#she died and was revived and she was turned into a dragon

[a-tired-human-draws-junk]

Dunmeshi themes of consumption on the brain

[stardust948]

More Sun Spirit Ty Lee x Zuko

[elmushterri]

2K followers on tumblr and 30K subscribers on YouTube! In celebration, here’s my story. Not a rewrite. This is all a work in progress and subject to change.

Being a HEMA fencer, I’ve wanted a story semi-based on actual swordsmanship and actual fencing techniques.. but fantasy.

It’s a story like… Spiderverse meets Steven Universe meets Owl House meets She-Ra.

It’s called

The Knight’s Handbook

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It’s modern Earth but there are supernatural people who protect it like guardian angels called Knights: Humans who’ve died via sacrificing themselves for someone else, and have been revived (not by choice). They protect humans from things as small as tripping over to protecting them from demons, dragons and other dangerous entities.

A Knight can pull their weapon from a magical, glowing scar called their Mortal Wound, the injury they acquired and a sign of the end of their mortality, like how SU Gems can pull their weapons from their gems. A Knight’s weapon can be anything including guns and crossbows, but these shoot magic/energy bullets or arrows.

Knights have their own realm to go to just for each other, (Gallantia) but can live on Earth hiding as normal humans if they wish (so long as they hide the magic scar!)

They function a bit like bees in that there is a Queen, chosen instantly when someone dies by sacrifice according to ‘qualifications of their soul’ (So not completely random like other Knights). Of course, this only happens when the former Queen is killed. Never have there been two Queen Knights at once, so written history goes. Like bees, that would create a huge issue!

Here is the main character and the main antagonist. For the first time apparently ever, there are Two Queen Knights. A mistake of nature, perhaps?

Sidra Saiffudeen

Our main enby is Sidra, she/they. A normal teen turned Queen Knight chosen right after her death, impaled through the chest (where you can see her Mortal Wound symbol) by saving her father. Her design is based on a bee! Not all Knights’ designs are, but I thought I’d lean into Queen Bee stuff.

She’s the ‘Acknowledged’ Queen. Most Knights, ones in support of the past Queen who just died (it’s a mournful period), back Sidra, but think she’s a bit immature. Sidra adores her new people though and vows to be a good Queen. Knight Queens don’t just sit back like Earth Royalty, they’re the most powerful and therefore in battle a lot. The past Queens tended to be adults (The Captain of the Royal Guard was in love with the past Queen (sapphics >:) ) and so having Sidra around is painful but they do their best to teach her.

Then there’s Juliana Fontana, always called Jules. She… is also a Queen Knight. You can tell this because a Queen’s mortal wound symbol is always the same as the Knight Symbol, a sword. Some Knights went traitor to back Jules rather than Sidra. Jules is a very very tired and sneaky girl, but more academically intelligent than Sidra. She’d be a very different Queen, and that’s why the Knights that took her side did so! She hasn’t figured out how to access her weapon or knight form.

The twist? They haven’t seen each other for a long long time… but Sidra and Jules know each other.

Info on Weapons, Mortal Wounds and Knight Forms.

Lastly, The Title’s “The Knight’s Handbook”… what are Knight Handbooks?

Well, for Knights, along with a weapon you can pull from your Mortal Wound, you also have your Handbook! Every Knight has a Handbook with their symbol on it. Like I said, Queen Knights don’t get their own unique personalised symbol, rather they get the default symbol representing all Knights as a species (unfortunate!).

Every Handbook is personalised except for the first couple pages and chapters. The first few pages *always* contain The Rules of Knighthood. One of which is that there Cannot Be Two Queens. But… have these Handbooks with their strict rules on who your friends and enemies are and what you can or cannot do always been a part of the Knights? Or did someone *write* these books for their own purposes? Control?

Handbooks also contain info on how to fight/fence, how to defeat certain entities, anatomy, etc (I’ll figure out more). But, Handbooks also serve as phones! You write something in your handbook for someone else and your writings will appear in *their* handbook! Not sure, but I imagine handbooks can also be used as little sketch hologram projectors (you sketch a map for example or a plan and project it into the air using your book.)

Sidra and Jules may have this giant plot going on around them because they happen to be Queens, but that doesn’t mean they’re not teenagers who want to have fun. A lot of Knights are kids and teenagers and still have their senses of fun, much to the dismay of the serious adult Knights. But they’re all immortal so they’ve got plenty of time to grow up before they hit an age to stop. Being a Knight is tough and scary cause you *could* die at any time in a fight, so adult Knights tend to protect the teens from going out before they’ve trained properly. Queens are not afforded such a luxury and besides, a lot of teen Knights are totally reckless regardless of what the adults say!

So yeah!

That’s an intro to The Knight’s Handbook. I’d love for people to join in like they did with GunnTech and make their own Knights for this, if you feel inspired. It’s kinda like a DTIYS but instead of Draw This In Your Style, it’s… Draw Your Sona for this concept? Working title… /j If you wanna do something, I suppose tag it with “The Knight’s Handbook” with the apostrophe and whatnot, but I do not expect anything, you guys already do so so much 🧡.

