Xianxia Encompassing the World! (Xianxia Rec Discussion and Idea thread)
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Yes he is.
A large part of Xianxia story arcs consists of "I'm not powerful enough so I'll go grind until I am."
Shirou is too compulsive to wait.
He'd step in immediately rather than running off to a cave and muttering about vengeance for 100 years.
He might be killed immediately, but he'd step in.
The other issue is honestly comprehension.
Since he immediately memorizes every weapon he comes across, if he encounters a high-tier weapon his head might explode.
Shirou in Xianxia land would pretty much center around holding him back long enough for him to get the cultivation to back his suicidal tendencies.
A large part of Xianxia story arcs consists of "I'm not powerful enough so I'll go grind until I am."
Shirou is too compulsive to wait.
He'd step in immediately rather than running off to a cave and muttering about vengeance for 100 years.
He might be killed immediately, but he'd step in.
The other issue is honestly comprehension.
Since he immediately memorizes every weapon he comes across, if he encounters a high-tier weapon his head might explode.
Shirou in Xianxia land would pretty much center around holding him back long enough for him to get the cultivation to back his suicidal tendencies.
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Oh sure, there's plenty that go off to grind.... when revenge is their whole motivation.
Otherwise it's common for them to step in. I mean, how often do young masters get their asses kicked due to bugging a protagonist without realizing who the protagonist is?
Otherwise it's common for them to step in. I mean, how often do young masters get their asses kicked due to bugging a protagonist without realizing who the protagonist is?
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Constantly, but Shirou would probably defer to them.
The School Janitor wasn't worried about losing face.
The issue would be if the Young Master is harassing someone else, in which case most Xianxia Protagonists turn away muttering about the law of the jungle or something, while Shirou would step in and get murdered.
Remember that basically the only weapons that actually bother him (in a starter world atleast) would be divine weapons, and even then he can still copy and spam Gil's armory weapons which are mass-produced nameless divine weapons. Most of the stuff he cant fully copy are Excalibur (the divine weapon of the planet) and Ea which is... Ea. Like, if he was a spear boy he probably still couldnt properly copy Rhongomyniad, but he'd be able to shit out Gae Bolgs. And being a cultivator, he wouldnt have dogshit circuits AND could actually grow stronger practicing or fighting. Unlike in the Fate/verse where you are born with circuits which never improve, his slamming his face into walls Would eventually increase his cultivation. (I do agree that he would have to be held back from hero-of-justice'ing himself to death.)
He's deeply caught up in his heart demon, no surprise he's acting strange. He arguably is the heart demon for another self at this point.
Do not worry Daoists, he has merely decided to use a technique to declare "All things I hold must certainly be swords" to use his sword techniques through myriad different weapons. This is essentially no different than someone who uses blades of grass(or various utensils) as "Swords". He truly is an amazing sword cultivator.
Again, if someone is made of Sword, do they really need another sword just for aesthetic purposes?
But Shirou already keeps every sword he has ever seen with him, in his Soul.
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Oddly enough, I don't think Shirou particularly likes swords.
He connects with them and all, but he doesn't really have a "swords are cool" attitude.
It's more of a "Hey, I could use this to pry open a jar of pickles" attitude.
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I mean, yeah. Shirou is made of swords. And we all know Shirou doesn't care about himself at all.
It's always been my opinion that a xianxiafied fate universe would be a great setting.
And lemme remember, shiroukuroemiya had a shirou transmigrated to xianxia esque universe story over at spacebattles, but I think it leaned too much into character wanking.
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I remember thinking before that the root being the source of everything, and magi all trying to reach it through all their various differing paths was very like cultivators seeking the dao.
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I've been reading a quest thats essentially a 'end-game rimworlder' in a Xianxia world, though it hasn't gone quite the direction I was hoping for since the questers are well aware of Xianxia story tropes and are being awfully cautious when I just want to see Xianxia qi stuff be scientifically studied (It's called "Scifi Ascendent Dropped Into A Cultivation World" and it's on fiction.live).
Is there any Xianxia stories where Cultivation is Properly studied and broken down? I've only seen a few stories try but they felt more like science as a flavor and excuse rather then as a methodology for learning before falling to the wayside as normal Xianxia stuff happens
Also, Amazing Cultivation Simulator is certainly the same genre as Rimworld...though what that genre is called, I have no idea
Is there any Xianxia stories where Cultivation is Properly studied and broken down? I've only seen a few stories try but they felt more like science as a flavor and excuse rather then as a methodology for learning before falling to the wayside as normal Xianxia stuff happens
Also, Amazing Cultivation Simulator is certainly the same genre as Rimworld...though what that genre is called, I have no idea
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I've seen at least one quest (on fiction.live, I think?) that was "endgame psycaster from Rimworld reincarnates in xianxia setting after a horrible jump drive malfunction forces them to their third-stage backup immortality solution".
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Part of it is that they want their "science" to give them an advantage, but they can't actually do that as one person trying one cultivation method over a short span of time (i.e. less than 1,000 years)
The sheer scale means any cultivation science would pretty much require someone in an Immortal realm to be overseeing the experiment.
The sheer scale means any cultivation science would pretty much require someone in an Immortal realm to be overseeing the experiment.