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A New Sun Chapter 59

🕑 Added 2024-07-27 01:37:44 +0000 UTC

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Karma Wizard

Holy. Aight, so, you're good fam, don't worry, lol. On Kunou specifically. Her, specifically, wasn't a product rape or anything of the sort. She was unplanned, but Yasaka definitely intended to seduce and sleep with the guy she did. The pregnancy though, that wasn't planned. I hinted at it, what with Kunou specifically mentioning the Youkai still somewhat fighting amongst themselves before then, but her Father was a Youkai who ran off, got into a fight, and died. I touched on it a loooonngg time ago, but Yasaka truly is the weakest of the Daiyokai, she barely qualifies. She's calced at Low Satan in canon, with her leylines not giving her a power boost, more like an endurance/reserve boost. Btw, nice catch on Yasaka essentially turning out to be real world myth Tamamo-no-Mae, I was trying to draw a parallel between the two. In DxD, Tamamo was apparently a lot more like myth Shuten; evil, and wanted to destroy Japan and all, so she got sealed up. Here tho, you're right in that Yasaka didn't have any real power for a while, especially during the Great War Era. It was all soft power, whispered words in the ears of men too enamored with her body to understand truly what they'd do for some of that fluff. As the world chilled out, Yasaka began putting everything she learned throughout the years together, resulting in Urakyoto, and the various - even foreign - factions, meeting up, mostly to do business. Smaller and weaker Youkai groups, like the Tengu, also joined up with Yasaka and the Kitsune around this time, and the East formed from that. Only recently, with true peace, has the East been able to really thrive. It's as Kunou said, after so much fighting, everyone would rather snuggle fluffy tails then stab each other. A perfect opposite to the West, which formed specifically out of battles and wars, and from groups of warriors banding together. The only reason no one has tried to take the East in some way, is because Yasaka has surrounded Urakyoto with so many allies and business partners, that anyone who'd try to disrupt that, would find themselves pissing off everyone. So, for instance, Nori could destroy the East, but that'd result in the Devil's throwing a hissy fit because they've got a ton of businesses there, along with a bunch of minor deities who just lost protection for their temples, and so on. Of course, this isn't full proof...if you've got say, a group of people who are already hated by everyone, or will be, then...well, they can come in and do pretty much whatever. Which is why Yasaka is looking for stronk descendents, because crazy groups like the Hero Faction somehow end up existing, and become a threat.

Nitorxs

**So I added this part in most of the way through what ended up being an essay... But, I just wanted to go ahead and say sorry for the wall of text. This was just meant to be an explanation of my thinking and it got a little long. Anyway, thanks for the chapter and I've been loving the story, Karmatic.** So I don't think this version of Yasaka's backstory makes sense. I understand and recognize that the details of what exactly happened are left purposely scarce, but from the character's reactions during their discussion, I got that things may not have been consensual. I may be wrong, but Kunou not being planned and the idea of it being "dark", screams non-con to me. The framing of that story is what doesn't sit well with me. I just can't see how being forced into "trading sexual favors" leads to diplomacy and the consolidation of her rule. That's just rape. Any of her "partners" wouldn't automatically become loyal to her afterwards and she doesn't actually gain any power from that "transaction". If they wanted to turn on her later, what's stopping them? They're still stronger than her. Whatever they decide to do is still "right", even if that means they're going to wipe out all kitsune. She only way to gain power from sex is by borrowing/attaining the influence of your partner or I guess in this case, senjustsu bedroom arts (but that's a two way thing so she's not really gaining ground on her partner, so I wouldn't say this method is super relevant). Now, if sex allowed her to form a relationship or connection with her partner that would allow her to influence them, she could be seen as gaining some soft power. Ironically, that's exactly the route Tamamo-no-mae went according to her real-life myths. Unfortunately, I can't see that really working out in this case because there were multiple factions in the war. That strategy worked for the mythical Tamamo because she immediately went after emperors, people who had already consolidated power, and then used their influence to spread her own. She wouldn't even end up keeping her power in the long run, showing how this wouldn't be a viable long-term strategy. Yasaka wouldn't be able to go that route anyway because there was nobody already in charge. There was no singular ruler whose influence she could borrow to elevate her own. Regardless, any of the soft power she might gain by such means amounts to nothing if someone comes along with a bigger stick in the "might makes right" sort of society the author paints. She had to have gained sufficient personal fighting power (i.e. hard power) somewhere along the line to cement her rule. Diplomacy only works in those societies if the parties involved have similar hard power, otherwise, it's reliant solely on the benevolence of the stronger party. Something I neither have proof of occuring, nor would I expect to occur during a war of succession to the yokai rulership. Also, Kunou being the product of rape seems extremely unlikely. The civil war would've started hundreds of year ago and I find it difficult to believe that Yasaka's only really brought everyone to heel, and is therefore not able to be raped, so recently. Additionally, Yasaka controls Kyoto's leylines. They contain enough power that gaining access to them so you can to punch a big enough hole to the dimensional gap that a massive dragon may be able to come through is seen as a feasible plan. She may be below the divines in power, but I really doubt she's anywhere close to far enough away from the mundane limits, even if she is "one of the weakest daiyoukai" (and I seriously doubt that), that it really means much. They're probably all about equal in power and any real differences are just academic. That would suggest that Kunou's father would've probably had to be divine, meaning the idea for a half-yokai/half-god child would've already been accomplished. Anything else and you're probably looking at war again for the slight. Once again, I recognize that the specifics of her background aren't presented and I that may be completely off the mark with everything I've said. I just wanted to put my thoughts out there and maybe see what other people think as well.

Bishop7053

Fucking dark, but it makes sense sadly

Choir

"so I filled it all in myself" - Karmatic 2024 but in all seriousness that is why I love reading fanfiction so much. It's nice to see new ideas brought up or new world building ideas implemented in interesting ways. It's when that stops or the interesting stories don't get updated that everyone gets sad. I'm glad to be able to support you and thanks for update.


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