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You know, sometimes you just don't look hard enough...
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Title: One War Three Sisters Sidestory: Voice of the Phoenix
Series: Ranma (X-com, Starcraft)
Genre: Drama
Author: Kevin D. Hammel
Email: khammel@mail.geocities.com
Homepage: http://www.fanfic.net/~khammel/
Date Sent to FFML: October 20, 2000
Archive Number: 15288
Size: 32 KB
Summary:
An authorized sidestory for Adam Brown's "One War, Three
Sisters". Details the 'creation' of the hybrid Protoss-Human warrior
Phoenix> It is told from the perspective of the Protoss Healer who
'made' her from the wreckage of the human formerly known as Tendou
Akane.
Anyway, the first thing I _really_ wondered about here was why I couldn't
build Protoss Healers. Heh. That said...
Well, the first reaction a Protoss _anything_ would have to a warrior in
Akane's condition would be to stick her into a Dragoon. This would probably
_not_ be a palatable option given the psychological condition, but I imagine
there are ways (an Arbiter's stasis-generator or even a converted Ghost
lockdown canister rifle) to get around a rampaging Dragoon.
Then again, this means flying in the face of the story itself. Que sera.
Second, I have to wonder what point in Protoss history the story is catching
them. Correct me if I'm misremembering the manual, but I seem to remember a
period of ideological conflict in the Protoss over whether or not they were
a superior race and, perhaps, the only creation that should exist. Halos
seems to be a throwback to that era - again, forgive the confusion, but the
manual's at home and I'm an hour's drive away. And I have no car. Ah heh.
Even if it's _all_ they retain, a fallen Protoss warrior keeps their mind
and will within the confines of a Dragoon; admittedly, this steps outside
that racial boundary, but given the importance of dedication to the Khala...
well. But then, I'm working off of remembered knowledge, and you actually
_wrote_ the story. So.
Akane's "I... hate... ALIENS!" line is classic, I have to admit. And the
story paints a wonderful picture of the slow dissection of the soul, and,
with the exception of a few spelling errors in convenient places, ("Toady"
instead of "today" _really_ threw me) the story itself is handled very well,
given the personalities of the characters involved.
*****
Mea culpa, yo - looked in the wrong section of the site for this - but I
think the "archived-at" field is for pointing out the exact location of your
story. I might be wrong. And I still have no idea why this didn't show when
I looked up "phoenix" at the archives...
--GF