I do want to learn to draw better though - well, probably I'll never get as good as you or as two friends of mine, but at the very least I'd like to be able to do maybe Sunday newspaper comic caliber someday.





It was more that after my two posts Ian said something like "there will be repercussions". So I put whatever else I had in mind on the back burner until he gets around to that. Only then all those distractions happened, and he never got to it. Then I had distractions and forgot all about it. Your post reminded me - not about exactly what I was going to do before, but reminded me to remember to do *something*, whatever it was.





Anyone with any kind of power can be a bodyguard depending on the circumstances. Liu Xi is a powerful elementalist, which is not too good for a close up assassination, but can keep armies at bay. Chiaki is very good close up, but she can be surrounded and overwhelmed by an armed militia fairly easily. Anna would be somewhere in between, able to handle a small army or a close-up assassination. But the one thing they all have in common is they're not very intimidating.

Note I left out Lara Night, because while she doesn't *look* intimidating, she's publicly recognizable as a super-hero, which counts as intimidation. She may as well be a cop in uniform.

As for Visionary and his ambassador duties, he might need different bodyguards depending on the circumstances. If he's going into a dangerous place, or for negotiation, Joan would definitely be the best bodyguard. If he was going to an official formal dinner, maybe Anna or even Chiaki (especially her, because she knows all about dressing for the occasion and etiquette) would be a better choice. Nothing ruins everyone's dress dinner than a twelve foot steam powered robot who shakes the crystal dangerously every time she takes a step.