like versions.
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Stahor
BookWorm
- Location
- Russia, Moscow
Witch is perfectly normal for a risen in the near future, given recent events.