Any art or ocs of The Knight’s Handbook will definitely be featured on my next YT vid and I’ll be reblogging (Plus I would love to draw you guys’ ocs, and basically consider them canon since there’s an infinite number of Knights in TKH!)

Thank you for all your support, guys!

[lizaoverlord]

The deep gnome bard Ijech in our DnD party is often seen by my dark elf Deimos as 'just a small gnome'. But often this small gnome is truly the leader and negotiator of our group the Grey Wardens.

Lately Ijech seemed to be a bit lost however. I suppose dying during the dragon fight and getting revived through magic does that to you. :( Ijech saw things when she died and has now started to question the legitimacy of the gods and she's seeking guidance elsewhere. So of course Deimos will provide~

Deimos started working on a new spell of his: Dream. I talked this plan over with the GM of our DnD campaign and he agreed to let me cast this spell on another partymember. When the night fell the GM asked everyone else to leave the table except for Ijech and Deimos.

I described that Ijech in her dreams wakes up in a luxurious mansion. Tall windows looking out over the vast dark elf city of Menzoberranzan. As Deimos approached her Ijech suddenly went: "Oh, it's the Deimos dream. Again." This took Deimos by surprise. Deimos: "Again? You dream about me more often?" Ijech: "Wait?! You're really here???!!"

The Dream went on with Deimos explaining that he needs Ijech's help. He needs to reach the famous city of magic: Ephelium.

Extra: Ijech's player later described the start of the scene so vividly saying: "It's a moment of terror when the GM turns to the drow player and just says 'Take it away'!"

[1unpaid-intern]

A little late to the party but I finally watched episode 17 of dungeon meshi!

I'm an anime-only so I thought all the "Laios has autism" talk was just a popular headcanon, but no! They basically spelled it out this episode!

I see a lot of people absolutly demonizing Shuro because of how he reacted to Laios explaining himself, and while it is his fault for not giving it straight to Laios earlier (because come on, you said yourself that he's sincere and not picking up on subtle hints) , he's not evil either (if anything he sees himself as a hero and Laios' sincere & annoying obliviousness is throwing him off).

Shuro was raised in a different culture + he also just had a really terrible time lately and he just reached his breaking point. I mean:

He thought his crush died and it was a race against time to save her

Because of that he didn't take care of himself

It turns out Laios & crew already revived her with BLACK MAGIC but they lost her AGAIN because they angered THE LORD OF THE DUNGEON

All things considered Laios seems super chill and oblivious about the situation (as always) not like his sister's life is in danger

Aaaaaand then he finds out, because of the black magic, she fused with the dragon and might never be her real self again, ergo he'd have to kill her

Like, Laios is right, this man needs a break.

What I do find hilarious though is how Falin has all these qualities he doesn't like, but it's Falin so with her it's not enraging but ✨️enchanting✨️

She already knew about Marcille's black magic and was cool with it (in the flashback she was really interested in Marcille's ideas so she probably even encouraged it)

To the people of her class she was an outsider with weird interests just like Laios. The only difference is that he's very talkative and likes to overshare, while Falin seems more like a soft spoken, quiet type of day dreamer

She also doesn't seem to get social cues that well (she also fell for the scam + didn't seem to realize Shuro wanted more alone time with her when Laios joined them)

Apparently you can overlook quite a few things in a person when you're down bad for them.

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for indirectly causing my friend to get turned into an abomination?

I (50F, E/TM) am an advanced mage. As of late, I've joined an adventuring party at the request of my old classmate and friend F (23F, TM), who is the sister of the party leader L (26M, TM). Everything was going pretty well... until we came face to face with a dragon. F teleported the rest of us out of the dungeon we were in, but she got eaten.

The good news was:

- People who die in the dungeon can be revived with magic (which I know how to do) if enough of them is left.

- Apparently dragons hibernate and digest their food pretty slowly, so if we could kill it, we might be able to retrieve and revive F.

The bad news was:

- Two of our party members, N (61F, D), and Sh (26M, TM) ditched us.

- L decided the best course of action to save on costs while we get back down there is to eat gross monsters, and he met this weird dude Se (middle-aged?M, D) who's encouraging him!

- The only person who's being normal about this is the picklock C (adult?M, HF), and he's a jerk.

Unfortunately L was also probably right, so I had to eat weird monster food the whole way back down to the dragon. But this isn't about that.

This is about the part where we found the dragon, but it was not hibernating and we all nearly died trying to kill it and it had digested all of F except for her bones.

But, being the accomplished mage that I am, I came up with a plan: using F's bones, the meat of the dragon, and some ancient and unfairly-deemed-illegal magic, I could bring F back to life! L agreed to it, so I cast the spell, and it worked like a charm!

...So I thought.

Apparently the evil mage who rules over this dungeon (???M, E) put a spell on that dragon that attached its soul to its body. When I used its meat to revive F, the dragon's soul got mixed in with hers.

Said evil mage apparently was unhappy about his dragon getting killed, so he turned F... back into a dragon, sort of. A dragon-human-hybrid-monstrosity. And Sh is mad at me because he had a crush on her, and C says that's what I get for using illegal magic, and it's a whole fucking mess but how was I supposed to know the dragon had a spell on it?

I'm exhausted. This is the end of this post. Bye.

