[ SECRET POST #5940 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5940 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Armello]



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[Ghost of Tsushima]



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Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

Okay, so I've never read these books, but is a character's sexuality specifically aligned with a kind of magic? Or it just so happens? And does sexuality play a major role in these books, or not?

Not asking in bad faith, it's just from what you describe, it makes for an interesting and badass character. It kind of makes me want to read one. That one specifically.

[(Anonymous)]

There's nothing at all about them being connected in the books pictured as I recall. When I saw this secret in the "Secrets you don't want to make" thread, I wondered if there was a new book out.

Calling Clariel canonically ace is a stretch too since it's not told to the reader other than her simply lacking a love interest and saying one short line near the end that she doesn't want one. I don't think that would mean anything enlightening to people who don't know what asexuality is already.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here. (Sorry to comment so late.)

So there's Free Magic, which isn't... necessarily... evil but it tends to destroy and corrode things, and there's Charter Magic which has a lot of complicated signs and rules, and in general, the people who are in favour of civilisation use Charter Magic, and the people who are in for power and just messing stuff up go for Free Magic. But it's also not that simple, because a lot of the high-level *really morally good* people use Free Magic when it's necessary, albeit with a lot of safeguards and caution.

At some point in the prequel book about Clariel's youth (she's introduced as a villain), someone tells her that her desire to just... hang out in the woods, and not engage in romance, and not go for sexuality - to be solitary - is something that gives her an affinity with Free Magic.

And it's not really as simple as my Secret makes it sound, because a running theme of that particular book is people not fitting into their appointed role in life and how they deal with it - some well, some badly, some with extraordinary grace.

So telling someone their sexuality aligns them to The Bad Magic isn't the doom I maybe made it sound.

But it still made me wince when I read it.

(But the throne on dragon-back was still a fine moment.)

[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit! This series was my jam when I was a kid (Lirael was my favorite book), but I honestly didn’t know Clariel existed and Google tells me there are even more books. I’m so freaking excited to read the other ones! But I am a little wary of Clariel given this secret.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here. My secret was maybe a little reductive (see my answer above). It's still a fine book. Just that one moment that made me go nggh.