Green Sprout × Frost Edge

Relationship · checking cycle, Metal checks Wood (Frost Edge prunes Green Sprout).

Portrait · Frost Edge's sense of boundary can prune the sprawling Green Sprout, cutting away the side shoots it sticks out everywhere so the strength grows where it should; but the same blade, cut too hard, lops off the very drive that was growing, leaving Green Sprout feeling "you veto everything I do." Pruning or cutting the drive depends on whether Metal is cutting deadwood or the main trunk.

Checking view (Metal to Wood) · their boundary can help the other focus, but they shouldn't treat all of the other's spread as wild growth; some side shoots are it testing a direction. Tell trunk from deadwood before cutting.

Checked view (Wood to Metal) · the other's pruning keeps them from growing wild, but if even a just-sprouted idea gets vetoed with one cut and they grow more afraid to grow, that's cutting the drive, not pruning, and they have to guard their own trunk.

How they work · (1) Metal acknowledges the direction Wood wants to grow first, then prunes. (2) Wood says clearly "this shoot is one I mean to grow," so Metal doesn't take it all as deadwood. (3) sort together which spread to prune from the growth points that have to stay.

Reverse check · did Metal's last cut take deadwood, or the main trunk along with it?

A mirror, not a prophecy. It reflects you as you are right now. How you walk is still yours to choose.