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Hi! I'm Alex, my pronouns are she/her (but I'm ok with they/them too). English is not my first language. I am an adult, and most importantly, a distinguished Chigda connoisseur known as a (self-proclaimed) Number 1 Chigda Enjoyer*.
~things to take note of regarding this blog~
There will be NSFW on this blog, and it may contain triggering or uncomfortable themes - in the cases of the most common ones, I will use content tags "cw [content]", for example: cw blood, cw gore, cw nudity etc. I often take comfort in sexual or disturbing content, please keep in mind before you follow.
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My most common ships and their abbreviations:
Chigda x Avicinda x Giroda (avigirochigda), my OT3
Chigda x Avicinda (avichigda)
Chigda x Giroda (girochigda)
Chigda x Kuroda (kurochigda)
Giroda x Avicinda (avigiro), (usually) one-sided from Giroda
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#chigda - Chigda... *faints like a Victorian maiden*
#chigda fanart - any and all Chigda fanart I find
#chigda meta - an analysis of Chigda's character
#ramblings - a melting pot of various bullshit my brain came up with
#musings - ideas about AUs, the Characters™ etc.
#personal - anything relating to my humble self
#my nonsense - shitpost tag
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#wild post - a post originally outside of Infinity Nikki ecosystem (but ready to be assimilated)
#naughty sprites - for sexual content
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One of the fun parts of reading Faewish Sprite fic and also the occasional discussion I get into with other fans is how varied and different the interpretations of the same canon are
Especially when it comes to Kuroda and Chigda, but I see it too with Avicinda and Giroda which is so neat since they're the ones better defined within canon
Some of these are explicit so read the tags. anyway, some shout outs (in no particular order) to some of the fics I love, with a focus on different interpretations of characters and lore:
Demarcation by JadedWitch as a whole but especially And Don't Forget, When Your Elders Forget for having THE funniest Chigda who is also super sinister, and flat out my favorite Kuroda/Chigda take
Paladin's Lullaby by thesunandthesolstice for the beautifully written horror of the tragedy that makes up its core, AND ALSO THE YEARNING. The truest yearning I have ever read between Avicinda and Chigda
God's Chosen by Hiragi_Houx which I have to admit, I have had the pleasure to read more of in private and. Avicinda's development and characterization in this one will be ::chefs kiss:
Outliers and Hypocrites; A Funfact About Vultures by Freq_68 for its inventive lore and original characters, there is a LOT here to chew on that even I have not fully gone through
Reflection of a Monster by alomiya for the fascinating take and exploration of not just Chigda's backstory and character, but for the unique take on a future Giroda and the usage of one of my favorite themes in fiction...who is the monster and who is the man? 🎶
Avicinda's Kinktober also by JadedWitch for 31 days worth of Avicinda getting freaky in different ways, which means there's a lot of different takes on Avicinda's character in here across different timeframes
Deeply Engraved by pr0nz69 which despite being Giovanni-centric, gives us a truly terrifying Avicinda (and also being an amazing Giovanni study)
avoiding fine weather by birdginia not just for pretty much establishing the grand tradition of Faewish Sprite whump (it's Giroda) but for having some unique lore ideas from the early days of the fandom
This is very rambling on my thoughts regarding how these two locations might or might not connect and also what they mean for Piecey souls...spoilers for Danqing Season from the get go, and a few minor spoilers for Golden Season as well.
Danqing Season Recap
So that we're on the same page, here's a quick rundown of my understanding of the Danqing storyline. Danqing is composed of two "layers" of reality. Danqing Island is the "real" world that has been connected to the Sea of Stars, while Danqing Realm is the other layer of reality that is also the origin of the island.
Artist Cat was a different Nikki who hailed from a Miraland that had been destroyed. She created a painting that would become the blueprint for Danqing Island, this was the Danqing Realm. She then sacrificed her ink soul (which seems to be all her Whim, basically) to populate the island, essentially creating an island full of Whimborn (which as a term has not been defined, as far as I know, but I think it's safe to say they are artificial constructs made from Whim) by bringing her paintings and items to life, but they were not "real" lives as they were still just...paintings and items. Thus, she established the Yin Yuan Festival in order to ensure that the artificial lives could form connections with each other, eventually becoming real souls through these connections, as well as making Danging Island into a new, real world as well. (See also: my rambling about how this works and the philosophy around it.)
Essentially, the cycle of reincarnation on Danqing Island worked like this:
something or someone with part of the ink soul in Danqing Island (a person, a blade of grass, a bug, etc) dies
they are sent back to the Danqing Realm, where the Ink Pool, the facilitator of the cycle of reincarnation, receives them (the Loong is also in charge of watching over this to ensure all souls are reincarnated smoothly)
they are reincarnated back into Danqing Island where they form new yin yuan/connections, further strengthening their piece of the ink soul, eventually becoming a real soul
rinse and repeal
So...Boneyard with its soul tide and pools and reincarnation, anyone?
What does the Boneyard mean for Danqing Island?
So, does the Boneyard's lore on souls and reincarnation contradict Danqing Island's at all?
At the moment, I am inclined to say no.
