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@TheWindel Mhmm. And there's no problem with that. That's how this world works. I wanted to find that out.

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@TheWindel I said I was ok with her dying in our PMs. But my last words on the matter where "Huh. Weird. I guess after twice warning us we would die IC, and uncountable times OOC, you didn't really mean it?", and "Do as you think your characters would."

I wanted to see what KoL would do without sugar coating it just to keep Artoria in the roleplaying. And KoL made the choice and I'm not going to try to challenge it and get Artoria back. It's perfectly justified. I also think I learned a lot. If KoL wants to have Hohenheim make another Artoria-alike because she liked her, she totally could. I've even stated such before. I doubt that'll happen.

But I don't think Artoria meant anything. I could make a cute wolf girl with NO powers, and I think it would work just as well, and have just as much impact on the roleplay.

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@TheWindel Artoria existed because:

A. I saw a cute wolf girl pic and went "MUST MAKE CHARACTER".
B. Megamanning was my way of "Maybe it's just my power choices that are screwing me over. If I make a character who can copy GM character powers, with that still being Artoria's thing so not just anyone could do it, maybe I'll be relevant and unique!"
C. Turning people into cute animal girls was fun to see all their pride hurt!

That lead to:

a. Being a cute wolf girl was fun. Moon out of Moon, would wolf again.
b. Any power of a tier that would actually allow Artoria to be more than a pawn was off-limits. And Hohenheim totally could make another one of her if she wanted to. Nothing about Artoria was unique.
c. While a fun gag, it really wouldn't be a good idea to force people to do in the long run.

Given these taken together, I might make another woof someday, but I was fine with Artoria being used as a test to determine how the GMs would handle someone finally calling them on "Yes, my character will stay past the warnings, and contest their will against your character".

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@Lucius Cypher Yeah, well, good luck with Miyu's help on your faction. Better factions than yours have tried to succeed while she was on their team and failed.

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@Lucius Cypher See Artoria. That was my test to see "Is staying true to your character no matter what important? Is serving loyally until the powers that be throw you some scraps of power important?"

Whenever the time comes that we're supposed to band together and it'll finally somehow be able to achieve something against the opponents who until now were untouchably stronger than us, I'm probably going to be a Meihou again going "The last bazillion times I tried to do something defying these people's wills in any tiny manner didn't work, why would I believe that this time would? Why do you think after all of this my character would have any faith they could so much as spit in the face of these people?"

And I'm really not satisfied with 99.99% of my character's power coming from boons that could just be given to a random bum on the street and it would be just as effective. If my character is just a vehicle for some gear all granted by someone else, it's not my style (hence why I don't use BEAST).

I do want to see how the people who stayed the course and towed the line fare. I hope it goes better for them than it did for Shattering.

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@KoL Deva granted Miyu a boon in return for asking nicely. Deva's reaction to "I ordered you to listen to Juno, and you didn't" was "Eh, I don't really care."

Deva for nicest faction leader 2017.

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@Lucius Cypher Yes, this will definitely work against the people who are omniscient and can have someone cause your entire sector of the nexus to simply stop existing the moment they are no longer amused by your antics.

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@Lucius Cypher Yeah, we do know that Team Grafdakka is just gonna get facerolled the first time we actually try to upset the balance.

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@Banana Soon, your journey towards the dark side of people who have lost their will to even try fighting KoL's characters will be complete.

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@Banana Fullerened Antimater. I'm telling you. Chose that for your ammo, and stand really far away from your target.