he believes he is passing judgment upon the wicked and that war and fire will find those who are guilty
Such meaningless concepts. I'll shatter that illusion~
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Such meaningless concepts. I'll shatter that illusion~
CallaLily180 said
I like her, but she looks like a bish.
Oh yeah, absolutely. She's a tyrant with a misshapen worldview of concepts taken to their breaking point. Even the most dictatorial student council president would react with "Shit. Shit son. You crazy."
But then again, every concept's flawed, isn't it? How does it go? A vision too big creates a vivid separation between you and the world. People can only feel safe around things close to them. If the vision is too large, discrepancies occur, so what feels more real is always something close to you.
A vision isn't what your eyes see, but an image your brain comprehends. Your vision is protected by your common sense. However, humans live with a mental overlooking view; the larger the mind the higher it will go, but it will never leave its box. Humans are made to live in a box, and they can only survive in a box. Humans cannot have the view of gods. However when one's mental vision does happen to surpass a certain boundary, Hypnos or "false death" becomes Thanatos or "real death".
Ellona's bringing that notion of Thanatos. It'll be fun, don't worry.
Aw, everyone's reacting to little Ellona so positively~! I feel all warm inside now.
Name: Ellona Kisaragi
Deity of: Light, Justice, Sun/Day, Order
Age/DoB: 21 / February 19, 1999
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Personality: "Order" is the concept of states of affairs and underlying existences existing in a "proper" state of affairs, such that there are no "errors" with the foundation of things. This is in contrast to "Chaos" which is based in a destruction of stagnation and deconstruction of what "is", as Chaos is the ultimate state of undoing. Thus, preservation of Order reaches a single precept from which the others follow.
Stagnation. Halting, Ceasing, Ending. Order is not allowed to change, Order is not allowed to be altered as then it is not Order.
Justice is the concept of normative good with innumerable means of categorization, retributive or otherwise. Normativity is in itself chaotic, so one who upholds both Order and Justice must thus develop a total and definitive definition of "normative good". Thus, it is the role of such an individual to define man's morality, create a state of affairs that follow the imagined utopia, and never allow anything to change from that instant on.
This is the mind of Ellona.
One who has taken the concepts man has recognized as inherently good. Justice, morality, order, protection, hope, and has realized their inherent flaw. A "monster" who exceeds even the God of Evil in some capacities, because unlike a monster who destroys she is a monster who stops. She is an utter tyrant who seeks uncontested dominion such that she can create her vision of a perfect world.
One who would freeze the fabric of reality in place with a smile.
In comparison to such a monster, destruction might be a blessing.
Background: Born, like any other human. Breathed, like any other human, Walked, like any other human. A being born with an inherent set of precepts on her own idea of "rightness," and who existed according to them for the entirety of her life.
The child of a wealthy man and a beautiful woman, born to a privileged life. The typical wants of a child her age were satisfied. Material goods, companionship, familial love. All so very simple. All so very idyllic. It is not that the true self was repressed, rather that it simply hadn't bothered to show its other portions.
In that sense, Ellona was a typical young girl.
An upbringing that barely requires noting. There was no traumatic incident that killed the mind's empathy, nor a strange accident, nor even a playground bully. There was merely that, a "normal" life, a "normal" childhood.
Sent off to university to provide better academic opportunities. Studying in the day by day along her ideas of correctness. That is all.
Does anything else truly need to be said?
Deity of: Light, Justice, Sun/Day, Order
Age/DoB: 21 / February 19, 1999
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Personality: "Order" is the concept of states of affairs and underlying existences existing in a "proper" state of affairs, such that there are no "errors" with the foundation of things. This is in contrast to "Chaos" which is based in a destruction of stagnation and deconstruction of what "is", as Chaos is the ultimate state of undoing. Thus, preservation of Order reaches a single precept from which the others follow.
Stagnation. Halting, Ceasing, Ending. Order is not allowed to change, Order is not allowed to be altered as then it is not Order.
