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IShallRiseAgain posted:Just be warned that basically every Xianxia protagonist will at some point do something horrible and mass murder a group of people even though not everyone in the group deserves it in any way. I've read multiple novels where the protagonist is usually a pretty good guy, but they will be ok with genociding demons even after the story had already somewhat humanized them and shown that they aren't all completely evil. In Forge of Destiny the main character annihilates a group of bandits in the middle of a larger fight that ends up killing her opponent and she is wracked with guilt after how easy it was which leads into some complicated thoughts on killing high grade spirit beasts that are sapient to feed to her turtle son She also doesn’t hold grudges even the clan that forced her family into poverty and horrors she hates but is focusing on improving her mom and sisters life and becoming strong enough to never be trampled not elaborate revenge fantasies She also has a boss and feels no desire to overthrow and crush them and said boss supports her desires and gives character freedom to chose even when giving her jobs to do which is novel. Its Rinaldo fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Mar 19, 2021 |
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Ling Qi is great. One of the best character traits of hers is that she actually takes time out from cultivation to socialise and not just disappear from her friends' lives for too long. Says a lot that that's a notably positive trait.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Ling Qi is great. One of the best character traits of hers is that she actually takes time out from cultivation to socialise and not just disappear from her friends' lives for too long. Ha. It's funny you say that, given how much griping there is about characters that got lost or dropped because the thread kept voting against spending time with them. On the topic of FoD: Ice diplomat route has won the vote.
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Sindai posted:Now that it's like 80-90% done I'm going to give Immortal-Devil Transformation a very strong rec because it's right up there with Way of Choices as a well-written low-powered (in fact I'd say it's more wuxia than xianxia) intrigue-centered story with an extremely likeable main cast. idt is pretty odd in that it is mostly about medieval not-chinese politics. the mc's original goal quickly becomes subsumed by his need to constantly get stronger so as to survive all the political ratfucking.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Ha. It's funny you say that, given how much griping there is about characters that got lost or dropped because the thread kept voting against spending time with them. Where’s the thread? I’m just reading the Royal Road version, didn’t realise it had anything to do with the forums until after she finds her egg.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Where’s the thread? I’m just reading the Royal Road version, didn’t realise it had anything to do with the forums until after she finds her egg. It's not this forum, it's over on Sufficient Velocity: https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/threads-of-destiny-eastern-fantasy-sequel-to-forge-of-destiny.51431/ (Sequel thread starts in the second year with the transition to the inner sect.)
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Ling Qi is great. One of the best character traits of hers is that she actually takes time out from cultivation to socialise and not just disappear from her friends' lives for too long. This wasn't always the case, though; it became a big issue that she was sort of cold/distant from people as a sort of overreaction to social complexity and cultivators trying to manipulate one another, and there was some significant development with her growing beyond that and becoming willing to earnestly interact with others outside of her small closer social circle. And even then, she still ends up growing apart from various people (or having them leave for circumstances outside of their control, like Xiulan). On a strictly moral level, Su Ling is probably the most morally-good of all of prominent characters. She's the only one who seems to naturally care about stuff outside of cultivation - even Ling Qi has to sort of force herself to do so. (spoilers only because I have no idea where the RR version ends)
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LibrarianCroaker posted:https://twitter.com/blu_online_/status/1372881738167296008 https://twitter.com/ANN_Lynzee/status/1373058394622283777
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Ytlaya posted:This wasn't always the case, though; it became a big issue that she was sort of cold/distant from people as a sort of overreaction to social complexity and cultivators trying to manipulate one another, and there was some significant development with her growing beyond that and becoming willing to earnestly interact with others outside of her small closer social circle. There’s a difference between socialising at events among strangers and socialising with one’s friends. She’s one of the very few that I’ve seen actively work to maintain friendships, taking time out often to do so, is the point I wanted to make.
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Pharohman777 posted:Ah, if royalroad stuff is being recommended, here's one I really like: Prophecy Approved Companion Thanks for this recommendation; I've really enjoyed it.
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StrixNebulosa posted:And shoutout to World of Cultivation for being about farming Thanks for this recommendation. The MC isn't horrible and the horrible people more or less have reasons for being horrible. It's not my favorite series, but it's relaxing enough to make good bed-time reading. Most of the time. I'm ~60 chapters in and the last 30 or so haven't been as farming focused as the earlier chapters.
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Pharohman777 posted:Ah, if royalroad stuff is being recommended, here's one I really like: Prophecy Approved Companion Going to add on to everyone else saying that this was a great read. I binged it over the last two days and now I am anxious to see what the next update will bring.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Ha. It's funny you say that, given how much griping there is about characters that got lost or dropped because the thread kept voting against spending time with them. I feel this on a deep, deep level. Xuan Shi... Gan Guangli... Anyways I too recommend Forge of Destiny. It's a very good entry point and was mine.
