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I've decided to go ahead and create a Discord server for fans of my fanfics and other stuff. This link here is it.
I've also decided to go ahead and make myself a NeoCities, which is more convenient for static content than tumblr. This link here is it.
in your fics, is Melia bisexual?
(if she knew Fiora throughout the entire adventure, would she have had a crush on her?)
I previously made a bigpost about this and similar topics over here.
Anon ask with spoilers for XC3/FR stuff and my fic Pangram under the cut
That is the implication, yes. Alvis created both A and Alpha with preset memories and motivations in order to cause one to be a bad guy and the other to join the resistance. Knowing himself even better than he knows others, it would be trivial for him to predict how things would go from there, and thus how to make the best future come about.
Just wanted to say, to help in this troubled time, I really adore Alternate Goddess. Probably one of my top favorite fanfics of all time and I've reread it several times because it gives me happy brain chemicals. So thank you for writing it and keeping on updating it! Always a joy to see an email notification for a new chapter.
The unfortunate part about AG is that the further it leaves canon, the harder (and thus slower) it is to write. Probably a large part of the reason I prefer canon-compliant content. I have been efforting the next chapter recently though (2k words so far).
does that bionis cult ever get more development in your fics?
Not really. No particular reason, it just hasn't come up as relevant in anything yet.
kinda dark question:
would half homs half high entia ever remove their short wings? would that process even be survivable?
Survivable sure, it's not like they need their wings for any life functions. But it would probably be exceptionally painful and mess up their balance for a while. Definitely not something anyone would want to do.
loophole: Shulk + gang do the quest post Alcamoth or post Sword Valley?
unsure on when the quest actually unlocks (anon doesn't have a switch 2)
The quest can be done as soon as you get Sharla, from what I hear. Lore-wise I'm not sure yet how early it could happen without breaking anything. If the surfbikes are completely unable to fly, that would help a lot - they'd be confined to the area that's walkable from the Refugee Camp, since (presumably) in-universe you can't just pocket them. Further details would be needed.
also monado kart is real
But without items, what's the point?
still better than Mario Kart World tho
(I don't have a NS2)
pro: that ether jet thing would work in your fanfic verse, no?
con: yet another rerelease of XC1
Ether Jets have to be non-canon, at least in the early going. Having usable-anywhere surfbikes from as early as you're allowed to get them could break quite a lot of plot (which is part of why I developed my version the way I did). Definitely can be something developed later on though.
There is one good thing though: Since they're activated with ZL+ZR, people who remapped those with their D-Pad are going to have a great time trying to pull them out. :P
we should hope that xc genesis is either a completely untied game or a brand new story arc for sequels that have nothing to do with the trilogy
(or tied to the big Xenoblade multiverse that X teased)
knowing monolith soft, they'll probably throw in all the references though...
While on one hand I've had zero trust in the story team for a while, on the other hand, the new name and lack of any returning races/creatures in the trailer makes me feel like they are actually committing to something new this time. References are fine as long as they don't detract from the freshness (e.g. the Monado hairclips and Sword of Legendaryness in XCX).
I think I hate Xenoblade.
I still like XC1. I'm going to keep doing fanworks for it (even if it's glacially slow due to competing for time with all the other stuff I do). I'll probably still write a bit of fanfic for XC3 and I actually have a XC2 idea or two. I don't mind XCX even if I'm not currently interested in it. I'm not leaving the community or closing the wiki or anything.
But I got into XC1 because it was a closed set. You can't add new content to a Wii game. XCX showed that sequels would be unrelated. It was an open world of fascinating lore with incredible room for expansion of story both past and future. We can document everything once and have fun with it forever.
And look at what the series is now. XC2 elbowed a linked world into things and XC3 kicked the door down. XCX got changed so it is related in such a way that most of the original XCX fans hate it. XC1 got re-released twice with significant new content both times, with the same for XC2 and XC3 (if only once (so far)). We don't know what this Genesis game is yet, but it'd be foolish to get any hopes up for any path in particular.
I engage with fiction very differently based on the knowledge of whether the work is completed and how likely it is to become no-longer-completed in the future. For example, I was a Bionicle fan. Because the story was ongoing (and, more importantly, we knew it to be ongoing), I only ever did theories and side stories - never prequel-like or sequel-like stuff, because I knew it could suddenly become wrong at any point (canon compliance was even more important to me then than now). I fell out of Bionicle eventually for various reasons, but I can definitely imagine a world where I didn't, and after its completion I started to work on prequels and sequels.
If I first encountered this series now, I don't think I'd touch it.
we have voiced heart to hearts now!
And I don't think it's worth it.
I remember reading an in-depth post you did about the XC1 party's favorite affinity gifts, using trends for each character to figure out what flavors of food they like, what their favorite colors are, things like that. I can't seem to find it by searching, is it still up? Or did you post it somewhere else and just link to it here?
The post is here. I found it pretty easily by searcing for "gifting", but I dunno maybe tumblr search is picky.
Today is a special day. Not in inherent importance, but in this post. The first half is an encyclopaedia article about one of the two lullabies I grew up under, and the second half is my own personal observations about the other. I've been told this information is of interest to the @meliazine, and I see no risk, so I shall disclose it.
Apparently, this website has banned <hr> elements since I last attempted one. So I have no choice but to use a poor approximation.
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Antiqua's Lullaby is the traditional lullaby of the imperial family. It is a simple melody sixteen bars long, the second half primarily a repeat of the first, composed mostly of quarter notes.
