I will tell you what he said to me: in order to control it, you must accept and embrace the parts of you it represents.
As Zlatka says, the monster is our deepest, darkest desires twisted into something monstrous. Xue Yang didn't think anyone would be willing to delve that deeply into the parts of themselves they don't like. He always embraced them.
[Ianthe did as well, but she didn't bother to learn the techniques as it hadn't been necessary.]
Sounds logical in concept, but practically... I'm sure it's not quite so simple.
[ then again, if yennefer had ended up here at any previous point in her history, she might have been more unwilling to acknowledge what her monster truly signifies. now, she's come to terms with a lot of her own failings. ]
Well, there's some benefit to living out here in the woods, I've found. Namely, the lowered odds of someone stumbling onto my land at the wrong moment.
[ooc: Learned today that Xue Yang's player missed AC and got an exemption and is back in the game. Let's just go with him having briefly been in the Void during this conversation.]
Very true. Gives you plenty of space to explore... yourself.
[Ianthe bit back her desire to make a snide comment about Khoriya, or that Yennefer's instinct had been to go to the dog over her or Sweeney. But if the sorceress wanted to lay with dogs... Ianthe didn't kinkshame.]
And to limit unknown variables. His condition is far from a known one.
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So you conceivably still have a lot of time ahead of you. Xue Yang is gone now. It's just you and me left from the beginning.
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[More like attack dog, but that was unimportant.]
With him gone, we've lost a resource to controlling our transformations. He learned how to do that
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Did you ever speak with him about it?
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I did have a few conversations about it and observed his thalergy while he utilized his monster. I know the basic gist but not the techniques.
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As Zlatka says, the monster is our deepest, darkest desires twisted into something monstrous. Xue Yang didn't think anyone would be willing to delve that deeply into the parts of themselves they don't like. He always embraced them.
[Ianthe did as well, but she didn't bother to learn the techniques as it hadn't been necessary.]
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[ then again, if yennefer had ended up here at any previous point in her history, she might have been more unwilling to acknowledge what her monster truly signifies. now, she's come to terms with a lot of her own failings. ]
Well, there's some benefit to living out here in the woods, I've found. Namely, the lowered odds of someone stumbling onto my land at the wrong moment.
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Very true. Gives you plenty of space to explore... yourself.
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cw: ref to bestiality
And to limit unknown variables. His condition is far from a known one.
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