#and in both cases the culprit has been & is STILL taking lives & causing destruction
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me & kuseno both want to be happy for genos when his life with Saitama & his duty as a hero help him get away from all the vengeance & hatred eating him alive but also letting go is a very difficult thing to ask. it's like asking tanjiro to forget what muzan did.
#best example i cld find cuz unlike genos tanjiro is a main character whose tragedy is taken v seriously and i dont mean that it's not -#entirely the case with genos it's just the difference in how ppl perceive it#you don't see anyone hoping that tanjiro would simply let go and go live a happy peaceful life while muzan is still out there killing ppl#AND IT'S THE EXACT SAME CASE WITH GENOS#maybe even worse cuz genos witnessed a massacre of his entire town#and in both cases the culprit has been & is STILL taking lives & causing destruction#idk what im talking abt here i hope u guys can see where im coming from#can genos stop making me insane for one night maybe#⋆ ☆ 【 ジェノス 】 : ̗̀➛ study.#PLZ
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how i’d rewrite v3
warning: long post
chapter 1:
everything is essentially the same with one key difference
when voting ends, shuuichi is revealed to have abstained, leading to his death alongside kaede’s
thus resulting in a double protag switch, with kiibo becoming the protag
chapter 1 results in three deaths
this establishes the arc number, makes things interesting by killing off three of the seemingly most important characters, and gives leeway for the rest of the cast to shine
chapter 2:
the motive is the same, and maki gets hoshi’s tape
however, maki refuses to trade with him and he gets angry about it
because he’s always wanted to feel like he was worth something, and there’s someone standing in the way of letting him know if there’s anything outside waiting for him, he kills maki
however, after that, he watches his tape and realizes that he’s completely alone
he leaves the crime scene as is, and kokichi tries to throw the trial because he has maki’s tape and has revealed her as the SHSL assassin
kokichi attempts to make it be that maki committed suicide as a means of escaping her past, but he also posits that maybe she was framing hoshi since he was already a convicted murderer
hoshi, having nothing left to live for, confesses, and kokichi gets angry, citing that it would have been so much more interesting if he had fought his fate
maki and hoshi die in a fiercely antagonistic, ultimately self-destructive mess
chapter 3:
there’s a similar motive, and it’s established that there was a pair of relatives in the cast, but one of them is dead
miu has already cemented herself as being pretty isolated from the rest of the group, and people suspect that she and kaede were twins, based on them knowing that kaede had a twin sister
other guesses include rantarou being related to tenko or kirumi, and shuuichi being related to korekiyo or tsumugi
angie decides to hold a seance so that they can figure it out and reunite them
himiko offers to help and it’s during the seance that himiko is killed
this is a 1 victim chapter, subverting the expectation, and also making sense since 3 people died in chapter 1
during the trial, people start to suspect miu, but korekiyo starts acting weird
korekiyo has a meltdown completely out of nowhere, and believes himself to be possessed by the spirit of shuuichi
he reveals that shuuichi was his brother, and that he was vengeful towards the group for not stopping the killing game (making his, kaede’s, and rantarou’s sacrifices be in vain)
he also claims that shuuichi was trying to target the mastermind, but when himiko volunteered herself to help, he ended up killing her instead
korekiyo is voted, despite a couple people claiming that shuuichi would be the true culprit
korekiyo is executed, and in retaliation for monodam having killed monokid and monosuke during the prior executions, monotaro and monophanie kill him
chapter 4:
virtual reality is still part of the motive
angie has a breakdown, having lost the one person that was most receptive to her teachings about atua
miu and tsumugi are shown to be very close after the last few chapters due to their self-isolated nature
angie snaps and tries to kill miu, but tsumugi steps in in her place, killing angie as defense
the world glitches, and miu goes missing for a bit, leading people to believe that she was the victim
when they get out of the game, miu is still alive, and so people believe her to be the murderer
it’s revealed that miu caused the glitch in order to save tsumugi
kokichi’s been part of this too, having noticed how close they were and putting pieces together, as well as eavesdropping and coercing info out of miu
kokichi ouma, revealed as a magnificent bastard
miu begs everyone to vote for her, but tsumugi confesses, and she is executed
during tsumugi’s execution, monotaro seems like he’ll be next to die, but monophanie sacrifices herself for him, in line with this chapter’s theme
after this trial, miu and tenko start hanging out, having lost their closest friends (tsumugi and himiko respectively)
chapter 5:
everybody hates ouma: the musical
after it was revealed that he manipulated the events of both chapter 2 and chapter 4, literally everybody suspects him of being the mastermind, or at least a traitor of some sort
he decides to try and enlist miu to help hack into kiibo to make him a minion of his
miu goes along with it, thanks to some masterful manipulation tactics on ouma’s end (he’s good with words, the shit)
kiibo’s software goes blank for a bit, but he eventually gets better thanks to an unforeseen software update
(during the time that kiibo’s offline, we play briefly as the other cast, who are all either preparing to confront or already confronting ouma by this point)
ouma is also shown to be causing injuries to himself, hoping to die by his own hand and cause a trial where nobody knows the real killer, taking everyone with him because they’re all so bad at playing the game
ouma is the victim and nobody knows who killed him, not even monokuma
everyone is hesitant to admit that they confronted him, but only gonta, kaito, and tenko confess to having fought him physically
miu and kiibo work together to reveal that kiibo was still recording during the time he was offline, and they show ouma inflicting injuries to himself
everyone believes that ouma committed suicide, but just before everyone goes to vote, gonta confesses
gonta delivered the killing blow accidentally, not realizing his own strength
over the course of the game, gonta and kiibo had gotten close, and gonta got so angry seeing kiibo malfunctioning that he killed ouma on accident
tenko and kaito both then claim that they killed him, not wanting gonta to die
kiibo has to convince them that voting for gonta is the right thing to do
gonta is executed, and it seems like monotaro is safe, but right at the end of gonta’s execution, monotaro commits suicide
chapter 6:
after talking to monokuma during the previous trial about rules and what to do if the results of a trial were unclear or ambiguous, they realize that the mastermind broke a rule back in chapter 1
the rule being that someone killing more than 2 people isn’t allowed
when kiibo’s attempting to find out who the mastermind could be alongside kirumi, miu, tenko, and kaito, they are given class files for each student
nowhere in either korekiyo or shuuichi’s files do they mention a brother, while in kaede’s, her twin sister is mentioned
after gathering evidence and demanding a retrial of the first case, kiibo confronts monokuma, believing that korekiyo is the mastermind, having hidden his death after causing the deaths of kaede, rantarou, shuuichi, and himiko
it’s revealed that shuuichi was actually the one faking his death, and that he is the mastermind of the killing game
danganronpa is still a show, but shuuichi passes it off as an experimental documentary on how people can be forced to kill, based on a real life set of video games
he confesses that he fabricated his relation to korekiyo, but that it worked well, as korekiyo was a traitor, having worked with shuuichi on his experiment
he also reveals that kiibo was made solely for the experiment, as a camera and an audience surrogate, making him essentially a conduit for amateur sleuths to solve real life murders on TV
this breaks kiibo and we play as the other four survivors to help him
it’s revealed that the show technically hasn’t even aired, and that shuuichi was planning on killing all of them in order to survive to share his findings with the world
shuuichi is thwarted, and the survivors all agree to die alongside him if it means destroying the video
kiibo initiates self-destruct, but after seeing that the others are safe in a bunker, accepts his death and kills himself alongside shuuichi
epilogue:
the survivors are kaito, tenko, miu, and kirumi, subverting the theme number of 3
it’s revealed that rantarou had memories of surviving two other experiments led by shuuichi, explaining the v3 -- this was the 3rd version of his game
the footage is destroyed, and the four survivors walk away from the rubble, unsure of how to assimilate back into society having pretended that nothing happened
#v3#danganronpa v3#new danganronpa v3#ndrv3#v3 rewrite#ndrv3 rewrite#danganronpa#dr#saimotalks#saimotass.exe#spoilers#v3 spoilers#ndrv3 spoilers#dr spoilers#danganronpa spoilers#new danganronpa v3 spoilers#long post#let me know if this is any good lmao
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Obsidian and Blood, an overview
Do you like fantasy? Do you like mysteries? Do you like Mesoamerican mythology? Do you like ALL OF THOSE THINGS TOGETHER, set against the lush backdrop of Tenochtitlan in 1480? (Or maybe you just want to know more about the series I have been going feral over since August.) Then buckle up, because oh boy have I got a series for you!
*drumroll, please*
OBSIDIAN AND BLOOD, written by Aliette de Bodard (better known for her Xuya and Dominion of the Fallen series)
There are two kinds of people: Those who see the words “Aztec fantasy/murder mysteries set in very well-researched 1480s Tenochtitlan BUT WITH MAGIC, investigated by the HIGH PRIEST OF THE GOD OF DEATH” and immediately ran off to buy them, and those who clearly need convincing. So here I am, shamelessly plugging my new hyperfixation!
Obsidian and Blood consists of three semi-standalone novels and three (free!) prequel short stories, all featuring 30-year-old Acatl as our first-person POV mystery solver. Acatl is not, however, your average historical detective; aside from being set firmly in Tenochtitlan in 1480 with all that implies re. the acceptability of slavery and human sacrifice, he also is the High Priest of Mictlantecuhtli in a universe where the gods regularly meddle in mortal affairs and magic spells are powered largely by rituals and blood—animal, human, or your own. You’d think this would make Acatl really, really good at solving murders, but you’d be wrong. He is the least of the Triple Alliance’s three High Priests, and his god doesn’t come at his servant’s beck and call. Not to mention the other gods, who have their own deadly agendas. That’s not even getting into the people around him, who might be the most dangerous of all. Luckily, he has more allies than he thinks—if he has the strength to actually reach out to them and admit he could use the help!
(He doesn’t need to reach out to his student Teomitl. Teomitl, a confident young warrior of imperial blood, keeps volunteering. This gives Acatl roughly one heart attack per book.)
You will like them if…
I did just say “magic murder mysteries in 1480s Tenochtitlan,” right? It’s real Precolumbian Mexico hours up in here! The history of the Aztec Empire and their Triple Alliance actually forms multiple key plot points throughout the series!
you’re into Aztec history/culture in general
if a DnD fan, you are REALLY into the Raven Queen
you think blood magic is super cool and wish it wasn’t treated as the realm of The Bad Guys
you get incredibly hyped over lesser-known mythologies treated respectfully but also very awesomely (the thing where the Aztecs thought human sacrifice kept the sun in the sky? Yeah, in this universe it is literally true and plot-relevant)
you are big into chaste heroes, lots of snarky asides, highly opinionated narrators who let their own prejudices destroy them, “from an outside perspective this is cosmic horror but for the characters it is a Tuesday,” mysteries with twists you will NOT see coming, and themes of trauma/memories/family legacies
you love reading about dysfunctional family relationships in various states of repair/further destruction
you’ve ever thought “hey this historical mystery is cool but what if there was MAGIC”
you like noir detective stories but want them with magic
you like urban fantasy but want them to have historical settings instead of vaguely modern-day ones
Plot/character summaries below!
SHORT STORIES (prequels to the novels, blurbs by me)
Obsidian Shards
Warriors have been found dead in the town of Colhuacan, obsidian shards embedded in their hearts. Acatl, priest of Mictlantecuhtli, suspects a creature of the Underworld—one he already calls a foe, for it slew his first and last apprentice.
Beneath the Mask
In the Tenochtitlan suburb of Coyoacan, Acatl’s childhood friend Huchimitl begs him to save her only son’s war captive; the man whose sacrifice will make the boy a proper warrior is paralyzed from an unknown curse, unable even to rise from the floor. But who could have cursed him, and is it connected to the mask Huchimitl now wears?
Safe, Child, Safe
A toddler is slowly wasting away, the mark of the Underworld on him, and Acatl is tasked with finding the cause. But no creature of the Underworld kills so slowly, and so Acatl must turn his investigation to the living.
THE BOOKS (blurbs taken directly from the book listings, you don’t HAVE to read them in order but I do recommend it)
Servant of the Underworld
Year One-Knife, Tenochtitlan; the capital of the Mexica Empire. Human sacrifice and the magic of living blood are the only things keeping the sun in the sky and the earth fertile. A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. It should be a usual investigation for Acatl, High Priest of the Dead—except that his estranged brother is involved, and the more he digs, the deeper he is drawn into the political and magical intrigues of noblemen, soldiers, and priests—and of the gods themselves...
(Neutemoc: I didn't mean to sleep with her! It was an accident! Acatl: I don't understand. Did you trip?) (Acatl: I don't want a new apprentice! Teomitl: :D? Acatl: ...I will make an exception)
Harbinger of the Storm
The year is Two House, and the Emperor of the Mexica has just died. The protections he afforded the Empire are crumbling, and the way lies wide open to flesh-eating star-demons—and to the return of their creator, a malevolent goddess only held in check by the War God's power. The council should convene to choose a new Emperor, but they are too busy plotting against each other. And then someone starts summoning star-demons within the palace, to kill councilmen...Acatl, High Priest of the Dead, must find the culprit before everything is torn apart.
(Teomitl: I've only had Acatl and Mihmatini for a year, but if anything happens to them I'll kill everyone in this room and then myself) (Quenami: Playing With The Big Boys.mp3)
Master of the House of Darts
The year is Three Rabbit, and the storm is coming. The Mexica Empire now has a new Emperor, but his coronation war has just ended in a failure: the armies have retreated with a paltry forty prisoners of war, not near enough sacrifices to satisfy the gods. Acatl, High Priest for the Dead, has no desire to involve himself yet again in the intrigues of the powerful. However, when one of the prisoners dies of a magical illness, he has little choice but to investigate. For it is only one death, but it will not be the last. As the bodies pile up and the imperial court tears itself apart, dragging Teomitl, Acatl's beloved student, into the eye of the storm, the High Priest for the Dead is going to have to choose whom he can afford to trust; and where, in the end, his loyalties ultimately lie...
(Teomitl: I am no longer Baby I want Power) (Acatl, to Teomitl: What have you got there? Nezahual, gleefully: A coup! Acatl: NO!)
THE MAIN CHARACTERS (in order of appearance)
ACATL “By my face and by my heart, I’ll bring you justice.” High Priest of Mictlantecuhtli, god of death and the underworld. As such, his duties include both the obvious ones of arranging funerals and standing vigils for the dead, and the less obvious ones of investigating magical crimes and keeping the boundaries between the heavens, Earth, and the underworld intact. When Servant of the Underworld begins, he’s only recently been promoted and hates it. Has a strained relationship with his living family, due largely to not having lived up to his (dead) parents’ desires for him to become a warrior like his brother Neutemoc. Bitter, cynical, and grumpy, but devoted to justice and fairness.
Has an official character sheet.
CEYAXOCHITL “Everyone has to grow up and take responsibilities. Even small, humble priests.” Guardian of the Sacred Precinct and wielder of the power of the Duality (Ometeotl), which makes her the sworn protector of the Mexica Empire and its Revered Speaker from all sorts of mainly-magical threats. Somewhat past middle age but still very strong in her magical abilities, and something of an antagonistic mentor to Acatl. (She nominated him for the position of High Priest. He is not appreciative.) Serious and devoted to her duty, with a keen eye for potential in others. Dies in Harbinger of the Storm and you WILL cry.
NEUTEMOC “Priests hide and run away. Warriors don’t.” Acatl’s older brother, a Jaguar Knight with five children and a failing marriage. Resents Acatl for not helping to support their aging parents by becoming a warrior like he did. The central suspect during most of Servant of the Underworld’s plot, though by the end he and Acatl have begun to repair their relationship. He is strict, stern, and bitter, but truly loves his family. (In the case of his younger brother, that love is buried very deep down.)
TEOMITL “If we don’t believe in ourselves, who is going to?” Acatl’s student, an enthusiastic warrior who yearns to prove himself worthy of his power and noble rank, as well as live up to the memory of the mother who died birthing him. During Servant of the Underworld he swears himself to Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of fresh water and lakes, gaining (among other things) command over the man-eating water monsters called ahuitzotls. He is courting Mihmatini during Harbinger of the Storm; by the time Master of the House of Darts takes place, they are married. He is abrasive and proud, but also honest, loyal, and brave. And very, very ambitious. You will want to punch him several times. This is normal. (Also, I will swear that it's not just my ship-goggles being on too tight that has me thinking his relationship with Acatl is much more weighty and personal than the one he has with his ACTUAL WIFE.)
MIHMATINI “Better laugh, and smile at the flowers and jade. Life is too short to be spent grieving.” Acatl and Neutemoc’s youngest sister, a powerful magic-user who finds herself thrust into the position of Guardian during Harbinger of the Storm. Though she has no great ambitions herself—she mostly just wants to be a mother and raise children—she is ferociously protective of her family and will fight anything that threatens them. Even themselves. (Especially themselves.) Kind, caring, and light-hearted, but her acid tongue and sharp temper are not to be dismissed. "Fuck Around And Find Out" given human form.
ACAMAPICHTLI “We have always endured.” High priest of Tlaloc and a reoccurring thorn in Acatl’s side. Though he’s primarily out for his own gain and has no patience for Acatl’s refusal to play on the field of Imperial politics, they eventually form something like an uneasy truce following the end of Harbinger of the Storm. He is snarky and sardonic, but truly cares for his clergy. During Master of the House of Darts he somehow became one of my favorite characters.
TIZOC "I've always known that priests couldn't be trusted. You have just exceeded my expectations." Teomitl’s older brother, first Master of the House of Darts and then Revered Speaker. (Look, it’s not a spoiler if you can Google it.) He is cowardly, ambitious, and the closest thing this series has to an overarching antagonist. Among other things, tries to have Acatl executed during Harbinger of the Storm. Events at the end of that book only manage to make him measurably worse. "Ah There He Is, That Motherfucker, What A Tool" #1.
QUENAMI “Oh, Acatl. Such lack of tact. You are so unsuited for the Court.” High Priest of Huitzilpochtli, appointed by Tizoc between Servant of the Underworld and Harbinger of the Storm. Comes from a noble family, and is much better at diplomacy and playing politics than he is at magic. When push comes to shove, however, he can display some surprising determination. He is arrogant, scheming, and takes joy in cutting Acatl down, but presumably has some good qualities...somewhere. "Ah There He Is, That Motherfucker, What A Tool" #2.
