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szynkaaa · 15 days ago

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The Tragedy of Bull King, Red Boy and Princess Iron-Fan

me: does a poll for people to vote on between the Daoist Mi Lore or Kingdom of the Flowing Sand rats Also me: alright imma write about something else entirely

I will be tackling the Bull King's Family lore according to Black Myth Wukong, since the devs did change some things from the original JTTW books + my own interpretation and thoughts. You can find my other posts under the Black Myth Rambling tag

TW: Rape, forced childbirth, suicide

Will be abbreviating some names or calling them by a different name: Bull King = BK Princess Rakshasi = Princess Iron Fan Sun Wukong =SWK Red Boy = RB Mount Lingshan = Western Heaven Celestial Court = Eastern Heaven Taishang Laojun (the furnace guy) = TSLJ Keeper of the Flaming Mountain = furnace boy

I will try my best to tell all of this in chronological order to make sense of the timeline. Some events it is not very clear if it happened before or after this and that, so I listed them up in the order that I think it happened.

Some Backstory:

Both the Yaksha Kingdom and Kingdom of Rakshasa were destroyed by Mt. Lingshan

In the past, the Yaksha King was betrayed by the celestial beings, leading to the massacre of the royal family and the downfall of the Yaksha Kingdom. After the kingdom's collapse, the yakshas were forced into exile.

Yaksha Archer journal entry

When a formidable enemy attacked, the Yaksha King appointed Mi Yan as the vanguard general. [...] Despite their valor, the Kingdom of Yaksha was ultimately destroyed, but not a single soldier from Mi Yan's army deserted.

Red-haired Yaksha journal entry

Along with the fall of the Yaksha Kingdom, the Rakshasa Kingdom, due to their kinship with the yakshas, also met its end.

Thunder Rhino Master journal entry

From the Sea Rakshasa Journal entry:

from the entry, we gather that Princess Iron Fan was a princess of the kingdom of Rakshasa beyond the Western sea

Kingdom fell, they escorted the princess eastwards, and made a new home in the Flaming Mountains. Strongly assuming this all happened before fire rained down to the mountain from the furnace being kicked over by SWK

Princess Iron Fan is described to have a kind heart

After her eastward migration, Rakshasi had a new Daoist master in the Celestial Court. Practicing Daoism in Buddhism's stead, Rakshasi marked a departure from her past.

also from the Thunder Rhino Journal entry

From the Keeper of the Flaming Mountain Entry

he's a bitch and doesn't give a shit about human lives lol

also hazed Princess Iron Fan

calling him furnace boy because that was literally his job in heaven lol, fanning the furnace. the same furnace SWK was cooking in for 40 days

His master is TSLJ, introduces him to Princess Iron Fan. She is his new disciple, but also furnace boy's senior. He calls her 师姐 shī jiě, with jiě meaning 'older sister'.

which, he is not happy about. and then says well since she is the senior she should be fanning the furnace.

and Princess Iron Fan being the queen she is, goes alright bet and does her job.

does NOT tattle on furnace boy. instead asks for a bigger fan because the one the boy gave her is too small.

and old man gives her hher signature Iron Fan.

Enter SWK, who springs outta the furnace, and flames fell down to Earth creating the Flaming Mountain.

Furnace boy is demoted to Keeper of Flaming Mountains

Iron Fan volunteered to go to mortal realm to help him. what a queen he did not deserve her

he learns then that the princess already has a cave where she chills and loyal followers (the Sea rakshasa)

TSLJ arranged the marriage between her and BK

realizes no matter how many dirty works he does for TSLJ, his master will never think furnace boy is worthy to be with her LOL. even his master knows what a trash he is

So we know that Princess Iron Fan and BK got married after SWK jumped out of the furnace

Here is a pic of Princess Iron Fan. Ain't putting one of Furnace Boy because he doesn't deserve it

The Yaksha King Lore

2nd phase of the Red Boy final boss battle in chapter 5.

Journal entry does not talk about the RB though, rather talks about the Red Boy's bio father. yes folk that's right, BK is not his bio dad in BMW

Mt. Lingshan wages war against the Yaksha Kingdom. Mount Lingshan is where Buddha resides and the final destination of the pilgrims in JTTW to retrieve the scriptures.