-M

[EDIT: YES I know "mortality is inevitable you should have accepted it blah blah" but what if it doesn't have to be???]

[ruporas]

Hey sorry if I’m being annoying but. I see posts of dungeon meshi every so often and I came across your harpy piece (which is AMAZING btw) but why does falin (I think that’s her name) turn into a harpy?? If you know please spoil me I just I have to know if it’s doomed yuri or not

haha not annoying at all! here’s my debrief of it

important thing to note is that Falin dies in episode 1, like first minute, she is dead and the entire journey is about defeating the red dragon that killed her in order to revive her before she gets fully digested. long story short, she DID get digested with only her bones and strands of hair as her remains which makes standard resurrection impossible, but marcille is then revealed to been studying ancient/black magic and is able to revive falin using monster parts aka the now defeated and dead red dragon. falin gets revived, they’re happy for a night and talking about going back to the surface with the rest of the party, yay!

the dungeon lord senses a disturbance after his red dragon is killed though and shows up. in resurrecting falin, the red dragon’s soul had intermingled with hers so she ends up being overtaken by the dragon’s soul upon the dungeon lord’s appearance and strictly follows his orders from then on. next time she shows up in front of the party, she ruthlessly kills/injures half the people they were with and showed basically no falin-ness in battle except for a brief moment with laios (which i assumed was bait).

that’s how falin gets turned into a chimera! there were harpies that showed up with her in the recent ep, but she herself is like. a weird dragon chicken thing.

i should also note marcille and falin are childhood friends, they’re very close to one another and marcille, despite the odds, adamantly joined laios in getting falin back. i think the importance falin has in marcille’s life has been enforced so falin becoming half monster, alive but not as herself entirely and becoming wrapped in a situation where they must defeat the Dungeon Lord in order to get her back (potentially) is kind of devastating. and in the recent episode, laios nor marcille knew how to approach falin, they just knew they didn’t want/couldn’t hurt her. this entire situation is new in their world, it’s not certain whether falin will ever return to herself. they’ll continue onward in the journey, but everything is probable! so not 100% doomed, but still, devastating.

the manga is finished so i highly recommend reading it if you’re curious about what happens. i feel like the yuri is better enjoyed if you know more about the world and of marcille’s character too, because her goals and desires makes everything she has to experience a bit more tragic. if not the manga, then definitely the anime!! watching it is very fun and i believe they’ll stop the anime at a good point. but anyway i hope this answers your question! ^_^

[chiropterancreed]

amc lestat is bluebeard. he is the brothers saving the young bride from him. he is prince charming and the dragon he has been sent to slay. he is the wolf, pretending to be a lamb - please believe that he is the lamb, love him like he is, see he can be so sweet and gentle (ignore the fangs and the blood on his muzzle). he is also heathcliff AND mr rochester. he is lord byron with blond hair, he is everything the romantic and gothic writers wrote about. he's percy shelley taking mary shelley's virginity in the graveyard. percy shelley dies and is cremated and it turns out his heart was calcified: he is also lord byron begging mary shelley for percy's calcified heart - to keep always in remembrance of him, and mary shelley denying him, keeping the heart of her beloved, the heart that loved her.

this is not to say that book lestat isn't also like that! he definetly is. but he is also satan from "paradise lost". he is also dante on his voyage through hell and beyond, fainting at the sight of the tortures the wicked endure.

anne rice wrote a character that is so damn compelling! lestat de lioncourt is the summation of 200 years of gothic literature, and is also the superhero in your favorite comic series. he is both a deeply serious character - and deeply unserious (here's to looking at you "blood canticle")!

i love lestat so fucking much! i love the show, it has taken something that is beloved and (for the most part) well written and revived it and turned it on it's head. just like anne rice did when she wrote "interview with the vampire" in the 70s, it's a re-imagining of the vampire genre. but not just vampiric horror, it's also turning romance on its head!

historical shows seem to pale in comparison to what the amc IWTV crew are doing, just as anne rice mixed well researched history with the gothic and vampiric in her novels. she changed the game. if she hadn't come along and turned the horror genre on its head, we'd still be stuck with dracula and other dracula-inspired knock-offs.

anyway - if you are new to the show and anne rice in particular, i highly recommend reading the books. not all of them are gems, but they all have something to say and to bring to the table.

[proffbon]

I don't like talking about things like this here, but I just couldn't stop myself, so here we go.

Nerd rant below

When some people criticize the inclusion of top surgery scars in Veilguard by saying that this is a fantasy game and it's unrealistic that someone would go through surgery instead of using magic, I have to roll my eyes.

You just know these people know fuck all about how magic works in DA. 

Dawg, Dragon Age doesn't even have revival magic. Sure, there's a spell called 'Revival' but it might as well be called 'Anti-KO spell' because it just heals knocked-out companions enough so they can get into the fight right away. If you don't 'revive' them, they get up just fine after the fight ends. 

The best you can do is create an undead akin to what happened to Hawke's mother, and even then the magic needs to be continuously sustained by the caster (she dies right after Quientin is killed) AND there's blood magic involved.