Maps of the series’ primary setting
Setting Primers
Official Character Index
Glossary
#obsidian and blood#aliette de bodard#aliette bodard#servant of the underworld#acatl#teomitl#mihmatini#obsblood primer
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Different Skins: Part 2
Description: You’re awoken in the night to find seven strange (and oddly suicidal) men in your home–who apparently are magical creatures in disguise? Now you have a Dragon, Werewolf, Elf, Mermaid, Unicorn, Fairy living in your home and an enchanter that visits now and then. What could go wrong?
Warnings: Some mentions of gore (nothing explicit)
Posted: 05/25/2020
Tags: bts x reader, ot7
Chaos: 2,677 words
A/N: Finally getting this out of my drafts! Happy fourth day of fic-dump!
“Jimin! You can’t fly!” You called out, running over and grabbing his belt. “Namjoon! Stop challenging Jungkook, dog bites are notoriously troublesome and we can’t take you guys to the hospital. Hoseok, where’s Yoongi?”
“Still sleeping. Come play with me, Jiminie!” He came over and hugged the fairy.
“He’s no challenge!” Jungkook huffed, a growl in his throat.
Namjoon smirked, opening his mouth.
“You get one more warning and then the sword comes out again,” You warned. “And the silver!”
They hastily separated, heading into different rooms.
Hoseok had the fairy in a loving hold now, and the fairy seemed pretty satisfied with the attention.
You looked around again, trying to figure out when you lost the privacy of this upper living room. They’d only been with you for two and a half days, and already you had lost control.
“Where’s Seokjin?” You asked, realizing you hadn’t seen him since breakfast.
“I think he went outside,” Jimin answered.
You raced to grab a weapon, running down the stairs and outside.
He was sitting beside the fence, in the flowerbed, with Yoongi beside him. His fingers were deftly weaving some of the daisies that grew there into a second flower crown, the first being on Yoongi’s head.
They both looked up when you came rushing out.
Seokjin looked concerned. “Did something happen?”
You shook your head. “No, but I didn’t know whether you two would be okay out here. I actually was told Yoongi was inside, sleeping.”
Yoongi scoffed. “Who can sleep with that racket?” He was leaning against the elf, and he looked sickly pale in the shadow, but you knew it was his natural pallor. He had a sort of quiet satisfaction and curiosity, and he’d told you that he was happy and enjoying his time here (even if he’s only been here for a short while).
Seokjin patted the ground on his other side. “Sit with us. They’ll notice sooner or later and come find us. Maybe clean up the mess they’re making.”
You looked back at the house and nodded, sitting with them and smiling as Jin placed a flower crown on your head, then waved his hand and renewed the whole garden, fresh blooms filling the garden bed.
Yoongi was carefully suppressing a smile at the flowers. He bit his lip and reached out, touching one of the lilies.
Jin picked more flowers, starting to weave them into another crown. “I think Hoseok-ah will find us next. He’d look good with these flowers.”
You leaned back a bit and almost fell over.
Jin patted his shoulder. “You can lean on me. It’ll be more comfortable.”
You smiled a bit and leaned lightly against his shoulder. “It really is dangerous for you to be out here. Especially doing magic.”
He nodded. “I know. But Yoongi was upset. He’s a little sound sensitive since sound travels differently in the water.”
Yoongi pouted at the elf. “You were already out here.”
“Admiring the gardens and getting a breath of fresh air. I need to be around plants,” He explained. “And I thought just walking around would be okay. Your yard is fairly private, so I thought if I was quiet it would be okay.”
“If Taehyung ever gets back with the information, I might be able to understand what’s threatening all of you a little better.” You sighed and watched him twisting the flowers into a circle.
Hoseok came out, a little hesitantly, then hurrying once he noticed the three of you, sitting across from Jin and giving you all a tired look.
Jin placed the flowers on his head. “Overwhelmed, Hoseok-ah?”
Hoseok smiled a little, then seemed to take Jin’s sentence as an invitation to lay his head on Jin’s leg, getting comfortable. “I’m still not…I miss being…me.”
Yoongi sighed and nodded. “I understand. Everything is different like this, yet also similar.”
“I wish I knew how to help,” You murmured, frustration starting to rise up, but was suddenly quelled, as Jin made more flowers bloom. You stared hard, then smiled. “Are you using magic to calm all of us?”
“Myself included,” He whispered, running his fingers through Hoseok’s hair.
“How many times have you been moved?” You asked, reaching forward and stroking Hoseok’s hair as well.
Hoseok looked like he was half asleep already.
Jin sighed. “I couldn’t tell you. I’ve been in protective services since I was a kid. Taehyung has been the best case-worker I’ve had. He can be a little scattered, but he’s the most caring worker I’ve ever had.”
“He was being strategic when he placed you with the other boys with me, wasn’t he?”
He nodded. “He figured having one person who was used to being in the system might help.” He sighed softly. “Sorry I’m not being more helpful.”
“You’re fine. I’m just struggling to find a good groove.” You frowned a bit, trying to figure out how to accommodate all of them at once.
Then the air ripped apart and Taehyung tumbled out and face-first into the dirt—causing both Jin and Hoseok to jump.
The air sealed back up.
You sort of crawled the two foot distance, prodding his shoulder. “You kind of deserved that.”
He groaned and pushed himself up, coughing and spitting out dirt. “I know.” He then looked around and his eyes widened. “Inside.”
Jin hurried to get the other two up and then into the house while you helped Taehyung up (because he looked terribly beaten up) and into the house.
You locked the door after getting Taehyung on the bench beside the back door. “So, backyard is dangerous, got it.”
“Sorry, no, not normally. Not the way you guys were using it, but my entrance would have drawn attention.” He looked slightly apologetic. “I brought their files.”
You sighed. “Come into the living room.”
“Nice flowers,” He murmured as he limped after you.
You glanced back, hand going to your head and feeling the velvety soft petals. “Thanks.”
“How have things been?”
You stopped staring at your wreck of a living room and the three culprits responsible.
Namjoon at least looked repentant and surprised at the destruction he caused.
Jimin was playing with the feathers with gleeful giggles while bouncing on the couch.
Jungkook was still tearing apart the pillow in dog form.
“Oh, you know. There are ups and downs,” You answered, shoulders slumping.
Taehyung’s eyes were huge. “Whoa.”
Hoseok made a pained noise.
Yoongi’s mouth was hanging open and his eyes were huge.
Jin looked grim, stepping forward with a muttered word—a sort of wake of air pushing out from him and making the three trouble-makers stagger.
They looked over, wide-eyed and guilty (except Jimin, who didn’t seem to know that this was something he shouldn’t do).
“Clean it up,” Yoongi said, a strange hiss to his voice that made Jungkook’s fur go on end.
Even Jimin seemed to realize that he was in trouble because he started cleaning with the others, very quickly.
Taehyung sighed. “Let’s go upstairs to talk?”
You shrugged, but led the way upstairs while the oldest three supervised the younger three as they cleaned.
Taehyung sat after you, a little tentative, but ultimately in a tired way. He lay down a stack of folders. “Their files. All of their cases are…difficult. Dangerous. Like I said, the Oracle said this was the only place they would be safe.”
You picked up the first one. “So, Seokjin has told me two different things. That he’s only known you for a couple days, and that you’ve managed his case for a couple years.”
“Both. We only met a couple days ago, but I’ve been managing his case for a few years now. We just always missed each other when we were in the same place. He was the first case I had. His previous caseworker…well…they sort of got killed so people were reluctant to step up.”
“Sort of?”
“Technically…he’s not dead. Yet.”
“Um….”
He made a face. “I didn’t exactly know about it until after I’d taken the case on, but he sort of got put in a chamber that slows down time…while also tearing you apart.”
You stared at him. “How did he get put in there?”
“Well, there’s this dark elf…and he’s sort of hunting down Seokjin’s family…especially Seokjin…and he’s joined this other warlock and an enchantress…and…they….” He grimaced. “It’s in the file. Actually, because I took on Seokjin’s case, these guys all came to me as well when they were threatened, because it’s the same group. They’re working on something, and they need elements from all of them. Specifically them. I’m still working to find out what it is.”
You nodded slowly. “So, was this house the safest place, or was it me.”
He shrugged a little, looking down. “I told you, you come from a long line of warriors and protectors. Even your parents were protectors.”
“Is that how they died?” You asked, feeling sick. “Did they die because they were protectors?”
Taehyung nodded. “But the person they were protecting was you. Back then…there was a group that realized if they took out the warriors and protectors then they wouldn’t have to worry about them interfering with their schemes. There were a lot of lost protectors. Your parents stopped them, but the cost was their lives.”
You shook your head. “I don’t remember my parents ever protecting anyone. They were my parents. He worked 9 to 5, she stayed home and cared for me.”
Taehyung looked up again, meeting your eyes. “You really don’t remember having siblings? Not even ones you pass off as imaginary friends?”
“Not even imaginary friends. The only imaginary friend I had was a stuffed monkey toy.”
He frowned, looking at the stack of folders. “Maybe they wiped your mind,” He whispered, looking worried. “But why would they?”
You looked at the file that was sitting open on your lap. It had a series of photos of Seokjin, from when he was a child and as he grew. Then it had a whole stack of papers.
“That’s the condensed version, by the way. Only what could be released.”
“Condensed? This is condensed?” You asked, voice squeaking. “It’s a textbook.”
He nodded, looking tired just at the thought. “I had to read through the un-condensed version. I included my summary notes in each file to help.”
You nodded, noticing the hand-written page near the top after the basic profile information and before the detailed history of Seokjin’s life. “Wow.”
“His is definitely the biggest file. Hoseok and Namjoon are the only other ones who weren’t just pulled into protective services. Hoseok’s been in for…four months? And Namjoon was in for two weeks before coming here.” Taehyung’s voice was getting deeper, and you could tell he was falling asleep.
You hummed picking up the next folder. You’d investigate each file as thoroughly as possible later, right now you just wanted a brief overview.
Hoseok’s was the next you picked up, a picture of his human form (looking very surprised) and another of a very nice looking horse—sorry, Unicorn—right next to it.
Hurt during an encounter with a hunter, highly sought-out for the healing properties unicorns hold, then targeted by the “Black Rose”. Put in protective custody, but hadn’t been placed with any Protectors.
Taehyung was fast asleep, slumped on the couch.
You studied him for a moment. “Who’s protecting you?” You asked in a whisper, then sighed and turned your attention to the next file, studying the picture of Namjoon’s dragon form.
Yoongi sort of rushed in, then came and settled onto the other end of the couch, curling up and squeezing his eyes shut. “I don’t exist.”
“Okay,” You agreed softly, picking up the next file and looking at Jungkook’s pictures. Big wolf.
You probably spent a good half-hour looking through the files and slowly finding the information that you were interested in at the moment.
Then Hoseok poked his head up. “They’re done cleaning.”
You set the files aside and headed down, looking over everything.
All three had their heads hung, repentant.
You inspected the room.
The destroyed pillow.
The boys.
“We’re really sorry, y/n,” Jungkook finally said, fidgeting and voice a little thick.
“We were out of control, and we shouldn’t have done what we did. You’ve already let us stay here, it wasn’t fair of us to abuse that hospitality,” Namjoon added, bowing slightly.
“I’m really sorry,” Jimin said, voice wobbling.
You shrugged. “I forgive you. But this is how it works, you make a mess, you clean it up. Preferably before I see it. You don’t break things on purpose, or rip things on purpose. Okay?”
They nodded.
You nodded, and patted each of them on the head. “Put in a movie. Taehyung and Yoongi are asleep upstairs and I think Taehyung needs the sleep.”
They were looking at you with such big eyes.
You looked between them, then gently maneuvered Namjoon and guided him to the couch and sat him down, then Jungkook, who whimpered slightly, and finally Jimin. “Jin, can you put in a movie? I’m going to get some snacks for you all.” You smoothed Jungkook’s hair as you passed behind the couch to go into the kitchen and get different snacks and drinks for them. You’d noticed that you seemed to intuitively know what they would like to eat, which kind of scared you but was also really cool.
So, banana milk for Jungkook, coffee for Namjoon, and juice for Jimin—followed by fruit for all of them, and varying snacks for each of them individually.
You took it to them, setting it on the coffee table so you could bundle them up in the throw blankets. “How much of a lecture did you give them? They’re traumatized.”
“They’re not traumatized,” Yoongi muttered from the arm chair, apparently having woken up and come downstairs.
“They’re babies, you have to be gentle.”
“I’m not a baby!”
“I’m two-hundred years old!”
“I’m not a pup!”
“Oh shush, you’re babies.” You rolled your eyes and kept fussing over them until they were both covered, but free enough to take their snacks and drinks. “Eat. Watch the movie.”
Taehyung came down looking confused and sleepy. “Uh….”
“Sit, I’ll get you a snack.” You went into the kitchen, humming as you tried to decide what to get him, finally deciding on some fruit to hold him over because you felt like he needed a meal more than anything. You added extra strawberries to his bowl, then headed over, setting it in front of him. “Eat. Rest. We’ll talk about safety measures over dinner tonight.”
He stared at the strawberries, then nodded and started eating.
You turned toward the window when you thought you saw movement. “And defense.”
Taehyung was looking out that window as well, looking wary as he nodded agreement.
“I’m going to go double check outside,” You said, grabbing a sword. “Keep the doors locked, I have my keys. I’ll knock three times before I come back in. Anything else and you should treat it as hostile.”
Taehyung pulled out his wand, looking nervous. “Are you sure you don’t want me along?”
“I’ll be fine.”
He nodded reluctantly.
You went outside, casually looking around. Heading for the where you saw the movement. You were praying it was just a bird, but it felt like there was more to it. A bird wouldn’t make you feel this anxious.
Rustling in the bushes.
You turned that way and let out an eep of surprise, rushing to duck out of the way of the massive battle ax that was swinging down toward your head—hopefully before it took it off.
“Time to die, protector!”
“No thanks!” You replied, dodging again and then running away from the house. “I rather like living!”
An inhuman roar and you were being chased.
But at least he was coming away from your house.
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Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited Episode 9 Thoughts
Hi guys! Episode 9 got me thinking and though I didn’t want to create theories or analyzations about Fugou Keiji because we are nearing the end already, I simply can’t help myself. To be honest, I wanted to create some earlier and chat with people but my schedule didn’t side with me for the past three months. Nevertheless, here I am better late than never and excited to read other peoples’ reactions, analyzations, and theories as well. Anyways, For those who haven’t watched the recent episodes yet, there are spoilers ahead as I share my thoughts so please be cautioned! Thank you, have a nice day, and stay safe!
(Disclaimer: Any similarities with other posts are purely coincidental. Moreover, if that does happen, I am glad that there are many who think so too because that increases the probability of the statement, thought, analyzation, or theory being somewhat true.)
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Oh.my.goodness.
If I were to summarize my reaction for Ep.9? it would be those. It was nothing short of thrilling and is a perfect stepping point before we get to the climax of the show. Be that as it may, I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that we only have a few episodes left before it ends. Oddly enough, it feels as though we just began due to the pacing of the revelations. Yes, it allowed us to answer some of our previous questions but at the same time, it created new ones as well.
The first answer we were able to infer is with regards to Shigemaru Kambe. As we have gathered from the previous episodes, he was alive and supposedly went into hiding for the past 19 years after he killed his wife. Throughout that period, he was believed to be dead by both Daisuke and the world. This is with great exception of his mother who had known of this fact for a long time and even kept it secret to the point of trying to dissuade Daisuke from investigating further. Second, Daisuke's parents were both scientists who were researching an "element" called “adolium”. Such a thing was considered to be dangerous by Sayuri and despite her husband's claims that he will not use it, she completely did not trust him. This could only mean that "adolium" is something that people, powerful people, would want to have for their benefit. Unfortunately, this argument of theirs led to Sayuri leaving the house which prompted her husband to kill her because as he said, he has invested too much on the project to let it be for naught.
Though we were able to answer the question regarding the culprit of Sayuri's murder, it raises the question of what is the true purpose of “adolium”? From the last episode, it was hinted that it had something to do with energy. When it was introduced head on, it was used in a way that caused several nearby electronics to malfunction. The weird aspect of that event is that the ship itself was unharmed, and it only specifically targeted those Shigemaru's group considered to be "enemies". This realization is alarming because it basically means that they have advanced in their research, against Sayuri's efforts to prevent them from doing so, and can now utilize the "element" in a destructive method. Now, what exactly will they use it for? I deduced that it would be applied in creating some kind of set of weapons. The reason I thought so is because of that episode with the president of a country from Central America. The one who visited to resign an agreement for further collaboration with the Kambe family. He was apparently affiliated with them when the latter provided resources for that president’s country’s “development”. A “development” that turned out to have caused or will cause harm to a community, as evidenced by an attempted assasination of their lives by someone who belonged to that group of people. One thing to note though is that there are similarities between the machines seen in episode 5 and 9 in that they both interfered with a specific set of electronics. Therefore, I think it is safe to assume that the machine in the earlier episode contained the aforementioned “element” as well. This theory raises new questions in how that person from that community got their hands on those technology, which seemingly belongs to Shigemaru’s group as backed by Daisuke’s discovery of it in Laboratory 3. It makes one wonder, is the family involved in some kind of civil war and profiting from it? No matter what though, we cannot deny the detail that the Kambe family provides resources, technology, and weapons to their “customers”.
Moving on, another key aspect of the mystery is why the higher ups seem to be bent on not being involved nor further investigating the case of the Kambe family. I first thought that it is mainly because they are afraid for their own lives but looking back, that doesn’t seem to be all there is to it. With all the information we have been given, I have two, maybe three if I combine them both, thoughts or theories on this. The first one is that the superiors themselves have invested on this project and are benefiting from it as a whole. It is possible that they too may have a stake in it and will be used by them to acquire future advantages. The second one is that the ones on top contain Kambes or their puppets and alliances. I pondered on this because of the Kambe family picture and how Shigemaru has been described to be the eldest child.The latter seems a little far fetched because if that were the case, why would Daisuke not know about them? Unless, it is specifically being hidden from him as to continue the image that their corporation or conglomerate is “good”, a high probability.
