#spring cultivation

[phantasy014]

i miss xichun

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spring cultivation reaction pics i made in 6.5-8 minutes

[firestorm09890]

it's so fucking funny that this is our full meursault expression lineup now, especially since the last two are:

him doing an accurate sinclair impression

him pretending to have a heart attack

[dawnlotus-draws]

“Yet, in games of make-believe, any simulacra can be made as real as- Ahh, what a move!”

Guys. Anyone down for a J&J night. Pls.

[fictionfixations]

All Combos for Spring Cultivation

Taxidermied Geniuses (Yi Sang + Faust) Yi Sang [Stat gain: Ren +4] Faust [Stat gain: Zhi +4]

Fixer Association Encyclopedia... For Dummies! (Faust + Don Quixote) Faust [Stat gain: Zhi +4] Don Quixote [Class Success Rate +40%]

The Morning Papers (Don Quixote + Meursault) Don Quixote [Class Success Rate +40%] Meursault [Class Success Rate +40%]

9-to-5 (Ishmael + Meursault) Ishmael [All Stats +1] Meursault [All Stats +1]

Shared Pain (Ishmael + Heathcliff) Ishmael [All Stats +1] Heathcliff [40 Morale Restored] [Class Success Rate -10%]

F.A.F.O (Ryoshu + Heathcliff) Ryoshu (Sinclair) [+50% to all Stats gained from Class] Heathcliff [40 Morale restored] [Class Success Rate -10%]

Omniscient Artist's Viewpoint (Hong Lu + Ryoshu) Hong Lu (Jia Xichun) [+50% to all Stats gained from Class] Ryoshu (Sinclair) [+50% to all Stats gained from Class]

What it needs... is Kindness (Hong Lu + Rodion) Hong Lu (Jia Xichun) [Stat gain: Ren +7] Rodion [Huge Success in Class]

The Comedy Duo (Gregor + Rodion) Gregor [20 Morale Restored] Rodion [Huge Success in next Class]

The Good Drill Sergeant & Bad Drill Sergeant Routine (Gregor + Outis) Gregor [20 Morale restored] Outis [20 Morale restored]

Shall Never Surrender (Ishmael + Outis) Ishmael [All Stats +1] Outis [20 Morale restored]

Prep Time (Faust + Ishmael) Faust [Stat gain: Ren +4] Ishmael [All Stats +1]

Actually Pretty Similar (Faust + Heathcliff) Faust [Stat Gain: Zhi +4] Heathcliff [20 Morale lost] [Huge Success in Class]

Family Matters (Yi Sang + Heathcliff) Yi Sang [Stat Gain: Ren +4] Heathcliff [20 Morale lost] [Huge Success in Class]

Courage to Confront (Yi Sang + Hong Lu) Yi Sang [+50% to Yong Stat gained from Class] Hong Lu (Jia Xichun) [Stat gain: Yong +7]

Take A.C.T.S. (Don Quixote + Ryoshu) Don Quixote [Huge Success in next Class] Ryoshu (Sincalir) [Stat gain: Yong +7]

Hotboxed (Gregor + Ryoshu) Gregor [40 Morale restored] Ryoshu (Sinclair) [Stat gain: Ren +7]

Wing Employees of the Month (Gregor + Meursault) Gregor [20 Morale restored] Meursault [All Stats +1]

Chains of Command (Meursault + Outis) Meursault [All Stats +1] Outis [20 Morale restored]

Not-So-Solitary-Gourmets (Don Quixote + Rodion) Don Quixote [+50% to all Stats gained from Class] [Class Success Rate -10%] Rodion [+50% to all Stats gained from Class] [Class Success Rate -10%]

Enemy of Yesterday, Friend of Today (Hong Lu + The Night Drifter) Hong Lu (Jia XIchun) [Stat gain: Ren +7] The Night Drifter [All Stats +1]

Talking With Swords (Ryoshu + The Night Drifter) Ryoshu (Sinclair) [Stat gain: Zhi +7] The Night Drifter [Huge Success in Class]

[daily-don-quixote]

[limbus-assets]

Asset Dump - Xichun Maker Heads

[ashlynniis-bracketeers]

So, about Meursault in Spring Cultivation

Spoilers for the Spring Cultivation Intervallo ahead, will put the big bulk of it under a cut. Also posted this to Reddit.

Meur's behavior in this Intervallo is… interesting. And very amusing. Showing what can be seen as "self-awareness" and a seldom-seen "deliberately cheeky" side to our favorite N. Corper. He's shown a side that both knows how and is perfectly willing to take the piss.

First, his original proposition for his part of the curriculum:

The interesting part isn't that he took advice from Rodion, but what he sees as a unique strength to himself. Standing still for a week until receiving a command, huh? The other Sinners (including Dante) have brought up that he is a bit of a brick wall that doesn't do much unless ordered, but a whole week of stillness seems to be a bit much for him, more like the Flanderized "Meursault, claim the bough" "Yes, Dante" [claims it instantly] memes than his own actual normal sensibilities. Could it be him deliberately leaning into the joke version of how others see him? Or is he really just being that literal?

The former possibility didn't seem likely to me at first, but then I actually got to his class in the mini-game and saw something odd:

His class is one of the few that gives Morale on its own. The only other two that do that on their own are Don's and Rodya's. How could a class given by the resident stoic brick wall give morale? Then I got into the "first class" dialogue and saw why.

(In order: Imitating Sinclair, fake heart attack, divulging about spilling some secret relating to an "Incident" [presumably the Clock Shenanigans with Yi Sang])

His entire class seems to be 90% fucking with his students (primarily Sinclair). Teaching succinctness, verbal efficiency, stoicism, and unreadability through god-tier ragebaiting. He broke from his general single mouth expression outside of an April Fools event to imitate Sinclair, and funny thing: The nervous expression he made is not the same sprite as the Rodion-in-Meursault's-body body swap shenanigans one from A Midspring Night's Dream 2. Both sprites for comparison (Midspring 2 Rodya-in-Meur's-body on left, Spring Cultivation Sinclair imitation on right):

He went above and beyond what anybody would think of him to normally do to slip right under Sinclair's skin like a stinging paper cut, and he did it well. There was never any on-screen ribbing of Xichun from Meur (which I think is a bit of a shame), but I wonder if he ever imitated and/or ragebaited her in his lessons off-screen. This also leaves me to wonder how good he is at imitating the other Sinners (outside of Dante, unless he really feels like going out of his way to poke some fun at our favorite clockhead), if he's so willing to imitate Sinclair in both speech and facial expression... Or, honestly, how exactly he learned to imitate them or why he'd find imitating them worth learning in the first place. He's a man of many hobbies, that's for sure.

The Intervallo just came out and I already can't wait for the Bokgak, the Meur teaching segment getting voiced feels like it'll be a riot lmao. The actor getting a chance to flex some practice from the April Fools event.