On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Mark Doherty wrote:

go to the effort of windwiping the people? A sigh from the collective people,

I assume this should be mindwiping, rather than WINDwiping :)

So I stood there, my fists clenched in pain, as history was made. The people
around me wept - presumably from some sort of 'happiness' at being half of
what they used to be. I felt like weeping too, for in a large and important
way, humanity died that day. For without hate, rage, all the 'negative'
emotions, can we truly be called human? I don't have the answers, but I do

Yes :P

    - Words told to a small village in the south-east part of South America
      by a man who helped brought an end to a 'plague of demons who had
      threatened our village', as the village heads put it. The tale,
      apparently from the late 24th century, was retold to members of
      Neo-Queen Serenity's Royal Guard when they offered the village their
      protection in 2442. The offer was politely refused.

I like this source for the narrative better than the random notes he was
leaving everywhere in the first three chapters.  It seems more natural
than him leaving the random paper trail everywhere.  

His smallest lingering doubts that this wasn't Mars disappeared. He'd
recognise her subtle social touch and gentle way of speaking anywhere.

Heh :)

"Some promises can't be kept, no matter the will that drives it. Remember
that. Don't worry, my jealous little friend. I am not trying to win Rei
over as a girlfriend or anything. We are meerly..." he struggled for a

merely

Crystal Tokyo, the Purification, the exile - volunteery and otherwise, the

voluntary

And so I finally gave him a name. Ok, I gave him several. What did you expect
with his cavalier attitude towards names? Emerald was his name from the
start, BTW, I just had reasons not to use it. Why did I name him after the
female with the most annoying laugh in any of the SM series? To fulfill my
sense of irony, I guess. I have reasons, don't worry.

Heh.
 

The idea of the rebels taking on their names was to give a way of explaining
why the future Dark Moon clan members had theirs - Demand and Rubeous aren't
exactly normal names. And most mineral names are non-gender specific. If I
use the true Emerald in the story, I'll use the Japanese name for her -
Esmaraude. Or something like that.

Makes sense.
 

Oh, BTW, how do you spell Yuuchiro again? HATE that name. :P

Yuuichiro.


John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu       
rhea@tass.org              http://www.tass.org/~rhea/falcon.html
rhea@maison-otaku.net      http://www.maison-otaku.net/~rhea/

     Andre always was the cryptic type.  That's why I loved him so.  Our 
love was fresh like a summer day, well maybe a spring day, summer around 
here is pretty wretched and hot.  "I am climbing Jacob's ladder,"  I 
replied.  It is our wont to converse entirely through literary and 
musical allusions.  "Just another fallen angel, trying to get through the 
night."

     He nodded, "Step by Step, rung by rung.  These are the days of our 
lives."

     Oh, so true.