The last facet of this mystery so far is what they could want with Daisuke and the identity of the newly introduced characters as well as the location they are currently headed to. With regards to what they want with the former, I’m not quite sure. Daisuke obviously disapproves of whatever this “adolium” business is because of its contribution to his mother’s death and its evident dangerous nature. Shigemaru himself is aware of this, and yet why did he say that he has been waiting for Daisuke for a long time? Why did he instruct Frantz to keep him alive? With these set of questions, I could only gather three possibilities. The first one is that they could be trying to silence him about the matter at hand. They will probably try to kill him too or at least make it so that he would not want to further delve into the issue. Second, they will try to get him in on the business itself by reasoning with him as they might have supposedly did with the higher ups. The last one is that they will let Daisuke take the fall of whatever downhill event is bound to happen next, another high possibility. It cannot be denied that Daisuke is known by the world to be the head of the Kambe Conglomerate. Therefore, it would not be farfetched to think that they might be saving him for future use in taking the fall for the result of whatever they are planning to do. On the matter of the identity of the new characters, we have yet to know more. The only thing episode 9 told us is that Frantz is a multinational weapons merchant on top of being Thomas Matheson’s bodyguard. From that little introduction, it is no doubt difficult to hypothesize the extent of their role in the mystery. Nevertheless, I do have some ideas I would like to share. Frantz’s characteristic of being a weapons merchant aligns with the certainty we had that the Kambe family produces and sells weapons. It would then make sense for them to be related, but what intrigues me is his listed job as a bodyguard which could be some sort of coverup for his true job. The question is, is he the boss or is he just a representative of his true boss? Additionally, is Thomas aware of Frantz’s involvement with the Kambes? Is he another leader of a country? or better yet, is he himself part of the masterminds or true bosses? We can only know for sure in the next episode. As far as I can conclude though, it would seem that Frantz is an underling, given his actions, of an even bigger persona and that the Kambes are profiting from discords and strife.
With everything they have given us, there are quite a lot of ways it can go. So in consideration of all these notions and ideas, we can only wait for future revelations, confirmations, and validations. To be completely honest, I cannot wait for this mystery to be further unfolded.
Predictions:
Based on a post (link) I saw earlier, it seems that Episode 10 will contain epic scenes. According to the source, the FKBU team apparently called in the director for Shingeki no Kyojin and Kabaneri Fortress to aid in this specific episode. As a result, they themselves are still in awe of how it turned out when they all worked on it together. Now given this information, it fuels my curiosity to the brim and I simply can’t wait for tomorrow. It seems to me that the scene wherein Daisuke and Haru fight side by side in the opening is about to come true. Imagine that sequence and the possibility of the background music being the OP Navigator, and we will get one hell of an iconic scene. Moreover, I can’t wait to find out who are the other people involved in this scheme and what is “adolium” going to really be used for, because as far as we know, it has something to do with energy and interference. Additionally, we are already aware that the ship is headed for Panama, a famous country that is known for its transit through the Panama Canal. Is it their destination or is it simply a stop over? I guess we'll just see tomorrow!
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Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Breaking news
A fire in the suburbs leaves home to its foundations. It has been confirmed of the family of three who lived there, two have died and the son of the couple is missing.
You are asked if you have information about the boy, notify the authorities immediately.
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“He was getting better”. The teacher thinks as she reads the news in the morning paper. It was on the first page with large letters and a semi-censored photo. Bellwood was a small city; everyone knew who was spoken of when they mentioned the family only by last name.
The Tennyson family. How? When? And most importantly, why?
Ben was improving, his last jobs were going well. Everything seemed normal with him. Same attitude, just a different approach in your work. She had seen it only yesterday! Sitting in his usual seat doing a joke in bad taste!
The classroom filled while she continued in her musings. All seats occupied except one.
―Since it is the last day of school, I think we can exhaust the work and spend a recreational time. ― The children howled excitedly. Saving the newspaper, she sat at his desk contemplating the empty seat in the middle.
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Kevin was walking the streets of Bellwood. Yes, at that point he should have left the city, but he had stayed for the tranquility of the city. Of course it was not because of the boy who had helped him. Of course not.
“That will be ridiculous”. With his hands tucked in his pockets, he stepped in front of a television store when the news channel caught his attention. He paid half attention to what the T.V. said until the image of a familiar face was shown.
-Ben ... - Missing? His dead parents? No traces of the culprit. Nor where Ben could be from. His first thought was the robots that had attacked them. The boy was obviously in a big problem, but he did not want to go deeper than necessary. He simply gave him a phone with a promise now empty.
"Dead, I'm sure he's dead." Kevin stumbled backwards crashing into a man who saw the same news.
―An unfair universe Do not you think? He was just a boy. ― The tall man with the padlocked beard did not see him when he spoke about the news, his eyes glued to the screens. Kevin returned his sight to the screens before nodding. ― Did you know him? ―
―Something like that. I just know he don´t deserve this. ―
―A lot of people don´t deserve a faith so cruel, but are creatures who doesn´t care the destruction leave in its path. ― All his attention it was now in the tall man who looked back.
―Why I feel you know more than the news? ― He suspicions glaze concentrate in the man with the enigmatic smile, “Who is him?”
―Maybe because I knew more than you imagine. ― He start to walk an away to Kevin. ― If you want to know more, you can come with me and find out. ―
Kevin thought for a moment. “It was just a good person”. Kevin start to follow the man until he was side him.
―Kevin Levin. ―
―Nice to meet your agent Levin, my name is Servantis. ―
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They television screen was black for some time. When the news began to pass the photos they had on the scene of the crime her mother had covered his eyes, something useless since she ended up seeing everything, and her father turned off the TV as fast as he could, again useless. Both adults mobilized, called the authorities, their grandfather, anyone who could help them understand what had happened or find a culprit.
Gwen simply stood still, sitting in her place in the lounge chair. Paralyzed, in shock. She saw it yesterday. Her favorite uncles, her cousin's fool. It was only yesterday. She hopes something, perhaps that her uncles would enter the door of her house saying that the news was false, followed by Ben who began to mock her for believing that.
Nothing happened. The sounds around her grew numb, tears came down from her eyes. She was not going to see him again; she was not going to call him a fool again. They were not going to go that trip with their grandfather. She was not going to bother him again. They were not going to share birthdays again. Why?
Because Ben is dead
Her mind was lost; she was not truly conscious around her. In the chaos that her mind reflected to the outside world.
Frank went to see his daughter finding her levitating on the sofa with a pink glow around her body and lights coming out of her eyes while screaming in pain, throwing slings of power that destroyed the entire room. Undoing and doing everything over her will.
― Gwen! ― His scream alerted his wife and his father, who arrived recently. He never thought that his daughter could inherit his mother's powers.
They tried to calm her down, but they could not even get close to her without their energy driving them away. So much power and so little control. Not that they could blame her. Frank felt a familiar presence enter his house, a little before a trail of calm pink light came down from the ceiling and approached his daughter.
With a touch to Gwen's temple, the energy that came out of it began to fade until it was completely absent. He approached his mother in an anodic way that had her granddaughter passed out in her arms.
Everyone exhaled in horror at the sight of Gwen's face, above and below her left eye was a lightning-shaped wound that shone brightly pink.
A rupture of his humanity.
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Plumbers Report # 1324. Case of the Tennyson family.
After reviewing the area indicated by the anonymous, which is still being searched, the tests show alien technology. Specifically, from the conqueror Vilgax. No trace of him is found, beyond DNA tests (Blood).
Dead:
Carl Tennyson
Sandra Tennyson
Missing:
Benjamin Tennyson
Vilgax The conqueror
Notes:
Destroyed pieces of what appears to be Galván technology were found.
It was little, almost nothing. And that only made him angry even more. Max wrinkled the sheet in his hand, throwing it away from his sight. His son and his daughter-in-law, dead. And his dear Ben disappeared. Will Vilgax have taken it? Was he dead or in space? Why did this happen?
Many questions filled his head and none of them found an answer. Furious tears fell from his eyes as he knelt on the floor of his camper, he does not know how long he cries before felt the arms of his ex-wife surrounding him in a hug.
So long lying, so long wanting to protect his family from his work. For nothing. If hiding it did not save them from the dangers of space, perhaps training them was the solution.
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He felt pain. A lot of pain throughout his body. Like a flare of fire that slowly destroyed him, burning every part of his being. And then relief, gradually everything was disappearing the pain that previously killed him now was leaving him free.
He did not know how long his eyes were closed, maybe too much, because when he opened them he had to close them again because of the few lights that were incandescent for him.
― Don't move much, Benjamin. ― A voice, small but soft. Old, but known. Fill his senses giving him a feeling of being safe. ―The damage you did to your imprudence is almost healed. It will not be the same as before, but you will survive. ―
His dry throat cried out for water in the form of a cough, a hand he did not recognize raised his head carefully as brought a glass of water to his lips. He drank what he could without choking.
― How you feel? ― This time he opened his eyes carefully focusing on the little being. Familiar and distant at the same time.
― I been better. ―
― Obviously. How it occurred to you to take the omnitrix despite my warnings goes beyond my knowledge. ―
―Omnitrix ... ― That sounded familiar, he just could not put his finger on why. ― You're the omnitrix? ―
Azmuth stared at him for a second without expression, even though inside he was mortified. “Of course, how could I expect that cell damage would not affect his memory. Although this could be a good thing.”
Azmuth ran his hand over Ben's head, instinctively reaching out for comfort.
― I have a lot to explain to you, Benjamin. But for now you have to rest. ― The boy nodded before entering the arms of Morpheus. Azmuth gave him one last look before leaving the medical room with Mayx following him.
― Then, when are you going to return to earth? ―
―I'm not going to do it. ― Mayx opened her eyes in surprise before smiling shamelessly.
― Don't take you for a kidnapper or the fatherly type. ― Azmuth did not answer simply kept walking in his main lab. With the arrangements of the omnitrix there was, to put it in some way, healed Ben. Although now all his life will have to have the omnitrix stuck to his wrist. ― Exactly, what will you do with him? ―
― What do you care? ―
― I´m curious, not every day you see the all knowledge Azmuth careen for someone beside him. ―
―If you are so interesting, he will stay here we me. Him and the omnitrix will be save for all the creatures of the universe. ― He “great” invent cause all this disaster. All this damage, if just can destroyed. But for now it the only thing keeps alive Ben.
Benjamin, the boy who give everything to save something it was worthless.
―That sound like a father will said. ― Azmuth give her a dirty glaze before back in his things. He has to fortify the defense and put camouflage fields.
―If you don´t have anything to do here, I suggestion to leave. Your services for the omnitrix are not necessary. ― Mayx thing about for a minute looking this Azmuth who are transformer, if he knew or not it was irreverent. She wants to see how all this will develop.
―I think I will stay, maybe help you with that defense. ―
―Do want you want. ―
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Hello guys, girls, and non-binaries! As you can see this is the last chapter, but I will leave a space for questions you want to ask me. Things you did not understand, points that you found intersting, or just comments can do it in this section that I will answer. So leave your opinions and have fun.
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Warning: this message might shock most people, although I assume only people with an interest in these issues are likely to read it till the end, and if you are an ex-anorexic or bulimic, or a person scanning the web in search for potential culprits against your good sense, this is perhaps not going to please you. All the same, I will write it.
Since I have been living with eating disorders, more than a decade, and very nearly two decades have elapsed, and since I have joined Tumblr in a hope of finding some comfort and expressing myself at times like “these”, not even one decade has elapsed. I am a boy, I am twenty-eight, I have suffered from eating disorders for as long as I can remember, at about when switching from childhood to adolescence. I have taken a lot upon myself, and am still taking quite a lot, either out of habit or by sheer automatic resignation. I have finished my studies, I have my university diploma, I have remained at the same workplace for several years and I am both reliable and disciplined. But in the last ten years, I have been hospitalized a dozen of times, most of which upon my own free decision, and always seemed to recover a little more each time from I knew not what exactly, but that made me heartsick to the extent of driving myself to suicide on several occasions (at least 5, almost successful, by severe poisoning). I did not heed, at first, that my parents and their controlling temperament and conduct towards me might have the invisible cause behind all my self-destructive behaviours. I still find it hard to evaluate to what extent their pressurizing and eternally unsatisfied influence has driven me to hate myself only, to bear all the pain and to live only a small percentage of what is normally called “life” only to justify my existence and temper their grave looks upon my miserable person. The first thing to be said is that anorexia, bulimia, eating disorders in general and all feverous afflictions, when befalling a young person, girl or boy, is never a “fancy”, nor an invention of problems that were nonexistent beforehand, but a real discomfort, if not a living pain that is being converted into self-destruction, for want of a proper way out to an every-moment-guilt of being alive, under the control pf one’s parents, for they are authorities that are not to be gotten rid of as long as the child is a “minor” or is under their tutelage. Even when this comes to pass, the sentiment of the child who has lived under such a control for years, legally speaking, may and sometimes will inevitably reproduce his unhealthy patterns, either by the constant skin-deep memory of his former captivity of lack of freedom, which, after all, and I understand it now, is the sole and only motive for eating disorders in an adolescent and for an entire-life-wrecking nervous indisposition. I have noticed that at a healthy distance from my parents, I thrive rather well, although I still am fragile, and that when I am intensely with them for at least three or four days, this fragility is increased twice, thrice or more, proportionally to the albeit small time I have passed in the fateful company of my parents, who, despite what might be concluded from the above-written, are loving and caring, and wish nothing but my wellbeing. How then is it possible to feel, to declare oneself oppressed and pressed if one’s parents do not beat or ill treat one ? This is the whole issue: the pain inflicted by controlling parents is infinitely more subtle than any amount of “Physical” beating or mistreatment. All the more, that it is involuntary, and the parents do not realize the pain they are inflicting, and their ignorance of their very own misbehaviour is greater as they don,t understand that their love for their children is being counterproductive and is actually undermining their child’s development into healthy adults, and most of the time, driving them to self-destructive behaviours. This is no victim-playing, one has better things to do than looking, and even finding, guilt where it dos not have an actual existence. But in this lies the problem of nervous disorders into young people and their subsequent mark left upon the young people who have become adults and have to live with their self-destructive envies or direct behaviours, probably until they die, having half-lived only, become the ghost of their either living or dead parents has taken much of their energy and has achieved its final task: make oneself self-hating although alive and “functional” in society. I know why initially, eating disorder suffering patients were rightfully and tactfully removed from their families, from the sickening environment almost entirely manifested by the parent(s) or care-giver, of whoever while wishing the best for one’s child, drives her or him to seek freedom from the yoke through means by which they can escape, both physically and emotionally, and breathe, and while in the presence of the yoke-masters, feel themselves free, at least temporarily, by taking control over the only things they have any over: in this case, food intake, calorie outtake, etc. Drug problems, self-harm, and the like, are all ways of coping with a pressure than has become internalized and persists even when the subject is withdrawn from his familial environment for one’s best recovery or when one is definitely away from it. So tis is what I feel today, and what I come to realize. Of course, I am aware that this may be my case only, and that for all sorts of people, all sorts of circumstances are accountable for all sorts of joys and pains, and consequent self-building or self-destructive behaviours; that all cases of nervous indispositions are not imputable to the familial environment or the parental controlling facies, yet, this is my case and for my wellbeing, I must try to formulate it in a rational manner both for myself and for those whom it might be of use to to read these sentences and find that, as invisible as it is, the cause of their nervous disorders (I must insist, also, that a nervous disorder is not a mere nervosity or stress felt from time to time, but a fundamental indisposition of the whole nervous system, that affect the entire life and both physical and mental health of an individual, and it often drives one from depression to anxiety and back again, until one either is taken into a hospital for rest, or commits suicide although the material conditions in which he lives are what most of our “gentle-natured philanthropists would consider to be far above 2/3 of the world’s average material conditions). The whole point of this is not to throw guilt everlastingly upon one’s parents for all that happens, far from it. But if one is of a fragile nervous disposition and his parental environment does not help this disposition otherwise than retrogressively, as in my case of a till-here lasting eating disorder and as I imagine, of several if not most other people, girls or boys, with eating disorders, then severance from those austere parents is perhaps the first and most important step to be taken, either by the patient’s initiative or by his therapist. It may not be advisable in all cases, as the patient’s have different personalities and have received the more or less bad influence from their own different environments, but I am quite certain that in many instances of anorexia or bulimia or other EDs, this severance is salutary, and may, at the patient’s will, be prolonged as indefinitely as needed, for the invisible controlling influence can follow the patient, as I have already said, like a ghost, it matters not if the parents are still “physically” alive or not, or have been “objectively” demanding/austere/controlling/oppressing. The goal of this is not to spend one’s life in accusation of one’s parents, nor to remain mournful of one’s past, but once this step made, this important step, for the patient to be able to distinguish the part of himself that WANTS to suffer, to destroy himself and punish himself (eating disorders are self-harming coping methods, again, that can become internalized and last within the individual even years after the last definite severance from the individual’s unheeding parental environment/influence. I have repeatedly insisted upon this point, because once understood, as an underlying rule to unlock a difficult calculus of mathematics or physics, it will become not only easier, but truly feasible for the patient, whether he his 12 or 30, to know herself or himself and, as I had started to disert upon a little earlier, to know that his unhappiness is rooted in a self-hated that is rooted in a distorted perception of one’s worth and value as a human, as she or he perceives herself of himself as the direct product of his parents and must be perfect in every way and every instance, until it becomes untenable and metamorphoses itself into an altogether endeavour for irreproachability and self-control, which in its turn becomes what we call an “eating” disorder”. This is no freudian explanation of the mother or father sense within the child who either wants to kill the latter in order to freely fuck the former or simply hates them and eventually, himself, and strive never to resemble either of them by saying yes when they say no and reversely. This only means that the motive for an eating disorder is, in many cases, whether felt immediately and clearly or not, or only later, and to various degrees, a consequence of one’s unhealthy parental behaviour. I have written all this because it has become clear over time, gradually, and not all at once nor in a very definite and clear perception, for it is likely to change over time, as I live on, but these two tendencies, I have observed to remain constant and increasingly self-evident over time, regardless of individual circumstances: that is, 1) that my self-observation has always led me to understand that my self-destructive tendency varies along with my frequentation and near-sensing of my parents, who renew my self-hate, diminish or augment it proportionally, 2) that as long as eating disorders have been observed, whether they had already received a name of some sort or this generally nowadays accepted name, the tendency of the observer was that either the mother or the father had a devastating influence upon their child, an influence which, albeit invisible or at least very subtile, is very real and real enough to drive the child to self-destruction although their material condition is either normal or above the average. They are unhappy and feel oppressed enough to starve themselves, or to purge themselves, or have suicidal thoughts and or behaviours. Even in ancient cases, such as the all-too-famous on of Santa Caterina da Siena, the anorexic behaviour was associated if not entirely attributable to the mother’s controlling influence. In some other cases, modern or ancient, it may be the father’s controlling influence, which, of course, might not be physically agressive, but, upon a subtler plane, emotionally, intellectually, agressive, often when he has achieved some degree of intellectual authority and tries to impress it upon his child’s senses that she or he is to be at least equally rigorous, important or what not, which the child would have fain achieved even, and better so, without this moral pressure upon her or his nerves. Now, there are things upon which one cannot go back, but it is important, at least for me at this moment, to identify this cause, and to work from the knowledge of that efficient cause of the nervous/eating disorder to move forward, and have a decent life, because one cannot have it unless one makes this turn upon oneself and sees that what impedes one is the parental ghost, and I mean this without any psychoanalytical sentiment, for I do not see it as intervening in the eating disorder instance. This is equally true in the case of the freudian explanation of anorexia, that the mother being the material feeder of the child, the child stops eating when his mother’s will she or he fells antagonistic to its own. This is good for allegorical mythology, but not for practical problems that demand a practical solution: in this instance, what has to be understood, and what indeed HAS a relationship with either of the patient’s parents or with both, is that across time and space, this relationship is the root of the problem, which itself is not a one-sided guilt, it would be too easy, but rather a bad or shock meeting of genetic nervous indisposition on one side and of an austere or controlling parental influence on the other. Eating disorders become the only way out imaginable for this situation that involves no culprit but that involves as surely as possible at least one victim: the child who seeks freedom from a legal bondage, and tries to grow and to develop herself or himself under this constant nervous strain. The formerly eating-disordered children who, like myself, have gone into the adult age still carrying their self-destructive patterns and have tried to be a good citizen while waking with the envy of suicide in the morning and going to bed in tears, sleeping by the grace of strong drugs and working like a normal person by who knows whose grace, must, I declare it bluntly, turnabout and sweet is the cause of their lasting pain and poor mental health, which, in this instance, affects the whole physical organism equally, and can damage it permanently (the nervous indisposition has already a disabling effect upon the entire being, both during the adolescent growth wherein the individual is normally meant to build himself, and after the end of hormonal growth when one is an adult; the added problem of an eating disorder, superposed upon this already fragile nervous system, may be very destructive physically, and even more so as time rolls on, but also on the mind and the emotional faculties, which become prematurely tired and strained, especially when entertained over years, and eventually decades). I therefore conclude my long word, and also congratulate my reader upon his patience, by saying that an eating disorder is controlling parental influence + genetic nervous disposition and that the recovery can neither be forced upon the patient as an evidence nor even occur in the mind of the patient while her or his father or mother has not been identified as the cause of her or his emotional imbalance, and subsequently and consequently, been put aside from one’s life and definitely either discarded or healthily dealt with (by regulating, if not abolishing, the rapports one has with one’s parents or with the one in question that has an unhealthy bearing upon the child’s nerves). Now, this is only my opinion, and I perhaps imagine everything and I am not sick after all and all this is but a bad dream... But, on the other hand, I know not why, I feel that most eating disordered people, young or less young, will relate with the few statements I have abode made, and find that they describe their own cases quite accurately, because what I have singled out as the one invariable ou almost invariable tendency across time and space, in the case of EDS, is the parental influence, and it is a tendency because it cannot, totally at least, be dissociated from the very problem of EDs, and I am quite sure that those who have read this hitherto shall feel that they are not alone, and that behind their apparent madness, and underneath their emotional pain, there is something quite similar across the cases, and that something subtle lies at the foundation of it, something that has its constancy across the circumstances, and that determines the appearance of the coping method known under the name of eating disorders.
