Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Character Creation and Discussion

[Tormenk]

As promised earlier a piece about Fate.

Spoiler for Twisting Of Fate:

Disheartened by the sight of a despondent Fate, Caro and Erio could do no more than watch on as Jail continued his mockeries.

Am I really like my mother? Does that bastard Jail speak the truth? Am I really..like him?

"Give it up Fate Testarossa. Search it within you and you know that to be the truth. You're exactly everything I have said and more," ending that off with a cackle.


"...."

"What's wrong now, my dear Enforcer Fate? Have you finally accepted what hid dormant within your 12 years of artificial life? Hmm?"

Gripping Riot Zamber tighter, Fate's expression was unreadable.

"Bardiche."

"Sir?"

"Overdrive. True Sonic Form."

"Yes sir."

"Commence Limit Break, Sonic Drive."


Golden light surrounded Fate while Tre and Sette activated their Inherent Skills and assumed combat stances. Jail simply looked on with lazy interest.

From within the column of light, Fate emerged with a change of barrier jacket and wielding dual zambers now.


Hope was renewed in the two Lightning Forwards at Fate's new stance. Hope which would be shattered shortly there after.


Jail narrowed his eyes and whispered "Show me. Show me the power which I have desired to obtain..Fate."


I'm not my mother..


"Shut up.."

Red aether strings burst forth from the ground of the lab under a twitch from Jail's glove. The resulting explosion covered where Fate was standing in smoke. Moments after, she flew out from within.

Sette was ready for her though. Swinging her left arm towards Fate's head and preparing a second strike with her right should that fail.

Fate simply ducked low under her swing, the force of the missed strike radiating through the air. The second swing was intercepted by her zamber, shattering the weapon in the resulting collision.

Sette could only gap in shock at the inhuman speed which her attacks had been rendered useless. Her eyes grew wider at the sound of a dull "shirek". She turned slowly to face Fate, who by now was right in front of her.

Empty burgundy eyes, devoid of light was all Sette saw before she crumbled on top of Fate.

Fate proceeded to withdrew the zamber impaled through the dead Number, pushing Sette off her. The unmistakable red of blood was covering the length of her right zamber now, quickly gathering in a small pool on the dusty floor beneath the tip of Bardiche.


I'm nothing like what he says I am..


Tre could only afford a gap of surprise at the realization Sette had been killed before Fate came at her. Activating Ride Impulse to counter Fate's Sonic Move, the two speed demons engaged in a dog fight which Jail could only follow as a deadly dance of death marked by the yellow and purple streams of light clashing and moving apart repeatedly within the space of seconds.

Rounding about to strike, Fate brought her zambers straight at Tre. The hasty block with the fin blades on Tre's wrists held initially, the burst of energy from her opponent was the last thing she registered, moments before the blades pierced through.


He is wrong..



Fate stared down, her eyes in a cold fixation at the man below, before she threw off the weight currently on her arms into the walls of the lab.

Jail was silent. Glancing at the gaping holes on Tre's arms and neck, blood pouring forth from the wounds, he offered no words for his fallen creations before turning his attention back towards the silent woman now before him.


This is not who I am..


"It seems I'm wrong after all. You have exceeded beyond my expectations and I'll say Precia was a foolish woman to the end, rejecting such splendid power for her mad dreams. Yet the irony, I see her alive in this beauty before me now. And that much I have to thank her for, if not for the scars she left, you would not have reached this current stage."

Jail's face was the epitome of twisted, eyes wide and a smile spread impossibly far.

"I offer you my hand now, Fate Testarossa. Come to my side now and I shall extend your magnificence with everything I have at my disposal, if only to let your splendid beauty grow."

Covered in cuts and breathing heavily now, Fate was down on one knee, leaning heavily on Bardiche as support, the twin blades bathed in blood. The ghost of a whisper escaped her lips as she struggled to stand up.

"What was that just now? Did you just say yes?"

Again the soundless whisper.

"Come now, I'm sure you can do better, my container of beauty, Fate Testarossa.."

Another two heavy pants before an answer was heard, loud and clear.


"SHUT UP!"


Fate charged, holding Bardiche in Riot Zamber form now, closing the gap quickly between her and Jail. Jail's response was to throw back his head in a laugh and spread his arms wide open, mocking her even now.

A raging cry mixed in with hysterical laughing was all that was heard before Fate swung the flat of her blade into the side of Jail, flinging him to impact against the opposite wall.


Fate walked over to the silent Jail lied. Picking him up by the head with her left hand, Fate's features was one wrapped in pure dementedness.

A small chuckle was heard before Jail laughed weakly.

"Fate..such magnificence..such splendid beauty..no one else can even dream of becoming like you..hahaha.."

Fate grimaced, the downwards curl of her lips revealing white and her eyes hardened. Jail's laughing voice coupled with the sight of his crazed face covered in blood was the last straw for her.


"Shut up..shut up..shut up..shut up..shut up..shut up..shut up..."

Golden light gathered up and electricity flowed over Fate's left hand, the hand which had Jail firmly in her grip.

"Show..show me more..of your magnificence..Fate Testarossa..HAHAHAHA!"

"..."

"Eternal silence to this fool before me let not his words defile my peace ever again."

Bardiche chimed once before answering.


"Hand of Fate."


Blinding light flowed from her hand, drowning everything in its grip, Jail's laughter seemingly consumed by the light as well.


It was hard to see what had happen but Caro and Erio waited for the blinding light to extinguish, before searching the display for the results of the aftermath.

From the clearing display, two figures were discernible.

A black clad figure standing before the corpse, left hand crackling with residual energy, right holding a bloody zamber and her back to the screen.

A white-coated figure fell to the ground sideways, revealing Jail Scaglietti to the display..

..and his now headless body.


The softest of a laugh was heard.

Shoddy.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Tormenk

I wonder who would contend with her...

I could think of a few characters that could 'tame' her, but none in Outer-Canaan as of yet...

Originally Posted by Tormenk

That your question was taken in another direction?

Yeah, I was alitte.

Originally Posted by Tormenk

Ego-maniac likes to have a audience to boost up his ego. Breaking a person 'live' with her close people looking on and helpless does have an added effect.

Of course, the otherwise happened.

BUT what if Caro and Erio had not intervened with their words? Crack of the twisted kind is overflowing right now.

Expect alternate scenario of Fate pawnin' of Jail later.

No no, the point is, he should have cut the feed instead of letting it continue!

He's basically giving away control of his game.

Originally Posted by Tormenk

Asuka in the doujin EVA-RETAKE. After some revelations. Asuka's take on Shinji.

Go get it. NOW.

*kicks Chaos into hole*

I refuse! I want to be spoon fed!

Originally Posted by Tormenk

Connection and manifestation is easier when you have a base that would fit the image.

Why do you think FlameSparkZ has so much power?

Originally Posted by Tormenk

Now this interests me greatly..

Do enlighten me someday.

What is the opposite of fear?


(This question is open to everybody)

Originally Posted by Tormenk

Where did this happen?

When they invaded the enemy country, Saito and Lousie had a fight over moral and what's right...

Spoiler for make-out session... Oh, and plot:

Saito stomped out and Siesta when after him. Both of them shared the same belief that one shouldn't throw their life away just because of honor and Siesta couldn't stand the way the other nobles treated Saito.

One thing leads to another and the two of them got a room... Literally, after one VERY VERY hot make-out session, both of them came to an understanding on their relationship with each other.

Another thing leads to the other, and they spent the night in each other's arms. Siesta begins telling stories about her childhood, she kisses Saito after each ending

Originally Posted by Tormenk

I was thinking you had hopes of some other kind of response from her.

Other than that, completely my bad.

Personally, I don't konw why I worry for her though.

Originally Posted by Tormenk

School uniforms.Hmm.

Although this does make it harem-ish now with all the girls moving on Saito.

It's long been harem-ish

Tabitha has already had feelings for him in the novel And her dragon even supports her (Yes, she talks...)

Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ

Na! Na! NANI!!!!?

I had the same reaction when I saw it last week from a blog

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Naruhodou...

Goes to read "How to Brain Control Chaos to pull a Saya/Tomoe on Spica/Jeno"... >_>

There's no such luck

Jeno's not that strong...

Originally Posted by Nightengale

YO! SAP MAN TIAN HENG, SAI MAT KENG NGA!

SEI MAH LAU.

Spoiler:

Stop doing that >_< !!

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Hair =

That's an imposter >_<

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Hmm...

You have an idea?

Originally Posted by Nightengale

What could you be talking about? We're perfectly mature enough for anything.

No, it's more like there's probably isn't much that we haven't already seen

Originally Posted by Nightengale

It's KEY after all, and honestly, while I find it LOLtastic in a way, (( life is all about aliens, unknown diseases, magic, and miracles )) they can write some good drama.

I won't be able to enjoy as much if there wasn't anything supernatural

Human beings are always attracted to the unknown.

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Has? Or HAD?

Come on, that's not even a choice

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Zero no Tsukaima style? Which?

You know, Saito's confession to Louise? Right before they make out in the boat?

Originally Posted by Nightengale

I don't care much for Siesta (( though I would've liked to see the novel scene play out )) but Henrietta shaft?

<-- Henrietta fanboy.

YOu're a Ayako KAWASUMI fan aren't you ?

Anyway, they made her look like the bad person when they didn't explain the reason for her 'wanting' Saito...

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Higurashi?

That wasn't even a challenge

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Wesson is never Tsun though...

*watches Wesson try to swoon Darry*

Glock: Asides from being generally unhinged, does he look changed to you?
Smith: Not really.
Mai: ... *sighs*

Gimmy: WESSON YOU MAGGOT!!!!!!!! DARRY IS MINE!!!!!

Doesn't matter, he would hound her day and night for a VERY LONG TIME... HE would be HOPELESSLY devoted to her...

Spoiler for How old do you have to be to 'remember' this song ^^; ?:

Originally Posted by Kyral

@Chaos2Frozen

I like Zero no Tsukaima and this vid is great!
But as i saw the girl with the horns i was first like "WTH! Hanyuu!?"
I wish i could read japanese... *sight* another game i won't play in the future...

Rather than that, I don't mind seeing another...

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

The dude doesn't get it, does he?

Actually, it's rather romantic

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

<drools> Siesta in seifuku...

Siesta in bed...

[Aaron008R]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Speaking of Yuuno...

Here's something I found, which I think the creator would fit perfectly in our thread... (( A NFer whose story has GAR Yuuno + Hayuuno!? Impossibible!!))

http://www.tsukuru.info/b/2007/10/22...ha-25-part-12/

This guy's ideas are crazy!

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

IT'S THAT SONG!!!!!!



THE GAR-EST, MANLIEST, HEROIC SONG EVER !!!

Wow... I dodn't know you liked that song so much.

Several hours ago, Keroko asked is there anyway to make Yuuno GAR...

I told him maybe the "Eiyuu no Uta" ?

I didn't know how right I was

In my opinion, this song would fit Nagasumi brilliantly

And had Erio turned out the way I wanted, he would deserve this song as well

Originally Posted by Erio

Well... arent they?

Correction.
My standards are...

HAWT Fanservice = You can't make my nose bleed. YOU. JUST. CAN'T!
MOE = I like MOE. And I really don't set any standards for it.
MOE fanservice = You can get some reactions by those pics.
About Hayat-EEP! Let's not go there.

LOL at the IRL Chinese girls comparison.

But yeah...I do agree...to some extend at least. We can only dream of a world with more Chinese girls like Mei...

I've recently watched episode 1. And what can I say... Mei is really quite a charmer!

She's a good meld of beautiful and cute. With a very fitting voice.

Originally Posted by FieryAeon

Replying some of Erio's comments later. Gotta do assignment.

I think I'm going off topic. But since I was asked to.

Spoiler for why does prism ark have so little CGs :upset::

Spoiler for "please eat me":

Spoiler for moe miko snacking:

Kagura: Mogu mogu~~ (those are the sounds she make when she's eating )

Spoiler for Oh big!:

Spoiler for chibi miko:

Spoiler for nsfw:

*runs away*

Lotsa MOE in here!

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

Reminds me... there'll be a scene in LegendS where Arcas fights to the tune of the OTHER Nexus OP...

Aoi Kajitsu. That song ranks higher than Eiyuu in my books.

Originally Posted by Erio

Mai: ...

Sore wa...

Datte... I have... someone else...

...

Gwen: *grabs Mai and huggles her*
*eyes Loki* Kisama!! Stay away from MY Mai!!!

Mai: Onee-sama...

Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki

Oi oi, no one fails. Just because they look similar and you drew upon something else for inspiration doesn't mean that it's wrong. Lots of ideas come from things people see and like . And of course people are gonna compare to Nanoha...just look where you are . Have you even read most of this thread? We 'borrow' ideas and concepts from other things all the time! I think it's a great start and you should continue with it. And again, damn you for your l33t drawing skillz .

QUOTED FOR MEGA WINNING TRUTH!

Originally Posted by LimitedEternal

Spoiler for Leeeeeength:

*snip*

Bonus Ficlet:

Spoiler for Lightwalker:

*snip*

First of all, I admire the effort you put in making her profile. She's also quite cute. And the details and scenario are nice.

Though sadly... I believe you've just took a nice and big step over the limit. Simply put, she's WAY too powerful for Nanohaverse. This is like putting in a Gundam in a show where the most powerful weapons are tank rounds.

I believe I really don't have to say more.

Inspiration really is a wonderful thing. And as always, feedback is much appreciated. TK, put the AHAX Rifle away.

Looks like he didn't hear your request.

Originally Posted by PhoenixFlare

*cough* I promise I won't be making anything too mature for the audience. *cough*

That wasn't my point.
I was just jokingly insinuating a distubingly closer relationship due to Hayate being 24 already. As such, it's a whole lot more possible to pursue the romantic angle. Of course, it was a joke.

Tyrfing won't be in much scene (maybe just to scare the opponents ) since you made the Breakers too dangerous, so I'll just stay put with Reishiki and Almaria. And yes, discuss we must.

Besides, including Tyrfing might very well just be asking for an IMBA in potency-level of the protagonists over the antagonists. The Baptism of Fire scenario shows Aurion trying to fight Knight-style (without much of his illusions) to get a better feel on Tyrfing's handling. As such, he wasn't really doing spectacularly, as he is mostly a ranged-fighter/Mage. And Almaria was excluded from there too. As a later plan on RevivalS, Aurion uses all three devices at once (With a bit of tweaking and my new revelations that allows him to do so. Simply using three devices at once is of course not a walk in the park.) with his preferred fighting style (slightly indirect mid-range tactical) against either Serge or Saga. Needless to say, he's more dangerous than an Exceed Mode Nanoha or a Zamber Mote Fate (not Limit Break) hands down at that point. Not because of the power level, but for the disturbing amount of versatility and tricks he possesses.

Like I said, that's for the Timeline RevivalS is in only. In other timelines, he would never really get to use Tyrfing.

An OVERDRIVE-dere Leona?

Chrono better look out... ()

Originally Posted by USB500

DIARY OF A WINDTALKER
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, PART VII ACT II

Spoiler for space-saving:

*sni[*

Simply put, this is the most LOLtastic cosplay episode yet!

Several thumbs-up!

THE COSPLAY PARTY IS MADE OF ALL TYPES OF WIN!!!

Originally Posted by Erio

Here's a little Da Capo II promotion...

Spoiler for Da Capo II:

Oh, and that would be Gwen in swimsuit, too.

Hmmm, hey Lowe, maybe Mai has short hair during her time at the Convent? *hint hint points up*

*ahem*

It's MOE fanservice... And I'm loving it!

That girl in the upper position reminds me of Sakura from CCS, though.

Originally Posted by USB500

I loved doing it.


And yes, MASA-SAN! <3

Oh dear... The crack...

I'm so proud of myself.

what?

We've lost him...

Originally Posted by Erio

IMAGE TIME!

... Though Lowe should have been the one to post this... He photoshopped it!!



This one's to show Gwen and Mai's "WORLD" as described by USB...and what they do every night

Spoiler for NSFW GwenXMai:

Gwen: Ah~ Matte~ Mai...

Mai: Dame~ Sutsuku yo~ <3

*RUNS AWAY REALLY FAST*

Okay... That really shocked me... What the holy hell with your daring...
Certainly NSFW.

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Spoiler for When the LineBackers cosplay...:

*Libera Me From Hell plays*

THE LINEBACKERS WIN THE GARest Costumes Award!

Originally Posted by Keroko

*blinks, then calmly gets up. After rumaging through a chest for a moment, returns with a harrisen*

WHAM!

I finished reading the profile, even though I don't know why I bothered to go beyond the 'level of god' thing. I mean, do I even have to point out how obviously insanely H4XX this character is? This just about defines the very essense of 'god-modding'

The Aces are known as the cream of the crop in the TSAB, this girl completely owns even Hayate in magic rank, and would hardly have to exert any effort in beating all of them at once. With her hands tied behind her back.

seriously, how the hell do you reconsile this?

*instant reply* Break. Emo crying style.

Will use in my scenario as well. But this time, Aurion's going to be knocking some confidence back into her head!

Here's some parts...

Spoiler for snippets:

"I don't know what idiotic idea came to your head about not being supposed to cry. You're not that kind of person. It's fine. Cry your heart out. What would matter is whether or not you can smile again at the end."

~~~~~~~

"You know the risk. We know it. Case closed. That's why it's called a RISK, right? To hell with it if you indeed lose it at one time. We'll just have to take a bigger risk and try to stop you. Do you think yo're unstoppable just when it comes to that? I beg to differ."

~~~~~~~

"Instructor Abrams is going to kill me once he finds out I've been turning some of his finest students back into softies..."

Originally Posted by Tk3997

This is stamped NO FUCKING GO how the FUCK did you think this would be even VAGUELY acceptable?! I"m not even sure where to begin, but how about the letters "SSS"?

It's late now so I can't be assed to tear this down in detail (not that I need to go into much to see it's BROKEN), but I'd seriously like to hear the twisted logic I assume you have that makes you think this is any kind of "okay.".

Spoiler for SIZE:

*snip*

Whoa... I just knew this was going to be an interestingly long read. The ideas are great. I can actually see them fitting well. Nice work!

Originally Posted by Tk3997

More or less, like I said magic bullets.

I don’t buy that a device can’t cast alone myself, not if supplied with power at least. If magic is really just a math based application of a power source, mana, I don’t see why a device can’t cast alone to a certain degree, the linker core is the fuel, but the device is the engine and the control system. More so we see unison devices (AIs) casting as well, they have linker cores yes, but if like I said the linker core is merely an effectively unlimited “fuel” supply then more mundane devices ought to be able to cast too, if supplied with power in some form, in this case cartridges.

