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Reply Subj: What about the interest rate? Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 at 01:26:47 pm EST (Viewed 870 times) | |||||||
Quote: I thought [the Chronicler's] near-banning of Lara was a good excersize to show just how persistent she is at resolving things like that. She didn't rest until she changed his opinion of her...slightly.Next time she needs to bring him a thermos of liquor-laced black coffee. Quote: Quote: I image if Chiaki approached him reasonably he'd want to ask her if Liu Xi and Faite were okay. That's because, while Vinnie is a rigid hardass when it comes to his job, he's a guilt-ridden softie when it comes to relationships.Quote: I've kind of accidentally cast Chiaki as a peacemaker and facilitator, and she does a really good job with it. Her personality is a natural fit.It certainly seems in character, which makes for an odd good but juxtaposition with her fighting prowess. Quote: Quote: Beth and Laurie are very different people. Beth is a virgin temperancer schollteacher. Laurie was a promiscuous hard-drinking wannabe-lawyer. The just about managed to share a flat together, but their friendship was based upon being opposites. A merger of the two characters would create a new entity unlike either of the others, so different that it might as well have killed the others by death-of-personality.Quote: That's partly why Faite would do it. She believes they can work out their differences and become a new and happier person. It may mean leaving everyone else behind, but that's less important.Would creating a new person justify destorying two previous ones? Quote: Faite only wishes she was a god; she has all the power, but not nearly the vision. A god makes decisions based on everything that ever was, and every possible path through the future. Faite has a considerably narrower view, and therefore makes a lot of faulty decisions.That takes us back to why Vinnie wouldn't ever rely 100% on any other entity. He's got to make his own judgements and mistakes. Quote: That goes back to an earlier topic - she believes that absolute power is an illusion, because having to make all of those decisions for everyone is not power at all. It's, as you noted, slavery. And that's what she would try to get across to the Hooded Hood. He's trying to doom himself to slavery.A part of the Hood is actually willing to make any sacrifice for what he deems the greater good; except that good is defined by him. Quote: She also believes that a side-effect of absolute power is people start to blame you for everything, and then turn on you.The Hood is willing to accept that price. Quote: What Faite does respond to is kindness, because as a cosmic spirit she was starved of it for ages. It's still a novelty to her, and one she likes a lot.Noted. Quote: Quote: Hence the reasons Chiaki and perhaps Liu Xi would be good people to take Vespiir to lunch one day.Quote: Chiaki would be the one who takes Vespiir on a short adventure to discover what her power can really do, and end it with making her remove her brand. Chiaki would tell her that she still wears her chains, and it's time she broke free of them.Actually, I looked up vespiir's last scene in the last Untold Tales Caphan story, where she has some new visions of her life on Earth, and Chiaki is in the montage: “Honestly, Vesp,†promised Fashion Accessory, “with that figure the last thing the boys’ll be looking at is a mark on your forehead. Now hold still while I find you something to wear that says ‘Look upon my perfection Earthmen and despair!’†“I will see you troublemakers off this campus if it is the last thing that I do!†thundered the Dean as he doused a jug of water over his smouldering trousers. “You can control this. You can discipline yourself. You can become more than you believe you are. I am Chiaki Bushido and I will show you.†“Thou wilt show respect to mine lady Vespiir or I wilt be doing likewise to thine other hand for the nonce.†“It’s snow, Vesp. It’s for stuffing down boys’ shirts. Or maybe their pants. It’s an Earth tradition.†“Hold it, Violet-Eyes. You’re saying the future of pretty much everything depends on you and me doing something not even the greatest heroes of Earth ever managed? Us?†Of these visions, the only unidentifiable speaker was the last one. | |||||||
