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As for who my Lead latches on to - it was Crush who kept him from falling until someone arrived to help her pull him up, even Friend having to stop helping her to catch the gaki. As for where the rest of the series goes - Lately I'm on a ninja (courtesy of naruto) and magic/monsters (courtesy of FFX) kick, so something Mai HiME-ish wouldn't be a big suprise. Only with more ninja, and an external enemy instead of a Highlander thing.
Ninja? Demons?
Both!
-She's- a super-duper quiet badass ninja (with explosive Ni-tou-ryuu salad shooter action!). -He's- a particularly big, spiny dragon in a people suit. It's a match made in heaven!
I'm seeing the big revelation scene, three or four episodes in after all the relationships are established, where the invading evil demons (as opposed to the good immigrant demons, whose parents and grandparents moved to Earth centuries ago and who just want to make an honest living like any other honest taxpayer) or a rival ninja clan or something try and get to Crush by attacking Lead and kidnapping him or tying him up or something, so they can kill her while she's distracted. For a while, it sort of works, until he figures it out and we see the villian gloating over her battered form (and conveniently ignoring the evil minions or detached bits thereof that she's scattered across the landscape by the truckload), then hear this sort of ripping sound off-screen... He turns to look and CHOMP, gone in a flash.
Then she slaps him for worrying her like that, which is sort of funny since he's still looking more like a T-rex than an ape at the time.
And of course, at least half of the fun, between the occaisional bouts of ass-kicking, would be that they're having this perfectly normal high-school romance - She's -not- a puzzled outsider who's never seen pop culture before, and -he's- not a dateless wimp who couldn't grow a spine if his life depended on it, so that'd set the cliches nicely on their heads while still being tooth-rottingly sweet.
Quote:Oh. Sorry, then. ^_^
More to the point... it's an outline, not a fic. Spelling is only relevant in so far as it gets the point across without undue distortion.
Anyway, now that I'm not all tired of writing anymore, here's Concept 2:
The overall plot for this isn't quite as developed, so I'll start by setting the scene rather than just telling about the episode. The primary setting is a terraformed gas giant, which, through some astronomic or biological agency which we will Not Investigate Too Closely, is made up mostly of heavier gases, rather than hydrogen and helium. Specifically, nitrogen and oxygen, at about a 7:3 ratio.
Cue floating islands, thanks to little protist-sized coral anologues that leave their silicon aerogel skelotons full of hydrogen when they die. Since there are a number of aspects of the local ecology that rely on 'mining' heavier elements from deeper pressure ranges, there's enough metals and such to support a modest degree of civilization, if you're willing to hunt the critters down to get the raw materials.
Oh, and the largest moon is earthlike, too, if rather low-G.
So, since interstellar civilization collapsed hundreds of years ago, we have this 1920s-ish society living with the open skies and frequent hurricane-grade storms of the giant's habitable pressure gradients. Most of the major power blocks are single nations occupying the Madagascar-to-Australia-sized 'islands' that the denser coral species grow, which also puts them low enough to be fairly warm and catch plenty of rain. The main exception to that 'lowlander's club' is a NATOish alliance of the smaller, high-altitude islands, which are rather drier and colder.
Our Hero is from one of those high islands, and he's a rather Keiichi-ish sort of fellow, except for the blond hair and dark green eyes (neither of which is terribly remarkable on his home island), who makes his living flying the short-ranged armed biplanes that the government highers to chase away some of the more troublesome sorts of local wildlife (like, say, the cessna-sized pack hunting carnivores, or the inquisitive grazing species which happens to be big enough to make a 747 look petite). Now, one fine day as he's walking home, and who should drop out of the sky but a girl! In a parachute and, um, not much else, even.
Which is how he meets the Fish-out-of-water. Who is about 4' 10", has long black hair, and is built like Jen Connelly or your average shounen anime heroine, however you want to phrase it. Her eyes are wierd-colored and don't match - one is bright gold, the other is sort of a purple-pink color - both shades you'd see in a particularly nice sunset, for reference.
Then there's a period of several episodes where she learns the language and they get to know each other, including establishing that she's an astronaut from Up There whose spaceship broke up while it was doing a sampling pass through the gas giant's atmosphere. Since the colony on Aoitsuki is about eighty or ninety years farther along the road back to the stars, we get to see her play the Connecticut Yankee game, and things seem to be setting up for a light-hearted romp.
Then they go visit the local equivalent of the World's Fair, showing off some of her 'inventions', and they attract the eye of the power-hungry Priest-King of the most powerful country in the world. Cue hair-raising escape, capture of Miss Fish, and Hero's efforts to raise an army capable of defeating the tyrant and rescuing her - or at least making enough of a stink that she can rescue herself.
I'm not sure what -she- gets up to in the meantime, but I know there's something - space programs do -not- pick shrinking violets to handle important scientific missions.
Ja, -n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."