I view magic as merely an application of a power source via complex equations, it so happens that this power source is most easily accessible from certain humans, but the energy itself isn’t special otherwise and can be manipulated and used with technology (see all sorts of magi-tech in Nanoha). For me the ability to manipulate mana and do magic merely requires a power source and the intelligence to do the equations. I don't view humans as all that special and required beyond being a handy source of large amounts of power. The very fact magic energy can be "bottled" and stored as cartridges to me says it's not any special sort of energy.

My take is that cartridges cause strain because the user is actively feeding power into the device (like you said) and so is linked too it and by using cartridges that boost the power involved higher then what they could normally handle and control some of the power “leaks” into them as feedback, but if you simply don’t feed the device at all this problem is eliminated, of course the trade off here is that without the mage adding his available power the power of many spells is reduced and some are impossible, plus with fewer places for the excess energy to go the device takes more abuse as well. These devices have a rather short useful lifespan and they tend to require allot of maintenance.

That said if a mage is channeling energy into these devices then using cartridges causes strain as normal, but these devices are also built so that they can function to a point without the mage supplying energy, if they have an available alternate source, IE cartridges. Most of the time a user would still be channeling through the device as normal to conserve ammunition if nothing else, but if need be he can cut lose from the weapon for a time to use his energy on something else and still continue to attack (to a point) at the same time.

Weapons somewhat like this will be a very a minor plot point later as they’ll be issued to many “normal” troops, to counter the enemies use of massed conventional forces. The idea behind them was creating a weapon that could equip a largely conventional force with something that could be a threat to mages and various sorts of robots and such. Real magic guns basically, this kind of approach to me seemed more in keeping with the universe and TSAB policy then simply inventing blaster rifles or something, and it added a bit of flavor to the unit’s magic style.

Anyway I hardly consider the idea of a tailor made device being able to cast simple spells alone using cartridges for power as particularly outlandish compared to crap introduced in other areas.

I can use some of these theories. Thanks!

Originally Posted by Nightengale

What could you be talking about? We're perfectly mature enough for anything.

Considering the characters involved, nothing of the sort should happen!!!:eyes pin:

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Spoiler:

"Temporarily taking over Private 2nd Class Alto Krauteaa's CIC position, transferring from the Navy's 7th Independent Mobile Division, Corporal Saga Ein, reporting for duty, Yagami-taichou!"

~~~

"Haven't seen you here, before? New, kid?"

"Yes. I'm the new mechanical technician... Isdera...Saleen."

~~~

"That's cold, Shamal-sensei... Males can be nurses too. Astra Scrya, reporting for medical duty, ma'am. "