The island was a replacement for a destroyed Miraland. It wasn't connected to our Miraland at all until the Sea of Stars noticed it, and even then, we don't know for sure the result of Danqing Island becoming real. We know its residents can reach other landmasses now, but did it become a new, second Miraland? Or are those landmasses part of our Miraland, i.e. Danqing Island has connected to our world and appeared in its oceans...the way Wanxiang Realm is above Linlang?
So there's two options here:
If Danqing Island remains isolated as its own world and replaces the previous, destroyed Miraland, then perhaps the Danqing Realm with its Ink Pool becomes the new equivalent of the Boneyard? So all souls within this new, Danqing world now travel to the Danqing Realm's ink pool upon death, where they go through the cycle of reincarnation.
If Danqing Island truly became part of our Miraland though, then perhaps Danqing souls, now that they have been strengthened enough to become real souls, will now start passing through the Boneyard?
I'm personally more inclined toward the former, but right now we have no confirmation, unless people from Danqing start showing up in future locations.
Piecey Souls?
Interestingly, Danqing Island also gives us an explanation for how Pieceys have souls if we assume that they aren't, at birth, basically receiving a reincarnated soul.
Now, I believe Pieceys going to the Boneyard isn't shown in-game, but Pieceys appeared as part of the artwork for the soul tide in one of the teasers before 2.5 launched, so I've just been running with the assumption that they do go to the Boneyard after death (Faewish Sprites also appear in this, but i also haven't seen any ghostly Faewish Sprites...alas).
And Pieceys need to have souls to separate them from the Whimborn.
Of course, the simplest option is that when a Piecey is born from a wish or strong emotion, they receive a reincarnated soul. But what if they don't? What if they are truly born from a wish or related emotions applied to a piece of cloth or clothing?
This also manifests in different ways, and Golden Season was actually kind of ambiguous about this (which I love, more subjectivity in-universe on lore please). Most Pieceys are born from wishes of people around them or their owners. But some wishes so strong that the Piecey is either possessed by the soul of the wisher or believe themselves to be the wisher. Most of the Golden Season cast were the latter type, but they also made a distinction here against one of them who was the former: Coolyn verbally insults Tommy when she points out that he will never understand her, because he was born from the wishes of someone nearby and knows this vs. someone like her who believes herself to be or is that person.
So if Pieceys are "just" born from the power of wishes and emotion...AKA Whim, how do they get a soul?
Well, Danqing Island tells us that souls are real when they form connections with others, and every Piecey is pretty much born on a strong connection to someone or something, yes?
So we know that mortals did not become Stylists in a widespread manner until after the War of the Heavens, when the Eight discovered Whim and distributed it to everyone
This specific fact made it harder to sort out the timeline regarding Kuroda and Heurta, because of the books consistently referring to them or people around them as Stylists or able to use Whim—but they had to have defeated the original outbreak of Desperate Vines prior to the War of the Heavens, because Heurta explicitly met the Wishing One, and the implication is they were both already wielding Whim at that point
Somehow it only occurred to me today that maybe there is no inconsistency, because maybe the assumption that they wouldn't have been Stylists until after the War...never applied to them
Whim as mortals use it is essentially "lesser" form of the Whim that all gods wielded (which they used/expressed differently based on their domain), so maybe Faewish Sprites in general always had Whim from the start, even prior to the War, because they are Descendants and thus created using the power of Whim? Even then—Whimancers were rare but not unheard of, so Kuroda could have been one the whole time...
As for Heurta, when she met the Wishing One, she received an unspecified blessing or "divine miracle"...what if that was the ability to wield Whim? So she became a Whimancer even back then?
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what you experience is hyperfixation, which is pathological. what I experience is psychosexual obsession, which is also pathological, but in a darkly chic and subversive way. thank you for understanding.
Not "The Character did nothing wrong" or "The Character is irredeemably awful" but a secret third thing: The Character may display moments of deep love & compassion, may even have a strong sense of ethics, and may also be capable of brutal cruelty that is irreconcilable with those traits. The constant tension between the different sides of The Character's nature is exactly what makes them compelling, and attempting to reduce them down to simply "a terrible person" or "innocent & misunderstood" is missing the point of the questions a media with nuanced characters is asking you to consider
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Another Coming of Age ceremony was made possible, all thanks to the Paladins and Heurta's efforts to fight the Desperate Vines. Chigda had to be present, as much as he didn't want it. All he could do was watch Avicinda stand by Kuroda's side as the golden petals of the Aurosa drifted across the wind. One such petal caressed Chigda's cheek — a painful reminder of Avicinda's touch. Of how divine being close to him felt.
I may have quietly updated my longfic, Paladin's Lullaby, with chapters 3 and 4 while I was away from tumblr. Chapter 3 is rated E/R18, please mind the tags before you read.
Unfinished older animation doodle from a few months ago...tried practicing animating more stuff on a character with Avicinda (  ̄▽ ̄) results inconclusive but I might try again...
"I don't say this often…but you're not entirely unlike Lord Chigda," Avicinda muttered, looking away as his ears fluttered, shame in his gaze. "You also seem to think you can do whatever you please with me, just because you saved my life once — a favor I never asked for."
Doodle for my Chachada/Avicinda fic because this ship is probably my second fave doomed faewish yaoi after avichigda. The fic is rated E/R18, mind the tags before reading.
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