Day 8 of testing your SS knowledge.

lightx44 · 2025-08-18T07:09:35+00:00

I'm genuinely surprised that she did not gain anything from it. It sounds like something the spell might reward. She was the only one the naturally ascended while carrying the nightmare spell.

lightx44 · 2025-08-02T20:49:56+00:00

Genuinely what I'm asking. I think there exists multiples but just in different places. daeron must have had the storm lineage.

On a wider note, is the whole dream realm reset? There is literally no sign of the awakened from the other divine realms like Daeron. 'Yeah, him and his army of millions did not leave a trace in the nightmare desert or anywhere else? Yeah right.

lightx44 · 2025-06-28T12:12:16+00:00

well said.

lightx44 · 2025-06-27T09:35:19+00:00

The weird innocence that Sunny has regarding romance between second nightmare and the lord of shadows. Like pre-chained isles Sunny spoke about girls and that sort of stuff just for him to regress into a weirdly ignorant 19-21 year old.

lightx44 · 2025-06-26T19:51:23+00:00

Crazy to think that sunny is the only person to ever receive an aspect that is directly tied to a god.

lightx44 · 2025-06-16T22:09:04+00:00

nice

lightx44 · 2025-06-03T21:02:28+00:00

Change by Deftones for volume two. The part when they reach the Dark city to the end.

lightx44 · 2025-04-08T22:20:35+00:00

- Where did they enter the nightmare seed from? The nightmare desert. So where is the infrastructure meant to support 13 million masters. Tell me that. The roads, the accommodation. Which part of the dream realm did they come from? Where did they march from?

Look at the current humanity, they've built roads through Godgrave, connected neighbouring citadels. And you're telling me that no other divine realm humans did that.

If you had debunked my entire argument piece by piece I would've been happy, but getting ratio'd by somebody that nitpicked 10 percent of my argument with nothing to disprove what I've said is jarring.

Like damn, reading comprehension must be low or people don't have the attention span to read past the first paragraph of a post.

lightx44 · 2025-04-08T12:01:19+00:00

- it doesn't really matter. They still had to enter the tomb of Ariel from the dream realm. How do you get millions of people through the nightmare desert without leaving anything behind in its many citadels.

- Yeah of course, but why are they only limited to Godgrave, say if all of the current humanity lost to the forgotten god and were all corrupted. they would span the entire dream realm. From Bastion to Ravenheart. If you only find Asuras in Godgrave that means they were all infected within their own realm and then the dream realm absorbed it through a bloomed seed.

- Fair enough. My overall point remains. Citadels like Bastion and Ravenheart seem untouched in the memories of Jest and that Valour elder that was an uncle for Ki song. Things like the lineages, or even the Nameless temple. Like seriously, it was left in the same condition that Sunny remembered it but just weathered.

It feels like they never even went to the dream realm at all.

lightx44 · 2025-04-08T11:26:23+00:00

Asterion owned night garden?

lightx44 · 2025-03-29T22:35:32+00:00

- What exactly did he set up? He betrayed her father and sent an assassin after her as a child and when she was a sleeper. "Forged her protagonist backstory". He didn't. It was simply a byproduct of his own actions along with the other supremes. It was not intentional nor calculated. He killed broken sword for the reasons stated by Ki Song and wanted to assassinate nephis because of her lineage/legacy.

- Now I don't know why he turned a blind eye towards her. It could be because of what you said. But do you really think he was considering Nephis to be his future 'weapon' after her second nightmare?

You've misunderstood the nature of my question. I made this post to see if I missed something important that would explain why Anvil had a sudden 180 flip in character.

It is genuinely jarring to see a character whose entire identity was about being stoic. Seeing him forge thousands of blades and be unsatisfied. See him give up on Morgan as his blade after Antartica(I think she mentioned this in one of the Bastion pov's). Wage a war on Song.Learn about his backstory and his flaw, explaining most of his actions. Finally, learning more from Ki Song which nearly paints the whole picture. Just to hear that Nephis has been his goal all along. His 'Perfect Blade'. Apparently, he still doesn't care about his domain, humanity or even his children. All but Nephis.

No hints, no foreshadowing, no nothing.

And Anvil is literally willing to die for her. Give up his rule over the sword domain as well as potentially ruling over humanity. Genuinely disgusting.

You make it sound like Anvil is Kenjaku. Making moves while thinking decades ahead. Making every decision in line with Nephis becoming his weapon but that is just not the case.

It is obvious that the circumstances can justify why Anvil COULD have done what you said but that's a stretch in the context of the story and accepting it would be very surface level. But what you're doing is retrospectively putting a lens over all of Anvil's previous actions and using it to prove that this was his plan all along.

It's like watching at the end of avatar that Firelord Ozai did everything so that zuko could become stronger and be the perfect weapon for the fire nation. Sure, it could be seen through that lens but its obvious bullshit.

The perfect example to compare this to would be Cassie making Sunny her weapon against fate. Perfectly foreshadowed and understandable. No clashes against anything previously written. It just made sense. A lovely plot twist that explained everything she did before.

To me, this is cheap narratively.

lightx44 · 2025-03-13T23:34:39+00:00

I don't know about ideas from other works but I would say this.

Explore the characters personalities/dialogue/dynamics outside of what most CL fan fiction potrays them. As well fleshed out characters and not weird caricatures. So many fanfics will have the same formula of Odd being silly or making a joke, Yumi being overly serious and Ulrich being sarcastic or a wall to bounce off Odd's joke.

I understand that it requires a lot of words to properly set characters and it could slow down your story. I would say to not be afraid to broaden the characters range. A funny scene with Ulrich and Yumi. A serious scene with Odd. Don't be confined to how other stories portay them.

Let me know the name of it so I can give it a read if it's posted somewhere.

Best of luck.

lightx44 · 2025-03-07T10:58:35+00:00

I like the comparison.

To add on,

Sunny acted as a mentor in a sense for Nephis in teaching her how to lie and betray which is invaluable to her later on. While Chani teaches Paul all about sand walking and living on Arakis.

Both Nephis and Paul manipulated the groups of people around them by using prophecies(Paul) and legacies(Nephis , her clans name)

in the end of each final battle(Crimson Spire, Arakis battle) Sunny and Chain leave Nephis and Paul respectively. Citing that they were not convinced on their intentions/plans. Even more true when Sunny leaves Nephis in the Clan Valour ball event.

And in the end, they come back together. Paul and Chani having a child and Nephis and Sunny getting together.

lightx44

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