"...Have we met? I have a feeling we've met each other before..."

~~~

"We have a new transfer student to our Saint Church's school. Introduce yourself, if you will."

"...Wira... Wira Brusche. Pleased to meet you."

So you're gonna...

MORE. NAO!






Delicious backlog is delicious.

[Evangelion Xgouki]

Originally Posted by Tormenk

Quick reply before I'm off..



Thats a slight problem on my end. I've no idea where to put her as of now.Currently I'm thinking of putting her appearance around April 28th MC 0076, which is the day RF6 was disbanded.

Actually I wasn't thinking of his involvement that way. And after a night's sleep, I''m not sure what I meant by involvement either. A thought or two from you eh? And as for hidden potential, you'll have to contend with Jeno since he's next on my list in addition to Fate and Maren.

That had been solely Katrina's thoughts alone. Put her in front of Keroko and you'll get a scene that will match the MarenKoji dilemma I mentioned earlier.

Heh, I'm not really too sure what to do with Shamsel too much either . I'm just waiting and seeing I guess since I am teh n00b here. Plus I'm a romance fanfic junky so it'd be nice to hope and see if Shamsel gets some happiness in his life .
Um, which one was Jeno? I can leave it up to you to determine who the antagonist will be . I can PM you the general idea that I was considering for the eventual situation if you want (so as not to spoil it for others ).

Originally Posted by USB500

DIARY OF A WINDTALKER
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, PART VII ACT II

Spoiler for space-saving:

// second round //

Zafira had to force himself to smile.

Whether the cosplay was intentional or not, he could not tell because it was all a part of Hayate’s brilliant plan. Moreover, he had to be sure he was donning the dress correctly although at first glance the attire looked nothing more than a modified butler uniform.

Well, he pondered, at least he got the Afro right.

He walked out of the changing room and met up with an equally mortified Vita. “Oi, Vita, at least you don’t have to wear Gothic dresses,” he commented, as Vita complained of the weird head visor and the kimono she had to wear for the party.

“Ano ne, Zafira.”

“Nanda?”

Vita sighed. “I can’t complain anymore, can I?” she said and holstered the shell machinegun over her shoulder. She grumbled in protest when Zafira gave her a playful pat on the head. “Stop ruffling my hair, Zafira. Hey!”

“Zafira!”

Along came Vivio, Annabelle and Lutecia. The two Wolkenritter turned to see them dressed up in their own extravagant costumes. “What are you guys cosplaying as?” Vita asked.

“Lulu-chan dresses up as Rider,” Annabelle said. “Vivio-chan cosplays as the sunflower fairy godmother, and I cosplay as Grandpa’s eternal friend.”

While Vita gave Annabelle a very deep look of ‘huh’ at the answer, Zafira took his time examining the two other young girls. He could see Lutecia’s cosplay perfectly matched her image as the purple-haired Servant, but the sheer cuteness of Vivio with that giant sunflower stuck on her back was inconceivable.

“Zafira, what is that?” Vivio asked and pointed to the Afro.

“Heh, it’s nothing,” Zafira said and put on his Ray Ban sunglasses. “How do I look?” Lutecia gave the wolf-man two thumbs up. Annabelle blushed in admiration at the macho look. Vivio cooed at the simple transformation of one of her friends. “Well, I guess I can go and win the top prize, can’t I?”

They returned to the hall. The moment they entered the building, the cosplay battle temporarily stopped. The crowd became smitten when they turned to Afro Zafira, and were more enticed when they saw him surrounded with sparkles and bubbles.

“Ah, Zafira-san…<3”

(Insert cheesy music here)

Zafira blinked. “I haven’t had my turn yet.”

The women sighed. “Yada… Zafira-san’s voice is so manly…” the murmured and cupped their blushing cheeks.

“That Afro… that Ray Ban…” the men muttered in equal admiration.

“Everyone’s gay for Masa-san,” dryly Lutecia commented.

One fan boy noticed the purple-haired girl. “Holy crap! It’s Rider!”

“RORI RAIDA? USO DA!” his friend shouted.

Onstage, the two Goth cosplayers watched in amusement at the commotion down there. “I never expected Zafira-san and Lulu-chan can capture so many eyes,” Widuri commented and turned to the smitten Smith and Wesson. “Although… why are they looking at us in that way?”

“Shinigami Mai…” Smith murmured.

“And Suigintou Widuri…” Wesson added.

“Both of them are hot Goth…” Smith said.

“…and their gorgeousness…” Wesson continued.

“ARE MADE OF PURE LOVE AND WIN!!!” they roared.

Widuri could only laugh in silly manners at the Linebackers, but then Mai was not saying anything about them. She had been looking for someone, and was disappointed because they did not appear as they had promised. Widuri noticed Mai’s distraught look and asked, “is there something wrong, Enna-sama?”

“Iie. It’s just-”

“Guess who?”

Widuri gasped. So did Smith and Wesson, because Mai’s eyes were covered by someone, and that someone was none other than…

“Gwen-oneesama?” Mai turned around to see another woman standing next to Sarah Alicia Lushien, a.k.a. Gwendolyn. “Iris-oneesama?”

The woman chuckled. “We did surprise you, didn’t we Mai-chan?” Gwen asked.

“And you seem to be enjoying your Shinigami outfit a lot,” Iris said in a teasing tone.

Mai blushed. “Wha… what are you talking of, Oneesama?” she mumbled.

Gwen giggled and took Mai’s arms as she and Iris brought the Daemon Princess to backstage. “We’d like to borrow Mai-chan for a while,” Gwen said to Widuri with a wink.

“Haii. Dozo.”

The Unison Device was unsure of what the women were going to do with Mai, and decided not to pay attention to them as she turned to the protesting Linebackers and fan boys. “I believe we should spend our waiting time with something useful, right?”

(“Well said, Widuri-chan,” Hayate nodded. “Well said.”)

Widuri approached the mike stand. She coughed in low voice, corrected her posture and smiled to the audience.

“Mizu no naka ni, yoru ga yureteru…”

The audience was awed. It was the first time Widuri (or any Unison Device so to speak) sang this beautifully. More surprising was that Frieda was accompanying Widuri with piano scores of the song (and Widuri did not know of this yet).

“Kanashii hodo, shizuka no tatazumu…”

The Zafira-san/Loli Rider uproar ended abruptly. Immediately all eyes and ears were fixated on the performing due, their heart touched by the serenity of Widuri’s heavenly voice.

“Midorinasu kishibe, utsukushii yoake wo…”

The Linebackers waved their lighters overhead, and everybody soon followed suit.

“Tada matte iraretara, kirei na kokoro de…”

Spoiler for song in question:

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Nanoha was watching the life performance from inside the medical room. Hikki was still sleeping, and was not showing any sign of awaking. The Tactical Instructor was upset at first for not able to join her friends, but she was also glad to finally have the space of privacy she had been seeking for. Looking down at Hikki’s childish face, she could not help wondering of how it would be if he didn’t have to cross-dress and sleep with her accompanying him.

“Silly me,” she uttered with a chuckle.
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“Itsumo, itsuka, kitto… anata no te wo tori…”

The performance ended. Frieda left the piano and approached Widuri to bow to the audience together. Everybody gave the two women a very loud standing ovation, whistling and throwing roses to them as they did. They thanked the audience for the support and returned backstage to meet up with Shamal, Ginga and Keroko.

“That was wonderful,” Shamal praised. “We never thought Widuri-chan can actually sing so that beautifully.”

“Considering her nature as a close-combat Unison Device, it would be surprise to see her soft side once in a while,” Keroko said. “Even the outfit suits her perfectly.”

Widuri had to laugh. “What are you talking of, Keroko-sama? You look beautiful in those frills, too.”

Keroko blushed. “It… it’s because Hayate threatened me with blackmails,” she murmured and shyly fiddled with her fingers. “Though I’ve always wanted to wear these…”

(Hayate deviously cackled. “Just as planned!”)

“But to see Ms. Johansen here is quite a surprise,” Ginga said. “Your presence is very much welcomed.”

The eyeglasses mother-would-be giggled. “Takeru has to follow Aura here. I simply fulfil my role as his guardian,” she said and was latter batting an eyebrow when she saw Ginga’s plain dress. “And I see that Miss Ginga needs something a bit… more proper.”

“What is that supposed to- IYAH!” Ginga was yelping in distress as Frieda dragged her towards the dressing room. “Miss Johansen! What are you trying to do? Ah! You’re stripping me!”

“Why, I’m just helping you dress up,” Frieda replied. “Now where did I put that dress I had brought earlier…”

“Miss Johansen! No! Ah! Subaru, help…”

“I didn’t know Paladin Frieda is a cosplay demoness,” Signum said in horror.

Hayate’s response was an equal terror as she patted Signum’s shoulder. “She’s Carim’s close friend, after all.”

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// 20 minutes later //

“See? I’ve told you it would suit you,” Frieda said as she did the finishing touch on the ribbon. “Look for yourself. Aren’t you beautiful?”

Ginga had to gulp bitterly. Like it or not, she had to accept the fact she was wearing the most suggestive cosplay dress she had ever worn. Not only that, she was asked to wear fake eyeglasses to add in the novelty of the cosplay. “Miss Johansen, I don’t feel comfortable in this suit…”

“What are you talking of, Ginga?” Frieda replied and rested her hands upon Ginga’s bare shoulders. “On Earth, witch and succubus are just a part of our Halloween celebration. I used to cosplay as a succubus in my college, so there’s nothing wrong if you cosplay as one.”

“But Miss Johansen-” Ginga was startled when the gunslinger knight embraced her, comfortably holding her body in her maternal arms. Frieda was giggling in soft voice as she brought Ginga close to her. “Miss Johansen…”

“Call me Frieda,” the eyeglasses-totting woman murmured. “Just relax. Everything will be fine if you believe in yourself. Right?”

“O… okay…”

The two women finally left the dressing room. They walked past the mortified Hayate, Signum, Shamal and Keroko and headed to the stage, where they were immediately greeted with approval roar like nothing before. Fan boys were infatuated by the sight of Witch Frieda and Succubus Ginga in eyeglasses and, Ginga loyalists, especially, drooled over Ginga’s voluptuous body.

“Mou, stop staring at me,” Ginga moaned when she noticed them eyeing her ‘delicious’ figure. “Hentai. Baaka. Ecchi. Sukebe.”

“GINGA-NEECHAMA HAS GONE TSUN-TSUN!!!!!!!!” fan boys wailed in agreement and melted.

Well, someone had to make sure it made sense.

“Hayate Yagami!” an audience shouted. “What kind of winning cosplay is this?! Ginga as a Megane Succubus? I must approve!”

“But it wasn’t a part of my plan!” Hayate objected.

“So she wants the cosplay party to follow her idealism,” the rest of the audience murmured.

“Chigau!” Hayate replied.

(Sophia had to laugh. “Did Oneechan just get caught red-handed? It’s so unlike her,” she exclaimed.

Kaempfer turned to several captivated audience and noticed someone asking his name. “Kaempfer,” he pronounced his name, and wind mysteriously blew his cape to reveal his muscular figure.)

“Everyone, please,” Ginga said as she was trying to ease the tension. “Hayate wasn’t at fault. It was-” She stepped on a banana peel that mysteriously materialized under her foot and slipped off the floor - only to be caught in Frieda’s arms. “F-Frieda?”

“Are you alright, Ginga?” Frieda asked with a warm smile.

“Err… yes, I’m alright,” Ginga replied. “Thank you.”

Fan boys were captivated by the sight of the gunslinger knight holding Ginga, and were even overwhelmed when sparkles and bubbles surrounded the two dazzling women.

“I don’t know what’s going on here,” Smith said.

“But Witch Frieda holding Succubus Ginga,” Wesson added.

“Is the best damn thing,” Smith continued.

“The world has ever seen!” Wesson ended.

Then they shouted in unison: “THIS IS FRIEDA JOHANSEN AND GINGA NAKAJIMA! THEY ARE MADE OF MILF, HOTNESS, ABSOLUTE LOVE AND WIN!!!”

“Banzai! Banzai!” fan boys agreed and roared together with the Linebackers. “Frieda-sama banzai! Ginga-neechama banzai!” Their excitement, however, did not last long when they heard a very heavy machine start-up noise coming from the right flank. “Uh-oh.”

“Do you hear what I just hear?” Smith said.

“I can hear it very loud and clear, brother,” Wesson replied.

Slowly, the Linebackers and the fan boys turned to the noise. There, standing at the end of the front raw seat was two angry young people with weapons deployed in Overdrive Mode.

“I shall shove these fists into your sorry mouth!” Subaru declared and loaded the Double Revolving Knuckles.

“Would you like to try dying once?” Takeru questioned and inserted a 20mm Belkan cartridge into the Panzer Faust Silberkugel.

“Please spare us…” the Linebackers pleaded.

Their answer was a definitive “No.”

“Oh shi-”

“Where did Zafira get that Afro, by the way?” Eruru Shamal asked when she saw Afro Zafira standing at the end of the hall and squealed when a cat mysteriously grabbed her tail. “Iyah! Stop touching my tail!”

“HOLY CRAP! IT’S SHAMISEN!!!!”

“AND IT’S GRABBING SHAMAL’S TAIL, TOO!!!!”

“GO FOR THE TAIL, SHAMISEN!!!!

“Let go off me! Hanaste! Iyah! Dareka! Dame! AH~~~~~~”

Fan boys and male audience bled their noses. “SHAMISEN ROCKS! HELL YEAH!!!!”

Subaru Nakajima killed fan boys with Double Revolving Bunker: Claymore Avalanche Mode. Holy shit! Subaru is in killing spree!!

Takeru killed male audience with Silberkugel: Panzer Faust Mode. Holy shit! Takeru is in killing spree!!

“Otoko no baaka,” Lutecia and Mai commented.

// to be continued //

This...is made of...EPIC WIN!!!


So much awesomeness...I can't wait for the next installment .
I hope you won't abuse Shamsel too much .

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Yes...the corrupted...must...be...PURIFIED!!!
Such an awesome image. Straight and too the, um, gun point (never played 40K before...but still awesome )

Originally Posted by Liingo

Just one thing though that's been annoying me... (directed at the thread in general...)
[rant on]There's a whole galaxy of worlds to use, there's no need to have all these mages appear on Earth!! Is it so hard to make up the name of a world?? With the massive number of mages from earth in here, you'd think that it was a administrated world, instead of a non-administared one... [/rant off]

Yes, there are quite a bit from Earth huh? Although I also plead guilty...
Just in my opinion, I can think of two possible explanations:
-Since everyone here is from Earth (...right?), it's like a comfort zone. Some people don't like to stray from a familiar environment or maybe they prefer someone they can relate with.
-Depending when they came into the picture, it could be explained that after the Precia and Book of Darkness Incident the TSAB decided to pay a little more attention to this little planet after find not one, but 3 high-rank mages. If the planet had 3 mages on it so far, what's not to say there are more down there somewhere?
Just my 2-sense and random thoughts that popped into my head as I was reading .

[Nightengale]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

When they invaded the enemy country, Saito and Lousie had a fight over moral and what's right...

C'mon, don't be a tease.

Here's what Sushi-Y-dono wrote on it. Hail her godly translation powah.

Spoiler for Hail Sushi-dono for her Transgoddesscheesium:

Now then, I finally finished my work, so I have some free time to do some writeup on vol.7...
Some general comment first though: vol.7 is a very depressing volume overall, and the depression lasts long into vol.8 as well. Siesta is depressed, Henrietta is miserable, Louise is devastated... and it's beginning to depress me too. sad.gif If it weren't for Tiffania, I don't think I can even read on. There were some "funny" moments, but overall, the past 2 volume probably can't be called "love comedy" anymore.

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The first chapter is named "The Temperature Difference Between the Two", and it illustrated how Saito and Louise's fundametally different beliefs would drive them apart.

The location is now on Albion land. Due to Louise's successful operation, the enemy was diverted away from the bay town of Rosyth, and the Tristein-Germania army landed easily and quickly took control of the town.

Ever since the death of his new friends a week ago, Saito has fallen into a serious depression. Louise, who believes death to be a natural thing in wars, wasn't hit nearly as hard. But still, looking at a depressed Saito pains Louise, and she tried her best to cheer him up, offering him gentle and kind words, and talked to him about how it is an honor for a noble to die in battle.



(Louise always sleep with nothing on but a nightgown. But since she didn't bring her nightgown with her, she used the military mantle given to her instead... ahem)

Saito, on the other hand, cannot imagine how honor can justify throwing away your own life. To Saito, life is more important than anything, and he cannot understand how one can die simply for his mission and honor. Louise, on the other hand, was serious with her words too. Although it's sad to see her comrades die, they died for the sake of their country.

This is the temperature difference between Louise, who has been raised as a proud noble, and Saito, who was raised in a peaceful country on Earth. For Louise, rather than mourn for the dead, it's more important to relief the sadness in the living instead.

Wanting to cheer Saito up, Louise began thinking, "what would that maid do here?" And slowly, she hugged Saito from behind. She remembered how Siesta would always use her own body to attract Saito's attention. Right now, Louise is wearing nothing but a mantle, but she knows that she may be able to help Saito forget if she were to provide him with the warmth of her body, so, suppressing her own embarassment, she began to untie her mantle...

Then whoosh! Their entire tent got blown away. A wind drake landed near them, and sitting on it was... the dragon knights that were thought to be lost! Although there was only one dragon left, all the knights has returned.

Everyone was surprised at this miraculous event, but in any case, everyone's glad that they returned alive. Inside the command tent, the captain knight reported that they were indeed all shot down one after another in the battle, and lost consciousness before they hit the ground. But when they woke up, they found themselves riding on the lone surviving dragon heading back towards the ship. Even their wounds haven been healed.

Certainly, their return was nothing short of a miracle. But if they have been treated by the enemy, it's possible the enemy might be using them for something. However, unable to find anything, the commander assigned the now dragon-less knights to become Louise's personal escort.

Saito waited for the knight captain outside, and they embraced each other. Realizing how much Saito worried for them, the captain apologized. There, Saito and the captain exchanged their names for the first time: the slightly chubby blonde captain is called Rene Fonck. (note: the name probably came from the WWI French ace pilot)

Back at Saito and Louise's tent, all the knights gathered for a drinking party to celebrate their return. After throwing a tantrum about various things, Louise feel asleep on Saito's lap. Then, after everyone has gotten some alcohol in them. Saito began reasoning with Rene about honor. Rene too, cannot understand why Saito would become so depressed over their deaths. For a low class noble like Rene, building up accomplishments through missions is the only way for him to earn honor and prestige for his family, not to mention money and land. But for Saito, none of that means anything if you're dead. There, for the first time, Saito realized the difference of temperature between him and the people of Halkeginia. Saito looked down at Louise, sleeping on his lap, and even though they're this close to each other, he felt a great sense of distance between him and her...

For a few days, Saito and the knights spend the day drinking and chatting at Louise's tent everyday. Rene teased Louise about the scene they saw when they first arrived and blew away the tent: Louise undress herself in front of her familiar lover. Louise got all red and angry, and hid herself under the blanket.

Then, the knights were called to the command tent once again, and asked to describe their experiences again. Rene felt a little annoyed, being asked to repeat himself. But this time, one of the other knights, a quiet looking boy called Fernand, said that when he crash landed on his dragon and was tossed to the ground, just before he lost consciousness, he saw a beautiful fairy walking towards him...

At this point, someone entered the tent, it was a beautiful looking young man, his looks grabbed the attention of both Saito and Louise. His name is Julio Cesare, the captain of the 3rd dragon knight squadron. Saito looked at Julio, and disliked him immedately. Although Julio was a pretty man like Guiche, their class is completely different. Julio looked almost girl-like, and had an atmosphere of high-class air around him.

Noticing Louise, Julio quickly offered his greeting, introducing himself as a priest from the southern country of Romaria. And then kissed Louise on her hand.



Saito nearly cried out at this. "You bastard, who's hand do you think you're kissing? I'm sorry, but that's my- my master."
Saito tried to calm himself down. Don't worry, Suddenly getting kissed on the hand like that, Louise would definitely get angry at this rude punk...
But instead, Louise looked down slightly with a blushed face, and said in a sweet voice "my, what a brash person".

Cold sweat flowed down Saito's forehead.

After some elegant comments from Julio directed at Louise. Saito felt himself boiling with anger. But he realized this at the same time: Guiche is a playboy type too, but he's missing some screws here and there, and messes up easily. Julio, on the other hand, is seamless, and he also have a strange sense of friendliness around him. From a man's instinct, Saito understood.

This guy is seriously hot with the ladies.

On top of that, Julio quickly put on a serious face when returning to the main topic at hand: a sign of a professional working man.
Against Julio, Saito felt like biting a hankerchief.

After leaving the tent, Saito found out from the 2nd squadron knights that Julio is a priest from Romaria, a religious country in Halkeginia where most of the temples and churches are located at. Julio is not a noble, but was able to become the captain of a squadron because he's "unusually good at riding dragons".

Saito then began to think about Louise's reaction towards Julio, and from there, he began thinking about his own confession to her. Ever since the war began, Saito was too occupied to think about Louise's response to his confession back on that lake. But now that he think about it, she didn't return his love, instead, she called his confession "an expression of loyalty". Think about it, very, very carefully.... Doesn't that mean that he was... rejected? Somehow, Saito thought of it as a kind of acceptance, but think about it more? That's not acceptance. What the hell is "an expression of loyalty" anyway? What the hell does that even mean?

In other words...... I got dumped.
The moment Saito reached that conclusion, he felt like he was hit by a hammer over the head. In his mind, anger raged on: This woman dumped me, even though I risked my life for her stupid missions, she dumped me! Normally, if a guy went this far, a girl would at least say "let's start as friends" just to be polite. Instead, what's this!? What the hell is "an expression of loyalty"!? What the hell is "You can touch one part of my body that you like"!? Isn't that almost like a master allowing her dog to shake her hand? Am I a dog? Aren't I a dog? Ah, I'm a dog?

Then Saito remembered Louise's look back in the tent the other day. Although he was depressed over Rene and the others at the time and didn't pay attention to her, she was practically nude! Is that the kind of things a girl should do in front of the guy she just made fun of and dumped!?

In Saito's head, Louise was already judged as guily of all charges, and Judge Saito's decision is: ignore her.

Saito walked on ahead ignoring Louise.

On the other side, Louise's is still thinking about Julio. There's something about him that captures her attention. As a girl her age, Louise doesn't dislike Julio's looks, but she's not as naive as to fall for a guy simply because "he's good looking". In any case, since there is already another boy in her heart, probably, maybe, there's no way she would allow another boy enter her heart simply because he was "good looking"... More importantly, Fernand's report about the fairy that he saw can't be dismissed either, after all, they lost memory for a whole week, who knows what could've happened to them. And yet, the military people didn't seem to care about it at all...

While she's thinking about all this, Louise realized that Saito is walking on ahead with the other knights.

Leaving her behind.

Louise got angry and ordered him to come back, but was ignored. Anyways, Louise is simply frustrated and angry at the fact that she's being ignored. Seeing Louise standing alone by herself, angrily stomping the ground, Saito decided that he'll be a man here and back down one step. So he called out "....Come on, let's go Louise". But in return, Louise puffed her cheek, looked away from him and said "It should be "may I escort you", no?"

Saito exploded at her proud and selfish line. Normally, he wouldn't have gotten angry at her for her attitude like this. But this time, Saito felt uncomfortable about something. "I worked this hard for Louise, but what does she even think of me as?" That's why Saito may have overreacted to Louise:
""may I escort you"? Are you friggin' kidding me? You can just stay there for the rest of your life!" Saito walked away. Rene and the others looked at Saito and Louise worriedly.... and chased after Saito in the end.

Left alone, Louise was shaking with anger. She's angry at Saito for his "selfishness", and for leaving her alone in a battlefield. Tears appeared in her eyes: what "I love you"? It's all a lie after all, if you love me, then why would you treat me so coldly? Hmph, fine, whatever. I won't ever forgive you, you liar. I hate you, I hate you. Louise whispered quietly and bit her lip.

At the Tristein-Germania army headquarters, the generals are troubled over their current situation. When they landed at Rosyth 10 days ago, they have anticipated Albion to make a full couterattack. The generals planned to use that chance to crush the Albion army, and then march unobstructed right into Londonium. However, 10 days has passed, and Albion has made no movement whatsoever. For the invasion army, problems like food supply is beginning to surface: it takes a lot of time and money to transport enough food to sustain an army of 60,000 in enemy territory. The war was never meant to be a long-term one in the first place.

After a long deliberation, in was decided that the coalition army should first take over the key city of South Gotta, located between Rosyth and Londonium. The City of South Gotta is a major transportation hub, and would serve as an excellent stage point for the final push towards Londonium.

Louise then entered the the room, wanting to discuss with the generals about the fairy that Fernand talked about, thinking it may have a significant meaning. The generals, on the other hand, practically ignored her argument and instead, used the chance to send her out on another mission...

Back outside, Louise headed towards the dragon knight headquarters and asked Julio to give her a ride on his dragon for the mission. Hearing this, Saito immedately got defensive "If you want to fly, then why don't you use my Zero fighter? Why did you have to ask this snob..... I mean, priest-sama from Romaria?"

Louise, who's still angry at Saito for his attitude towards her the other day, tossed harsh comments at him, knowing he's jealous.

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Louise: "You're always out of it, and you're not nice either, and unconsiderate too. On top of that, you're always thinking about perverted things. A-a-always about those kind of things. You'd take anyone too."
Saito: "Besides being out of it, none of those have to do with flying"
Louise: "Then I'll be blunt. If I'm going to ride behind someone anyway, I'd rather do it with a cool-looking guy"
The moment Louise said that, Saito's body froze.
Saito: "......W-w, wh, what did you say?"
Saito said, while cold sweat flowed down his body. Louise pointed her finger right up against Saito.
Louise: "My, what's this? You're jealous? Are you stupid? Who do you think you're comparing yourself to? You're jealous of this Romarian priest-sama who's like a walking beauty in full dress, compared to your own face, which looks like a dog plus a mole divided by 3 times 4 minus 5 and then stepped on? Are you crazy? Are you stupid? Aren't you better off dead?"
Saito: "Y, you......"
Saito was deprived of oxygen, and began opening and closing his mouth silently. The flames of jealously burned within him, and threatened to reduce his whole body to dust.
Louise: "Unfortunate for you. From here on, I'm going to be heading out on a secret mission with the beauty priest-sama, you can clean up the tent, alright? You guys messed it up yourself, so make sure it's spotless, alright? And wash the laundry too"
And then, at the very end, Louise stuck out her tongue right at Saito.
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(For the record, it must HURT to be told that your face looks like "a dog plus a mole divided by 3 times 4 minus 5 and then stepped on" ^^; )

After Julio and Louise left, Saito drew out Derflinger and began swinging it around like mad, there's a lot of anger here. ^^;

In the sky, Louise felt great that she got her revenge against Saito's attitude towards her the other day. Julio remained nonchalant and spoke like a true gentleman towards Louise on their way towards her mission: surveillance over the City of South Gotta. Julio was clever, and knew that Louise didn't chose his dragon over Saito's plane just because she wanted to make Saito jealous. Although Saito's plane is fast, it's out of ammo, and all the secret weapons on it have been used up. In other words, it won't stand up in combat. Julio praised Louise for being able to make such a calm and informed decision even when she's angry at Saito.

From what Louise could see, it appears that all the enemy forces within the city were non-humans: Orcs and trolls partroled the streets. Although orics and trolls are powerful fighters, they are hard to control as well. Why would Albion leave an entire city under the protection of non-humans...? Louise and Julio's conversation was soon cut short by incoming enemy dragons. Shockingly, Julio controlled his dragon, Azzurro, with incredible precision and skill. Azzurro was faster, swifter, and more powerful than any dragon Louise has ever seen before. Soon, all 9 enemy dragons were downed in the hands of Azzurro's blazes and claws. Julio said that he has simply brought out the true powers that a dragon originally had. And there, Louise understood why a non-mage like Julio was able to become the captain of the 3rd squadron...

