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Originally Posted by DarkJak2050

Looks to me that there's a whole lot of conflict developing, considering what you've been posting here.

Nor is this from my end. Although, I did post this earlier, but I took it down because I wasn't quite happy with how it turned out.

Spoiler for New Testing Grounds (Edit):

Never actually thought we would be heading 'there' of all places. All of us never thought about it to be exact.

Particularly Ratchet, he froze up when Tezla said the location of the move in that emergency session.

Sideswipe and I decided to do some shooting practice, so that we can blow off some steam. As we're getting the weapons we're going to practice with, Sideswipe asked me something.

“You know that there’s only one guy in that whole school, right?”

“I know...”

I pulled a Shockburst off the rack and checked its condition while Sideswipe continued.

“Look, man, its hostile territory. I mean, it's bad enough when we have to put up with the women out in public, in broad daylight. But IS Academy—an all-girls school—“

“Yeah, could be bad...”

As if dealing with the women out in public these days wasn’t bad enough; mainly treating all guys out there like that they’re servants, even those who don’t personally know them. And because of that, we have a strong distrust with women. Even more so with IS Pilots, with what happened last November.

If they’re like that, then the IS Academy students ought to be a lot worse. Considering that they are IS Pilots in training.

And that’s only part of the problem.

Another part is Ratchet freezing up earlier; which was very odd of him. Now that I’m thinking about it, he was kind of like that too when we had that skirmish at Ishiyama.

But this time, he really froze up. More like that he was in a state of shock. Did he have some trouble with girls when he was younger?

Maybe that’s not the case, because he’s not like that when we’re out in public.

There’s only way to find out; and that’s when we actually go to IS Academy…

I loaded a shock core in the Shockburst I’m going to practice with, before telling Sideswipe.

“But hey, don't remind Ratchet of that. He could be scared shitless as it is.”

Heading to IS Academy to do proper tests… Tezla mentioned that it’s so that we won’t be disturbed from other countries.

He also mentioned that IS Academy’s virtually a neutral country on its own, with no other country influencing it and it has its own laws separate from other countries.

“Ha…”

Both Sideswipe and I went up to the firing range and lights began to illuminate the room.

Raising our weapons up, holographic targets appeared at the far end.

“Going hot!”

Any thoughts, guys?

YAY, hallmark of ultimate perspective flip.

Imagine they're found by some random girls who IS completely innocent, contrary to what they knew and think about the opposite gender... (which understandable, screwed backstory and all). It's either horror or hilarity depending on circumstances.

I'm going to borrow demi's words (not important now but just in case) balance is important, but avoid mix and match, otherwise it's good.

Originally Posted by blitz1/2

I thought we didn't really have a plan with Charles lol. (we were earning lots of flak when we made Charles a male though.xD) And then, we just paired them Charles and Laura together because in a way, they are opposite in character.

I remember that, we made this with assumption of their LATER interaction in canon, start from V3 and beyond. We never plan how we handle it when things go south during fanon version of V2's run, hence I didn't see that coming.

Originally Posted by blitz1/2

Laura doesn't hide behind a fecade, she's straight forward. Whereas you can say that Charles always had that mask on, hence why we explain through Charles' monologues.

This

We WILL use this in conjunction of the earlier draft, everyone in ST is contradictory and hypocritical to some extent, that's part of their alternate characterization. Laura is honest and straightforward but as stubborn as a rock, while Charles is kindhearted but also impurely deceptive, Ichika is a paragon gone wrong in the right ways, Chifuyu and her usual self etc