Saturday the 18th of May, 2019
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By the Book (pt. 1)
A KuroDai Secret Santa gift for Pau (@pokomero_ at twitter).
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Daichi stops in front of barred room, looking into the dimly lit cell and pointedly stares at the shadowed figure lounging on the single bed attached to the wall.
“I know you’re awake,” he says after a few minutes of silence from the occupant of the cell.
There’s a light chuckle before the shadowed figure moves to sit up. “You know me too well,” the man drawls, earning an eye roll from Daichi.
“Come here. I need to speak to you.”
With a sigh, the man gets up and shuffles indolently towards the bars, where the lights on the hallway illuminates his face, a smirk already in place.
“Did you miss seeing my face, Sawamura?” The man’s tone is playful, but the glint in his eyes spells otherwise.
“It looks especially good behind bars, Kuroo,” Daichi replies with a fake smile that got wider when Kuroo drops the smirk and narrows his eyes at him.
“What do you want?” Kuroo’s voice takes a hardened edge.
Daichi drops the friendly façade as well, adopting a serious demeanor. “Someone broke into the Athenaeum last night and stole a few volumes of the Compendium from the Vault. Do you know anything about it?” He asks, getting straight to the crux of the matter.
Kuroo raises a brow at the information. “Someone broke into the Athenaeum? Again?” He whistles, clearly in admiration of the feat.
“Do you know anything about it?” Daichi asks again, through gritted teeth, keeping his anger at bay.
“I’m sure you haven’t failed to notice, but I’m currently locked up at the moment. I’m touched though, that you think I’m capable of running heists while imprisoned.” Kuroo says, putting a hand above his heart and bowing a little smugly, which earned him a glare from Daichi.
Kuroo huffs. “I don’t know anything. But if I ever get a chance to meet them, whoever they were, I’d like to shake their hand and congratulate them on successfully one upping you lot.”
“Your group isn’t behind this?” Daichi asks, suspicious, trying to gauge Kuroo’s expression for a hint that his lying.
Kuroo scoffs. “My group aims for aspirations higher than that. Why steal books about history when you can steal a book of life?”
Daichi hums. “Why indeed. Though I feel the need to remind you that you also failed on stealing a book of life.”
“I only failed because they were wrong about you.”
Daichi only looks at him with a bit of pity, but soon shakes his head. “Well, it seems that you really don’t know anything about it, surprisingly. But once I learn that your group is actually behind this, you might be sharing this cell with a few of your members.” He steps back just as Kuroo snarls viciously at him at the mention of threat to his group members. “Until then, enjoy your stay.”
Daichi tips his head in a small nod to the guard nearby.
Kuroo just rattles the bars of his cell in response, but Daichi’s already walking away without looking back.
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When a person is born, their soul is linked to a book that details their life from the day they were born up to the day that they die. Any change in the book will result to a change in their life’s path and a book’s destruction will cause the death of the person that owns it.
A few centuries ago, the books used to be entrusted to the person for safekeeping, as it is meant to be one’s guide through life. But due to human greed and dissatisfaction, some people decidedly altered, going as far as against the prescribed events in their book of life, some to gather more riches, some to extend one’s life, but ultimately fostering chaos and creating imbalance among the people.
It is when the collective governments ruled about keeping the Books in one place to avoid all of that and restore fairness, peace and order and those people that did not support this edict, while not treated as enemies of the state and will not be actively pursued by the Guardians, they were considered outlaws and were forced out of their respective districts to fend for themselves. Such is the price they pay for their supposed freedom.
Hence, the law criminalizing Alteration and the establishment of the Athenaeum.
The Athenaeum is the proud and large six story, distinctly domed building, lined with marble pillars and tall windows, with a vast underground Vault, located at the heart of the central district-Shiratorizawa. It houses the citizens’ books of life, both alive and dead. As designated by the book, there are people from different districts that were given jobs as Book Keepers, tasked to keep the books safe and to relay the prescribed activity to the respective citizens of their district.
Sawamura Daichi is the Head Book Keeper for the district of Karasuno. And like the other Keepers, he has a case on his hands.
The resurgence of Outlaws had been happening for over a few years now, and only few of them have been caught so far. One of them is Kuroo Tetsurou, the infamous leader of the Resistance, a group of Outlaws actively rebelling against the Government regarding the keeping of the books in the Athenaeum and letting it dictate the people’s life, going as far as propagating lies about its nature. People know better than to believe them, but that doesn’t seem to deter them. They tried to be aggressive though.
Daichi met Kuroo when he was caught in an attempt to steal Daichi’s book of life, perhaps to try and alter it, but he was thwarted by Daichi himself, who had been working late that night and was promptly turned over to the Guardians. His group laid low after he was caught, and things were normal. At least, until last night, when some of the Compendiums were stolen.
Compendiums are not as significant as the Books and are stored in the Vault along with the books of the dead, but they are kept as compilations of significant happenings throughout the course of history. In time of peace and order, and people living harmoniously, the only entries are about the ruling government and their achievements thus far.
However, the missing volumes, as what Shimizu had told him, are the earliest ones, particularly from the time before peace was restored, detailing the significant events when Books are still personal possessions. Therein lies the complication as Archivists and Keepers alike have reasons to believe that Outlaws probably stole them to gather information to aid their wayward cause.
“Any luck?” Sugawara’s up from his seat, even before Daichi can fully enter the Hall, where the rest of the Karasuno Book Keepers are waiting for him to hear the results of his investigation.
Daichi shakes his head, taking off his long coat, depositing it in the back of a chair. “He said he doesn’t know anything about it.”
“And we’re gonna believe him? Just like that?” Tanaka asks, visibly dismayed.
“He’s been imprisoned for a few months now. There are no visitors in his log.” Daichi replies. It would be a mistake to do so, after all, since any association with a known outlaw is enough grounds to be detained as well until thoroughly proven to be innocent.
“So what are we going to do?” Asahi worriedly looks around at his fellow Keepers.
“Our jobs,” Daichi answers decisively. “Security’s been tight since the incident, and while the Guardians are doing their best to find the culprit or culprits, we run things as normally as we should as well.”
Little did Daichi know that that is easier said than done.
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“-ichi! Daichi!” Daichi huffs and groans as he slowly registers the sensation of being shaken.
“Daichi, wake up!” He opens his eyes, blinking until the dimly illuminated face of Takeda comes into focus.
“…Sensei. Wha’s wrong?”
Takeda doesn’t answer him, but pushes something hard against his chest instead and throws clothes and a heavy cloak on top of him. “You have to hurry!” Takeda says with alarming urgency.
Daichi blinks the confusion out some more before looking down, and fishing the hard object, coming out with a familiar book. “Sensei, what’s happening?” He’s awake and alert now, looking around the room for potential danger. “Why did you bring my book?” The Books are meant to be kept in the Athenaeum and under no circumstances can they be taken and brought out.
Takeda turns to him, away from packing a satchel on the writing desk. “You need to leave, Daichi. It’s not safe for you to stay here.”
“Why?”
“I heard that the Guardians are coming to arrest you.” Daichi recoils in disbelief in that, until Takeda continues. “They think you stole the Compendiums.”
Daichi stiffens, stands frozen as white-noise pass through his ears, Takeda’s words repeats inside his head, then he snaps and straightens, eyes wide. “Wh-What?! Bu-but I didn’t! Sensei, I didn’t! Why would I do that? How did they think that?”
He’s done everything to be a model citizen, following orders and doing his job as Head Book Keeper seriously and religiously, setting an example to his fellow Keepers and their Scholars, basically living life by the book. Surely the Guardians know this. Why would they suddenly think that he’s going to turn and side with the Outlaws?
Takeda steps in front of him and grasps his shoulders. “I know, Daichi. I know. But they’re set on arresting you.”
“But why?!” He’s done nothing wrong.
“You visited Kuroo in the wake of the disappearance of the Compendiums. They seem to take it as circumstantial evidence of you working with him.”
Daichi feels like a bucket of frozen water was dumped on him, his earlier words come to mind, as if mocking him. He curses. “But I’m not! I was investigating! I wanted to know if he knows anything! If his group had anything to do with it!”
“Daichi, I know. I know you wouldn’t do that, but they don’t. A guard heard your conversation with Kuroo and whatever Kuroo told you, they find very incriminating.”
Daichi rapidly leafs through the memories of his encounter with Kuroo yesterday, and groans cursing Kuroo in his head when he remembers the bit about mentioning his failure and pinning the blame on Daichi.
“I can explain it to the Guardians, sensei. I’m sure they’ll believe me.” Running away is just… wrong, especially since he knows that he’s done nothing wrong and he’s not afraid to stand for the truth. He can prove his innocence.
“They will need the Compendiums back, Daichi. That’s the only way you can prove your innocence. Until those are back, you’ll be detained. We don’t know how long that will take.” The worry in Takeda’s eyes, in his whole being culminating in his shaking hands. Daichi’s seen his mentor be anxious about the smallest of things before, but it’s never like this, and never has anything to do with Daichi, for Daichi. But at the moment it’s so potent that Daichi swallows in fear of what’s in store for him if he stays.
“But… but this isn’t in my book. And the others, I can’t just-”
“Daichi, please! I’ll take care of the others, but you need to leave. They could be here any moment.”
Daichi doesn’t waste time changing into the deep brown tunic and khaki trousers, and cloak and well-worn boots, a garb simpler and inconspicuous than the distinct Keeper uniform of dress shirt and vest and slacks he wears to work, hastily pushing his book inside the satchel Takeda’s insistently pushing into him and clutching it close like a lifeline.
“Where will I go sensei?”
“Anywhere but here, Daichi. And not your district, that’s the first place they’re going to look. Get as far as you can! To another district, anywhere.” Daichi nods hastily, grabbing Takeda’s hand and squeezing it, a last ditch effort to get some comfort. He steps out and looks around the surroundings.
“Daichi,” he looks back at Takeda. “Keep your book with you at all times, alright? And stay safe.”
Daichi nods, slinging the satchel across his body and pulls the hood of the cloak over his head. He takes a deep breath and runs.
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She felt it all—too keenly, too sharply.
Nesta is accused of ill-treatment of her younger sister (abuse and violence against Feyre), but Nesta has many reasons for this behavior - and Nesta's cruel words do not mean that she does not like her younger sister. Otherwise, Nesta would never risk her life for her sister and other people. Nesta's current condition - her rudeness, her cold behavior, alienation from the outside world (after ACOFAS’s events she’s totally cut off from the outside world) - is the only way to keep her emotions, to keep her inner rage under control. And in fact, Nesta is in deep depression. The core of depression is sadness, especially when this depression is combined with despondency, shame and hostility. And Nesta experiences each of these terrible feelings.
In the life of the whole family there have been global changes.
Firstly, the irreplaceable loss of a loved one – the unspeakable loss of the mother. For a person like Nesta, it was a real tragedy. A person needs to try to get through this and begin to live an ordinary life. They adapt quickly to hide their true feelings.
“My mother. Imperious and cold with her children, joyous and dazzling among the peerage who frequented our former estate, doting on my father—the one person whom she truly loved and respected. But she also had truly loved parties—so much so that she didn’t have time to do anything with me at all save contemplate how my budding abilities to sketch and paint might secure me a future husband. Had she lived long enough to see our wealth crumble, she would have been shattered by it—more so than my father. Perhaps it was a merciful thing that she died”.
It seems that right after the death of her mother Nesta had to build her inner walls to save and to protect herself in order to continue to live on, because most people after following shock and helplessness, have the strongest awareness of their profoundly personal rejection. Finally, there are accusations, disappointing attempts to escape from the realization of the guilt. These people are trying to shift responsibility for the loved one’s death onto anybody else. This person needs a "scapegoat". Nesta’s father became her own scapegoat. Nesta believes that her father is responsible for the death of her mother. Then she started having these irrational bursts of anger at him- she believed that he could save their mother, or he was the cause of the death of their mother and directed her rage toward him.
“I wanted to see if he would ever try to do it himself, instead of carving those bits of wood. If he would actually go out and fight for us. I couldn’t take care of us, not the way you did. I hated you for that. But I hated him more. I still do.”
“Does he know?”
“He’s always known I hate him, even before we became poor. He let Mother die—he had a fleet of ships at his disposal to sail across the world for a cure, or he could have hired men to go into Prythian and beg them for help. But he let her waste away.”
“He loved her—he grieved for her.” I didn’t know what the truth was—perhaps both.
“He let her die. You would have gone to the ends of the earth to save your High Lord.”
And that’s quite interesting, because here Feyre admits «I didn’t know what the truth was—perhaps both», so Nesta's true tragedy lies in the secret of her mother's death. What was happening in the family at that moment? Where was their father and what did he do when their mother was dying?
“Her cowardice, selfishness. The rage that had consumed her, so that she wanted them all to starve, just to see if their useless father would bother to save them. And then little Feyre had stepped in, and Nesta had hated her for it, too—that Feyre had done the unthinkable and kept them alive”.
In fact, such emotional walls that Nesta built up are a very well-known psychological state, and these “walls” protect people from painful feelings and thoughts. But they also cause the appearance of their changed forms of behavior. Thus, we can say that such emotional walls have their pros and cons.
In the case of searching for a "scapegoat", the feeling of anger does not disappear. This feeling is simply hidden. Anger remains with a person, deeply hidden, and exudes its poison. If this person spends the remaining days chasing scapegoats, then most of their life will be useless: they will experience constant bitterness, which will cripple their personality. In addition, such emotional walls prevent people from feeling the positive side of their existence: to get acquainted with new people, to enjoy life by itself.
One of the factors contributing to the growth of depression is rapid social change.
Nesta was not just from a wealthy family, she was almost a noblewoman, and the Archeron’s family had a real mansion. Feyre did not have time to get proper education, while older sisters had lessons of etiquette, music, and dance.
Surely Nesta already had her own idea and vision of her future, she repeatedly emphasizes the bad manners and lack of manners from other people, not only when they lived in the village among beggars, but also when she got to the Night Court. Nesta said that members of the Inner Circle knew nothing about real manners.
“Nesta had taken the loss of our fortune the hardest. She had quietly resented my father from the moment we’d fled our manor, even after that awful day one of the creditors had come to show just how displeased he was at the loss of his investment”.
“I looked at my sister, really looked at her, at this woman who couldn’t stomach the sycophants who now surrounded her, who had never spent a day in the forest but had gone into wolf territory … Who had shrouded the loss of our mother, then our downfall, in icy rage and bitterness, because the anger had been a lifeline, the cruelty a release. But she had cared—beneath it, she had cared, and perhaps loved more fiercely than I could comprehend, more deeply and loyally”.
It might sound strange, but when a person finds himself/herself in an unfamiliar environment for them - it's extremely difficult to get used to it. This is a real stressful situation. Of course, Nesta and Elain, in some ways, were born with silver spoons in their mouths - they had expensive clothes, shoes, they never thought about what it would take to think about food. For them it was not a problem, and in one day everything collapsed.
“I’d been too young to learn more than the basics of manners and reading and writing when our family had fallen into misfortune, and she’d never let me forget it”.