At the capital city of Londonium, the top leaders are arguing over whether they should attack the enemy or not. Due to Louise's "Illusion", they lost the one chance to beat back the enemy forces before they could land. And now, for them to attack would be suicidal: Ever since losing most of their fleet during their invasion of Tristein (vol.3 of novel), Albion only had 40 ships left. And half of those were sunk during the fleet battle a few weeks ago, with the remaining ships heavily damaged. In comparison, the Tristein-Germania fleet still have over 40 ships operational. The air superiority is in the enemy's hands.
On top of that, Albion only have a little over 40,000 soldiers left after their failed invasion (vol.3). There's no way they can stand up against the force 60,000 that the enemy commands.
Even the operation to take over the magic academy and use it's students as hostages ended in failure.

Cromwell, the man who led the original army that defeated the reigning Albion royal family (Wale's family) and became emperor of the new Albion empire (vol.3), remained unconcerned, just like he always has. After realizing that the enemy is aiming for their city of South Gotta, the generals proposed to stop the enemies there. However, Cromwell had a different plan: leave South Gotta, and take away all the foods from the city. This way, when the Tristein-Germania army enter the city, they will be forced to share what little food they had left with the local residents. The generals were shocked at Cromwell's coldblooded words, but he's right: considering that the enemy invaded Albion with the intention to take control of the country, they must maintain a positive image among the local residents too, so it's almost certain that the invasion army will be forced to share their food with the citizens of South Gotta. Cromwell is trying to wear the enemy out by making them use up their food supply.

Cromwell appeared to be confident, but after the generals left the room, he revealed his true form: a pitiful old man who was only putting up a facade in front of his people. In reality, one of his advisors named Sheffield was controlling him as a puppet. Cromwell was nothing but a fake emperor.

Sheffield took up the magical water ring of Andervalli from Cromwell, which contained the power to resurrect people, but only as mindless zombies (Wales was resurrected by this). Cromwell used the ring's power to convince others that he was a user of "Void" and fit to be an emperor of a country, but in reality, he was nothing but a fake. Sheffield took back the ring, and explained that resurrecting people is not its only power...

One kilometer from the walls of the City of South Gotta, Guiche and his batallion is waiting for the order to attack. Soon, several Tristein ships floated in overhead and blasted an opening in the castle wall. Guiche's squad took the lead, and with experienced movements, the old soldiers of Guiche's company proved themselves to be seasoned veterans, and quickly took down the simple minded orcs trying to squeeze through the narrow pathways created by the cannon blasts...

Soon, the City of South Gotta was "liberated" by the Tristein-Germania forces, the citizens were actually welcomed them, because the Albion government abandoned their city under the "protection" of orcs and trolls, on top of that, their food supply has been taken away. The citizens of South Gotta had no love left for the Albion government.

Saito and Louise also arrived inside the city safely. However, Saito is having problem activating his Gandolfr powers: even when he held onto Derflinger, the rune on his hand only glowed weakly, and he doesn't feel the surge of power like he always did. Derflinger reminded Saito that a Gandolfr's power is determined by the trembles of his heart, in other words, his emotions. Right now, Saito has nothing but doubt and lack of trust for Louise, that's why his powers are weakened. Saito began to wonder why he's in a place like this, fighting a war like this.

For Louise's sake.
That's right, he's doing it for her sake.
A girl that makes his heart beat when he looks at her.
But what if that same girl rejects his feeling of "love"?
If she doesn't "love" him, when why does she keep him around her?
Thinking about all this, Saito only became more depressed.

Louise, standing a short distance from Saito, is occupied by her own thoughts too. On the surface, she's talking happily with Julio beside her about the feat of liberating the city, but inside, her attention is directed towards Saito. Out of the corner of her eyes, she could see Saito looking at her and Julio with a depressed face: Louise felt even more satisified at getting her payback against Saito.

At the city square, an award ceremony is being held for those who have performed with distinction during the attack on the city. Surprisingly, Guiche has also been called upon and awarded for his company's gallant actions as the leading force to break through and enter the city.

From the crowd, a man looking like Guiche stepped out, and embraced Guiche, it was Guiche's immedate older brother.



Looking at them, Louise felt a little empty. She has done much more for her country and performed far greater deeds. But unlike Guiche's accomplishments, Louise's actions and accomplishments are all kept under secret, never to be recognized by anyone...

Back at Tristeinia, Henrietta is inside her office, wearing full black. She's kneeling in front of a small alter with a small statue of Brimir, offering her prayer.

Mazarini, the cardinal, entered Henrietta's office. Seeing Henrietta like this, he could only sigh: ever since the war began, Henrietta has been praying throughout the day without resting.



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As if to make an excuse for herself, Henrietta said,
Henrietta: "For this powerless queen, there's nothing she can do except to offer her prayer"
Mazarini: "Covered in black, is it? Your Highness was much better suited for white though"
Henrietta: "It is a war. There are many men who will have fallen. I am dressed for mourning"
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Mazarini then reported to Henrietta of the good news that they have successfully liberated the city of South Gotta. However, at the same time, bad news about the lack of food supply arrived as well. Henrietta cursed the cruelty of the Albion government for taking away food from its own citizen, but gave her approval to send more food to the frontline forces, despite Tristein's finances being under considerable strains.

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Henrietta: "Where's the finance minster?"
Mazarini: "He's in a meeting with the ambassador of Galia"
Henrietta: "Galia?"
Mazarini: "We're applying for a loan from Galia. War costs a lot of money, after all"
Henrietta gazed at her own hand. And then, spoke in a pained voice.
Henrietta: "We only have to win. Yes, we only have to win. We'll pay them back from Albion's wallet"
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However, Henrietta's plan was not to be: Albion has asked for a cease fire, for the duration of the Advent Festival, which is less than a week away.

The Advent Festival is the biggest holiday in Halkeginia, and is the festival celebrating the arrival of Halkeginian's revered god, Brimir. The festival continues for 10 days, beginning on the first day of the new year.

Henrietta was furious, she felt there was no need to give an enemy, who has performed several shameless attacks on her country, room to breathe. But considering the feelings of her own soldiers, she soon calmed down.

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Henrietta regained herself, and lowered her head.
Henrietta: "......I said too much. Please forget it. Everyone is doing their best, I'm sure"
Mazarini then stood up, saying he will go and prepare for a draft of the cease fire agreement. Standing in front of the door, Mazarini turned around.
Mazarini: "Your Highness. When the war ends, please take off the black. It does not suit you."
Henrietta does not answer.
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3 days after the cease fire agreement came into effect, we see Louise rolled up in front of the fireplace in an inn's room inside the City of South Gotta. New years is 4 days away, and after that, the Advent Festival will begin.

Although the war is still on going, the atmosphere in South Gotta is a peaceful one. For the people of South Gotta, this time of the year is a time for celebration and activities. For the soldiers of Tristein and Germania, it's a chance for them to relax and enjoy the festivities as well.

Due to Albion being a floating country, its winter comes early, and is far colder compared to the mild winters seen in Tristein. For Louise, who's very bad with cold weathers, all she could do is roll herself up in a blanket in front of the fireplace.

Saito, on the other hand, is sitting in a corner, drowning himself in depression. Louise tried to get his attention by teasing him, but it only caused him to stand up and leave the room. Louise returned back in front of the fireplace, and rolled herself up like a cat again.

Finally, Derflinger, leaning against the wall, spoke up:

(due to the talking sword's coolness, I'll do a special service here and translate his whole "lecture". Talk that noble girl down!)

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Derflinger: "You cruel woman"
Hearing this, Louise's face popped out from the blanket.
Louise: "W, what...... It's his fault! It's because he's always fidgeting around like that......"
Derflinger: "Who do ya think made partner like that in the first place?"
Louise: "I, I don't know!"
Louise yelled, as if wanting to cover something up.

Derflinger: "Then I'll tell ya. Partner thinks he's been completely dumped by you"
Hearing that, Louise bit her lips.
Louise: "I, isn't that obvious!? He's a familiar, and I'm a noble!"
Derflinger: "Is that what ya really think?"
Louise's face crumbled. She made a pouting face, plainly showing off her girl-like emotions.
Louise: "I, it's his fault! He's acting cold towards me for some reason. And he ignores me too. And with other girls, he-......"
Derflinger: "He did what? It's a different story if ya actually witnessed him doing something, but that maid only said "I got him to undo my buttons for me", didn't she? If ya suspect him to be a cheater just because of that, then yer just too selfish"
Louise: "U......"
Derflinger: "Ha, so that's why ya showed off that scene where ya flirted with the handsome, huh? Well, even then, don't ya think ya overdid it? If ya just showed off, then it's still understandable, but ya said something really cruel, ya know? "If I'm going to ride behind someone anyway, I'd rather do it with a cool-looking guy" or something"
Louise looked down.

Derflinger: "Yeah, it's true that no matter how ya look at it, that Romaria priest is more cool lookin'. Their faces, heck, is just uncomparable. If we compare their faces using flying creatures as examples, it'd be like a fly compared to a phoenix. If we use animals on land as examples, it'd be like a mole cricket compared to a lion. If we used living things in water as examples, it'd be like a water flea compared to a swan."
Louise: "......Isn't that a little too harsh?"
Derflinger: "Well, anyway, it's not about the face. Ya know, even though partner really wanted to head East himself, he kept patient and stayed by ya, didn't he? He confessed to you by saying "I love you", didn't he? And yet, saying something like "it must be an expression of loyalty" is just too harsh, don't ya think? To add to that, pretending that ya chose a matchless handsome over him, that's just too mean. And it took partner so much courage to tell you that he loves you too......"

Hearing those words, Louise's face turned completely red for a full 5 minutes. Then, she walked to the window and looked outside, checked inside the curtains, opened the closets, looked under the table, and after making sure that there's nobody listening in on them, she turned to face the legendary sword.

Louise: "Hey, is that true? He doesn't just say that to everyone? Well?"
Derflinger: "Partner is wholehearted. Well, it's up to ya whether ya want to believe it or not"
Louise blushed and fell silent.
Derflinger: "Geez, getting all mean over partner just because he's not feeling his best, yer gonna get hit by divine retribution, you know"

Louise went and puffed up her face.
Louise: "I, I get it. I'll forgive him! That's enough, right!?"
Derflinger: "Then apologize, and talk to him nicer"
Louise: "Me? Why!? He should be the one to apolo......"
Derflinger: "Usually, the same could be said for both of ya, but this time it's your turn to bend over. Since you did all those mean things"
For a while, Louise mumbled spitefully, like u~~~~~~, or au~~~~~~, or ee~~~~~~~, but,
Louse: "Alright already! I'll aplogize! Is that enough!?"
she screamed, making you want to question if she really intend to apologize.
However, Derflinger murmured in a threatening way.
Derflinger: "But, this time partner is seriously sulking......, maybe he's really tired of ya this time. Maybe he won't forgive ya with just some small words like that"
Louise went "ah!" and looked worried.
Derflinger: "Worried?"
Louise: "H, how ridiculous! That's fine! Nobody's asking for his forgiveness!"

Derflinger: "Ah, ok then"
Derflinger fell silent. Since he doesn't make even a peep after that, Louise began fidgeting.
Soon, Louise was unable to stay calm. She picked up the firewood beside the fireplace, and began peeling the bark off.
Derflinger: "What a dark way to keep your hands busy"
Louise: "Shaddap! What should I say then!? Don't be so tight-lipped and tell me!'
Derflinger: "I love you"
Louise: "Wha?"
Derflinger: "I love you too Saito!"
Louise: "There's no way I can say that"
Derflinger: "Ya hate him?"
Louise: "W, well no but......"
Louise began to twiddle.
Derflinger: "Then ya love him, right?"
Louise: "T, that's not it! Anyway, I can't say that, and I don't want to, it's not something for me to say and I can't say it, I don't love him! A guy like him! Baka! Crappy sword!"

Derflinger: "Sigh, if ya keep acting like that, ya might not get suddenly attacked by him anymore, ya know?"
Louise: "That's fine"
Derflinger: "Really?"
Louise: "Of course. Are you kidding me!? Geez, what kind of person pushes his own master down anyway!? Normally, if something like this......"
Derflinger: "You don't like getting pushed down?"
Louise: "Isn't that obvious!? Baka!"
Derflinger: "Ahh, it must feel great to be pushed down by someone you love, and then hugged so--- tightly"
Louise blushed, looked down, and in a small voice,
Louise: "......Um, c, can't you say it in a different way?" she asked.
Derflinger: "So you want to be pushed down"
Louise: "N, no I don't! Stop kidding around! It's just troubling for me if he's not energetic. An unenergetic Gandolfr is useless. Right?"
Derflinger: "Don't ask me"
Louise: "Anyway, I'm the third daughter of the La Valliere family. It's impossible for me to tell that stupid familiar that I love him. Oh, and I don't. Really. Well, I'm willing to admit that he loves me. So go ahead and worship me. Isn't that enough!? You understand!?"
Derflinger: "I get it already......, geez what a troublesome hardass......"
Louise: "Anyway, we'll cheer him up with some other words, so hurry up and tell me"
Derflinger: "Take me"
Louise stands up slowly, and began chanting a spell out loud.
Derflinger: "Don't melt me! Don't blow me away!"
Louise: "Stop kidding around and tell me already. What should I say?"
Derflinger trembled for a bit, and whispered,
Derflinger: "Stay by my side"
Louise: "What the heck is that?"
Derflinger: "A lot of thoughts went into that. Me-wise, sword-wise, legend-wise"
Louise: "If you're a legend, then say something more appealing"
Derflinger: "No, it's good. It delivers yer feelings in a way, and it can be taken either way, so it doesn't affect yer pride either"
Louise went hmm, and after some thinking, she nodded.
Louise: "Now that you put it that way, it might actually be good. For a sword, you sure understand the subtlety of the human mind well"
Derflinger: "How long did ya think I've been living for? Well, it sounds fun so I'll help. If things go bad, I'm not responsible though. 'Cause it's troublesome. Now then, it's all about that, the way ya say it and when ya say it......"
Louise and Derflinger discussed for a while...... and decided on their operation.
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Saito is sitting on a bench at the city square, looking on at the lively crowds. Everyone seems to be looking forward to the Advent Festival. Saito sighed, he's the only one with a dark face in the streets.

And then, a voiced called out to him,
"Saito-san!"
followed with an intense embrace by the person from behind. Saito turned around, and there, with a full face of smiles, is Siesta!

Siesta has come with Scarron (the store owner of the Charm Fairy Inn that Saito and Louise worked at in vol.5) and Jessica (the daughter of Scarron, the top waitress who tried to seduce Saito) as part of a condolence team, where cooks and entertainers were brought in from Tristein to take care of the soldiers out on the battlefield.

(Scarron's comment on the reason for sending a condolence team: "Because Albion's famous for their horrible foods! With ales as their only alcohol! And their women, uptight!" ...I hope it's not a stab at Albion's real-life counterpart ^^; )

Here, we find out that Jessica and Siesta are actually cousins! Saito whispers to himself about how small the world is...

While Saito is chatting with Siesta and the others about how things are like back in Tristein, Louise and Derflinger is in the final preparations for their "Operation Cheer Up Saito". Which involved Louise dressing up wearing a black cat costume (with minimum coverage), and saying a line somewhere along the lines of "you're my master today, nyan!" when Saito comes back....... Even though she's (rather) embarassed, Louise is determined to do it. Yes.

At that time, someone began to turn the door knob: Saito is back.

The moment the door opened, Louise closed her eyes blurted out:
"Y-y-y-y, y, you're my master today nyan!" combined with the "sexy pose" she decided on earlier.

But even after waiting and waiting, Louise received no reply. When she opened her eyes,

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"M, m-mi, Miss Valliere?"
There stood Siesta, shaking with a pale face.
Scarron: "Oh my, Louise-chan. What's with that look?"
Jessica: "Pff. pffff. Since when did you become a cat?"
Not only Siesta, even Scarron and Jessica is here for some reason. Saito came back and popped up his face from behind them.
Saito: "Sorry for the wait. I brought the wines. Hmm? Why is everyone standing in front of the room?
And there, Saito noticed Louise wearing the black cat costume.
Saito: "W, what are you doing? You......"
Louise screamed.
Louise: "Iyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
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After that, Louise hid herself under the blanket on the bed, and won't come out no matter what.

A few days later, the first day of the new year has arrived. The Advent Festival has begun, and will continue on for 10 days. Fireworks and singings and parties filled the city. Everyone forgot about the war, even if only for a short while, and enjoyed the festivities.

Louise is sitting by herself in an officer's pub, downing drinks one after another. Louise is weak against alcohol, so her drinks are diluted with lots of juice and water, but even then, her face is still totally flushed.
A few tables away, Saito and the dragon knights are happily drinking with Guiche, whom they just met up with ealier. Looking at Saito, Louise began to drink even more. When Louise ordered a refill, Siesta came in: she's working as one of the waitresses at the pub.

Although they began with some small bickerings, the festive mood made them feel far more generous than usual. Soon, Louise and Siesta sat down together for a drink, and agreed on a cease fire between themselves too for the festival period.

Outside, snow began to fall...



Their topic then turned towards the war. Siesta expressed her dislike for this war, and said she heard from others that the war was simply a tool used to gain money and power. Louise, however, knows perfectly that this war was nothing more than Henrietta's own agenda for revenge against Wale's killers.

At that time, Saito and Guiche suddenly began yelling at each other: it was another arguement about death and honor. Just like before, Saito cannot understand why all the nobles see honor as being more important than their lives. Out of anger, Saito calls honor as something stupid and pointless.

Hearing this, Louise was enraged, and demanded Saito to apologize to Guiche and the others. For nobles, honor means everything, it's more important than their lives, and for their honor to be insulted is absolutely unforgivable.

Saito finally realized the reason for his depression: it's not because Louise flirted with Julio, it's not because Louise treated him coldly.

It's because Louise considered her mission, in other words, her honor, to be more important than her own life. And that's what made Saito so depressed.

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That's why Guiche's words earlier pissed him off so much.
What the hell is that?
Is honor really that important?
Saito: "Then......"
Louise: "What"
Saito stared at Louise.
Saito: "If you were ordered to die, would you? Just like these guys were ordered to"
Saito said, pointing at Rene and the others.
Louise bit her lip.
Saito: "You can't do it, right? Then stop talking so arrog-......." half way through his sentence, Louise cuts in,
Louise: "I'll die. Isn't it obvious?"
Her voice is shaking.
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Saito is stunned at Louise's statement, he realized that Louise feels nothing about being treated as a "tool", to be treated not as a "person", but as a "weapon". Then, he realized that Louise must be seeing him the same way too: Gandolfr, a tool that exists solely for the protection of his master. Saito soon believed this explanation, the true identity of the "something" that he felt between him and Louise: Louise must be seeing him as nothing but a tool, it explained her attitude, her behaviour, everything.

Angrily, Saito dashed out into the snowing streets. Louise turned around and filled her cup fill of wine, and downed it all in one gulp without diluting it.

Out in the streets, Saito walked on aimlessly when someone called out to him, it was Siesta.

Worried for Saito, Siesta came after him after he stormed out of the pub. With teary eyes, Siesta pleaded for Saito to stop wondering the streets. Against a crying Siesta, Saito had no choice but to listen to her. But since most inns are occupied by soldiers and merchants, rooms are hard to find. But finally, they found a room in the basement of of a bar.

Inside the small and cold room, Saito and Siesta sat down on the bed. Saito continued to pet Siesta's head for while, and she finally stopped crying. Siesta apologized to Saito, not just for herself, but for the others too. She knew Saito has done so much for Louise and the others, and yet, treatment towards him has always been so cold.

A little happy at her words, Saito began to light the fireplace, just when he managed to get the fire going..... Siesta hugged him from behind. Saito froze.

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Siesta: "I'm sorry......" Siesta said in an almost-crying voice.
Saito: "Eh? No, it's okay...... I got nothing else to spend my money on anyway......"
Saito thought that maybe Siesta was feeling bad for making him rent the room, but he was wrong.
Siesta: "Chasing you all the way here...... I must be a bother to you"
Squeeze, Siesta hugged Saito tightly.
The fire moved onto the firewoods....., and began burning brightly. The half-underground room has a window at the top for lighting. The window faces the street, and the feet of passing pedestrians and falling snow could be seen.
Saito: "You're not a bother at all"
Siesta: "I wanted to see you, so much"
Again, with an almost-crying voice, Siesta whispers.
Siesta: "Because, it's a war, right? If something, something were to happen to Saito-san, then I...... I was afraid that I won't be able meet you again, so I wondered how I can come over here. And then, I heard that Jessica and the others were coming to Albion, so I......"
While talking, Siesta seemed to be overwhelmed once more.
Siesta started crying again.
Siesta: "I wanted to meet you, like this. I was so happy to see you, but, I didn't know what to say. And when I opened my mouth, lots of stuff came out. Different stuff. Really"

Nudge, nudge, Siesta pressed her teary face against Saito's back.
Saito: "Yeah......"
"......I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for crying." Siesta whispered over and over again.
Saito lifted Siesta's hands and turned around, and while petting her head with his left hand, he wiped away her tears with his right hand finger.
Siesta: "I felt so bad for Saito-san. To be brought here from another world, but still working so hard even then without complaining. And yet they treated you heartlessly like a tool. It's too cruel. M, my most important person......treated like a tool....."
Saying that while crying, Siesta looked up at Saito's face. Without thinking, quietly, Siesta moved her lips closer to his..... and then, realizing what she was doing, she quickly tried to draw back.
Unconsciously, Saito applied strength into his hands placed on Siesta's face. He didn't want to let her go.
Siesta noticed the strength Saito put into his hands, and stopped her hesitation. She swung her hands around his neck, and quickly laid her lips on his.
Feeling it for the first time, Siesta's lips were warm. Everything about Siesta was soft. Almost like the white breads she always baked for him at the kitchen, warm and soft.

Siesta moved her face back a little, and gazed at Saito's face with moist eyes. And, once again, she pressed her lips on his strongly. From there, Siesta laid her weight on top of Saito, and pushed him down onto the floor.
With the fireplace burning brightly in the background, Siesta's black hairs moved. They rustled and tickled Saito's face.
The gentle girl who always stayed by his side.
As if she made her mind up about something, Siesta closed her eyes, unhooked her dress, and began taking off her top.
W, wait, as Saito tried to say, his lips were blocked by her kiss.
The kiss was sweet yet intense, after becoming all mixed up and tangled in each other, Siesta blushed and placed her hand on Saito's chest.
In that position, Siesta leaned her body against Saito's, and laid her lips on top of his, over and over again, as if to stroke his lips.
Then, she lifted her lips slighty, and whispered,
Siesta: "I love you."



With the bright flame behind her, Siesta looked incredibly lovely, and erotic. It was the kind of look that Saito didn't feel from the time when they bathed together.
Perhaps it was those words, I love you, and the mood brought on by the kisses.
A girl could change her shape easily, almost like a flame.
Saito never knew that Siesta actually had such an attractive appearance.
Even then, seeing Saito not moving at all, as if he was stiff, Siesta pouted.
Siesta: "Jessica told me. She said there's no way a boy would do nothing after coming this far. And that if he really did nothing, then he must really don't think of you as anything"
Saito: "T, t, that's not true......"
As if his heart is about to explode, Saito squeezed out the words.
Siesta: "Then, please touch me"
Siesta then took Saito's hand and began guiding it towards her cleavage, which can be seen peeking out from her black dress, so Saito looked away. He felt like he might snap if he looked at Siesta like this.
Siesta: "You don't like me?"
Siesta asked, Saito shook his head.
Saito: "That's not it. That's not it at all."
Saito spoke in a painful voice. He is a healthy young man. It is hard to hold back. It is killing him. He wanted to hold onto this cute Siesta tightly....... and make her his. But he felt if he did that...... it would become fake. He felt that he would be lying, to something important.
That's why, Saito shook his head.
Saito: "......Somehow, I feel like it will become a lie"
Siesta: "A lie?"

"Yeah. Siesta is a very important person to me, so...... like this, um...... like, in such a chaotic condition, for us to, uh......" Saito said in jumbled words.
Perhaps his attitude delivered his message.
Siesta thinks for a while...... and then gently smiled as if she changed her mind.
Siesta: "Saito-san, do you remember?"
Saito: "......Eh?"
Siesta: "Before, at Tarbes, you said this. You said that since you came from another world, you have to go back one day. Therefore you can't make me any promises"
Saito: "......Yeah"
Siesta: "And I said that I'm alright with it even then, remember? That wasn't a lie, you know. I still think that way, even now"
Saito: "Siesta"
Siesta: "I'll wait. For when your feelings become so strong, you won't mind making this a lie...... That time may never come, but...... I'll wait for you. And when it comes..... all of me will be......."
Saying something like that made Siesta look so innocent and sweet, Saito hugged her tightly without thinking.
Siesta gazed at Saito with puppy-like eyes, and said,
Siesta: "Just for tonight. Hold me tight...... And kiss me now and then. Can I have at least that? Will even that make it a lie?"
Saito: "K, kisses are a little......"
Siesta: "If you don't want to kiss, I'll just take off my clothes then"
That'd be troublesome, since he can't hold back if she took off her clothes.
Against such a Siesta, there was no way Saito could reject her. Siesta layed herself down on top of the bed, and looked up at Saito. Her expression was not of the professional face she had always shown when she distributed the cakes and wines, but her natural and true look. A dear and nostalgic feel hanged in the air.
Saito embraced the girl, the girl who said "I love you" to him.
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Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ

Yeah, it's one week after the fall of Jail Scaglietti.

So, they're going undercover...but...Astra Scrya?

Well, Astra "Sol-Cry-ea" was originally of the Ancient Scryan tribes. After all, Belka's ancient past takes place in Mid-childa after all.

It's not like Yuuno knows everybody in his tribe anyway.

Originally Posted by Tormenk

As promised earlier a piece about Fate.



Shoddy.

To be honest, yeah it's a little shoddy. It's good overall, but it could be better. There was not enough mental introspective of Fate and this was one piece that could've benefited more of a first-person view due to Fate's condition. Overall, it was decent, but the first person and explanatory parts could be better.

Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki

Depending when they came into the picture, it could be explained that after the Precia and Book of Darkness Incident the TSAB decided to pay a little more attention to this little planet after find not one, but 3 high-rank mages. If the planet had 3 mages on it so far, what's not to say there are more down there somewhere?

3? Fate was not from Earth. Only Graham, Nanoha and Hayate qualified, and Graham was like... 40 to 50 years before Nanoha/Hayate came about. So, technically less than 2 every half a century is hardly a respectable indicator.

[Tormenk]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Your knighting is within those 6 months between JS Incident and RF6 disbanding, right?

This is a spoiler to what I'm planning...

Spoiler:

"Temporarily taking over Private 2nd Class Alto Krauteaa's CIC position, transferring from the Navy's 7th Independent Mobile Division, Corporal Saga Ein, reporting for duty, Yagami-taichou!"

