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@fionakaenbyou
god Knives Out is still a fucking good movie
it's better the second time because not only do you have the full context to appreciate how it all fits together, but you can spend the first half hour getting a head start on hating all the manipulative pieces of shit
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out of touch thursdays (but hey they woke up eventually!)
I’m still releasing my novel. Latest chapter is here, featuring one of my favorite side characters. (Okay I like most of my side characters.)
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/33509/the-living-dragon/chapter/528129/the-fox
Also the reward patreons voted on : The rules of magic in my worlds.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/33509/the-living-dragon/chapter/528133/july-bonus-the-rules-of-magic
GO READ ICED’S SHIT YOU GODDAMN SWINDLERS
I legit happy gasped when I saw this panel
good dog, great dog, best dog
joke comm of fiona’s pathfinder character.
(she calls her magic missile wand a gun.)
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Beneath The Willows, a Touhou Fangame
I have no clue if anyone even follows this page anymore, but if they do - hey all! I just released a new VN on itch.io with art by Waka! Go check it out!
https://fionakaenbyou.itch.io/beneath-the-willows
Hello all. I know it’s an interesting time with a plague and everything being on fire, but time waits for no one, and I’m about done with project “get more readers.”
It has, to be frank, gone less well then I would have hoped. Partially because it’s just hard to get readers, and partially because all the webfiction sites on the net are catered to 145 chapter fictions that can slowly build a readership. I’ve just now breached the time and vote requirements to even get a chance of appearing on Royal Road’s lists. And even then it’ll be hard to make it anywhere visible.
So for those of you who’ve read my work previously and think highly of it (or mediocrely of it. Fair is fair) it’d help me out if you tossed a rating my way. I understand it’s a pain and all so don’t feel bad if you skip. But I feel I need to put the info out there for those that do want to give me the boost. Thanks all.
(Expect a less ‘Iced is having a mental breakdown’ poll post Wednesday.)
Finn’s Daily Writing Exercises - Feb 29th
I call these ‘daily’ but the odds of me actually writing something shareable every day are pretty damn low. Luckily I have a few days of buffer from before I started posting these, so here’s something I cooked up earlier to make up for the fact I’m overloaded today!
Finn’s Daily Writing Exercises - Feb 28th
Another day, another scrawling. This one’s a bit more personal admittedly - as some people might know I’m back on my gender-questioning bullshit. This was sort of a wish-fulfillment scenario I wrote to get my feelings out, so...yeah.
CW: Dysphoria, indirect reference to a slur
Finn’s Daily Writing Exercises
So it’s been a longass time since I really worked on writing, and I’ve been trying to de-rust for a week or so. I’m trying to make a habit of writing something short every day to get some practice and experiment with concepts. The Eirin/Mystia story I posted a few days back was one of those exercises, and I figured I may as well post more to see if I can get any sort of readerbase to boost my motivation.
It’ll likely be a mix of original and Touhou content, focusing more on original work. Besides that it’ll be whatever I feel like on the day so basically anything goes. Characters may reappear, but since this is all experimenting they might change drastically across stories.
With all that out the way, here’s what I came up with today:
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Take As Ordered (Touhou short fanfiction)
Not quite long enough to justify an Ao3 upload.
let’s play a game
let’s say they’re making a new touhou fighting game with a new engine, which means new roster, and you get to decide what it is.
the boss is a new character, of course, but aside from that you get 15 slots. it can be anyone you want. it doesn’t even have to have reimu and marisa, but you do have to have a “main character”.
can you come up with a roster with a satisfying balance of iconic/popular characters and left field picks, as well as a good spread of playstyles?
make a list and show your thought process. points for including details about how characters play.
winner, arbitrarily selected by me, gets a free picture of any two touhous of their choice fighting. (or “fighting”.)
edit: oh, uh, enter by reblogging with a readmore or something.
[WILL WRITE AN ENTIRE TOUHOU GAME FOR FREE ART]
Touhou Saibankyou – Beacon of Broken Justice
PLOT
Trouble stirs across the Human Village. The humans are relieved that incidents are being resolved, but why are the youkai culprits allowed to walk free? Shouldn’t the shrine maiden be exterminating these monsters like she claimed she would? The time for soft policing has passed – it’s time for these criminals to get what they deserve!
The human uproar soon makes its way across the Sanzu and into the ears of Eiki Shiki. If Gensokyo is truly this out of balance, it falls on her to clean things up. As the youkai and humans come to blows, she will decide who should be rewarded for their piety – or punished for their transgressions. But where did all this righteous anger come from? And who is controlling it all from behind the scenes?
GAMEPLAY
First off, the HM engine games were bad, so we’re going back to IaMP/SWR systems. IADs, spirit gauge, overheads/lows. All characters also have throws, though they don’t lead to followups naturally.
As we all know, every Tasofro fighter needs a dumb gimmicky mechanic. In BBJ’s case, that mechanic is the Sin meter. This is a measurement of Eiki’s opinion of each fighter, and at regular intervals she’ll perform a Judgement and punish whichever fighter she considers more sinful. Think of the GRD system in UNIB, except instead of rewarding the winner it punishes the loser.
