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ending-the-cycle-ask · 6 months

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Lore time!! Here’s a giant wall of text for all the lovely theorists out there ;) This panel(s) is huge, so it took absolutely forever, but I got a lot of help, which was really nice :) And I’m debuting one of my 3D models! The Kaleidoscope in and of itself took me months to make. Because it’s so complicated, it needed a pretty advanced reference, aka an entire posable model I made in Blender. But now that it’s done, I can pose it for just about whatever angle we’ll need it for in the future!

Thank you all for being so patient with me. We’re almost at Act 4 now!!

#ending the cycle #ending the cycle ask #procreate #procreate art #henry stickmin series #henry stickmin collection #thsc #zentaro #etc zentaro #thsc ellie #henry stickmin ellie #ellie rose #reginald copperbottom #rhm #thsc rhm #tw eyestrain

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kean-thebean · 2 years

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Stickmintober Day 6 featuring @ending-the-cycle-ask’s OC Zentaro and some random CCC Worker!

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#CCC #stickmintober2022 #henry stickmin #the henry stickmin collection #thsc #ending the cycle #ending the cycle ask

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lazuliquetzal · 4 months

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I keep on telling people you're the only one who knows how to plot. Can you teach all of us how to plot, please? I love you.

I AM SUMMONED? PLOT BRAIN SUMMONED?

I love plotting. It's my favorite part of the writing process. Plot is "things that happen" and the best part of writing is imagining things that happen. I'm going to assume that whoever may be reading this knows how to imagine The Happenings, so I'm gonna be talking more about structure, but in like, a kinda abstract sense.

A good plot is a little bit more than a string of events. Plot is like music: there's variation in rhythm and sound and melody, but ultimately there's cohesion, because it's all one song. You can have a bunch of wild things happening, but no matter how strange, there should be something that links them all together, because you're telling one story.

Plot structures are patterns in stories. I'm pretty sure most of them were developed as analysis tools (as in, story already exists > look! it follows this pattern) rather than as writing tools, but people use them as writing tools because it's a neat little way to organize the chaos that is "shit happens." Stories follow patterns for the same reasons music follows patterns: we enjoy the certainty of hitting certain beats. But we also like being surprised. A good pop song doesn't sound like a random collection of sounds, but it also doesn't sound like the middle slider of other songs.

There is this shared concept in both music and writing: the idea of tension and release. Basically, you're playing with reader expectation: there's an imbalance in the experience (tension), and we want to see that imbalance resolved (release). All the common plot structures deal with this basic pattern:

You set an expectation

There are complications to the expectation

You meet the expectation

And this rhythm is happening on multiple levels in writing. Scenes follow this structure (we're gonna get past that door, we're gonna find the murder weapon, we're gonna collaborate and come up with a plan) and all those scenes feed into the overarching expectation (we're gonna solve this murder!). I usually think of chapters as their own mini-story, part of the larger whole. And I think of scenes as their own mini-story, part of the larger chapter. I have engineer brain. I see the gears spinning in the clock. That's why all my chapters have at least One Important Thing happening, because that's that particular chapter's Step #3.

And One Last Important Thing:

In music, a delayed resolution is almost always more interesting than the standard resolution. In writing, that means you wanna drag out Step #2 for as long as you can. That's where the bulk of the story is happening, that's how you build tension, that's how you get people to turn the page.

So when you write a fake dating fic, those bitches better not get together until the very end. I came here for fake dating, not for real dating, damn it. If you resolve that expectation early on, you better replace it with a different expectation that's just as engaging.

But also don't drag it out for too long. Sorry. The hard part of writing is learning the difference between too short and too long. Writing is unfortunately a nuanced skill which is why my advice is like "do this but not too much teehee." But tension and resolution is just rhythm, you can build a sense for it if you engage with enough stories.

