Side quest time~! You stare at an orb on a pedestal, ponder it for a moment. It can take away any part of yourself you don't like, but you'd have to fight a shade of yourself for it to work.
What aspect would you excise, what form would it take, and how would you fight it?
I would excise the part of me that always says, "oh, just do it later." I think my life would be a lot better if I actually were able to do things before I need to instead of at the last minute.
I don't know what form it would take, but probably something that looks hastily put together (because it didn't prepare in advance)
I'd fight it by simply being prepared for the fight, because I know that it won't be.
My anxiety/depression so that I can be functional again. I think I'd use every trick in the book to fight it, even if it was fighting dirty, 'cause it would be worth getting rid of this burden.
Id dropkick myself as a microwave any day
I'd take and fight the side that is so scared of being judged or left alone by others. Once I'm lacking it and knowing what it is it wouldn't be hard to defeat it, I'd have to look into its eyes judgementally then proceed to ignore it when it asks why I'm leaving it behind and it would collapse already
The part of me that keeps me in a depressed, unmotivated state and prevents me from recovering, in bad times. It's a combination of intrusive thoughts right at a time where I can't fight them back, and a general inability to enjoy anything, so I'm not going to just say intrusive thoughts, and I care a bit less about those thoughts in my better days since I am more capable of handling them. It wouldn't solve all of my issues, because there are a lot of other changes that would be necessary in here and some that aren't purely internal to me, like getting a support network IRL, but it certainly would help me recover from bad moments.
I imagine it would be like a thick black fog made of angry scribbles, trying to squeeze me out of my will to live. I would attach a bunch of blåhajar to myself to shield me from it while I brew a potion from coffee, hot cocoa, lemons, notebooks, books about or photos of cool architecture or trains, scented candles, and pics of cuties such as @LianSrenia or @rainbowpink; lots of things that make life better. Then I put that in a backpack sprayer, so that I can spray it on that weird cloud and give it lots of psychic damage.
Aspect to excise: the part of me that hates me
The shade's form: probably that part too, it's only fitting
How I would fight it: hmm, it will probably try to stop me by shouting my insecurities at me. so I will bring ANC headphones, earplugs, and play white noise through them to drown it out
Ive been mulling over this for a day and theres nothing i feel id want to excise really... Like maybe body hair but thats not a huge issue for me.
Instead what i think about is the collection of things that make up my persoality, even my procrastination and AuDHD feel integral to my personality.
What id want instead is the ability to remonlve my autistic mask. To know for certain what i am without it.
The orb/shade would probably laugh at me... "If im not being taken away permanently than you shall carry me with you always" brought along as a mask like Majora's.
In a way it feels very "wizard of earthsea"
I would just kinda remove the fact that I don't have boobs, and then fight myself in a 1v1 in literally any shooter game (I suck at shooters as would my shade)
Oh how interesting! I know I often talk about things like my hair or voice, but what I would most like to remove is the part of me that struggles to remember important information and tasks. I would be a much better person if I could be more reliable in day to day life. I think the shade of that would be me decked out in all my nerdiest stuff, because those things I have no problem remembering.
As for how I would fight the shade? 150cc one on one Mario Kart 8 grand prix. I think i could take him!
:O ooorrrbbbbbb so coool :O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9gNndLd80E
uhhh I would take away the part of myself that was too self-conscious and always speaks negatively about myself, saying stuff that people who've hurt me before have said. It'd prolly take the form of a giant sp...sp.....CREEPY LEGGY BUG T^T or maybe a centerpede and I would kill it with fire bc fear
Oh geeze, this is tough. o_o;
I think perhaps my self-doubt. I imagine it taking on a form like Sora's Anti Form from Kingdom Hearts 2, hurling insults and bad thoughts at me ("No one gives a shit about you," "not a single person cares about your projects or thoughts," etc). Honestly, the only way I can imagine fighting it is with brute force. ^^; I'm not a very strategic thinker, so just smashing it into countless teeny-tiny pieces sounds good to me!
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