Things Eiki dislikes:
Mindlessly spamming moves.
Combos that continue past a certain length. (Damage proration means these don’t give a huge amount of extra damage anyway.)
Using danmaku when your spirit meter is empty.
Activating spellcards before reaching a critical health threshold.
Wrong blocking (blocking low and getting hit by an overhead, or vice versa)
Taunting (even if it does build meter)
Things Eiki likes:
Meditation (like Concentration in UNIB – pay meter to lower Sin).
Grazing through enemy projectiles.
Certain moves end combos early but compensate by lowering Sin.
Correctly blocking overheads/lows.
Virtue Guards (see below)
When Judgement occurs, the loser suffers effects depending on how high their Sin gauge is:
[0-50%] - A small lightning bolt hits the character, dealing minimal damage/blockstun but cutting their combos short. Spirit recovery is reduced until the next cycle. Can be grazed at the cost of half your spirit bar.
[50-75%] - A larger lightning bolt strikes the victim for a decent amount of damage. If blocked, the victim is guard crushed, but any followup combo is heavily prorated. Spirit recovery and meter gain are halved until the next cycle.
[75-99%] - A large laser comes down from the heavens, hitting the victim for huge damage. Can be blocked, but does a ton of chip damage and also guard crushes. Spirit recovery is halved until the next cycle, while meter gain is cut off completely.
[100%] - like 75-99%, but if you ever fill the bar completely the Judgement happens immediately rather than waiting for the end of the cycle.
All Judgements can be hitconfirmed by the winner, and there are gimmicky options like throw → Judgement hits your opponent → followup. After Judgement, both Sin gauges are reset to 0.
VIRTUE GUARD
During a blockstring, the defender can press the Dash + Danmaku buttons at the same time to perform a Virtue Guard at the cost of some spirit. If they block during a short timeframe afterwards, a few things happen:
Their Sin meter decreases.
The opponent’s Sin meter increases slightly.
The opponent’s pushback is increased, giving the defender a better chance to escape the blockstring.
If you’re grabbed during an attempted Virtue Guard, you take extra damage and your Sin gauge increases considerably.
THE ROSTER
16 slots gives us just enough space to include Reimu/Marisa, one character from each Windows main title, and Eiki/the final boss.
Reimu: “I AM the law.”
Unsurprisingly, the shrine maiden returns to let everyone know just who’s in charge. She maintains her traditional shoto playstyle, and specialises in managing her Sin gauge. Her Virtue Guard has a larger success window, and her Meditation reduces Sin faster.
Marisa: “It’s only a crime if you get caught.”
Marisa, unsurprisingly, values power over finesse. She has Blanka-ball style charges with her broom that scare the opponent out of contesting her in neutral. Her unique trait is that she suffers no Sin penalty for using spellcards early.
Remilia: “Where wealth flows, the law follows.”
As one of Gensokyo’s most notorious incident culprits, Remilia revels in the attention the protests bring her. She’s as jittery and high-speed as ever, but her power to manipulate fate lets her accelerate or slow down the Judgement cycle as she sees fit.
Youmu: “True justice can only be found at the tip of a blade.”
Recalling the Japan of her childhood with a little too much nostalgia, Yuyuko sends her gardener out to experience the political turmoil of Gensokyo. Any normals using either of her blades (which is most of them) inflict chip damage, and being half-ghost means she needs to spend less spirit to graze bullets.
Eirin: “For the record, nothing I sell is strictly illegal.”
The Brain of the Moon sees this incident as a chance to test out her newest creations. She’s the game’s Faust equivalent, using potions with a variety of random effects – from buffing her attacks to lowering her Sin gauge.
Aya: “The law should be fair and unbiased, just like my journalism.”
Aya figures the divisive opinions flooding Gensokyo would make for some incredible headlines, and hurls herself into the fray. She has high speed charges in the vein of John Talbain, and receives buffs against opponents who are the subject of a scandal (aka: who lost the last Judgement cycle).
Hina: “Oh, my. It seems I have my work cut out for me.”
The fury of the human village has created a miasma of misfortune, which Hina takes it upon herself to purge. Her playstyle’s built around her classic spin move, which works like the spin Gotenks has in DBFZ. She can also buff her stats considerably by absorbing her opponent’s misfortune – at the cost of lowering their Sin gauge.
Yuugi: “Might makes right!”
Where there’s civil unrest there’s gonna be rioting, and Yuugi wants to get in on it. She’s the quintessential grappler, with plenty of super armour moves to punish opponents who mash against her. She also has her Sin gauge lowered whenever her super armour absorbs a hit.
Shou: “A god who won’t punish the wicked isn’t worth worshipping.”
With the power of Bishamonten, Shou hopes to win followers amidst the human chaos. She has her dreaded curvy lasers which are difficult to dodge, and she recovers health and meter whenever she wins a Judgement.
Futo: “Capital punishment is a capital idea!”
Serving as Shou’s foil, Futo aims to turn the hearts of the humans towards Taoism. Her high-low game is excellent, allowing her to rack up plenty of Sin from the opponent wrong blocking, and her opponent suffers extra damage/meter loss when they lose a Judgement.