Yaksha King's son, a baby, recently died. Father is still carrying the infant in his arms. The King himself is gravely wounded

creepy ass dude shows up and is like "yeah I can help you to carry on your royal line and save your son, trust me bro"

"Whether the Yaksha royal lineage continues or ends depends entirely on your decision today." [...]

they extract the dead baby's soul into a red lotus flower before it could enter the cycle of reincarnation

They also need the life and the water of child-bearing river in

The figure clapped, and a white-clad Daoist emerged from behind. The Daoist approached the Yaksha King, bowed, then sat cross-legged on the ground. He extended his hands above the boy's head and began to chant softly. Before long, a small, blood-red lotus flower emerged slowly from the boy's forehead, crystal clear and vibrant. The Daoist carefully plucked the lotus and placed it into a bowl he carried. The Yaksha King fixed his unblinking gaze intently at the lotus. The figure said, "This red lotus is the essence of your son's soul. To ensure it does not dissipate before successful reincarnation, we will need your life and the water from the River of Childbearing."

White figure is Furnace Boy and his master is TSLJ. probably also what furnace boy refers to doing his master's dirty work

This is the same way Red Boy kills himself at the end of chapter 5, thus ending the royal Yaksha lineage

Here is an image of Red Boy

Princess Iron Fan was forced to drink the child-bearing water and give birth to the Red Boy

BK and SWK are sworn brothers, and he aids him fighting against the court, before SWK rebellion in heaven and was buried under a mountain for 500 years

We learn in the chapter 5 ending animation, that she was forced to drink from the water and give birth to Red Boy. BTW Highly recommend watching the ending animation

The way I understood this scene is that if it wasn't SWK, none of this would have happened, hence I believe they forced her to do it as a punishment for BK and probably to also keep his family in check

Princess Iron Fan says herself that carrying and giving birth to this child gave her a lot of pain, toppled with the fact that her husband doesn't really look at her anymore and pretends he doesn't know about Red Boy's origin and just overall keeps his distance. They still had a good relationship though as father and son

She still loved Red Boy very much and raised her like a son

"I ordered you to raise a child, but I did not ask you to be a true mother. Let the boy stir his trouble; as long as you and your husband stay out of it, you will be safe."

From Princess Rakshasi journal entry

Princess Iron Fan mentions that if the truth about Red Boy's origin gets exposed, the whole family is doomed. so yeah imo that's another thing pointing towards the court trying to control BK

This is also where Furnace Boy says that when Red Boy grows up, he is the living proof of the genocide that the Mount Lingshan committed ("He will be living proof... of the dark deeds of Mount Lingshan..")

TL;DR Western heaven destroyed the Yaksha and Rakshasa Kingdom, Eastern Heaven swooped in to claim the soul of the last Yaksha royal as blackmail material

BK has a fox lover, with him he conceives a child too: Pingping. We love Pingping, she has never done anything wrong in her life. We never meet the "real" Pingping in the game rip

Gang arrives, SWK wants to borrow the Iron Fan to get rid of the fire (his fault they rained down there btw LOL)

Princess Iron Fan was ready to hand out cause she knows if she doesn't there will be problem

Bull King cannot decide whose side to pick, which I guess demonstrate his indecision here, and also no choice is still a choice, which in turn turns into a bad one in this case here

Red Boy says no fuck that you can't have it. gets his ass beaten by monkey, and is then sent to be a disciple under Guanyin along with Black bear guai

Princess Iron Fan seeing her sweet sweet boy beaten refuses to hand out the fan now, gets attacked by the King.

The fox mistress is killed by Zhu Bajie

SWK tells him he should find a master to serve

BK pissed at how his wife and mistress were treated, lashes out.

Heavenly Court gets involved in the battle, Nezha subdues BK and beheads BK but don't worry he is not dead

BK is taken to heaven, converts to buddhism, serves heaven and then returns home

Pingping lives with Princess Iron Fan

enter the happy family era

From that day on, the Bull King's temperament changed drastically. His former wild and unrestrained nature was no longer seen. He declined all invitations, ceased his travels, and instead stayed in Flaming Mountains, helping Rakshasi with household affairs and training the bull soldiers, living a very peaceful life.

