robkelk Wrote:ThisWhy thanks, Rob! That's a beautiful bit of interconnectedness I can throw in just for fun. Think she'd be in on the whole Ninja thing?
comment by Shadowjack in the current IWIW Sailor Moon thread:Quote:Imade me wonder - Is Dr.
notice that it's been fairly consistent what gets [Ami's] righteous
dander up: kids getting hurt, and close friends getting fucked with. Let
us hope that if she ever has kids herself, no one dares touch them,
because she'd call up a tsunami…
Mizuno Ami by any chance the pediatrician for Takamachi Nanoha? It would
explain where the younger MG got some of her attitudes...
I'm kinda interested in the idea of Precia Testarossa getting all the Jewel Seeds she needs to pull off her big interdimensional cross-rip into El Hazard. however, with so many interested parties looking for the blasted things (Nanoha, Precia/Fate, TSAB, AMALGAM, MITHRIL, and Zeke & Friends) it's gonna turn into a cluster-f*** real quick. Of course, some of them will ally with each other once they see where things are going (Nanoha, TSAB, MITHRIL, and Zeke & Friends) but that leaves both AMALGAM and Precia to deal with separately.
Also, there was the brilliant little jewel I thought of here. Guess what? I got the clincher: Precia's still dying of that disease - Usagi's Moon Healing was enough to fix her head, and her body, but not whatever is slowly killing her. Kinda like excising that nasty brain tumor, only to find later on you missed a bit and it's metastasizing. At best, she's probably got a year.
So, Precia spends a few months mothering the hell outta Fate, and also making arrangements with Lindsy to become the legal guardian afterwards... And then she sacrifices what time she has left so that Alicia can be among the living once more.
Also seems to fit in with the series' program of redemption and rebirth through self-sacrifice (remember Reinforce).
Hrm... Alicia Testarossa, Chaos Walker in service to Raven... How's that swing you folks?
Weaponry! Got some ideas there.
For one thing, I think I could see Zeke having something to do with Nanoha's CW-AEC02X Strike Cannon (as discussed here in General). After all, I'm thinking of outfitting him with something like it, only instead of a Belkan cartridge system, it would be directly powered by an emotionally dampened Jewel Seed. At least, that's the prototype, and by then he's got a workshop funded by MITHRIL to work out of. they just love those nifty little toys he's been cooking up like Mage-tech EMP Grenades, and Caster Rifles. *Grins in the direction of Gene Starwind.*
Also, been thinking about the whole sword thing. Yeah, I've seen you guys giving me expectant looks, so I might as well cave.
Zeke's going to have four armor sets that's inspired by Zoids (forget which series - main character had a mysterious White Liger that got outfitted with an awesome modular armor system early on).
Basic is going to be just that - a good all-round set of armor and weaponry.
Jeager is his high-mobility platform - light-weight with speed boosters, relying on one swift strike to fell an opponent.
Schneider is a melee platform. Walking Lawnmowers comes to mind.
Panzer - slow, heavy armor, BFGs, and a mild tendency to overheat.
Weaknesses can be similar. In order to change, Zeke will have get to the mobile unit that's toting the goods, and the change-out takes a moment. This is good because, like in the anime, he could be isolated from the battle tender and be stuck with an entirely ill-suited armor.
Inspiration for 'blade' weapons for Zeke is going to come when he meets a certain group of aliens and he has an up close look at a certain sword. Of course, anything Zeke makes won't stand up to the Tenchi-ken unless he's in all-out God mode. (In which case everything else pretty much just becomes a moot point - Raven calls any weaponry 'added flavor' at this point.)
So, thoughts?