So imagine what resources must be used to fully alter someone's body, creating one set of organs and erasing another, changing the whole endocrine system, and god knows what else, and then making sure all of this works on its own without any sort of sustained magic source, if even a simple revival is out of the question in this universe.

Even if it works, it would probably require a shitton of lyrium or blood magic of an impressive magnitude. Not only that, but it would probably need to be performed by a highly skilled mage and a couple of other people in the room to possibly fight off demons who'd get drawn to such a magic nexus. The magic itself might even be highly risky due to the amount of intervention the caster must do to their body, probably even severely injuring the person the spell is performed on if something goes wrong. This is not even mentioning exactly HOW the process is achieved. It might require a spirit possessing the body to change it or entering into the Fade physically to make the body more 'changable', which are yet another risk. 

And if you want to say 'Shapeshifting', don't. Not only is it not permanent, it's not even how shapeshifting works. Go listen to what Morrigan says about turning into other humans.

This isn't Forgotten Realms. We don't have a Wish spell, or Changedance, or a Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity. This is Dragon Age, where people not only have little to no access to magic depending on the region, but also where magic requires a lot of resources, a lot of knowledge and skill, and it's also the more dangerous the more complex it is.

So out of all the fantasy universes, DA is actually the one where I can see more people preferring to go for a top surgery and then some magical healing at best rather than seeking out a magic powerful enough to alter your body perfectly. Because I'm pretty sure magic like the one I described is exactly the one Krem said he doesn't want anywhere near his body.

[fallingdown98]

Shout out to Fantasy High Junior Year to get me to post original thoughts on here for the first time on years - Thought after Episode 15, The Last Stand, spoilers ahead

Based on what happened with Buddy, Brennan's callout of "what was loaded into that crossbow?", and Brennan saying in AP that killing Buddy was always on the table this is what I think Kipperlilly Clerickiller's plan was (Also ty Fandom I will be using this forever now)

1. Snuck in with Buddy when the Last Stand was being set up. (Saw some people questioning how she managed to get in, I truly think it's as simple as this)

2. Steal both Buddy and Kristen's diamonds to ensure no reviving can occur

3. I think the plan was to shoot the proctor with rage crystals, causing him to hulk out and depending on timing, no one to stop more monsters from arriving.

4. Based on where she was standing, I think the goal was to blame the crossbow bolt on Buddy and then leave still undetected with Oisin's prepped plane shift

4a. I still think Buddy dying was always part of the plan but I think the goal was to get the Bad Kids to have to ruin their own situation (Having to kill the hulked out proctor, seeing Buddy as an enemy and targeting him, being stuck because if Kristen had used her 7th level slot then they would at minimum be stuck for 8 hours assuming they all managed to survive if the monsters were still coming)

5. Theory here and we'll see if it proves correct but my immediate thought when Buddy died was that KLCK is planeshifting to the Celestial plane and hoping to use Buddy to sneak into Sol's office like when Aguefort snuck in through Kristin's backpack

6. Once in Sol's office, she would be where YES! Was originally created and the reason Bakur supposedly failed his ritual is that he needed to be in a place where a god had been created in order to rez a God.

7. Chaos ensues when corrupted Ankarna is brought back

8. Profit??? I guess??? Tbh the exact reasoning of the Ratgrinders is still the most elusive thing to me. I think my current most likely thought is that Jace is serving as manipulator and that KLCK is the most "lost in the sauce" as it were what with her pre-established anger issues.

Since we only saw a hand I'm reserving judgement on Oisin as he may have only been aware of his part of the plan and not the rest of what Miss ClericKiller has been up to. Not attached so I'm also down for him to be full evil but I'm just not sure yet.

Another thought I had is that the Ratgrinders may yet mirror the Bad Kids not just in class, but also in personal problems.

Ruben and Fig both having identity crises but Ruben has isolated himself so much he's turned to being a lackey

MaryAnn just doing what she's doing because she's good at it, not because it's something she's passionate about

If Oisin's dragon relative is evil and he's going along with the plot because of that, that would mirror Adaine breaking away from her own evil parents

Don't know enough about Ivy to have thoughts on her really, buddy and Lucy could probably be their own post tbh, and as I can't get a lock on Kipperlilly.

Jawbone seemed convinced she was just misunderstood and jawbone usually has a pretty good read on people. But then she's smiling while murdering Buddy and teleporting away. Why does she hate Riz specifically? Is it something he did or is it more generic jealousy (or a crush but I don't care for that theory personally and doesn't feel super supported currently)?

What's the deal with the rage soil and how did they place a rune of Ankarna's name on Yolanda/Lucy if it was unknown at that point?

Anyway, feel free to reblog or tag with thoughts, I'm so excited to unravel more of this mystery.

[isu0]

Theory: The Sedition of Imbibitor Lunae was not about making Blade immortal.

(Updated with more speculations and additional evidence.)

!!! WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS REGARDING LEAKS AHEAD !!!

The current prevailing theory is that the Sedition is about Dan Feng turning Blade immortal. However, I think the Sedition is actually about a collaboration between Dan Feng, Blade and Jingliu to revive a dead Baiheng. This plays into the theory about Bailu being Baiheng's reincarnation.

