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I spend 10% of my time reading Adjuration heartbroken and grieving and sad in a cathartic way.

I spend 90% of my time reading Adjuration laughing my ass off, grinning like an idiot, bouncing with excitement, desperately trying to figure out what's going to happen next and in general having the time of my life.

Adjuration is a tragedy (a beautiful, meaningful tragedy) where some characters do die permanently. But if you watch or read and enjoy star wars, the hunger games, stranger things, lord of the rings, Harry Potter, marvel, Naruto, Fullmetal alchemist or literally any popular movies, books or TV shows where a character dies, then you should be fine. It isn't angst. Characters aren't being killed off left right and centre for no reason except shock value. They're dying because it's important to the plot of the story.

Hi! :D

I heard a lot of good things about your fic and it's been hanging in my 'for later' list for ever. I'm trying to avoid spoilers and am increadibly curious about the plot, but!

I see it's tagged with MCD and seeing (absolutely increadible) fanarts I think I know who that is for.

Here's the question:

Is it temporary main character death or permanent?

I know some authors tag deaths but not temporary deaths and I understand if you don’t want to say because of spoilers. It’s also tagged with "Tags May Change", so there's where my uncertainty comes from.

I know form experience I don’t do well with permanent MCD, even if I love a good whump, so sadly if it’s permanent I will have to pass on your fic, no matter how curious I am about it.

So I was just wondering if you could clarify it for me?

Sorry I'm so awkward about it 😅

Okay, two things:

1. MCD means that they die. Permanently, and least for the course of the fic. If it was temporary, I would elaborate in the tags. The “tags may change” is because it was being posted as a WIP, and I didn’t want to lie to someone if I ended up adding or removing a scene. I see where the ambiguity might be read there, but that tag is coming off any day now, when the last chapter goes up.

2. This fic is not whump. It is not angst, and it is not hurt/no comfort. I believe the level of pain has been greatly exaggerated by someone and now everyone thinks the fic is full of torture porn.

Adjuration is a tragedy, in the classic literature sense. Like Hamlet. Like the Count of Monte Cristo. As in, the bad things that happen are inevitable and entirely able to be seen coming, and the characters’ own fault.

Tragedy does not equal misery all the way down. In fact, the majority of the word count in there is comedy. Most of the time spent reading the fic is spent laughing, because half of the cast deals with stress via humor.

So yes, people (more than one of them) die. Of course they do. Adjuration is, put simply, a story where the premise of Link as a character is taken seriously. That means seriously. Send 14 people on a high stakes action mission, not all of them are making it out alive. That would be unrealistic. People die in action stories.

And with a main cast of fourteen Links, it’s an inevitability that one of those deaths would be one of them.

(Clarity: you have done nothing wrong, and I am not yelling at you. This is me elaborating on the issue because I keep being asked about all the whump and angst that just… isn’t there outside of three specific scenes in a 300k work. It’s like acting all of LOTR is whump cause you heard about Boromir. Like, that is literally how out of proportion this has been blown.)