Ranting with the Sanses

About the Balance trope

All : You just came back to life to put a rant ?!!

Kathleen : It's not rant though...?? I mean, it is more like... A suggestion for those who write stories and read that book ? And I also brought someone new.

Jill already is handing pop-corn to everyone. Kath drags a new Sans in the room and Ink and Zephyr jump on their feet to hug him.

Zephyr : Tam, how are you ?

Ink : Brother !!

Tam : Aaah ! Ink, put me down !! Uncle help !

Zephyr : Nah, you seem fine up there.

Ink : I missed you ! How is everyone back home ?

tam : Well, they are fine, but, how did I get here ?

Zephyr : Dont worry, you get used to it.

Ink : Where will he sleep ?

Jill : With his Uncle.

Zephyr : Cool.

Kathleen : So, can I start ?

Ink and Zephyr drag Tam to sit next to them, the poor tamer confused of the whole ordeal. They nod.

Kathleen : So, this time, it's more to suggest a way to write the Balance trop that I think could make some sense somehow. And I mean, for all three Balances (for once...). It's could be a bit messy, but I will try to stay as organized as possible. Anyway.

She takes a deep breath.

Kathleen : So, this is something I thought about, when I gave more thought about the Balance between Negativity and Positivity. If you think of it, you could see the Tree of Feeling like a physical (and living) embodiment of this specific Balance. Like each side have the same number of apples and all. So, yeah in a way it is a representation of the Balance. And so I thought "What if this was supposed to be it, in those stories" ?

Jill : And so the answer to the question ?

Kathleen : Is another question. "If the Tree of Feelings is the embodiment of the Balance of Negativity and Positivity, wouldn't there be one for each of the other two ?" And, would you look at it, we can actually find one for Life and Death too. The Tree of Life, who also come from Dreamtale.

Error : There is such a tree ?

Ink : There are three sacred tree in Dreamtale. The Tree of Feelings with the black and golden apples, the Tree of Life with cristals apples containing the soul of the deceased inside of it and the Tree of magic...

Killer : Let me guess. Another apple tree ?

Ink : Joke on you. This is a pear tree. Rainbow pears.

Kathleen : Thank you Ink. I think some people already see where I am going. If the other two Balances could be represented by one of the Tree of Dreamtale, why not the one of Creation and Destruction ? And, yes, this would mean this is the job of the Tree of Magic.

Dream : While I agree linking Ink with the Rainbow pears of Lanny isn't that hard in itself, I doubt it would work...

Kathleen : Actually, it can. I will explain. We know that Dream and Nightmare are connected to memories. So, if you think of it, another name you could give to the Tree of Feelings is 'The Tree of Memories'. And, it is never really precised (or I didn't see it if it was) how the Tree of Life works. But, this is wierd that the Tree in which the souls of dead people are is called "Tree of Life", no ? Unless you get something like this : 'The reason why the apples are made of cristals is because at some point they will fall from the tree, freeing the soul and allowing it to reincarnate somewhere' which would mean that another name for this tree would be "The Tree of Rebirth". And explains the Life part. And, why do I go with the idea of the Trees having a second name ? Because the Tree of Magic does have a second name. One that people are maybe familiar with. Yggdrasil. The name of the world tree in Norse mythology.