NanoSteps Brainstorming 2 - Stepping Out

[Jorlem]

deserve to be killed in the worst way possible more than Kaoru's grandfather

In fact, after posting that snippet, I began wondering ... what would Doug do to the old s.o.b.?  Who is, after all, "crunchy" (someone else can find out if he's good with ketchup, thank you).  And I came up with the following:
Doug sneaks into the Hanabishi compound on initial recon.  He discovers that Granddad has gone senile and physically feeble, as in canon.  What's more, and not canon, a mind-reading spell informs him  that every now and then, the old man recovers his mental faculties completely, alert and sharp ... and at such times, he's utterly paralyzed physically, unable to so much as blink by his own volition.  The Loon actually wonders for a while if some god did this as a curse on the vile bastard, but there're no traces of supernatural action.  In the end, he decides there's nothing he could do to old Hanabishi that is crueler than what life has already done to him.  He feels, in fact, a bit guilty about not mercy-killing the guy, and muses about dropping by a certain location to see if certain goddesses are there in this world, too, because he'd really like to talk it over with Bell.

And then discovers that the local incarnation of The Mother is not as nice as Bell?  Wasn't one of Doug's biggest surprises in that Step the personalities of the various gods?  Why would he expect to find another incarnation of The Mother with the same personality as Belldandy?
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.