Quote:Be fair - Remus and Romulus were twins from old Roman mythology... it's just that one founded a city and the other didn't.
... ergo ... I spent the time I'd been intending to spend on writing more on revising and editsu of the stuff that I've already got. And 'lo, I sweatdropped when I found I've got somewhere in the vicinity of 200K of text invested in this project. I'll likely post the compilation sometime during the weekend. And yes, I've changed the bloopers. Jipang is now Zipang. And I'd found I'd messed up Remus and Romulus. Honestly? I blame myself. I wasn't recalling clearly and thought - okay, which is more likely the name of a country? The name of someone from old Roman mythology, or the name of the werewolf from Harry Potter? Shows what my seemingly logical reasoning brought me. Oh well, it's corrected in the compilation.
You've probably picked up by now that I'd done a lot of thinking about the potential applications of the various powers of the HiME and their Childs, and included my speculations in that packet of information that had gotten passed around while I was trying to get them all pointed in the same direction as the HiME-sentai. Some of those abilities were fairly straightforwards, and I hadn't been able to see how to do much with them... Natsuki and Duran as a case in point... but I'd had some thoughts about Mai.
In the show, she'd been depicted as having two real abilites - flight, and a sort of protective shield. it had seemed to me that, depending on the particular characteristics of that shield, it might have offensive uses as well as defensive ones. For instance, if she could specifically mold and shape it, then a bomb could likely be made by encompassing a volume of air and then compressing it down to some (hopefully) much smaller volume - between simple expansion and compressional heating, the effect should be pretty impressive. Using it effectively, though, would require being able to either open only one part of the containing 'marble' - the side pointed at the target - or maintaina seperate field to protect her from the backlash.
When that first Orphan jumped the picnic she, Mikoto and Shizuru had been having, it had apparently decided to call for help, first thing, which was why the other monsters had shown up so quickly when they had started out spreading out all across the campus. The fact that the largest of them could fly, and gave its lesser bretheren an airlift, helped too. While the other HiME were occupied with the groundbound ones, Mai had been tackling that Orphan.
It looked... lord, I'm hardly sure how to describe it. Cross a jetliner with a seagull with a catamaran with the front ends of four different cuttlefish and you might have something about right. It had two bodies, both with tentacles and suckered arms on either end, and a single great long wing that both connected the two and extended far off to the sides.
Mai had started out only trying to distract it from causing her friends problems, using the same cannonball tactics she'd applied against the Ecchi Monster, but, well, the reason I compare the critter to a squid rather than an octopus or something was that it had these pairs of especially long tentacles that it threw out like harpoons or something - they were quite thin, in scale, perhaps no thicker than your leg, but nearly twice as long as it was, and they moved fast. It couldn't hit quite hard enough to actually knock down Mai's shield, but even if it wasn't able to hurt her, the transferred force was still enough to knock her tumbling ass over bandstand every time it connected.
I'd told her to start wearing bloomers or swimsuits or something under those skirts.
The thing that broke the stalemate was the same one that had gotten me woken up - after the first Orphan incident, the JASDF had moved a fighter squadron to the nearest airbase and kept at least two planes ready to launch at any given moment. I'm given to understand that a goodly share of the collateral damage from that day's attack was actually in the form of the swath of shattered glass left by the wake of their supersonic sprint to Fuuka. They must have had people on the ground - maybe even the Public Security agents assigned to tail the HiME - because they split up and hit the two Orphans best equipped to threaten an aircraft as soon as they arrived.
Quote:Can't wait.
Next? Fannishness.
Ja, -n
(Hey, Drogn? The way you're talking, those nanite packets have more powers than just healing... I'm curious to know what they are. ^_^)
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