Quote:Subvert the trope! Or use little schoolmarm bifocals, whatever. I just think that the big, round, Fuu-of-the-Magic-Knights look has been overdone. And the hair thing sounds good, then - it's like how Sakura uses her forehead protector, stet?
No, I mean one of those solid plastic bars like what Anri or Bulma wear - she still gets a bit of bang fall, but it holds most of her hair back to fall over her shoulders. Barrette, maybe? For glasses, I meant large-but-not-thick, like the ones used by the cast (the ENTIRE female cast) of G-On Riders, where you mainly only see the frame, unless a shot calls for light reflecting off the lens for drama. Little round ones.... she can kick that much ass, but doesn't have the attitude to want to, generally.
Ep. 7... Beach? Not hot springs? 'Cause besides being inland, Nagano's got plenty of the latter. (Miyou: How -do- you stay so tan, then, anyway? Tsuchi: *blushes -hard-*)
Ep. 8 - Well, besides his budding sideline in supernatural investigations, Kennan is a member of the school yearbook club. Since he's now met Keiu as more than just another inconveniently short person to trip over, he knows that she's probably the best artist in town - and he gets the idea of getting her to do illustrations and graphical design for the upcoming yearbook. Which means he's getting to be friends with her... and leaves -Miyou- in a tizzy trying to decide whether she's genuinely getting wierd vibes of this girl or is just jealous.
The other option would be that Miyou transferred at the beginning of the -winter- semester, so that in-series time is coming up on February... which, as you know, means Valentine's day. Chocolate! Shopping! Jealousy! And Jaan van der Boer telling An Liu to go fuck himself, because -he- ain't gonna risk any more of his troops over some damn overblown lizard's vainglory.
Maeve -despises- her troops, since they're, well, -evil-. Baensidhe, Redcaps, The Wild Hunt, etc. She's quite, quite happy to send them to their dooms.
This does, of course, beg the question of what -she's- doing working for this crowd, for which I hope you have at least a few ideas... maybe she's second generation, an earth-born-and-raised girl who inherited her position from her parents.
Quote:Well, yeah, it could, but I really like the idea of this smallish city nestled in the valley between these spectacular forested mountains - the kind of rough, mostly empty country most people don't think you can find in Japan anymore - with this towering white stone escarpment looming over it and a picturesque old shrine at the very top... I'd say that I'm thinking of something a lot like Seneca Rocks, but you'd have no idea what I was talking about.
Location: The shrine was a cultural field trip, don't forget, which the class took a tour bus to get to. It could easily be an hour or two ride from wherever they are normally.
Anyway, what I had been thinking was that that shrine was the ancient prison of a powerful tiger rakshasa, the same demon that our four generals are working to free. Whiskers, in turn, is a senior lieutenant of Ravana, the evil god who can only be killed by a human.
The ultimate climax of the series, of course, would be that Hobbes -does- get free, and promptly whips up a summoning/manifestation ceremony to bring Ravana himself to the party... which leads to a sequence of massive fights as Mr. Kitty and the surviving generals draw Our Heroes off into these little pocket dimensions so's to keep them from interfering with Ravana while he's still relatively weak from his rebirth. Except, much as their boss did, so many eons ago, they forget that humans aren't always so insignificant as they look.
Maeve vs. An Liu. Keiu vs. Britva. Kennan vs. Bake-tora.
Tsuchi and Miyou vs. Ravana.
Ding ding.
Ja, -n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."