fics each day... and there are just a couple of points I wanted to
clarify, judging from your confusion.
'kay...
..Dragon slave cast in the SM universe?
Typo, I presume. A mental one. But still funny.
No. Didn't you read chapter 1? She didn't get to finish casting it, but
there was definitely stock footage.
Ah.. Yes, I checked. A dragon, you say? This from Next, I presume...
gotta check, I guess... Though one would presume it should be
Shabby-chan instead, But I'm no authority on stock footage...
Who said anything about Try? Though it might be a bit of a spoiler,
this
Lina comes from the end of Next. Lina had left Naga's company (or
vice
versa) long before she met Gourry, if I haven't got my timelines
mixed
up. Didn't Lina learn the Dragon Slave while traveling with Naga?
I think she knew it *before* she met Naga. Giga Slave, too, afaik...
Not really important, though.
No. My point was that Lina had met all of the characters she mentions
well before Try. If I'd mentioned Philia, I could understand your
confusion.
Oh. I *always* start with the presumption that it's post-whatever is
the currently latest of a certain episode. Next you're going to have
Ryoko going "Washuu who?" on me, ain't ya...
Of course, end of Next is a good place, since Try isn't canon (the canon
is the novels, IMO. Try's still great, though...) *sigh* I guess you could
say there's that canon and the Anime canon, but I really don't care...
I'm not really sure how much of 'is work was posted here. I've read
most of it at his website.
Hmm... where's that? (If you're just replying to this, do it
privately... I don't want my first real fic discussion to turn into
spam!)
http://www.iguild.com/homes/kazama/
I think...
Lina, surprisingly, has probably the easiest time killing people.
After all,
she comes from somewhat paper-cut 'Sword and Sorcery' world.
But generally she's fighting bandits or evil mages or creatures. Not
innocent people. She's been known to defend innocent people.
True, but they're not exactly fighting 'innocent' people. I mean their
opponents are fighters, they knew the risks, right?
But even Lina can tell who the good guys and bad guys are in this
universe. She's not used to having to kill good guys.
True, true.
Although, "good guys" vs. "bad guys" is so, black-and-white.
With her, there is quite a lot of liberty with how she'll deal with
moral
conflicts. If Gourry's in a crystal(again) ^^; it has been shown she's
willing to risk the destruction of universe, so what are few
innocents...
Only when her foe is about to destroy or conquer the universe anyway. I
could see her taking that risk to, say, cast the Giga Slave against
Beryl. Her real problem is weighing the lives of the Sailor Scouts,
total strangers defending a universe that she'll be leaving as soon as
she kills them, against what's in her crystal.
Point, I guess.
Possibly... but she often takes actions not only without thinking of
what Tenchi will feel, but they usually end up being exactly what Tenchi
least wanted her to do. Still, I think chapter 1 shows that Ryoko can
have mixed emotions toward the prospect of innocents. She's willing to
fight the Sailor Scouts, but can't bring herself to kill a truly
innocent girl. Now that they've been ordered to do exactly that, if they
choose the wrong girl...
Mm.
Hmm... I think Ranma's the only one without previous experience on
having someone close being trapped in a crystal... Strange.
Hmmm... I hadn't really considered that. Interesting point, though.
Obviously a coincidence.
Also, unless it's Washuu that's being used as a bait against Ryoko,
the Number one genius scientist in the universe is bound to interfere
eventually. Except if this is pre-Kagato. Or some other than
OAV-Ryoko.
Don't tell, OK ^.^
Speculation is half of the fun.
OK, I won't tell. But judging by what Beryl says in the Prologue, you
may be able to guess the answer to this question.
Darn, now where did I put that prologue...
The reason for that will be at least subtly hinted at, if not made
completely clear, in chapter 3.
..Which youre writing right now, right? Right!
Lina looks the same, but without her jewelry (the amulets, earrings,
and
so on). It may seem ineffective, but the Sailor Scouts' tiaras and
miscellaneous jewelry disguises them adequately... (In chapter 3,
Lina
is rather irritated that Stephanie doesn't recognize her as Amelia,
and
brings this point up to herself.) Ryoko doesn't have a disguised
form,
which is why she has to wait in the Negaverse while Ranko and
Amelia
go
to school.
Ah. But *surely* she's capable of changing her appereance... even
by herself, if neccessary. Or maybe it's not something she can do
without the senshi picking it up, and QB knew this... Or maybe
it's because her physiology is so alien, that even if she changed
her appereance, she could be simply detected for being such an
alien life-form, or...
^_^ Um, sure. Sounds good to me. I can't remember her ever coming up
with a decent disguise, though... she once split herself into two copies
just for fun, but I don't think she could fight that way.
Official information is that, while she can split herself, she can't split
the gem that powers her. Even Zero couldn't fabricate that, remember?
Ryoko, however, can do a copy that functions somewhat alike the gem,
but it doesn't have nearly the same amount of power. Also, I presume
a copy gem couldn't be used to control the demons she can create.
So... a copy Ryoko could probably do hand to hand, fight and teleport,
but couldn't do any energy attacks, matter transformations etc.
Dunno, there isn't a precedence in that. Maybe the double could do
everything, but each of them would have only half of the power.
Also, notice how Ryoko's mass didn't change when... er, near the
end of the OAV:s, so I presume he's really somewhat more complex
being than he appears to be, probably filling a few subspace matrices.
Though let's not get any further on speculating that...
Lina and
Ranma's changes, as well as those of the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo
Mask,
are magically enhanced. Ryoko's wouldn't be.
Bah!
I guess I'll wait and see.
That also works.
(Maybe I'll send a teaser of the fight scene I'm working on, if
anyone really wants to see it.)
Nah, save it for when you really need it.
Right. It may give me incentive to write the rest a bit faster (without
losing quality, hopefully) to get to this scene. Still...
Oh well, maybe I'll be able to finish the fourth part of the Ran Wars
MST sometime soon.
- Nidoking
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