#yllyana asks

[secret-engima]

Now you have me wondering which of the four types of canon is RWBY, and Transformers, in your opinion.

Hmmmm alright then. In case anyone is wondering what this ask is referring to, it's this post that I made not long ago about the different "types" of canon as I see them and what kind of fixits or aus they tend to spawn in my brain.

RWBY used to be Canon Type 2 for me I think, but it shifted into Canon Type 3 during season six of the show and by now it's permanently stuck in Canon Type 4.

Transformers ... honestly that depends on which version of Transformers you mean? Because different runs can have wildly different worldbuilding and characterization. Off the top of my head, going with the runs of Transformers I *know*-

Transformers Animated: Type 2. I have almost no complaints, but Prowl deserved Better and so if I ever ended up writing a strictly TF:A story that would definitely get fixited.

Transformers Prime: Type 3, definitely. I love that setting and for the most part I really respect the way it was handled and the plot choices it made, but I do think there's wasted potential in there so... XD.

I have not watched G1 or read the comics enough to make a judgement on what canon type they'd be for me, and the so called "sequel" show to TF Prime *does not exist*. I refuse.

Michael Bay movies are Type 4. For very obvious reasons.

The new Bumblebee movie is apparently not set in the same universe as the Bay-verse, so for *now* it's in Type 1, but that will probably change if they ever release a sequel set in that specific run of the movies.

For a bonus round using some other fandoms I've actually written fic for: Genshin Impact is a type 1 so far, Horizon Zero Dawn is a type 2, but that mighhhhtt change to type 3 depending on how the sequel game goes. I haven't finished playing yet so we will see, Danmachi is type 3, Katekyo Hitman Reborn is type 4.

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[cuubism]

I love all your dreamling fics, but In Waking Dreams chapter 7 is at the top of the list.

one that i DESPERATELY need to finish

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He dragged the blankets up over them like a shield. “I’ll protect you, now,” he whispered into his husband’s hair. “And, I know, I know, far be it for someone like me to make such a claim about someone like you” —whatever you are— “but I will.” His Dream hummed against his throat, a long, low sound of tension escaping the body. Hob was glad to feel it. “I’ll protect you,” Hob said again, fiercely. “I won’t let them try and take you again.” This prospect had rapidly climbed up the tall tower of Hob’s fears and perched itself at the very top. “They will not be able to.”  Still, Hob couldn’t shake his terror at the thought. “They won’t,” he vowed. He had his gun resting on the nightstand, and failing that he had his fists and his own body and his inability to die. No one would touch his Dream. A smile curved against his throat. “So fierce, you are. You would defend me, my husband? In waking and in dreaming?” “Always,” said Hob. “Anywhere.” “I have read thousands of stories that speak of lovers, of husbands, of devoted ones,” continued his Dream, voice hushed. He sounded a little out of it, slipping between conscious and unconscious. “And I do believe it is you who best embodies the concept.” “Which?” “All of them.”

#mostly past the very very long 'hurt' part of the fic and now in the 'comfort' section XD #in waking dreams #tag games #ask #anonymous #yllyana #thank you!

[charlottedabookworm]

I love your And I Didn't Like The Ending verse, it's such perfect karma for the Hightowers. The tools of their ambition stepping back to say "not my circus, not my monkeys". I would love to see Rhaenyra's reaction when she realizes that her rival for the throne is actually loyal to her.

this did not go where i thought it would go, lol

(according to the valyrian dictionary i found:

muña means mother/mother's sister/maternal aunt

Qȳbor means mother's younger brother/maternal uncle younger than mother)

"Aegon!"

Her half-brother rolls his eyes from where it is he sits, making faces at Jacaerys and Lucerys in an attempt to make them laugh. "Yes, mother?"

The queen frowns at her son from the head of the table. "Ser Cole has reported that you have been ignoring your lessons yet again in favour of entertaining Jacaerys and Lucerys-"

Rhaenyra stills, feeling Laenor doing the same beside her as her gaze falls upon her half-brother. If he has dared to-

"Perhaps, then," Aegon says, baring his teeth in a smile as he stares his mother down. With his head resting upon his palm, dressed in the reds and blacks of their shared house, he looks every inch a Dragon and not the half-Tower he is. "Ser Cole should keep better track of his students."

Luke giggles quietly at her side, his brother hushing him - Jacaerys ever the watcher compared to either of his brothers.