Background:

Baiheng is the 5th unnamed member of the High-Cloud Quintet. She was a Foxian pilot who used a bow as a weapon. It's speculated that Baiheng was somehow turned into a Vidyadhara and she reincarnated to become Bailu. More elaboration and evidence about the theory here.

Speculated Timeline of Events:

Baiheng dies. Dan Feng, Blade and Jingliu work together to revive her. The plan was for Dan Feng to use multiple Vidyadhara eggs to reincarnate Baiheng into a Vidyadhara and grant her immortality. However, something goes wrong during the process, and Baiheng instead turns into a Foxian-Vidyadhara chimaera. The chimaera goes on a rampage, forcing Jingliu to "kill" it. However, instead of dying, the chimaera turns into a Vidyadhara egg, allowing Baiheng to be reincarnated into Bailu.

Evidence of an Attempt to Revive Baiheng:

(Leaked) Dan Heng IL's Character Story Part III: The story describes Dan Feng and Blade working together to "bury [Dan Feng’s] old friend, or to grant them new life grant" and that “[these] two actions were one and the same”. This suggests that Blade and Dan Feng were working to revive someone, but the person would still “die” in the process somehow. I believe this is describing efforts to reincarnate a dead Baiheng into a Vidyadhara, as Baiheng’s reincarnation would technically be a completely new person and Baiheng would “die”. However, during the process, an unnamed girl crashes a starskiff into Dan Feng and unleashes some kind of weapon on him. The interference of this starskiff girl might have caused the reincarnation process to go wrong. (Side Note: I've seen speculation that the starskiff girl is Baiheng. I think this is unlikely because the Dan Heng IL character stories use pretty consistent aliases for the High-Cloud Quintet members. Dan Feng is the “dragon”, Jingliu is the "swordswoman", Baiheng is the "pilot", Jing Yuan is the "Cloud Knight Lieutenant" and Blade is the "craftsman".)

Passerby's Roaming Dragon Bracer Relic: The relic's story describes Dan Heng and Blade turning someone into a "monstrosity". I think this could be referring to a Baiheng getting turned into a Foxian-Vidyadhara chimaera. (Side Note: There's a popular theory that this story is describing Dan Feng turning Blade immortal, with "monstrosity" being a reference to Blade's immortality. I think this is unlikely because the story refers to Blade as the "unnamed" and Dan Feng as "that owner", but it refers to the monstrosity victim as the "beloved". This suggests that the monstrosity victim is a third person separate from Blade and Dan Feng.)

Evidence of the Use of Vidyadhara Eggs:

(Leaked) Dan Heng IL's Character Story Part III: The revival specifically happens in Scalegorge Waterscape, which means that the process likely either uses Vidyadhara eggs or the Ambrosial Arbor. Since Dan Feng has to shift into his dragon form and use his dragon powers for the revival, it's more likely that the revival process uses the eggs rather than the Arbor.

Todd Riordan's Academic Research Mission Parts 1 & 2: In the mission, Todd's teacher leaves behind a bunch of clues, one of which is an image of the High-Cloud Quintet. From these clues, Todd deduces that Vidyadhara eggs can be used to achieve immortality. He then uses some Vidyadhara egg white to de-age himself. Blade appears towards the end of the mission and it is implied that he knows what Todd has done. Overall, the mission suggests that there is some relationship between the High-Cloud Quintet and the secret of obtaining immorality from Vidyadhara eggs.

Verdict: The Great Rebellion of Imbibitor Lunae: The verdict states that Dan Feng is guilty of "breaking the ban" (presumably a ban on granting immortality) and "thieving immortality". This suggests that Dan Feng gave someone immortality by stealing it from existing immortals (e.g. Vidyadharas currently in egg form).

A Page From the Alchemy Commission's Official Gazette: In the comment section of the Gazette, a commenter mentions that Dan Feng prevented several Vidyadhara from reincarnating. Since the Vidyadhara are able to reincarnate even after suffering serious injuries, Dan Feng must have done something drastic to these Vidyadhara to prevent them from reincarnating (e.g using their eggs to transform Baiheng).

Evidence of Blade's & Jingliu's Involvement:

Verdict: The Great Rebellion of Imbibitor Lunae: The verdict describes Dan Feng as "the mastermind behind the Sedition of Imbibitor Lunae", implying that there are multiple parties involved in the Sedition.

(Leaked) Dan Heng IL's Character Story Part III & Passerby's Roaming Dragon Bracer Relic: As discussed above, both stories describe Blade working together with Dan Feng to possibly revive someone.

Blade's iconic line: "Of five people, three must pay a price." It's widely agreed that the three people here refer to Dan Feng, Jingliu and Blade himself. The line implies that all three of them participated together in the same unforgivable act/incident.

Yanqing's Character Story Part III: The story mentions that Jingliu "violated the laws of heaven and resulting in her name being wiped from the face of the galaxy". This tells us that she commits a heinous act at some point.

Yanqing's Companion Mission: Frosty Blade's Trial In the mission, Yanqing states that "Ever since the Sedition of Imbibitor Lunae, the title of Sword Champion has gone unclaimed." This implies that whatever Jingliu did was related to the Sedition.