Bull King journal entry

red boy then also returns from Guanyin and they live happily together as a family of four for some time being

The he get summoned by the court to fight against SWK. by that tiem SWK has already attained buddahood, realized it's not for him and went back to Mt Huaguo. The heaven was not happy about that

SWK warns BK to not absorb the artifact, because that will fuck him up.

BK swallows the artifact, becomes depressed

At some point Red Boy also learns the truth about his origin, and demands the BK give him the artifact so he can take revenge on Heaven and avenge his bloodline

BK refuses

Red Boy wages war against BK

he also knocks out Pingping so he can take her form to mess with SWK and get the artifact from BK

and then pretty much everything from Chapter 5 happens, Red Boy's army fighting against BK's Army. BK himself is sitting depressed on the mouintain, injured and looking very skinny. We defeat Red Boy, BK spits out the artifact, Red Boy was not defeated and gets the artifact and aborbs it, turning into the Yaksha King

MEANWHILE our QUEEN Rakshasi tries to get help from her master and Buddha to stop the fight between father and son

she went to her master TSLJ, who is a dick and said. just let them do whatever, didn't ask you to raise the kid as your own son anyway. You just needed to give birth

she knows her son well and knows that the only way the siege would end is if he would die

Then goes to Mt Lingshan, to get revenge, carrying her fan, but she was not able to get revenge and is laughed at by everyone

A booming laughter echoed, deafening. Within that laughter, she heard the cries of an infant, the innocent giggles of a child, the roars of an adolescent, and the cycle of blooming and withering flowers, the growth of grass and the flight of orioles over millennia. She heard the embers extinguishing in the Flaming Mountains.

From her journal entry

so she senses that her son lost the battle or is close to death, so she rushes back home, like the fantastic mom she is

You can watch the cutscene here starting at 28:30 - highly recommend watching it to the end

She is begging DO to spare her son's life, and in return, she and her whole family will go into secluded meditation (exile?) and he can have her fan

Red Boy, refusing to be shackled and chained again, kills himself the same way the Yaksha King killed himself

we still get to keep the iron fan LOL

My thoughts and rambling: This whole family story is one fucking tragedy after another. Princess Raskshasi / Iron Fan, who lost her kingdom, moved east and then was used as a pawn by her master. Firstly wed to the Bull King and then forced to give birth to Red Boy - and suffered much pain carrying giving birth to Red Boy. It's never explained why her master set her up to marry the Bull King, but given how everyone in the famils is used as chest pieces, I strongly assume it is also a way to control BK.

Unconfirmed but this is the timeline I pieces together in TL;DR

SWK jumps out of the furnace

Princess Iron Fan follows Furnace Boy to the mortal realm. Is set up to marry Bull King

Bull King aids SWK in fight against the Court

SWK loses against Buddha of the West, is buried under the mountain

Princess Iron Fan has to drink the pregnancy water and gives birth to Red Boy

They used his wife as punishment for his action

While it doesn't sounds like it is a marriage out of love (which, to be fair not a lot of marriages back then were), I do think that both Bull King and Princess Iron greatly cared for each other. I'd say even boldly that Princess Iron Fan cared more LOL because Bull king had a mistress with whom he had a child. It can be argues that because he knows Red Boy is not his, he seek solace in the arms of another woman (and then has another child with her.

Princess Iron Fan has like every reason to turn into an evil stepmother or bitter woman, but she didn't.

Bull king has never made a right choice in his life, according to SWK

SWK and BK vs the Court

SWK and the court vs BK

the court and BK vs SWK

And the Red Boy... last of his lineage and used as a pawn by the court. Also interesting to note that in his design, he looks half "human" half bull, with his lower half being the bull part.

Overall another tragic love story in BMW.

And that's it from me, thank you for reading!

#black myth ramblings #black myth wukong #bull king #princess iron fan #princess rakshasi #red boy #sun wukong

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treecakes · 3 months ago

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hey! sorry to bother you but is Guardian good? ^^ where can i watch it?

