Not sure if it’s already stated or assumed, but my going theory is that the shadows represent Sunny’s character or main characteristic up till their creation, where the process then restarted.
Then, in perfect sync, they slowly shook their heads.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
Sunny is a defiant little soul already, having defied literally everything under the sun. The only thing that I can imagine Sunny not defying is…I don’t know. Being such an overachiever, being the aspect of death, I think that Eurys is onto something with that not killing thing. Perhaps defying killing something that must be killed will ascend him.
He has died before and lived, but never through his own will explicitly. Either it was through the enchantments of his equipment or through supreme circumstance, such as the river of time and alatheia’s island time loop. I think in the final fight with the sovereigns, Sunny will defy everything. His core character (the selfishness and self preservation above all else), his beliefs, his circumstance whether of his own machinations or not (freeing himself from Nephis/Fate) and true death. I think he’ll die in the final confrontation, either sacrificing himself for Nephis and becoming supreme either then and there or a time after, returning after all else thought him dead.
"How should I know?"
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
How bro must have felt:
"How should I know?"
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
Epic gamer moment. Now Sunny can switch bodies and rest up while the fresh, newly spawned 7th boi can do the heavy lifting.
What a call back. The Stifled Scream.
No sooner than Sunny realized that, his battered body crashed violently into something hard. He bounced off the tough surface with a stifled scream, then fell again and rolled down the slope of a tall dune, throwing a cloud of dust into the air.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
I was thinking the same thing.
More than that, their Rank was… strange. It was neither Supreme nor Transcendent, but rather something in between. As if the soul of a Supreme being had been damaged and weathered, losing much of its past luster.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
An Arrogant Shadow indeed. Which one’s which? Up to you.
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original Imaginative Earthmage
"Why is the world so unfair Mommy?" "Because we were born as earth mages, son" The first earth mage betrayed humanity, and as punishment, their power was cursed. But that was not the end of it. The curse was so powerful, it affected generations of earth mages for thousands of years to come...until Matthew Herzia was born.32 Chs 14 Collections
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Dead work
All his life, Shane Fletcher has been confined to the walls of his tiny village. All his life, he has wondered if there was more? When an unruly bunch of kids get put under the tutelage of an ex war criminal, what's the worst that could happen? All out war? A revolution against the terrible, vile Arxians? Or maybe freedom, freedom from the iron clutches of endless war.14 Chs 1 Collections
Sunny casually outing himself as somebody who knows a little to much for a supposed stranger, or at least newcomer.
"I guess? Is it stranger than fighting a war on the rib cage of a continent-sized skeleton, though? Or sailing through time inside a pyramid that remains far away no matter how long you travel in its direction? Let's be honest… our lives are not and have never been quite normal."
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree