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[Worm x Fate] Journeywoman & Apprentice

Discussion in 'Creative Writing' started by fallacies, Apr 7, 2021.

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  1. Extras: Use of Reinforcement in FSN
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    Use of Reinforcement in FSN:

    This is a non-exhaustive but mostly comprehensive survey of the descriptions of Reinforcement in FSN. Items excluded primarily fall in the category one-line mentions that don't really go into detail, or repeats of the same information.
    • Reinforcement is rendered by way of permeating (通す, tohsu) a target with mana.
    • As of FATE - Day 01, Shirou believes that rendering mana permeation without proper structural grasp would only hasten the target's annihilation. Ergo, he seeks only to permeate "the unoccupied interstices" (空いている透き間, suiteiru sukima) of the object.
    • Objects originally borne of Form (カタチ, katachi) are difficult to Reinforce.
    • Relatedly, Shirou compares Reinforcement to the act of adding brushstrokes to a completed artwork, giving that doing so runs the risk of reducing the completeness of the object being processed. He gives that this is the reason that Reinforcement is difficult despite being straightforward — maybe linking it to its lack of popularity amongst magi.
    • According to Rin, capacity to stockpile mana in objects aside from one's own body is uncommon.
    • Objects permeated with mana undergo some manner of change — rendering the consumption of the mana used. This is part of the reason thaumaturgical phenomena are short-lived, and don't persist in perpetuity.
    On FATE - Day 07, Rin approaches the task of training Shirou in Reinforcement with a presumption that he should be able to master it by the end of the day.
    Shirou ends up breaking all 30 of the lamps that Rin prepared. At this, Rin gives that her presumption was overly naive.
    • Reinforcement applies to an object's effects / capabilities.
    • Alteration entails affixing capabilities without an object's native features.
    Shirou refers to Reinforcement as "the easiest of all" magecraft.
    • In Shirou's opinion, his incapacity to perform Reinforcement comes of an inability to properly control his mana.
    • This came as a response to an assessment by Rin that he was being overly forceful; that he was using too much mana; that he wasn't strictly acting to Reinforce the target's weaknesses.
    • Shirou takes Rin's critique to imply that he should be cutting corners.
    In the loredump that replaces the FATE - Day 11 sex scene in Realta Nua, it's revealed that in Shirou's opinion, his use of Reinforcement comes with Circuit activation to the level of "one through four." The phrasing makes it sound like he's numbered his commonly-used Circuits in his head or something ...
    As of FATE - Day 15, Shirou is actually still incapable of determining whether or not he's successfully Reinforced an object after doing so.




    Moving on, from Nasu's official tweets during the launch of UBW (2014):

    [URL unfurl="true"]https://twitter.com/Fate_SN_Anime/status/518437346291634176[/URL]

    [URL unfurl="true"]https://twitter.com/Fate_SN_Anime/status/520971314492764161[/URL]

    • Ergo, per WoG, Reinforcement of the body and the 5 senses is "a fundamental amongst fundamentals."
    • Temporary Reinforcement of the flesh is rendered by permeating one's own body with mana; by infusing one's own blood with mana. Nasu gives that this is a simple feat.
    • On account that it's difficult to permeate non-self objects / implements with mana, the Reinforcement of such is typically rendered by way of encompassing the exterior with "a single layer of armor." Nasu gives that this is cheap, quick, and strong.




    The glossary entry on Reinforcement from Side Material:
    And from CM3:
    Unfortunately, the Theory of Magic Google Doc doesn't allow me to copypaste.




    On an unrelated note, the glossary entry on Thaumaturgical Foundations in Case File Material:
    • Faith and the unconscious of the people reinforces the strength of a Mystery.
    • However, propagation (広まる, hiromaru) weakens the strength of a Mystery.
    • Thaumaturgical Foundations are Thaumaturgical Principles / Theories (魔術理論, majutsu riron) engraved upon the World, and render the paradoxical effect of stabilizing Mysteries to the extent of their prevalence / popularity (知名度, chimeido, lit. "degree of being well-known"). Note that Case Files Material also states that the qualification of the Cause Rank is "the establishment and stabilization of a Foundation."
    • The TMDict translation doesn't really properly render the bit about "families." The nuance is actually that (all?) magecraft (strictly?) passed down as of a single family would be unreliant upon Foundations, and are instead established upon personal / personalized spell protocols / formulas. That is, this may be a common occurrence without the purview of the Association.
     
