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tales from the nameless 2, witch and knight (reupload)
These two were meant to be longstanding OC antagonists for a story idea I had that would involve various dungeons and other things that would take place alongside MSQ...
In which two characters are re-introduced to the world.
Everything in the world can be reduced to almost basic formulaic principles based upon metaphor. Yes, even that sentence can be reduced.
Everything in this world can be simplified making references. A world spiraling adventure actually consists of smaller tasks that turn into that adventure. A knight could go on a great quest only for said quest to actually be reduced to a task for a man at hand who only sees you as disposable; and the great item at the end turns out to be a great lie spurned on by a child. How embarrassing!
The knight defeats the witch or warlock, the knight slays the dragon for the king, the knight saves the daughter, all in lavish and flowery prose. Most of those are based on false equivalences wrapped within something that can be akin to an…. Metaphor? Or simile? Comparison.
Shite romance novel sold for cheap coin.
Of course, the story in mind takes most of these metaphors, throws them off a rhetorical cliff where one is usually left to die after broken promises, spruces them up with ubiquitous lavishness and expects the same amount of cheap coin.
In this story, there is a witch, and a knight. Taking away all extra details this is where the story begins. After it ends, since witch did dig up knight which ruins the metaphor since that practice would actually make witch a necromancer which are not equivalent in the metaphorical sense but to go fully in detail would be to lose said metaphor and be akin to a dog chasing its own tail. Or the knight chasing after empty promises of salvation. The witch found said knight and since knights live to serve their masters as loyalty begets, the story ends like a warped fairytale. The knight says nothing to this all. The witch is satisfied with this blatant blasphemy against life, but not before becoming bored again, as most mad arcane wizards do. Their tales of spreading chaos will have to come another day.
author’s notes:
This one focuses on knight, who was originally a canon character who broke so loose from his original premise that he became his own character, while witch here is more of a background event. Follow up chapter probably never since I’d have to come up with more dialogue that matches up to the whole metaphor bit. Prompt came about from the meme about everything being reducible to the act of chemicals. The one with Mickey and Donald Duck.
*Cyborg Techno robot with a sword still loosely defines as knight, as does necromancer techno witch.
In which two characters are re-introduced to the world.
Everything in the world can be reduced to almost basic formulaic principles based upon metaphor. Yes, even that sentence can be reduced.
Everything in this world can be simplified making references. A world spiraling adventure actually consists of smaller tasks that turn into that adventure. A knight could go on a great quest only for said quest to actually be reduced to a task for a man at hand who only sees you as disposable; and the great item at the end turns out to be a great lie spurned on by a child. How embarrassing!
The knight defeats the witch or warlock, the knight slays the dragon for the king, the knight saves the daughter, all in lavish and flowery prose. Most of those are based on false equivalences wrapped within something that can be akin to an…. Metaphor? Or simile? Comparison.
Shite romance novel sold for cheap coin.
Of course, the story in mind takes most of these metaphors, throws them off a rhetorical cliff where one is usually left to die after broken promises, spruces them up with ubiquitous lavishness and expects the same amount of cheap coin.
In this story, there is a witch, and a knight. Taking away all extra details this is where the story begins. After it ends, since witch did dig up knight which ruins the metaphor since that practice would actually make witch a necromancer which are not equivalent in the metaphorical sense but to go fully in detail would be to lose said metaphor and be akin to a dog chasing its own tail. Or the knight chasing after empty promises of salvation. The witch found said knight and since knights live to serve their masters as loyalty begets, the story ends like a warped fairytale. The knight says nothing to this all. The witch is satisfied with this blatant blasphemy against life, but not before becoming bored again, as most mad arcane wizards do. Their tales of spreading chaos will have to come another day.
author’s notes:
This one focuses on knight, who was originally a canon character who broke so loose from his original premise that he became his own character, while witch here is more of a background event. Follow up chapter probably never since I’d have to come up with more dialogue that matches up to the whole metaphor bit. Prompt came about from the meme about everything being reducible to the act of chemicals. The one with Mickey and Donald Duck.
*Cyborg Techno robot with a sword still loosely defines as knight, as does necromancer techno witch.