[OOC][PLOT] The Return of Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals

[Black Aeronaut]

One idea I'd like to put forward is that special traits and/or talents each of us has wind up getting exaggerated anime-style.

SI-Rob has already demonstrated a superhuman ability to navigate bureaucracy, getting a government grant to get his building going the day after he applied for it.

(There's some truth in television there, though. I was the only one in my work group who got his security clearance renewed before the old clearance ran out, because I knew (a) how to complete the paperwork and (b) who to nudge to get the paperwork processed. It didn't happen in one day, though.)

Useful, buuut...

Okay, how about this.  I know I've put a moratorium on fanfic materials, but it was mainly to keep us from getting swamped by the various fanfic versions of the Sailor Senshi outside the two anime series and the manga.  And this can be explained in that the version of the material that has the strongest following is the one that has the most influence on the Metacontuity - it's that whole malleability thing.

That said...  I would not mind if we started taking on traits of our various SI's.  Nothing OP at first.  It's gonna be little things.  Like for my character it will be the Magic ECM at first - which is gonna be funny as fuck to see Tohsaka Rin react to* - and not much else.  Then a bit later, the nullifier abilities kick in and is first noticed by the Puella Magi when being in Ben's presence suddenly makes them dizzy (AMF field would mess with their Soul Gems' connection to their bodies).

Thoughts?

* Seriously.  I wanna get something written up for the express purpose of Rin jumping out of her damn skin, and then further freaking out when she looks at Ben and sees nothing but a cloud of static that scrambles everything - she can't even tell if he's actually human at first!  I mean, it's gonna be hilarious at first, getting to see a full-on meltdown that is 100% Rin.  But the fallout, though...

Rin:  "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS FREAK OF NATURE!?"
Ben:     ".... i'll... come back later..."

For example, my tendency to sneak up on people who've supposedly "opened their third eye" and completely fuzz out in their plain sight.

In other words, Fate would declare Ben to be a living AMF (Anti-Magic Field) emitter.  Nowhere nearly as strong as The Numbers, but enough that he can effectively tank Nanoha and Fate's low to mid level attacks like Axle Shooter and all-but-completely confound their active search spells.  (The effect is somewhat like the Red October's Caterpillar Drive that makes US Navy sonar computers think they're hearing magma displacements - they can find him, but they gotta be looking REAL carefully.)

"Axle Shooter"? You keep her away from my car! (She can use "Accel Shooter" around the car if she wants, though.)  

Ooops.  Sorry.  

Hmmmmm... cars... racing... Let's rent a course somewhere and do this properly. (Why, yes, SI-Rob does know who to ask, and with his superhuman ability to navigate bureaucracy... ) Stock vehicle race, all comers. Yes, you can tune your car to your liking.

We need more than six entrants, though:

• Ten'no Haruka, driving her ... what is that car that she drives, anyway?
  
• Miyuki Kobayakawa, driving her Toyota Sports 800 (the judges ruled that a Honda Today doesn't count as "stock", being intended for police use)
  
• Sena Wakabayashi, driving her Lotus Super Seven
  
• Soichi Sugano, driving his Caterham Super Seven
  
• Lorna Endo, driving her Lotus Europa
  
• Takumi Fujiwara, driving his Toyota Sprinter Trueno
  

EDIT: Oh, yes - from my devfile:

He looked at the student ID card. "'Axel A. Rayder?' This is bullshit."

"Then tell us your real name."

Doesn't Mamorou drive something like a Ferrari?  I remember that his car is red, convertible, and very fast looking in that Cassette Futurism style of the 80's.

I gotta fast car... 

When it hits 9000rpm, Fire comes out!

Maybe we can do a racing league?