M Fnord Wrote:I don't like the CUD answer, because it's a cop-out and a compromise we came up with the last time this dramabomb dropped - and it didn't work. So I'm with KJ in that it's time to drop the uncertainty and just make a damn decision on the subject. I kind of like SR4's idea for sheer ballsiness of premise, but a combination of biomods and audacity works just as well for me. Also, we can probably write off the whole "Haruhi is Haruhi" idea since going by the responses nobody really wants to drive down that road.
Mal has spoken. Time to stop chewing the CUD.
[size=smaller](No, I'm not sorry.)[/size]
And I agree about jettisoning the "Haruhi is Haruhi" idea. I signed up to take part in an original shared-world, not a shared MoHS fanfic.
ECSNorway Wrote:4. No one is so far aware of Item #3 above. It would take examination by a technogenius on the level of Skuld or Washuu to detect it. (No, Li Kohran is not on that level yet, nor is Montgomery Scott.) This may in fact take place during the "GGG" incident, seeing as how Skuld is apparently involved in it.
If anyone in Fenspace is at that level, it's Dee. Even the Professor isn't that good. And Skuld's gift to Kohran (and the similar ones to Yayoi and Sora) doesn't have that kind of scanning ability.
More importantly, there is a plot point near the end of Chapter 5 (or maybe 6) of Legend of Galactic Girls that requires the Girls and Haruhi to not meet, so I'm using author veto (for the first time in a few years!) on that idea. Besides, Mal already established that they're stuck on Mars for most of the time the Girls are in-universe.
ECSNorway Wrote:5. Certain members of the cast may or may not actually have powers associate with their depictions in the manga/anime. Some of these may or may not be faked, real, or a combination thereof. It is entirely possible, for example, that Mikuru really is a pair of twins, both of whom have (rather limited) teleportation or other time/space/weirdness abilities. Like most such details, the exact nature is left up to the needs of the story.
I would very much like to avoid Mikuru having actual time-travel powers, or Yuki having omnipotence. Either makes it difficult to believably create tension in a story.
I'm not happy about teleportation; that comes close to a Limit Break. But I still have an open mind on that.
I do like the Mikuru/Kurumi idea that Bob and I have been tossing around in this thread. Whether they're all-natural humans, biomods, CIs, or a mix of any two of the above is less important, but if we vote on Asahina being two people, my vote's "yes." (Hmmmmm... I like the thought of Kurumi being the original who built a lookalike 'bot for fits and giggles, but it awakened to become Mikuru. That would be different... Alternately, has anyone else here seen Figure 17? Riffing on that, maybe they're only hyper-competent when they're together.)
Cobalt Greywalker Wrote:Besides, the SOS-Dan don't meet up with the Girls AFAIK, unless Rob's been misdirecting us with his hints.
There are no purposeful misdirections in my hints. (Accidental ones, maybe, but I like to think that I play fair.)
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
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