(I'm desperately trying to find something to watch but nothing is catching my attention)

HI! um. tricky question!! lol. i think guardian is definitely a fun and worthwhile series and it does break your heart several times. i don’t know how to answer this because the production quality is so bad but the actors and producers have so much passion for the story and it really does redeem it i think. and i’ve gotten two people who really don’t otherwise care for that type of series to become invested in it also. so in my peer circle it’s highly reviewed 👍

i’ll copy and paste an imdb synopsis here too in case you only know it from the posts i rb and don’t know much abt the plot :)

“A peace that has lasted over 10 000 years - between humans, Yashou and Dixing - is under threat when a series of events start to unfold on the planet of Haixing. Dixing people, who normally lives underground, suddenly start causing trouble on the surface with their special abilities. This is all somehow connected to four ancient holy tools. Zhao Yunlan is the unruly director of the Special Investigation Department (SID) who is put in charge of investigating these unusual cases. When things start happening at the local university a calm and gentle professor by the name of Shen Wei becomes involved with helping SID solve these cases. Not only does Shen Wei agree to help, repeatedly, but he also seems to know more about everything than he lets on. Also working with SID is a leaders from Dixing, the Black Cloaked Envoy, who upholds justice and helps keeping the peace. Although, when a formidable enemy starts moving behind the scenes it becomes harder and harder for SID and their allies to keep the world from being swallowed completely by the darkness. Along the way, an old promise is kept and a friendship between two guardians develops to transcend both past and present lifetimes.”

it’s fairly episodic with most “arcs” resolving within an episode or two (aside from the last arc, which takes the longest) and it’s relatively easy to watch only a few episodes at a time if that’s your thing! but also i watched entire thing in like. four days. when i first watched it but i’ve seen it 4 or 5 times by now i think and i took my time with those rewatches

um as for where to watch it! it used to be entirely on youtube with english subtitles and now only 27/40 episodes are there and available (and not consecutive episodes either 😭) i do suggest using the youtube subs for the episodes they have and then switching to this for any ones they don’t.

#ummm what else can i tell you. there’s a catboy? time travel? aliens?#anyways if you give it a try my ask box and dms are open for opinions! :)

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formidophobia · 2 years ago

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yeah? i already knew that thx

Stolen from twitter bc I need to see everyone's answers

#rb #my art #formid

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sylvidra · 1 year ago

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❤️🤍 & 👑💙

One of the most common remarks made by those who want to belittle the film RW&RB is to deplore the fact that the email licks are caused by a so called "jealousy" rather than a political machination as in the book. 🙄

Still, it's rather surprising to attach so much importance to it as if the original book were a first-rate political thriller.

The same could be said for those who think the film overlooks Alex's sexual questioning. The book is not a gender study, and the section devoted to bisexuality is superficial. 🥴

But above all, this approach to Miguel Ramos' motivations from the sole angle of jealousy shows a poor reading of the film's plot, and a poor understanding of human nature as well as of American political history (the Monica Lewinsky affair didn't start out of conspiracy).

It's clear that Miguel Ramos harbours sexual attraction towards Alex and that may have developed into resentment over time.

However, what we see in the movie is not dictated by jealousy but by ambition. As we hear in their first two meetings, Ramos concern is to get political scoops.

When Alex informs Nora that he's had sex with the reporter, she reacts as if Alex has made some rookie mistake, because she knows full well that Miguel is a potential pain in the ass.

One might even imagine that Ramos approached Alex the first place to get closer to power as much as sucking his dick 😷

It also shows that Alex was still quite reckless at this point in the film.

At the White House gala, Ramos does not hesitate to put a little pressure on Alex by letting him know that he is formidable in his investigations. We don't know his political views, but clearly he's not there to make it easy for Democrats.

Besides, if his objective had been simply to flirt with Alex, he would not have harassed the president's re-election campaign as he does. This is not the best way to rekindle with a lost crush. In fact, in the end, that's even why Alex lets him know he's an asshole.

When he sees Alex and the Prince, in a place where the latter has nothing to do, he is in the best position to understand what is going on between the two of them and he sets out to find out. 🔬

Then he seeks to exploit it as a political stunt, for his own fame, rather than just out of jealousy.

This film is Alex and Henry love story and it focuses on the two protagonists and leaves out the cumbersome details.

Like, when Alex flies to London he does so using his air miles and yet, when he returns in the US, he is on a private plane. It is not said in the film, but the plane is chartered by Henry at his expense.

It may very well be that Ramos actually works for the Republicans. The only thing that matters is that it helps ending the movie without taking screen time to Henry and Alex.