  2. Extras: Locations & Cartography
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    The map of Brockton Bay for use in this fic:

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    Portsmouth, Newington, and Stratham don't exist.
    Hampton, Exeter, Newmarket, and several other townships in Rockingham County, NH are incorporated as parts of Brockton Bay.
    In particular, Exeter approximately becomes the Downtown, whereas Hampton and North Hampton are the Downtown Coast.
    The township of Newmarket roughly occupies the location of Brockton Bay's Lord Street Market.
    Dame Forest occupies the location of the Boat Graveyard.
    The southwest state line of Maine is opposite the Bay, northeast of the PHQ.

    Note that the University of New Hampshire occupies the west of the township of Durham, to the north of the map. In this fic, the UNH is replaced by the University of Brockton Bay — or Brockton U for short. To get there from the Hebert residence, Annette would've had to drive northwest past the Trainyard, and cross eastward over the train route north of the city.

    This map was created mostly by eyeballing the New Hampshire coastline, and doesn't necessarily represent a "realistic" depiction of Brockton Bay as it would exist per the canon, in terms of scale.

    In terms of original landmarks, New Hampshire Route 101 occupies the approximate position of Canal Street within the limits of Brockton Bay.

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    Note that the above route begins at North Hampton, and not from Taylor's house.
    The home of the Whateleys occupies the center of the empty field at 59 Andover Street — at the end of Andover Drive, in Peabody, MA. A close-up of the location is depicted below:

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    It's a couple of minutes away from Northshore Mall, which would presumably be visited on a regular basis by Lavinia and her son.
    The specific location of the house is based on the placement of the Whateley Residence in Subspecies Singularity Salem. It's marked in red on the map below:

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    The waterway to the north is the Waters River, and to the northwest, there's a slight bend in the shoreline. This very approximately matches up to the rough position of 59 Andover Street per the general lay of the land in satellite images:

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    Meanwhile, Taylor's neighborhood also occupies a largely empty area of the countryside:

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    According to Google Maps, Taylor's house is approximately 10.9 miles / 17.5 km from the northeast corner of the Boat Graveyard, and 5.9 miles / 9.5 km from Lord Street Market.

    In this fic, it's presumed that south of the state line into Massachusetts, the geography and the names of locations are substituted for those in Lovecraft Country:

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    As a point of interest, the location of Dunwich, MA in Lovecraft Country — the home of the Whateleys in The Dunwich Horror — is situated as relative to a town called Aylesbury. Clearly, this has nothing to do with the Aylesbury of Nasu fame.
     
  3. Extras: The Abenaki People
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    The Abenaki — "the People of the Land of Dawn" — are a Native American people who originally inhabited parts of New England and eastern Canada. In their mythology, the creator of the world is referred to as Tabaldak — "the Owner" — an androgynous figure attributed with the creation of everything in the world except the giant Odziozo.

    Taylor is incorrectly remembering Tabaldak as a "hermaphroditic" figure; and Rin classifies them as an Earth Mother Goddess mostly on account of the anthropological interpretations of the Clock Tower.

    As an aside, in the area of southeastern New Hampshire that Brockton Bay would occupy, the local Abenaki would belong of the Squamscott tribe — "of the Place of the Salmons."

    As a secondary aside — entirely irrelevant to this story — the name "Japan" is etymologically descended from Dutch or Portuguese corruptions of the Sinitic 日本 ("nippon" in modern Japanese; "rìběn" in modern Mandarin) — meaning "(the place of) the Sun's origination."

    Owing to the popularity of Japanese or East Asian lacquerware amongst European Orientalists, the word japan came to refer both to black enamel varnish and the process of applying such to wood. In the 17th century, Aphra Behn — sometimes hailed as the first professional female writer — in her novel, Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave — one of the first novels in the English language — described the titular African prince as having skin "the color of japan."
     