Aegon's smile widens, spreading slowly across his lips, his gaze utterly focused on his mother. "Jace is second in line, mother, I will not leave him untaught simply because Ser Cole is afraid to teach him." He spits the word, daring Alicent to speak up. Daring her to say what they all know.

Her sons are not ignored by the Kingsguard because Criston Cole is afraid.

"It's okay, muña," Lucerys chirps from her side, drawing her gaze to him. Her son is smiling brightly but there is a sharpness in his eyes. "Qȳbor Egg is a really good teacher!"

"Is he," she hums, smiling at her son. He nods vigorously, launching into their lessons with his uncle, which have apparently been happening for more than a turn.

Rhaenyra's gaze falls once more upon her half-brother.

Aegon meets her eyes evenly, sitting properly in his chair for the first time this night. He holds her gaze for a heartbeat, allowing her to take a measure of him, before his eyes drop to the table, his head dipping in a bow.

It is, unmistakably, the bow of a Prince to his King.

The bow of a Prince to his Queen.

A fork clatters to the floor.

(Three days later, Aegon kneels before her in front of the entire court and rests his sword at her feet)

#ask #yllyana #hotd #legend of the sword #and i didn't like the ending verse #not sure on my characterisation here but that's the downside of getting most of your knowledge through fic lol #went on the wiki and fuck now I'm sad at exactly how many of these children die #egg is just like fuck all this sabotage i don't want to be king #so i'm gonna make certain my sister knows i support her #and that my nephews get properly trained #aegon 'i am fourth in line and would very much like to be even further' targaryen

[chocolatequeennk]

For the AMA - Do you have any fic recs for Sam/Jack? My previously read Stargate fics have all been more Daniel focused, and I've never seen it as more than a background pairing, so seeing it on your favorite pairings list has me curious.

Alas, it’s been so many years since I was active in that fandom, I’ve forgotten nearly every good fic I read. And I’m horrible about bookmarking things/saving to favourites because I’m always really good at finding things just by searching again. But after 8 years or more, I’m afraid there’s no way I could come up with a list for you. 

But some of my followers might have some recs? I know some of them watch Stargate and ship Sam/Jack.

This post is part of my follower thank you AMA. If you want to send me a question, take a peek at the list for some suggestions, then fire away!

#yllyana #asked and answered #sam x jack #stargate sg1 #nancy's ama #any recs to offer?

[grundyscribbling]

30 Questions

I was tagged by @alystraea. Tagging @zeroatthebone and @yllyana as I’m curious

Nicknames: Don’t have any - when your name is already short, nicknames are harder to come by. Gender: Female Star Sign: Aries MBTI Type:  INTJ (Occasionally ISTJ depending on the wording of the test, but INTJ is probably more accurate.) Height: 5′1” Time: 22:50 Birthday: 16 Apr Fav Band: Ok, here is the problem with asking me “fav” anything: it changes often. Today I’m in a very Pink Floyd mood. Song stuck in my mind: Another Brick In The Wall Last movie watched: HP & The Prisoner of Azkaban Last TV show watched: Game of Thrones When did I create my blog: 2015. (I only know this because Tumblr just today sent me a little ‘you’re two!’ email.) What do I post about: Tolkien stuff and fic mostly. Last thing I googled: “Pink Floyd The Wall”. Said it, needed to hear it. Do you have other blogs: Indeed.  Why did you choose your url: Grundy is my pen name, and as I write, scribbling seemed appropriate. (I do the other kind of scribbling too, I’m just not particularly good at it.) Following: 78 (I honestly thought this number was bigger. I already feel like I miss half of what the people I’m following post as it is.) Followers: 24 Fav Colour: Blue. Average hours of sleep: 6-8. 6 is the minimum for non-cranky functioning. 8 is preferable. Lucky number: 13 Instruments: Piano. I don’t practice much lately, though. What I’m wearing: black T, khaki pants that are something like a cross between cargos and capris. (I’m short enough that this doesn’t look as appalling as it probably sounds.) How many blankets do I sleep with: Varies seasonally. Right now, it’s summer, so one. In winter, the more the merrier - my house is an old farmhouse and there’s no heater in the upstairs bedrooms! Dream job: Mycroft Holmes. (The one in the books, not the TV show.) Seriously, the guy’s job appears to be ‘know everything without actually having to go anywhere unless you want to.’ Although if you insist it can’t be fictional, it would probably be pretty awesome to be the person who gets to evaluate applications for DARPA projects/funding. Dream trip: Around the world! Fav food: Ice cream. Pizza. Maple syrup. (Not all at once.) Nationality: USAmerican Bonus question - favorite fandom: Tolkien!

