However, again unlike Chess, Go presents the possibility of the Divine Move, sometimes called The Hand of God, a move so out of left field and amazing it turns the game around and takes a player from Sente to Gote. When the board is full (the other way to win is if the other play concedes due to a lack of territory and being unable to catch up) the moku are marked with stones to make them easier to count, the person with the most moku wins. Play falls into two forms, Gote and Sente, or aggressive and defensive play, it is generally the player who stays in Gote (aggressive) longest who wins the game. A master might play with a neophyte in a game called Shidou-Go where the point is not to win but to teach. The two players take opposing sides and unlike chess in Go black goes first but white is awarded a ½ moku handicap, because Go is a game of skill players can be awarded up to twenty stones handicap, and it can be played on three sizes of board. Go is played by laying stones on the intersections of lines that form the board, or Goban’s, grid – these are called Moku and represent 1 territory. I know Void!Stiles can also canonically mean Stiles as someone with access to/still affected by the nogitsune’s patterns of thought/desires, but I’ve yet to come across any Scott/Stiles fics which really dig into that, at least that I can remember. That makes for a very alien perspective, another of my favorite tropes, but it’s hard for me to see it wanting Scott over anyone or anything else. I think it liked knocking books off the shelf as much as blowing up the sheriff’s station or making everyone think Stiles was dying of a terminal illness. “The monster has taken a shine to you” is also one of my favorite tropes, and seems inherent to the pairing. That said, I find the nogitsune to be a challenge in any pairing because I think it’s a simple creature, for all of its subtlety. It wants nothing except to feed, and even that seems pretty undifferentiated, and very short term. ![]() Another wonderful ask! I love watching Dylan O’Brien skulk around, twisting emotional and literal knives in Scott, and I enjoy Scott’s angst as he deals with an enemy in the body of his best friend.
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