Nanoha FanFiction Discussion

[Kuroi Hadou]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

You should see the reviews that I've had to delete. =/

No, no... that's okay... I don't need to see them...

[00-Raiser]

Thing is, after all that shit I still don't particularly mind NanoFate. I've written my share of NanoFate fics, but it never seems enough for some people.

Well, I can separate the pairing from its fanatical base. It's not NanoFate's fault that some of its shippers are so rabid.

[shiroi mahotsukai]

Originally Posted by Tiresias

Spoiler for comment:

Interesting, but it's too vague, but perhaps that's intentional. Nevertheless it confused me, since I'm pretty sure Klaus' last memory of her was of her marching to battle at quite a young age. Or maybe this is AU?

Spoiler for Reply to Tiresias:

It's vague and confusing because she's on her death bed, 97 years old and fairly senile. Yeah I guess by that logic it would be AU, I suppose I just wanted to give her some kind of happy ending after re-reading Blood That Flows and having her death scene once again touch my heart.

[Nanya01]

Originally Posted by 00-Raiser

Thing is, after all that shit I still don't particularly mind NanoFate. I've written my share of NanoFate fics, but it never seems enough for some people.

Well, I can separate the pairing from its fanatical base. It's not NanoFate's fault that some of its shippers are so rabid.

I TRY to, I really do.

But, really, I really do understand how Kestral felt back in the days of the FFML in a different fandom.

Originally Posted by shiroi mahotsukai

Spoiler for Reply to Tiresias:

It's vague and confusing because she's on her death bed, 97 years old and fairly senile. Yeah I guess by that logic it would be AU, I suppose I just wanted to give her some kind of happy ending after re-reading Blood That Flows and having her death scene once again touch my heart.

Spoiler for To my defense...:

Had to show that Death Bringer was dangerous somehow, right? Plus, Olivie would have died anyway, I really don't like what I did there myself.

[Kuroi Hadou]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

But, really, I really do understand how Kestral felt back in the days of the FFML in a different fandom.

[shiroi mahotsukai]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

Spoiler for To my defense...:

Had to show that Death Bringer was dangerous somehow, right? Plus, Olivie would have died anyway, I really don't like what I did there myself.

Spoiler for The defense of your defense.:

True enough, and you inspired me to get of my butt and actually do something, that's more than I can say for college at the moment.

[DezoPenguin]

Originally Posted by synaesthetic

It was just my experience with FFT that romance ruled supreme back early last year--no offense to Nanya at all, but it was in the middle of A Day in the Life when I first started posting fics. I was lost under the Day comments.

The irony is, Day is pretty much the only romance-centric fic that's gotten any attention around here since Satashi stopped posting regularly.

(And then when DA2 hits on the third of March, it's just fucking over until I finish the game...)

Oh, man--you have only eight days to complete the epilogue to false light or we won't see it until April!

Originally Posted by 00-Raiser

Particularly with Daemon Kaiser, which doesn't have anything definite. I've had demands that the story end with Yuuno dead and Nanoha and Fate making sweet love every day.

... Hm... How many here would prefer such an ending?

Not me. Particularly the "dead Yuuno" part.

Originally Posted by Tiresias

Or the one that put the cast as circus performers (as well as some CSI parodies)?

You actually identified the reason why those are liked--"Center Ring" is an out-and-out comedy and the Daily Activity Logs are close to it, even though both have carefully-crafted worlds and characters. Humor excuses a lot of stuff that people wouldn't be interested in in a "serious" story.

*dashes into the comment section*

...not as bombastic as I was expecting.

Yeah, that was actually pretty reasonable. Though I'm not sure a lot of howling NanoFate fans would have lasted 29 chapters of Infinity, anyway.

(What really scares me is...these characters are 10 or 11 years old, for God's sake! People shouldn't even be debating romantic shipping between them. *pounds head against wall* )

It's a conditioned reflex. How many of you actually read the EULA?

Pretty much never...but I do always read people's author's notes. I've been able to save myself the trouble of reading any number of bad fics by reading the author's notes.

