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Heh... is it a coincidence that my last daily chapter is the one
that's
turning into a serial discussion? I've been waiting for this for a
long
time! ^_^
It's always nice... Feel free not to reply to this one, if you feel
you're
getting overworked, or kept away from writing your 'fics.
Nah... I need something to do now that I'm not devoting time to sending
fics each day... and there are just a couple of points I wanted to
clarify, judging from your confusion.
..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.
I'm betting their bodies couldn't handle it, or some equivalent
^.^
(hands 1000yen to Nabiki)
You've lost your money.
Damn!
Well, at least it was just yen. Imagine betting 1000 dollars on that...
AFAIK Lina was 15 or 16 when she met gourry, and eighteen during
Try. Actually, I think she's slighly taller in Try...
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.
I actually (sorry) haven't read any of Allyn's work, or at least
don't
recognize the name. My free time is pretty limited, so I just stick
with
the stories that catch my interest. I could probably quantify which
stories those are, but I won't bore you with details. I've only been
reading from the FFML for a few months, so if the story was started
before this summer and never reposted from the beginning, I
generally
don't get into it.
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!)
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.
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.
The Space Pirate Ryoko wouldn't have much problems either, though
current Ryoko(after Tenchi) might.
Right... she certainly has enough history of violence in her past
that
killing will come rather naturally to her, particularly with the
added
incentive of protecting what Beryl has in her crystal. But even
Ryoko
has a compassionate side.
True. Besides, she'd surely be prone to consider how Tenchi would feel
if she went out killing innocent people.
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...
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.
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.
By the way, I noticed the mysterious fifth general has not made an
appereance in quite a while... What are you plotting?
(again, don't tell)
The reason for that will be at least subtly hinted at, if not made
completely clear, in chapter 3.
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. 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
BURNS: What is this? Some kind of force field around these vegetables!
HOMER: That's the sneeze guard. You have to lean under it to get food or
sneeze on stuff.
JOHNNY BRAVO: *sigh* The only woman I ever really loved... and she's
gone. I wonder if I'll ever get over - Hey! Nuggets!
JACKIE CHAN: Oh, sorry. I broke your spy camera! (pause) SPY CAMERA?!
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