Further Speculations Relating to the Sedition:

Baiheng died as a sacrificial pawn to protect the Xianzhou. In Blade's trailer, he says "They declare me guilty yet their sin is greater. They've fallen too far for their lofty Xianzhou ships." The line suggests that Blade holds a grudge against the Xianzhou Alliance for some past action they've committed. Similarly, Jingliu also seems to hold a grudge against an unknown group of people. In Blade's character story part I, she says "Remember the feeling of death, and bring it to them." as she trains Blade. The line suggests that Jingliu was trying to turn Blade into a weapon against the group.

Baiheng held a high position in the Xianzhou . In the comment section of the Alchemy Commision's Gazette, a commenter states that "many [Vidyadhara] were never able to undergo hatching rebirth again because of [Dan Feng's] one decision". If Dan Feng had really sacrificed multiple Vidyadhara eggs to reincarnate Baiheng, it would be strange for the commenter to describe such a seemingly heinous and selfish act as just a mere "decision". However, if Baiheng had held a high position in the Xianzhou, sacrificing the lives of multiple Vidyadhara to revive her might seem to be a justifiable "decision" to some.

Jingliu succumbs to Mara immediately after "killing" the Baiheng chimaera. In a Vidyadhara egg story, Jingliu kills a furry draconic abomination (speculated to be the Baiheng chimaera). She then apologises and unleashes ice waves, freezing everyone in the vicinity (and potentially killing them). This lines up with Jingliu's mara-stricken rampage shown in the animated short "A Flash", where she freezes many people.

Dan Feng unintentionally caused some Vidyadhara to rebel against the Xianzhou. In the verdict against Dan Feng, one of his listed crimes was "inciting riot". A Vidyadhara egg story describes the memories of one of the rioters. It seems that the rioters had acted in a desire to protect Dan Feng from punishment, rather than a direct order from Dan Feng himself.

[dulldoll-0]

Q in TikTok by TERYX⛈️King of Rain Dragons⛈️:

Which spider has suffered the most in its past?

*Ans:

Definitely Isabella, but I think they all suffered pretty bad. ( thanks to me ✨🫦✨ )

Imma make a list of all the shit they went through ( 🌺Note: some lore are changed and or new ���� ).

💜 Itsy

-Witnessed the death of her kid sister and revived her.

-Has this whole existential crisis of having the soul of a demon.

💛 Beetsy

-Excluded by most of her bee peers/ neglected because is a spider.

-Dyed her hair & tail to fit in ( didn’t really work ).

-Banished from colony village after causing an accident.

-Physically, emotionally, and mentally abused by Jack for years.

-Her nyctophobia is constantly taken advantage of. ( Jack traps her in a closet )

-Almost died??? in the cold???

🩶Isabella

-Born with the abilities to soothe & heal, making her immune to any negative emotions for 24 years.

-Seen as a priestess in the island she isolated in. It was basically almost like a cult (???) 💀

-Her blood was exploited since she was 6 years old, thanks to her present, greedy mom.

-Gets hit with said emotions days before her wedding, and then messing it up thanks to one of her psycho, absent mom.

-Gets shot at the center of her spine by her fiancé, screwing up her webbing, and gets swept away by the ocean and separating her from beloved supposedly-fiancé.

-Lost Jack.

-Meets Harold/Home/It.

-Lived in a forest by herself for 2 years in her demon form, and only being half-conscious, whilst also turning or reverting her pigment to more grey, and killing lots of living organisms to gain color and food.

-Captured by the Rainbow Factory crew and was brutally experimented on.

-Taught herself how to get used to pain and totally screwing up her sleep schedule.

-Lost Mottheaus.

-Single mother who is grieving.

-Almost lost Weather.

♥️Missy

-Had her wings ripped off and exiled from Heaven for helping a demon.

-Lost memories of her past life and her Husband.

-Gets brutally punished whenever she did a job wrong.

💖Molly

-Possessed by Home, which makes her appear to be two-faced.

-Has the memory of a goldfish.

[randomnameless]

The thing is, in JRPG's churches were originally a good thing. They were the place to go to heal, revive or remove curses from your characters and at times the player character was chosen by some deity. Just look at the Dragon Quest games, which are to the Japanese the definition of fantasy much like LotR is in the West. While there was the SMT franchise, in Breath of Fire 2 on the SNES the Church being bad was meant to be a twist because it went against the perception of Churches in RPGs. Later on, Final Fantasy Tactics and especially Final Fantasy X made it a lot more common.

If you ever want to see a really cool take, Breath of Fire 4 really depicts humans as bastards and the gods/dragons are beings they called down to their world against their will. It ultimately ends with the player being given a choice whether humans are worth saving, either playing as the final boss and wiping out the party or rejecting that, stopping the final boss. The final boss wants to wipe out humanity because, while he was benevolent, the atrocities he's seen humanity commit (in order to kill him so the current emperor can maintain power of the empire the final boss founded) turned him against them. And even then, when defeated his belief mankind doesn't need gods anymore results in the gods, summoned against their will to serve humanity, return to their home while the MC becomes mortal (while another god remains, and this was a prequel to the previous games where she was a party member or at least an ally). But then again, one of the villains is still around and he says he can make as many "gods" as he needs for his plans, again highlighting how humans are the problem.

