Anna, Lucille mirrored forms:
1st mirrored form <Mortal Realm>
Anna - Sword Maiden (ext Cut / int Mannered)
Lucille - Fan Cut (ext Mannered / int Cut)
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Anna - renouncing Uncle’s authority.
Heavenly Sword Sect Village
- Learning through pain
- Elder smack down
- Children smack down
- Mortal Elder Bean
- Motions
- Strikes
- Deflections
- Intent
- Combination
- True Strike
- Mortal Elder Brad
- Psychological Striking
- Top Flight League
- Refinement
- Refinement 2
- Championship
- Refinement 3
- 8 Championships
- Recommendation to the Sect
Outer Sect - 45 years later
- Shadows stage
- I did it the hardest way??
- Favored Families and the Dross
- 4 Training Clans <Dragon, Armor Turtle, Cheetah, Ant>
- Ant Clan Strong
- Free Cultivation mats of the Ant clan
- Free Cultivation Arts of the Ant clan: Ant Strength, Leafeater Grace, Army ant Will.
- Leafeater’s Grace 3, Ant Strength 130, Army Ant 159
- Learning from the older Ant clan student.
- Flawed formulation of the Leaf Grace
- Gathering of the Cultivation World.
- (50 years) Dream Sequence - Twinned Souls ability opens
- Lucille’s mannered ability through twin-souls produces Swan Sword’s Grace
Lucille
- Uncle gives an introduction of Lucille to the Orange Blossom Sect.
- 1st year Honors
- Almost losing honors status
- Instruction by the Honors girls.
- Mandatory Session instruction
- Christmas dinner hosted by the 1st years.
- Gentlemen and Etiquette.
- Lucille: Additional Subjects: Combat, Calligraphy, Physical Fitness, Aquatic Sports
- End of 1st year: Sailing Club
- Invitation to a Sail Community Party with David Duveaux on board the Duveaux Yacht.
- 2nd Year: focus on practical situations through hosting and guesting at social events.
- Artistry, Combat, Sailing, Communications, High Society Primer
- Becoming A Beloved Maiden of Sailing Society.
- Winter Weekend with David.
- Assault on Orange Blossom Sect.
- Societies Arrive to protect them, as the Combat club organizes the defense. Lucille is the most respected club member and is widely praised.
- Invitation to Cultivation arts of the Orange Blossom Sect.
- Youngest Inner Sect member.
- David reveals he is an alumni of the Refining Sword Sect. Retired from the Sect to learn to follow in his father’s footsteps and lead his family.
- Orange Blossom Sect liason to the Sailing Community.
- Lucille travels with the community and a betrothal someday between her and David seems likely.
- YR 5 - Young Woman’s Magazine. Sailing Princess?
- YR 11 - interviewed by Society for Yachting’s Glossy.
- YR 24 - Certified 1st step achieved in Manners Cultivation. Palpable Charisma.
- YR 35 - Engaged to David
- YR 46 - Beautiful Maiden Status reached. Fan combat first steps.
- YR 50 - Twinned States. Gathering of the Cultovation world.
- Anna’s War Lady ability: Beautiful Maiden -> Maiden of Hidden Steel.
Anna and Lucille reunited
Lucille doesn’t recognize Anna at first. Anna doesn’t recognize Lucille at first.
“Hello Senior Brother, the Orange Blossom Sect welcomes your Heavenly Sword Sect.”
“Senior Sister, this one is a mere Junior Brother of the Outer Sect.”
“I am also an Outer Sect sister on assignment with the Yachting Society. We are going back on tour in two weeks.”
“Am I talking to Lucille Solorsano?” Anna asked.
She untied her back sheath, dropping the Gleaming Shark’s Tooth. Her hair was short now, but she dropped her glamour as she did in the privacy of her own residence at night.
“Yes, have you heard of me or the Soci—“
“Anna?!”
Right as they ran into a big hug, the appearance of a man embracing Sailing Maiden Lucille, as her fiancée just was heading to invite her to dinner with his parents.
“Lucille??” He asked, astonished.
“Forgive me, my—brother is here. I haven’t seen him in years!! Ever since he joined the Heavenly Sword Sect. David, this is Andy, my brother. Andy, David my fiancée.”
The hug separated and Anne bowed to David.
“Well met!” He turned to Lucille, “ I had no idea you even had a brother. I’m sure my parents won’t mind inviting your brother to dinner.
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Anna became a surprise for Heavenly Sword Sect making a connection with Sailing High Society.
She became a representative and Sword trainer onboard. Her long years of mortal practice made her a great trainer for the families,
Frequently sparring partner of David the only other Sword cultivator on the high seas.
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The Hawthorne yacht, managed by David Hawthorne, had set anchor on a day of calm pale seas and open skies.
“Ande”, remained onboard the Eleventh Pearl, as the Hawthorne family and guests went over to the Jennings’s family Yacht.
Her sword and sheath were immaculate. She had learned a little of Lucille’s art of decorum, her new uniform was from the Hawthorns.
The straight-sword proved ready to cut in either direction. The hilt of her sword stood ready overtop the sheathe.
Standing at the end of the bridge between Yachts, she looked into the descending sun at sea.
“ Beautiful out here, isn’t it.” Said the girl.
Water quickly turned to ice from a strong breeze off the boat and in the sky ice was shattered by lightning.