He's right. Aren't the others supposed to be wary of the scene? Would the average bystander shuts up when seeing a repeated sex offender offering 'candy in the van' to little kids?

Well, not Signum. Knowing how people operate, that would be interpreted as Signum being jealous of Ammy showing attention to someone else. (Actually, knowing Moczo, I could see him including that just to yank people's chains! ) The problem is, the really ick stuff about Ammy has happened "off-screen" from the heroes' perspective. She even specifically passed on Fate because of Fate's age (although noting her perv-attracting character design).

Originally Posted by 00-Raiser

Thing is, after all that shit I still don't particularly mind NanoFate. I've written my share of NanoFate fics, but it never seems enough for some people.

Well, I can separate the pairing from its fanatical base. It's not NanoFate's fault that some of its shippers are so rabid.

After all the crap you've taken, it amazes me that you can thing that way. I just don't understand how anybody can become that emotionally invested in the romantic lives of fictional characters (worse, the fictional romantic lives of fictional characters, in that they don't have said romances in the actual franchise material). I just can't track that mindset.

[00-Raiser]

Originally Posted by DezoPenguin

After all the crap you've taken, it amazes me that you can thing that way. I just don't understand how anybody can become that emotionally invested in the romantic lives of fictional characters (worse, the fictional romantic lives of fictional characters, in that they don't have said romances in the actual franchise material). I just can't track that mindset.

Well, it apparently has to do with what it 'stands for.' NanoFate is latched onto, particularly by yuri fans (lesbian or not) because they see it as a 'rare' realistically portrayed lesbian couple. Yes, because yuri is so scarce

Basically NanoFate represents all lesbian couples, and to deny it is equivalent to saying "being gay is horrible and wrong!"

I've been told that there are so many other shows I can write straight romance for, but there's so very few lesbian couples for people to enjoy so I should let them have it.

[shiroi mahotsukai]

It threatened to make my head explode on numerous occasions, so In the end I gave up.

[DezoPenguin]

Originally Posted by 00-Raiser

Well, it apparently has to do with what it 'stands for.' NanoFate is latched onto, particularly by yuri fans (lesbian or not) because they see it as a 'rare' realistically portrayed lesbian couple. Yes, because yuri is so scarce

Basically NanoFate represents all lesbian couples, and to deny it is equivalent to saying "being gay is horrible and wrong!"

I've been told that there are so many other shows I can write straight romance for, but there's so very few lesbian couples for people to enjoy so I should let them have it.

...if you need me, I'll be over here headdesking. Again.

[00-Raiser]

Of course their argument is completely invalidated because the only 'lesbian' relationship they get mad about me 'ruining' is NanoFate. No one has a problem with me pairing Teana with Vice and 'destroying' the SubaTea pairing, which arguably is closer to being canon than NanoFate is.

There's a firmly set mindset that the Nanoha franchise is a yuri series (been touted as one of the 'pillars' of the yuri fandom at that), despite the fact it's never listed anywhere under that genre.

[Nanya01]

I don't mind yuri in Nanoha (heck, I wrote the first Vita/Hayate shipping fic, as far as I know of).

I just like to play with all sorts of shipping.

It's kind of too bad that the vocal minority got to me too... I would have eventually tried a NanoFate fic once I could think up a good plot for it.

[spawnofthejudge]

Originally Posted by DezoPenguin

...if you need me, I'll be over here headdesking. Again.

*sneaks a gel wrist-rest under Dezo's forehead, then walks away whistling*

[synaesthetic]

@Dezo: I know, I've got so much to do this weekend!

I have a PILE of homework and studying to get done, plus my new laptop is coming in tomorrow, so I have to migrate my user profile, then factory-reset my existing PC and strip the Gatway bloatware so I can give it to my girlfriend... but I think I can manage to squeeze out the Epilogue.

Because yeah, once DA2 lands in my hot little hands, there's no hope of any fic posts until after I beat it. I figure I'll start a DAOrigins/Awakening playthrough with 100% Completion so I can transfer save game when I get DA2.