  4. Extras: Timeline of Earth Bet relevant as of 011
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    1680

    July 12
    - birth of Abigail Williams

    November 14
    - discovery of Newton's Comet

    1692

    February 9
    - inception of the Salem Witch Trials

    1807

    - in New Hampshire, the industrialist Samuel Blodgett begins the construction of a series of canals that extend seawards from the Merrimack River to Lord's Port

    1838

    - Manchester, NH is founded as a company town by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company

    1842

    January 1
    - Boston & Maine Railroad established a line between Manchester and Lord's Port​

    1846

    October 1
    - Manchester, NH is incorporated as a city​

    1850

    July 1
    - Lord's Port, NH is renamed as Brockton Bay, and incorporated as a city​

    1878

    July 29
    - total solar eclipsein North America​
    - Birth of Lavinia Whateley

    1913

    February 2
    - Birth of Wilbur Whateley

    1982

    May 20
    - Scion is first sighted above the Atlantic Ocean​

    1983

    - the Chinese Union-Imperial is formed, resulting in the 1st Asian Diaspora​

    1984

    - the first superheroes emerge​
    - Amoskeag Manufacturing Company is acquired by a Japanese company, and closes sites in New Hampshire​
    - Stevedores Union riot in Brockton Bay, New Hampshire​
    - in an effort to preempt the imminent downturn of the economy, the State Legislature of New Hampshire passes Sanctuary Laws -- bringing in a flow of Asian immigrants​

    1987

    - superheroes unveil themselves to the public​
    - Slaughterhouse Nine is founded; the founder, King, is killed later in the year, and Jack Slash becomes his successor​

    February 3
    - Rin Zenjou is born to Aoi Zenjou​

    1988

    - the Empire Eighty-Eight forms​

    May 1
    - Alexandria, Legend, Eidolon, and Hero become the founding members of the initial Protectorate​

    1992

    - Japanese asset price bubble collapses, resulting in the inception of the Lost Decade​

    December 13
    - Behemoth appears in Marun Field, Iran​

    1993

    January18
    - the PRT is founded​

    1995

    June 18
    - Taylor Anne Hebert is born​

    1996

    June 9
    - Leviathan appears in Oslo, Norway​

    1997

    - the oil platform Seraphics, originally situated near Newfoundland, Canada, is sold into the ownership of the PRT, and relocated off the coast of Brockton Bay, New Hampshire​

    1998

    - NEPEA-5 is signed into law, vastly curtailing parahuman involvement in business​

    1999

    - Scion dons white body suit​

    November 2
    - Leviathan destroys Kyushu, Japan​

    2000

    - Lung relocates from Japan to Anhui Province, China, and is subsequently captured by the Yangban​
    - in Brockton Bay, Fleur is killed​

    September 15
    - Hero is killed in an engagement between the Protectorate and the Slaughterhouse Nine​
    - Alexandria engages and is injured by the Siberian​
    - the surviving members of the original Protectorate are redesignated as the Triumvirate​

    2001

    February 2
    - Nilbog appears in Ellisburg, NY, prompting the establishment of a quarantine by the PRT​

    2002

    - Lung escapes from the Yangban​

    December 31
    - Simurgh appears in Lausanne, Switzerland​

    2003

    - Lung arrives in Brockton Bay, and greatly expands the former street gang known as the Azn Bad Boys​

    August 12
    - Simurgh attacks London, England​

    2005

    May 9
    - Leviathan destroys Newfoundland, Canada​

    2008

    - Sophia Hess triggers​

    August
    - Annette Hebert dies​

    2009

    June 28
    - Taylor Hebert goes to summer camp​

    August
    - Emma Barnes is attacked by the Azn Bad Boys​

    September
    - Emma and Sophia begin to bully Taylor​

    December
    - Simurgh attacks Madison, WI​

    2010

    December
    - Dinah Alcott triggers​

    2011

    January 3
    - Taylor Hebert triggers​
    - Rin Zenjou begins renovations on 24 Arbor St., Brockton Bay​

    January 29
    - Taylor returns home from the hospital​

    February 4
    - Chapter 011​
     
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