A Tale of Heroes (WIP) - 224k words. Updated 29/01/2025!

Seek’s kinda cute and no Forlorn but he has too many issues for my mc. Now a possible poly with both Mars and Nova on the other hand. :gay_flag:

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Since Nova has AMM, does that mean that he can watch literally anything once and copy it perfectly? Like go to a concert and just watch the perfomance once and be a one man band?
And would it work for singing? Tho ig vocal cords are not exactly muscle. I googled it and i was wrong. It is muscle. So he could theoretically.

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I mean, he can’t be a one-man band because he’s still just one dude, but presumably he could play one instrument… but just for the songs he’s seen played.

I presume he’d run into a similar problem as with superstrength punching: he hasn’t trained his vocal cords, so while he maybe (it’s not like he sees the vocal cords moving, so I’m not sure it counts) could duplicate the vocal cords’s movements, he might fuck them up while doing so, I guess?

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@JBento is half right. :slightly_smiling_face:

AMM is muscle mimicry. What Nova does is copy and near-perfect imitation (limited by his physical… well, limits). So Nova can perfectly imitate a Michael Jackson or Prince song, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to become generally as talented as they were.

If he listened to, say… a live performance of Thriller, he could copy MJ’s voice, dance moves, etc, but that wouldn’t make him capable of doing a Taylor Swift song, he’d have to listen to Taylor Swift to manage that.

Performing other people’s covers sort of give him a headache, though, kind of like trying to copy Seeker’s fighting.

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so he’s kinda like Taskmaster except not as bullshit as Taskmaster (watching a race at 2X speed giving him technically super speed) that sounds awesome

Smarts: 30%
Melee: 60%
Charm: 40%
Blaster: 35%
Gloria_Health: 87%

So, here… I’m posting this.
But, I have a question though, what is the charm stat suppose to be here? Something like charming like Ignis?

Charm is your diplomatic ability, how well you’re able to talk your way out of things or convince people.

Fists are also diplomatic

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Sometimes punching things gets the point across better than pretty words.

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I mean… all of the typical shonen manga MCs are always fucking stupid and would rather fight… which is something we can do in this lmao

My MC is a part of that group too.

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So true and we can develop the typical battle maniac attitude to go with it. This is showed a few times such as after our first real fight and the Mc habits watching over the city

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Thank God Ichigo ain’t like them.

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I think Ichigo’s best moment was when he called out all captains for being stupid as fuck falling for Aizen’s illusion which I’m also hoping that the MC will get to do with Seeker and Ignis if they get distracted by each other in a fight like in Japan.

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Me watching Ignis and Seeker have a moment while the city’s getting nuked

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No wonder why Forlorn was so fucking done with them at the end lol

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We haven’t really delved deep into it yet, but for a man like Forlorn, who’s been killing people, eating MREs, and literally learning to sleep with both eyes open because you never know when the fucking trees are going to start speaking since he was 12 years old, Ignis and Seeker really get on his fucking nerves.

… Seeing how Victoria literally starts dancing while fighting, she’s not gonna be much better for his mood either.

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Hey, some of them are better than most food that someone could cook. Try the chili MRE with a blueberry pie as dessert… oooooh weeee.

I got a feeling that I’m gonna hate her too just for that :joy:

Oooh, Eilistraee vibes (but, I expect, far more violent). Congratulations, you finally got me interested in meeting Victoria and seeing her in action.

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Hello! Sorry for the bump, but I posted some things over on the Tumblr blog and thought it’d be wise to share here as well.

First, here are two snippets of the next update (which is coming soon):

Chapter 6:

It’s been a bit under a month since the battle in Japan — or the ‘Raid on Naha’, as the news, both local and international, have insisted upon dubbing it — happened. Back during the debacle in Washington, you thought you’d seen just how much a topic could be used for content, how many times it could be brought up again and again in a single conversation, a single time slot. After all, Stratton was the President, and he was in serious danger. Obviously, everyone gave it all the attention they could, didn’t they?

They did not. Now, when it was all the leaders of the free world in danger all at once, when they had actual bullets whizzing past their heads, when one of them spent more than a week in a coma because of his wounds? Now they gave it all the attention they could. Some shows were canceled, entertainment segments were delayed in favor of commentary from political and economics experts, and… and there is an undercurrent of fear to it all. People were anxious after what happened with Stratton.

But now? Now they’re scared.

And they are furious. Both with Crete, who once again refused the world’s demands to open its doors and tomb to international observers…

And with the League.

And a small addition to Chapter 4, which isn’t too big in a vacuum but is a neat piece of characterization for Ignis, and hints at one of the many problems of the Coltello family:

*if (ignis_rom >= 2) #“Do you mind if I ask why you don’t like those sort of comments?”

“About my body?” she asks, her eyes drawing away from you to stare at the ceiling.

“Yeah.”

*set wrong_question + 1


Finally, because I know que no sólo de pan vive el hombre, I have two art teasers for you all.

You remember I showed you the Icon Art that I commissioned Erineas for a while back, right? Well, besides that one, I also commissioned one of the Blitz Queen and the Broken King. But don’t take my word for it! Here’s a small bit of it:

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And as if that wasn’t enough…

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Ignis is shocked. Shocked, I say! Can you guess why? What has brought the heir of the Coltello Empire to astonished silence?

If you cannot, just wait a bit! The full piece will be revealed in Chapter 8: The Princess’s Birthday!

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So is chapter 6 going to play differently depending on how well we protect Gloria? That will just give the press more ammunition against the league depending on damage.