The lullaby has existed since long before records began. Artefacts uncovered from Annularis Peninsula on the Bionis' left arm suggest that it has existed since at least several centuries before the Water War, deep within the territory of the Imperial Commonwealth of Antiqua. It is not known for certain whether it was also an imperial lullaby at the time, though this is the leading theory, given it came to be known as one less than a century after the ICA won the war and founded Alcamoth.
Unique among lullabies, the original version has no lyrics, and is instead expected to be hummed, whistled, or simply sung wordlessly. Records indicate that once the imperial family began to include Homs consorts, a set of lyrics in Common began to develop, and over time became considered as "official" for that language. It is believed that pureblood supremacists responded by calling the lyric-less variant "the original Hightounge version", though this was never taken seriously due to the lack of words of any language. There is a persistent rumour that there exists an official set of lyrics in Pon, which has always been untrue.
While the melody is public knowledge and public domain, it is widely considered impolite at best for the general public to sing it to their own children. Most see it as misappropriating what belongs to the imperial family alone, almost to the extent of "stealing" it from where it belongs. Those who do so anyway insist that they do it as a point of honour, to spread the music farther than it would naturally reach. Conversely, it is common and accepted for film and television to incorporate the melody into musical themes that represent the story's royal family, whether the fiction's world be realistic or fantastical. Usage of the theme as foreshadowing that a character has unknown royal lineage is considered by many critics to be an overdone trope.
There are two stanzas, though the second is somewhat unpopular, and often omitted or replaced with a repeat of the first.
Here I lay you down to bed, Time to rest your sleepy head. Busy day that you have led, Living the life that you deserve. It is time to go to sleep, Think of stars and count your sheep. Be it quiet, not a peep, For all the people we serve. Hope your dreams are free and clear, Aim your mind, from nightmares steer. If you fail, then I am here, To help you wash the bad away. Fear and sad are part of life, Best to learn where help is rife. Growing older's full of strife, You'll understand it one day.
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Mother called it the Ancient's Lullaby, though said most call it the Ancient Lullaby or the Ancients' Lullaby. It's the oldest surviving complete piece of music in all of Homs culture.
There is no agreement on whether "Ancient", "Ancients'", or "Ancient's" is the correct form of the title. Mother preferred the singular possessive because she likes the implication that an otherwise long-forgotten individual wrote it and popularised it. The plural possessive and singular non-possessive forms are more popular because others tend to prefer the view that it is a folk song with no specific point of origin.
Due to its age, essentially all knowledge on the tune is lost to history. For all practical intents and purposes, it is as old as the Homs race itself. It makes me wonder. Could this composition be so old that it was influenced by the High Entia forefathers, or perhaps even the Giants or Machina? Is this a surviving link to the co-operation of the past, or a more recent (relatively-speaking) creation of purely the one race? I somewhat hope it is the latter. As much as I like the idea that it is a relic of unity, I think it is better to be something that the Homs can call all their own.
Despite this heritage, most Homs do not choose to sing it for their children. Apparently the chromatics are somewhat unusual for a lullaby, so they instead prefer pieces with more conventional tone progressions. But I think that's why I like it - because it's unusual, because it's not what the average person has grown up hearing. The contrast between this and the traditional imperial lullaby, heard by literally every royal before me, is alluring.
It must be a special rarity, for one person to have been raised under both this lullaby and the traditional imperial one. Rare to be born royal, rarer to also be half-Homs, and rarer still to have said Homs parent to have chosen this piece for them. It is almost typical for me to be the nexus of coincidences such as this.
The keys are adjacent in the circle of fifths... A single composition could use them both and it would feel completely natural. I don't recall Mother ever singing both in one night, but I can hear the juxtaposition in my mind all the same. It would make a fine piece.
The traditional lyrics tell a story of grocery shopping. Mother did not use them much; she preferred to mix in personalisation based on the day's events. She also started to use only one stanza as I grew older and the need for a lullaby diminished. Its sudden absence was likely a large contributor to my poor sleep in the days after her death.
I was at this morning's market, buying our bread, and I found my purse of coin had all but lost its thread. Looking backward, dropped gold pieces, trailed out of sight, I had thought to claim them all would draw into the night.
I had started picking coins up when there was sound, as a trio of three Nopon had gathered around. With them helping, things were put right, quickly and fast, as I paid for our fresh bread and brought it home at last.
Hey look, we got the all-clear to post our @meliazine works. This one's mine. Enjoy.
why does the concept of hell exist in the Xenoblade 1 (and probably more) verse? do they have an afterlife they believe in?
There is canon evidence for belief in an afterlife, yes. We have some quotes from nameless NPCs in Alcamoth:
"The Emperor has returned to the Bionis before the rest of us. I hope that we can meet him again when we too return to Bionis."
"Sadly my wish to see the Emperor again won't ever come true. If we can meet again after I return to the Bionis, that'll be enough."
Multiple Homs also do this "return to the Bionis" bit, so it's a common thing, though it seems the Homs believe that a water burial is necessary - the High Entia probably wouldn't put the dead royals in a tomb if they thought so.
That said, the NPC quotes above don't necessarily reflect the majority belief. It just means that at least some High Entia believe the same thing Homs do.
It would appear I did something for the @meliazine. This is a preview of it. Once the exclusivity period ends I'll out it for public, but for now, it's a secret to everybody.
The pre-orders go live at the end of October.
Contributor Spotlight: Sir Teatei Moonlight
Our first writer spotlight features Sir Teatei Moonlight! They run the Xeno series wiki and have written many fanfics featuring Melia - you can glimpse an excerpt of their work here. You can read their full piece when the zine releases!
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