“I don’t know much about elementalism, but that’s impressive,” Ande said.
“I have seen some impressive swordsmen, show me your display, sir?”
“I am only a Junior swordsman, milady. I will try.”
The shadows of the Sword appeared in an instant as the sword was drawn in one motion. Extending as far as twenty feet from her sword, they began to condense at the base of the sword, becoming a solid iron blade in front of the actual sword.
“You have begun to form the higher elemental essence of Iron. My turn.”
Vines sprouted in the sky forming lattices around nothing, then something invisible consumed them leaving spots where pure blackness radiated.
“Life and Void.”
The fixed version of Leafeater’s Grace included a good practice routine.
—
Ande’s swordplay had an oddly calming aspect to it. Unlike the jagged violent sharply aggressive sword of most of his peers, Ande’s sword intent was graceful and beautiful.
The rest of the party were coming back to the Hawthorne yacht for cocktails. Cessation formed in her fingers, and the movement of sword immediately stopped.
Ande shook it off after a moment and stowed the sword.
*
Lucille and David eventually left the shipboard life to settle down, establishing a new branch home for his family.
Jessie convinced Ande to go with her on a new mercenary contract. Ande agreed.
*
David was shocked when their new home was attacked by skilled robber-cultivators. His sweet, kind wife Lucille was a good fighter, using the fan that was her signature as a weapon to taken them down.
David resumed his cultivation and trained with her, but they wanted to work together with her sister next time she was in town.
*
Ande didn’t expect to just be put in with the regular army, she was worried about stalling out at Peak Iron
Jessie was in the special mage’s division and making 5x his pay.
Most of the regular army men were mortal or shadows equivalent weapon users. The archer division provided extra ranger support.
They moved from the employer to employer, often working for 3 months and taking a month to travel and a month off.
They had even been employee by a Guild of merchants, but when a single family hired the mercenary army for two weeks, Ande new something was up.
He wasnot high enough rank to find out what family, but he realized it was David’s family as they inspected the army at parade rest.
He was never singled out during the two weeks. Jessie was hired on at a considerable additional fee paid to the army and Ande continued with the army for six months more until his original promise of 5 years was completed.
He tended his resignation with honor but found no respect inside his heart for the organization.
It was with mixed feelings that he returned to the Heavenly Sword Sect. He didn’t have to wait in line, the Sect’s provost came out to meet him.
“You are at a flashpoint, take a single step further and you will be a Shimnering Sword cultivator. You need to go through trials to prepare you for the Shimmering test.”
She was lead away to an opulent villa and in the morning lead to a dueling arena.
“This is a simulation of the Shimering test.”
21 seconds she lasted. 45 seconds. 19 seconds.
What she expected to be a day or two became the year of Trying Trials. She sparred with other sect members during the in between time, establishing her ranking in the Local Sect as #245. Junior Brother of the Inner Sect.
&@$
David and Lucille had a Daughter. Named Anne after there lost sister. They didn’t find her despite hiring her army.
Jessie couldn’t explain what happened except they were in different units and didn’t see each other.
Anne was a beautiful baby girl and they insisted on spending a lot of time with her. The servants loved her too.
*
There was something emotional and psychological or even spiritual blocking her advancement. All three Doctors of Cultivation medicine in the Sect agreed.
She went into her first Deep Seclusion to determine her heart.
^
Lucille advanced to the Golden Heart Transformation stage of Fan / Etiquette cultivation.
David’s branch family consisting of the 3 of them was upgraded to 3rd grade family from unranked. Between David’s lineage & administration and Lucille’s supernatural social skills they were the bright star of the mid sized city they set up in, but Lucille missed Anne.
An expensive search was undergone to find her sister. Eventually they discovered she was in a 5 year seclusion as Ande at her old sect.
They sadly requested a notice when she emerged.
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Her days in the army had thoroughly hammered in Yang motions. Be a Junior and get crushed or risk everything to make it to the top and demand respect. Her style was crushing and forceful, taking charge at the front of a battle line where grace was pointless.
She had a precipice to go down. Either acknowledge openly that she’s a woman and be expelled by the sect and blackmarked by all sword sects. Or accept that she had performed as a man and had no problem with that for now. Eventually the problem would re-emerge.
She wanted to make the dreamy choice, but years had drilled practicality into her. And she was stuck and afraid.
*
Lucille and David had a daughter Lucy
*
The third choice: why do we have to be binary. Neither will I perform masculine or feminine but merely none of your business ium.
It didn’t give the easy satisfaction but her sword style was a times rude and violent, and others gentle and swirling .
Shimmering swords took the focus and intensity and iron and made the sword flexible and shimmery,
The earliest sword dao attacks allowed magnifying one’s sword into a shimmered larger version.
The viscious gentle mean soft attacks destroyed tests.
She was thrown out of the sect as an indefinite being, but they didn’t write hir out of the black book.
Sectless, Shimmering Sword cultivator
Fine by her.
She wandered, performing duties far below her status without a care.
*
Diamond Tiara Cultivation. One son and two daughters David jr was at home while her daughters went off to Orange Blossom Sect.
One day, she woke up and realized there was some new <thing.>
Combined power level: 100.
New power unlocked .
Sibling chat.
Talk to your sibling anywhere anytime.
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