Justice is the concept of normative good with innumerable means of categorization, retributive or otherwise. Normativity is in itself chaotic, so one who upholds both Order and Justice must thus develop a total and definitive definition of "normative good". Thus, it is the role of such an individual to define man's morality, create a state of affairs that follow the imagined utopia, and never allow anything to change from that instant on.
This is the mind of Ellona.
One who has taken the concepts man has recognized as inherently good. Justice, morality, order, protection, hope, and has realized their inherent flaw. A "monster" who exceeds even the God of Evil in some capacities, because unlike a monster who destroys she is a monster who stops. She is an utter tyrant who seeks uncontested dominion such that she can create her vision of a perfect world.
One who would freeze the fabric of reality in place with a smile.
In comparison to such a monster, destruction might be a blessing.
Background: Born, like any other human. Breathed, like any other human, Walked, like any other human. A being born with an inherent set of precepts on her own idea of "rightness," and who existed according to them for the entirety of her life.
The child of a wealthy man and a beautiful woman, born to a privileged life. The typical wants of a child her age were satisfied. Material goods, companionship, familial love. All so very simple. All so very idyllic. It is not that the true self was repressed, rather that it simply hadn't bothered to show its other portions.
In that sense, Ellona was a typical young girl.
An upbringing that barely requires noting. There was no traumatic incident that killed the mind's empathy, nor a strange accident, nor even a playground bully. There was merely that, a "normal" life, a "normal" childhood.
Sent off to university to provide better academic opportunities. Studying in the day by day along her ideas of correctness. That is all.
Does anything else truly need to be said?
Reserving Light, Justice, Sun/Day, Order. A bit bland, but I've got some ideas for it.
[Whoops, I can't read. Ignore~]
Eye of Providence, Devil's Maze compounding to locate specific beings. Located. Devil's Maze on Eye of Truth to communicate intel appropriately. Completed.
The power and information of the current stage had been shared to all persons. Everything was going as per expectations.
"Mabaa, augment this dimension for a while longer while the Judge takes care of militarization."
The projected Mabaa, a puppet of Erika's will, nodded as her master melted away, leaving the Assembly.
"At long last, it begins..."
Location: Africa.
Individual: Dengu Dinga.
Elimination target identified. Augment. Process.
Image formed, engaging.
Continental domain in process.
Information shared.
The power and information of the current stage had been shared to all persons. Everything was going as per expectations.
"Mabaa, augment this dimension for a while longer while the Judge takes care of militarization."
The projected Mabaa, a puppet of Erika's will, nodded as her master melted away, leaving the Assembly.
"At long last, it begins..."
Location: Africa.
Individual: Dengu Dinga.
Elimination target identified. Augment. Process.
Image formed, engaging.
Continental domain in process.
Information shared.
The moment the challenge had been issued, it had begun.
Parameters analyzed, individuals acknowledged, calculations processed.
All other witches present were shifted to the other side of the assembly in one instant, and in the next a green cube was formed around Erika and Mabaa.
Independent Cube, a separate dimension that rejected any interference that attempted to impose from one side of it to the other. In other words, now no other witches could interfere with if be harmed by the fight that was to ensue.
And then, mere moments after, a second green cube formed around Mabaa.
An isolation principle used as an ultimate defense. While the Independent Cube was up, none of Erika's spells would be capable of reaching her.
And yet, Erika was smiling all the while.
"Hey Mabaa, what's the difference between a broken sword and an unbroken one?"
Erika speaks up for a moment, before going quiet.
The answer is simple. A way of form, a distinction between how they "are".
Devil's Projection operates on the following principle: The projected existence must "no longer exist," or "no longer exist in the Form that is being projected."
The broken sword still exists, but its form has changed, so the unbroken form may be projected. Suppose then, the sword were scratched instead of broken, or reforged into the same shape, or that one atom of the sword was flaked off?
The form of the sword has changed, and thus its prior form can now be projected.
Heraclitus once said "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." Reality itself is in a constant state of flux, and so if something were to be projected, any distinction was sufficient. A sword changes over the course of a day, perhaps through oxidation, perhaps flaking off of metals at an atomic level, perhaps a scratch is placed upon it.
