The incident in 1200, with the Viscorpi, is more an encounter with mutated livestock/disease. They're categorized as a Denizen of Abundance because they were created by the Borisin using Abundance magic. But I wouldn't call that a war when the opponent is barely sentient. Plague, maybe.
The "Flaming Catastrophe" incident was the same one where Lan ascended as The Hunt and became the guiding principle of the Xianzhou Alliance, IIRC. Their philosophy after that point was that the (bad races of the) Abundance needs to be culled and that it was the Xianzhou's duty to do so.
> The breaking free aspect is far more important to Dan Heng's character than the specifics of the past that's holding him down.
Sure, but breaking free from something still indicates that there was something to break free *from*, or else the breaking free part wouldn't be meaningful, wouldn't it?
A character should be the sum of their backstory plus current actions. A character with a completely different backstory would end up with a different interpretation.
Like, if we look at a lot of the Impact 3rd expies in HSR. They generally have similar personalities, the same looks, and sometimes even similar relationships. But their different backstories is what makes these characters distinct from one another as their own character.
> By that logic, everything we write currently potentially becomes OOC because the story isn't finished yet and later canon will completely redefine characters if more backstory twist is revealed.
It's pretty common for ongoing stories to have plot points or characterization that get overturned by later canon. Like, I'm sure people who wrote HP fics featuring Sirius heavily before book 5 came out never thought Sirius would get offed so quickly. Afterwards, the story has become an AU, but that has nothing to do with the story's quality or enjoyment (or lack thereof), as long as one keeps in mind when it was written.
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Date: 2024-09-21 05:47 am (UTC)The "Flaming Catastrophe" incident was the same one where Lan ascended as The Hunt and became the guiding principle of the Xianzhou Alliance, IIRC. Their philosophy after that point was that the (bad races of the) Abundance needs to be culled and that it was the Xianzhou's duty to do so.
> The breaking free aspect is far more important to Dan Heng's character than the specifics of the past that's holding him down.
Sure, but breaking free from something still indicates that there was something to break free *from*, or else the breaking free part wouldn't be meaningful, wouldn't it?
A character should be the sum of their backstory plus current actions. A character with a completely different backstory would end up with a different interpretation.
Like, if we look at a lot of the Impact 3rd expies in HSR. They generally have similar personalities, the same looks, and sometimes even similar relationships. But their different backstories is what makes these characters distinct from one another as their own character.
> By that logic, everything we write currently potentially becomes OOC because the story isn't finished yet and later canon will completely redefine characters if more backstory twist is revealed.
It's pretty common for ongoing stories to have plot points or characterization that get overturned by later canon. Like, I'm sure people who wrote HP fics featuring Sirius heavily before book 5 came out never thought Sirius would get offed so quickly. Afterwards, the story has become an AU, but that has nothing to do with the story's quality or enjoyment (or lack thereof), as long as one keeps in mind when it was written.