Necratoid Wrote:Lina isn't actually evil.. she is just really, really haunted by annoyingly stupid people. Seriously, stupid people. Most of her negative nicknames are entirely based on things bandits call her... random people seem to have a major thing for repeating them all like some kind of deranged mingame... They seem to entirely miss the stuff about city killer spells and taking down armies and demon lords and instead just start mocking her from five feet away... it may be a curse she picked up. Like the one that attracts the largest boobs in a ten mile radius and has them following her around.I think the citybusters and taking down armies is where "Enemy of All Who Live" comes in, actually. Espescially given how often those are just the collateral damage of what she's actually intentionally doing... you're prtty safe if you're behind or beside her, otherwise it's a bit hazardous being on the same planet and you never, ever want to be downrange.
Quote:Speaking of which... The LON drops her off after in a certain variation of Tokyo without a clue how to speak the native language... though for some reason she keeps having giant brested women keep trying to makeout with her at random (fireballs ensue). In a related note, one 'not clumsy, Kuno; girl seems to have won the right to start the new age of the gods after falling on a small child and knocking her out coldI don't get the reference here, unless it's supposed to be Ranma... I don't think they really look all that much alike, and usually the girs only want to make out with him in male form. As for Lina's self-image problems, her bust is only small compared to Naga (who is at least a couple years older than the 16ish Lina) early-bloomer Amelia who it's strongly hinted her older sister is in fact disgiused as Naga and hence has similar genetic blessings, and M-something the even-more-Naga-than-Naga character from later TV seasons; or even more specifically those giant shoulderpads Lina tends to wear. In the few scenes where she dresses more casually she looks like a normal teenager.
What would be some other places it would be funny to drop her? I've seen DADA professor at Hogwarts, and HP's grandmother for that matter, and am currently reading Blood The Flows that has her as Nanoha's mother... having her pop up in Halkegenia in time to be one of the mercenaries hired by Foquet to disrupt the letter mission (and turn it down on learning she'd be atttacking a couple of kids, but follow sicne this is looking suspiscoipusly like banditry and if there's one thing bandits are good for it's a supply of local currency, as long as you get them when they're in the act so your use of highly explosive magic is justifiable to those moaning wet blanket town guards) would lead to an amuzing amount of pyrotechnics after meeting Louise. It would take some skilled writing to balance out, but I'd also like to see her somewhere wildly off-genre, like the Launch Day invasion in original Macross, or the Harringtonverse circa one of the ground actions. The difficulty involved is what makes those two Should Not Be's, because it's so unlikely to come together even with a skilled writer.
For really serious levels of Wrong, you'd have to go to something otherwise relentlessly hard-realism like the Jack Ryan/Rainbow 6 universe, whose author I cannot remember the name of, Sherlock Holmes, or Bertie Wooster & Jeeves. Can you imagine something written in Watson's voice as he described Holmes dealing with the mysterious appearance of a someone like her?
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