Subject: Re: [FFML] [spam] Muldoon Priestesses
From: Mike
Date: 5/10/1997, 10:58 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

At 01:25 AM 5/11/97 -0400, you wrote:

	Again, with the overanalyzing....

	I don't know how I started thinking about this, specifically, but
I did....

	Anyways, let me see.... Here, we have the Muldoon Priestesses,
three lovely women who are really good fighters...magically powered, if
you will.

        Nuh uh!  It's not magic!  It's... SCIENCE!!!!  Miz's ring uses
telekinesis to manipulate water molecules while Afura Mann's belt buckle
controls the air through telekinesis!  Yeah... and Shayla Shayla has natural
*pyrokinetic* powers, which is just boosted by the wrist gadget that also
wraps her in a powerful telekinetic field.  Yeah!  That's the ticket!
SCIENCE!!!!  Oh, and don't believe a word I say.

	They have much of their power intrinsic to them, but to fully
access their abilities, they have little gadgets of sorts. Afura Mann has
her belt buckle which she clips on, Miz Mishtal has her ring which
she kisses, and Shayla Shayla has that...wind up, spring loaded wrist
bracelet thingy that she puts on and pulls on. (Well, what is that thing
called?)

	Think about that for a moment, if you will. Three pretty females
with phenomenal fighting skills which are fully unleashed with magical
items of some sort. Sounds like.... Sounds like a magical girls thing.

	Heck, they even have something that approximates a very short
transformation sequence, as their powers manifest.... Shayla's aura
springs up from the gems (gems! she has magical gems!) placed in her

        Sister Shayla doesn't really need a transformation sequence, or even
that nifty gadget to become a living explosion.  Remember that bath scene?
She made a REALLY big boom without her gadget.  In fact, the stuff was just
coming out of a wrist band and a bandana!  Remember, it's pyrokinesis!
PYROKINESIS!!!! AH HA HA HA HA HA...

clothing, swirls of water spiral around Miz, and the wind whips about
Afura as she prepares to fight.

	I suppose the similarities kind of end there, though. They don't
have cute names for their attacks (although Shayla does spout epithets as
she dances fiery death),

        Don't forgot Afura Mann's "Big Sucker Gas Slash", aptly named by
Shayla Shayla!  Or "Badger's Slash", from Ifurita's point of view.  Or, if
you watch the thing in closed captioning, the "Afura Mann's Vacuum Slash",
also named by Shayla Shayla.  In closed captioning, Ifurita also calls it a
"Weasel's Slash".  You know, I think I've been watching "El Hazard" a bit
too closely... NAH!  Maybe if I watch a few more times... howza about the
entire OAV series THREE times a week? (although then I'd have to cut down on
my weekly "Tenchi" marathon)

 nor do they use those gadgets to fire off any
attacks once they're activated...no silly mascot to guide them along (Luna
and Mokona come to mind...<brr>). And they're far more straight up and
destructive once it comes to their attacks, compared to most magical
girls. (The Magic Knights are somewhat of an exception, I'll grant.)

	Still you can't help but think that one over a bit....

	I just hope they don't get pissed at me for suggesting a likeness
between them and magical girls.
*knock knock*
Hmm, who could that--

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