Say you hold a sword, and it has existed for a year as of today. Its form has changed time and time again, so as long as the information of what it was a year ago is recorded in your mind, there is no problem if you project the image of the sword from a year ago. From 364 days ago. From 363 days ago. From yesterday. If you have taken enough "snapshots" of the sword during its life, and you have sufficient energy to create the projections, you could theoretically project a thousand swords from one, each different from the other in only the most marginal of ways.
Now...apply this to humans.
Say Erika wanted to make a projection of herself. She exists, yes, but she has an Image in her mind from the Eye of Providence, the Erika of yesterday. Since yesterday, cells have been created and died, and so her form has changed. Thus, Erika could create a projection of "the Erika of yesterday."
But this raises another problem: energy consumption. To create something with the exact same power as herself would theoretically drain all of her energy, and so would seem to be foolish.
Unless there is a spell that bypasses that energy consumption, that bypasses the law of conservation of energy itself.
This is the power of Goshintai.
It has already been confirmed that Compounding can expand the effective range of Devil's Maze and Laguz's Requiem, and in fact had done so moments earlier.
-For the Eye of Perception had been used to take an "image" of Mabaa from three hundred years in the past.
An image of Mabaa with both her eyes.
An image of Mabaa whose form "no longer existed" in this world.
Against meisters and weapons, this tactic was usually subpar because they were always "evolving," and so the image of yesterday would be weaker than the image of today.
For Mabaa it was different, though. The Mabaa of three-hundred years ago was stronger than the Mabaa of today could ever be.
"Goshintai."
A flare of power echoed out from Erika, a flash of light forming inside the first Independent Cube.
-And when it faded, Mabaa stood in front of Erika, staring down Mabaa.
The Independent Cube shielding the current Mabaa was dispelled by a wave of the hand of the old. This was the power of the Grand Witch at her peak of power, a power that was now under Erika's thrall.
There was no time to be surprised, because the instant the Independent Cube was dispelled...
-Another had been formed inside the current Mabaa, slicing her body in two.
The larger Independent Cube that the fight had taken place in was dispelled by its Caster's death, a pale green light flowing into Erika as she turned to the Assembly, her projected Mabaa beside her.
"Now then, with that nuisance taken care of, let's get to business. Judge, put together a militaristic force. I want an invasion of Death City ready by a week from today."
The tragedy had begun at long last.
Parameters analyzed, individuals acknowledged, calculations processed.
All other witches present were shifted to the other side of the assembly in one instant, and in the next a green cube was formed around Erika and Mabaa.
Independent Cube, a separate dimension that rejected any interference that attempted to impose from one side of it to the other. In other words, now no other witches could interfere with if be harmed by the fight that was to ensue.
And then, mere moments after, a second green cube formed around Mabaa.
An isolation principle used as an ultimate defense. While the Independent Cube was up, none of Erika's spells would be capable of reaching her.
And yet, Erika was smiling all the while.
"Hey Mabaa, what's the difference between a broken sword and an unbroken one?"
Erika speaks up for a moment, before going quiet.
The answer is simple. A way of form, a distinction between how they "are".
Devil's Projection operates on the following principle: The projected existence must "no longer exist," or "no longer exist in the Form that is being projected."
The broken sword still exists, but its form has changed, so the unbroken form may be projected. Suppose then, the sword were scratched instead of broken, or reforged into the same shape, or that one atom of the sword was flaked off?
The form of the sword has changed, and thus its prior form can now be projected.
Heraclitus once said "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." Reality itself is in a constant state of flux, and so if something were to be projected, any distinction was sufficient. A sword changes over the course of a day, perhaps through oxidation, perhaps flaking off of metals at an atomic level, perhaps a scratch is placed upon it.
Say you hold a sword, and it has existed for a year as of today. Its form has changed time and time again, so as long as the information of what it was a year ago is recorded in your mind, there is no problem if you project the image of the sword from a year ago. From 364 days ago. From 363 days ago. From yesterday. If you have taken enough "snapshots" of the sword during its life, and you have sufficient energy to create the projections, you could theoretically project a thousand swords from one, each different from the other in only the most marginal of ways.
