hey so i just read the post for fae-u that the narrative triggers by "weight" and
im just thinking
what could hapen if jaune chooses to make the ultimate sacrifice? is there anything that is not on the table? that seems to be the most "weighty" moment in narratives 👀👀👀
That’s definitely a very “weighty” kind of moment and it would VERY MUCH have big effects, but it doesn’t work like a cheat code where he can just cash it in for anything he wants
The Narrative doesn’t reward sacrifice with power. It responds to what the sacrifice represents. And with Jaune specifically, that kind of moment would hit very hard because it lines up with his roles. Soldier (putting himself between others and harm), Poet (meaning, finality), King (protecting people)
So if he chose to make that kind of sacrifice, the story would absolutely take it seriously. But that doesn’t mean “anything is on the table.” It means the outcome would be something that fits the story being told.
Things like buying time when there shouldn’t be any left, ensuring someone else survives, or turning a loss into something that MEANS something, not rewriting reality on a whim. The Narrative isn’t a wish-granting system, it’s a storytelling one.
There is actually a moment like that in THE PLOT TM, near the end of a fight with Cinder. Jaune does something that, from his perspective, is basically a death sentence. He’s not expecting to walk away from it. It’s very much a “if this works, someone else lives, and that’s enough” kind of decision
And the Narrative reads that for what it is, that’s part of why it works at all. Not because he “earned a power-up blah blah blah,” but because the moment had the right kind of weight behind it. It lined up with the roles, the stakes, and the intent
The story took it seriously… and responded in a way that matched that
So yeah if he ever hits a true “ultimate sacrifice” moment, it’s not that anything becomes possible, it’s that whatever DOES happen is going to matter a lot, and it’s going to fit the story
Which might not necessarily be comforting for all of you ;]
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