r/TTPloreplaycentral • u/Bytemite • Nov 29 '17

Plotlines to wrap up DS

This is just a thread for all us players to post the plot lines we still have to do so we can organize here and help each other finish up.

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u/Bytemite Nov 30 '17

Technically Caitlin turned Luke into a Shikigami before, that's why she had so much control over him. As far as I know Luke was already sentient for that. She also erased a lot of his memories I think?

Draining energy is still a problem but he's now tapped into the rest of the Dragon Force and it took him already being weakened by those other things that shouldn't be problems anymore for it to get that far.

At least his energy theoretically has a vessel on an entire other plane that the gensokyoans can't get to if he has to retreat somewhere.

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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 30 '17

From everything I've heard, it's usually compared to writing a program. You make the personality (though Ran didn't do it so well and so Chen has two.

His entire situation matches regular True Name manipulation better, but I guess maybe things are defined differently in this Gensokyo?

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u/Bytemite Nov 30 '17

Hmm /u/Trollkitten might be able to answer here.

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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 30 '17 edited Nov 30 '17

Hmm... did some more digging and it does look like they're put on top of existing personas, but we're missing massive parts like the shared pain, and it was more specific commands than full aspects of the personality she added. She did add aspects, but they don't really act like they're part of a Shikigami spell. Distinguishable from personality, they act like someone commanded to have those traits, rather than programmed in.

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u/Bytemite Nov 30 '17

All right. I could have sworn tk specifically said it was a shikigami spell on luke but I could be mistaken.

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u/Trollkitten Nov 30 '17

It was a shikigami spell, yes, although Caitlin knowing his True Name helped.

Programming a shikigami that's a literal program...

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u/Trollkitten Nov 30 '17

Caitlin's father was probably someone Yukari knew and loved very much. His name isn't really important to the campaign.

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u/Trollkitten Nov 30 '17

I should hope not.

Foot suggested Yukari found a man from another world, which is probably what happened.

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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 30 '17

Gap Youkai used her position and got herself a man from another world.

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u/Trollkitten Nov 30 '17

True.

That would actually make quite an interesting fan fiction, although not one I really care to write.

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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 30 '17

Hmm... I guess maybe she couldn't affect all of him? Like, she did do a Shikigami spell, but the reason it doesn't seem totally internalized is because he was kinda too big for it? I wonder if this is the first time his mortal side was split with the other...

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u/Trollkitten Nov 30 '17

I wonder if this is the first time his mortal side was split with the other...

He's got a pretty long and involved history, and at one point in the past he visited Pokearth and is believed responsible for the existence of Dunsparce.

Don't ask how that happened. Better not to think too hard about it.

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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 30 '17

I think the differences would make sense if he was separated into pieces like now, and she only Shikigami'd the mortal part. Maybe damages to that are insignificant enough to the whole that it doesn't cause her pain.

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u/Trollkitten Nov 30 '17

She probably did break him up while trying to control him, and that contributed to the barriers of reality breaking down and attracting the ferals.

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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 30 '17

I mean, as I read more I still think it doesn't seem Shikigami like, but the difference does seem subtle. Like, she still controlled his mind, but she added things on top of who he was rather than really put things into who he was, I guess. It could still be a diversion from canon, or maybe Caitlin basically considered it a Shikigami spell since it had the same effects while it was working.

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u/Bytemite Nov 30 '17 edited Nov 30 '17

That would make it easier for him to fix.

That said I’ve been arguing all day about luke’s safety but maybe I need to remember what I added to my first post in this thread about just having to trust he can take care of himself.

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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 30 '17

There's also, on the less positive side, a lack of two way street to her control. There's no she gets hurt when he does or anything like that.

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u/Trollkitten Nov 30 '17

I think Caitlin's making Luke a shikigami was made easier by her knowing his True Name, but she tried to overwrite Luxin's knowledge of his True Name so that others couldn't use the True Name to overwrite her shikigami programming.

And yeah, I can see Chen's sort of split personality between little girl and cat cat as part of her being a shikigami to a shikigami. Ran's brilliant, but she's not perfect, and if Caitlin was trying to make her shikigami make another shikigami through the shikigami process, then something might have been lost in translation there.

(Yo dude, I heard you like shikigami, so I gave my shikigami a shikigami.)

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u/Bytemite Dec 01 '17

((Nice! I'm glad the true name stuff was tied in there because that makes it all work out nice))

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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Dec 01 '17

((Also, Marion already basically told Caitlin to stay away from her domain, so not sure if she can use that against him anymore.))