#the divine paradox

[stormbreaker101]

Nothing, Something, Everything

Figured I'd finally figure out how the hell to draw Nora, Kiyom (the Nothing in my AU, it never got a chance to eat the Old One and become Dasein so it's an entirely new character now), and the Divine Paradox.

please don't ask me to draw the Paradox ever again. girl why are you so ARMOR.

[astral-schools]

wolf, wolf, run free

[front-facing-pokemon]

[pillowzilla]

Did it ever matter?

[silversiren1101]

Falling from Favor...

To know highest heights and lowest lows, always falling towards an Inevitable Paradox

[Comm from Mai Pham/thanhuki!!]

[zorphie]

ok but what if divine paradox except every yw has specialized little traits that make them each a little different idk....

[kurithedweeb]

Today we're talking about Irene! Well, her powers. Well, Anastasia's powers. Well, how weird I found Irene's powers set considering what we knew about the magick system and how I tore it into little pieces to play around with as my little heart desires.

I propose that Irene not have healing or purification or revival or dimension-making powers at all. I propose that she have a single power and that it involves time dilation.

Her immortality isn't immortality at all: her magick has simply slowed her body's aging down to such a crawl that it looks like immortality. When she heals someone, she's speeding up the healing process so much that it's like watching a timelapse, or if she's reviving someone she's turning time back to when the body was alive. When she heals farmland, she's either returning it to its previously healthy state or speeding up the soil until the nutrients have replenished. When she's supposedly making another dimension, what she's doing is speeding through an area's history for the opening of a naturally occurring divide, because come on there's gotta be some, and then just hopping through to an already existing place.

What are the side effects of this? Aside from the pretty shiny light effect.

As Irene she didn't have to eat or drink nearly as much, or sleep, but she slept regularly because her mind still got exhausted even if her body usually didn't. People she heals have shortened lifespans, the time they would have naturally taken to heal is chopped off their lifespan and for some reason they always get real hungry and thirsty after a healing. Some of them lose weight like they've been starving for months. Those brought back from the dead either remain in a death-like state when they're revived like their soul isn't there, fall into comas and vegetative states, or come back insane from whatever they saw on the other side. Farmland will quickly go back to being barren if farmers don't change their rotation often enough or fix the underlying cause. Sometimes the dimensional divides rupture and void spills into her home dimension, which she then has to rewind back into the space between dimensions or launch into hyperspeed so hard it crystalizes, and this also explains how the situation in VOID Paradox got started and the black and purple void-like stuff Zane covers Phoenix Drop with.

The Irene Dimension was already an existing realm adjacent to the MCD Overworld realm. It was an empty anti-void. Irene took up residence there and used the space to experiment more with her magick, which resulted in the time dilation issue between the Overworld and the Irene Dimension, which then accounts for her disappearance when the Divine Warriors regrouped after Shad.

OH!! It also accounts for why praying to Irene(?? that's what the wiki said) reverted Alexis back to a baby over time!! Irene/Anastasia accidentally dosing Alexis with a bit of her time magick when she visited her because it was reacting to her hope that Alexis could be returned to her natural self!! This probably didn't make her human again, but her Shadow Knight form gradually coaxing her back to the adult form she took would give the illusion of her growing up and she'd learn to handle the Calling the way she would any other violent urges (since that's all anyone thinks they are) as she grew and since she never goes to the Nether or gets influenced by Shad in person she'd probably end up the most stable Shadow Knight ever. Man, learning she's immortal for seemingly no reason by not aging while the rest of her friends start getting old would be trippy for her. Triggering her Shadow Knight form on complete accident when her body's old enough to handle the change would be traumatizing for the whole family.

Anyway, time magick!

[doodlejoltik]

my favourite writing device is having an un-Rei-liable narrator

[quick-attack]

"well... i suppose you're right, the kecleon brothers surely won't be too upset if we just take ONE apple.. we ARE on a mission from arceus, after all!"

[philosophybits]

The image of human personality is not only a human image, it is also the image of God. In that fact lie hidden all the enigmas and mysteries of man. It is the mystery of divine-humanity, which is the paradox that cannot be expressed in rational terms.

Nikolai Berdyaev, Slavery and Freedom

[random-xpressions]

How I glorify the divine and in the next millisecond dance with my own demons still leaves me surprised. Poor human that's trying hard to strike a peace deal between heaven & hell...

Random Xpressions

[telekinetic-electronica]

ANYWAY

I think Dasein and the wizard are such great foils to each other, it's nuts. During Wallaru, I think Dasein mirrors a lot of what the wizard feels. All the wizard has done is help and help other people, but in the end, they get painted as a bad guy, and for things that aren't their fault. Or were doing the actual right thing. Everyone rejects them, and first saw them as this glorious thing that has graced the Spiral, but their view of them has now shifted into a danger of the Spiral.

Dasein and wizard the only ones that truly get in each other. Dasein used to be Nothing, and he can't go back to that now. The wizard is from Earth, and they can't go back to it now. The fact that Veg says that they knew better, but Dasein didn't can also be applied to the wizard.

They are literally young enough to be called "kid" or just "young" still expected to save everyone, and everyone is frothing at the mouth for when they couldn't help or slip up. They didn't know any better. While there will be trial, their past doesn't define them. And they can still move forward.

[astral-schools]

il paradosso divine; the crossroads of light and shadow

[griffinthorn]

renamed the playlist and added some more music

ignore the amount of tally hall, it’s not my fault they are wizard coded

[what-the-stark]

👀 (I slipped)

send 👀 for a dirty thought and/or fantasy my muse has had about yours.

So are you asking if I ever exercise my impressive imagination in your general direction, or if said imaginary scenarios are a little more targeted? Since you haven't bothered to visit in person, it would serve you right if I didn't let you in on any of my scandalous secrets, whether they feature you or not.

But...I'm feeling generous. And shameless, so I guess I'll share with the group.

You pop up in here often enough that I've come to associate this place — my workshop — with you. Which is a bullshit psychological motivator for something that I already wanted in the first place, but that's how the mind works. I feel safe here, and though it kind of pisses me off, since you're not actually here anyway, by default you feel safe, too. Unwise, I know. Believe me, I am aware. But it's where we're at.

And you're not skipping right to the racy section of this novel, you haven't earned it. So, PG it is. But I will admit to entertaining a few fantasies involving you, a worktable, part or all of a suit and probably a lockdown to avoid spectators. I'm an exhibitionist, sure, but I can't see how I would feel inclined to ever share you.

[shining-scion]

*shaking and biting my tablet pen so I don’t cry* I love it when characters recover. It’s such a wonderful process that I’m normal about.