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RE: Plotbunnies, Pastebin, and Wishlist Thread #2 - robkelk - 08-23-2025
An in-universe wishlist item:
"Washuu-chan, have you seen the communicators they use on Star Trek: Voyager?"
"You want me to build you some toys. In this case, I'm willing because they're useful. And because Tessa asked for them, first. Just don't expect them to be as powerful as they are on the show; nothing that small can send a signal that can reach orbit. But I can add a translator function to them. Design your cases and I'll see what else I can squeeze into them for you."
And too bad Disovery doesn't air season 3 until 2020. Those tribadges with built-in holoemitters look shiny... but nobody in-universe is going to think to ask for anything that fancy. TrekCulture's video about combadges shows them for a moment.
RE: Plotbunnies, Pastebin, and Wishlist Thread #2 - Mamorien - 10-01-2025
Over on EPU's Media forum, I found out about an anime series that reminded me of a character who might or might not fit.
Peter Eng Wrote:I like (...) MIRU: Paths to My Future, which is an anthology centered around MIRU, a robot with time travel abilities and the capacity to calculate potential futures and intervene.
MIRU was built to save humanity by changing the past. Change a policy here, save a diplomat there, pretty soon it makes a big difference!
This would not be the first character doing that, but presumably MIRU doesn't have the disadvantage of the character I went on to mention to a forum full of people who might be capable of caring less, but who I hope will at least humor me.
Allowing for variations from the template, James Gunn, several times in seventies and eighties issues of Analog, Wrote:Your name is Bill Johnson. You have just saved the world, and you don't remember. You may see media coverage of the events, but you will find no mention of your role in them.
For this there are several possible explanations, including the likelihood that I may be lying or deceived or insane. But the explanation on which you must act is that I have told you the truth: you are a man who was born in a future that has almost used up all hope; you were sent to this time and place to alter the events that created the future.
Am I telling the truth? The only evidence you have is your apparently unique ability to foresee consequences—it comes like a vision, not of the future because the future can be changed, but of what will happen if events take their natural course, if someone does not act, if you do not intervene.
But each time you intervene, no matter how subtly, you change the future from which you came. You exist in this time and outside of time and in the future, and so each change makes you forget.
I composed this message last night to tell you what I know, just as I learned about myself one recent morning from a similar message, for I am you and we are one, and we have done this many times before.
Would he be a better fit with the time travelers at Live Oak Manor or (as I suggested over at EPU) the wandering adventurers of Residence 51? Or is his basic gimmick too limiting to mesh well with KanriKyara?
RE: Plotbunnies, Pastebin, and Wishlist Thread #2 - robkelk - 10-01-2025
(10-01-2025, 01:42 PM)Mamorien Wrote: Would he be a better fit with the time travelers at Live Oak Manor or (as I suggested over at EPU) the wandering adventurers of Residence 51? Or is his basic gimmick too limiting to mesh well with KanriKyara?
His gimmick is an excuse to get him to take action, which means he can start off stories with no apparent external cause. That's not a limitation, that's a benefit for whichever story he appears in. (And a potential plot twist, if he suddenly shows up in the middle of a story and tells the protagonist "For the sake of the future, you must not do what you're planning!")
I'd say he fits in better at Residence 51... unless you'd rather start a new residence for your stories. (In North America, we only have residences in 15 US states, 5 Canadian provinces, and one Central American country,, and other continents have even less coverage; there's plenty of room for more.)