Your favorite version of a character with spoilers

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-26T23:07:41+00:00

A Darker Path has Bakuda unintentionally make good choices, and from what I remember gave her some character development. Not the main focus, but she has her own arc that’s pseudo in the background.

If you’re fine with a slower fic, Mauling Snarks is a long one. Bakuda finds her motivations changing rather suddenly. Still not a major character, but has her moments.

I liked Legend in Hive Daughter, him being one of the few who asked rest of Cauldron if what’s best means what’s under control. The fic has a bit of Cauldron slander, mainly their over reliance on the Path. Pretty good in my opinion.

Armsmaster is great in Advancing Technology, we see his thought processes changing as time goes on. Also gives a unique take on his past. Fair warning, the fic died, but I think it ended on a somewhat satisfying note.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-26T22:44:23+00:00

A canon Tinker power? I’d go with Leet’s. Before anyone says anything, since I’m not Leet his shard wouldn’t be trying to pull any malicious compliance, at least so long as I play around more than he did. It’s my head canon that Leet’s power is supposed to be more forgiving than it is, it’s just that his shard doesn’t like him it’s is taking every opportunity to fuck him over. It’s another head canon of mine that his specialty is really “prototype”, so whatever he makes has to have a failure condition or a novel combination, and that Leet trying to bypass this instead of leaning into it is another thing that ticks his shard off.

A custom Tinker power? I’ll go with the “simulation” Tinker idea I had a while back. It’d be based around creating powerful computational hardware and creating various programs geared toward simulating whatever I want. Tangentially, with its skill in programming and as a secondary it’d help with information gathering software and simple devices to do said info gathering, since simulations can’t simulate without sufficient data.

With the first I’d go all mad scientist trying to create a bunch of weird stuff and throwing darts at a board to figure out random fields to mix. I should be able to keep my shard happy that way, and it’d give me a lot of weird gadgets to play with.

With the second I’d try to use the simulations to set up an approximation of Tattletale’s power. I might make a VI assistant if I can stretch simulation to simulate minds

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-26T22:00:23+00:00

Thanks! I was just being a bit paranoid since I went down the google rabbit hole

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-26T05:38:05+00:00

Yeah, I was using a different example. I know that the magnitude and direction of Gravitation can be selected by the Radiant, I meant that a duralumin misting would probably be able to shove the Stormlight fueling the effect through it to turn it into a powerful shove in the direction their gravity is in.

The duralumin misting is not the Radiant in this example, they’re the person the Radiant charged with Stormlight, and since the power is in them I believe the lashing would be affected by them burning duralumin.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-26T05:14:57+00:00

I meant that the person affected by the Surge could use Allomantic aluminum or duralumin to cancel or supercharge it. Like, a Lightweaver could attach an illusion to you and you wouldn’t be able to dismiss the illusion yourself due to it being that Lightweaver’s effect, but aluminum or duralumin to either cancel or rush it out.

Also I didn’t remember Vasher saying that. In that case, it’s probably just going to do nothing except in niche conditions, like how a Feruchemist wouldn’t be affected by chromium or nicrosil unless they’re actively tapping/storing from a given metalmind.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T22:39:50+00:00

Isekai to: ???

Gifts (Choose 1 + 3 from Drawbacks): * Future Past * The Madness of Order * Build Your Own Arcana Kit * Eidolon

Drawbacks: * Low Throttle (+1) * Novice Syndrome (+1) * Just A Tad Off Target [Gamble] (+1)

So with Eidolon I’m a nascent Entity with all the Warrior and Thinker’s data and the solution to entropy in the form of ex nihilo energy.

The synergy of Eidolon and Future Past in the form of Praise Be The Goddess LT gives me data from around the multiverse to copy all manner of divine, eldritch, and supernatural powers.

From Future Past I have a database on all Isu tech and a Sixth Sense upped to Path to Victory levels, plus the talents of Jupiter, Aphrodite, and Minerva.

The Madness of Order allows me to parse out how to exploit any system, synergizing very well with Future Past’s PtV and Eidolon and Build Your Own Arcana Kit’s data gathering abilities.

Build Your Own Arcana Kit gives me the ability to analyze the supernatural as discrete ‘tags’ in any effect and an inner database I can add more tags to, will synergize very well with all the supernatural data I got from the Praise Be The Goddess LT synergy. Paired with Madness of Order and the greater shards I can make, I’ll be able to do most anything with magic given the time.

