Quote:True, the front of Doug's helmet is his point of maximum vulnerability. No, I was expecting Doug would end up semisorta on their side. (He's dealt with professional assassins before, and given the way he views his own profession, he's not going to be slinging any mud.) In fact, one thing I wanted was to give Kirika a friend who didn't get horribly murdered 25 minutes after she met him.
Well, against your run-of-the-mill Soldat MIB that would probably work, but I wouldn't try it against Kirika. I mean, have you seen the things she does with a gun? After the first two shots missed, she would probably be able to compensate and bounce a bullet through the field into Doug's mouth.
Of course, this would probably make Kirika a candidate for a "little sister", which could possibly put her in the cast of "Girls, Girls, Girls". Yeek. Can you imagine her with that crew?
(Actually, to sorta steal a phrase from EPU, she and Rei Ayanami would probably have many long lacks of conversation with each other...)
Quote:It depends on how literally you take some of the action sequences. It would be interesting if they were on a par with Doug, though; it would make for some wonderful action scenes -- if only I could film them instead of writing them...
It's not as unlikely as you may think: if Noir was within your cosmology, there would be evidence that all its high-powered killers are low level metahumans. Even Mireille (the most "normal" of them) seems to be able to go into "bullet time", which would make their reflexes faster than Doug's, I think.
Quote:It's a good question, and one I've already been thinking about, albeit not in the explicitly magical sense that you have. I don't have an answer yet, but there's got to be a reason that Althena's s faction had vaguely religious overtones...
All the "Grand Retour" ceremony is as good a candidate for a magic ritual as Utena's Duel Game. I wonder just what kind of duties and powers it imposes on the newly anointed Noir?
Quote:To address this on several levels: one, Kirika is clearly near or above age-of-consent; Sana-chan isn't, by a wide margin. Plus Sana-chan did, in Doug's presence, call Rei her "lover and pimp". This is naturally going to evoke a rather different response than finding out that a 16-year-old and a 19-year-old share a bed. (Which I honestly don't remember seeing at all...) Second, Doug is not a homophobe by any measure. Given that the age issue is a non-issue, he's not going to give it any thought.
If Doug has any objection to Kirika and Mireille's relationship (what with them sleeping in the same bed and all), he'd better keep them to himself. If he tried to pull the same stunt on Mireille that he pulled on Sana-chan's Rei, he'd immediately get introduced to Kirika's aforementioned mad gun skillz. ^_^
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-- Bob
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There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.