A Breath Of Relief No Different From Drowning / Discussion

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SoullessSingularity 07 Mar 2016 05:13

Right, so this is a tale about Sherry's original mentor and ex-MTF member, Hans.

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Living the dream, or dreaming the life?

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(account deleted) 07 Mar 2016 05:27

I am dry-aging this upvote for about two weeks.

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Crayne 07 Mar 2016 10:56

Same here. :)

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Agent MacLeod 07 Mar 2016 11:25

I literally came to this discussion just to see what the context of this subthread title is. I have found zero context for this subthread title. Should I just, like, read the story?

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Crayne 07 Mar 2016 11:37

You should.

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SoullessSingularity 07 Mar 2016 12:27

In a world where your dream self reflects who truly are, what do you do when your dream self is everything you thought you were not?

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Agent MacLeod 11 Mar 2016 02:33

Ok, I've read the story and the post title makes more sense now… But I'm unsure how to feel about this. I'm still, like, almost entirely unsure on this whole Oneroi thing, despite their popularity. Too many of the stories operate on dream logic for me to have any real idea what, exactly, is going on.

I understood this story, but still, it kinda melts my brain a little bit.

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SoullessSingularity 12 Mar 2016 02:57

Dreams and dream-logic is exceptionally fun to write but very difficult to make into a workable concept people will enjoy and understand when reading. I think there are a million interpretations of Oneiroi and they can all be simultaneously correct due to the fluidity of the concept of dreams and dreamlogic. Of course, this can turn people off who are here for a put-together story and not need to project interpretations onto a piece.

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faminepulse 06 Oct 2019 04:05

Soulless got the intention of this series perfectly. Xiupania is about identity

psul 07 Mar 2016 16:07

This was fantastic, and provided a thought-provoking end to the story - a different direction to what Xiupania initially suggested, but excellent nonetheless.

My only query about the arc is that I still don't understand when in proceedings Deathbell got captured, when he got away, and how.

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SoullessSingularity 07 Mar 2016 16:50

Think of articles as a different mirrors of a long-standing situation. In this case the big wars in #Xiupania and the "death" of Mako-chan I've put in happens after the full iteration of Qi Shao ripping off Deathbell's dick and "killing" him in Oneirochemy and listed in Black Lotus. Oneirochemy also has flashbacks to before Xiupania's creation and probably nearish to the time of Oneirophrenia, which can be seen as a time much before. Oneirocritic and SCP-2603 can occur at any part of the timeline after Sherry and Urooj get hired and before Urooj dies- in my headcanon, Sherry/Sci-Fi Apple Pie eventually becomes the straight, stable entity to hold the team together.

This is just my headcanon. Crayne and Famine might have different headcanons. And of course, everyone is allowed to make their own.

EDIT: I've changed it so that Urooj isn't here. Probably dead in my headcanon, as the executed west official that us reported in Xiupania.

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sirpudding 08 Mar 2016 00:46

This story has the clearest character development in the series and it is always nice to see a character like Sherry step up to leadership out of a mentor's powerful shadow.

Thekillerax 11 Mar 2016 02:16

You have a penchant for breathtaking imagery, Soulless. You captured the dream feeling very well, and the character development was very nice. I love the idea of not being who you think you are, and overall this was a fun read. +1.

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And if the whole world is crashing down… fall through space out of mind with me.

Hercules Rockefeller 13 Mar 2016 14:34

After the last few tales, I'm glad to see the story return to something more in line with what #Xiupania promised; that said, I wish the series had progressed past the events of #Xiupania, instead of providing a series of flashback stories (which at least is how I understood the timeline). As it is, the series opens with this incredible bang, but then goes back in time and spends the rest of its length working its way back up to the starting point, only to abruptly end when it finally does. I get that the series will probably go on post-contest, but in the meantime it's a bit of a let-down.

Mind you, this is more a problem I have with the series as a whole than this particular tale. I found the writing here, and especially the imagery, to be quite powerful. This was one of the better parts of the series for me, along with #Xiupania and SCP-2603.

(account deleted) 13 Mar 2016 20:33

I thought I was an awesome marine. A real jarhead. The real manly man, clean and shoot to kill in the blink of an eye. Used to keep trophies of hunts, mounted and stuffed…

This was the only part I didn't like, initially, but then I realized an anime character might say something like this.

Agent MacLeod 13 Mar 2016 20:46

I hadn't thought of it that way. Now I'm gonna have to stew on this a little more.

Dr Reach 15 Mar 2016 12:21

This is a desperate effort to explain my feelings on this: I can't understand the specifics, but enjoyed the gestalt of the history. It is beautiful and sour and acid and sweet.

It is also making my head hurt some fifty minutes before I start a seventeen hours shift in the ER, which I don't appreciate… But yeah. Yeah, good. Soulless' style and talent all throughout.

As for the series, same thing apply to the rest; albeit I need to let it all ferment. It's confusing and powerful, so globally upvoted.

Taffeta 11 Dec 2016 11:17

Oh.

Soulless you're making me tear up at 10:16 at night what is this stop please

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