#rwrb #firstprince #red white and royal blue movie #rwrb film #rwrb prime #alex claremont diaz #miguel ramos

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f0point5 · 7 months ago

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Do you mind sharing your opinions on whether or not Red Bull should re-sign Perez? I think it’s interesting cause personally, while Checo’s a good no. 2 driver, I think he’s still pretty inconsistent. Add the fact that Ferrari will be having Leclerc and Hamilton next year, and that they have a pretty decent car that’s most likely to become even better with upgrades, the battle for WCC might be tight in 2025.

I think that while Max could still easily win the WDC next year, Red Bull might have a serious competition for the WCC if they don’t have a consistent no. 2 driver.

I think they should resign him, in the face of no other serious options, and if he continues his current form.

He has his ups and downs, he won’t be second every race, but what other driver would be? That’s an insane ask. If he’s too 5 every race I don’t think more can be expected from a designated number 2 driver.

And again, who else is available to them? Carlos is a tripping hazard for Max and he comes with a toxic team. He’s not likely to accept being a number 2 for at least a whole season, which will create tension. He also likes understeer in the car which will potentially hinder development since Max needs oversteer. Other prospects on the market are not proven entities in a top team.

I’ve got my doubts about how formidable a combination Lewis and Charles will actually be next year but even if they are, I don’t see any options for RB that would make them feel more secure than checo.

If I were them, I’d give him two years. Then at least they can go into the new regulations with a pairing they know works. And they can assess whether checo is a good option for the new era. Plus, by the end of 2026 they will likely have a ready driver in their development programme who will be able to step up.

#f1 #formula 1 #max verstappen #checo perez

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rainbowsky · 1 year ago

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Hi RBS. Have you noticed a trend in c-dramas where the FL is portrayed as clingy, childish, jumpy, needy, desperate for attention etc. I haven't even listed all the adjectives here. So I began watching The Longest Promise and I am predicting the same characteristics. Other examples, to name a few: Bai Feng Jiu in TMOPB, the FL of Love and Redemption, Little Bone in Journey of Flower, Lin Xi in Love and Destiny.

Do directors and producers think how they portray FL is romantic, socially accepted of ladies? Sometimes the good acting of ML is washed down by the portrayal of the FLs. Of course I have seen some FLs being strong and independent minded like in A Dream of Splendour. Liu Yufei did a fantastic job there.

Is it a cultural issue when females are portrayed like that?

Kindly share your thoughts on this.

Hi Kathomi! 😊

This is a topic I feel incredibly underqualified to comment on. I don't know enough about it, and I don't have anywhere near enough experience with C-dramas or with women's issues in China (or with how these characters are received by audiences in China) to be able to have any sort of intelligent response.

However, I asked my sister who has watched dozens and dozens and dozens of C-dramas, and this was her response:

There are several different genres and I don't know enough about the different categories (I am just not a category nerd) but there are definitely distinct genres that span a "coming of age" storyline for the FL. The ones mentioned here are good examples.

In these, the FL is adorable and mischievous and naive at the beginning, and her quest leads her to grow and become formidable in her own way. Bai Fengjiu is actually less this way than say, Orchid in Love Between Fairy and Devil.

The adorable, cute FL is pretty much the equivalent, in my mind, of Manic Pixie Dream Girl (RBS note: she's talking about this). It's really present in every culture's media, as far as I can see. It's just one of many tropes out there.

There are loads of dramas out there with kickass FLs.

Who Rules the World has a strong female lead and she's played by the incomparable Zhao Lusi, and the ML is Yang Yang, so there's one to watch. Also Lu Zhao Yao and Xu Kai in The Legends. Legend of Fei has a strong FL too, of course.

If there's anything that I personally can say about this topic I know nothing about, it is that it is never a good idea to paint with too broad a brush. I think that actually it's always wisest to narrow our statements/assumptions down as much as we can.

For example, instead of saying "It seems like Chinese dramas tend to have these kinds of characters, and it might be reflection of Chinese culture" it is better to say, "It seems like the Chinese dramas that I have seen so far have these kinds of characters. Perhaps I'm watching dramas that have characters that are incompatible with my interests."

I think that it is almost always a good idea to avoid assuming something is cultural that could be explained in some other way. When we make cultural assumptions, that begins to rub elbows with stereotyping or worse.

Not to say that is where you were coming from or that this isn't in fact a cultural trope - like I said, I don't know anything about the particular issue - but it's something that came into my mind when I read your ask.

