[FFML] [Kiddy Grade]Gazing at the Cosmos - pro

[Bert Miller]

Cool!  A Kiddy Grade fanfic.  Lots of material to explore in this 
series, since so little was explained.

NiteFlier wrote:
> She shivered at the thought of Sol, and its third planet. She hadn't
> thought she would ever go back to that system, not after joining the
> GOTT. True, she had visited shortly before that time, to check the
> accounts, but as always, they were being taken care of.
>   
"accounts"?  This could certainly use some additional explanation.  Is 
this supposed to mean that Eclair keeps or kept her money on Earth, and 
that she has as much as Lumiere (or more, being older)?
> Nouvlesse to accept those they considered 'Common'. Ah, why did Alv
> choose to take over the Deucalion? What terrible grievance did she hold
> against not only the Nouvlesse, but all Mankind?
Actually, I thought Alv was considerably clearer about her motivations 
than Chevalier was.  She didn't hate "all mankind", but she hated the 
Nouvlesse with a passion, for never letting her die.

>  Did Dvergr ever truly know her daughter? 
Yes, IMO.
> Did she know what Alv was planning?
>   
No; she didn't care.  Alv was her daughter; she was going to help Alv 
whatever it was.

> She sighed again, such things were beyond her. She was... weary. 
The denoument of the series had Eclair her usual cheery self.

> Yes,
> that was the word. She remembered the last time she had been this
> weary. She had chosen to forget. All of her life, everything from the
> rolling mountains of her birthplace, to her partner, her mirror.
>
> She shifted in her seat, turning just enough to see the childlike
> countenance of her partner. Her soft teal hair modeled by nanomachines,
> her eyes almost closed, hands splayed on the console in front of her.
> She was obviously engaged with Wirbelwind, doing only they knew what.
>
> She was just a bit jealous of her partner. After all, while she could
> understand Donnersclag, it was entirely different to hold a
> conversation with him. But her partner, her amazing partner with her
> 'Particle', could do so much more than she with her 'Power'.
>   
At the end of the series, as I recall, Lumiere was back in child form, 
unable to hold on the adult form she needs in order to use 'Particle'.  
She should be stuck with 'Puppet'.
> * * * * *
>
> ~Another thirty minutes, fifteen seconds to Gate Out. Local time will
> be 2216.~
>
> ~Thank you Wirbelwind. Have you picked up any other anomalies?~
>
> ~Negative, all scans since that point have shown nothing.~
>
> ~Ah, well. Thank you.~
>
> She closed the link between them, and opened her eyes. It was rather
> nice, being in hyperspace. She could easily ignore the data she
> received from outside of the La-Muse, and Wirbelwind would report any
> problems from within the ship. She looked over at her partner's seat,
> to see the taller woman watching her.
>
> She smiled, "Are you all right, Éclair?"
>
> She frowned when she received no response, then noted the somewhat
> blank look in her partner's eyes. "Éclair. Éclair!" She sighed and
> moved closer. "Éclair!" Frowning deeper, she drew in a breath.
> "PHÈDRE!"
>
> Her partner started, and nearly fell out of her chair. She stifled a
> giggle at Éclair's position, laying halfway over Donner's head, with
> her rear high in the air. 
The obligatory panty shot.
> "That's not a very elegant position, Éclair,"
> she said, suppressing her laughter.
>
> "Why, O dearest partner mine, did you find it necessary to call me by
> that name?" came the contralto voice from beneath her.
>
> She rolled her eyes, secure in the knowledge that Éclair couldn't see
> her. "I called out 'Éclair' three times. And I was not going to try to
> shake you, not after what happened last time."
>
> Her partner levered herself up, looking her in the eye. "That was
> three decades ago, Lumière. Things change, you know."
>
> "Not us."
>   
Suggest "not with us."
> Éclair looked at her oddly and she felt her face flush at her
> outburst.
>   
If that was an outburst, suggest you say so, for instance, "Not us!," 
Lumiere replied sharply.
> "No," Éclair agreed. "Not us." She sat herself back in her chair, and
> glanced at the empty bench at the rear of the cabin.
>
> She followed her partner's gaze, and frowned slightly again. Their
> appointed keeper, the Auditor Armbrust, declined to join them on this
> excursion, and Chief Eclipse allowed it, rather than insisting that he
> join them as in times previous. Both of them wondered what it might
> mean.
>   
Umm... the fact that Eclair has her memories back?  I thought they had 
an auditor with them because they were a junior, in fact THE junior, 
team, at the beginning of the series:  both 'C' class; Eclair a de-facto 
new hire.
> "What were you thinking of?" she asked softly. "You were so intent, so
> collected upon one thing..."
>
> Éclair drew in a long, slow breath, then closed her eyes and let it
> out in a drawn out sigh. "How long have we been with the GOTT?"
>
> She blinked in confusion. "Almost sixty years. Why?"
>   
I'd have thought considerably longer.  Episode one established that GOTT 
was about 200 years old, if I recall correctly, and we know that Eclair 
and Lumiere were the ones who fired the last(?) Geo-Sort bomb on behalf 
of GOTT, again roughly 200 years ago.  They should have been with GOTT 
since it's founding, I'd have thought.
> Éclair sat back in her seat, and brushed her bright red hair out of
> her eyes.
Bright red?  I thought Eclair's hair was purple at the end of the series?

> bits and pieces. Helping those famine victims in the Orion cluster, and
> smuggling foodstuffs and other necessities from beneath that damn
> overlord's nose!"
Nice additions.
>  She stopped and turned, looking at her partner.
> "Remember when we used to go roof hopping? Just the two of us,
> exploring a city at night. I... I want to go back to those days. Back
> to when we didn't know Eclipse.
..and couldn't be resurrected when we die.
>  Didn't have our debt to her." She
> slumped, tirade over.
>