#30 questions #meme #figuring out who to tag is hard!

[secret-engima]

I was just rereading the Deleantur series, and it got me wondering: does Del find a new retinue? Is Stella his Heart?

He will build a new retinue eventually yes. :) And Stella will either be his Heart or his Sword, I honestly forget which I have down for her in my notes, since you don't have to have your romantic partner as your Heart.

#SE asks #yllyana asks #Secret Engima Rambles #Deleantur verse

[cuubism]

The ask game reminded me of how every time I remember In Waking Dreams, I imagine Hob eventually sharing the ransom letter and the reactions to it - Dream finding out that one of his siblings helped him unprompted, Hob finding out it's from his sister-in-law and she's just Like That.

This will definitely happen in the last chapter 😂 everything gets wrapped up. Or at least, if I remember to wrap everything up, then it will.

#:) #in waking dreams #ask #yllyana

[secret-engima]

Regarding your Vox Machina in FFXV verse, does that make Percy an Altius too? It would make for some interesting cognitive dissonance for outsiders. Also I've been wondering what Ardyn knows about what's going on? I'd expect him to be at least keeping track of the various royal families, so Percy and Pike must be on his radar.

Yep, that makes Percy an Altius! it confuses a good many outsiders yes. The Clan just rolls with it.

I just answered an ask involving Ardyn, but short version- he goes to try to poke around at Vox Machina, Vox Machina recognizes he's poisoned to the gills with something evil, so they catch him and hold him down so Pike can do some holy smiting on his illness.

And then they're like- well we can't just *leave* the poor sad immortal man now that we've cured him.

Cue casually dragging confused healer man on their wild adventures.

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[secret-engima]

I am very curious about the soulmate aspects of Always I Dreamed verse. Is the method first words, or something more obscure? Is it strictly romantic soulmates only, or are there platonic bonds as well? Will it add to the tension of feral Branwen twins meeting Tai and Summer?

*happily flops in* YES HELLO. I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD ASK ABOUT THIS.

Okay, so far what I have is that the method is a soul mark, usually the shape of an animal, but can be heavily stylized/have other elements incorporated. Sizes usually range from the size of a palm to that of an entire hand, but some marks can be *massive*. The color indicates what kind of mark it is.

There are platonic bonds! In fact, while romantic soul bonds are “popularized” by media, the most common bonds are platonic, followed by their rarer but still not uncommon subset of parental bonds between a soul parent and soul child. Platonic marks are blue colored, any shade of blue so long as it’s blue, and the specific shades have no discernible meaning so far as scientists can tell (many people have theories though). Parental marks are green.

Romantic marks are actually rare. Not SUPER rare, but rare. They tend to be bigger than other marks, and are actually colorless until soulmates meet. The mark itself will be just a black sketch or outline until it is directly touched by the other soulmate, at which point it fills in with the color of the soulmate’s Aura (the contact must be direct and skin on skin, even if it’s just a finger poking it, this helps prevent accidentally fill ins from say- bumping into each other in a crowd. Unless your romantic mark is on your arm and you aren’t wearing a protective sleeve over it over course).

While most people have a platonic soul mark, having two platonic marks is also not terribly uncommon. Usually people don’t have more than two though, say- a platonic and a parental, or a platonic and a platonic, or a romantic and a parental, etc etc. Also, soul marks only show up when the person turns fifteen (unless it’s a parental mark, in which case it will appear as soon as the child is roughly four months old).

Raven and Qrow have four marks, and one of those marks are platonic for each other (which is rare).

AND AS FOR TENSION.

The HILARIOUS thing is that at first- Raven and Qrow have absolutely no idea. No clue. None. They were raised by a BANDIT TRIBE. You think anyone in there ever cared two blinks for soul marks or bothered to explain to the kids? No, Raven and Qrow just woke up one day when they were fifteen, coincidentally after the bandits had a big celebratory feast for a successful raid, and were like- “okay apparently we drank WAY more than we thought if we have a bunch of tattoos now” and then moved on with life. They figured their Auras healed the tattoos hyper fast, which is why they don’t feel inflamed or painful, and they have very similar marks, so they assume they just- had the same ideas for dumb tattoos.