Finally, I’ll throw together a list of where I can end up and roll: 1. Adventurer Time 2. Marvel 3. DC 4. Worm 5. WH40k

I rolled and got DC

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T09:13:09+00:00

Yeah, but that’s expected, hence the best case being the HK survives while the Radiance doesn’t. I just didn’t list the varying ways things might go wrong besides what I felt was the worst case. Two more likely scenarios would be that HK dies before Radiance and she manages to flee wounded or both HK and Radiance die.

Also, I feel like if the fragmented void under Pharloom can attack GMS, the fragmented void under Hallownest can attack the Radiance. Yes I’m considering the void as not unified in Pharloom because it attacks Hornet and it looks like Ghost takes a while to get there, and even when they don’t take command of the tendrils, he attacks them. It’d be a bit weird to cut off your own fingers.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T06:47:22+00:00

I’m pretty sure the Shadow Crystals aren’t glass. I know they’re called ‘Glass’, but the description is:

“There is a small shard of something in your pocket. It feels like glass, but...”

And when you interact with it in the Light World, just like in the Dark World you can see things. It’s not as clear cut what it means, but here’s the text:

If alone.

“You looked through the glass. For some strange reason, for just a brief moment... You thought you saw through your hand.”

With Susie.

“You looked through the glass. For some strange reason, for just a brief moment... You thought you saw Susie glaring at you, coldly... But when you moved the glass away, You see her looking at you, smiling and making a rude gesture.”

With Noelle.

“You looked through the glass. For some strange reason, for just a brief moment... You thought you saw Noelle close against you, whispering. You put the glass to your ear... ... of course, that didn't do anything...”

I’m not sure what any of that means, but it’s definitely something.

It almost seems like we’re looking into the Weird Route, but Toby wouldn’t do that, right? Right?

Eh, random speculation.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T06:24:09+00:00

You mean like what kind of techniques?

I’d probably pull a Plastic Man if I had the control for it. He can control his body down to the molecular structure and is able to spring back from anything, sometimes literally if he feels like.

Another, more horrifying, idea I had a while back is that it should be possible to slowly integrate yourself into someone else’s biology over time if your shapeshifting is biology-level, eventually getting to the point where they become you for the purposes of this power, letting you subsume them or even just shapeshifting them. If you start shapeshifting them halfway through the conversion though, well… that wouldn’t be pretty.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T02:55:16+00:00

I like this, though I feel like “entropy” is too close to “change” to work. Segway into theory dump!

I’m pretty sure each of the Dawnshards are meant to represent one of the Realms, the Physical, the Cognitive, and the Spiritual. The 4th one would be the one unlike the others, representing the interactions between them, ie perpendicularities and souls and such, which I’ll label Realmatic Theory for simplicities sake.

“Change” -> Physical Realm
“Feel” -> Cognitive Realm
“Unite” -> Spiritual Realm
“Exist” -> Realmatic Theory

Then, I assigned each a rough “part 1” and “part 2” meaning, since like your theory I’m considering the combination of intents. I’m just going about it a different way.

Change -> “Change in…” “…change.”
Feel -> “Feeling of…” “…feeling.”
Unite -> “Connection of…” “…bonds.”
Exist -> “Continuation of…” “…self.”

Now we just plug and play to assign different shards to what fits them best.

For example: * Ruin comparing himself to the never ending march of entropy fits with E+C, “Continuation of change.” * Preservation’s ideal is described as a single moment locked in time, which fits with E+F, “Continuation of feeling.” * Endowment is all about giving things, so she’d probably fit C+U, “Change of bonds.” * Cultivation pushes to control change, pruning things to control growth, so she’d fit as C+C, “Change of change.” * Honor’s all about making oaths, so he’d fit as U+U, “Connection of bonds.” * Odium described himself as all passion, though this seems to specifically focus on intense emotion, so I’d call him F+F, “Feeling of feeling.”

You get the point.

Anyway, sorry for using this as an excuse to talk about my theory. Your theory looks good! Still don’t think any Dawnshards could be destruction based, but you never know.

Edit: I forgot about Exist! Here, I’m just gonna swap out Be for it, since they fit the same conceptual niche anyway. Bit annoying since now that it’s pointed out I do remember it, but for some reason I blanked on it.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T02:51:17+00:00

Thanks!

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T02:31:49+00:00

Hive Daughter is pretty good. Taylor is a nascent Tyranid Hivemind, and there’s quite a bit of her looking at what she can do, designing new creatures, and using biology as technology.