#asks #yellowocaballero #writing #writing advice #THANKS FOR ASKING ME THIS MEG I LOVE PLOT I WILL TALK ABOUT HER ALL DAY AND I LOVE YOU TOO #i haven't read a fake dating fic in a long time i just brought it up because it was the first Trope Thing that came to mind #i didn't go into different plot structures because i was trying to boil them all down into the very basic building block of question-answer #but if anyone's curious i usually favor a circular plot structure #the ending reflects the beginning. the song loops: the same beats but with new perspective. cycles.#and by that i mean 'story starts with dink being mean to time' and 'story ends with dink being mean to time (but now it's affectionate)#lazuli talks

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bunitivity · 3 months

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I don't know if you've answered something similar but do you have any ZoLuSanUso headcanons for when they're sick? (Let's ignore canon for a moment, I know none of these monsters actually ever get sick, but that's no fun! We want angst, and hurt and comfort!)

No I’ve not lol but sure I can give some hcs. Out of the four of them I feel like Usopp would be the most likely to say anything if he got sick followed by Luffy and then Sanji and then Zoro who I believe wouldn’t even know if he was sick. He would just say something like I’ve been feeling weaker lately better up my training and then train harder like an idiot.

Sanji would be coming over with some refreshments and be like wait you’re breathing weird and you’re all red are you okay?/that’s what happens when you train maybe you should try it some time and then before Sanji has a chance to give a scathing respond Zoro just fkn collapses in front of everyone. Luffy would be fkn inconsolable thinking he’s dying bc anything that can fell someone like Zoro must be fatal and Usopp tries to explain that it’s just his hubris catching up to him and this is what happens when you train shirtless in the fucking cold.

Zoro would be the worst sick person bc he’d insist he’s fine and try to sneak out of the infirmary any chance he gets which is why it’s a good thing he has three boyfriends who can take shift to prevent that from happening. Though they don’t really need to take shifts bc Luffy won’t leave his side and is there under the covers with him fiercely holding him which was fine at first until it becomes too hot and it gets uncomfortable. Zoro is dying but would rather die before saying anything so it’s Sanji who has to break it to Luffy.

“You know I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing I’ve heard the easiest way to get rid of a fever is to sweat it,” Usopp points out.

Luffy’s eyes lit up. “Really?”

“Usopp darling my love,” Sanji pinches his nose. “I love you but please don’t encourage this. At this rate they’re both going to get sick and then we’ll have two ppl to take care of.”

“And here I thought you’d do anything for the people you love,” Zoro opens up the blanket. “Are you really going to let something like a measly cold stop you?”

Sanji sees the space Zoro opens up for him and the way Luffy looks so snuggly by his side and takes a step towards them and almost falls for it until Usopp snatches his wrist. Zoro clicks his tongue.

Usopp sighs. “God you’re so easy. I can’t believe you’d let him bait you like that.”

Sanji flushes. “What? No! I wasn’t going to fall for it! I was just going to check his temperature and nothing else!”

“Sure babe,” Usopp says. “Sanji you’re the cook you’re the last person we need getting sick please don’t let this idiot tempt you.”

“Yeah which is why Usopp should join us!” Luffy rises in the bed and grabs Usopp’s hand. “Double the people means Zoro would get better even faster!”

And then he drags him into bed.

“Wait Luffy! Ugh Zoro you’re so sweaty! Gross!”

Zoro just smiles before plastering himself all over Usopp making it that much worse. “Oi stop that! I fucking hate you!”

Zoro hums “sure” while Luffy just laughs. “Don’t worry Usopp you’ll get used to it.”

“That’s the last thing I want!”

“Wait wait wait,” Sanji interrupts their tomfoolery. “If Usopp sleeps here then who am I sleeping with tonight??”

“That’s what you’re worried about? This idiot is trying to infect me with his stupid germs and that is what you’re most worried about??”

“It just gets so lonely~”

“You’ll just have to figure that out because it’s already too late for Usopp I’m afraid,” Zoro kisses Usopp’s cheek and then looks up at him through his lashes. “But the offer still stands.”