Raven literally doesn’t realize there’s a problem, even *after* spotting Summer and Tai’s soul marks, because hey, people get similar tattoos by coincidence. If a tattoo is popular or whatever. It’s not until SUMMER comments tentatively that Raven has a lot of soul marks (trying to discreetly initiate the “so I’m 98% sure I’m the blue wolf mark you and your twin have and that you two are the corvid marks on my back and side” conversation) and Raven has a blue screen moment because what. Soul what.

Mark what.

Raven just grunts noncommittally, outwardly perfectly calm and seemingly ignoring Summer’s conversation thread but internally she’s too busy screaming to even notice the potential conversation. She and Qrow spend like- three days huddling in Beacon’s library frantically trying to research if soul marks ARE AN ACTUAL THING. They end up buying some of those teenager help books that are meant to explain all your awkward questions about hormones and life and all that, soul marks included.

Raven is freaking out. Soulmarks are a thing. A THING. WAS THIS IN CANON RWBY? WAS THIS JUST NEVER MENTIONED? DID SHE FORGET? THIS SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING A BIT TOO BIG TO FORGET.

Of course after it is established that yes, this is a thing, it’s ... not hard to realize that one of their marks is each other, and two of the others are Summer and Tai.

Raven and Qrow both fall into deep denial over having romantic soul marks for Tai and Summer respectively.

And that’s how the soul mark tension gets started. :3

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[secret-engima]

More Always I Dreamed questions! Does all of STORQ have 4 marks like the Branwen twins? You mentioned Summer having 2 and Tai 1. And Ozpin has to be the 4th, right? I'm really curious how he's represented if so. I'm also wondering how the soulmark knowledge interacts with the discovery of Raven's respawning? Because if they already know Raven is the scarring and reappearing soulmark, they might react differently when they see it in person.

Yes! All of Team STORQ have 4 marks :3. Since I haven’t decided on all mark sizes and locations I’ll just tell you what each individual marks is.

Summer: A wolf in a running position, stylized a bit like the graphic design from Okami, and with its lower half dissipating into rose petals

Tai: Asian dragon, placement varies, but he’s always curled up around something like a bicep (or Raven’s waist). His mark is very detailed, with lots of scales and shading.

Qrow: Crow in a perched position, wings slightly mantled like he’s about to take flight. Again, the style I’m picturing is like Okami design style (because it’s so pretty).

Raven: Raven in full flight, wings outstretched. Her mark tends to be on the bigger side because she’s *possessive*. Yet again- in Okami style.

Ozpin: A small rabbit, hunched down as if in rest or hiding, made of clockwork gears. Almost always located on the ribcage by the heart, partially tucked under an arm, again- as if in hiding.

To answer the other questions!

I’m not sure how the consequences will roll now that soul marks are added in, but it will definitely add to their horror. Because they are very sure that whatever happened, their soulmate couldn’t be *dying* over and over right?? That just doesn’t happen.

And then they find out the truth and they will be so utterly horrified. Because now they know that every. Single. Time. they felt their mark scar over, Raven was dying. Was dead and then clawed her way back.

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[secret-engima]

19, Qrow/Summer. 21, Raven/Tai. 36, Emercury.

(I got the first two! But if you want Emercury uh ... sorry can you pick a different number? Because for the life of me I can’t even figure out what “to give up control” could MEAN ^^;)

...

Qrow/Summer:

     Summer wasn’t usually one to push her boundaries, especially with Qrow. It had taken so long to get him to trust her, really trust her, and she never wanted to do something to make him uncomfortable. But one of the many things she had learned about Qrow was that he, as his sister put it, “sometimes needed to be hit with a two by four to get his butt in gear”. Summer didn’t have a two by four, but she had a finals match in the Vytal tournament to win, a lot of adrenaline, and a moment to decide that being reckless was a good idea for once.

     “Hey Qrow!” He straightened up, a question in his eyes as she stalked over. Out of the corner of her eye, Summer could see Raven’s eyebrows going up, like she was guessing what was coming.

     “You need something before the match?”

     “Yeah.” Summer put her hands on Qrow’s shoulders, stood on her tiptoes and, not letting herself think better of it, pressed her lips hard and clumsy against his. Qrow went rigid underneath her touch, but his hands settled on her waist and didn’t push her away.