Oh I forgot to mention Golden Sun too in the list of games i've played that had that "old/classic" vibe to it and had mostly... churches/temples used as places where you're resurrected or purify curses without any "gods bad" - the closest thing to a God this verse has is actually a giant rock trying to prevent people from destroying themselves by sealing magic (sure, at the cost of the world and its people disappearing into nothingness, but the sequel basically proves him, sort of, right because when magic is unleashed the cast was manipulated into launching a WMD and that has several consequences like, a lot of people (even named characters!) dying, cute NPCs and to make it sting even more, you can interact/talk with the corpses of the people who died (basically their spirit hasn't left yet, and you have some NPC going all "I was living my regular life, then I heard a sound and now I'm like this, what happened?")).

I'm sure some people already thought about it more than me at 10pm lol, but basically, I wonder if those games emphasis on "humans can be shitty themselves" wasn't tied to a certain mindset that was prevalent in the 80-90-00s Japan, like humans do their shitty stuff, which summons/results in a "higher being" either punishing them or being a consequence for their shitty stuff, "higher being" must be convinced that humanity can change and thrive to do better, rinse and repeat.

I confess I've never been a fan of the FF franchise nor followed it at all but basically as @zeroabyss said, in the Tales franchise the various Churches/Gods (Spirits the Tales verse!) are more nuanced, you have corrupt/shitty people, nice people, etc etc.

Xillia had the novelty of the protag choosing to become God, because the current one shits on humans (because humans shit on spirits to survive!) when basically God should protect both humans and spirits and thanks to a McGuffin everything works out in the end ! Until Xillia 2 happens, but the second opus, while dealing with spirits and all, also gives more meat to the "how humans try to live together" angle and well, it's not all roses and sunshine - sure some spirits can be asses and not like humans that much, but even humans themselves, because they come from different countries, find ways to hate each other (there's even a subquest where you pwn a bunch of racists civilians/NPCs turned enemies for this special fight that are named "drunken man" "uptight girl" "crabby old lady" "self righteous man" etc etc lol)

[rist-ix]

Hi Rist~

So this is a bit morbid… And it’s not exactly related to your fics, but Imma ask anyway because you are the All Knowing Winx god.

What do you think would happen to the Dragon Flame if Bloom died? Like, before Domino was revived and while she is the only remaining survivor.

I’ve been curious about this for a little while now and I honestly don’t know who else or where else to ask this.

Also hope you’re doing well and life isn’t bullying you! Lots of love from your #1 Fan 💙

GIRL. GIRL YOU HAVE NO IDEA IVE PLANNED AN EXACT FIC ABOUT THIS IM PLANNING TO WRITE AFTER TBHTBH but I’m nothing if not a slut for validation so ahhahahaha have an excerpt without context right now

“You could always wait for the next guardian. Manipulate them instead. You're like, what, a hundred years old? Can’t be too hard to wait until I have children.”

In the corner of her eyes, she can see something hard pass over his face, something like a snarl. It’s gone when she turns around, replaced by his carefully composed half-smile. [visible at all/ re: ch3]

“I'm flattered you think me so young, and a little appalled at your lack of education. If Faragonda taught you anything about your realms history, you'd know I’m past half a millennium now.”

His smile turns into a smirk.

“Besides. Your mind is a rather dull place, compared to the splendor of the dimension I spent those centuries in.”

She rolls her eyes, but returns to her task without dignifying him with a reply. If the past [time] has taught her anything, then that Valtor is incapable of remaining silent for long.

“You are awfully optimistic, little fairy.”

“Occupational hazard.”

He's waiting for her to ask him, she knows. He loves to see her seek him out, to ask him questions and beg for his wisdom. It's not like he has many alternatives for conversation, so she decides to humor him.

“What exactly makes you say that?”

“Your confidence that any of your potential offspring would inherit your powers.”

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She frowns, her hands faltering.

“What do you mean? The Flame is heritable, isn’t it?”

“The Flame,” he says, “is the birthright of the ruler of Domino. It has been passed down in your family, so it always was the royal line. But it has skipped generations before, sometimes disappeared for centuries at a time. And that was before the fall.

“Without Domino, what purpose does it serve?”

Something cold, heavy seems to settle in her chest.

“You think I could be the last.”

“I am not willing to risk it. If the Flame disappears, I will perish as well, won’t I?”

[featherfur]

I don’t really talk about Genshin on this blog, but there’s just something magical (and by that I mean obnoxious) about seeing posts about how the archons are secretly evil and did all these bad things and that Genshin just treats it like it’s nothing. And then you read the lore and it’s literally

-Wind spirit just wanted to comfort a human and was forced into power so giant wolf didn’t murder humans

-local dragon/qilin’s best friend and partner was murdered and his people were being slaughtered so he fought to protect everyone including other gods

-electric sisters fought some gods, one gave up her body and then got revived (there’s not really much on them and the bits about Oroboshi are conflicting, I’ll fully admit. Maybe Ei did just have fun slaughtering, but I don’t think Makoto would have let her do that but maybe I missed a piece of lore. There’s a lot)

-literally didn’t even participate in the war just sat down w her three friends and one died and she still didn’t fight the other guy, just chilled out??? Even when he was being a bitch?? And helped him??

