This may be useful to know if I ever write more UT material and need to pick up on this plot.

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.




Chiaki might have a sense that if she listens to Liu Xi on this occasion she will die.







What is the maximum price one should pay for saving the Parodyverse?







Well, we do know that the two of them eventually have irreconcilable differences.







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.

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.




I suspect Chiaki is a bit more alien to Vinnie, being so far from his own experience. Vinnie had the reverse origin, where he had everything and turned away from it. He's now living a subsistence level life as alternative to power and wealth as one of the evil de Soths.

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.







That interplay between the possibility of avoiding and the inevitability of facing a planned event is where the story happens.




Presumably she's seeing elements of some potential futures that can be averted.

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.







Noted. When he knows he will probably amend his blog page.

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When Lara is working she stays completely focused, and would completely ignore any of Vinnie's usual accidental flirting, or CSFB!'s fun and interesting playfulness. She believes she makes enough mistakes while she's paying attention.

Wouldn't she be better persuing a relationship outside the superhero community?

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[Yuki] would give [Vinnie[ an extra punch for saying it was "necessary". But then she would make him get up off the floor, clean up the blood, and fix it. Beatings alone are pretty useless.

I think we're just at the limits of how these views and theur holders can communicate.

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I guess it's better than Chiaki, who wouldn't harm him, but she would grab him by the ear and make him go in the middle of the night and apologize and promise to make it right. She wouldn't even give him time to make excuses. He would be going. Now. Yes, she did work as a part-time schoolteacher at a private school.

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.

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I think [Yuki]'s also quite impetuous and cocky, which serves her well almost all the time, except when it doesn't.

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She only does that because nothing bad ever came of it.

So far. In many ways, in the absence of Trickshot, Yuki is the LL's short fuse now.

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Speaking of the Hooded Hood, his big dramatic flaw is his ego, which tells him that he alone can rectify the wrongs of the Parodyverse and instate a multiverse of just order under his absolute control.

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Like I said before, he could benefit greatly from Faite telling him that absolute control is an absolute illusion. It might shatter his whole belief system, but he might put his energy into less futile pursuits.

It would more likely spawn a byzantine series of plots over many years to demonstrate to Faite that her argument was wrong.