“Well-“

“Sanji!”

“Okay fine! I’ll just sleep all by myself in our big stupid bed while the three of you get to cuddle here all warm and happy.”

He does not do that and just ends up sleeping on the infirmary floor because he’s an idiot and he occasionally reaches out to touch Usopp’s hand that’s dangling over the side of the bed because he’s crazy like that.

Of course the next ones who get sick are Luffy and Usopp. It doesn’t happen right away it doesn’t even hit them at the same time. Luffy is the one who goes down first because he’s the one who spent the most time with Zoro and unlike Usopp he was willing to kiss Zoro while he was sick because he genuinely didn’t believe he would get it but he does.

Luffy does not like getting sick. Does not like how weak it makes him feel and most of all how lonely it is when his boyfriends or friends aren’t there to keep him company. Reminds him too much of being small and being sick and alone because Ace went out to hunt and he couldn’t go with him. And now he’s thinking about Ace which is a whole bag worms and fuck being alone with his thoughts like this is just torture.

So he gets extra clingy because he can’t stand being alone. And of course his boyfriends indulge him holding his hand and talking to him to distract him to keep the bad thoughts at bay.

“I’m sorry,” he’ll tell Sanji. “I should have listened to you. If had none of this would have happened. It’s okay you can go back to work I’ll be okay.”

Sanji would normally chastise him but he hears the vulnerability in his voice and just squeezes his hand and then brings it to his lips. “Nonsense, my love. I’ll stay with you until you feel better.”

Luffy tears up a bit. “Even if you get sick?”

“Even if I get sick.”

Usopp would make a makeshift bed out of chairs and lay down so they’re at the same eye level and it feels like they are on the same bed even if they aren’t and reaches across the vast distance to hold his hand and make him laugh with his stories some fantastical some real(albeit exaggerated) about the things he has missed. Luffy will listen with rapt attention until he dozes off. Sometimes Usopp will fall asleep holding his hand and Zoro and Sanji have to come collect him.

Some nights Zoro will sneak in after the two others have fallen asleep. Just to watch over him and if Luffy is awake he’ll wrap him up in some sheets from head to toe to prevent himself from getting sick again and then cuddles him to sleep. Luffy is so happy despite how stuffy and uncomfortable it is. Just happy not to be alone.

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Sanji is just in the kitchen making breakfast one morning when Usopp comes up behind him and wraps his arms around him and rests his head on his shoulder. “Sanji I think I’m getting sick.”

“You too??” He checks his forehead and sure enough Usopp’s burning up. “You guys are going down like flies. But before we tell Chopper give me one final kiss.”

“Do you really think that’s a good idea.” Then he laughs at the downtrodden look on Sanji’s face and kisses him. “Guess it’s fine I don’t think it’s that serious anyway.”

It’s that serious and he ends up joining an overjoyed Luffy in the infirmary. Hurray a sick buddy!

“I really do not like how happy you are that I’m sick. Feels like a red flag.”

“What?? I’m not happy you’re sick I’m happy we’re sick together!”

“Diabolical.”

“I’ll show you diabolical!” Then he just starts kissing him all over.

Sanji is just distraught that they’re both sick now. “I haven’t gotten any Luffy kisses in so long.” Okay maybe that’s not the only thing he’s distraught about but still!

“No one’s stopping you.”

“Shut up Marimo this is all your fault! If you’d just learn to wear a shirt none of this would have happened!”

“Oh please you love it when I don’t wear a shirt.”

“When it’s hot out! …wait did you just say nothing is stopping me?” Sanji’s eyes go wide. “Don’t tell me you have been making out with Luffy this entire time!”

“What moron would do that!”

Then they get kicked out of the infirmary for being too loud.