     She stepped away as the announcer called for her and her opponent to make their way to the arena, and Qrow looked at her in a wide-eyed sort of daze, “What … what was that for?”

     There were far too many answers on her tongue and far too many explanations she’d need to give later, but right now she needed her head back in the game and maybe just a little bit of something else. She smirked, “For luck.” Without waiting for one of his reflex, pessimistic responses about how he only brought bad luck to anything, she turned and skipped out of the locker room.

     She had a Vytal tournament to win, and then some talking to do later about Qrow maybe finally acknowledging that they’d been dating for the last month.

...

Raven/Tai

     Raven stared down at her hands and wondered when she had well and truly lost her mind. Because this had to be some kind of crazy, stupid dream, right? This had to be a dream, or a mistake, and soon it would all crash down-.

     “Raven, are you okay?” She couldn’t bring herself to respond or look away from her hands. Her calloused hands that were so pale under the light and had been stained with so much blood, and why ever would anyone want to touch or be touched by those hands? Why would anyone put the slender band of metal now resting on one finger on hands like hers-? Warm fingers touched her shoulders, a silent warning of his presence as he let his hand trail down her arm as he settled down in a crouch in front of her, “Hey,” Tai murmured, “what’s wrong? Are you upset?” Raven looked at him stiffly, helplessly, words tied up on her tongue and Tai frowned faintly, concern in every line, “Come on, Raven, talk to me. Tell me what’s going on?”

     “You married me.”

     Tai blinked, settled slowly on his haunches with a look of confusion rather than hurt, because he knew her far too well now to mistake her statement as the problem tangling up her insides, “Yes, I did.”

     Raven worked her jaw, trying to make him understand, trying to find the words to make him see, “I … my hands…” She closed her eyes, “You shouldn’t-.”

     “Shouldn’t…?”

     “The blood on them,” she finally managed, hoarse and stiff, “you shouldn’t. You’ll just get dirty.” Like she was already dirty, like she had been dirty since she was a child in the camps when they’d put a knife in her hands and told her to do better than her brother’s Semblance made things worse.

     “Oh Raven,” her new husband breathed. His hands slid over her own, ignoring her faint flinch, and he pulled them closer to him, turning them over to pepper her palms with slow, reverent kisses. When he looked back up at her, she could see the Raven he saw in the reflection of his eyes. The Raven who was a good teammate and a caring sister, a Huntress, a protector, a human being worth knowing. The Raven who was worth loving, who deserved to be loved, and she still didn’t feel like that Raven sometimes, or even most of the time, but there she was in Tai’s eyes, in the lingering kisses he pressed against her shaking hands and the pulse point of her wrists. “My wife,” he murmured softly, “is a beautiful, kind, amazing woman. So much more than anything they tried to make you. I love you, Raven, and I promise you there is something worth loving inside you and always will be.”

     And it seemed too good to be true, but if there was one anchor she had in this world, it was trust in her team. In Tai.

     So she believed him.

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[secret-engima]

Trying again for Emercury, 10 or 20.

(Thanks for picking a new number! Hopefully this is good)

...

     No, no, no, no, please- Emerald tore at the rubble with both hands, uncaring of the stones that bit through her already fragile Aura, or the way her arms and back ached. None of that mattered, all that mattered was-, “Mercury!” She hauled the rock away and dragged him clear of the rest, frantically brushing dust from his face, trying to check for breathing and please, please, not this. Not her partner. Not to something as stupid as a building collapse during a run of the mill fight with Grimm. Not after everything they’d done and survived and seen and-.

     He wasn’t moving. Mercury wasn’t moving and her fingers were shaking too badly to tell if he had a pulse, and her eyes started to blur with tears even as she tried to check on his breathing, “Please, please, Merc you gotta breathe, you gotta wake up, Merc-.”

     He coughed, hacked and panted for air like a drowning man and Emerald rolled him over onto his side in case anything needed to come back up. After minutes of wretched coughing that sounded like music to Emerald’s ears, his breathing stabilized and Emerald pulled him close so that he was almost in her lap, hugging him as tightly as she dared with shaking, bloody arms. His legs were ruined, just twisted scraps of metal they would need to replace, but that was okay. Everything was okay so long as he was alive.

     “Em? …Wha’ happened…?”