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OddObserver posted:Looks like next Cradle book coming out next week? Oh hell yeah! Something I've been enjoying recently is this https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/41330/virtuous-sons-a-greco-roman-xianxia quote:The saying goes that when a man is born the Fates weave his destiny and swaddle him in it. Then one day the man dies, and the swaddle becomes a shroud. Heaven moves on. Some slavery depictions/descriptions but it looks pretty promising so far.
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Dikkfor posted:Some slavery depictions/descriptions but it looks pretty promising so far.
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So, speaking of FoD minor characters getting left by the wayside, how about that last SV update? I am both completely blindsided, as it had legitimately not occurred to me someone might propose this, and also totally unshocked that miss "So this is what they meant by your luck." was the one to try it. Congratulations on your promotion to main character, Ling Yu Nuan!
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The voters haven't entirely decided on it quite yet but that's a hell of a good move imo!
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Artificer posted:The voters haven't entirely decided on it quite yet but that's a hell of a good move imo! Wouldn't call that not entirely decided on it.
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Reverend Insanity translation reached the ban. Censors can suck my balls. It's really annoying that it got banned when degenerate novels full of rape and molestation are thriving.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:I will resist. The best thing about CCG is its pure chaos energy, spoilers would ruin it. I started reading this a bit ago (thanks thread) and while I am really enjoying it, I also really really hate webnovel.com
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Workaday Wizard posted:Reverend Insanity translation reached the ban. Censors can suck my balls. It's really annoying that it got banned when degenerate novels full of rape and molestation are thriving. As long as those rapists don't possibly start giving people the idea to defy Winnie the Pooh and the government, they are perfectly upright characters to the censors.
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lurksion posted:Wanders over and looks at the voting. As SV is currently down (data center power outage) mind summarizing (in spoilers if need be) for the class?
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Anias posted:As SV is currently down (data center power outage) mind summarizing (in spoilers if need be) for the class? Yu Nuan, one of the minor characters I can't remember much about, has asked to be adopted into Ling Qi's clan. There's a vote on whether to accept, refuse, or delay. I didn't check the vote myself, but it's usually pretty obvious which way the vote is going very early on. Not that you really need to see the numbers to know which way this one was going to go, tbh, nothing an SV thread likes more than new friends.
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Ah. Thanks! I'm still working my way through Azarinth Healer. I'm not entirely sure why, probably a combination of Sunk Cost Fallacy and absurdity.
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Nemo2342 posted:I started reading this a bit ago (thanks thread) and while I am really enjoying it, I also really really hate webnovel.com A lot of people do! Google Qidian Underground.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:A lot of people do! Google Qidian Underground. Good to know, thanks. I don't mind unlocking the comic chapters bit by bit but the lovely fremium method of getting 3 novel chapters a day was killing me.
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Anias posted:I'm still working my way through Azarinth Healer. I'm not entirely sure why, probably a combination of Sunk Cost Fallacy and absurdity. This is an unspeakably cruel thing to do to yourself.
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Yeah, if you like it, sure go ahead keep reading. But if you don't, there're other things you could be spending your time reading that you'll enjoy more. I'm saying that as someone who actually likes Azarinth Healer but can see why people might bounce off it.
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Kaja Rainbow posted:Yeah, if you like it, sure go ahead keep reading. But if you don't, there're other things you could be spending your time reading that you'll enjoy more. I'm saying that as someone who actually likes Azarinth Healer but can see why people might bounce off it. It’s picked up again. I might bounce if it goes back to noble sociopathy slaughter fest though.
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I enjoyed reading the very long story of a masochistic healing murderhobo. This is one of the rare characters that would take off the plot armor if she could just to get more resistances.
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Kalas posted:I enjoyed reading the very long story of a masochistic healing murderhobo. Yeah i'm into the 400's chapter wise and it's honestly good again. I appreciated the mirage scene.
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Kalas posted:I enjoyed reading the very long story of a masochistic healing murderhobo. Whats the title?
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Artificer posted:Whats the title? From the context, I think they're talking about Azarinth Healer. It fits.
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I did appreciate the April fool's crossover where wossname from Azarinth was so upset that Mango Elaine could only have such a small number of skills. I don't think I'll try reading it again in 2021, but I may go back eventually. Numbers gotta go up.
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catching up on ccg, and lol that Shuhang was so insanely close to having a normal adventure where he was a respected authority and people were astonished at how cool he is and then a powerful deranged hobo teleports next to him, hands him a giant bejeweled septic tank that smells so bad it makes an entire village blow chunks, and vanishes. Yinlock fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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