#val.answers

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Could you talk about the storm school I think it's confusing how it's a school about inventing but also about destruction it's the nerd and jock school and it's crazy cause those two things don't seem like they go together

i LOOOOOVE the storm school ^_^ i am a bit biased in this regard because my main is a storm school and the wizard that i draw the most is a storm wizard BUT i do think it gets a bad rep because of the people that play it HAHAHA

BUT THATS WHAT ALSO MAKES IT INTERESTING DOESNT IT.... do wolf stormblades exist in canon and if so why havent they been villified in the same instance as necromancers? duncan is already kind of an example of a ''wolf deathblade'' in a way and thats why i imagine his peers dont view him as favorably as everyone else...

AND ITS ACTUALLY INTERESTING THE WAY WE SEE DIVINERS IN WIZARD CITY.... we have both suzie and artur gryphonbane as the antithesis of what we would expect a diviner to act but theyre more amicable and friendlier than duncan.

BUUUUT i am getting off topic. at its core, storm is supposed to be the polar opposite of the myth school. where myth is creation -- the act of preserving stories, of making stories, is what sets it apart from its counterparts. whereas myth is creation, storm is destruction. at the core of all its principles, the main thing that the storm school focuses on is how to deal damage as fast as possible, with as much force as possible. diviners do not make they destroy.

the inventing part comes from halston i think! he's an inventor ^_^ but it's not a coincidence that storm magic and invention go hand in hand -- a lot of storm magic powers machines and electricity within wizard city, as evidenced by triton avenue, so i guess thats another connection u can make when it comes to how many people get the ''inventor'' part.

THOUGH AS SEEN IN ARC 3.... storm is still very much a volatile school. i definitely would be partial to assume that storms are moreso of the "jock" variety

part of it is also just fanon too :] the neat part about magic system in wizard101 is how soft it is - you can interpret the schools of magic any way you want!!!

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cis person here, I’m really sorry that those annoying “honorary terf” people

its horrible that transfems can’t fucking talk about misogyny and how men fuck them over to

and then a bunch of weridos spamming “SO TRUE, BTW THIS IS HYPOTHETICAL AND DOSNT APPLY TO YOU, CUZ WE THINK YOU ARE THE MEN”

Oh my gosh thank you so much for your kindness and understanding, youre one of the first non threats ive gotten in my inbox and its so refreshing to see someone understand me on this

Its wild to me how i said "hello, please do not call my post an honorary terf post i am uncomfortable with that as a transfem" and have genuinely gotten responses telling me that i, a random 17 year old girl on tumblr, am "deligitimizing feminism" by existing and that im "prioritizing my hurt feelings over womens freedom and dignity" like man cmon

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I miss wizbat 😭

ME FUCKING TOOOOOOOOOO

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(leans in your askbox like someone leaning around the corner)

Excuse me but did I hear correctly that uhm... .. . . you wrote something about Duncan? Duncan GruncanWuncan? And that you might post that? (holds out both of my palms like a starving child) Could you perhaps.. . . .. maybe spare me a glance? Just a silly willy little peak? Bit of aaaaaa preview?

(nah I'm just playing you don't got to if you don't want to LMAAAOOOOO but if you ever do post that thing about Duncan I would LOVE to consume that 👀 because I love Duncan and I love other people's writing a normal healthy amount)

ITS ALRIGHT BAHAHA I WAS GOING TO POST IT EVENTUALLY!!! nothing too long or big since it was just a couple musings i did about the necromancers in game when i was on my break at work >_^

i have written about him here and a bit here if u do wanna see more heehee hoohoo

since its so short i can share it right here and right now but some parts of the responses (particularly morganthes) might be wrong or i misremembered something just on the basis that i was too lazy to go back and double check LOL

necromancers always have something to prove

malistaire drake, who sets out to prove that the dead can return — that love would conquer all, that he could make deities older than him, older than the current spiral, bend to his whims and wishes. 

morganthe, who sets out to prove that she can master astral magic, that if she can't, then she'll force it to. to prove to merle ambrose that she's still the capable young wizard that was proud of her, once upon a time. that she didn't deserve to be casted out by her peers and stripped of the magic she loved so dearly. that she could spin a better spiral, weave a better world. 

duncan grimwater, who sets out to prove that he is useful. that it's not just the wizard (now savior of the spiral, now arcanum scholar, now arcanum liaison) who has the potential to take their magic to new, greater heights. that he is loyal, that everyone deserves second chances – that he wants someone, anyone, to look at him and see the potential for something more brimming underneath. that he is worth all the effort.

malorn ashthorn, who sets out to prove that if there is no one else to turn to, then he is there. to prove that his stay at the end of the path, where the old death school used to be, was purposeful. to guide and shepherd new and fresh novices, to become the gentle hand that nurtures the knowledge of death and the way it is taught. to stay as a constant, in everyone’s life.

and you... what were you trying to prove? it seems that everywhere you turned, someone was always doubting your intentions. shadow and necromancy were two sides of the same coin, parallels in the way they demonstrated their magic. shadow took and took and took, and all necromancy wants is for you to feel safe, to feel secure. even if it means taking it from something else.

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hey arc 1 questing may be hellish but at least during that i know whats going on and why im doing what im doing... im in azteca right now and im chasing different people down and fighting four of each enemy over and over like okay so morganthe is up to something with a "deck of shadows" whatever that is... and we gotta stop her or else uhh... oh look another black lotus

i would arguably say that azteca and khrysalis are the ones where it starts to reach a kind of climax and ending... but i am also biased because i like azteca and khrysalis 😭

but yes morganthe wants the deck of shadows from the mirror lake and thats why shes there. ignore xibalba thats not important 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 this isnt about them rn

from what i remember from speedrunning wiz the first time (still no max...) this is how arc 2 felt for me

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I finished ratbeard's second promotion and I'm going insane about him rn dude spent his whole life focused on the goal of revenge and the effects of that is so fascinating to me like ik vengeance are bad stories can sound preachy but I also think that sometimes letting someone consume your whole life like that is so damaging

i LOVEEEE revenge stories. like its a tragedy either way because you either kill the person responsible for what happened in the first place and feel aimless and lost and empty afterwards or you dont and just feel. conflicted about the whole thing

LIKE ITS SO SATISFYING IN AN UNSATISFYING WAY I THINK... i think because ratbeard is already so rough around the edges that something like murder wouldnt be above him. but then u find out thats not the case at all... +_+

sometimes i forget that pirate101 is very.. well not explicit but it makes it clear that were killing people and that some of ur crew has killed people before 😭 i mean its obvious from the beginning when u get to choose how ur parents die and whatnot but sometimes it just hits me

AND TO SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE ON THAT.... i just think its sweet that he thanks the pirate<33

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I hope this isn't rude, but when you tag "adam" and "eve" is it in a Catholic way, or...?

this is the funniest fucking ask ive ever gotten

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marcille <- inconsolable

i will never be over marcille. like those marcille chapters were insane and im supposed to be NORMAL ABOUT IT NOW? ABOUT HER?

JUST IN GENERAL??