I'm going to sound like a broken record here, but I've been watching The Youth Memories and the story is outstanding. There are characters with real depth and who face struggles that are realistic, interesting and emotionally compelling. The acting is great, the writing is great, and the women are strong and interesting.

So maybe try watching a different story if you're not into the one you are watching.

#entertainment industry #the longest promise #ask

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formidophobia · 2 years ago

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This!!! It's so hard to explain to people who just tell me to get over people I've lost. I can't just forget them or move on past it, they're a piece of me. I will always find them in me in little ways.

I only have to know somebody so long before we start to swap pieces of ourselves. There's going to be a bit of my friends and strangers and my mother and father and my best friends and my enemies and every single person with me. I am made up of them. Some people will never just disappear.

The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

#formid #okay to rb by the way #I'm just. gahhh #people are never just people. to me.

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bace-jeleren · 2 years ago

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Fanwalker refresher: Wren

Color identity: RB

Race: vampire

Homeplane: Innistrad

Before they sparked, Wren lived for many, many years among the Stromkirk line of vampires. Having had an incredibly strong glamor since being turned, and charisma to match, Wren lived a rather comfortable life, albeit a boring one, where things (and people) came easy to them. This often led Wren into making risky or controversial decisions, or overindulging in sex, violence or often times a bloody combination of the two.

As the years passed, Wren found it more and more difficult to see eye to eye with the Stromkirk vampires, and set off to form their own line, turning several willing humans and forming an incredibly deep bond with them. As a group, they came to view one another as family. Unfortunately, though, fate had something cruel in store for Wren, and for Innistrad.

In the wake of the eldrazi siege, one by one, the members of Wren's new family all gave in to Emrakul's influence. They went mad, turning on one another and destroying everything Wren had achieved from the inside out. Not wanting to see them suffer, and also out of a sense of self-preservation, they killed their once beloved family. Half mad and grief-striken, Wren's spark ignited, and they escaped before the worst could happen to them as well.

They arrived on Kylem, specifically within the pub owned by the azra, Rix. Through her, Wren was able to recover and get a foothold on this new plane. They and Rix even became romantically involved, albeit their relationship ended horribly. By then, though, they had established themselves as a formidable duelist within Valor's Reach, with an adoring fanbase through which they could satisfy their hunger, and also their impressive libido.

After the War of the Spark, Wren came into contact with the soratami necromancer, Kuro. An agreement to fight within Valor's Reach as a duo slowly blossomed into romance. Through her, they were able to build the family they had always wanted, and two currently live together on Kylem with their daughter, Megumi.

Abilities: as a Stromkirk vampire, Wren was trained in fencing and has a good couple of centuries worth of experience with the blade under his belt. His vampirism provides him with an enhanced level of stamina (which is useful in the arena as well as the bedroom), as well as the ability to turn into mist if a quick exit is necessary. Above all other things, though, is Wren's glamor magic, which is extremely useful in growing his adoring fanbase, and attracting people he fancies into attending his extravagant orgies.

Additional quirks: Wren is genderfluid, and presents herself as masculine or feminine depending on her mood. She prefers her method of feeding to be nonlethal, and uses the orgies she hosts as a way to get her fill, only needing a small portion of blood from large parties of people. In a pinch, she drinks Kuro's blood, but not very often, as using her wife as a food-source makes her uncomfortable.

#fanwalker #fanwalker talk #long post #Wren

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medtech-mara · 1 year ago

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10, 12, 24, and 30 for Mara? <3

List for questions can be found >here< pls ask me more, or rb so i can ask you some ⸂⸂⸜(രᴗര๑)⸝⸃⸃

TW death.

10. Does Mara have any regrets?

I'm going to be completely honest here, and it gives me a pit in my stomach. The answer can easily be answered with Yes, but at the same time its more complicated.

I'll explain a bit, Mara suffers from Cyberpsychosis, though she's not totally out of control, she exhibits classic signs. One, of those is permeant. I took it upon myself to add this characteristic for her as her only way coping with everything thats happen. No amount of therapy will ever scrub from her. mechanically speaking, she could just go to therapy and if she gained enough humanity back, she would then lose that characteristic.