It hits Usopp a lot harder than the other two. Because unlike his boyfriends he’s just regular person and whatever felled them straight up knocks him out. He’s delirious and barely conscious for the most of it which makes the others quite distressed. Especially Luffy who is the closest to him(proximity wise) and who ends up seeing the worst of it. He will try and talk to Usopp but only gets short responses back and sometimes they aren’t even coherent and make no sense. This just makes him even more distressed which leads to Luffy staying up all night despite also being sick and needing his rest just to watch Usopp sleep afraid that if he falls asleep Usopp will just stopped breathing. No matter how much Chopper reassures him Usopp will be fine there will be this tiny voice at the back of his head whispering what if and he just can’t risk it.

Even after Luffy gets better he’ll lie and say he is still sick just so he isn’t forced to leave. He’ll wrap around him several times cocooning him in his arms in the dead of night whispering in Usopp’s ear to please not leave him he couldn’t bear to lose anyone else. And then sigh a breath of relief when he feels Usopp squeeze him back.

Sanji is just as bad as him staying up late at the infirmary not leaving until Zoro has to physically lift him and carry him out. He redoubles his efforts whipping up dish after dish that he hopes will help. Zoro often have to force to take a break. Zoro is worried too but unlike Luffy and Sanji he knows restraint(when it concerns others that are not him lol) so he ends up looking Sanji so he doesn’t overwork himself and ends up bedridden too. Two sick people are already bad enough.

Once he gets him in bed Sanji would still stay up worrying and confiding in Zoro that he’s afraid that they may not get better alluding but not outright telling him about his mother’s illness. She had been looked a lot better than Usopp and she still died and so what if the same happened to either Luffy or Usopp?? Then were would he be? Just all alone with stupid Marimo he would say all while burying his face in Zoro’s chest trembling. “Don’t be stupid they’re a lot stronger than some stupid cold they’ll both be fine In no time especially after you made that dish? What was it called again?”

He will try to distract by making him talk about those legendary dishes he learned from Iva until he falls asleep.

Zoro who’s usually so unflappable ends up infected by all Luffy’s and Sanji’s anxious energy and just ends up feeling useless since there’s nothing he can do but watch over Luffy and Usopp while they sleep and helping Luffy get out of his spirals once the waiting gets to be too much.

But because Sanji can’t be stopped(Zoro is too m he just isn’t as vocal about it) they end up sleeping in the infirmary too. Making a makeshift bed on the floor much to Chopper’s chagrin.

Usopp wakes up early one morning finally released from the ravages of his fever to see his three boyfriends in the room with him. Luffy clutching his waist and Sanji holding his hand which has started cramping from the impractical position. He looks up and makes direct eye contact with Zoro who smiles with heavy eye bags under his eyes and says “took you long enough.”

Usopp reaches out and touches his face and brings it closer so he can kiss it. “Thank you for waiting.”

There’s a little bit of a celebration once the other two wake up and everything is right with the world.

Until Sanji gets sick.

“And this is why I said you shouldn’t work so hard stupid cook.”

“Are we cursed? Is this why this keeps happening?? Feels like we’re stuck in a bad dream!”

“Don’t be stupid this is because Sanji was stupid and worked himself sick.”

“Maybe so but-Luffy!”

Luffy stops where he had been crawling into bed into Sanji’s outstretched arms who’s crooning sweet nothings to him.

“What? You can’t get sick twice from the same cold. I stayed with you even after I got better and I’m feeling just fine.”

“That cannot possibly be true.”

“You gotta admit he has a point.”

“I do not want to hear that from you patient 0. I blame you for all of this.”

Zoro just shrugs and makes Sanji scooch over.

But because there was no one there to correct them and both Zoro and Sanji agreed with Luffy outvoting Usopp 3-1 he had to let it happen. And to no one’s surprise they all got sick again.