~~~

"Haven't seen you here, before? New, kid?"

"Yes. I'm the new mechanical technician... Isdera...Saleen."

~~~

"That's cold, Shamal-sensei... Males can be nurses too. Astra Scrya, reporting for medical duty, ma'am. "

"...Have we met? I have a feeling we've met each other before..."

~~~

"We have a new transfer student to our Saint Church's school. Introduce yourself, if you will."

"...Wira... Wira Brusche. Pleased to meet you."

And the set-up is complete.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

I could think of a few characters that could 'tame' her, but none in Outer-Canaan as of yet...

Tame as in control her or tame in able to match her? I was thinking that few OCs here could match her in that area.

Ehem.

No no, the point is, he should have cut the feed instead of letting it continue!

He's basically giving away control of his game.

His actions are decided by the writers so blame them if he seems stupid. Actually, blame them for anything else that seems dumb to you.

I refuse! I want to be spoon fed!

How do you spoon feed someone a doujin? -____-

Show me that if you please.

Why do you think FlameSparkZ has so much power?

True.

What is the opposite of fear?


(This question is open to everybody)

"The opposite side of this coin is.."

When they invaded the enemy country, Saito and Lousie had a fight over moral and what's right...

Spoiler for make-out session... Oh, and plot:

Saito stomped out and Siesta when after him. Both of them shared the same belief that one shouldn't throw their life away just because of honor and Siesta couldn't stand the way the other nobles treated Saito.

One thing leads to another and the two of them got a room... Literally, after one VERY VERY hot make-out session, both of them came to an understanding on their relationship with each other.

Another thing leads to the other, and they spent the night in each other's arms. Siesta begins telling stories about her childhood, she kisses Saito after each ending

Dang. This is all in the novels right?

Personally, I don't konw why I worry for her though.

You probably took a liking to her after Keroko Week.

It's long been harem-ish

Tabitha has already had feelings for him in the novel And her dragon even supports her (Yes, she talks...)

This too?

Tabitha and Kirche were the Zafira duo of ZnT S2.

Rather than that, I don't mind seeing another...





Actually, it's rather romantic


Siesta in bed...

Wonder if Louise approved.

Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki

Heh, I'm not really too sure what to do with Shamsel too much either . I'm just waiting and seeing I guess since I am teh n00b here. Plus I'm a romance fanfic junky so it'd be nice to hope and see if Shamsel gets some happiness in his life .
Um, which one was Jeno? I can leave it up to you to determine who the antagonist will be . I can PM you the general idea that I was considering for the eventual situation if you want (so as not to spoil it for others ).

Jeno's Chaos main OC out of his created Destroyers.

I think my pieces so far and in the near future would fall near hurt and angst though.

I don't have an idea where this is going since I replied just now but the pm would do well in helping me understand.

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Here's what Sushi-Y-dono wrote on it. Hail her godly translation powah.

Spoiler for Hail Sushi-dono for her Transgoddesscheesium:

*snipped due to ginormous length*

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Words fail me at the length and effort put into this.

To be honest, yeah it's a little shoddy. It's good overall, but it could be better. There was not enough mental introspective of Fate and this was one piece that could've benefited more of a first-person view due to Fate's condition. Overall, it was decent, but the first person and explanatory parts could be better.

I feel the same as I finished the last parts. FEC could have been exploited well here and the fight lacked a certain something.

First person is tough even though I have never written it. Writing it from Fate's view no less would drive me nuts.


Although any comments on Kerokolysis?

[LimitedEternal]

Originally Posted by Tk3997

This is stamped NO FUCKING GO how the FUCK did you think this would be even VAGUELY acceptable?! I"m not even sure where to begin, but how about the letters "SSS"?

It's late now so I can't be assed to tear this down in detail (not that I need to go into much to see it's BROKEN), but I'd seriously like to hear the twisted logic I assume you have that makes you think this is any kind of "okay.".

Put the claws away, man.

[Rant]
First, I ran the idea of "SSS" by you lot a while back. Did I hear anyone say it was illegal? Eh? EH? I didn't think so.

Second, on that, I have a fairly subjective view of ranks. I fail to see how SSS is that much more broken than some of the SS stuff we toss around here. We have a canon character, Hayate, who's SS without limiter. Topping that, we have OCs who can do broken things as well.

Third, I specifically went out of my way to make sure she isn't indestructible. I rewrote about a third of the character just so she can be on some footing with canon. Just because you can planeswalk doesn't make you "broken."

Fourth, I did this for the pure and simple reason that I wanted to. Did you really think I was gonna have her start popping into every story, leaving only peaceful resolutions behind? She's a work of my imagination, and that's all.
[/Rant]

Bottom line: If you actually read more into her, she's not that broken. Again, I tried really hard to keep her on a workable level.
If you like, I can withdraw her and pretend none of this happened, but I really don't want to. I had a planeswalker in progress for a while, and I just wanted to make her.

Truce?

[Evangelion Xgouki]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

3? Fate was not from Earth. Only Graham, Nanoha and Hayate qualified, and Graham was like... 40 to 50 years before Nanoha/Hayate came about. So, technically less than 2 every half a century is hardly a respectable indicator.

Well if you don't count Graham, yea..2 . Or if you consider that they 'found' Fate on Earth while she tried to collect the Jewel Seeds......j/k, lol .
In terms of numbers, 2 really isn't a lot within a half-century. The factor that may push for a small observance of the planet would be that those 2 had very, very high magic potential. Yea, it would be like finding a needle in a hay stack, but they might try for it with the chance of finding another mage or 2 to improve their forces.

[stormturmoil]

Originally Posted by Tk3997

More or less, like I said magic bullets.

I don’t buy that a device can’t cast alone myself, not if supplied with power at least. If magic is really just a math based application of a power source, mana, I don’t see why a device can’t cast alone to a certain degree, the linker core is the fuel, but the device is the engine and the control system. More so we see unison devices (AIs) casting as well, they have linker cores yes, but if like I said the linker core is merely an effectively unlimited “fuel” supply then more mundane devices ought to be able to cast too, if supplied with power in some form, in this case cartridges.

I view magic as merely an application of a power source via complex equations, it so happens that this power source is most easily accessible from certain humans, but the energy itself isn’t special otherwise and can be manipulated and used with technology (see all sorts of magi-tech in Nanoha). For me the ability to manipulate mana and do magic merely requires a power source and the intelligence to do the equations. I don't view humans as all that special and required beyond being a handy source of large amounts of power. The very fact magic energy can be "bottled" and stored as cartridges to me says it's not any special sort of energy.

My take is that cartridges cause strain because the user is actively feeding power into the device (like you said) and so is linked too it and by using cartridges that boost the power involved higher then what they could normally handle and control some of the power “leaks” into them as feedback, but if you simply don’t feed the device at all this problem is eliminated, of course the trade off here is that without the mage adding his available power the power of many spells is reduced and some are impossible, plus with fewer places for the excess energy to go the device takes more abuse as well. These devices have a rather short useful lifespan and they tend to require allot of maintenance.

That said if a mage is channeling energy into these devices then using cartridges causes strain as normal, but these devices are also built so that they can function to a point without the mage supplying energy, if they have an available alternate source, IE cartridges. Most of the time a user would still be channeling through the device as normal to conserve ammunition if nothing else, but if need be he can cut lose from the weapon for a time to use his energy on something else and still continue to attack (to a point) at the same time.

Weapons somewhat like this will be a very a minor plot point later as they’ll be issued to many “normal” troops, to counter the enemies use of massed conventional forces. The idea behind them was creating a weapon that could equip a largely conventional force with something that could be a threat to mages and various sorts of robots and such. Real magic guns basically, this kind of approach to me seemed more in keeping with the universe and TSAB policy then simply inventing blaster rifles or something, and it added a bit of flavor to the unit’s magic style.

Anyway I hardly consider the idea of a tailor made device being able to cast simple spells alone using cartridges for power as particularly outlandish compared to crap introduced in other areas.

two words...Black Market.

This is something that the STAB wouldn't rather than couldn't do.

The STABs agenda is basically to monopolise all lethal force level power into STAB mages. If nobody else can have power, nobody can oppose their power. If nobody can oppose power, then nobody can become powerful enough for AlHazard or Belkan War type destructive infighting, genocide/ethnic cleansing, wars of aggression, political revolution etc.

Devices like these could undermine that. If the Cartridge system on these things is, truly, just magic bullets (hence needs no magical ability on the users part...) then the STAB likely wouldn't manufacture or issue, them, knowing that if they do, word WILL get out, They WILL get copied...and bunches of anti-STAB revolutionaries WILL stomp on them with magical AK armed superior numbers.

from what we've seen in StrikerS, the STAB is basically a power monopolising police state, a form of benevolent despotism that keeps power to itself, outlaws things that might threaten that power (like the ban on purely scientific rather magical influenced civilisation, including the illegality of technologised weapons), and seeks to maintain a highly unbalanced staus quo in favour of itself.

An 'independence war' is quite possible, and even likely if non-mage reliant device weapons become available. Heck, Jails tied already, and he's only the tip of the iceberg, to say nothing of the flashbacks of Zest and Regious and whoever the terrorists with the bombings were...

in other words, if these weapons are developed, they'd need to be created such that no non-STAB person, mage or otherwise (especially otherwise) could ever get them to work, ever, under any circumstances, or copy any part of them at all.



Interesting...
FateXDavid?

*runs*


Not at all...more like they have an understanding...Fate was an artificial being who's becoming more and more human...David was a human who's becoming more and more artifical...their experiences meet in the middle.

besides, I had to beat Aurion to the joke about the backdated Child support payments...

[Erio]

This post took me about 4 hours to compile... Too many interruptions here at work.

Originally Posted by FieryAeon

No no, it will be useful for detective work. Though I must admit its also useful for stalking girls.

"Detective work"...riiiight.

Prism Ark's story isn't as complex as FSN but its not bad in its own way. Though I have to agree the anime isn't anywhere near that. Probably has to do with the script writers high on Nagasarete Airantou, they couldn't resist the harem crack.

I havent watched Nagasarete Airantou yet...is it good?

Need to get more then.

Holy Shi-!!!! Just a little lower!!! Erio! You have convinced me to watch Da Capo II!!!

LOL

Here's the complete image for those interested:

Clannad, I suppose its the studio animating it, KyoAni, that's making a lot of people watch it. I really like it a lot myself. I wouldn't say its epic drama or anything, but its a cut above the normal.

The blue girl seiyuu in Ninomiya-kun is the same one who voiced Shinku in Rozen Maiden, hence the perfect ojou-sama attitude there.

Well, its not that I dont like it... I'm just comparing it to other current romance series.

As for the blue girl, no wonder why her voice felt so familiar.

There are some sites where you can learn online for free, though I haven't really had the time to explore them in detail due to projects and assignments. I felt that I shouldn't start halfway and slack off learning because of college work so I put it off till my holidays begin.

For the moment its just a lot of "reading" untranslated visual novels that have voice in it, and eventually I pick up those kanji and hiragana bit by bit. Adding to that you have anime where the lines are translated, so now and then I go "oh I heard this particular word in this game" and remember how the kanji/hiragana looked like in the game. Also, windows Japanese IME helps. Now and then I hear some words, and I just randomly type how it sounded to me out. For example, typing "tatoeba" gives you 例えば which means "for example" (pun intended nyek nyek nyek).

Its not a very efficient way to learn, but at least its free.

Whoa, Japanese IME can do that? Where do I get this?

Yeah it hurts. But now we belong to each other. *runs from tsun-tsun Vestrell*

lol Is there a pic of Vestrell?

Actually no, I'm only recreating Fel as an OC here. Hyaweh just happened to be the one in the ear tugging scene. I'll get maybe Itsuki to tug her ears. Terrans on Earth have only heard of elves in fantasy tales, so meeting one would perk his interest a lot.

Riiight... Surely you want Fel for other things...

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...

I dont know what other things you might be thinking of, though...

Mercedes (not the car brand) from Odin Sphere? WIN!

You know, at first I thought her story arc was not going to be interesting (I wanted to get to Oswald and Velvet)...but after a couple chapters...damn, her story rocks.

BTW, no comments on THAT OTHER PIC?!

Originally Posted by LoweGear

And suddenly, I have the best cosplay ideas for S&W:

Spoiler for When the LineBackers cosplay...:

*Libera Me From Hell plays*

Nice.

I wonder if Mai will be able to contain her hidden desires after seeing Smith like that...though she's pretty busy with Gwen and Iris right now...

*ahem*

...

THAT, is a very tempting offer...

So we could use pics like this...

Spoiler for Gwen&Mai "EXERCISING":

Mai: Onee-sama~ <3

Gwen: M-Mai... Kokoni wa dame~ Ah~ ()

They're gonna end up kinda sweaty after that...

[Kyon] Oi oi [/Kyon]

She'd much rather prefer W- *radio static* confess

W...? w...w...wet?

Succubus Gwen approved!!!

Mai: ...

nee-sama *blushes*

Blushing Mai =

What you need me for? Your unofficially Mai's co-author

But...

HOLY SHI-

You really DID POST IT HERE!!!!

Hopefully S&W didnt see that...

Originally Posted by USB500

HOLY FREAKING CRAP!!!!!!!!!



So this is the world I've been talking of, eh?



*RUNS AWAY REALLY FAST*

That's a small peek into it...yeah...

Originally Posted by Keroko

Having never played the game, I simply follow it because of the art style (very important factor foe me), and Tomoyo and Kyou. I couldn't care less about Nagisa, who unfortunately is the female lead.

Yeah, same here. Though instead of Kyou, I prefer Ryou (if I get the names right, Ryou should be the short-haired one ).

Kimikiss' art is not exactly my taste, but I'll give Da Capo II a try, do I have to watch thefirst season to understand the general gist of things?

I guess Kimikiss' art is simpler than others, yeah. I do recommend the anime itself, though, if you feel like giving it a try.

Regarding Da Capo, no you dont. Da Capo II's cast is completely new, so no returning characters whatsoever. There are a few links to previous characters, but I dont think its important to know them. The first season was kinda meh anyway, and the second, called Second Graduation/Story, was pretty fun, but still not necessary to watch this.

Male lead OC in Prism Ark.

I see.

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Oh, you'll never know the full extent of their... world...

*runs*

Originally Posted by USB500

But she did THIS and THAT to Ginga, and Ginga didn't even resist!

not that we didn't like Frieda doing it to Ginga anyway.... >_>

Frieda: *holds Ginga* now, Ginga, would you like me to show you my secret world?
Ginga: Frieda.... *holds Frieda back* yoroshiku onegaishimasu....
Frieda: dewa.... *takes off glasses*

*runs with the Linebackers from Subaru & Takeru*

Dere-dere G-Ginga-nessama...?!

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Shafted in terms of a PROPER development...

Both of them would have their individual make-out session with Saito (Which, according to the novel, is BEYOND HOT )

But the anime didn't develop them properly, and it makes them look like the bad people trying to break him up

Ah, I see. As long as there is some hawt and steamy Siesta and Henrietta fanservice, I'm fine with it.

By novel you mean the manga right?

Becareful what you wish for


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"Darry, if you lose to me, you better prepare yourself.”

“What will you do if you beat me?”

“Obviously, you’ll become my meido! From ‘ohayo gozaimasu’ to ‘oyasumi nasai’, you’ll be in my service! ”

“Mou! That’s just like you!”

"If I win, you’ll become my personal meido and serve me to my heart’s content each and every day. And you’ll have to properly refer to me as 'Goshujin-sama’!”

“Not unless I get to wear a cute outfit !”

"That can be arranged..."

"What about my reward?"

"Huh?"

“I would like… the same prize you’ll get...”

“You want me to be a meido ?!?”

“No, you don’t have to be a meido. But the rest is the same. I want you to wake me with ‘oyaho gozaimasu’ and tell me ‘oyasumi nasai’ in the evening. I would like you to fill me with lots of kindness and joy. With these stakes, even if I win or if you win, we’ll always be together.”

“We’ll be together, but if I win, I’m going to add Mai, Gwen, and Keroko as meido in the future!”

"BAKA!!!"

He's gonna go around beating girls up to make them his slaves meidos?!

Something tells me Darry is going to win this battle.

Same here

Very rarely is the main girl my favorite

At this point, I prefer Kyou over Tomoyo... And not completely because of the TWO FOR ONE deal...!

Am I the only Ryou supporter here?!

You know what attracted me to D.C.II? It wasn't the girls... It was THIS SONG

P.S - I realized there's quite a few Nanaka fans Here's a freebee

Hey hey, that song wasnt so bad.

