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Reply Subj: Re: Vinnie and Liu Xi Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 at 04:58:59 am EST (Viewed 1 times) | |||||||
Quote: However, there's also the possibility that if Liu Xi starts sharing, something terrible happens right there, right then, to Yuki (major processor failure leading to brain death or something), and then the Hooded Hood turns up to retcon it and give Liu Xi the chance to reconsider her confession. I'd have to think about it.If Liu Xi tells Yuki first, it wouldn't be much of a disaster that she would have to worry about reconsidering it; Yuki probably put together the puzzle pieces by now, and already suspects. Now if someone like CSFB! finds out by accident, then Liu Xi is in real trouble. The real fun might be if Hallie finds out, because she can keep secrets, but might agonize over whether this is important enough to share. Or you can emphasize that she really doesn't have total understanding of human emotion, and thinks if she tells the LL, everything will be okay. Quote: Quote: If she can't talk to Yuki, she would try Chiaki next. She knows Chiaki would not be nearly as agreeable as Yuki, but she's fair, and once she's won over, she's a fearless and stubborn advocate.Quote: Chiaki might have a sense that if she listens to Liu Xi on this occasion she will die.It depends if she *will* die, or if she *could*. The Hooded Hood might already realize that Chiaki is highly secretive, and if she feels danger in passing along Liu Xi's secret she'd keep it to herself. Quote: What is the maximum price one should pay for saving the Parodyverse?Faite would call that a "stupid question". Quote: Well, we do know that the two of them eventually have irreconcilable differences.It definitely sounds like it's heading there, simply because Vinnie is shutting out Liu Xi and all of her help. She'll eventually feel like Vinnie is a drug addict who has to hit rock-bottom before he seeks help, and she'd give in to that and help it along by giving up on him. Quote: Even Vinie isn;t aware of all the entities out to get him. But head of the queue right now is probably Sage Grimpenghast, teacher of decpetions, the most powerful and effective of the current pack of hell-lords. He's already gone after Vinnie through his ex-fiancée. He went after Nats through Uhuna and Regret. His preferred attack is by taking the best things in his enemies lives and twisting them into weapons against his foes. Vinnie isn't willing to let that happen again if he can avoid it.Liu Xi has been suspecting he had enemies like that, which is why she works so hard building a support and protection system. That's why she's getting angry, because after all of that, Vinnie's solution seems to be to leave her and the entire protection system behind and go it alone. Wouldn't you be angry? Quote: I don't know if we'll ever get round to the reveal in-story, but Grimpenghast's intention to do that with Liu Xi hit a brick wall when the Hooded Hood invited him to back off, since Liu Xi was "pre-plotted". Shortly afterwards the whole tangle with the Void Scholar and Slithis made Liu Xi too prominent for Grimpenghast to get at. Coincidence? The Hood isn't above tipping off other cosmic types like Faite or the Chronicler if it suits his needs.Funny thing is, Faite doesn't really mind if there's a real purpose behind it besides wasting her time. I'm certain the Hood has figured that out by now, and only gives her things to do that won't make her angry. And expects no loyalty from her in return. Quote: Even Vinnie's youngest sister, the Young Heckfire brat Privilege, now has more temporal wealth and influence. I need to do a story about that sometime.I don't know, it's pretty close, just in reverse. Chiaki dedicated her early life to training as Samurai, and never really had much money until she learned that working for Akiko Masamune on her own terms was highly profitable. Akiko tolerated it because Chiaki was *really good*, even though she didn't always follow orders. Quote: That interplay between the possibility of avoiding and the inevitability of facing a planned event is where the story happens.There's one in progress right now. Quote: Presumably she's seeing elements of some potential futures that can be averted.That's pretty much it. She can even use it very quickly to beat opponents in a fight before they even know themselves what they'll do. Quote: It would be interesting to see her in a scene with exiled Caphan and current Junior Vespiir, who was forehead-branded and cast out ownerless because she had forbidden prophetic gifts. Vespiir has never had formal training in her abilities. Indeed, until she came to Earth she was taught they made her an abomination and she was treated accordingly.Chiaki has no real training with her gift, it's all self-learned. Quote: Noted. When he knows he will probably amend his blog page.He probably has already. Quote: Wouldn't she be better persuing a relationship outside the superhero community?Officially, she's "not sure". She's still kind of young, and lacks the experience with love that most of the LL has, including Hatman. So she's not really certain what she wants. Quote: I think we're just at the limits of how these views and theur holders can communicate.That's Yuki for you. Keeping it simple. Quote: Vinnie is too honest to apologise unless he thinks he's done something wrong. And honestly, Vinnie learned to take mystical precautions against being grabbed by someone while he slept when he was about four years old, or he would never have survived growing up in his family.Chiaki wouldn't take him while asleep - she'd shake him out of bed, throw his clothing at him, and say "Get dressed, you're coming with me". And she wouldn't take any excuses. Quote: So far. In many ways, in the absence of Trickshot, Yuki is the LL's short fuse now.Far less reckless, though. Quote: It would more likely spawn a byzantine series of plots over many years to demonstrate to Faite that her argument was wrong.Faite would not be impressed. | |||||||