#do they break the cycle? who knows #and you best believe sanji didn’t agree with them because he actually believed luffy he just didn’t want to be alone lol #this was supposed to be just hcs but I’m fkn diseased and as soon as I started writing I couldn’t stop lol #I just checked and it’s a little over 2k #I didn’t intentionally short Sanji I promise but this shit got too long😔#nami ended taking over cooking and the cost is steeeeep #zoro ends up taking the brunt of it because this is all his fault lol and also bc she just likes tormenting him😌#asks #zolusanuso #one piece #lusopp #sanuso #zosopp #lusan #zolu #zosan #i write sometimes

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artpepkin · 2 months

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EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT

I swear I'll get to the asks eventually 💀🧡

#*goes to answer an ask*#*immediately gets distracted*#the cycle continues #the cycle never ends #shitpost #artpepkin #pep callout #random pep talk

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foldingfittedsheets · 15 days

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Hi! In your ugly baker + daughter story, what happened to the original ugly baker? I assume the new ugly baker is the daughter, but what about the one who went to see the king?

Right! So the stories were kept on a really strict one page and I couldn’t fit in a conclusion.

Now, I’ve told this story orally several times but this class was the first time I ever wrote it down. There’s been several different endings and I liked the idea of some ambiguity. In every ending the original baker was cursed about the same age as her daughter had been and goes back to being young and pretty.

So in some versions when I’ve told it, the original baker, who I’m gonna call the mother, returns home. She stays and switches places with her daughter, helping her now that she’s the one cursed. The daughter stays cursed and they live out their lives that way.

In another ending they hire a girl with dyslexia who tries to use the book but she can’t follow directions, so each recipe gets ruined in some way and the curse slowly sheds because the baked goods aren’t perfect. All three women live happily ever after.

In one version the mother transforms back into her young beautiful self at the palace. The Prince returns home, sees the beautiful woman so like the one he was just romping with and proposes. The mother accepts and never returns home, leaving her daughter with a grandchild and a curse to repeat the cycle.

It’s really up to you to decide.

#ask ffs #bakers book #story #writing #I couldn’t decide between cycle cautionary tale or happy ending #I think there’s been other endings too that I can’t remember at the moment #it’s up for grabs

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penaltyboxboxbox · 6 months

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i’m obsessed with all your art. the charlos bickering😭😭😭 so accurate. carlos Would make carlos (the third.. lol) finish the football lessons😭😭😭

they would get home and carlos tries to lecture charles about how he doesnt want to raise a son who is a quitter yadda yadda charles is ROLLING HIS EYES and adding the new pokemon game to his amazon cart as they speak...........carlos keeps taking carlos3 to practice and watches him play the worst football the world has ever seen and cheers him on through a grimace as it sinks in that he has NOT blessed the world with next great spanish footballer💔

#as much as we may enjoy breaking the cycle . i just know carlos WOULD be an insane sports father . sorry #he was like no i wont be like that. ends up being exactly like that.#ask #parents au

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ending-the-cycle-ask · 9 months

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So. Latest story post turned out to be way longer than I anticipated?? No wonder it’s been taking so long ^^; But here’s half of it! Still working on the other half, but I’m finally letting Erik help me with the art after trying to do nearly everything by myself like a dummy for almost 3 years so hopefully the next bit will be out much sooner!!

#ending the cycle #ending the cycle ask #thsc #the henry stickmin collection #henry stickmin collection #henry stickmin series #henry stickman fanart #henry stickmin ellie #zentaro #Zentaro EtC #procreate #procreate art #procreate illustration #digital art #digital illustration #ask blog

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worldsewage · 1 month

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whats the homerun lore behind king salmonids?

The salmonid life cycle suggests that to reach heaven, beyond the bipedal form, is to return to the swimming form (the one they had as fry ) called “Runners”, they undergo this change by traveling long distances in saltwater, these forms allow them to cross the ocean to have children. Their energy is used up completely in the transformation, and they die shortly after having children.

Their religion states that salmonids will be reincarnated and reincarnated over and over until they die as a Running Salmonids, dying in a Homerun as a runner allows you to reach “ heaven.”

