Necratoid Wrote:For the first chapter I find the transformation sequence/seal loosening bit Clunky. I'm really not sure how she managed know who her mom was. Her dad was listed as unhelpful in the extreme. She apparently didn't read it off the compact. No flash of insight. She just randomly seemed to suddenly know for no detailed reason. Is this just me not having the historical background to recognise the compact from legend... it just felt like rather clunky. Like I somehow missed a paragraph.It could be a lack of context, yes. Being told one is descended from a Japanese god who sends one a mirror is somewhat like being told that one is descended from an American folk-legend who sends one an axe... It's no big stretch to assume "Amaterasu" in the first case or "Paul Bunyan" in the second, because the items are so closely linked to the characters.
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Rob Kelk
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