Nanaka and Yume FTW.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

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Also Content!

It started out as a simple thing… Since I’m going to have a war I’m obviously going to need more then like 10 guys to fight it! So I figured I’d invent some troops for the OC to lead! Well that got a little out of hand and now here I am 3,000 words later having managed to OC-ify a real life Special Forces unit into a magical commando brigade…

Spoiler for SIZE:

snip

Is this the official h4xx-busting unit?

Originally Posted by Tormenk

Depends. If you had a opponent like Dr. Jackal who revels in dicing up even the smallest fry into pieces and still smile and act like a perfect gentlemen..

Dr. Jackal now?! This girl retrieving scenario is getting more and more awesome!!

Fan-service Time: Day 2

Dissecting Fate is enjoyable enough but a difficult process. I'll say Jail did well back in ep 24.

He could have done better if he hadnt trapped Fate in that cage...but instead tied her up in ways with his threads...

*ahem*

FAN-SERVICE TIME: DAY 2 IS A ROARING SUCCESS!

Lowe-Aniki has been so naughty too

Y-Yeah... L-Lowe-aniki... [FieryAeon][/FieryAeon]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Glasses you say?

Spoiler for Lemme give it a try...:

Some large and round translucent amber framed spectacles



Mai: ...

I would've preferred them smaller...

Hmm, I have a good one for this cause... I dont have photoshop here at work, though, so I'll try later.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

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Since I've been bringing up Zero no Tsukaima often, I thought I would share a little something else They came up with the SECOND PS2 game This time, they're going to SAITO'S WORLD !!!

That means... SCHOOL UNIFORMS FOR EVERYONE!!!!

OK, I've never been interested in this type of game, but this... THIS IS WIN!!

Where can we get screencaps of this?!

Originally Posted by Kha

......

HAWT YURI SECKS FTW!!!

lol Somehow I wasnt expecting this one.

Btw, I still haven't gotten rid of the idea that the Chaos lord captures Mai to allow her to ascend and become theirs, while Smith leads an incredible offensive to take her back...

Smith wont be the only one leading that offensive...

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Arabian princess.

Arabian, huh? That's a bit unexpected...

It's Kyoto Animation. Hordes flock to beautiful (( uninspired, non-sakkan awesome )) superficial animation with pretty colors. And due to hype, I suppose. Clannad is touted to be far more EPIC than Kanon, since it apparently goes beyond school life, and into GASP! working, married life.

It's KEY after all, and honestly, while I find it LOLtastic in a way, (( life is all about aliens, unknown diseases, magic, and miracles )) they can write some good drama.

OK, now I finally know why its going to be 24 episodes. Doesnt seem like it will be as deep as Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. I wonder why the animation is not as good as Kanon's, though...its not even wide-screen... or is it because current raws suck?

I don't care much for Siesta (( though I would've liked to see the novel scene play out )) but Henrietta shaft?

<-- Henrietta fanboy.

I'll take them both. :3

*cough*



Ar Tonelico?

As expected from Nighty, you know the source.

BTW, has the Ar Tonelico 2 artbook been released yet?

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Your knighting is within those 6 months between JS Incident and RF6 disbanding, right?

This is a spoiler to what I'm planning...

Spoiler:

"Temporarily taking over Private 2nd Class Alto Krauteaa's CIC position, transferring from the Navy's 7th Independent Mobile Division, Corporal Saga Ein, reporting for duty, Yagami-taichou!"

~~~

"Haven't seen you here, before? New, kid?"

"Yes. I'm the new mechanical technician... Isdera...Saleen."

~~~

"That's cold, Shamal-sensei... Males can be nurses too. Astra Scrya, reporting for medical duty, ma'am. "

"...Have we met? I have a feeling we've met each other before..."

~~~

"We have a new transfer student to our Saint Church's school. Introduce yourself, if you will."

"...Wira... Wira Brusche. Pleased to meet you."

WANT!!

Need more AstraXShamal.

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Mai's theme of clothing IS 'modern gothic'...

And Mai's secret world is already crowded enough...

What?

*runs*

So... Smith will become this then?

Spoiler for "It's a fair fight then.":

But if Cap'n Smith's gonna have a ship, it'll have to be this:

AND, no hero should be without an OP:

Spoiler for Uchuu no Umi:

This is getting EPIC!

But at the Opening.

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

Yume-chan...

Originally Posted by Liingo

Just one thing though that's been annoying me... (directed at the thread in general...)
[rant on]There's a whole galaxy of worlds to use, there's no need to have all these mages appear on Earth!! Is it so hard to make up the name of a world?? With the massive number of mages from earth in here, you'd think that it was a administrated world, instead of a non-administared one... [/rant off]

Right with you here.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

When they invaded the enemy country, Saito and Lousie had a fight over moral and what's right...

Spoiler for make-out session... Oh, and plot:

Saito stomped out and Siesta when after him. Both of them shared the same belief that one shouldn't throw their life away just because of honor and Siesta couldn't stand the way the other nobles treated Saito.

One thing leads to another and the two of them got a room... Literally, after one VERY VERY hot make-out session, both of them came to an understanding on their relationship with each other.

Another thing leads to the other, and they spent the night in each other's arms. Siesta begins telling stories about her childhood, she kisses Saito after each ending

WHERE CAN I SEE THIS WIN SCENARIO?!

Rather than that, I don't mind seeing another...

Need moar.

Siesta in bed...

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Correction.
My standards are...

HAWT Fanservice = You can't make my nose bleed. YOU. JUST. CAN'T!
MOE = I like MOE. And I really don't set any standards for it.
MOE fanservice = You can get some reactions by those pics.
About Hayat-EEP! Let's not go there.

See?! That's tough, since I dont go to the Nanoha Image thread.

So I can only attack from the MOE fanservice front...

I've recently watched episode 1. And what can I say... Mei is really quite a charmer!

She's a good meld of beautiful and cute. With a very fitting voice.

Oh yeah. She took me completely by surprise with that Chinese dress. I went to another world during that scene and suddenly came back to say "oh yeah, I'm watching Gundam"...

*ahem*

That wasn't my point.
I was just jokingly insinuating a distubingly closer relationship due to Hayate being 24 already. As such, it's a whole lot more possible to pursue the romantic angle. Of course, it was a joke.

Phoenix, dont listen to this man. GIVE US THOSE HAWT *radio static* SCENES NAO--

*is shot*

Besides, including Tyrfing might very well just be asking for an IMBA in potency-level of the protagonists over the antagonists. The Baptism of Fire scenario shows Aurion trying to fight Knight-style (without much of his illusions) to get a better feel on Tyrfing's handling. As such, he wasn't really doing spectacularly, as he is mostly a ranged-fighter/Mage. And Almaria was excluded from there too. As a later plan on RevivalS, Aurion uses all three devices at once (With a bit of tweaking and my new revelations that allows him to do so. Simply using three devices at once is of course not a walk in the park.) with his preferred fighting style (slightly indirect mid-range tactical) against either Serge or Saga. Needless to say, he's more dangerous than an Exceed Mode Nanoha or a Zamber Mote Fate (not Limit Break) hands down at that point. Not because of the power level, but for the disturbing amount of versatility and tricks he possesses.

Like I said, that's for the Timeline RevivalS is in only. In other timelines, he would never really get to use Tyrfing.

I see, so Tyrfing is RevivalS only.

It's MOE fanservice... And I'm loving it!

That girl in the upper position reminds me of Sakura from CCS, though.

She's called Yume, and the pink-haired is Nanaka, in case you wanted to know. But yup, Yume =

Okay... That really shocked me... What the holy hell with your daring...
Certainly NSFW.

LOL [Lowe]JUST. AS. PLANNED.[/Lowe]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

C'mon, don't be a tease.

Here's what Sushi-Y-dono wrote on it. Hail her godly translation powah.

I'll have to read this later... Still gotta finish Isdera AFTER first, too.

But that SaitoXSiesta pic =

[FieryAeon]

Originally Posted by Erio

"Detective work"...riiiight.

Why not? Its a viable story. Having every OC in the military is boring no? See how much fun Aurion and Kay enjoys. *plants spy cam in RF6 female baths*

Originally Posted by Erio

I havent watched Nagasarete Airantou yet...is it good?

If you don't mind watching 20+ episodes of harem stuff with almost zero plot and just mindless comedy, do watch it. Otherwise just stick with SnH or HnG, those are way better.

Originally Posted by Erio

LOL

Here's the complete image for those interested:

Originally Posted by Erio

Well, its not that I dont like it... I'm just comparing it to other current romance series.

As for the blue girl, no wonder why her voice felt so familiar.

Nothing wrong with it, everyone has their preference. I haven't watch Da Capo II or Kimikiss so I'm not in a position to compare.

Originally Posted by Erio

Whoa, Japanese IME can do that? Where do I get this?

Its built into windows XP. Just go start->control panel->regional and language settings->languages->details->settings.

At settings click add and select "Japanese" for your input language. In the "Advanced" tab, check the first box to make sure it works for programs like word/notepad/etc. Drop me a PM if you can't get it to work.

Originally Posted by Erio

lol Is there a pic of Vestrell?

I'll have to ask PF that. Speaking of pic Tear Grant from Tales of the Abyss would make a great Mid-type mage!

Originally Posted by Erio

Riiight... Surely you want Fel for other things...

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I dont know what other things you might be thinking of, though...

Why?? Why do you think of me so? I'm not like Chaos!

To be honest her personality just brings a smile to my face, and her seiyuu makes her so cute. I just want to bring that kind of character in to our merry little band of OCs here (wait... it sounded Robin Hood-like for a moment there ).

To add, there's this scene where they were suppose to practice. The mages will attack the fighters, who will have to carry a bulleyes on their head (if I didn't read the text wrongly). Fel was trying to blast it off but Hyaweh kept dodging. She got so frustrated she yelled "MUUUUUKIIIII!! Stop moving!!" I LOL'ed went I saw that scene.

Then it reminded me of Princess Ce' Nedra from David Eddings' books, the Belgariad series to be precise. She starts stomping her foot and yelling at people when they annoy her. Wanna mix that personality into my elf OC.

Booo boo I seem to be going out of topic again?

Originally Posted by Erio

You know, at first I thought her story arc was not going to be interesting (I wanted to get to Oswald and Velvet)...but after a couple chapters...damn, her story rocks.

BTW, no comments on THAT OTHER PIC?!

I was busy wiping off the blood! Anyway I would say the game as a whole is very satisfying, the story is IMO excellent. Every arc is good in its own way, conveying different stories and each giving the character great development.

My favourite will have to be Gwendolyn's arc. Maybe its partially because her seiyuu is none other than Kawasumi Ayako! Being serious here, I find myself being able to relate to her desire to find acceptance in someone. Acceptance in others is what many want, some more than others.

Oswald's arc was good too, but playing it was a pain, due to the framerate of the game slowing down to a crawl all the time. Its especially annoying when I use shadow form.

Mercedes, what can I say? Its Mamiko Noto! That alone scores a big win! Well jokes aside, her arc is my 2nd favourite after Gwen's. Her character development throughout the arc was the best IMO.

Velvet, still in chapter 5 I think. The prophecies for Armageddon and other things are slowly revealed, this arc has a lot of "meat" so to say. Speaking of which I really wish Velvet has more meat. I swear she goes down faster than USB can write his chapters!

Originally Posted by Erio

So we could use pics like this...

Spoiler for Gwen&Mai "EXERCISING":

Mai: Onee-sama~ <3

Gwen: M-Mai... Kokoni wa dame~ Ah~ ()

They're gonna end up kinda sweaty after that...

And this thread will explode in a sea of blood again. *bleeds nose and dies*

Originally Posted by Erio

By novel you mean the manga right?

Actually he did mean novel. ZnT was originally spawned from a series of light novel, just like FMP and many others.

Originally Posted by Erio

Am I the only Ryou supporter here?!

Well don't feel bad just yet. I haven't decide who I like best yet.

Originally Posted by Erio

Dr. Jackal now?! This girl retrieving scenario is getting more and more awesome!!

Sounds interesting. I think I should read GetBackers manga if I intend to take my idea all the way.

Originally Posted by Erio

Y-Yeah... L-Lowe-aniki... [FieryAeon][/FieryAeon]

Crack-induced laughter FTW! (What have I done?! This thread is beyond help! )

Originally Posted by Erio

I'll take them both. :3

I'll take neither. Tabitha go go go! Btw are there translations for the novels around? Can someone direct me to it? By PM of course, just in case this is not allowed.

Originally Posted by Erio

BTW, has the Ar Tonelico 2 artbook been released yet?

Doubt it. The game's not even out yet. But if I'm not wrong its a Visual Data book and not just an artbook. Oh and one of the main female leads is voiced by Koshimizu Ami! Reminds me that I have yet to finish Ar Tonelico 1. Damn my games are piling up.

Just in case, has anyone laid claim on this character?

Spoiler for Tear Grants:

Haven't read Tormenk's piece on Fate's torment (muahaha more puns!). Will do that when I wake up (almost 5am here *sleepy*).

@LimitedEternal: A mage's ranking is the direct class evaluation of said mage's power, in terms of mana capacity, skill, and many others. To say one is SSS is not only saying one is broken, its just too powerful, simple as that. If you go and say your OC is SSS and just pick some stuff to cover up and say its weakness, its rather poor justification and that just doesn't sit well with many of us.

In fact, you never did justify why she has to be so powerful, you only said she isn't indestructible. The stats you gave her, great at melee and range; has great defense and a lot of mana?

Nobody is telling you not to use the character concept you have there. The main problem we have is that level of power she has.

Now for some Prism Ark goodness, from the game that is.

Spoiler for madness @.@:

Hyaweh: Hmm? WHAT THE?? WHY IS THIS BGM PLAYING??!

Pwnzors. If you guys don't get the BGM joke, I'll explain later when I wake up. Its more interesting to leave people curious. ^_^

[Tk3997]

Originally Posted by stormturmoil

two words...Black Market.

This is something that the STAB wouldn't rather than couldn't do.

Highly unlikely with the slightest of controls, how many people do you see running around US or European or Japaneses streets with rocket launchers for instance? It's rare to even find hand grenades for Christ sake!

The STABs agenda is basically to monopolise all lethal force level power into STAB mages. If nobody else can have power, nobody can oppose their power. If nobody can oppose power, then nobody can become powerful enough for AlHazard or Belkan War type destructive infighting, genocide/ethnic cleansing, wars of aggression, political revolution etc.

A policy that's already flawed and impossible as we see rouge mages all the time.

Devices like these could undermine that. If the Cartridge system on these things is, truly, just magic bullets (hence needs no magical ability on the users part...) then the STAB likely wouldn't manufacture or issue, them, knowing that if they do, word WILL get out, They WILL get copied...and bunches of anti-STAB revolutionaries WILL stomp on them with magical AK armed superior numbers.

You're right it udnermines it, and that comes up and is quickly dismissed as old thinking that has no place in the situation the TSAB finds itself in. When these go into mass use the TSAB will be fucked up thousands of mages dead, entire worlds effectively blockaded and lost to the enemy, no way to replace losses at the rates being taken without resorting to "mass based" systems, the entire TSAB army will change in this story it with morph from glorified light infantry police force into a true military with mages a component, but not the be all end all.

from what we've seen in StrikerS, the STAB is basically a power monopolising police state, a form of benevolent despotism that keeps power to itself, outlaws things that might threaten that power (like the ban on purely scientific rather magical influenced civilisation, including the illegality of technologised weapons), and seeks to maintain a highly unbalanced staus quo in favour of itself.

Arguable, my version of the TSAB is somewhat more like tight nit European Union, individual planets still retain significant power and infighting is actually rather common, though not in the warfare sense, but the political sense. Further we see the TSAB fielding some tanks and such in StrikerS so the conventional weapons being "Illegal" probably only applies to anyone without state sanction.

An 'independence war' is quite possible, and even likely if non-mage reliant device weapons become available. Heck, Jails tied already, and he's only the tip of the iceberg, to say nothing of the flashbacks of Zest and Regious and whoever the terrorists with the bombings were...

in other words, if these weapons are developed, they'd need to be created such that no non-STAB person, mage or otherwise (especially otherwise) could ever get them to work, ever, under any circumstances, or copy any part of them at all.

Or not, since the entire point of this story is to whomp the TSAB into realizing that it’s a big universe and restricting huge portions of the playbook and trying to control everything won’t work. If all goes as planned the TSAB is going to get an, IMO, much needed shock to the system regarding it’s backward polices.

This enemy won’t play by the TSAB rules; they’ll play by their rules. The TSAB will need to adapt or facing crippling losses and possible disaster. I’m tired of this “tiny handful of heroes saves the day!” Bullshit, my story will focus on large scale interplanetary warfare; this isn’t going to be some little gang the TSAB just needs to hunt down and then overwhelm with numbers, this is going to be a full fledged opposing nation state, oh don’t get me wrong the TSAB is going to try and go the old route at first, and they’re going to get slaughtered.

The old ways get discarded fast when mountains of casualties reports start coming home, the TSAB is going to begin a crash re-militarization very quickly directed by the few units and worlds that still retain some martial traditions and conventional warfare experience. Perhaps this maybe their own downfall and perhaps it will open a Pandora's box, but short term needs will outweigh longterm problems, besides attempting to restrict technological progress is a futile struggle, as long as will and desire exist it's going to happen. Another minor theme I want to touch on that.

The increasing mechanization and depersonalization of war as the TSAB revs up into a war footing will be another factor I want to explore, how the age of the lone heroic mage or small band saving the planet from some random alien artifact is dying and being replaced by an age where divisions of soldiers and tanks fight battles that ravage nations and ships burn dozen of miles of ground from orbit regularity. The TSAB "dream" is going to wither under the weight of the reality that the presence of other multi-world states will demand a large and well equipped army and all the problems that brings.

Internal differences and factionalism inside the state will flare over the burden of the affair and even non-administered worlds will be drawn into the conflict as the TSAB is strained nearly to the breaking point.

More backlog later, this just stuck out at me.

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Will use in my scenario as well. But this time, Aurion's going to be knocking some confidence back into her head!

Here's some parts...

Spoiler for snippets:

"I don't know what idiotic idea came to your head about not being supposed to cry. You're not that kind of person. It's fine. Cry your heart out. What would matter is whether or not you can smile again at the end."