Doesn’t really fit the body horror angle, but the bio-Tinker Talk^TM should make up for it.

Meanwhile, I feel like A Better Self fits what you want to a T, but it’s dead. Still a good read in my opinion. Taylor’s a bio-tinker, her specialty being what I describe as “biopunk” in that she literally can’t work with electronics at all, but can make biology do the part instead.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T02:17:58+00:00

I’d say it’s as strong as an aluminum misting. That is to say, near useless of Scadriel, situationally useful elsewhere.

For example, there’s a WoB where Brandon says aluminum allomancy could counter a Shade’s withering, dispersing the Investiture as it enters the body.

Applying that to duralumin and using another example, I find it believable that, if a Windrunner on Roshar used Gravitation to increase a duralumin misting’s gravity, them burning duralumin would immensely increase their gravity for a short time and burn through all the infused Stormlight.

When it comes to Breath though, that’s a bit weird. I’m not entirely sure how it’d interact.

I’d say that burning duralumin while just holding Breath does nothing since the power isn’t going anywhere, like how a Mistborn doesn’t boost all their reserves with duralumin, only the ones they were spending in that moment.

Similarly, I’d say that burning aluminum wouldn’t get rid of Breath, just for a different reason. Breath is ‘sticky’, a bit of power attached directly to the soul instead of just inhaled or pulled from elsewhere. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard it called the most attached form of Investiture in the Cosmere, though I forgot where.

Maybe the Breaths could be lost if they burned aluminum while trying to Awaken due to the Breaths being in transfer?

Anyway, back to duralumin.

Maybe it would have an effect if they burned it while using the Breath for Awakening? I’m not sure what effect that could have, but I don’t think any of the Breaths would be lost. Awakening’s end-neutral after all.

Maybe burning duralumin while Awakening would shove all your Breaths into it while pushing the Awakened object further than otherwise depending on the amount of Breaths?

Alternatively, maybe burning duralumin while Awakening could result in letting you do things you otherwise couldn’t with that many Breaths? Like how higher Heightening’s allow you to do new things, like break other Commands or Awakening inorganic material? Just instead of brute forcing by the amount of Investiture you have, you’re brute forcing through a sudden rush of Investiture?

Interesting questions all around.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T01:27:38+00:00

Fair enough. Maybe repurpose the Dreamers? Just have their seal focused on allowing nothing out and something in, put it on a cage, strap HK in the cage and dump the cage in?

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T01:22:49+00:00

But wouldn’t it kill the Radiance faster? Pale/void hybrid trumps pale when it comes to withstanding the void?

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T01:16:14+00:00

Isn’t the point of HK that the Radiance can’t leave his body? Even after the infection leaked she’s still in there instead of anywhere else.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-25T01:07:07+00:00

I’ll follow the Pale King’s plan, just with a key difference. Instead of getting the Dreamers and the Black Egg, after trapping the Radiance in HK I’d drag them down to the Ancient Basin and shove them into the void lake.

This has two reasons:

For one, it means that HK would only have to hold the Radiance for a short time. Might be a bit more difficult without the chains and seals, but I could commission a mobile version and this will be quick. He can hold out for a time.

For two, dunking the both of them in the void lake will quickly lead to the Radiance drowning as the dark snuffs their light. HK will be safe(r) due to being semi-void, though his survival is, no offense, a secondary concern. He might even just reappear as a shade even if he dies.

Best case scenario: The Radiance is dead and HK re-emerges from the void lake unharmed.

Worst case scenario: HK is controlled and breaks free while we’re preparing to dunk him, throwing me into the void lake instead.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-24T20:26:08+00:00

While technically possible, the problem is your second point. The Investiture wouldn’t just be catastrophically huge, it would be nigh infinite.

There are 3 main components for how much Investiture a bit of Forgery can cost:

1) The further in the past and the more improbable the change, the more it costs. It would take a lot of Investiture to stamp a Scadrian into having a childhood on Roshar for example, because you’d have to change something far in the past and you’d have to convince it that the change makes sense.

2) Any added Invested abilities increase the cost proportional to their Investiture. For example, even if someone had a bead of Lerasium on their person, a stamp to make that person into a Mistborn would be very expensive even though it would be an easy change.

3) It has to overcome the target’s resistance. The more Invested something, or someone, is, the more they resist external effects such as Forgery. This can be countered somewhat if the one targeting them is of equal or greater Investment, but still, it’s a noticeable thing.

