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  1. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Just like that, Synesthesia was hailed as a hero Epic. (Random and odd side note: One of my sisters has mild synesthesia—she mostly just sees colors in music and voices belonging to people who aren't in her family. She says names have colors, too.) I just got a mental image of Neverthere hugging Numnums around the neck, waving at Lightwards as she projects the image into his bedroom.
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    Oregon Destruction Scenario Number 337: Oregon falls when Rainmaker's slumber party goes horribly, horribly wrong. Thank you, Mr. Charleston. Your metaphors are in top form, as always.
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    But the slumber party guests wouldn't hear it, because Lucentia wouldn't be there.
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    This seemed relevant.
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    You do not want to bring dark!Funtimes to a pillow fight. Unless, of course, you're Rainmaker, because she just seems like that kind of person. I agree with Voidus. Lucentia isn't invited.
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    Odd. I've never wanted to adopt a cat I saw in a picture until now.
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    Things you learn from research, part two: I'd actually done a decent job of portraying Funtimes as someone with a fear of abandonment before I decided that was her root fear. I've also learned that I made a huge mistake in not creating an Epic with an intense fear of bananas.
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    Things you learn from research, part one: This is what happens when you type "fear of ab" into Google: And this is what happens when you make a typo:
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    Given her powers, it makes sense, but still.
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    Ouch.
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    I believe my words speak for themselves.
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    This can mean only one thing. I had Koschei's weakness wrong. His root fear wasn't [REDACTED] as I thought, but being turned into a cat. Having died and reincarnated, Koschei faced his fear and removed the corruption, making his romance with Mobius a sort of attempt to save her at best and extremely awkward at worst. It all makes sense now.
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    Diamond Tiara is the best name I can think of for her. Not if Lightwards is Shia LaBeouf in that song, and Scribbler is the one dreaming it. This has the added bonus of making her 50,000 times more likely to immediately decapitate him, should she ever meet him in person.
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    By the way, Kobold, if the Anberlin song isn't your style, you could always do a Lightwards/Scribbler dream sequence set to "Shia LaBeouf."
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    My Portland characters are mostly away from where the MEE will attack, and I just need one more post to get Quota back to the armory.
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    "Someone Anyone" by Anberlin describes the state's powder keg political situation pretty well.
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    Given the nature of trauma in general, I'd argue that not every trauma is even repeatable. If a police officer was traumatized by the night they had to shoot an armed robber, that would be a repeatable trauma. If a first responder was traumatized by 9/11, there are elements of that trauma that are repeatable, but the exact trauma is a one-time event. There are so many factors that made 9/11 as impacting as it was--the shock of it, the fact it was the first foreign terror attack on American soil, the circumstances surrounding it--that repeating the exact event is all but impossible. If we're arguing that if a trauma is repeatable then repeats should trigger the Epic's weakness, then I'm on board. If we're arguing that a trauma HAS to be repeatable to qualify as a weakness, then I'll have to disagree.
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    Since Sam and Protector Pug will be turning in for the night before too long, I thought I should post this bit of warning for Ms. Trattner.
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    And now that I have attained the rank of God Beyond….I kind of wish I hadn't been asleep when I had 9,999 rep points. :(

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    2. mail-mi

      mail-mi

      Like "the tap water at my beachside cabin tastes different than my tap water at home. :(" :P

    3. TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      "Can't remember which car I drove to the mall." :P

    4. TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      Literally or figuratively, it's a problem.

  21. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    I'm struggling to find the proper words for that masterpiece, but all I can think to say is "Was that you singing, or AutoTune?"
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    My love for pugs is well known, it seems.
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    She's a terrible person and it's no wonder no one wants to be her friend. That's awesome! Congratulations!
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    Oh my gosh he's adorable!
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    In the case of abstract weaknesses, I admit up front I'm a little biased, considering at least one of my Epics has one that seems more abstract than usual. And I freely admit I could be totally wrong about this, but anywho... As far as abstract weaknesses go, I agree that there HAS to be a strong emotional connection between the trauma and the weakness. (You're right: "trauma" is a much more fitting term; it connotes something snapping, mentally, which is what happened to Epics to give them their fears.) A boy who fears his abusive father won't connect the brand of Italian leather boots he wears to the trauma, but he probably would connect someone taking off their belt. As someone familiar with more random/abstract triggers, I'm more inclined to believe that weaknesses are allowed to be a bit more abstract. David does mention early on that weaknesses include certain patterns, numbers of attackers, foods, and even age in one case. Why? If an Epic who was weak to, say, a repeating diamond pattern gained that fear the night her husband nearly beat her to death and she was facedown on a diamond pattern rug, then why isn't her weakness being face down, or a man holding something heavy and blunt, or being called whatever names he was surely calling her at the time? The only answer I have is that the human psyche is a strange thing, and different people fixate on different aspects of the same situation. Another woman might very well fixate on the insults or anything else, but this one fixated on the pattern of the rug. I'm with you on nearly everything else, especially the repeat part.
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