I have one very large one in progress. I'd have to break it up to make it into individual stories.





Lara wouldn't be completely content with that. One thing at a time, as she would say.





I haven't seen Suicide Blonde around in a long time either.

Lara would actually be happy if it turns out VV does have a friend to listen to her. It really comes down to her believing that VV doesn't know that she's being used and thrown away by people who don't really care about her. Or maybe VV does know, and she's gone numb to it. Either way, Lara doesn't believe anyone should have to feel like that all the time, and have no one to talk to about it.





All of those Chiaki stories would have to be in the past.





Lara might just accept that answer, because she's not so experienced with that. Chiaki has more experience with it, and would only let Lara accept that if VV's employers are treating her with respect.




And continuing from above, Screwdriver is probably at the top of Chiaki's list of disrespectful employers. She might just teach him a lesson someday.





Oddly enough that whole thing started when, I think, Al B Harper posted a story where it was the future, and the Psychic Samurai and Hatman were together. I reverse engineered how they would have ended up getting together in the first place, but the dynamics eventually didn't work out; so I concluded that possible future is moot because they would have to break up over such strong differences.





Lara might be interested in how he considers it intriguing and useful since it might interfere with his plans. Then again, maybe the Hood sees the two of them working together much better than either of them anticipate.





It's not really a commentary on her character, more a reflection on Lara's. She's afraid of changing Cathode's attitude enough to cause her to be fired or killed by the Baroness.