For now, I call this idea "Jailbait."
Typical magical-girlfriend romantic comedies tend to have an appropriate age gap between the nebbish and his girlfriend.
Let's twist it thus: Nebbish makes a wish for a "perfect girlfriend" at age 15 or so. As usual for the genre, he gets it granted, but, in this case, 15 years later. Whether whatever agency granting his wish could not find a suitable girl living at that time and had to raise one from scratch, or they were busy fulfilling a difficult wish like "I wish I was Prezz'dent like mah daddy:" it makes little difference to the comedy that will ensue, because she is the equivalent of 15-16 years old when she meets our nebbish.
Instead of merely being painfully shy, our "hero" also has to deal with the fact that if he takes what is offered, he will go immediately to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200. What makes it worse, is that she *IS* a perfect significant other for the nebbish. She argues just enough that their relationship isn't boring. She's attractive but not totally outclassing the guy. Of course, she wants to advance the relationship in a manner that the nebbish would have had no trouble accepting when he was 15-16 himself.
She picked her name while he was ranting about how he was going to jail for getting caught with "lolicon." So our MG is named "Lori Kahn."
Meh. Just an idea that hit me while driving.
Edit: GAH! Bob could you move this to Other People's Fanfiction?
Edit: Done. And I removed the "Please move this" from the subject. -- Bob
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Y'see, while I was on tonight I got an idea and built a character to a certain theme, thinking that surely someone would have thought of it before...
But the name 'Servant Rider' was untaken, at least on Infinity.
Edit: Never mind, apparently there just hadn't been a big enough fan of Her Leather Majesty yet. Sigh.
Ja, -n

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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"

I had a minor revelation about Abe during the meet.
He's on leave from Heaven, walking around in a technically-naked marble statue... he did everything he could to keep the Union united, winning a war in which his side did not fire the first shot...
Abraham Lincoln, Saint of Stone.
(Which means that he'll never actually land the first blow in combat... just get in people's faces and wait for them to hit him or a teammate.)
It makes so much sense on so many levels...
--Sam
(Bad crossover idea of the day: Saint Seiya versus In Nomine.)

...are apparently not so imaginary.

"Are these the missiles you were talking about?"
Fair warning. Prepare to suppress lots of laughter if you're at work. ^_^
(I could have put this in "General", but I thought that it had more relevence here. Heh heh...)-Logan
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"This kind of thing tends invariably to devolve into the kind of "No, Nakajima, THIS is true power!!" argument that only really works if you're yelling it from the cockpit of a giant robot . . ."
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Min got him! For those of you who didn't know the story, Min changed her costume to surprise Wide Receiver during the Numina TF tonight. Photo attached. Here is his reaction:

[Team]Minuet Mac Hine: Wide? Say that football thing.
[Team]Bella Fuego: Wide, it is impolite to stand in the ghost.
Wide Receiver: ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!?
Minuet Mac Hine: I'm ready Coach!
Wide Receiver hugs
[Team]Superball: Waaait for it, wait for it...
[Team]Wide Receiver: Sooo. cute, Min
[Team]Bella Fuego: That is so cute.
[Team]Superball: SCORE!
[Team]Minuet Mac Hine: You like?
[Team]Wide Receiver: Very much
[Team]Pretty Witty Kitty: You are one lucky man, Wide
www.asdepique.ca/gallery/d/8741-1/Min+Football+Uni.jpg

