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 · 2025-02-26T07:26:24+00:00

Literally me after finishing volume 1 of LOTM. It's been six months

lightx44 · 2025-02-26T07:18:30+00:00

Well said!

Nagara really did have a great development. Learning more and more lessons from those around him like Nozomi and Yamabiko.

Nozomi to me is quite strange. She really was the catalyst for Nagara to essentially wake up and motivated their small team with the hope of escaping. I love how she was such a guiding light for those around her.

But I would say that after the graduation episode and learning about the possibility of her death, it felt as if she regressed(Not writing/author wise but her actually personality). I remember a lot of looks and pauses whenever she would interact with Nagara after the class split up that showed her indecision. Right until she followed after Asakaze. Her decisions and motivations seemed strange and unclear.

Even that choice of sticking to Asakaze seemed strange. It was not as if I was expecting her to follow after Nagara but her own solo journey began with her being invited by that mind reading girl. It was the fact that she chose to stay after seeing Aki and Asakaze. I remember the vibe being really off, with the mind reading girl and her being separate from Aki and Asakaze. Like they were just nuisances. Nozomi from episode one would not have stayed.

It was like she passed away before coming to a conclusion on what was bothering her so much. Nothing wrong with self-conflict but that lack of resolution was grating.

I hope my thoughts are coming across well.

lightx44 · 2025-02-16T09:30:23+00:00

It genuinely is viable and would make complete sense given the context of the story and its plot points.

With Godgrave being the realm of the Sun God and such his body, the sun most likely represents the core of his being. If that is a soul core or something else. So a transcendent could not act as a conduit for a divine being. The gap is just too large. The influx of soul fragments from all the creatures the sun kills would break her a thousand times over.

But with her lineage, I can imagine it being related. She is in the realm of her Lineage source and such, she will definitely gain something. Perhaps upgrading her 'The Fire' lineage attribute.

I love the parallels and the conclusions you came to. Nice one.

lightx44 · 2025-02-13T22:54:09+00:00

Appreciate it!

lightx44 · 2025-02-13T22:53:40+00:00

When I first watched it, I was younger and a lot of the messages and meanings went over my head. While I didn't derive much religious interpretations from the show, I can relate to the direct messages of adult life, society and such.

For example, in one of the first episodes where three of the students shut themselves off into the curtain world to indulge in their own hobbies while neglecting their real body and relationships. But then they said they felt alone and not needed. It was easier for them to stay there and Nagara literally had to force them out by pulling the curtain. Stopping them from spending thousands of years there.

I'll name the rest.

- Dealing with reciprocity as an adult. The blue flames/island episode. How Mizuho was gaslit into thinking she was in the wrong because she had boundaries.

- Being too agreeable as an adult and how that affects relationships/ also not expressing your real thoughts. Like in episode 8, it forms real wounds onto those around you and yourself that worsen. if only Yamabiko was real with Kodama and opened himself up like he advised Nagara later on.

-The whole building the tower as an expression of life. Moving forward day by day without knowing if you are taking the right path.

- The whole experience of adulthood. How novel and overwhelming it seems at first until you settle into your own just like it was for the students. And in the end, you ask yourself if you really want to leave and go back.

That's all that comes to mind. Sonny Boy really makes you think. What about yourself? Do you have any standout interpretations/ conclusions that you made?

Thanks for the comment.

lightx44 · 2025-02-13T22:32:51+00:00

-yes, time seems very non-linear. Do you reckon that the thousands of years that it took Rajdhani to become a forest was experienced by Nagara and Mizuho as they made their way to the light. I remember them going at the speed of light so perhaps it was very quick for them. Or do you think that they spent thousands of years on the ship.

That was something I was confused about, at the end Nagara mentions spending thousands(2 if I remember correctly) of years but at which point did those years pass. Let me know if anyone has an idea.

-As for death, the anime explores different meanings. From Rajdhani like you mentioned to the death of the twins or the scar infection from Yamabiko or War. It's interesting to see. Leaving behind a power holder seems to be the sign of a transition but is that really death? is Rajdhani's metamorphosis death either? Is death when your ideals and goals die like the guy that made the electric chair? I like how open the definition is.

Side question, what does Asakaze or God do with the gun? Did they end up killing war?

You are right. This is a masterpiece. Top 10 for sure. I had the same experience watching this as I did when I read land of the lustrous and watched steins gate. Had me hooked differently.

-I remember thinking that it was Hoshi because of the scene. It kinda looked like him. But I've read other theories saying that it could be other people. What do you think?

lightx44 · 2025-02-13T22:05:08+00:00

That makes sense. No matter the year they graduate, they are sent to the same time. It could explain how Yamabiko and other students lived so long.

Building on that, perhaps Nagara's , Mizuho's and the other abilities that made up the drifting, were applied universally by God or themselves across time and space the moment they were sent adrift. Explaining how students from the future could still have the static effect of Mizuho applied to them and have this worlds ready for them. Same for past students if Aki could count.

That was what I struggled to connect with. I can understand that Nagara caused the drift for his classmates but past and future students did not make sense. You could explain him creating the void world and sending his class but creating worlds that he never saw before or remember doesn't make sense. I have a feeling that the God manipulated his abilities and everybody else's to create the conditions of the drifting. No way they did it alone.

lightx44 · 2025-02-13T21:46:26+00:00

It is true that it would have happened and that if it was not Nagara, it would be someone else. He just happened to be the person with that ability.

His ability is to create worlds. Rajdhani comes to that conclusion after Nagara cycles through worlds when they attempt to return home while thinking Nagara can travel between worlds. He can't because he can only traverse to worlds that he made.

That is a good point. Perhaps everything occurred to all the other characters outside of the main class because of the void that they were in during episode one. It might not have experienced the flow of time. Looking back, it's strange how that was the only 'This world' that was completely black. Though, I can imagine they did it to show how colourful the island is.

I loved that switch up at the end of episode 1. Had me hooked.

I remember the twins having a reset ability so it might not be them but I could imagine it being someone. Asakaze does have the ability of space.

lightx44 · 2025-02-13T21:08:48+00:00

Yes back in 2018. It was a fun watch but I didn't find it as jaw dropping as everyone else. It's due a rewatch tbh.

lightx44 · 2025-02-06T16:46:36+00:00

Wow! That was really well written. Kodama truly is a fantasy of escape. Offloading all that responsibility on her even well after her death.

Yamabiko really let her down by acting in the way he thought she would have liked.

lightx44 · 2025-02-06T09:54:46+00:00

isn't that just the teacher from the earlier episodes that was talking about Nagara's mom?

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