Think I'm going to go with a rogue Lady Hawke for DA2. Carver's lame, Bethany is better and Hawke's class determines which sibling dies.

@00-Raiser: I actually like NanoFate, but I also like Yuunoha. I don't have any problems with anyone tweaking any pairings, since my fics never really focus on the romance, anyway--it's just supplementary material.

I don't really agree with people who deny NanoFate in canon, even though it's somewhat ambiguous, but the true canon pairing is, as we all know... Nanoha/job.

The worst review I've ever received on FF.net was for The Call, actually, and was a pretty poor attempt at trolling me. "Fucking garbage" was all the "review" contained. I left it because it made me crack up.

[00-Raiser]

For reviews I've gotten rather simple stuff like "what? yuuno x Fate? I thought it was nanofate congratulations F91, you did it again, you’re the greatest troll EVER!" and "I can't express how much I hate you for this, you homophobic." to long winded rants that I won't reproduce here.

[itanshi1]

heh if you react to anything, you were trolled by that thing. so just sigh at the vocal minorities and keep writing awesome fics.

[Nanya01]

Nearing the end of the Shine Arc...

In an unrelated note, 5 hour energy SUCKS!

Shine 1 -45

Shine 46

Shine 47

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - Shine 48:

Meanwhile...

"Ugh, my side..." She groaned and sat up, putting a hand on her forehead and looking around. "Well, at least I'm alive." She muttered and looked down at herself, shrugging as she was in nothing more than a paper thin covering before looking around. "Cinque?" She sighed in relief as she saw the small girl resting peacefully. "You're alive, good."

"Nnngh... Tre?" She blinked as Cinque sat up, the small girl was covered in a sheet that rolled down slightly. "You're alive, I..." Her left eye widened and she suddenly grabbed at the left side of her face. "Nnngh... Oh, oww..."

Before she knew what was going on, Tre was by Cinque's side and gently prying the hand away from Cinque's face. "Let me... Your eye." Cinque looked at her, a scared and pained expression on her face. "...I think your eye is gone, Cinque."

"No wonder it hurts." She grimaced before putting her right hand to her mouth. "Hrk..."

Tre looked around before grabbing an open garbage can and getting it close to Cinque, who turned her head and puked into the bucket, shuddering as her body trembled. All Tre could do was hold the can and pat Cinque's back awkwardly, trying to get her to get rid of what was in her stomach.

After a few minutes of dry heaving and Tre patting and rubbing her back, Cinque pulled her head away from the trash and panted heavily. "Ugh... I feel sick." She wasn't sure if it was that weird power that she had used or something else.

Tre grimaced and put the trash down and slid it away before looking at Cinque. "...You might be in shock." Cinque looked at her, her face seemed very drained and weary. "You know, we could get you a new eye, if that's the problem." Cinque shook her head. "What?"

"You and Due got hurt... and all I could do was watch, then I went crazy and... If you hadn't stopped me, I would have died there... I wouldn't have gotten to see my sisters if that happened."

Tre sighed softly and suddenly grabbed Cinque, pulling the surprised girl into a hug. "Stupid girl, you're my sister," Tre was silently grateful that Cinque suddenly was hugging her back, that was a good sign, "if I let you die because of some sort of stupidity, then what kind of person would I be?"

Cinque shivered and nodded as Tre pulled away. "Thanks." She winced slightly. "Nnngh... My eye..."

"Hold on." Tre turned around and Cinque blushed softly as she saw Tre's naked butt, legs and back. "Here." She held up some guass wrappings and slowly moved the bandages around Cinque's head, covering her bad eye before taping the bandages on her head. "This'll help you keep that eye closed until we can fix it."

"Thanks." Cinque smiled and relaxed, for some reason it was easier to keep her eye closed with the bandages over her eye than without something over it.

Tre nodded. "Well, at least..."

"WAGH!" Both Tre and Cinque were startled to hear Due's voice and turned to look at the number two cyborg. "My boobs are smaller!" She was busy grabbing her chest before blinking and bringing a hand back to the back of her neck. "Yeek! My hair is short!"

