u/Jazzlike_Cry197

Goal ko this 2026 is to have new friends. While I am keeping in touch sa tropa ko back in college, and I love them, I do have this desire na mag explore ng more friend groups sana, social anxiety be damned. I find that broadening my horizons and meeting different people makes life more interesting for me. I joined a discord group a year ago and while they’re nice, mostly online lang so I wanna hang out with friends na I can meet irl sana. So paampon nalang po sa friend group niyo hahaha.

About me:

- 27 chronologically, back pain pang 47, bank account pang 7

- Works in the healthcare industry

- Funny minsan

- Extremely non judgemental (believe me, I’ve seen it all sa line ng work ko)

- An introvert but once I got to know you madaldal ako esp online

- Into fitness lately, esp gym, running, pickleball, wanna try out more sports pa like badminton, volleyball

- Other interests: anime, games (ml, dota tho I don’t play anymore watch lang, strategy games), hiking, reading books, cooking, music (wanna learn how to play guitar this year)

- Respectful, not a creep. No other ulterior motives other than make friends

About you (and your friends):

- Working or postgrads, im assuming kkb tayo pag meetups hahaha

- Accepting and welcoming, yung sana di ako maOOP

- I prefer a small group lang, I get overwhelmed pag malaki kasi yung tropa hahaha. Maybe 4-5 or so. Basta wag double digits ✌️

- I’m based in manila, so hopefully you guys are within Manila/QC/Makati para madali ang meetup

- same sense of humor (I do kanal/aircon humor easily and tambay lagi ako sa ig reels. Dark lang talaga sense of humor ko sa ig ah HAHAHAHA)

- Same age range as mine (24 and up)

Hmu and usap usap lang tayo! See you guyss!! :D

Just wondering. Just a prince enjoyer here so I don’t know much. I follow zig’s guide and I find that in some situations where zig recommends Liberty as social policy, Tradition seems to be a much better choice and I end up regretting taking Lib. Usually it’s when I realized 30 turns or so that my city is struggling to grow or has no food.

It happens the other way around as well. I take tradition, then as I explore a bit more I realize there’s a lot of good land for the taking. I can’t match the AI’s settler race because I have wonders to build, or barbarians to repel. I ended up getting boxed in by the AI or all the good land’s taken.

How can we best integrate their abilities in the jjk verse? What do you their grade would be?

I have some notes. First, Soul’s innate is definitely weapon transformation. Then I guess he can impose a binding vow that he fights at 120% power, but only if he’s held by Maka Albarn (symbolizing the Meister-Weapon relationship).

Maka’s innate should be an equivalent of anti-demon wavelength? But I don’t know how it would work verse-wise.

Then they would have an extension ability: Soul Resonance, which will amplify their attacks by at least 200% and allow them to use Witch Hunter, Demon Hunter etc. Their attacks would naturally strike the soul directly, so they would be a natural counter to Mahito and reincarnated sorcerers.

Black Blood, I’m not sure how to incorporate this. Maybe an offshoot version of Blood Manipulation?

I think grade wise, maybe Maka on her own is around grade 1 or semi grade 1, Soul around Grade 1 or higher Grade 2; but together, they can be Semi Grade 1, maybe even temporarily special grade with soul resonance. What do you guys think?

Battlefield is set on a random field + forest nearby no one has ever encountered before (so no home field advantage for either combatants).

Time of the day is a few hrs before sunset, so they should have plenty of daylight and shadows to work with.

No prep time for either combatants.

Pride has access to his pride. No access to Gluttony to munch on. Shikamaru has access to his standard ninja tools + the tools used in Part I’s fight with Tayuya + his fight with Hidan and Kakuzu. Not sure if that will matter but I’ll just put it there.

(Context: I am just an amateur writer and I last read the HoO series in all its entirety pre-pandemic, so maybe a lot of my memories in HoO are shoddy/foggy. Also I’m writing this while otw to practice so excuse the typos and my rushed writing).

I really noticed one tiny but noticeable flaw in Annabeth’s character. Don’t get me wrong, I still like her, I think Rick did a fantastic job in writing Annabeth, but I feel like Annabeth has been power crept to hell and sidelined post pjo, almost dangerously becoming a typical “leading lady” role and relegated as “Percy’s girlfriend”. She even lampshades this, during the Mark of Athena quest to Rome where she noted how any of the Seven can easily go down the tunnel while she has nothing but her weaving skills and improvisational skills to complete the task. Look, I get it, “Wisdom’s daughter walks alone” means she has to do this quest with no outside help, no powers. That’s Athena’s whole shtick and point anyway- they have as a “superpower” (if you can even count that) is wisdom from their mother.

But if you’re a demigod child of Athena, and you knew your demigod power is being super smart and really good at war, wouldn’t you… combine those? Yeah, maybe you can’t conjure earthquakes or lightning or transform into a giant koi fish but you can meld those two aspects you got from your mom in order to fight back. Which would be really useful when you undertake a solo quest designed to *test your wits*.

Basically, upon hearing the prophecy from Ella, I really want Annabeth to ponder on the lines of it. And throughout the journey to Rome, reflect on her powers and her skills. Okay, she’s got wisdom and warfare. How does she proceed? Well, she got this laptop from the greatest inventor of all time, she can commision Leo. Basically make her the Batman of the Seven.

Have her create her own unique weapon that can adapt to her opponent’s abilities, or maybe a transforming weapon. We know from tbotl and eventually in hoh that she uses a sword. She’s obviously a knife expert. It’s never explicitly stated she’s *bad* at spears/knives/axes whatever but she’s a daughter of a war goddess and super smart, I’m sure she can figure it out. I’m leaning personally into a transforming weapon, that can adapt to any situation. Trapping and multiple distinct weapons and improvised weapons are more of Leo’s thing, I want her to have one singular weapon that could adapt to anything she sets her mind to. I’m not really good at designing or writing weapons but that’s how I would imagine Annabeth would fight from there on.

Then there’s her knife. I don’t understand why she stilll… uses it post tlo? It’s a blade promised to him by someone she loved (as a brother) and betrayed her, who eventually died. That’s basically a ptsd on a leather grip handle there. The knife has served its purpose in the story, i believe, so why bother keep it around until tmoa when she was forced to lose it down to Tartarus? That part really bothers me because to me, narrative wise it has no purpose already.

I don’t know, I just wanna see my girl kinda fight side by side on relatively equal terms with the Seven. Can you just imagine her plowing through enemies with a transforming weapon, keeping the enemies guessing, strategizing on the fly, truly taking over Daedalus’s place as the Greatest Inventor of all time? Anyway, feel free to comment on this.