~~~~~~~

"You know the risk. We know it. Case closed. That's why it's called a RISK, right? To hell with it if you indeed lose it at one time. We'll just have to take a bigger risk and try to stop you. Do you think yo're unstoppable just when it comes to that? I beg to differ."

~~~~~~~

"Instructor Abrams is going to kill me once he finds out I've been turning some of his finest students back into softies..."

Oooh. Curiosity burning.

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Your knighting is within those 6 months between JS Incident and RF6 disbanding, right?

This is a spoiler to what I'm planning...

Spoiler:

"Temporarily taking over Private 2nd Class Alto Krauteaa's CIC position, transferring from the Navy's 7th Independent Mobile Division, Corporal Saga Ein, reporting for duty, Yagami-taichou!"

~~~

"Haven't seen you here, before? New, kid?"

"Yes. I'm the new mechanical technician... Isdera...Saleen."

~~~

"That's cold, Shamal-sensei... Males can be nurses too. Astra Scrya, reporting for medical duty, ma'am. "

"...Have we met? I have a feeling we've met each other before..."

~~~

"We have a new transfer student to our Saint Church's school. Introduce yourself, if you will."

"...Wira... Wira Brusche. Pleased to meet you."

I can smell a rivarly brewing between Astra and Phanan.

Originally Posted by LimitedEternal

[rant]First, I ran the idea of "SSS" by you lot a while back. Did I hear anyone say it was illegal? Eh? EH? I didn't think so.

Second, on that, I have a fairly subjective view of ranks. I fail to see how SSS is that much more broken than some of the SS stuff we toss around here. We have a canon character, Hayate, who's SS without limiter. Topping that, we have OCs who can do broken things as well.

Third, I specifically went out of my way to make sure she isn't indestructible. I rewrote about a third of the character just so she can be on some footing with canon. Just because you can planeswalk doesn't make you "broken."

Fourth, I did this for the pure and simple reason that I wanted to. Did you really think I was gonna have her start popping into every story, leaving only peaceful resolutions behind? She's a work of my imagination, and that's all.
[/Rant]

Bottom line: If you actually read more into her, she's not that broken. Again, I tried really hard to keep her on a workable level.
If you like, I can withdraw her and pretend none of this happened, but I really don't want to. I had a planeswalker in progress for a while, and I just wanted to make her.

Truce?

But you did hear us say that we did want a few very very good reasons, even more so if she's a protagist. You gave us none.

The point is, the Aces are the cream of the crop in TSAB terms, and here we have a character who is not only immortal (even if only for age, this is very far-fetched), but also a planewalker. Yes, you 'nerfed' them, but they still have the abillity to basically escape any single dangerous situation they're in. That on its own is overpowered.

Next, her skills. She basically excells at everything! Melee, ranged, magic power, everything has 'high' or 'exellent' with the only exception agillity, which is 'good' basically she has no weak spot, and yet you still claim that she is not broken?

As for the fourth point, why wouldn't we expect that? That's the entire reason you post here is it not? If you post a character here, we expect to see more of her. Therefore, if you post a character here, expect us to comment on it if we think she will destroy the limits set by canon.

Bottom line: You tried to keep her workable, but you didn't suceed. Lyria would have no trouble beating all the Aces at once with her hands behind her back the way you typed her out.

Originally Posted by Erio

So we could use pics like this...

Spoiler for Gwen&Mai "EXERCISING":

Mai: Onee-sama~ <3

Gwen: M-Mai... Kokoni wa dame~ Ah~ ()

They're gonna end up kinda sweaty after that...

And thus Yuri pairings invaded the OC-thread.

The Legion must be laughing their heads of right now.

Originally Posted by Erio

Yeah, same here. Though instead of Kyou, I prefer Ryou (if I get the names right, Ryou should be the short-haired one ).

Yup, Ryou is the short haired one. I prefer Kyou though, dunno why. I seem to have a thing for tsunderes lately.

Originally Posted by Erio

I guess Kimikiss' art is simpler than others, yeah. I do recommend the anime itself, though, if you feel like giving it a try.

I tried the first episode, but it failed to keep me. Art is very important for me, and Kimikiss just, well, did nothing for me.

Originally Posted by Erio

Regarding Da Capo, no you dont. Da Capo II's cast is completely new, so no returning characters whatsoever. There are a few links to previous characters, but I dont think its important to know them. The first season was kinda meh anyway, and the second, called Second Graduation/Story, was pretty fun, but still not necessary to watch this.

Then it's on my download list now.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

More or less, like I said magic bullets.

I don’t buy that a device can’t cast alone myself, not if supplied with power at least. If magic is really just a math based application of a power source, mana, I don’t see why a device can’t cast alone to a certain degree, the linker core is the fuel, but the device is the engine and the control system. More so we see unison devices (AIs) casting as well, they have linker cores yes, but if like I said the linker core is merely an effectively unlimited “fuel” supply then more mundane devices ought to be able to cast too, if supplied with power in some form, in this case cartridges.

I view magic as merely an application of a power source via complex equations, it so happens that this power source is most easily accessible from certain humans, but the energy itself isn’t special otherwise and can be manipulated and used with technology (see all sorts of magi-tech in Nanoha). For me the ability to manipulate mana and do magic merely requires a power source and the intelligence to do the equations. I don't view humans as all that special and required beyond being a handy source of large amounts of power. The very fact magic energy can be "bottled" and stored as cartridges to me says it's not any special sort of energy.

My take is that cartridges cause strain because the user is actively feeding power into the device (like you said) and so is linked too it and by using cartridges that boost the power involved higher then what they could normally handle and control some of the power “leaks” into them as feedback, but if you simply don’t feed the device at all this problem is eliminated, of course the trade off here is that without the mage adding his available power the power of many spells is reduced and some are impossible, plus with fewer places for the excess energy to go the device takes more abuse as well. These devices have a rather short useful lifespan and they tend to require allot of maintenance.

That said if a mage is channeling energy into these devices then using cartridges causes strain as normal, but these devices are also built so that they can function to a point without the mage supplying energy, if they have an available alternate source, IE cartridges. Most of the time a user would still be channeling through the device as normal to conserve ammunition if nothing else, but if need be he can cut lose from the weapon for a time to use his energy on something else and still continue to attack (to a point) at the same time.

Weapons somewhat like this will be a very a minor plot point later as they’ll be issued to many “normal” troops, to counter the enemies use of massed conventional forces. The idea behind them was creating a weapon that could equip a largely conventional force with something that could be a threat to mages and various sorts of robots and such. Real magic guns basically, this kind of approach to me seemed more in keeping with the universe and TSAB policy then simply inventing blaster rifles or something, and it added a bit of flavor to the unit’s magic style.

Anyway I hardly consider the idea of a tailor made device being able to cast simple spells alone using cartridges for power as particularly outlandish compared to crap introduced in other areas.

I disagree that a Linker Core is simply a fuel provider. Sure, it does provide the fuel, but I believe that it is only one of the functions. Looking back at A's, absorbing a Linker Core could give the Yami no Sho information on any spell the victim had cast, or knew how to cast. This suggests that Linker Cores do, in fact, have a lot more to do with casting spells. If they were only mana bateries, then such knowledge should not have been drainable through them.

It also conflicts with the TSAB's ideals to move away from conventional weapons. Fate's words suggest that the TSAB abhoars weapons that can be used without training. 'Even a kid could push a button and destroy a world' and if your devices don't need a Linker Core to be used, that's just what is a possibility, anyone can pick one up and start shooting.

[LimitedEternal]

Originally Posted by Keroko

But you did hear us say that we did want a few very very good reasons, even more so if she's a protagist. You gave us none.

The point is, the Aces are the cream of the crop in TSAB terms, and here we have a character who is not only immortal (even if only for age, this is very far-fetched), but also a planewalker. Yes, you 'nerfed' them, but they still have the abillity to basically escape any single dangerous situation they're in. That its own is overpowered.

Next, her skills. She basically excells at everything! Melee, ranged, magic power, everything has 'high' or 'exellent' with the only exception agillity, which is 'good' basically she has no weak spot, and yet you still claim that she is not broken?

As for the fourth point, why wouldn't we expect that? That's the entire reason you post here is it not? If you post a character here, we expect to see more of her. Therefore, if you post a character here, expect us to comment on it if we think she will destroy the limits set by canon.

Bottom line: You tried to keep her workable, but you didn't suceed. Lyria would have no trouble beating all the Aces at once with her hands behind her back the way you typed her out.

I humbly admit my error and have takes steps to tone her down. She's still who she was, but I took her power level down a few pegs. Balancing, it seems, is not one of my strong points...I'm three for three so far

You gotta know, I like the concept and wanted to bring a little shock value in, but I guess I overdid it.

So, can we call a truce now? *extends hand*

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Highly unlikely with the slightest of controls, how many people do you see running around US or European or Japaneses streets with rocket launchers for instance? It's rare to even find hand grenades for Christ sake!

A policy that's already flawed and impossible as we see rouge mages all the time.

You're right it udnermines it, and that comes up and is quickly dismissed as old thinking that has no place in the situation the TSAB finds itself in. When these go into mass use the TSAB will be fucked up thousands of mages dead, entire worlds effectively blockaded and lost to the enemy, no way to replace losses at the rates being taken without resorting to "mass based" systems, the entire TSAB army will change in this story it with morph from glorified light infantry police force into a true military with mages a component, but not the be all end all.

Arguable, my version of the TSAB is somewhat more like tight nit European Union, individual planets still retain significant power and infighting is actually rather common, though not in the warfare sense, but the political sense. Further we see the TSAB fielding some tanks and such in StrikerS so the conventional weapons being "Illegal" probably only applies to anyone without state sanction.

Or not, since the entire point of this story is to whomp the TSAB into realizing that it’s a big universe and restricting huge portions of the playbook and trying to control everything won’t work. If all goes as planned the TSAB is going to get an, IMO, much needed shock to the system regarding it’s backward polices.

This enemy won’t play by the TSAB rules; they’ll play by their rules. The TSAB will need to adapt or facing crippling losses and possible disaster. I’m tired of this “tiny handful of heroes saves the day!” Bullshit, my story will focus on large scale interplanetary warfare; this isn’t going to be some little gang the TSAB just needs to hunt down and then overwhelm with numbers, this is going to be a full fledged opposing nation state, oh don’t get me wrong the TSAB is going to try and go the old route at first, and they’re going to get slaughtered.

The old ways get discarded fast when mountains of casualties reports start coming home, the TSAB is going to begin a crash re-militarization very quickly directed by the few units and worlds that still retain some martial traditions and conventional warfare experience. Perhaps this maybe their own downfall and perhaps it will open a Pandora's box, but short term needs will outweigh longterm problems, besides attempting to restrict technological progress is a futile struggle, as long as will and desire exist it's going to happen. Another minor theme I want to touch on that.

The increasing mechanization and depersonalization of war as the TSAB revs up into a war footing will be another factor I want to explore, how the age of the lone heroic mage or small band saving the planet from some random alien artifact is dying and being replaced by an age where divisions of soldiers and tanks fight battles that ravage nations and ships burn dozen of miles of ground from orbit regularity. The TSAB "dream" is going to wither under the weight of the reality that the presence of other multi-world states will demand a large and well equipped army and all the problems that brings.

Internal differences and factionalism inside the state will flare over the burden of the affair and even non-administered worlds will be drawn into the conflict as the TSAB is strained nearly to the breaking point.

More backlog later, this just stuck out at me.

So basically, your next story will throw everything that is canon out the window, turning the TSAB from a short-handed magical bureau into a far more mechanized millitary.

Wow, that certainly is a strange move, coming from you.

Awefully familiar too. You might want to re-think this.

[Tormenk]

Back after 4 hours of sleep to wake at 6am over here..

Originally Posted by Erio

Here's the complete image for those interested:

Lovely girls on the beach. Thumbs up. ("b)

lol Is there a pic of Vestrell?

PF has yet to give her a material form in a picture.

Nice.

I wonder if Mai will be able to contain her hidden desires after seeing Smith like that...though she's pretty busy with Gwen and Iris right now...

*ahem*

I'm sure Mai has alot of self-control.

Not too sure after drinking all that potion though.

So we could use pics like this...

Spoiler for Gwen&Mai "EXERCISING":

Mai: Onee-sama~ <3

Gwen: M-Mai... Kokoni wa dame~ Ah~ ()

They're gonna end up kinda sweaty after that...

Erio's pulling out all the stops.

W...? w...w...wet?

W..w...Wesson dude.

That's a small peek into it...yeah...

That's a small peek? It's a whole new world out there then.

Ah, I see. As long as there is some hawt and steamy Siesta and Henrietta fanservice, I'm fine with it.

By novel you mean the manga right?

Judging from Nighty's posted translations, there's plenty of that.

Although the novels simply put the anime to shame. Everything is more in-depth and even the fan-service serves a strong point in the story.

Is this the official h4xx-busting unit?

I think you got the essence about there. Tk's going to bring his entire regiment down on future h4xxed characters.

Dr. Jackal now?! This girl retrieving scenario is getting more and more awesome!!

Or bloody.

He could have done better if he hadnt trapped Fate in that cage...but instead tied her up in ways with his threads...

*ahem*

Ahhh! Erio I swear you've been switched to Chaos' side. All that nudging about Fate is making me go

Maybe I should try my hand at a scene soon.

*runs*

Y-Yeah... L-Lowe-aniki... [FieryAeon][/FieryAeon]

FA's going down in history for bringing the onionhead craze to Outer-Canaan.

Phoenix, dont listen to this man. GIVE US THOSE HAWT *radio static* SCENES NAO--

*is shot*

Erio has fallen to the dark side.

Originally Posted by Keroko

And thus Yuri pairings invaded the OC-thread.

The Legion must be laughing their heads of right now.

The irony of it.

Originally Posted by FieryAeon

Why not? Its a viable story. Having every OC in the military is boring no? See how much fun Aurion and Kay enjoys. *plants spy cam in RF6 female baths*

Nano4koma Vice just called. He wants his voyeur self back.

Why?? Why do you think of me so? I'm not like Chaos!

To be honest her personality just brings a smile to my face, and her seiyuu makes her so cute. I just want to bring that kind of character in to our merry little band of OCs here (wait... it sounded Robin Hood-like for a moment there ).

To add, there's this scene where they were suppose to practice. The mages will attack the fighters, who will have to carry a bulleyes on their head (if I didn't read the text wrongly). Fel was trying to blast it off but Hyaweh kept dodging. She got so frustrated she yelled "MUUUUUKIIIII!! Stop moving!!" I LOL'ed went I saw that scene.

Then it reminded me of Princess Ce' Nedra from David Eddings' books, the Belgariad series to be precise. She starts stomping her foot and yelling at people when they annoy her. Wanna mix that personality into my elf OC.

Booo boo I seem to be going out of topic again?

Well not too much. Characterization at the very least.

And this thread will explode in a sea of blood again. *bleeds nose and dies*

Weak.

Just in case, has anyone laid claim on this character?

Spoiler for Tear Grants:

You've struck gold with this. I like what I see. Don't think she's taken.

Haven't read Tormenk's piece on Fate's torment (muahaha more puns!). Will do that when I wake up (almost 5am here *sleepy*).

You and your puns. The last one I laughed at was the fighter planes joke. XD

Leave your comments at the door before you go.

[Tk3997]

Originally Posted by LimitedEternal

Put the claws away, man.
[Rant]
First, I ran the idea of "SSS" by you lot a while back. Did I hear anyone say it was illegal? Eh? EH? I didn't think so.

I'm pretty sure words like "week old dog shit" where used in reference to that idea by me at least, that ought to say what I thought of the idea. I take an innocent until proven guilty approach though, so until you actually posted the offended char I didn't comment on it directly on the off chance it might somehow look justifiable, but it dosen't.

Second, on that, I have a fairly subjective view of ranks. I fail to see how SSS is that much more broken than some of the SS stuff we toss around here. We have a canon character, Hayate, who's SS without limiter. Topping that, we have OCs who can do broken things as well.

My issue is that rank are NOT linear from what we see at all, a few rank increases is a massive power differential just look at the sheer scale of the bombardment Hayate was throwing out for instance, dozens hell hundreds of supposedly A tanked line troops couldn't have matched that sort of power. Plus Hayate is limited in her powers, this character can do damn near anything well.

Third, I specifically went out of my way to make sure she isn't indestructible. I rewrote about a third of the character just so she can be on some footing with canon. Just because you can planeswalk doesn't make you "broken."

No but huge numbers of powerful skill, massive amounts of raw power, and effective immortality do.

Fourth, I did this for the pure and simple reason that I wanted to. Did you really think I was gonna have her start popping into every story, leaving only peaceful resolutions behind? She's a work of my imagination, and that's all.
[/Ran n

She's a work of yours that needs to fit into the work of others, she dosen't, at all. You forfeit the right to do whatever the hell you want when you decide to exist in someone else's canon, it's that simple. As written now she's so monstrously powerful their isn't really a single group of OC she could interact with and not instantly eliminate any drama.

Bottom line: If you actually read more into her, she's not that broken. Again, I tried really hard to keep her on a workable level.
If you like, I can withdraw her and pretend none of this happened, but I really don't want to. I had a planeswalker in progress for a while, and I just wanted to make her.

Truce?

Oh I read the whole thing and she's still broken, end of story. You might have tried, but you failed. The idea is probably salvageable, but this "god like ancient" shit needs to go pronto.

Originally Posted by Nightengale

It takes a degree of liberty on some things unknown to canon, but other than what other had already said, it's all good.

Of course, this and TSAB does not compute in some degree, but I blame StrikerS for making TSAB look like a bunch of asshats on this case.

I agree to a point actually the conflict of ideas and values will come up, I just find the idea that every planet in the TSAB just rolls over and accepts their arbitrary often stupid rules unlikely they might be been following them somewhat, but I bet many of them chafe under them and secretly engage in various technically "illegal" pursuits. Jail supports this in a way, at least some of the people in the TSAB clearly aren't enamored of it's current policy and that will come up as well as we start to see that despite what the TSAB might perch in it's propaganda the TSAB isn't one big happy family where we all get along and agree on things for our benefits.

Originally Posted by Kha

Wow... I wish I knew even a quart of what was written here to create a dossier that's believable!

Like Keroko pointed out, this 20 cart loading is disturbing given canon revelations. But your subsequent justification is exactly how I first thought the cartridge system to be, specialized mana injectors, which was the basis of the 10 cart Gotteliches Zamber spell. And the canon revelations are the ones that really don't make sense, other than my take of the device being connected to the person's magic circuit somehow, which again has no basis in canon and is nothing more than fans trying to make sense of something that wasn't explained.

Using the Linker Core's definition from the DVD factbooks:

"...Linker Cores link mana in the atmosphere and surroundings to convert mana into a form that is usable by the mage..."