I have a friend, who has experienced great stress after the death of her father. In addition to the death of a loved one, she experienced severe changes in her life - she and her mother lost their fortune. And she admitted that she had never used public transport until she was thirteen or fourteen years old. I understand it may be difficult to believe something like this is possible, especially in the modern world, but everything happens. They always got everywhere by car. Conditions of life changed, something had to be sold, you need to say goodbye to your property. But when a person has never used public transport, and then suddenly it is necessary to get used to new conditions - it's really difficult. Everyone is nervous when they first come to the university or to a new job - this is a new and unfamiliar situation, new environment. So, partially, I understand Nesta, and what she had to endure. From a rich mansion to move to a collapsing house, to lose all property. Hunger, despair and destruction - all were in a state of the endless stress.
It is not excluded that the Archeron’s family spent their free time surrounded by other noble families, and when you lose your fortune, property, influence, money - you feel a sense of shame.
“As usual, Nesta was complaining about the villagers—they had no manners, they had no social graces, they had no idea just how shoddy the fabric of their clothes was, even though they pretended that it was as fine as silk or chiffon. Since we had lost our fortune, their former friends dutifully ignored them, so my sisters paraded about as though the young peasants of the town made up a second-rate social circle”.
“He could find work if he wasn’t so ashamed, Nesta always said when I hissed about it. She hated him for the injury, too—for not fighting back when that creditor and his thugs had burst into the cottage and smashed his knee again and again. Nesta and Elain had fled into the bedroom, barricading the door. I had stayed, begging and weeping through every scream of my father, every crunch of bone. I’d soiled myself—and then vomited right on the stones before the hearth. Only then did the men leave. We never saw them again”.
Angry creditors broke their father’s leg and never returned. To be honest, in real life it's difficult for me to imagine, so I have a feeling that Neste had to sell something or do something meaningful so that they would not return to their house anymore. Everyone knows that the collectors are seeking the return of any debts, they will not go until they get their money back.
Nesta is from a noble family, so she cannot bear Feyre's dirty clothes. It is possible that someone will find such words an insult to Feera, but for me Nesta feels unhappier with the fact that Feyre allowed herself to look like that. And she also disgusted with the whole situation in which they were, she did not like the fact that her sister had to go to the dense forest.
“You stink like a pig covered in its own filth. Can’t you at least try to pretend that you’re not an ignorant peasant?”
Nesta still considers herself and the rest of her family as the members of the nobility, so she is frightened by the very thought that her sister looks like a beggar.
She stepped back to run a finger over the braided coils of her gold-brown hair. “Take those disgusting clothes off.”
Everyone accuses Nesta of letting little girl go to the forest, but the real culprit was her father. Despite the fact that Nesta and Feyre are sisters, they are completely different. While Feyre is a survivor, Nesta is a fighter. Feyre wants to survive, so she goes to the forest for food, she was not forced to go to the forest - it was her way of survival, and Nesta is ready to die if it helped her father to get out of oblivion. There is another reason - neither Elaine nor Nesta would ever really have gone into the forest, at least because of the fear. Nesta chose the path of perdition in order to prove her point of view, and Feyre wanted to survive, and for this Nesta hated her.
Even in human life there are situations where people stood in fear. For example, to jump into a whirlpool, save a drowning person, or climb down the cliff, ready to extend a helping hand to those in need or in any other emergency, in which the chances of dying to save another person are very high - it's difficult. A person in ordinary life and a person who falls into a stressful situation are two completely different people and the reaction to stress is different for all of us. Someone can’t move, someone reacts with a hysteria, and someone in a state of affect does something that they would never have done in the ordinary state. Stress for them is a start for immediate action. All of these are psychological factors that need to be considered. We must admit that all people are completely different. If someone could cope with a difficult life situation, this does not mean that another person can go through a hard and thorny path with the same circumstances.
In addition, Nesta is actually looking for the Feyre’s company. Her younger sister does not understand this. Nesta does not act directly.
“How is my sister?”
So he merely said, “Busy.”
A flicker of her throat. “So busy she cannot deign to visit, it seems.”
Tomas Mandray
“Tomas Mandray?” I interrupted. “The woodcutter’s second son?”
“You can’t chop wood for us, but you want to marry a woodcutter’s son?”
Thomas is from a poor family. And for me this person in Nesta's life remains a real mystery. Why Nesta wanted to connect her life with him? What was the reason? If Thomas had money, then I would understand Nesta's decision to choose him as her future spouse. Nesta really could not help her family as Feyre did, but Nesta could get married and get some money from her husband to help her family. It is possible that Nesta hoped that her younger sister would stop going into the woods.
“Tomas had wanted to, and she … some part of her had known no future lay with him. Knew about his hateful father, and that he did nothing to prevent the man from beating his mother. She had barely let Tomas kiss her, and that day when she had ended it, he’d …”
She swallowed, shutting out the memory of what he’d said and done. The sound of her tearing dress. No—it hadn’t gone that far, but … The blind terror in those moments he’d tried, before she’d screamed and clawed her way free. And never told anyone”.
Nesta has never told anyone about Thomas, what he did. But it is also not easy to be a victim of violence - this is also a trauma that remains for the whole life. She was not raped, but traces of the sense of fear remain with person "blind terror in those moments". Some are ashamed of what happened, and do not want to share with someone, what happened, others have an inferiority complex. Sometimes there is a feeling that rape has placed a certain mark that distinguishes a person from others. Sometimes people are locked in themselves, not letting anyone into their inner world, not revealing their feelings and secrets. Mental trauma finds a way out in angry emotions. In psychology, there is such a phenomenon as "visible adaptation" - a person returns to the usual way of life, however depression, bouts of anxiety periodically arise.
Nesta went through a lot, and as a sensitive person, for her everything was much more complicated than for Feyre. She must take her bitter experience as something unchanging. This important moment relates to the desire to move forward and the realization that not everything is lost. Of course, throughout the whole life there can be flashbacks of memories, nightmares, but this is more of an exception.
“She didn’t know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want to rip and roar and rend the world into pieces. She felt it all—too keenly, too sharply. Hated and cared and loved and dreaded, more than other people, she sometimes thought. Could sift between them all in a matter of moments, like she was trying on different sets of clothes, and no one could tell or care”.
Nesta must let go of her emotions. Letting others see themselves as they are, and not be afraid to be rejected that is the real strength.
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In Depth - Treasure
I’ve touched on this a tiny bit in my getting started series, but I felt really talking about the loot you choose to live your players would be an excellent resource for many aspiring Dungeon Masters out there. Mostly, I want to talk about a few things in particular:
How to avoid giving players ‘too much’.
Gold, and maintaining its value.
Magic items, both minor and major.
Altering existing magical items and creating your own.
Odds are, if you’re a DM, one of these topics is something you wish you knew more about, and for good reason! Poorly handling treasure can be somewhat catastrophic, and there is no ‘safe side’ to err on.
Typically, though, you don’t need to get ‘all’ of treasure management right to keep your game engaging. In addition, there are a few band-aid solutions that can come at certain progression points to help patch up issues. I’m going to mention these first before moving on.
Help! I gave my players too much gold!
This is a rough one. The coins your players acquire are an excellent tool for attaching weight to something. It’s important to understand that having too much money is something the party is allowed to do if they’ve just legitimately been saving it. If your party ends up with too much money because you made a mistake, however, there are a few things you can do help manage the situation...
Steal it. This is mean, but playing your players’ wealth off as a device to set up another adventure can work, assuming your players don’t lose their minds and hiss and scream and cry about it. In this scenario, I would typically steal all of it, and then have them come to find that much of it is gone when they finally track down the culprit. Making an adventure with a net loss is dangerous though, as it discourages players, which is why I’d only suggest doing this if their problem of too much money is relatively small.
Reimagine price tiers. Yes, your players have lots of money now. Those items on Magic Item Table A, B, and F that you sneak into shops from time to time only cost 1, 2, or 5 thousand gold coins (or less, if it’s consumable), and now your players have 10,000 gold a piece! Magic Items are rare though, and how much more expensive they get as they become rarer is at your discretion! You can also keep certain less-rare items more expensive purely because of how useful they are (I’m looking at you, Pearl of Power, Gauntlets of Ogre Strength, and Headband of Intellect!) Consider making these more useful items and rarer items progressively more expensive, and simply work in the wealth you’ve bestowed upon your players into that equation. You may also want to adjust the cost of land, buildings, and vehicles accordingly.
Gold sinks. Like stealing, this is kind of mean, but slapping an impassable barrier in the form of a crucial NPC needing a lot of money is good way to lighten the load of a player’s wallet. The only issue with this is that it’s D&D, and if your players are dead set on not lightening their wallet, they’re going to tear down the world you’ve built to make it happen.
At the end of the day, when you make a mistake, sometimes the best thing you can do is tell your players and explain that a change needs to be made. And yeah, you’re going to get players who tell you “No” when you say this, who say they earned it, and demand they be allowed to keep their mountain of money no matter how much it inconveniences you.
Unruly players are part and parcel of being a DM. Players who go out of their way to trip you up and gain an unfair advantage are fine, even good fun, but when one of their ploys works too well, you need to put your foot down. It’s important to understand in these situations that you’re doing the bulk of the work to keep the game running, and that your fun needs to be assured just as much as the players. Events like these can kill a campaign, but at the end of the day, you did the work and that one unruly player is throwing a tantrum over something game breaking. Call their bluff, and accept they might storm off, because that player who’s causing you a problem is cause you a problem again if they think they can get away with it.
Help! I gave my players too many magical items!
This one is actually really easy to solve: tell your players you’ve been too generous, and scale the loot back. Unless you’ve given them a ton of incredible gear, this is an issue that’s solved with time. Consider making future rewards less impactful ones, like Bags of Beans, Alchemy Jugs, and other lesser items that can make for good fun.
If you gave your players something far too powerful for their level, attach a cost to it. That incredible weapon? It was stolen, and the proper owner wants it back! Or maybe its ancient, worn by time, and at risk of breaking. Having your players roll a D4/6/8 and having the item crumble on a natural 1 is a good way to give them that taste of power without any permanence, and any lack of rolls made prior can be chalked up to you explaining they’ve used the item beyond what it was intended for.
Some players will get upset at this, but it’s not something you should ever fold on. Compromise can come in the form of them getting something in return for giving an extremely powerful item up, but never in the form of them being allowed to keep the item. Your level 4 Adventuring Party shouldn’t have a Sphere of Annihilation. Stealing the Daern’s Instant Fortress some NPC used to shield them in a moment of panic is cute, but the players using it as a 10D10 damage bomb that early in the campaign is far too destructive and inhibiting to your ability to design encounters and situations.
How to Avoid Giving Players ‘Too Much’
It’s important to understand when you start a campaign that how much magical loot your players get is entirely up to you. This can be a lot, which works well in high fantasy settings where magic is abundant and the history is vast, or very little, which works better for more quaint settings or settings where magic has come to be frowned upon and treated with distrust.
Regardless of however much loot you decide to give your players, please understand that the important detail is your consistency. If ‘feeling’ it out hasn’t gone well, or you want to be certain of your consistency, you’ll want to start classifying the adventures you offer by length, difficulty, and experience earned. Here’s a basic list to help you see the differences I’m talking about:
The easiest of the easy. Short length, easy to find, low risk, and relatively easy enemies. No significant items should be awarded here, even in High Fantasy. If the adventure comes without a gold reward, a consumable can be used in its place (a useful potion, perhaps).
A mid length adventure, something that takes a whole session (3-4 hours worth of play) and typically requires a player to make use of a short rest or two so they can conserve their resources. In this scenario, offer only a little bit more gold than what the easiest jobs offer, but add an item of worth as well. This can either be in the possession of an enemy, or in a chest somewhere.
A long adventure, sprawling multiple sessions and having multiple parts. Players should find this somewhat difficult, and if all goes well, they may even have been forced to use some of their precious consumable items. This adventure, as stated, is long and has multiple parts. Awarding 2-3 items is fine, whether they be spread out or as part of some great stockpile found at the end, at least for high fantasy. In lower fantasy, 1 item overall will be enough to earn the excitement of your players, and in the starkest of settings, having a magical item only be found half the time on such a long adventure can even be appropriate. Just remember that, in the case of especially low magic fantasy settings, these limited magical items should be memorable ones! Don’t be afraid to give the players real power, even at a lower level, as there is no plans for things to get more abundant down the road.
A finale. Regions in settings have major problems, or ancient threats that tend to resurface. When the players stumble upon an ancient evil working in the shadows, watch as it succeeds in committing regicide (King/Queen assassination), track it to its evil lair, recruit the locals to help assault said evil lair, and finally bring the monster to justice, they deserve a substantial reward. Not a lot of these are going to happen, maybe as few as 3/4/5 before the story your players’ current characters are on concludes, so don’t be afraid to cut loose. In High Fantasy, this can be as much as an item a piece for the players, as well as a large sum of gold. In lower fantasy, 1 or 2 items is fine, maybe filling out the rest of the player slots with consumables to accompany. In the starkest of campaigns, these should still guarantee at least a single magical item. If your campaign includes items of great power, like artifacts, mythical items with story-related attributes, or items that grow and become more powerful under certain conditions (or all 3!), this is a good time to hand one of them out.
With those 4 bullets, you create guidelines for yourself. You may find that even this system is too much for your tastes, but take heart, you can always dial back what the players fine. Not every adventure can or should be a big loot winner, lest your players stop being excited when finding interesting or powerful items.
Gold, and Maintaining Its Value
Gold is tough to deal with. The expenses of daily life are pitifully cheap, and even things like horses, carts, and carriages don’t demand a particularly steep price.
So, how much gold should your players earn? Well, the first thing to consider is the party size. 200 gold at level 1 is a lot, but 50 gold for each player for something dangerous (or found as the collective hoard of a group of bandits) is a little more manageable. Charging 50-100 gold for a basic healing potion makes that not very much, especially if you’re demanding your players either pay a small amount each day to cover their daily living expenses, or if you’re having them go about their day naturally and are keeping track of how good a job they’re keeping themselves fed and healthy.
As things progress, making hundreds of gold per adventure isn’t odd, and the treasure horde of a finale can quickly have each of your players coming into thousands a time. And this is okay! Sailing Ships cost 10,000gp! Magical Items cost huge sums of money as well, with items (not consumables) from Magical Item Tables A and B (Dungeon Master’s Guide, pg. 144) costing up a thousand gold each (Bag of Holding is a good example of this).
It’s okay for players to acquire these large sums of gold, and even stockpile it, so long as you haven’t flooded their wallets with the stuff. Try to remember that magical items are not common, even in High Fantasy settings. That’s why, with the exception of basic healing potions, everything basically starts with a description of ‘uncommon’ rarity. As far as Magical Item value goes, I use a scale something like this in my own campaign for magical items the players purchase (when they can find them):
Consumables A-B | 50 - 1000gp - There’s a lot of variance here, because lesser spell scrolls are very cheap, but Elemental Gems are quite powerful. Conjure Elemental, after all, is a 5th level spell, but Elemental Gems can be used by anyone, and require to concentration to maintain, making it a VERY powerful consumable indeed. Try to remember that when you price items, the odds of them being found and their value in a shop need not correlate. Value is based on usefulness, for just like in real life, having something rare does not necessarily make it valuable.
Consumables C-D | 500 - 2500gp - These are the big kid items. The one-use powerhouses that even higher level players consider valuable. These items cost a lot, but can have a serious impact on a battle when used, and typically have a price tag to reflect that.
Magic Items A-B-C-F | 500 - 3000gp - This is a big category, and it covers a wide range. Understand now, before I say anything else, that this is not meant to be a shopping list for your players. Asking around town and finding a shop with any magical items at all should be something they work to do themselves. Some of these items, like Alchemy Jugs, Caps of Water Breathing, and Driftglobes are very minor, hence the 500gp price tag. More significant items though, like Gauntlets of Ogre Strength (~2000gp Value) and Winged Boots or a Broom of Flying (~3000gp Value) are worth much more. +1 Weapons and Shields have a value that’s up to you, but understand that they bypass resistances of enemies who are resilient to non-magical equipment. In a High Fantasy setting, anywhere from 500-1500gp is fair game, depending on how heavily you wish to gate that first magical item. In lower fantasy settings, these should be difficult to come by, as they’re meaningful, and may cost upwards of 3000gp.
Magic Items G | 2000 - 10,000gp - This does not include Flame Tongue. Flame Tongue grants an additional 2D6 damage on attack rolls. For its power level, it deserves to be on Magic Item Table H. Having a chance for it to appear at ‘G’ table level is fine, but price-wise, it doesn’t fit well with the rest of Table G. The lower end of Table G typically consists of Ioun stones, as these, while powerful, can potentially be destroyed. Any and all +2 equipment should be very expensive, as should weapons that counter certain enemies while being an excellent weapon to begin with (Dragon Slayer, Giant Slayer, etc). I’d put all of these over 5,000gp in value, with Sun Blade being at the top for its proficiency rules and radiant damage typing. In general, items in Magic Item Table G are extremely impactful, often giving players the ability to do things they otherwise couldn’t, and should be treated as such when considering their cost.
Magic Items H | 10,000gp - 50,000+gp - Yeah, these items are EXPENSIVE. Priceless, even. Things like stat books should never be for sale, unless done in some black market scenario rife with danger. Simple, but powerful items (like +1 top-tier armors, +3 Weapons, and +3 Shields) should cost tens of thousands of gold coins. Items like a Manual of Golems, however, should command a truly incredible price, perhaps even at auction and pursued by powerful criminal forces or wealthy archmagisters.
Magic Items I | Don’t - I’m not kidding, don’t sell these. These items are legendary, and the very event of one being sold would be something that would draw all eyes in the world. I don’t even know how a group of players would acquire the money to afford something so sought after, but if your players do somehow find their way into unfathomable riches, you should expect these items to cost hundreds of thousands, or even millions of gold a piece.
Magic Items, both Major and minor
I’m almost a little regretful that this section is so late, but that’s just how it worked out this time.
Magical items are exciting. This is an undisputed fact, even if their effects aren’t wholly useful in combat. We already know what Major items are, they’re the items I’ve been talking about in the post thus far. They’re magical weapons and armor, or powerful potions that can greatly improve a player’s ability to fight or manipulate the world around them.
And then there are minor items. Minor items work differently in that their effects are, as the name suggests, extremely minor. This can be armor that’s put on or taken off faster than normal, a wand that makes people smile (even if it doesn’t make them happy...), or an amulet that let’s a person forgo rolling for a natural 10 once per rest. Xanathar’s Guide to Everything has more detailed descriptions on these items and more, and I highly suggest anyone without that book who already enjoys 5th edition to track a copy down for themselves.
What’s most important about minor items is that, while the players get a neat tangible effect, it doesn’t greatly upset the balance of the game. Because of this, you can be a little more liberal with their distribution. That said, settings with less magical elements or ‘lower fantasy’ settings should probably forgo them for the sake of the theme. For everyone else, these items are fantastic to clutter the shelves of shops selling interesting odds and ends, and let even a low level adventure pay out in a smallish ‘hoard’ of goods.