Seija: “Laws are like windows – they’re only interesting when you break ‘em.”
Being on the wrong side of the law is literally Seija’s favourite thing. Her tricky mixup style becomes stronger when her Sin gauge is high, and Judgements have less of an effect on her.
Clownpiece: “No-one tells me what to do! Especially not some stuffy rules!”
Clownpiece is partially complicit in the incident, having been mistaken as ‘a beacon of liberty’ by the true culprit. Her style is well rounded but deceptive, with lots of fake-outs to catch out opponents playing on autopilot. Many of her attacks increase both players’ Sin gauges, though the opponent gets the worst of it.
Okina: “This isn’t the Gensokyo I envisioned.”
Okina decides now is the time to drop her Secret God act and intervene. Her wheelchair means her mobility is severely limited – she’s the only character in the game without an airdash – but in return she has incredibly powerful and versatile danmaku. She’s also the only character with a teleport, vanishing into doors to appear behind her adversary.
Yachie: “I’d rather be a criminal than a corpse.”
The Kiketsu matriarch sees Gensokyo’s chaos as a quick chance to turn a profit. She’s a tricky counter-based fighter who excels at predicting and controlling her opponent. Successful counters also drain her Sin meter and pass it to the other character.
Eiki: “You’re all going to hell, but at least form an orderly line.”
The second-to-last fight in most routes, Eiki has appointed herself Gensokyo’s Grand Judge. Her stage is the Human Village’s town hall, which she’s re-appropriated as her personal courtroom. Her attacks specialise in restricting the opponent’s movement. Since she sees the world in black or white, her passive causes all Judgements to deliver the harshest punishment possible. (Unsurprisingly, her story mode version is immune to her own Judgements.)
During her own route, Eiki encounters Clownpiece as the second-to-late fight instead. It’s then she realises the humans of Gensokyo are being manipulated by someone from the outside world. The stalemate between humans and youkai is a vital part of the realm’s balance; disturbing it could have dire consequences. She’s then confronted by the culprit, who is...
FINAL BOSS:
正叚 せいぎ
Shouka Seigi
The Unseeing Eye of Righteousness
Ability: Manipulation of justice
BGM: A Testament to All Your Sins ~ Last Order
“I need no eyes to see your many failings.”
Seigi is a newly created goddess of law and order. Her design is based on the traditional figure of Lady Justice, with her eyes concealed by a blindfold and a pair of scales in one hand. Her stage is the broken down ruins of Eiki’s courtroom, with moonlight shining down through the holes in the ceiling.
In the outside world, a variety of scandals and incidents have led to widespread distrust in the justice system. As a consequence, an embodiment of those forgotten beliefs – Seigi – was summoned into Gensokyo. She witnesses the nation’s history, sees that the youkai have gone unpunished for their many misdeeds, and concludes that a horrible wrong must be righted. She starts the incident to bring justice to the evildoers – but most of all to Reimu, whom she considers a failure as Gensokyo’s protector.
Seigi has two personalities, and the scale she carries tips depending on which side is dominant. Virtue!Seigi is a quiet but stern figure similar to Eiki; Vice!Seigi is a Two-Face style vigilante who considers herself the only source of true justice in Gensokyo.
To go along with the scale motif, Seigi has a complicated moveset based on the current state of the Sin gauge. When her opponent has the most Sin, her attacks are honest and reactable but have great reach (the long arm of the law), making her a powerful footsies/keepaway character. When she has the most sin, her attacks become much trickier to block at the cost of being shorter reach, turning her into a rushdown character instead.
Seigi is the final boss in every route other than her own. As a boss she is immune to Judgements and can access the attacks of either form whenever she wants.
Spellcards:
Inevitability [The Sword of Damocles] – A large blade hovers over your head, dropping down at random intervals while she fires some simple bullet patterns.
Compromise [Solomon’s Decree] – Seigi fires a large spread of random bullets, then momentarily freezes time. When time resumes, her bullets split in half and fly apart across the screen.
Farce [Hemlock for the Philosopher] – A rain of poison falls from the sky, gradually draining your health while Seigi works to avoid your attacks.
FINAL – Cardinal Sin [Death Penalty] - Seigi fires an elaborate but static bullet pattern that grows denser the more you whittle her health down. All the while she summons shadow clones of characters you fought previously. They go down in one hit, but each one you destroy drastically increases your Sin gauge.
Seigi’s story mode serves as the game’s epilogue. Following her defeat by Eiki, she’s told to observe the nature of Gensokyo before she makes any further judgements. After a final confrontation with Reimu she admits that her actions were rash and harmful, and as a sign of her growth she removes her blindfold. (Naturally, she has heterochromia.)
commission of diver yachie!!
So I just got back from watching Knives Out and I enjoyed it so much I wrote a goddamn thesis about it
WARNING - UNMARKED SPOILERS AFTER THE READMORE, DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE GETTING INTO
Satori: I don't understand. The room was locked from the inside. How could the killer possibly have escaped?
Seiga: *obnoxious whistling*
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