This is similar to how the body processes glucose and sugars into usable "energy currency". Which either means that the process needed is so small and complicated that special and thus fragile systems are needed to replicate the linking system one for one, or bar really l33t nanotechnology needs to be done at a large scale in order to be efficient.

The latter point btw is the basis of my giant mage walker devices. They are basically enlarged iron Linking furn--

Amuro: Don't discuss confidential information in public.

...Right... Pardon my reference habit.

But of course the basis of argument is at which level of technology is the TSAB at regarding iron Linker Cores. Can they feasibly build something small enough to be a rifle on a mass scale to be issued to an active fighting unit? Granted we've been throwing power suits around acceptably in the OC thread; the Zaku system is my closest attempt at addressing this problem like you and that's why I think the mana injection principle of cartridges is believable, though we need a bit more caveats to fully reconcile it with canon.

And we must also remember, Kerykeion is a canon mana storage and management device. Probably by looking at what was described in its factbook entry again, we can work out something for the Rangers in this aspect.

I'll leave the judgement to the floor. Either way, using this as a base, I can build a dossier for another force designed practically to EPIC FAIL from the ground up (like every other thing that broke down on 911), the pre-911 Saint Guard. I hope you don't mind Tk.

Yeah the Imperium hates WARM and FUZZY.

Well my reply would be that the energy in a cartridge is already refined and ready for use so the need to convert it wouldn’t be a property of the device, the device would merely be required to unleash the stored energy. That said the forms it can do that in are limited by technical issues, basiclly it can only do the simplest of spells which are shooting ones as this is little more then just firing a barely contained blob of magical energy at the target, finer manipulation like illusions or healing are totally beyond it’s means, though ought to be possible in the future (far future).

Basically while some people are taking magic more toward the fantasy side of things I’m going the other direction and making it more technologically based. Like I said I view magic as a highly adaptable energy source, but ultimately still just that an energy source that can be manipulated and controlled like any other with sufficient expertise. The techno-magic aspect was what really drew me in as I’ve discussed before so it only makes sense I'd emphasis it over spiritualism or human-centric nonsense.

In my story the hard fact is humans aren't special and we aren't required, that's harsh, but that's how it is. Luckily for us though humans are still mighty cheap and plentiful so we still have our place in war. This is carried over from my own personal philosophy regrading humanity in general which is something like. "Don't think we're more important then we really are and don't over think us too much as in the end we're still just really smart monkeys and often act like them too."(yes I know it's apes, but monkeys sounds better as they are associated with more stupid behavior =p)

As for taking ideas, as I've said take what you want I consider having written something good enough for someone to want to steal it a compliment myself.

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Terminators?


Suffer not the Furry to Live?

Beastmen actually. Yes 40k has Furries... real ones.

Not everyday do you see a profile dedicated to an entire Regiment... but DAMN, is is quite the motherload of detail

Everything from philosophy, to training and selection (sounds even worse than SEALS ) is covered.

Write ups are something I find easy, more so about a subject I like plus large bits of it are drawn from RL practices which helped and make sense since int he story this unit was inspired by many roughly modern day Special Forces. After all it's not just Knights and ancient things that can spawn traditions and inspire people. Besides with all this crazy fantasy and spiritual stuff flying around we could use a good old fashion dose of practical militarism IMO.

And their BJ is

Ukitakumuki dose some incredible work, one of my fav artists and he just keeps getting better.

Originally Posted by Liingo

Just one thing though that's been annoying me... (directed at the thread in general...)
[rant on]There's a whole galaxy of worlds to use, there's no need to have all these mages appear on Earth!! Is it so hard to make up the name of a world?? With the massive number of mages from earth in here, you'd think that it was a administrated world, instead of a non-administared one... [/rant off]

Indeed, though I'm sort of guilty in that I invented an alternate earth... At least I altered the history though and made it an official administered planet so it make sense mages would come from it.

Nice adaption Although if the TSAB is on the case of these guys, I wonder what they they'll think when I fully go into the training regimen for enforcers, which I was going to base off the SAS or other similar unit... My idea's were pretty similar to yours I would say... just that I'm dealing more on the squad level rather than the number's that you're using.

Yeah as mentioned Ranger are highly trained shock troops they only go in when heavy combat is expected and specialize in high risk assaults often from the air (orbit), just like real rangers and anything less then a Platoon of them would be unusual. You're talking more like Delta Force or indeed the SAS, a sometimes overt, but also often covert true Special Forces unit. If you want some ideas I'd look into reading up on SAS operations in Northern Ireland, BlackHawk down is also a nice thing to get a feel for the difference between elite infantry like Rangers and true "Special Forces" like Delta's and their is a difference.

As I said the Ranger are the striking arm of my OC force, when a target is confirmed and too heavily defended for an A-team to deal with they get the call to deal with it. The other competent is the mentioned A-teams these are what my OC propers are they're small teams that often work under covering doing recon, investigations, etc and sometimes small scale assaults and often working in conjunction with the ranger on bigger missions. Different, but complimentary missions just like Green Berets or Delta force and Rangers in the modern army. If Special Forces are a scalpel, Rangers are a combat knife, and the regular army is longsword.

No problems with canon integration from me...since they're from the same place as the rest of your blood thirsty savages..

Yeah well someones gotta hold down the "Militant" end of the spectrum here, and I seem to like it so...

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Correction.
My standards are...

HAWT Fanservice = You can't make my nose bleed. YOU. JUST. CAN'T!
MOE = I like MOE. And I really don't set any standards for it.
MOE fanservice = You can get some reactions by those pics.
About Hayat-EEP! Let's not go there.

Fan service dose nothing for me either, that's why I haven't really commented on the Halloween thing, no real interest. I'll actually fast froward past pointless fan service for instance and most just role my eyes and ask them to get on with plot, or character interaction, or hell anything besides pointless pandering. I don't write fan service either because of this obviously so anyone that wants that is in for a disappointment with my works.

Whoa... I just knew this was going to be an interestingly long read. The ideas are great. I can actually see them fitting well. Nice work!

Well I tried to keep it close to canon while do what I wanted to do, get a force modeled on RL SF into this. Glad that they don't seem totally out of place.

I can use some of these theories. Thanks!

Pillage at will.

Originally Posted by Erio

Is this the official h4xx-busting unit?

Could be a Terity opertional directive I suppose.

Originally Posted by FieryAeon

@LimitedEternal: A mage's ranking is the direct class evaluation of said mage's power, in terms of mana capacity, skill, and many others. To say one is SSS is not only saying one is broken, its just too powerful, simple as that. If you go and say your OC is SSS and just pick some stuff to cover up and say its weakness, its rather poor justification and that just doesn't sit well with many of us.

In fact, you never did justify why she has to be so powerful, you only said she isn't indestructible. The stats you gave her, great at melee and range; has great defense and a lot of mana?

Nobody is telling you not to use the character concept you have there. The main problem we have is that level of power she has.

Exactly, you can't go "Rank SSS" and go a second later, but not really! The ranking is a composite of various factors to give a rouge guide of a persons power. You can't be SSS, but not really be uber anymore then you can rank F and not a total gimp, and as mentioned even the skills you have her where extremely versatile and powerful as well.

Originally Posted by Keroko

But you did hear us say that we did want a few very very good reasons, even more so if she's a protagist. You gave us none.

The point is, the Aces are the cream of the crop in TSAB terms, and here we have a character who is not only immortal (even if only for age, this is very far-fetched), but also a planewalker. Yes, you 'nerfed' them, but they still have the abillity to basically escape any single dangerous situation they're in. That on its own is overpowered.

Next, her skills. She basically excells at everything! Melee, ranged, magic power, everything has 'high' or 'exellent' with the only exception agillity, which is 'good' basically she has no weak spot, and yet you still claim that she is not broken?

As for the fourth point, why wouldn't we expect that? That's the entire reason you post here is it not? If you post a character here, we expect to see more of her. Therefore, if you post a character here, expect us to comment on it if we think she will destroy the limits set by canon.

Bottom line: You tried to keep her workable, but you didn't suceed. Lyria would have no trouble beating all the Aces at once with her hands behind her back the way you typed her out.

Yep.

And thus Yuri pairings invaded the OC-thread.

The Legion must be laughing their heads of right now.

A little Yuri isn't bad, just as long as you get some pork in you're diet too.

I disagree that a Linker Core is simply a fuel provider. Sure, it does provide the fuel, but I believe that it is only one of the functions. Looking back at A's, absorbing a Linker Core could give the Yami no Sho information on any spell the victim had cast, or knew how to cast. This suggests that Linker Cores do, in fact, have a lot more to do with casting spells. If they were only mana bateries, then such knowledge should not have been drainable through them.

Debatable, even then the main purpose was shown to be fueling the book, and given that said book could dematerialize people and such assuming it was drawing that information from the linker core is circumstantial at best, it could be tearing from the device or the persons mind as well.

Plus you suggest it has something more to do with it? Then what is that something exactly? It's easy to say it ought to do something, but if you can't say what then it's not exactly a better theory then my own of a Linker Core simply being an organ that can generate and replenish mana, nothing more, no spiritual non-sense or anything with it.

It also conflicts with the TSAB's ideals to move away from conventional weapons. Fate's words suggest that the TSAB abhoars weapons that can be used without training. 'Even a kid could push a button and destroy a world'

Fate is also an overly idealistic ninny in someways IMO, more so given that later we see the TSAB deploying fucking tanks, never mind helicopters, and of course warships that can vaporise cites with the push of a button. It seems Fate didn't just drink the cool-aid she chugged it.

and if your devices don't need a Linker Core to be used, that's just what is a possibility, anyone can pick one up and start shooting.

Which is the point, this entire "no guns!!!" thing is absurd, hypocritical (mages blow up entire city blocks that's coo, JDAM? ZOMG EVVVVVIIILLLLLLL!!!! *TSAB holds fingers in a cross before them*), and unsustainable in the face of any serious threat. Well that threat's come bashing through the TSAB front door and it has a shotgun, now they better either go get their's or prepare to get raped. Ideals have this nasty habit of being tossed away when they become a nuisance; welcome to the real world.

Also it's kind of a plot point, but the fact was that a number of worlds had been conspiring to keep certain areas of weapons manufacturing active and R&D ongoing (this is one such effort), illegal, but they felt it in there interests to do it. Ironiclly this "illegal" activity ends up helping the TSAB. They'll go even further during the story as well, Jail may have been crazy, but he was awfully smart too... and we've got all the Cyborgs in jail, wonder if they might like to knock a few years off their sentences? Etc...

I consider the TSAB to be a dysfunctional mess that needs a good smacking to straighten out, the smack is about to land, hard, and the TSAB won't be the same afterwards. This is basically a closely fanon AU as should be pretty clear now. I like realism and the way the TSAB acts isn't real at all, I'm going to fix that.

[USB500]

We've gone past the 700 page. So are we prepared for the coveted 777? Of course I'd take 707 for me.

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Originally Posted by Kha

......

HAWT YURI SECKS FTW!!!

Originally Posted by Kha

MASAfira was WINRAR as expected! <3

And kudos for squeezing everyone into a single frame, USB.

S&W as WHO TEY ARE?! DO WANT!!!

Throwing everyone in one post is already hard enough, yo. but thanks.

I better do the S&W as WHO THEY ARE?! after this.

*cue Happily Ever After*

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Originally Posted by LoweGear

Mai's theme of clothing IS 'modern gothic'...

And Mai's secret world is already crowded enough...

What?

*runs*

Well, Mai's welcomed to Frieda's secret world anytime.

What?

*runs*

Originally Posted by LoweGear

So... Smith will become this then?

Spoiler for "It's a fair fight then.":

But if Cap'n Smith's gonna have a ship, it'll have to be this:

AND, no hero should be without an OP:

Spoiler for Uchuu no Umi:

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Quick! Hide the cat girls!!!

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Originally Posted by Aaron008R

WHEE! Finished the exam! Lotsa delicious backlog to fill up my appetite as well! But before I start devouring... Let me post the link for the song, Eiyuu, first.

Here's the link.

Jaa~...

ITADAKIMASU!!!

Naisu!!

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Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

And the battle continues!!

Shame that Widuri = Lacus didn't happen, but I'll take singing as a substitute...

And yet more Ginga action... when did the fanboys decide Ginga was... hot/moe/cute/whatever the hell she is?

This is shaping up to be LOOONG... four or five parts maybe.

And Vita = Maki, much better than Vita = Luna...

Well, I try not to have it too long as I still have the battle scene to do.

Yeah, it's a shame. Well, there's always the Christmas Party.

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Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Correction.
My standards are...

HAWT Fanservice = You can't make my nose bleed. YOU. JUST. CAN'T!
MOE = I like MOE. And I really don't set any standards for it.
MOE fanservice = You can get some reactions by those pics.
About Hayat-EEP! Let's not go there.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Simply put, this is the most LOLtastic cosplay episode yet!

Several thumbs-up!

THE COSPLAY PARTY IS MADE OF ALL TYPES OF WIN!!!

My hands got splinters while typing it down. You should give them credits.

MORE TO COME!!!!

• Smith & Wesson as WHO THEY ARE??!!!
• more Gemini fan service
• Armstrong/Arcas (friendly) encounter
• the arrival of "Mamono wo Utsu Mono" and her anteater plush doll.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Oh dear... The crack...

We've lost him...

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Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki

This...is made of...EPIC WIN!!!


So much awesomeness...I can't wait for the next installment .
I hope you won't abuse Shamsel too much .

Will do.

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Originally Posted by Erio

Here's the complete image for those interested:

Originally Posted by Erio

I wonder if Mai will be able to contain her hidden desires after seeing Smith like that...though she's pretty busy with Gwen and Iris right now...

*ahem*



So we could use pics like this...

Spoiler for Gwen&Mai "EXERCISING":

Mai: Onee-sama~ <3

Gwen: M-Mai... Kokoni wa dame~ Ah~ ()

They're gonna end up kinda sweaty after that...

*plugs nostrils*

Gwen & Mai doing THIS and THAT in PRIVATE?

Originally Posted by Erio

That's a small peek into it...yeah...

Small peek, you say?

Originally Posted by Erio

Dere-dere G-Ginga-nessama...?!

[haiz123321]

Originally Posted by asaqe

Damn, nobody noticed my character's renditions...

that happens alot in here

Originally Posted by Keroko

You ain't seen nothing yet, this girl beats the entire Nanoha cast in leeching SRW moves.

Spoiler for Phantom Phoenix? Sure:

Spoiler for Jinrai? No problem:

Spoiler for A sword that cleaves evil? Here we go:

ZOMGZ THIS IS PURE WIN

Originally Posted by FieryAeon

Why?? WHY???? I was only taking a 3 hour nap and I come back to a mountain of posts!

Don't complain I wasn't here for two days

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

WIN indeed!
That's Eiyuu (Hero) by the band DOA. The 1st OP of Ultraman Nexus.

Here's the translation, courtesy of an old PM of Chaos.

Spoiler for Japanese Version:

Kakko tsukete 'ru tsumori de tokui ni natte
Daiji na koto wa zenbu okizari ni shichatte
Jibun de jibun wo kurushimete iru shuujin
Sonna boku ni sayonara sa transformation!

Yami ga kowakute dou suru
Aitsu ga kowakute dou suru
Ashibumi shite 'ru dake ja
Susumanai

Otoko nara dareka no tame ni tsuyoku nare
Ha wo kuishibatte omoikkiri mamorinuke
Koronde mo ii yo mata tachiagareba ii
Tada sore dake dekireba
Eiyuu sa (Alright!)

Kyou mo nandaka yaruki ga okinai nante
Amaezukushi no jibun ga hontou wa kirai de
Toriaezu wa omote de shinkokyuu koushin
Sonja ima kara shimashou ka transformation!

Yowaki ni natte dou suru
Ashita no kimi wa dou suru
Damatte shitamuitecha
Kikoenai

Otoko nara dare ka no tame ni tsuyoku nare
Butsukariatte seiippai yatte miro
Naite mo ii yo mata waraereba ii
Tada sore dake dekireba
Eiyuu sa

wow...
wow...

Otoko nara dare ka no tameni tsuyoku nare
Onna mo sou sa mite 'ru dake ja hajimaranai
Kore ga tadashii tte ieru yuuki ga areba ii
Tada sore dake dekireba
Eiyuu sa

Otoko nara dareka no tame ni tsuyoku nare
Ha wo kuishibatte omoikkiri mamorinuke
Koronde mo ii yo mata tachiagareba ii
Tada sore dake dekireba
Eiyuu sa (Alright!)

Spoiler for English Version:

I'm so good at pretending to be cool
Forgetting about the things that really matter
I'm just making it hard for myself
So goodbye to all that, it's time for a transformation!

Whatcha gonna do if you're afraid of the dark?
Whatcha gonna do if you're scared of some guy?
If you're content to just keep your footing
You'll never get anywhere

If you're a real man, become strong for someone
Clench your teeth, fight till the end
Don't be afraid to fall, and when you do, just rise once more
If you can do just that
You are a hero (Alright!)

I hate myself for being so complacent
All those times when I don't feel like doing anything
Take a deep breath, it's time for a change
And let's do it now, it's time for a transformation!

Whatcha gonna do when you're so timid?
Whatcha gonna do for your future?
If you just look down and keep silent
Nobody's gonna hear you

If you're a real man, become strong for someone
Take on the world head-on
Don't be afraid to cry, just smile again
If you can do just that
You are a hero

wow...
wow...

If you're a real man, become strong for someone
Same goes for you girls, nothing will happen by just watching things go by
All you need is the courage to stand up for what is right
If you can do just that
You are a hero

If you're a real man, become strong for someone
Clench your teeth, fight till the end
Don't be afraid to fall, and when you do, just rise once more
If you can do just that
You are a hero (Alright!)

Here's the website...

http://www.virtual-rotation.com/chir...3ultranxs.html

The lyrics fit quite well.

And since I'm at it... Here's a version of it starring Yuuno!

I didn't know MAD's made using Nanoha and A's would be this GOOD!

Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ

And about the OS-tan thing...here

Spoiler for Vista-tan?:

I didn't notice the windows icon at first when i saw her shirt and i knew the colours were similar to something i seen before then it dawned upon me it was the windows icon, i took a second look and i was right

Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ

Happiness
So far, the only character being used is Jun

I wanted to bring in Yuma as the big bro but I couldn't find images of it so I used a pic I reservered earlier

Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ

Finally someone who noticed I was missing

Flame missing is not that noticeable since he's always missing

Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ

*sigh* Well, that's all
I'll go work on chapter 20 now...
*runs*

Chapter 20 = the busy days u were talking about?

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Originally Posted by haiz123321

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