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Mo Xuanyu ([personal profile] cutsleeve) wrote2020-03-21 08:08 pm

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For all your threading or PSL needs with this disaster child.
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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-03-27 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Lineage? None.

[He really didn't understand these blood relations sects. A sect was already a family. Why make them related ontop of that? It took away from the fantasy as well. How did you have a story about some poor orphan who joins a sect and rises to the top?]

Head disciples will be chosen based on merit and how much their master feels they fit their peak, and then when all current peak lords are gone, the new generation will take on their roles with a new generation name. Qing is our current generation and our names were given to us by our masters.
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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-03-28 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Not at all. Where some families will be talented, sometimes those from the same family will be accepted, it isn't a rule. If you limit by family, how would you ever find that one in a million special talent orphaned out in the wild?

So, instead, merit is based on skill by everyone. And the peak lords will choose their successors as the best representation of their virtues.

Or... in the case of one whoever defeats them. A sect is not the same as a clan.

[And that was sort of the entire point of escapist Xianxia. Wuxia was more about clans and family blood. Though, if he thought about it, a lot of protagonists in those didn't have a clan and usually went around breaking a few of them along their way....]
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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-03-29 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
[This really was a confusing way to go about it. Perhaps Airplane Bro wasn't the worst cultivation novelist, because this world was probably even more backwards than his!]

Blood does not necessarily mean the base potential or affinity is there. Also, who has time to raise children and have families? When the entire point of cultivating is to be immortal and potentially ascend?
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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-03-30 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[He has to think about it a moment. Traditionally there was no difference. A sect was a family, which was why everyone was referred to as brother or sister. But it wasn't anything he had ever thought too much about. That was just... how it was. It was a given. Sects would be bound together like a family, those who weren't would fall apart, and it was usually caused by one shady individual, and that individual was probably the villain and would die.]

Well... yes....

[And how would he raise a family and disciples!?]

But I am also a teacher. It would be hard to raise a baby in that sort of environment. A disciple ideally will come when they are around twelve to start cultivating. When you become a disciple you sort of say goodbye to your blood relatives. Though it is common to still get benefits from your family, and your family will give gifts to the sect for taking you in. Since... it is prestigious to be able to become a cultivator.

But, since you are on the path to immortality, eventually you will have to say goodbye.

[Or something.]
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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-03-31 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
I feel as if a cultivator who has a child will probably put things on hold, retire, or not be part of a sect.

[He really wasn't sure. Of course there were stories where cultivators had children and they too were raised among the disciples, or the stories of a couple breaking off on their own. But... raising families weren't exactly part of the fantasy.]

But, I suppose if someone had a child within a section then that child would also be a child of the sect. It's not as if we are celibate so... I suppose potential children is always a possible outcome. And, there are no rules you can't get married....
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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-04-01 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Leadership of the sect will go to the sect leaders' head disciple. Alliances are... formed more with similar ideologies or debts. Most of the big sects act independently, relations are made more through trade and knowledge in what can be shared.

[Which was quite normal for cultivation stories. Sure you might have people who were once in one sect in another or other pasts where people were connected, but... it was far stranger to set up connections through blood as a primary source.]

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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-04-02 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[He was about to ask what was on the boys mind when he suddenly sputtered at the question. He quickly covered his face with his fan trying to regain composure and pretend he did not just do a spit take.

Don't ask him that! He was still young! And... well, he already had his disciples. They were already close enough to children.
]

Ah... I've never really thought about it....

I don't really know any sisters...

And....

[This topic was too terrifying!]
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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-04-03 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
If I had a child I would definitely want to take care of them.

[If! if! But he is not sure he wants a child. No, he was quite sure he did not want a child. He had enough children, he was filled up on children. Though, he supposed if he could get more once they were all grown, at a particular age first, that wouldn't be so bad. Yes. He liked being "Teacher" he did not want to be "Father".]

But, I also can't imagine myself getting married and having children.
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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-04-04 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose it depends.

[There were plenty of stories like that after all. A parent who could not settle goes off into the world to continue cultivating when the child is still young, only to be reunited later when the child is older and goes off on their adventure. Either to find their lost parent, or to follow a similar path that allows them to meet. But then, that was a popular trope in these things. Not just cultivators but also martial artists.]

It is not uncommon for fathers to talk away and leave children with their mothers... not that I agree with such things.
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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-04-05 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
[It gave him pause. Did he miss his family? It was odd. He didn't really. But, it wasn't because he did not like them. He was quite close to his family, and his sister especially. Yet... he had not really thought of them much unless in passing. Perhaps it was because he died and that was a completely different world now, or, perhaps it was the strange surreal aspect of his situation.

What he could say he missed was his sect though. But even then it was... hard to define.
]

I... do miss my home a little.
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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-04-06 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[This sounded like a complicated issue. Especially in a world where blood was considered so important. It was common for people's aptitude to be different, and it was one of the reasons why as far as he was aware sects did not focus on blood. There was no guarantee that one's children would have good aptitude, and it was rare for those of the same family to be similarly skilled or have potential. After all, if cultivation were so easy, everyone would be a cultivator!

But, that did not mean hard work could not pay off. Even this body that had good aptitude started so late that it was working at a disadvantage. But he wondered if such blind dedication could be reached when one was still young and generally well taken care of?
]

It's alright to make the same mistakes, eventually, you won't make mistakes. You might simply have to put more effort, or, practice longer. Being slower isn't such a bad thing though.
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[personal profile] softheartedshizun 2020-04-07 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
I assume if nothing can be produced at all.

[He really didn't know, he wasn't the best for advice like this. Usually one wouldn't even be in a sect if they didn't at least have a certain amount of potential.]

How old are you?

[He seemed a bit young to be ready to give up now.]

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