So...I've got a new story idea.
I'm not sure if/when I'll get around to this, but I'm assuming I'll write it at some point. That point may not be soon - hell, it may be months before I get round to writing this - but it'll come eventually. I think. If only 'cause it'll include a good number of the Legendary characters. And that's unusual for me, since I usually don't dream up plots involving large casts.
It's a fairly simple idea. I don't wanna give too much away...
...but I'm gonna give a vague outline of the scenario, 'cause there's some questions I need to ask you folks about. For input, and so on. There's details I need to settle, and it's hard when I don't, y'know, know all the characters involved personally.
So. Most of the Legendary is recalled to base on priority alert. Well, actually it's a complete SG recall, but things being what they are, not everyone arrives at the same time. As people start to port in, well, it seems nobody has any idea what's going on. Until Evangelia arrives, and everyone starts to question her...then it turns out...she's clueless too.
Before Lora'Lai can check the comm system to see if they've been pranked or something...
...wham.
Some time later, everyone slowly comes to, emerging from various states of unconsciousness. They're still in the SG base...except...it isn't the same base. The power's out, the place looks abandoned...like it's been abandoned for some time...
And back in Paragon City, the remaining members of the Legendary arrive on the scene...to find their colleagues gone.
'cause...yeah. They've been pranked, alright. Pranked across space-time.
(mild spoiler, it's not time travel we're dealing with, but alternate dimensions)
Now, I'm figuring the Infamous is responsible for this. I'm looking at Mace Mac Hine, really - but the question is, would he really do something that could fatally endanger his siblings? I'm not quite sure what his deal is, and how far he's fallen out with the family. 'course, it's entirely possible he didn't know something this drastic was gonna happen. Or his collaborators didn't tell HIM everything...and certain strife among the ranks as a result.
The other questions...
For the characters stranded in another dimension, in the wrecked base...I expect, under Eva's leadership, the group'd do two things - one, investigate and secure the ruined base, and two, send out scouting parties.
(I imagine it'd be a ruined Boomtown-ish section of city outside)
Which begs the question...where IS the Legendary base supposed to be, anyway? Is it underground? In a building somewhere?
The "Your OTHER Skills" thread I had going...was pretty helpful for me, in forming a general idea of who'd be good for such things. The techies would be useful for securing the base...I'm drawing more of a blank on who they'd send out as intelligence-gathering parties, though, into the ruined city area outside. Wide Receiver and Syndesis spring to mind, because they're speedsters. Fast land scouts. A stealth party, as well...QB Kitsune, with all that kunoichi stuff (and the fact she'd be scared stiff out there)...and who? Not Gil, I have plans for Gil. Perhaps a couple of fliers, for an aerial sweep. Who'd be good at that? Bella, perhaps, based on sheer field experience...?
Any suggestions with regards to things your characters would do in such a scenario? For intelligence out there, or trying to discover what happened from the base computers, or trying to get the facility operational again.
Then there's the other half of the Legendary, mind - everyone who wasn't caught in the event, everyone who hadn't yet arrived in-base before the transition. They'll probably be trying to figure out just what happened to their friends, and...eventually will be over on Peregrine Island yelling at Portal Corp scientists, because we need to use one of your gateways NOW...
So that's another angle. There's gonna be folks investigating the mystery back in Paragon. I'm looking at Gil, Thibor and the IST crew, maybe Fallgone (though I'm not entirely sure how Fallgone's speech patterns run). Morganni's alluded that Alexis and Mirami are dimensional travellers...do they have their own independent means to jump worlds? If so, they're almost certainly gonna HAVE to be in the "stay home" crew, unless there's something in the "lost dimension" blocking 'em...in any case, what kind of expertise in that field would they have?
For that matter, who else has experience with alternate worlds? Bella, Syndesis, and Palindrone have probably done a lot of portal-hopping, at their security level...Looney's travelling isn't precisely under his own control, but...
(Yes, I have a lot of questions. o_o)
-- Acyl

...a good COH character designer? I know some names were bandied about here six or more months ago; what's currently good and up to date?
Thanks!
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

Before it got totally incomprehensible, a dream I had last night involved someone else who used song-based magic, who rejected the idea of keeping a copy of a song that let her create a simulacrum of Looney Toons.
Which, now that I'm awake, makes me wonder, what song would do that?
-Morgan."I have no interest in ordinary humans. If there are any aliens, time travelers, or espers here, come sleep with me."
---From "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
-----(Not really)

Having seen the Pargon Knights site, I definitely want to make a 'group shot' like theirs features (and perhaps some nifty trading cards to). To this end, I will require screenshots of you favorites.