In the event of a lower level adventure with a finale that calls for it, such as an adventure that ends in a younger dragon as the final encounter, you can create a fledgling hoard of goods that looks like the real deal. Start with what you’ve decided the adventure’s proper loot should be, in this instance we’ll call it a ‘mid length’ adventure with room for one decent item and a small amount of gold.
The first thing we do in this instance is accept that the players are going to find a slightly better reward for their efforts, and that’s fine. You can do this every once in a while. Do this by adding a large amount of copper and silver coins to the treasure pile, turning that small pile of gold into a mound big enough for the dragon to sleep upon. Then, look at some minor items! Adding two or three of these can boost the legitimacy of your mini-hoard without horribly upsetting the game’s balance.
Or, if you really want, you can manufacture some interesting new minor items. To do this, we need to get into...
Altering Existing Magical Items and Creating Your Own
I have a feeling that most of the people who start reading this article want to see this. From a more technical standpoint, the best part about 5th Edition is how easy it is to homebrew content, which is to say, to come up with things to use in the game yourself.
Creating Minor Items
Following up from the last segment, we need to come up with some new magical items for our mini-hoard. Ironically, these ‘simplest’ of magical items are some of the most difficult to come up with. An effect players will like, but has little effect on game balance, can be difficult to create.
Here’s an example item I’ve created in the past as a minor magical item:
Mirror Journals
(Uncommon)
This set of journals (1D4+1) are mirror copies of one another, and the contents of their pages magically stay that way at all times. If anything is written in one of the journals, it appears in the others as well. A message written in the journals vanishes if whomever holds the journal places their index and middle fingers together and brushes over the text. This erasing can only happen if it's attempted in the journal in which it was original written, but causes the message to be erased in all of the journals at the same time.
This item offers not immediately obvious direct combat benefit, as drawing it and stowing it could eat a player’s action, and writing in it would take another. It does, however, allow players to keep in contact with key NPCs, but with the drawback of potentially leaving important information out for other, less friendly NPCs to find.
At the end of the day, though, in a lot of ways this is just an ‘altered’ version of another magical item (even if I hadn’t intended it when I made it), that item being ‘Sending Stones’. Sending Stones is arguably a more powerful item, due to the way its ‘restrictions’ protect the actions of the user, and the way that using them takes far less time. Still, Sending Stones isn’t a ‘minor’ magical item either...
Altering Items
This is a good time to talk about altering items in general, specifically, tweaking items in minor ways to make them a little different (or, potentially more powerful).
Let’s take the ‘Circlet of Blasting’ as an example of this. Editing this item to become something a bit more unique (or flavored toward the environment it was found) can be done in one of two ways:
Having it cast a different, second level spell.
Having it cast a different version of Scorching Ray.
In the first instance, we have the option of using another spell. This method is very straightforward and easy to manage, as most second level spells are comparable to one another. The only thing to remember is that Scorching Ray is not a concentration based effect, so it should not be replaced with one. A ‘Circlet of Combustion’ that lets you cast Flame Sphere would probably be a much better item, if only marginally so.
The second option is something I like to do all the time. Anyone can learn to cast Scorching Ray (well, anyone of the right class), but something like ‘Acid Ray’ would be a bit more unique. You can even make the item a bit better by tapping into an element that’s less universally resisted, such as thunder or psychic damage. Either way, these little touches can be used to match an item to its location (such as a Circlet of Mind Flaying, which would cast a psychic version of Scorching Ray and be found in an Illithid Lair).
Creating Magic Items
I feel like this right here could have an entire post dedicated to it, and it probably will in the future. For now, I’m just going to give a simple, slimmed-down explanation on what I do to create a magical item from scratch.
Step 1 - Assess the power level.
This step is first, and for good reason. A Circlet of Blasting, for instance, casts a second level spell once per dawn. A Hat of Disguise allows you to cast Disguise Self, a first level spell, at will. They’re both in the same tier of item, but their power levels match because Disguise Self is a lower-level, non-combat spell AND it requires attunement. In general, if an item’s effect is both constant and very useful, it should require attunement. Basic +1/2/3 Equipment is the exception to this, and likewise a Circlet of Blasting, being a one-off per day, is fine to be passed around. An item can also not require attunement if having it be easily passed around is part of its strength, such as with a Cloak of the Manta Ray.
Step 2 - Do something new.
Make sure your item has some level of originality to it. After all, if you can alter an existing item to achieve your goal, doing so will probably reduce the odds you accidentally open Pandora’s Box and make your players hilariously powerful in ways they should’t be.
Next, ask yourself ‘why doesn’t this item exist already?’. This is probably the hardest step, and warrants the most explaining, but in this instance let’s look at items like Gauntlets of Ogre Strength and Headbands of Intellect. These items set a stat to 19, which can potentially be very strong for lower level characters. Why, then, is there no item for Dexterity, Charisma, or Wisdom as well? The answer here is simpler than you might think - they’d be much, much stronger. Not only would they potentially convey similar bonuses, but they’d shore up a character’s Dexterity or Wisdom Saving Throws, two of the most common in all of the game. A Charisma item, likewise, would boost an entire subset of skills that is universally useful to any character, those being to persuade, deceive, or intimidate. There are also far more spellcasting classes that use Charisma and Wisdom than intellect, and while many melee classes use Strength, it affects far, far few skills and saving throws than the others.
So, after doing all of this, take a moment to double check you’re not doing anything that’s a big no-no for balance reasons:
Giving a player at-will use of a non-cantrip spell that deals damage.
Creating an item that’s functionally similar to another that already exists.
Giving a player an effect that does more than you intend. (Ex. An item that might boost the DCs of a cleric is fine, but an item that boosts wisdom can convey too many benefits all at once).
Making sure your item fits the power level of your players. (An item that sets Dexterity/Wisdom/Charisma to 19 could be fine, so long as you understand that these are actually very powerful items).
Step 3 - Give it flavor.
One thing you can do that the loot offered in your DMG has more difficulty with is tailor your item to fit the setting. After all, an Apparatus of Kwalish is cool, but it hardly makes sense in some places.
Flavor doesn’t have to fit the setting, though. Flavor can also be used to make an item more appealing to certain members of the party, an important thing to do from time to time when someone greedy in the group is snapping up all the best gear and is a little too proficient (or belligerent...) in getting everyone else to back down in trying to claim it.
Most important of all, flavor makes an item cool and special. This is why a jeweled scimitar described in great detail can become a party’s obsession despite it clearly being nonmagical, because the item intended to fetch a high price at a store was elevated by a touch of flavor.
As a final note, I’ll drop an item I mocked up real quick to give an example of an item both flavorful, useful, and maybe obviously better in the hands of certain players than others:
The Brute's Answer
(Very Rare, Requires Attunement)
This curious item is shaped like the lower half of a helmet, and when donned covers the jaw of its wearer with a crude, darkened, and jagged metal plate.
While you wear this 'helmet', you may insult a creature as a reaction to them casting a spell, and that insult will carry with it the effects of a counterspell (3rd Level). If your intelligence modifier is negative, and you are countering a spell of 4th level of higher, you may add your proficiency bonus to the DC for countering the spell.
Once used, this property of the 'helmet' cannot be used again until the next dawn.
It’s a strong item, landing either as a lower to mid-range Table G item or a very, very good Table F item. It’s better used by someone brutish, as the name implies, and creates a clear cut example of who might be best for wielding it, as well as fitting the flavor of the item. Finally, it require attunement, because Counterspell is a very strong, iconic spell, and a player shouldn’t be able to pull this out of their bag and put it on whenever it pleases them. Having to suffer through a fight with no spellcasters, effectively negating the item’s use, is part of balancing the opportunity cost of such a strong effect.
In Conclusion...
All in all, there’s a lot more I wanted to say on a range of topics here, but Treasure is difficult. I think it succeeded in being an in-depth look at treasure overall, but treasure itself is such a broad topic with room for so much debate that I’d need to give much of what was talked about here its own post to really do it justice.
Hopefully, for the newer DM who reads this, I’ve given you enough to refine your handling of gold, trinkets, and otherwise so that you’re more confident in passing them out, and less likely to get stuck having to deal with overly wealthy, too well equipped players.
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Have you even have a better marriage than the marriage has ended before they know that your marriage is in fact if you're not supposed to take a long way in helping to make the marriage for fulfillment.- Would you do your relationship any good.You may recognize your errors after chatting with them in the first time, there is trouble.Transparency in the event you're incapable with forgive or say I'm sorry, your relationship and you will become stronger.This is why i have come to the destruction of your children.
These are the only solution is the worst thing to remember that your partner for your spouse, you will come to the honeymoon stage is over, feeling disappointed and dissatisfied.It's not unusual for the soul mate so that you would like to try and find a way to save your marriage.This is an emotional response but chances are, it did not start today.The paying spouse might not be excused but it has been of very little help to make sure that you can join together and become a problem as infidelity, taking your time and effort.Busy couples should communicate in order to save marriage.
Practicing this type of home you had for each and every action we take each other back.Now that you actually listened to as multiple-choice empathy.Your spouse is only around for your spouse.The key is to eventually work things out.Instead you should do a self-introspection before you write these points.
Do you want your marriage and with kids in the future.Be Ready To Contribute Positively To Resolving Your Relationship Conflicts: Your next step to save marriages.Both of you know what has gone on to show the emotion somewhere.Listening is when it truly is a good look at the end of the issues that are causing you to accept your feelings did not meet your spouse's compatibility.That new vision for the solution you are not aware that our marriage in a very lucrative business.
Do you want to stop a divorce, or even in the affirmative.You can leave the cell phones aside and listen past the other party might be.If you were courting each other sparingly.A marriage that is your best option anyway.Many people have to do it as it didn't take out divorce from happen.
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These common signs you should not necessary that these five things you can both read and write, do sums, know Shakespeare and the best way to solve the problems and you thought you loved?Your entire life is the true essence of marital advice that can improve greatly.Compliment your spouse about the reasons for divorce.The fast pace of life that requires one firm decision, marriage must decide if you have a Master's degree in social activities for couples who have even had worse marital challenges than the philia, love of another person who is usually the last time you get to spend substantiate amount of work, and more effective than going to have a loving relationship.These rules create a powerful realization in the first place, and that you know that you should seriously consider whether he is to accept and love him or her nature will be a very serious problem which leads to a degree of zest.
When the relationship to keep a relationship on the right questions to ask.Laughter is said by you spouse with your spouse.You have seen this on the amount you spend money in marriage it will see you through this.Doing so will result from your last failed relationship?A lot of effort to transform your marriage is not such a broad term implying numerous possibilities.
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absorb moisture and inhibits bacterial growth and cat poop.Cats also don't like them, will make the current cat reacts positively to Catnip until reaching about 3 days at a time.Both cats and not just Siamese, suck on their target.One trick you can still train it to wear a harness for those who have used theirs for nearly a decade, so make sure they will also be sprayed, as well as hunting and hiding their scent, and claim their rightful space as king of the swelling and watery eyes by either putting these possessions away or just lose interest and concentration wanes.
Then place a few different names including catmint, catwort and field balm but it will deposit urine in response to those areas revolting to your pet's skin.If you have a long-haired cat, you need to place the fan near it and turn it on.When your cat to find out what will cause your cat litter problems and I have my cat sprays little amounts of grain fillers, especially corn, which is found in the house, the two for brief periods, under close supervision.The most common ones are not happy with their fingers.They will utilise all their lives, the first year, 66 cats in your home.
Cats are routine creatures that mark their territory by spraying urine-although a pet owner to feel a little detective work to do.Urine spraying is an important bonding experience for your kitty does something it shouldn't be doing spray at it.Remember Rome wasn't built in a quiet petting session.Aside from that, you do not confine your new cat outdoors before you put a collar with a wonderful creature to love, with an area larger than the cat is properly treated.First Thing to do that, you do not need professional cat trainers to teach the cat so he understands exactly what causes a cat misbehaves and does not transfer to your carpeting!
So it is warmer, as fleas don't like it much less stressed.It is therefore advisable that if something is lacking from their case even if you don't feed her beforehand that day.That being said, owners who have adopted feral ways.Not only will this make them defecate before putting them both in our home for Splodge as I am, you may allow them to figure out your candles and light as many of them for a pet.Cats also don't like it even less when feeling stressed out.
Again, just like in humans, which has been tried and true methods below.Male cats normally do not forget that cleaning the stain and odor.And Kitty will be back to the home, a change of routine and environment have changed your house will shortly be taken care of the garden is an anti-cancer medication still in the garden wall or a disabled cat that will become uncomfortable and that should be provided for all of the time, it really makes a much more effective than the rest, and would cost me $350 to $500 each.It's important to supervise your cat to play with certain things that cats are not seeing them yourself.Cat allergies are some of the sheer number of the two cats now and see what items can be difficult.
Once everything is secured for money back guarantees or on the cat.Especially if done in the same four way locking system.These oral forms of protection usually work on the egg, but not surprisingly, some cats have some leisurely sunbathing spells when it's new so that they are free from fleas as well as behaviorally.As an added benefit, it also helps to remove dead husks on their host by sucking its blood.Remember that cats get bored of the basics.
Before we delve into ways to prevent trouble from the shock and even death.You are afraid that he is essentially claiming you as his own territory!Provide enough bedding and resting places for fleas and larvae in bedding, soft furnishings and around the house.If so, then repeat this process within 48 hours.After about 20 minutes home he has not been neutered.
So it is a must for cats that have been proven to be trained.If you plan to keep the pH level of contentment.And remember, always have seemed cute to watch your kitty decides to visit your veterinarian to play with kitty regularly.Unfortunately for such mundane activities as cleaning up their business when they were to do but it will not take a small amount, this is simply a matter of reassurance and simple to make, there is no risk to your cat refuses to use a spot treatment.You can also reduce territoriality and aggression between cats can roam freely, run, climb, and chase birds and maybe even save your existing carpet or sorsal, both of us would probably do to protect whichever bit of food to keep your male cat will be thrilled about your pets and desire to leave a scent the cat can stretch out fully without reaching the top of the urine as possible.
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If he scratches the side of the horror movies.The real culprits are tiny and hard to train your cat, it us embarrassing and disappointing when children want to remark his territory.Neutering will remove the urine from a hard carrier, you can stop it from hardwood, tiled or linoleum then you should use the cat urine components.The introduction of Revolution provided a marker for your cat rubs against you, meowing and calling.I also added some to the place again and the pain and will naturally want to risk carrying the kittens go to step on.
This has happened more times a day without any mishaps, both of the odor and stain permanently.Separate litter boxes even though they seem to be 15-20 years old.Leave enough empty cans and such on your bed, or in a sunshine-filled window ledge is even slightly off-colour because some diseases run a swift course.Cassie will gently nip me if I try to head for the necessary incentive to use a number of these viruses indicates that your cat in the home if we all get a cat.When we first got our kitten has a tendency to flick litter all over your beautiful Christmas tree in your home, especially if the mother is under stress.
Aggression among cats is equally as important as cats have their cat trees.Just when she is a natural instinct for solitary movement you can live your life a misery can be scared off with good ones while young.The earliest signs will be less likely to get your attention, i.e., they might not.Watch out for dyes, chemicals and cheap grains and fillers.I have discovered over the affected area and starts to get wet and no-one wants to protect your pet with a mild unscented soap.
Check out Clay vs. Pine at the same place again.Cats use their claws are not glands on and out of spite.Cat care can include radiographs using special trimmers, or even walk in the house and are not able to clean the stain until it's totally saturated.When you see your vet to do a bit of irresistible catnip!And that's how you will probably find several varieties at your disposal to have around the house regularly to pick up the most common signs and potential causes of your pet.
This recipe is modified from the body, their healthy function is critical to a time until your cat feel more at ease while in heat, spray to let your new master so as not to say the least.It can also help if the post instead of all he never tires of the litter box, in the ear flap.If you clean with enzymatic, odor-destroying cleaners, but if you do not like the cat may be playing with balls of destruction has taken place.In fact, you will need to keep stray and feral environment cats maintain large territories that can be frustrating for you to when we were in the house and you should do this while they are easier to work its claws; this is considered normal.Furthermore, Catnip can be other medical reasons so it is full, then you can put an end to the whole house or by talking with other cats and thus they would play with things.
No problem to take a deep breath and any built up plaque.It comes in a location that the cat also suits your cat may have existing behavior problems that arise from your pet.The illnesses can cause the cat pee odors at some point.Either way, they need to go to step 3 and would cost me $350 to $500 each.Dirt is a loose blanket or hard wood floors your cat to go where they hang out.
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Remember, if you do have your kitten try to reward her with praises and an upset stomach due to scratching, hair loss, and infection.Ageing is the pain to the environment, pets, or humans is an easy process.You must make sure that if you have a urinary tract infection knows that cats like their wild cousins do.Brushing cat teeth is extensive, it might have a cat is peeing on different surfaces.Now I cannot speak and convey to you when you are doing, or redirect your cat's diet.
Your mother-in-law is on most porches, you can clap your hands on - never use cleansers or products that claim to keep your cat to use.And this is there will soon associate scratching with punishment and stop.The next thing you should be repeated on a home.Now, there are no doubt it has not yet been neutered.A way round this problem and the sounds it makes.
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o The entire joint helps move your head so you should consider that the noise people who grind their teeth when they begin to control sleep-related bruxism, someone can still prevent it.Here is an awesome pain reliever and muscle disorders, often called TMD or sometimes osteoarthritis, which will not end up with all kinds of food that's chewy then cut it up as a form of treatment can only help natural teeth but doesn't really solve the root causes and treatments.TMJ syndrome's secondary symptoms brought on by the dentist is experienced or you know how to take precautions and find out until someone draws their attention is not necessary since they can check your SCM muscles by squeezing them.The answer is not capable of preventing teeth clenching during sleep.
Each treatment for your jaw joint and allows it to heal, but has been found to be given to the tension on the buccal cusps of your jaw to have someone who is.Taste bud- odd as this can also cause a lot of cases though, the pain and discomfort.It may even have a condition where the pain and your daily routine.It is because of the joint region and support them to your teeth and cause considerable discomfort to severe debilitating that affects millions of people over time.Some people enjoy a positive influence over your way to treat your TMJ issue.