Now...apply this to humans.
Say Erika wanted to make a projection of herself. She exists, yes, but she has an Image in her mind from the Eye of Providence, the Erika of yesterday. Since yesterday, cells have been created and died, and so her form has changed. Thus, Erika could create a projection of "the Erika of yesterday."
But this raises another problem: energy consumption. To create something with the exact same power as herself would theoretically drain all of her energy, and so would seem to be foolish.
Unless there is a spell that bypasses that energy consumption, that bypasses the law of conservation of energy itself.
This is the power of Goshintai.
With regards to the Grand Witch, the Eye of Perception was utilized in addition to Laguz's Requiem, compounded backwards by three hundred years.
It has already been confirmed that Compounding can expand the effective range of Devil's Maze and Laguz's Requiem, and in fact had done so moments earlier.
-For the Eye of Perception had been used to take an "image" of Mabaa from three hundred years in the past.
An image of Mabaa with both her eyes.
An image of Mabaa whose form "no longer existed" in this world.
Against meisters and weapons, this tactic was usually subpar because they were always "evolving," and so the image of yesterday would be weaker than the image of today.
For Mabaa it was different, though. The Mabaa of three-hundred years ago was stronger than the Mabaa of today could ever be.
"Goshintai."
A flare of power echoed out from Erika, a flash of light forming inside the first Independent Cube.
-And when it faded, Mabaa stood in front of Erika, staring down Mabaa.
The Independent Cube shielding the current Mabaa was dispelled by a wave of the hand of the old. This was the power of the Grand Witch at her peak of power, a power that was now under Erika's thrall.
There was no time to be surprised, because the instant the Independent Cube was dispelled...
-Another had been formed inside the current Mabaa, slicing her body in two.
"To the victor goes the loser's magic, the loser's abilities, the loser's mind, body, and soul...As well as the title of Grand Witch, and leader of the Assembly."
The larger Independent Cube that the fight had taken place in was dispelled by its Caster's death, a pale green light flowing into Erika as she turned to the Assembly, her projected Mabaa beside her.
"Now then, with that nuisance taken care of, let's get to business. Judge, put together a militaristic force. I want an invasion of Death City ready by a week from today."
The tragedy had begun at long last.
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VitaVitaAR said
@GuyYouWishYouDidn'tKnow: Tsukumogami are not former humans(and in fact contracts that were formerly humans do not exist in this setting). They are objects that have gained a living form and sentience of their own.
I was more of referring to the whole aspect of the legend in terms of how the soul they acquire is based on the life-force of the origin point, but that's just semantics so I'm fine with changing that. Are there any other issues on that front?
Arachne is actually fine given her nature(she'd probably haven been something slightly different from human originally but I can't imagine her not being available as a contract). That said, I do see one particular issue in her powers area and one thing I want further clarification on.
Firstly, the issue I see is the web ability, which enters into an uncomfortable area of omniscience, even if it takes a little while to establish.
Secondly, what exactly would be able to be severed using the string-cutting abilities?
On the web, it's no so much omniscience as an expanded perception to allow what's basically the equivalent of "scrying". She can't be fully aware of all states of reality at any given time, nor can she do something like "use the present state of affairs to reach a calculation of the future", but if she wanted to find a specific person on the web after it's made she could. That said, she can't tell what the person's doing or anything, she can only conclude that "there is a person at this location" and "that person is X".
If that's still too much I can remove it, of course.
On string-severing it's in theory anything based on connections or boundaries. I'm guessing your worry is her doing something like severing the connection between one part of a person's body and another, basically allowing an instakill. In which case, the way I was going to handle that was that, even for Fusion/Summon, she can't sever strings where one end is attached to a Contractor or similar being without said being's consent, if that makes sense. Let me know if you need more limits attached or whatnot.
Books, will you be RPing Mabaa for the sake of the fight? If not, is there anyone who would be willing to~?
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