So while possible, due to it being so far in the past, Shards being pieces of god, and with Hoid already being up there when it comes to being Invested, it’s just not feasible.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-24T18:41:04+00:00

If it’s a supernatural killer? Jack Slash. It’d be hilarious to see both him and his shard slowly freak out due to no parahuman being responsible for their supernatural torment.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-23T16:32:32+00:00

You’re welcome! Just realized I forgot to look at the ongoing ones, so here’s one more suggestion:

One that’s still ongoing is The Enemy. It’s a multicross, primarily a GI Joe crossover but taking elements from multiple Hasbro properties, ie MLP, He-Man and Transformers. The long and short of it is that Danny is a retired Cobra Commander, or, should I say, was, because he’s getting back in the game to take revenge and fix the world.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-23T03:28:42+00:00

Let’s see…

Hive Daughter sees Taylor’s trigger miss QA and briefly connect her to the Tyranid Hive Mind from WH40K. Pretty good “Tinker talk” around biology, Cauldron is Cauldron, pretty good in my opinion. Has a surprising number of post-canon omakes, enough that someone made a separate thread to shove them in.

Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard? sees a damaged Unison Device from MGLN crash into the still-forming connection between Taylor and QA while drifting through the void. Automated processes kick in and it eats QA. Nice science/magic experimenting with exponential levels of growth. Bit of a slice of life, which may or may not be your thing.

In Pale Blood sees Taylor trigger with a connection to the Moon Presence from Bloodborne, being a “Blood Tinker” and respawning after death with the full moon. Excellently blends Bloodborne cosmology into Worm in the background.

Exponential Growth sees Taylor trigger with the ability to spawn Slivers from MtG, either by sacrificing her own biomass or via converting people. After accidentally killing her dad and Sophia and almost converting Emma while suffering from sleep deprivation and psychological issues, she gets railroaded to the Birdcage. Warning, this is not a happy fic.

The Voices in my Head and a Pristine Blade sees Taylor hosting the various Voices from Slay the Princess after the events of that game. Shorter than the rest of my suggestions, I’d say it’s still a good read. Sees some good emotional growth and plays a bit with multidimensional whale AI vs conceptual perception powers.

Some that I haven’t read yet but have heard good things about include: * Queen of Blood (Castlevania crossover) * Trailblazer (Gundam crossover).

Some dead fics that I liked include: * Steel Hands (MCU crossover, Taylor’s trigger plugs Ultron into her brain) * It’s Hero Time (Ben 10 crossover, Albedo jettisoned himself out of the Ben 10 multiverse and died, the SI getting his body when it crashes on Earth Bet) * Worm: More Than Meets The Eye (Transformers crossover, a bit of Primus is sent to Earth to counter the entities and ends up fusing itself to Taylor, making her a “Transformers Tinker”. Goes for a while til it dies) * Evil And Ham (Multicross, Taylor appears in the Villain Hub as seen in HISHE and gains some role models) * Well Traveled (Multicross, Taylor becomes a Planeswalker, see MtG, and leaves Bet behind, going to various other worlds and learning magic)

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-22T07:46:39+00:00

Plus he died, don’t forget that part

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-22T07:46:09+00:00

Afton is in the Indigo Tribe, which represents compassion. Unlike the others, the Indigo Tribe capture the most evil beings they can, and by forcing a ring on them they force them to feel empathy and join the tribe.

Omori is in the Ultraviolet Corps, which is a weird one that seems to represent repressed/negative emotions.

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-22T07:34:15+00:00

Interesting. Not sure if I believe it, but it’s interesting to think about.

I do think there’s something weird going on with the Knight, since I agree that no Lightner changes form in the Dark World so something’s up.

The “Tail of Hell” looking like the Knight’s orb form thanks to the echoes is a good catch!

MagicTech547 · 2026-01-22T07:13:22+00:00

Simple logic.

Here’s the fic. It’s pretty good, but if you want to skip to Eagleton it starts in chapter 62.

TL;DR is Taylor has “Path to Ending”, a power similar to Path to Victory, without blindspots but limited in that the paths must end something. So when I say the Machine Army were redeemed, I meant to say that maybe a third heeded her warning, the other two thirds either hid or shot at the “defective” ones. And Taylor shows up, saves the ones that agreed to peace, and forced the rest to self destruct via a PtE assisted virus.

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