     Emerald laughed to hide her sob, grabbed his hair and kissed him with all the desperate relief she felt that he was alive. She pulled away quickly to let him have air, “You stupid, reckless, idiot, don’t ever scare me like that again.”

     Grey eyes blinked at her hazily, and instead of a quip or a protest, there was just a glance around at the scattered rubble, at Emerald’s ragged state, and his own broken prosthetics, then a quiet little, “Sorry, Em.”

     “Just don’t do it again, you idiot!”

     He leaned against her with a grunt, too tired to try sitting up on his own, “Okay.”

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[secret-engima]

I get the feeling that Noctscar's reaction to Winter and her track record as a sibling is not going to be kind and friendly.

Noctscar is gong to be extremely unimpressed with Winter yes. Both for her treatment of Luna and ESPECIALLY her treatment of Whitley. He’s just- so over the Military Neglectful Sibling who puts too much emphasis on the Tough part of Tough Love.

#SE asks #yllyana asks #One in a Hundred verse #Noctscar

[secret-engima]

So in Always I Dreamed verse if Qrow is Ruby's dad and married Summer Rose, does that make them Summer and Ruby Branwen? Or are both twins eager to ditch their last name due to daddy issues and push to be Raven Xiao Long and Qrow Rose?

I honestly haven’t decided! But I’m leaning heavily toward either the twins ditching their last names to take the Rose and Xiao Long names respectively OR they do the hyphen thing so they are Branwen-Rose and Branwen-Xiao Long and people just uniformly lump them into the Branwen-Rose-Xiao Long category because they’re inseparable anyway.

I do increasingly like the idea of them giving up the Branwen name entirely though. Just to thumb nose at canon XD.

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[secret-engima]

How does Qrow view SI!Raven? It must be a hell of a thing to have someone value you over EVERYTHING despite being living bad luck.

Qrow loves his sister, that is never, ever going to be in question. But sometimes he feels very guilty that she loves him back over everything else. Because- she has died. MULTIPLE TIMES. Either for him or (he thinks) because of his Semblance. And Raven believes that his Semblance only kicked in when they were teens, but Qrow still thinks of that very first time, of playing on a log that they had a thousand times before in the dry sunny day only for her to slip-

And he wonders.

Sometimes Qrow also feels ... a bit afraid. Not of her, never OF Raven, but for her. Because of her “curse” (what they call her gamer powers). He’s held her cooling body time and again before it jerks awake with a gasp, injuries healing and wounds resetting without a scar, and each time he’s afraid that this time she’ll have left something behind. He sees her go distant sometimes, disconnected, like the world is a painting and she’s just admiring it from afar rather than living in it, and those times she looks like that he’s afraid she’ll forget he exists and wander away, that she’ll have died and reset so many times that the world stops being real to her.

But he loves her, and as much as there’s a nagging voice in his head saying that this curse is somehow his fault (what is more of a misfortune than being able to painfully die but not STAY dead) and he should push her away for her own good, he can’t. He loves her, this is his big sister, his only safe haven and anchor.

And she has told him more than once that he, in turn, is hers.

A poor anchor, he thinks bitterly to himself some nights, but he’s the only one she’s got.

(not sure if that answered your question. Did that answer your question?)

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[secret-engima]

You've got me curious about Raven's gamer powers. Does she tell anyone else about them? Can she invite people into a team to share them, temporarily or otherwise? Does she get quest lines that give a path to eventually defeating Salem? Unless it's spoilers, of course.

-Raven does tell Qrow about them because it’s kinda impossible to hide from her twin, but she doesn’t share very much. Just some of the key mechanics. She does have a party system eventually, but she’s extremely reluctant to use it because she can’t tell if she’ll be able to then disband the party and she honestly wouldn’t wish her powers on anyone. Sure the stat points and inventory are useful but the respawn mechanic is... not fun.

Raven has gamer powers, but the world itself is not like a game, so no she does not have any quest lines. She has skill trees though, and once she levels up enough she will unlock some interesting mechanics that *could* be used to defeat Salem if Raven is smart enough and outside-the-box in her thought processes to use them correctly. Whether she figures that out in time and what those mechanics are is under spoilers.

Raven is less the protagonist of an epic adventure plot and more a hapless PC dropped into a giant open world sandbox with no objectives, no tutorial, and the vague impression that some powerful being is laughing at her confusion. :3

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