Mara's traits are the following currently:

Impusle control

Poor behavior control

Cunning and Manipulative

Failure to Accept responsibility

The last one was determined the last time she had dropped to 1 humanity point from full cyberpsychosis, one of those i rolled to see which one would be the perma trait..... So...(IF I had lost 1 more point... I would have had to turn her over to the DM, I no longer get to play her til she gains more humanity.)

Thats where it gets complicated.

God, I feel like I have so much to include here so I'll totally understand if you never ask me a question ever again. xD

If you were to ask ME what I want her to feel regret about its for Jack's death, after all it was her fault. If she had been open and honest with him before she left for the city center gig, he might have been saved from being mauled by one of Biotechnica's experiments. She knew in the pit of her stomach that Jack was up to something, but was too busy trying to remove the kill switch to do anything about it.

If you want to know what she regrets, its a few things:

Not going half on that Sig frame Jago wanted the night before he was beheaded.

Not reaching out and grabbing Jago to keep him from pissing off Tetsuo Okada.

Putting her fear aside and taking her chance with Jack Adams .

12. Does Mara have any sense of style? Regardless of the answer does she believe she has a sense of style?

Honestly, not really. Due to Mara being 6'2, its not easy to find clothes that fit her, so she often has to have things custom tailored for her. Which works great, because she gets the help she needs.

24. Does Mara have any Enemies?

She has no shortage of those... Some I don't even think I can name, because I just don't know them yet. Those I can name:

Tetsuo Okada, one of Wakako's sons, reasons for Night Raid putting him in the hospital for killing Jago.

Another one of Wakako's sons.. For J I H Z Z Y publically humiliating him and shaking him down for the repairs and solving their maelstrom turf war on livestream. I was too drunk over J I H Z Z Y being a bad ass to remember his name, im gonna be real.

Voodoo Boys, for stealing a black box containing unknown program, could have been the A.I that infected NIGHT RAID with the killswitch. Also killing Brigitte second in command, just as equally formidable as Placid. Also the violence between the two is starting to ramp up again. Due to hearing Panthera's interview with Genesis Vijun they've decided to leave a calling card on Mara's clinic door.

Saul Herrera- Valentino Fixer- While, if you ask Saul, he'd tell you she's just a borg'd brain bitch who needs to downgrade, and probably regrets ever contributing to her upgrades. He'd say it started when Desiree "Token" Yang had asked her told flame to help with a prank NIGHT RAID wanted to pull on a sleeping Panthera in the back of the crews car. He agree'd went with one of his chooms, pulled out his piece and tapped on the window of the car to wake Mara, he was to act like he was robbing her.

What NIGHT RAID didn't expect, Mara's reaction to be woken up with a gun in her face. Pulling the lever to get out of the car, Mara slid quickly back and kicked the door as hard as she could, causing the two valentinos to fly back, then Mara pulled her gun out and was about to paint the pavement when Saul's choom grabbed her by her hair pulling her off, kicking, screaming, and determined to go down fighting, Mara hissed clawing at the mans hand warning him if he didn't let her go she was going to rip his throat out with her teeth. Thats when NIGHT RAID stepped in and was like "Its just a prank, bro"

However, you ask Mara, she'll tell you the disrespect he's shown her every single time they met before the prank happened.

30. If Mara had the chance to be famous would she take it? If She is famous would she rather she weren't?

As it stands, Mara is famous. NIGHT RAID is on everyones lips currently. She's easily recognizable by anyone. Frankly, she wishes she wasn't.

It wouldn't matter if NIGHT RAID had stayed under the radar or not, she's married famous South African Rockerboy J I H Z Z Y, who has been making waves in the club scene from JAPANTOWN to Wellsprings, you'll hear his new single.

Though thankfully, Mara brings a threatening energy that most dont wanna fuck with, so they don't really approach her much.

OH MY GOD

I'm so sorry, Info dumped a lot, theres just so much about this campaign and so little time (and frankly peoples interest) to talk about it. I hope this doesn't prevent you from asking in the future. AND DONT JUDGE ME for giving up on linking every single person to the character key or do their respected pages. It's a lot to do. And I think you get the point by the first few times. This is probably all word vomit but its how i thrive in chaos.

#ask box #ask me more plsss #cyberpunk red #cyberpunk red campaign #lonc #legends of Night city #My OC: Mara “Panthera” Sterling #AHHHHHHHHHHHHH IM SO SORRY

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