Quote:The SEP joke...just popped into my head as I was ending that paragraph. It's just so natural, y'know? o_o/
I'm tempted to bill you for the keyboard that I shorted out due to massive spewage of Mountain Dew because of that line. (I kid, I kid! ^_^)
Quote:I think it's clear I like puns as much as you. "Cuckoo teacher". Although, as I noted, Herman is actually a riff on Invincible - where a Physics teacher turns out to be a villain, metal torso and all. So I thought...what would a History teacher be? Of course, the evil teacher thing's also an anime cliche, so there's some synchronity there.
The Cuckoo teacher was almost as funny as the above line, and somehow a little scary as well. Guess he was wound a little too tightly, eh? (Innocent look)
But yeah, he's vaguely sinister too, if you really think about it.
Quote:The trouble is...and this is what makes her different from the rest of the contingent...Space Mage would actively encourage him...
Hmm... a Magical Girl that draws her power from the SHINING LIGHT OF YOUTH!? Congratulations, your now Shining Kamen's new targ... I mean best friend!
Quote:Thanks, I always get that one wrong. Fixed.
Only error I noticed was that you want sheathing, not sheaving.
Quote:I figured the Ozymandias joke should be easy to catch, since the line's quoted often enough - in fact, I misquoted the poem, myself. But regardless, I had to do something like that. I mean, the guy's an evil teacher!
I love classical references in humour; they are tough to pull off well, fly past a lot of readers, but are so worth the effort.
Incidentally, the "HISTORICAL INEVITABILITY" thing is a reference to Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Quote:That'd probably end up with a Paragon Times headline to the effect of:
Now we just need to put all the Legendary and ECL magical girls together in a big cross-server mission furball... Do we have eight magical girls total?
LEGENDARY REFUSES TO PAY VILLAIN THERAPY BILLS
Quote:It'll end in tears. I know it.
I'd love to see how the Space Mage would react to meeting Yukiyo who is an even worse space case mage.
Not tears for Yukiyo, not tears for Space, but tears for everyone else.
-- Acyl