King Salmonids are runners who underwent the transformation, yet did not die.

#the text translates: A CYCLE DISTURBED DOES NOT END. IT STOPS MOVING #my art #homerun au #asks #salmonids #I think most king salmonids don’t die during the battles. they retreat. they’re too hardy… you fight the same single king salmon #girls night

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blank-house · 2 months

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would any of the lis wear matching necklaces/accessories with mc? wearing each other's initial or matching engraved pieces, etc... i think it's such a cute concept ><

No me too!! I AGREE

I’m pretty sure someone asked something similar but I stay up thinking of how Elio would get matching accessories with you! Like he’d definitely be the guy to get matching croc jibbitz. Or he’d buy matching hats to wear if you don’t mind wearing them.

Percy I see being the guy with the matching jewelry. He already wears so many but he’d prioritize the ones about you :,) all of his rings (except for the ones that are super important to him) he’d take off in favor of the ones with your initials or an engraved one that you guys got during an anniversary. Oh for him to be adorned in yours and his’ love~

Jamie I think is a little bit different. I think he’ll still match with you but he wouldn’t go all out with it like the other boys. In my head he doesn’t like accessories— he just likes how it can upgrade an outfit. But imagine this— he wears a single ring. On his pinky, a promise, or if you really want to murder yourself his left ring finger. He refuses to wear any other rings. This is the only one— and it’s because it has your name engraved on it. AHDHEHEW I feel like the sentiment would translate for other jewelries as well. If it’s a necklace well that’s the only necklace he’s ever wearing now. Same with a bracelet, an anklet, what may have you. But you— you guys might be matching with that one jewelry. But no, you can’t have *just one* no no, he’ll lavish you as much as he can. He might only want to tote around the one matching jewelry, but if possible he’ll let everyone know who it is that has his heart.

#keyframes vn #keyframes asks #perseus tozaki #elio kealoha #jamie porter #I STARTED TO THINK TOO HARD FOR JAMIE #BUT OOOOOOH #when I say I get cycling brainrots about our LIs— I get cycling brainrots #my hope is that Jamie’s turn ends this February so that i can be consumed by all things Elio lmao

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blueskittlesart · 10 months

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do you think totk could be the ending of the cycle? since ganondorf is dragonned and then link kills him and stuff, and there’s no sealing shenanigans this time round. ofc that wouldn’t mean it’d. be the final tloz game since they could just make future titles take place at a previous point in the timeline but yeah you get the idea

nope! ganon/ganondorf/demise has been killed before and reincarnates same as the hero and princess. oot ganon is in a lot of games BECAUSE he was sealed instead of killed at the end of oot, (no matter which ending lol) but there are points on the timeline where ganondorf/iterations of demise are very much killed and then revived later on. the ganondorf we're seeing in totk probably isn't oot ganondorf anyway, given the way the timeline is implied within that game. It's much more likely he's an entirely new incarnation of demise who just happens to share a name with the character from oot, similarly to the way link and zelda's reincarnations work. If anything, I'd say the fact that he was killed and not sealed means for SURE that he's coming back. "sealing" is arguably a more permanent solution because as long as he stays alive there's no chance of him reincarnating, so if the seal holds then that's about as close to the end of a cycle as you can get. the reason the cycle doesn't end is usually because he either dies and reincarnates or manages to break the seal.

#iirc he dies & is brought back post-sksw (demise revives into ganondorf) post-alttp (revives between alttp & tloz) and post-tp #(revives between tp & four swords adventures)#i BELIEVE thats all the canon reincarnations. but they do happen! its not always oot ganondorf so we know killing him doesn't end the cycle #asks #totk spoilers #<< SORRY FOR NOT TAGGING EARLIER I KEEP FORGETTING

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bonesblubs · 1 year

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now that you finished mdzs, did you know there was a planned ending where wen ning dies dead forever and jin ling dies and becomes a fierce corpse to save everyone? :)