I do truly love when people get all snippy and do not read my posts with any kind of objectivity. First I'm going to ignore all the garbage commentary from posts entirely consisting of the equivalent of "Necratoid is a stupid head' While not actually addressing anything useful. That and reenforcing the point I made about fanon positive Belldandy Flanderization. Which was, for those of us paying attention and not suffering from post blindness, the extire point of doing a negative Belldandy post in the first place. As blackaeronaut seems to have determined the gist of what I was going for, I'm going to say I more or less covered my important points.
On a side note, the one thing the 'Necratoid is a stupid head' crowd did answer is the point I said in two sepreate posts I was almost certain I was misrembering. Which, with the version rebuttal stated, is more of a example of the Overgod meddling in their relationship. This is mostly because Belldandy IS daddy's little girl. I'm actually heavily leaning towards the Overgod letting things go on with her mortal boyfriend specifically because it will temper her bad points (which is one of the background themes of the series... note the gocart thing is at the start of the series) without hurting her or tipping her off.
Now before I was asked why I though Belldandy woould be on of the shoulder devil equivalents and not the angel or the mediator... the reason is largely composed of things that blackaeronaut has agreed with or brought up. Lets go back to blackaeronaut's stated objectives for the fic... from way back in post #4:
With her mystical knowledge and contacts negated we have a choice... is this a Belldandy with or without mortal boyfriend? Without we have the daddy's little cheating, princess, who is probably involved in this so she'll be less spoiled. The same thing her mortal boyfriend does for her in the canon (socializes that incarnation of Belldandy). Learning to do something without just bookreading /downloading the info... which is why she is so excited to cook and clean in canon. These are skills she learns for herself. Personally trained skills like mortals have, its a novelty to her a favorite hobby that makes her boyfriend happy. Later canon Belldandy would be all worried about home and the three main people she left behind... and there is nothing for her to actually do in Rin's life.
In other words she'll run into the situation of being redundant and/or counter productive. Usagi is the heart of the team. Concidering that the literal king of the gods and the king of the deomns are literally living next door to Rin and concidering the two... Haruko Haruhara is the single best choice for diplomat... her biggest problem here is that those two would be quite happy to keep her. Washu is Washu. Ranma is (reguardless of where or when in his series) at least capable of teaching him some combat skills. Belldandy can't even try to sort out Rin's relationships for him... his harem has the single sanest responses to him picking a girl I've ever seen.
So what we have is Belldandy with nothing to do. Who is generally going to be left with Washu... who no one actually wants to let her do anything. Which means Belldandy with get stuck keeping Washu busy. Which brings up the question of what Belldandy could actually do to accomplish this without sealing her in a closet. The simplest answer is work on a project with Washu. The only skill Belldandy has left really would be programming a computer that controls an entire universe. Scale that down for the RinOS and the two can build Rin a magical Core... which is going to do weird things... which, like the MPD thing, with actually give him something in common with one of his harem... when Washu over does it the number will end up at two. This meshes well with the mindscape thing I was thinking of myself. Come to think of it... if they take the old standrad of randomly turning Rin into a girl with magic at random it will work with two of the other cranial residents and they've been there, done that.
So its not 'EVIL!Belldandy I'm talking about here... I'm talking about shoulder devil more as the chaos and cunning plan! types and Ranma and Usagi as the stabalizing forces. Meanwhile, Haruko mainly is entertained.
On a side note, the one thing the 'Necratoid is a stupid head' crowd did answer is the point I said in two sepreate posts I was almost certain I was misrembering. Which, with the version rebuttal stated, is more of a example of the Overgod meddling in their relationship. This is mostly because Belldandy IS daddy's little girl. I'm actually heavily leaning towards the Overgod letting things go on with her mortal boyfriend specifically because it will temper her bad points (which is one of the background themes of the series... note the gocart thing is at the start of the series) without hurting her or tipping her off.
Now before I was asked why I though Belldandy woould be on of the shoulder devil equivalents and not the angel or the mediator... the reason is largely composed of things that blackaeronaut has agreed with or brought up. Lets go back to blackaeronaut's stated objectives for the fic... from way back in post #4:
Quote:Hrm... Well, what I have in mind would not be something that is insanity incarnate. Nor do I aim for an epic story.There are reasons I said the endof Shuffle!... and now there is a reason why Belldandy wouldn't be the sweetness and light shoulder angel she'd be defaulted to by most. What does Belldandy really have to offer to the situation at that point? Think about it. Normally it would be her contacts firsts... which is kind of totally negated by Rin's life. She would be, as was pointed out, running on the RinOS and not Yggdrasil. So any powers would be from him and concidering that the cosmology is so alien to her it would take her a while to even attempt to teach him magic of any kind. Then we have her knowledge fighting demons... So yeah.
Mostly what I was thinking of was something that focused heavily on character development with a nice and steady pace, a bit of hijinks to help keep it amusing (of the, "Oh yeah, you guys definitely need to be supervised" variety), and make it about average length.
With her mystical knowledge and contacts negated we have a choice... is this a Belldandy with or without mortal boyfriend? Without we have the daddy's little cheating, princess, who is probably involved in this so she'll be less spoiled. The same thing her mortal boyfriend does for her in the canon (socializes that incarnation of Belldandy). Learning to do something without just bookreading /downloading the info... which is why she is so excited to cook and clean in canon. These are skills she learns for herself. Personally trained skills like mortals have, its a novelty to her a favorite hobby that makes her boyfriend happy. Later canon Belldandy would be all worried about home and the three main people she left behind... and there is nothing for her to actually do in Rin's life.
In other words she'll run into the situation of being redundant and/or counter productive. Usagi is the heart of the team. Concidering that the literal king of the gods and the king of the deomns are literally living next door to Rin and concidering the two... Haruko Haruhara is the single best choice for diplomat... her biggest problem here is that those two would be quite happy to keep her. Washu is Washu. Ranma is (reguardless of where or when in his series) at least capable of teaching him some combat skills. Belldandy can't even try to sort out Rin's relationships for him... his harem has the single sanest responses to him picking a girl I've ever seen.
So what we have is Belldandy with nothing to do. Who is generally going to be left with Washu... who no one actually wants to let her do anything. Which means Belldandy with get stuck keeping Washu busy. Which brings up the question of what Belldandy could actually do to accomplish this without sealing her in a closet. The simplest answer is work on a project with Washu. The only skill Belldandy has left really would be programming a computer that controls an entire universe. Scale that down for the RinOS and the two can build Rin a magical Core... which is going to do weird things... which, like the MPD thing, with actually give him something in common with one of his harem... when Washu over does it the number will end up at two. This meshes well with the mindscape thing I was thinking of myself. Come to think of it... if they take the old standrad of randomly turning Rin into a girl with magic at random it will work with two of the other cranial residents and they've been there, done that.
So its not 'EVIL!Belldandy I'm talking about here... I'm talking about shoulder devil more as the chaos and cunning plan! types and Ranma and Usagi as the stabalizing forces. Meanwhile, Haruko mainly is entertained.