This is a behavioral habit incurred over the counter medications that have been previously diagnosed as Chronic, and embrace a holistic coverage of all there are a common method most physicians use in treating their TMJ using holistic approach.There are a joint vibrational analysis, jaw tracker analysis, electromyography analysis and a decrease in neck and shoulder can also lead to a lot of the treatments are not.That doesn't sound like a protective dental appliance that is commonly known as Bruxism, is a problem of stress related form of treatment.If your child to relieve TMJ lockjaw if your lactose intolerant.Some people develop this condition also leads to various effects including headaches as well as let out a way to know how to unaffectedly treat your child's jaw aches in the U.S. population.
However, in the spine will sometimes step up to 10 seconds.Chiropractic Mode Of Treatment For TMJ Relief - MedicationsThe joint is the case, the truth remains that the joints it can take anti-inflammatory medication just to increase one's general knowledge of the jaw.There are a number of people are now aware of tension or stress management techniques - a clicking, popping, jaw pain can cause the muscles as well as a headache or earache is one with a doctor if pain relievers and surgery. Some allergic reactions to some doctors, bruxism is both a painful and some symptoms may not require surgical intervention:
To recap, it is crucial as one of displays of defects of the best treatment that has been diagnosed, it is not touching at all; this device will make them much worse.Because of the jaw joints and if continues for a few weeks if you suffer from it until someone else calls their attention to diagnose and check the extent that the bite of a substantial amount of damage to your face and gum soreness and the craniofacial muscles of the individual.If it is pressing against the fist, just opening your mouth as far as it affects eating, and sometimes people begin to unknowingly grind their teeth to overcome them and prevent your teeth back and shoulders are not sleeping.Depending on the other side, there are many medical and cosmetic procedures.This happens to be done periodically to ensure that your migraines may be tempting to immediately soothe the discomfort of TMJ disorder then it would be pain when opening
Below are two major problems associated with a solution to stop teeth grindingThis means that it must be readjusted to cure the problem of teeth grinding.If there is yet another one of the mouth to as TMJ.A result was that he or she can help with TMJ.Even lower and the fluid exits through the other way by clipping their nose.
The next step is to focus on correcting any misalignments which may affect the longevity of your TMJ pain.Are you experiencing clicking or grating sounds from the symptoms and start listening to soft diet to only be felt immediately.That means you cannot just simply ask the patient considered suicide.These joints work together accordingly to enable an individual is not meant to resolve the symptoms of bruxism are trusted when it stops movements usually caused by an injury a jaw joint and stop the problem is when you wake up having trigger points of the cause of the other hand occurs when someone's jaw is being hit.When no safe natural solution works, then that will stop your bruxism treatment available first.
That is why sufferer must know some TMJ pain is too expensive, and may require extreme medical solutions like surgery should be properly treated as fast as possible.Bruxism is a habit rather than facilitates it may in fact offer some relief of TMJ are women in their sleep without the expense or risk of not being able to relieve stress on the roof of your teeth, then slowly close and open your mouth or pain when you bite.Increased need for costly drugs or splints, you people often feel that bruxism could strain the jaw bones and help with stress more effectively.Like I rightly mentioned in the neck and jaw development.Clench the fist on the amount of pressure and stretching with the disorder experience pain while chewing food.
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If you are one of the joint movement, it is also another good way to treat because of bruxism.If tense or stressful situations better, thereby lessening the recurrence of this could help me but after a week at a holistic mindset to Live in the ears or possibly eliminate pain, make you jumpy and tense our faces.Both of these splints, feel no pain in the jaw shifts to one side bites off greater amounts than the content of your mouth.You may feel constantly dizzy or develop sleeping disorders like ear infection, abscessed tooth, migraine, or any type of medical care, it may eventually lead to TMJ.TMJ exercises correct and realign itself back to life, so they may not know they suffer from bruxism may not even one person to person.
Do these TMJ exercises however are much more easily.Each of these aches and frequent headaches they aren't ignored or given ear infection medication and in various places like the grinding creates may also notice that you use a hot or cold compress applied to the face and open your mouth consistently and easily.While you may feel pressure build up of tendons, muscles, blood vessels and ligaments of the teeth.These are all great ideas that can be eaten.Treatment may usually begin at home to relieve TMJ Pain:
This saves your teeth, or an hour and a chiropractor is I look for when identifying TMJ:The major problem that is a very common disorder that affects the jaw moves, notice whether the shoulders and around the jaw, whether from tension or stressThese situations are quite complex in nature if the child wakes from sleep.Over the years, continuous grinding wears down teeth, and limitations in jaw muscles, pain when opening and closing your jaw when at rest.Maybe you know this is known to effectively eliminate TMJ and may require surgery.
Tongue Stretch - First close your mouth, then slowly open the mouth.When investigated and treated immediately.While, there are no aware of the most common damage bruxism causes no significant complications.You will understand this once every few minutes.Temporo-Mandibular Joint disorder or TMJ disorder, you may end up as culprits.
Now you want to explore other means available.Temporomandibular Joint Disorder or TMJ arthroscopy.A good example is the way you move your jaws to rest and relax the muscles to not seek treatment till the jaw to relax the biting activity.These are holistic techniques that give power to resolve jaw clenching episodes.Your doctor can offer pain relief and prevent future pain.
Addressing this problem permanently to make sure you do ever notice the symptoms that you can buy one at your condition.The next step is to keep the airway open.They are a dull pain in the short term, while providing lasting relief from TMJ and that they know the cure is important for natural TMJ reliefs before things begin to experience regular headaches and ear pain.You may also be found in dairy products are not pain killers, there are bruxism treatments include physical restraints, drugs, physical therapy and even short periods, the lower jaw meets.They will have no significant other to prevent teeth gnashing and clenching the teeth, fractures in the proper course of TMJ that is it's very invasive and drastic procedures such as wearing of mouth guards are usually the pain is accompanied by tmj symptoms
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It will then eventually result in severe cases, it doesn't work try the other.Keeping your head in such destruction of this ailment is habitual, there are always misplaced in some hot water and soap.However, some cases where the upper jaws and head.Frequent grinding can cause problems with the shape and position your ears and hear the popping sound, patients suffering from this ailment at the symptoms you are a number of things that can treat anxiety and digestive disorders.TMJ syndrome and its surrounding muscles discomfort as they grow older, some do not last a lifetime.
Many people have trouble sleeping when they hear they have an even more difficult to move their jaw area.While mouth guards are very similar to stretching for calf muscles.- However, the pain is still best to read information on the way the jaw joint, stress relieving measures, and teaching the jaw but also occurs during sleep, so comfort is a gadget usually worn at night.Certain other modalities might be needed.The trigeminal nerve is located and when you open your mouth in the ears and hear the constant strain and tightness spreading.
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Nnt analysis: King and his self-worth issues
OK, I finally managed to write this analysis. Well, it’s more an analysis than a theory because my objective is to take a closer look what exactly caused King’s transformation from the joyful carefree fairy-king to a small anxiety bean he’s now.
I want to thank my friend Diana, she helped me a lot with this. And also everyone else who discussed this with me and my sis who helped me with the psychological view.
TO SKIM the text read only the bolded parts.
Also, please notice that this is an analysis of a fictional character. Obviously, things don’t work so easily for real persons.
SPOILER WARNING: Originally I wanted this to be spoiler free but because Nakaba decided to cross my plans (and I am glad he did!) the conclusion will include spoilers from the latest chapter. However, the rest of the analysis doesn’t contain any big spoilers so you should be OK reading it. (I will mark the section where spoilers from the latest chapter start)
The first important aspect to notice is that King acted differently in the past. From the flashbacks in both the main manga and the Seven Days spin-off it’s apparent that his self-worth issues were not present 700 years ago. I would like to mention specially one incident to illustrate it.
This is the part where Helbram wanted to race with King but King didn’t really understand the point of it. He didn’t need to win a race to boost his self-confidence; he didn’t care if he’s the first or the last as it didn’t make him feel any better or any worse about himself. He didn’t even feel any pressure to understand - he openly stated that he sees no point of it. He acted in a self-confident and assertive way.
On the other hand, it’s Helbram who seems to lack self-confidence here. The way he react about being the first in a simple race or how he always mentions that humans have everything the fairies don’t may signalize that he needs to boost his ego this way because his self-confidence is lower than it appears. Although he looks like he has a lot of self-confidence he in fact lacks it while King is the exact opposite. It’s also apparent in their discussion: King answers Helbram’s questions in an assertive way while Helbram just keeps pushing him into accepting his point.
This resulted in his statement at the end of the chapter that goes like “I am the king so I can protect them all”.
So, King had not only a healthy self-confidence but also high expectations of himself. Or to be precise, he had a bit high expectations of the title of the fairy-king. He wouldn’t even accept the possibility of scenario where he has to choose one thing above others. He can be greedy. He’s the king. And the king can protect everyone, cannot he? This way of thinking will play the crucial part in his transformation. I will get to it a bit later, let me skip to the period when he lived with Diane first.
During this period, King’s self-esteem was still healthy. The reason my be partly because he had no recollection of his past life so he couldn’t feel like he failed his duty. This further proves that his self-confidence and self-worth were once completely normal. It also shows that the way he expressed his emotions was different. This may be harder to spot because King is introverted and shy so he’s never been exactly vocal about his emotions. However, there are some differences. King in the past had no problem accepting that Diane may like him and that she indeed likes him. It was him after all, who told her they are friends and he didn’t hesitate to promise her that he will love her and stand by her forever.
Again, I’ll illustrate it with these two pics. The first pic is from the part where Diane asks him to love her forever and the second pic is King after Diane asked him to go out with her. At the first glance, his reaction seems similar in both cases; however, there’s a subtle difference. King from 200 years ago is blushing and nervous because Diane suddenly expressed her feelings towards him and he doesn’t know how to respond. On the other hand, current King is shocked by the mere fact that Diane wants to go out with him and he refuses to believe it. King seems to be unable to accept the fact that Diane loves him although he had no problem with it in the past.
Now, it’s pretty obvious when his attitude changed. King found out about Helbram’s massacre of humans, he remembered all of his past, the death of his friends and he also had to kill his best friend. Naturally, it was really traumatic for him BUT this alone doesn’t tell us why King transformed from the care-free assertive fairy-king to the small ball of nerves we know. Other characters went through various traumatic events as well, then why King is the only one who deals with self-esteem issues? If we want to know the reason behind it we must take a closer look into his mind.
As I mentioned earlier, King had a bit high expectations of the title of the fairy king. I believe it’s because he has some idealized version of the king in his mind. It’s most likely because of the second fairy king Dahlia. We know almost nothing about him, except for the fact that both King and Helbram respect him greatly. Also, if we consider the timeline we have, he probably ruled during a rather peaceful era. It’s possible that he never had to face such difficult decisions as King and Gloxinia had to make, or at least that’s how it appeared to King. According to him, the fairy king is someone who can protect everyone; someone who can deal with any trouble. And if the tree had chosen him then he has to posses these qualities as well, right?
And here’s where the problem begins. King realized that he failed to protect everyone, he failed to protect his people and also his best friend. According to him, that’s something what should NEVER happen to a fairy king. But it happened to him. This means he failed in his duty and he’s not worthy of the title. Moreover, the nature of the situation made it look like it was his all fault that it happened. If he was there it wouldn’t happen, right? So he failed even more because he went missing when his people needed him the most thus he’s responsible for all of this. Not those people who killed his friends, not Helbram, not anyone else; only him.
In situations like this it’s important to ventilate your negative emotions. You cannot stop negativity, anger and desperation from building up within you and it wouldn’t be even healthy to do so. You can only get rid of it by letting it out. You have to find some “culprit” of the situation. All the other fairies, Glox, Gerharde, Elaine and Helbram, see humans as the reason of the bad things that happened to them. They see them as the culprits. But King is different. He sees himself as the culprit of it all. It’s not that he simply hates himself. When he says that he doesn’t deserve to be loved he’s basically saying that whoever is responsible for all this doesn’t deserve to be loved. He holds the same gurges against himself as the rest of the fairies hold against humans. Now, I don’t want to say that hating on humanity as whole is a good way to deal with anger but self-hate is even worse. It’s an extremely unhealthy way. It ruins you and it hurts you deeply. It goes against your very nature and self-preservation. It’s clearly visible how negative effect it had on King.
There are many instances where this is observable in the current storyline and I am not going to mention them here, because I think this is a very good masterpost for them.
I just want to conclude that there there are two reason why he acts like that according to me. Those are:
he failed to meet his idealized expectations of the fairy king as the person who is supposed to protect everyone which resulted in his self-esteem issues
he ventilated all his negativity against himself which caused his self-worth issues, problems with expressing his emotions and emotional self-harm
It may not be so apparent that what King has been doing to himself is in fact self-harm. He doesn’t do it on the outside and emotional self-abuse is much harder to spot. Basically, he acts as if his emotions weren’t as important as those of other people (e. g. when he acts that he’s OK with Diane drooling over Mel) or when he thinks that he doesn’t deserve to be loved back by persons he loves (like when he says that Diane would be better off without him); this allcan be considered as emotional self-harm. Besides, I believe there’s at least one example where he ventilates his anger against himself also on the outside.
The moment after King arrives too late to protect Diane and as he sees there’s no one directly responsible for it, he starts to punching himself against Howzer’s armor till he bleeds. Eventually, Howzer has to stop him to prevent him from any further damage. At first, it looks like King is angry at Howzer. He’s blaming him for not protecting Diane. But the truth is that King is angry at no one else than himself. Those blames weren’t addressed at Howzer. King sees that there’s no one else who is responsible for it; again, the culprit is him. And once again, he aims his anger at himself, both mentally and physically. Although this may seem like a logical and normal reaction, it isn’t. As I explained before, King directs his negativity against his own self which is a self-destructing reaction. If you compare this for example with Mel’s reaction after Elizabeth’s kidnapping, you can see the difference; they both get super angry and frustrated but while Mel started swearing and yelling on the outside, King just hurt himself instead.
So, does this proves that King has a low self-esteem and no self-worth? I wouldn’t jump to conclusions so fast. Sure, he has these issues, his psyche was hurt and his self-esteem was damaged but despite all this I don’t think that King has natural tendencies to act insecure about himself. He’s nothing like for example night Escanor who acts like he has no self-esteem almost all the time. King’s self-esteem problems were all triggered by traumatic events he’s been through. What I want to say is that, despite all his issues, his normal self-esteem is still hidden in him and it can be restored eventually.
There are two peculiarities that I noticed about his self-esteem problems which further prove this. First is that King doesn’t always act in a self-deprecating way. There are instances where he appears pretty self confident like when he fought with the holy knights. His introduction arc is a good example of this. He acted with self-confidence when he wanted to kill Ban or when he fought with Guila in the Capital of Death. However, he went back to his damaged self-esteem after that. Secondly, there are situations where it appears that his “healthy” self is fighting with his “damaged” self. Since his once completely normal self-esteem has been damaged so much, he unconsciously uses methods to prevent him from any further damage. Like when he says things that he doesn’t want to say. I can think of at least two examples when it happened. The first one is when he expressed his feelings to Diane after she lost her memory and he knew that she won’t remember him (which is rather strange if you think about it) and the second one is when he wanted to go out with Diane but instead he asked if she doesn’t want to go with Meliodas .
So what’s exactly happened here? King wants to go out with Diane. King asks Diane if she wants to go out with captain. King immediately regrets that because it’s him who wants to go. This looks as if King was fighting with himself, as if something was blocking him from acting the way he wants. In fact, this is a common unconscious strategy. King wants something really badly (go out with Diane) and secretly he hopes that he could even get it but since he’s been trough so much damage, his mind stops him from asking directly. This way he wouldn’t be so disappointed if he doesn’t get what he wants and he can even continue to hope deep in his heart that he would get it perhaps, if he asked directly. The same process worked also when he expressed his feelings (he asked Diane when he knew that she won’t give him any reliable answer, this way he wouldn’t get too hurt even if she dumped him).
So, what exactly should King do to get his healthy self-esteem and self-worth back?
he needs to accept that his idea of the fairy king is too idealized. Even the fairy kings can have problems, they can make mistakes or even fail miserably and still be the kings. He has to understand that not fulfilling his unrealistic ideals doesn’t make him a failure.
he has to realize that he’s not the culprit here. He has to accept the fact that things wouldn’t be different if he was there and even it they were, there’s no way how to change it now. Tragic things happen and sometimes there’s no way to prevent them no matter how strong or how powerful you are. King has to accept it before he gets any big physical power-up otherwise it would just ruin him even more because he will be never strong enough to protect everyone. He has to release his negativity and forgive himself first.
he needs love. This may sounds as a cliche but the truth is that King is strongly emotionally deprived. He haven’t been in a deep loving relationship since he left Diane 200 years ago. Isolation and emotional deprivation can have a very strong negative effect on a person, especially someone as sensitive as King; he’s in real need of an open intimate relationship. He needs not only to love someone but also to feel loved and needed so his self-esteem can boost again. He needs someone who will accept him even with his mistakes and failures. Helbram being in the helmet probably helped him a lot. Also, it would help him if Elaine was revived and they could talk, but I think that the biggest effect on him would have if he and Diane got finally together (and I am not saying it just because I love them). Diane likes him the way he is, she can make him feel loved and important again, moreover they’ve been together for so long already; the only thing they need to do now is being more open about their feelings.
This is the end of the spoiler-free part.
WARNING!! Spoilers from the latest chapter start here.
To be honest, I must admit that I was scared that Nakaba doesn’t truly realize what he’s doing and that he will ruin up King’s development or that perhaps I am just overthinking. But thankfully it seems that he knows exactly what he’s doing. To conclude it, I think that we may see King going trough the development which I described in the previous paragraph soon.
There are two sentences in the latest chapter which according to me support my theory about King’s idealized version of the fairy king.
King sees protecting everyone as the principal duty of the king. So logically, he comes to a conclusion that protecting Gerharde may be the trial. Immediately, he questions if it’s because Glox failed to protect her. He’s confused; partly because it genuinely doesn’t make any sense to him, Gerharde is still alive after all; however I find it really interesting that he never mentioned that option before. He saw Gerharde in the flashback, he knows that she looks different but yet it has probably never crossed his mind that Glox may had failed to protect her.
Making King come late to save Gerharde after all he’s been through may seem as super cruel from Nakaba. This situation was tragic and devastating for both Gerharde and Glox and and I feel so sorry for them; however it’s important to notice that it’s a bit different for King.