Tre blinked a few times, Due's hair was cut short, the back barely brushed against her shoulders while the right side was fluffed upwards while the left side was smooth and pushed against her scalp more directly. "Your hair is also red."

"What, seriously?" Due blinked, getting a nod from the two of them. "Oh great, my boobs are smaller, my hair's shorter and a different color, what else?"

"...You're shorter than before?" Tre offered, causing Due to fall off of her bed, revealing that she was wearing the same kind of gown that Tre was.

"Now this just isn't right!" Due stood to her new full height, which put her at least a head shorter than Quattro. "I think I'm only as tall as Sein!" She then tilted her head as she looked at the two of them. "BAH! You're both being sad frowny faces, aren't you?" She pointed a finger at the both of them.

Cinque sighed softly and looked down. "You're that way because..."

"TUT!" Due held up a hand and stomped her foot on the ground while glaring at Cinque. "Enough talk like that! Now, I got hurt protecting you, there's nothing wrong with it! And, you, Tre! Aren't you supposed to be the combat expert?"

"He was pretty good, Due." Tre shook her head, exasperated. "As good as I am, he got a good shot in on me, I'm fine though, but, why are you so young?"

Due shrugged and tilted her head. "I think you're both being frowny faces though!" She snapped her fingers and grinned as the two of them were suddenly wrapped up in binds. Cinque fell onto her back and Tre fell to the ground, face down and revealing more than she would want most people to see. "Now then..." Her eyes suddenly gleamed, causing her two sisters to suddenly start sweating. "I don't like frowny faces! It's torture time!"

Cinque sweated heavily. "Torture..."

"Yep." Due grinned as she advanced on the prone girl, her fingers flexing. "Tickle torture!"

Cinque's eye widened for a moment before Due's fingers started moving all around her body, causing her to yelp and squirm, laughing and squirming as she tried, futilely to get away. "Stooohahahahaoooppaheheeeheeheheh!"

Due grinned and shook her head. "Nope!" She looked at Tre, who was trying to worm herself away and smirked. "You're next, Tre."

"I'm not ticklish." Tre's muttered words were drowned out by the sound of Cinque's laughter.

"Can't hear you, don't care." Due smirked as Cinque had tears falling out of her good eye while thrashing on the cot she was on.

"Stoooopphahahahahahaha pleahahahahahase?" Cinque begged after several more minutes of being tickled. "Canhanaahahahahat breahahahahahahahahahath!" She gasped as Due pulled her hands away from her, causing the small cyborg to pant heavily, trying to get air into her lungs and recover.

"Now, Tre..." Due grinned as the downed cyborg looked at her oncoming sister in dread. "You're turn."

(---)

Later...

Uno blinked as she walked into the medical room and looked at Cinque, who was squirming on her cot while trying to catch her breath, then at Tre, who had a very flushed face while panting heavily on the floor and finally at Due, who was standing with her back to Uno and licking her hands of something. "What happened?"

Due turned to Uno and grinned at her. "They were being frowny faces, so, I fixed that." When Uno blinked in confusion, she shook her head. "They aren't being frowny faces now, so, it doesn't matter."

Tre groaned at Due. "You're not going to..." She paled as Due looked back at her and grinned. "You would."

"Thaaaaaat's riiiiight!" Due drawled, causing the two cyborgs to gulp in fear.

Uno just wondered what happened.

[shiroi mahotsukai]

Oh that crazy Due, seriously that never gets old. Nice to see that everyone survived the encounter though, even if they are the bad guys at this point.

[Kuroi Hadou]

Originally Posted by shiroi mahotsukai

Oh that crazy Due, seriously that never gets old. Nice to see that everyone survived the encounter though, even if they are the bad guys at this point.

Would you rather see a death fest?

[Nanya01]

Originally Posted by shiroi mahotsukai

Oh that crazy Due, seriously that never gets old.

Glad it doesn't. ^_^

*shifty* Just WAIT until the end of this arc.