-Took over after a random king absolutely fucked up everything just started a country to clean up the mess the other guy made?

And literally none of it is hidden??? Beyond just how time and history works which is acknowledged in like 20 separate quests?? (Well okay, Istaroth is hidden but that’s less because he’s hiding it and more of because the whole Nobles destroying history thing, and no one really cares about Barbatos’ history)

No one says it was a good thing?? No one says it was okay that Celestia forced them into it? They actively avoid Celestia and communicating with them? Venti is even shown to look terrified when they’re brought up.

The only reason some history is ‘hidden��� is because it’s so old literally only the old as balls Rex Lapis remembers it all and he wasn’t everywhere and he’s not writing history books but he is still telling people.

Like, I think it’s kind of telling that at every turn all of the gods have done nothing but sought out peace and protection for who they loved and they’re not hiding anything or avoiding the truth. Hell two of the new archons weren’t even involved in the Archon war and didn’t have a choice in the matter.

Did they kill people? Some of them yeah! But one of the fandom’s favorites is literally a serial killer who attempted genocide because his ice god told him to go have fun, unlike Yknow the others who were in the middle of a war that was either pick a leader you’ll work with, kill everyone else so you can have power, or the literal heavens will send civilization destroying nails to slaughter every person you love.

Not to mention for every person who brings up the cataclysm I want to scream because so far NONE OF THE ARCHONS HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT!! Do you really think the archons who gave fucking everything for humans would just go willingly? Do you think they care if they’re worshipped? Do you think Venti who adores his children who think he’s dead cares if he’s worshipped? Do you think Zhongli who speaks so lovingly of how people from all over come to stay a while in his home would judge a Khaenri’ah’n for not bowing to him??

They wanted nothing to do with Celestia, they did what they had to do to protect their people and so far only two of them were actually killing people! Genshin isn’t coming out of nowhere with these more humanizing aspects, y’all just don’t pay attention and you want something that doesn’t exist.

How is that not more compelling than the idea that they’re all bloodthirsty killers who did all kinds of violence for the sake of violence and happened to be given magic powers?

[spider-beetle-bee]

Partners In crime.

LMK Various x Demon!Reader

GN Reader; Not romance based; This takes place in season 3, Not too long after they are officially running from LBD. So MK has no abilities, correct me if I'm wrong. 

Reader is a demon of sorts, In short you can temporarily raise the dead. In order to gain more power you must either kill and absorb a living things living essence or a creature you "Revived" kills something. Whatever you raise has some form of chains on them, Usually the cuff(?) of the chains are centered around the creatures neck, arms, and legs. 

You chose what you look like but you do have chains hanging from your arms with the cuffs being around your wrists. You carry around a staff with a lantern hanging on the end of it. You chose what you and the staff/lantern look like. As long as something has died you can summon it, Doing so does physically and energy wise weaken you. As for who's side you're on? The winning side.

Type:No specifics

You looked down from the building at the large Mech, Barely keeping to the shadows. Eyes widening at the sight, watching as the boy had lost the Monkey King's staff to the The Lady Bone Demon herself.  You had been trying to keep up on the news of her, But ever since she had been released from DBK you hadn't been able to keep up with any news. Although it is very hard to ignore the giant mech destroying half the city.

During your thought process the staff had been encased in stone and the boy had fled, The spider queen giving him time to do so. Of course you were intrigued but who would you help? If you wanted to help the Ivory Lady then you could just sit here and have a unfortunate ending, Or you could help the people that seem to be failing very miserably now....Yeah that seemed to be the best option. You stood up, Allowing yourself to be quickly surrounded by green souls to get out of the overall area, The lantern swinging slightly as you arrived at your destination. 

You were falling.

"OH SH*T!!" You held tightly onto your staff, Surrounding yourself with souls again, This time landing onto a flying drone thing. Making a loud clanking sound. You unfortunately having landed on your face, Interrupting the speech The Monkey King was giving. Everyone turning to look at you, Everyone being clearly on edge, You stood up fixing your (H/L) (H/C) hair, Looking over the group you let out a whistle.

"Bad time to drop in?" You barely had time to get that out before the Pig man started yelling at you. The very beat up Monkey King standing infront of the group, dispite his obvious lack of power, "Who Are you?! How did you get here?!!" The pig man was holding the boy with spikey hair behind him. While the green dragon girl stood beside the pig and Monkey. The Monk standing next to the map protectively. Infact it all looked like they were. 

You raised your hands in defense, A nervous smile curving onto onto your features. Your staff had long gone into a "Sentient" mode, The lantern hanging on your hip with the staff itself positioning itself infront of you protectively. "Woah! Gettin' a little uhhmm...Jumpy aren't we?" your voice didn't come out half as scared as you thought it was going to be, "You never answered, The question. Who. Are. You." Monkey king narrowed his eyes at you, "Glad you asked, I am [Name]! The Ruler of necromancy!! and I want to help." 

First oneshot done! Obviously I will make a part 2 at some point, Tell me what you think of this! And I'll see you next time! Thanks for reading! I ended up cross-posting this from my Quotev.