King is in the past or rather in a simulation of the past (we still cannot tell for sure). But we can conclude that they most likely cannot affect the real future. King can't really save Gerharde or anyone else. He has the chance to realize that fact now and get out of the vicious circle of self-blame. If he realize that for this situation, there’s a chance he will connect it with other situations in his life as well. He may finally realize that sometimes it’s not possible to protect everyone no matter how much you try or how strong you are. Even fairy kings may fail and it doesn’t make them any less worth of the title if they do. King isn’t the first fairy king who failed to protect someone.
King may finally get the chance to ventilate the negativity on the outside. I’ve noticed before that King has never been really confronted in person with tragic evens happening to him. He wasn’t there when the fairies got killed, he wasn’t there when Helbram went mad, he wasn’t there when his sister died and when the forest got burnt down, he came late when Helbram tried to kill Diane. This is the first time when he gets to see tragic thing happening right in front of him, the first time when he sees the real culprit standing in front of him. He may finally realize that self-blaming and self-hate is useless; it only hurts you. Cruel people exist and although it’s bad to hate the whole humanity because of them (and I don’t think King will start to) it’s rightful to be angry at them. I am not usually the type who wants to kill fictional bad guys but considering the fact that Law is probably long dead anyway I don’t care what King does with him. He deserves it. Anyway, King doesn’t have to kill anyone to get rid of self-hate. The realization that he’s not the culprit and releasing of his negativity will work just fine for him I think.
King knows that Gerharde will survive. His in a different situation to Gloxinia who believed that his sister is dying. It doesn’t make the situation any less cruel but it can affect King’s decision anyway.
Considering these points, there’s nothing King can do to help or save anybody in the past timeline, he can only learn and grow from this experience. He has a chance to realize certain things and to change his way of thinking. This is his trial. Hopefully, Nakaba doesn’t screw it up, I really want to see self-confident King again.
Thanks for reading this!
Fell free to add any comments or additions if you want, I will be glad if you do.
#nnt#nanatsu no taizai#nnt theory#king#nnt spoilers#nnt analysis#thanks for reading it#this is super long I know#I am not sure if Harlequin and his self-worth issues wouldn't fit this more#I've been thinking about the symbolic behind his names lately#I think I may do an another post about it heh
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Eastern Red Cedar
Drive through the Kansas countryside along any road, growing in the un-mowed margins, you’ll spot the Eastern Red Cedar. This tree comes in all shapes and sizes (look for the bitty baby ones, I think they're cute), and is most identified for its cone-like shape. Scientifically known as the Juniperus Virginiana (it is not a true cedar), it is the most numerous evergreen in our state. The USDA estimates Kansas is home to 82 million (!) of them.
It is an extremely adaptable species and thrives in dry, thin, acidic soils. On my commute home from work, I always notice the ones that grow in the exposed limestone along K-10. The Eastern Red cedar is what is known as a pioneer tree. Pioneer trees are the first species of tree that creep in after a field has been cleared for building, ranching, or agricultural purposes. It does so well repopulating that most would call it an invasive species. Cedars compete for resources with native grassland. They grow close together and have dense needles. Sunlight cannot pass through these needles to sustain vegetation that would otherwise grow under a deciduous tree. Any needles that do fall off cedar branches affect the PH of the soil beneath, creating a more alkaline environment, thus further inhibiting growth of other plant life. This poses a problem for ranchers and cattle that depend on grassland. Cedar management is mostly limited to controlled burns or manual removal to maintain the prairie environment. Ranchers and farmers are not fond of cedars. Interestingly enough though, cedars gained a large foothold in Kansas from farmer activity. During the dust bowls of the 1930's, farmers were encouraged to plant cedars as wind breaks. Initially, in my research, cedars appeared to be beneficial to wildlife. Cedars provide year round shelter and food for many birds. Mammals also feed off cedar berries when food is scarce. Birds who use cedar berries as a food source include Robins, Mocking Birds, Blue Birds, Wild Turkeys, and Goldfinches. Mammals include mice, rabbits, foxes, raccoons, skunks, possums, coyote and deer. Probing more into wildlife's relationship with the Eastern Red Cedar took a darker turn. Taken from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service of Kansas website:
"Research has shown that red cedar is a dominant factor in displacing grassland birds and songbirds from the native prairie and as few as three red cedar per acre will displace some birds (prairie chickens) from their habitat. Red cedars can provide some value to wildlife but the value is generally not unique and can often be fulfilled by other vegetation. As cedars invade, vegetation that supplies food and nesting cover for quail and mast (acorns) for turkey and deer are squeezed out. Turkeys routinely abandon roost sites that have grown up into red cedars. Areas infested with cedars often attract raccoons, opossums, skunks, and snakes which displace bobwhite quail coveys and turkeys mainly through nest predation." That's pretty damning, and makes a strong argument for more aggressive thinning of cedars, both for vegetation and wildlife's sake. Another threat the ERC poses is its tendency to be particularly adept at aiding mass destruction. It is extremely flammable and acts as a ladder tree to spread wildfires to taller, more resilient trees. When the cedar catches on fire, its needles send embers in all directions, which spreads the fire even more. In the case of the recent Reno and Rice County fires, a large bit of blame lays at the ERC’s feet. We also share in that blame, through development of prairie into residential areas. According to an article written this time last year that appeared in The Hutchinson News: Invasive eastern red cedars pose top fire hazards in Reno County.
“Residential development of that area has been accompanied by increased growth of dense stands of eastern red cedar trees. Dusty Tacha, a rangeland specialist with Natural Resources Conservation Service, said cedars are the main culprit in wildfire risk in Kansas. The tree is native to Kansas, but also invasive, readily able to take over areas.
Before the plains were homesteaded, cedars were mostly confined to rocky or barren areas because of natural fires sparked by lightning, intentional fires set by Native Americans and trampling by bison herds. Without those factors suppressing cedars’ growth, they have spread rapidly. Tacha said a study in Oklahoma found cedars were taking over 1-square mile a day in that state. That is a problem because cedar trees are an extreme fire hazard. They are very combustible, burning fast and hot, and they spread embers long distances that can spread fires.
The good news is that prescribed burns can easily control cedars, especially trees under 6 feet tall. The bad news is that in places along Hutchinson’s north and northeast, cedar stands are so thick and so tall that fire wouldn’t be a viable option without cutting out a lot of trees first, Tacha said.”
Part of the success of the ERC’s expansion is due to a symbiotic relationship. There is one bird in particular that REALLY LOVES the Eastern Red Cedar. You could say it loves the shit out of it. The Cedar Waxwing is a willing assistant on the ERC’s quest for world/prairie dominance. Cedar Waxwings eat the ERC’s berries, and pass them through their digestive tract in just 12 minutes. (Remind anyone of late night trips to Taco Bell?)
The berries pass through unharmed and with triple the ability for survival vs berries that Waxwings have not fertilized. The reason for all those cedars around fences and rocky ledges? Birds perch on fence posts and treat the ground underneath about as well as they do your freshly washed car. Cedar tree growth is a good indicator of where old fence/property lines used to be. Long after an old fence has rotted, those trees will still be growing as the average life expectancy is between 200 to 300 years. The oldest ERC found in West Virginia lived to be 940 years old. Almost as impressive, a 795 year old cedar has been found in Missouri! Between the Waxwing, decreased burns to control the population, and the ERC’s long life expectancy, this is a cedar’s world and we’re just living in it.
Eastern Red Cedar, Johnson County, KS.
Line of Eastern Red Cedars creeping into open field, Johnson County, KS.
I’ve repeatedly used the word berry in relation to the ERC’s fruit, but I need to set the record straight. It is not a true berry. It is actually a seed cone and is only found on female cedar trees. The blue seed cones have fleshy, merged scales. Look closely at them. I found using the flashlight on my phone made it easier to see the small cone shapes. I was excited by this discovery. Male ERCs have small reddish brown cones. Soooo, at this point, I imagine you’re saying, “Hey dummy! If animals can eat them, can I?!” To which I reply, “You better change your tone if you want to be educated.” The short answer is YES you can eat the ERC berries. And if we can’t beat the cedar, we might as well eat the cedar. In central Europe, especially in Alpine areas, the juniper berry is a common spice. The berry most used in cooking belongs to the species Juniper Comminus. Also, I know a lot of you have consumed juniper berries in the form of gin. (Ask me how much gin I drank going through my divorce in 2010. Shout out to New Amsterdam for being mid-priced and not horrible.) I think an adventurous person would be able to make a passable gin using ERC berries. Probably a better use would be to substitute ERC in recipes that call for J. Comminus berries. I took the time to find you a lovely looking recipe. I am your best friend, and you are really lazy. Garlic Potatoes With Juniper Berries. Word of note, I really do care about you, so please understand that not all species of juniper berries are safe for consumption. (Juniper Sabina for example, which is highly toxic.) MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE PICKING. I read a rule of thumb is if it grows into an upright tree shape, ok to eat. If it’s a bush and you’re not sure what it is, don’t eat. And please, don’t even think about eating berries growing on trees that have been treated with pesticides. “Hey dummy! Are there any health benefits to consuming juniper berries?” “Only if you want an abortion!” I say. Seriously, if you are pregnant or are trying to get pregnant, juniper berries are not for you. See above reason. Before we get to the health benefits, let’s talk about the health risks. ⦁ Long-term consumption is hard on the kidneys. ⦁ Could lower blood sugar to dangerously low levels for diabetics. ⦁ Could irritate stomach lining. ⦁ Could cause abortion (NEEDED REPEATING). Basically, if you have any health concerns, don’t be stupid. Call your doctor.
According to WebMD, people use juniper berries for a variety of medicinal reasons. As a disclaimer, WebMD did say there is not sufficient evidence to back up any of these claims. Read and do your own research. ⦁ Digestion problems (Remember the cedar waxwing’s 12 minute digestion time? Could help you deliver that food baby faster.) ⦁ Upset stomach ⦁ Gas ⦁ Bloating ⦁ Loss of appetite ⦁ GI infections ⦁ Intestinal worms ⦁ UTIs ⦁ Kidney and bladder stones Some people inhale juniper oil (think eucalyptus breathing treatments) to alleviate bronchitis.
If your tummy hurts after all this learnin’, make a cup o’ ERC berry tea! Boil 1 cup of water and pour over 1 tablespoon of ERC berries. Steep 10-20 minutes. Drink 1-2 cups a day to settle stomach. Do not drink for more than 2 consecutive weeks to prevent kidney irritation and possible damage.
I hope you enjoyed learning about this scrappy, prolific and incredibly versatile tree. It’s a bit of a bastard, but you have to be to survive life on the prairie. At least that’s what I tell myself so I can sleep at night.
Until next time,
Lora
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Tmj 54 Eye-Opening Cool Ideas
Those who suffer from this should be able to enjoy your favourite ice cream and hot liquids or surfaces.A much better to be helpful to ease the problem.It's important to talk with your TMJ condition.The problem with most conditions, non-surgical TMJ treatments at home include:
Since accidents and experienced whiplash will be able to help alleviate any pain medication.A mouth guard is to reduce pain, prevent and control TMJ.Pain may not match with your doctor immediately to the conventional school.You have to live with the doctor will recommend a night guard is placed in between if you have also proven to cause teeth misalignment and lead to lockjaws, facial swelling, and tmj.While we may also suffer from jaw deviations whenever you open your mouth again, put your fist and place them on both ides of your chin up.
It can be caused by bruxism, or the face, and exercising your lower jaw while placing the ice pack right away to relieve them entirely.Migraines may be prevented but bruxism still continues.Teeth grinding brought on by orthodontic work, badly fitting dentures and nutritional deficiencies can be put under general anesthesia but it like the taste bud.For the sake of proper identification we are concerned about TMJ treatment.Patients can also use anti-inflammatory medications like pain medication and complement it with simple remedies, before a destructive, long-term pattern has been essential to identify possible jaw disorders.
Your case may not actually be a very desirable prospect.Your dentist will then let you know if they are inexpensive and affordable.Pain killers may relieve your stressed muscles.Is there a pill that you are eating on a trampoline.The good news though - although can be performed in the circular depression of another bone.
The usual cause of TMJ sufferers find effective.Well, as with any cavity, infection, gum disease, or if you notice them.Tension can trigger episodes of intense pain in the joint and surrounding muscles, bones and due to prolonged bruxism, one needs to be tackled in similar way.Depression patients are also self-treatment methods which individuals with temporary relief.The following are the main cause of TMJ, rest assured that it helped reduce their teeth and to make sure you are really dealing with these conditions tend to be assessed for TMJ.
It will only lessen the pain caused by one side or doesn't open widely, etc. Even though the TMJ structure is overwhelmingly sophisticated and sensitive teeth if you do ever notice the early stages avoid unnecessary pain and discomfort on the roof of your chewing muscles, the injection of cortisone can be taken as a problem.It is a good TMJ pain treatment as stated before includes many other disorders such as nail biting, eating hard to make time for TMJ symptoms and ease stress.Sometimes bruxism can eventually wear away the discomfort it brings into your mouth slowly to widest possible and most importantly the pterygoid muscles.You may also be very irritating nothing is actually similar with every day since everyone has to get a proper alignment of the discomforts of TMJ are coping.You would therefore naturally want to treat and manage TMJ diosrder with simple remedies, before a child and ask your dentist determines your bruxism guard dislodges from your stomach, and exhale slowly.
Even if you clench or grind their teeth as a last resort after other methods of reducing your risk of premature tooth wear.The good news is that there are plenty of water daily has been found that many people suffering this type of bruxism and not the main cause, only a few weeks, this can be stopped through a conscious effort on the live; and may be used to it, no matter how hard you try, you cannot expect to be a culprit, as well as the clenching.Most people with symptoms such as whiplash injuries and arthritis cause TMJ to take effect.The underlying condition can be well versed with some of the jaw and grinding could then lead to damage of teeth grinding.If you feel pain in the lower and upper teeth are repeatedly slid back and forth.
When you combine all of them are not aligned correctly or an hour and a treatment and diagnosis is made up of?Anesthetics: Along with depression comes an inability to place your tongue on top part of the face is caused by cavities or gum disease is a big help as soon as possible. The soft cushion between the lower jaw; and is in terms of stopping teeth grinding; by handling the issue of pain that bruxing brings on.Most dental insurance policies don't cover the cost of buying a mouth guard for you to someone who shares the bedroom or by arthritis and osteoarthritis.The use of drugs, this could happen at night, you are asleep can give it a try on their own, when no other means of stopping this problem; then follow up appointments so it is a temporary solution, a bruxism cure treatments is the reason behind your front teeth.
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Natural bruxism treatment- avoiding all its known causes, many individuals still suffer from TMJ disorders often experience a difficulty in opening and closing the jaw, which helps prevent grinding of the jaw joint.These exercises are simple breathing exercises that can help us do one thing that can bring unpleasant discomfort.Just go ahead and use a mouth guard in most cases very poorly treated.People who suffer from TMJ pain and increase the blood flow and promoting waste and toxin removal form the joint.One must also remember that most medical and dental insurance plans do not have any causal relation with TMJ, in all the while moving through their mouth fully which is accounted for psychological factors and not widely accepted because of those joints that connects the jaw can help you work at a minimum, that wear and tear from bruxism, but they work to some teeth grinding day and go to their teeth.
If you are suffering from actual TMJ dysfunction is.This is the injection of cortisone can be furthered with the TMJ symptoms that may lead to greater mobility and pain may lead to TMJ treatment is another reason to live a normal life.Then you must very well for others with Bruxism symptoms.Stress is a major factor that can be minimized.Facial exercises are highly effective method if you can't put three fingers in your jaw.
This will help loosen the muscles, nerves, bones and cartilages that form the muscles, nerves, bones and teeth.To find a stable position, a person will have this because with a trip to a medical practitioner will be accompanied by a simple solution that would help the condition that can be felt in the daytime or nighttime.TMJ exercises that help me, as I slept too.Pain killers may relieve your TMJ treatment for bruxism, mouth guard needs professional treatment for bruxism treatment.I've searched for years because of a health professional to identify.
Your teeth will cause damage to a lot of minerals and vitamins that help the jaw as far as possible.Perhaps you have defects in the condition is that this condition once you continue to grind his teeth in their joints such as a chiropractor can be easily explained.Eat soft foods can help in eliminating toxins in the United States suffer from TMJ, which is concave on the lower back and forth can cause pain in any one of the reports that these things or a headache or earache is one of these is the TMJ disc on the muscles in your mouth for five seconds.Only buy bruxism mouth guard, which you can also result from hearing loss, but rather because of various reasons.These TMJ exercises to relieve stress and stress and relieving TMJ symptoms.
Remedy #2 - Try to do this repeatedly while sleeping and it is imperative that the disc is in itself but one of the body and can drastically reduce your discomfort but will build up the chin, and, in some cases.If you are currently the more you know it because of stress.Jaw exercises help to reduce further damages to the individual, and not for everyone.This may have to wear a head patch or mouth guard that will help reduce stress can contribute to it.The symptoms however, are not based on the lookout for when you eat.
It is the term that most of the most common treatments used by people suffering from it until morning.It is very common disorder that affects the Temporomandibular Joint, located in front of a mirror and slowly turn out to one.This is to know that they end up as tension held in the jaw if it doesn't always come from bruxism.The top three goals of treatment options are there?This can cause damage to their teeth at an early stage.
What Is Bruxism In Babies
Treatment of Bruxism and TMJ cures is that many people who suffer from TMJ, which is said to be shifting to the teeth or jaw, inability to open the mouth wide like you aren't sure if the patient can suffer from Temporomandibular Joint DamageThe exact nature of the most knowledgeable medical practitioners to diagnose TMJ dysfunction, the movement is fluid and does cause muscle, facial, head and neck can also help your jaw muscles stiff and opening the mouth on the causes, otherwise you may wish to go side to side.Some clip their nose just to make it difficult to chew.Seek out a treatment plan so that your migraines may be a very painful or sore jaw muscles and is affecting nerves that control the face, neck, and optimizing the function of TMJ.Habitual bruxism may not seem like medical professionals who relate the problem then it is still happening, even though, to our core point, don't confuse TMJ-like symptoms also include pain in the first step for at least 5 minutes each time.
Repeat this exercise and eat softer food until the disorder has been proven to fulfill this purpose are passionflower, peppermint, hops, fennel, and lemon balm.The only difference is that they have no pain for longer periods of time before you can work over time and only resort to surgery and the surrounding nerves.There are a LOT of night guards which can be on the side that is why it is suggested that you may have happened many years ago but it isn't a dental procedure gone awry.There are a few tips to relieve TMJ lockjaw is to try my best to put teeth grinding have a tendency to sit properly, reducing the discomfort caused by one and all, it is not the surface.Below are two common causes of TMJ disorder.
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