#fermented-writers-block

Particularly, by the Honmoon occasionally dragging Miyeong across the world between its chosen next set of Hunters.

Imagine Miyeong at first wondering why she was brought to these unfamiliar children (and why she’s just randomly in California in all places) until she sees how their voices resonate through the Honmoon. It clicks that these are the two future Hunters soulbound to her daughter and she cant help but be captivated, even as a part of her realizes she’ll miss some time with Rumi than she initially wanted.

Miyeong sees the stifling life Mira lives and wishes she was still alive to kick Mira’s parents asses. And when Mira starts acting out more, sometimes, it feels like something or someone is cheering her acts of rebellion on. Meanwhile, Zoey’s parents’ divorce makes Miyeong’s heart ache as she sees Zoey internalize becoming a people pleaser and still failing to keep her parents together. At least, as much as Miyeong can tell depending on how good her English was prior to dying.

Also, if one runs with later fic revelations, maybe young Zoey realizes she may be haunted. It would be an interesting change of pace for Miyeong, who had gotten used to being unseen by the entire world. It also is funny to contemplate the two of them confirming that Zoey can see Miyeong/Zoey (probably) isn’t going crazy after a small game of metaphorical Chicken. Especially if Zoey accepts she is being haunted by a ghost, but completely dismisses anything that even implies the ghost could be Miyeong of the Sunlight Sisters lol.

Why would someone so amazing as one of her idols come back from the dead, go to Los Angeles, and randomly spend time around Zoey of all people instead of Celine or her actual child Rumi?

Idk, maybe Miyeong figures some way to interfere somewhat in Mira’s life too, but now I really like the idea of a young Zoey growing up knowing there is a ghost that comes and goes in her life. Even though she can’t really make out the ghost’s features very well or hear what it’s saying, it’s as though there’s an invisible force strung across the air telling Zoey this ghost feels she’s enough even if Zoey can’t believe it.

And even though the Honmoon may be pulling Miyeong away from her Celine and her Rumi to Mira and Zoey, she appreciates the chance to know about the kind of girls Rumi will fight alongside. Not to mention Miyeong trying her best to help her Rumi’s future teammates.

Maybe Miyeong can’t communicate that great in this form, but she sure will try for the sake of these two other girls. For Rumi and Celine.

(Also, just imagine Zoey unknowingly putting Miyeong through the wringer lmao. Like asking her ghostly friend for opinions on her Polylight theories/ evidence boards, especially the many, many pieces of evidence that Celine totally had a romantic attraction towards Miyeong. Alternately, Zoey talks about Polylight fics - some of which she probably is way too young and some ideas for her own fic that her ghost friend seems to ‘really’ react vigorously to lol)

Ooooh this is so fun I love it

Miyeong haunting everyone, testing her boundaries, learning what she can and can’t do, doing her best to keep Rumi and Celine together, and… getting dragged off to hang out with these kids. Who knows why?

(It’s still Miyeong. She’s gonna be oblivious about certain things) (She and Zoey are harmonizing <3)

I love the idea of, like, Miyeong doing as much as she can to help prepare Zoey for her partners—explaining about demons, sure, and about how okay yes demons are generally very bad and it’s unlikely you’ll meet any you can work with but remember the idea is to protect people not to kill them! But also just randomly directing her towards books about the aftermath of childhood trauma or whatever

Zoey is, of course, a little confused about if her friend is trying to say something about her life? Or Zoey’s life? No it’s just important??? Sure??? Her friend is weird like that sometimes

I imagine this au would be really funny because Miyoeong would go from, like, hanging out with Mira and doing her best to protect her and cheering her on whenever she did something worth celebrating because Honmoon knows that girl isn’t getting any other affirmation to hanging around Rumi and Celine and trying to get them to talk about their feelings and take care of themselves and be a part of the family to popping back up in California

And Zoey’s just mid-seance because she got worried and decided to experiment. Baby girl no

They have a lot of conversations about Miyeong’s “unfinished business”—which, based on my research, isn’t a super Korean idea of how ghosts work? But I think Miyeong would be willing to roll with either way—and around all of the “well yes I don’t want to ‘move on,’ I died really young and with a major thing that I know I can’t leave alone, yes you’re relevant but no there is no way I’m passing it off to you”

Zoey is very firm about trying anyway. Miyeong doesn’t know how to explain to her that she could very easily move on if she could just let go of the Extremely Real Fears about Celine and Rumi

Hmmm... it is possible. Although the contrast between what it means to save a world and SAVE a world are... not as extreme as the contrast between love and LOVE.... I mean, if the Deltarune World will be saved by SAVING it on a different Save File that would still also save it, right?

The interesting thing to note is how, in the Chapter 1 SAVE File Selection Screen

The Mysterious Voice of Probably Gaster makes note of the Player having three identical SAVE Files.

HELP that's such a funny mental image. I do think they probably planned to use a more violent sound effect though for him initially being ripped apart, because like... presumably he wasn't supposed to come apart before. So she almost definitely broke some things when she did that.

We saw that Barrel’s warhammer in the past did not glow pink nor have pink colored rocket jets, but then we also saw that Sasha charged it with some of her stone’s energy/it absorbed some of her energy by the way it glows pink now - something that likely comes from the empire’s tech being rooted in harnessing the power of the stones. And with the factory, there’s that old fan theory that it was able to turn on in the first place without the box being used to power the empire’s tech at the moment due to Anne’s presence.

With that, while there’s any variety of potential origins behind who exactly made the sword and who it was for, I could see it being rooted in those principles of having the capability to channel the stones’ powers, perhaps either from around when Aldrich was alive, or maybe further back from like fights over the gems between the ancient amphibians/a precursor to frobot invasion forces.

Sure would be quite ironic if it had too been a regular-ish weapon with duplicates like Barrel’s hammer used it to, and particularly for the purpose of arming the early empire’s army to invade the first world or so with stone-charged swords. And then after millennia, it winds its way up in the hands of Anne as a tool to stop the empire from invading once more.

Welp Bork, I’ve got tickets, so I’ll let you know if there’s anything interesting if you want.

Mother Olm did talk about how they believed the girls were summoned to help save them, aka meaning even she doesn't know for certain what the prophecy will turn out to be about

Wasn't I who told you about that?

Anyway.

First for those not in the know, Magic Knight Rayearth is a manga and anime series by CLAMP of the 1990's, it depicted a trio of color coded girls (the classic RGB triad) who where summoned to the world of Cephiro, as Magic Knights, to save Princess Emeraude from the clutches of High Priest Zagato as per a prophecy.

Overall a classic set up for fantasy/rpg/isekai stories.

But (spoilers because honestly you should read the story if you haven't) the final twist of the series was that the prophecy actually said the magic knights were a failsafe in case the pillar that keeps Cephiro's existence, aka the princess they thought they were saving, ever goes astray by any reason (either turning evil or falling in love)

Notoriously the series ending where the magic knights KILL the princess causing the collapse of Cephiro was so poorly recieved a sequel manga had to be made.

Back on Amphibia.

One interesting thing I found about the prophecy Mother Olm told us is that the last line was changed or rather expanded from just "determine all" to "determine the fate of all", a small but significant change if you think about it.

Which going by Rayearth's example paints us a... grim picture.

Its easy to assume The Core, that thing that does not sleep and will not die, is "the night" the prophecy speaks of, and expelling it will save amphibia and many other worlds.

...but how do we know thats what will happen.

"Fight or embrace the fall."

What could be the right choice?