- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
Good for GG. Use that loudness of yours.
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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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…my hopes are not high for GG… feel like we should have spend some time in glorious adventure with him…
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
The outer inner separation hinders that a lot. But I have full confidence in our boy. He has grown a great deal and the ambush style of Feng has a hard match up against someone who knows it's coming and prepares for it.
- Location
- United States of America
Its going to be a tough fight, but I think GG will take home the W here.
We know of his spirit that will be helping him out and, unless I'm misremembering, I don't think Lu Feng has something comparable.
However, I think the biggest problem for Lu Feng, and the greatest asset that GG has, is the time that it will take Lu Feng to take out GG. We see that right now GG is five meters tall, and he might grow even bigger, but that is some serious power that he has been allowed to develop. Lu Feng might need to wear GG down, but the longer the fight goes I believe the more likely that GG will get stronger from this art of his. Ultimately, I think that the strength GG will get will outweigh the manipulations that Lu Feng can bring to bear.
- Location
- E
If GG fails and Shenhua pushes him out, CRX would reach a whole new level of resentment. Hope he wins for the sake of Renxiang's mental health.
- Location
- United States of America
A couple of other advantages that GG has is the Cai armor he is wearing and that Spider cloak talisman. At least, I think he had that gift made into a talisman.
Having an advantage in the quality of the talismans could prove very helpful in this close fight.
Having an advantage in the quality of the talismans could prove very helpful in this close fight.
- Location
- Space between realms
- Pronouns
- He
I know this is kinda random but is there a height chart for the characters?
Just curious as to how tall Ling Qi is compared to the apparently freakishly tall Duchess is
Just curious as to how tall Ling Qi is compared to the apparently freakishly tall Duchess is
- Location
- United States of America
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Ok, I'm done with the height chart for important people: (also @yrsillar this is really 6 pictures if you think about it :V)
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- Space between realms
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- He
Ah i see thank you for that
I honestly was imagining Shenhua as like almost 7' for some reason
I honestly was imagining Shenhua as like almost 7' for some reason
She is.
I was imagining her as more like 8 foot though but yrs nixed that
- Pronouns
- He/Him
That picture really emphasizes the Satsuki and Ragyo influence and I love it. I wonder if Tienli will be the Ryuko or if Renxiang will eventually make or recruit one of her own.Yes there is!
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Ok, I'm done with the height chart for important people: (also @yrsillar this is really 6 pictures if you think about it :V)
Tienli has darker skin for starters. She's clearly not drawing on the same points of inspiration as much.
Renxiang being a tiny Meizhen sized elf is still a great source of amusement for me
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Ok, I'm done with the height chart for important people: (also @yrsillar this is really 6 pictures if you think about it :V)
This is really nice for my internal picture of the setting, thanks.
Despite the writing always stating how tall LQ is, I never quited grokked that most of the female cast were firmly at shoulder height for her!
Edit: must be amusing for people to see CRX with LQ on one side and GG on the other side, both towering over her and generally looming.
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One of Ling Qi's lesser known duties to CRX: reaching things on the top shelf.
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- Location
- The Void
Why does CRX need LQ for that when she can just fly
Little known benefit of West Wind Step: going through doorways without ducking.
My guess? Because if her friends ever see her giving up and flying indoors to reach the top of a bookshelf she'll never live it down.
MY BOY! HE'S SO BIG!
- Location
- The Space Between
Strangler Fig. Nasty.
The creeping vines are brutal, strangling mighty trees and stone temples alike. No, I don't think this will be about wearing GG down. That's not what the Strangler Fig does, per se.
The Strangler Fig in our world slowly wraps itself around the might trees and temples, covering them and absorbing the light that would have otherwise gone to the Tree. By cutting off the power supply, they can prosper and stand so mighty that they become "trees" long after the host they used for scaffolding has died. That's the real danger, I think. Becoming so entangled that any exertion is meaningless. Like how when we "beat" Ji Rong he was still physically just about untouched. He knew he had lost when we'd sapped his power supply, and would have been able to win over a much longer set of time because we'd never let him recover.
So there are two ways for GG to win.
One: he's able to slip the threads and counterattack in a way that puts Lu Feng on the losing end of the exertion-equation like Xiaobai Fen was doing to Han Fang. Unrelenting pressure forcing Lu Feng into bad trades.
Two: he becomes durable enough, and self-sustaining enough, that Lu Feng ends up on the losing end of the exertion-equation in a way similar to the Solar Men of White Sky. So Damn Tanky that Lu Feng actually can't stop him without committing.
In either case, I think what Gan Guangli yells about will be important for this fight.
Because I'm almost certain that raw strength will not, alone, be enough to defeat Lu Feng. This is, functionally, Gan Guangli confronting a cultivator that's conceptually about snaring and dragging down those that rely on raw strength. At the apex of his character arc in which he confronts a major setback that could drag him down from position as Renxiang's retainer.
What has he learned, philosophically, to deal with setbacks and snares? All the ways that others will attempt to drag him down, bind him, constrain him?
It's been brought up often that Gan Guangli is a philosophical man able to mentally keep up with Cai Renxiang, but Renxiang is right. He needed to step from her shadow and shine his own light.
I look forward to seeing how that manifests.
The creeping vines are brutal, strangling mighty trees and stone temples alike. No, I don't think this will be about wearing GG down. That's not what the Strangler Fig does, per se.
The Strangler Fig in our world slowly wraps itself around the might trees and temples, covering them and absorbing the light that would have otherwise gone to the Tree. By cutting off the power supply, they can prosper and stand so mighty that they become "trees" long after the host they used for scaffolding has died. That's the real danger, I think. Becoming so entangled that any exertion is meaningless. Like how when we "beat" Ji Rong he was still physically just about untouched. He knew he had lost when we'd sapped his power supply, and would have been able to win over a much longer set of time because we'd never let him recover.
So there are two ways for GG to win.
One: he's able to slip the threads and counterattack in a way that puts Lu Feng on the losing end of the exertion-equation like Xiaobai Fen was doing to Han Fang. Unrelenting pressure forcing Lu Feng into bad trades.
Two: he becomes durable enough, and self-sustaining enough, that Lu Feng ends up on the losing end of the exertion-equation in a way similar to the Solar Men of White Sky. So Damn Tanky that Lu Feng actually can't stop him without committing.
In either case, I think what Gan Guangli yells about will be important for this fight.
Because I'm almost certain that raw strength will not, alone, be enough to defeat Lu Feng. This is, functionally, Gan Guangli confronting a cultivator that's conceptually about snaring and dragging down those that rely on raw strength. At the apex of his character arc in which he confronts a major setback that could drag him down from position as Renxiang's retainer.
What has he learned, philosophically, to deal with setbacks and snares? All the ways that others will attempt to drag him down, bind him, constrain him?
It's been brought up often that Gan Guangli is a philosophical man able to mentally keep up with Cai Renxiang, but Renxiang is right. He needed to step from her shadow and shine his own light.
I look forward to seeing how that manifests.
- Location
- Leeds
Think of those poor Cai boys you where doing the whole winter routine to and repent Ling Qi.