Cryptic Mirror: Quick trope check, would Ash fit the trope of
Unlucky Every Dude? Getting hit by the
Gender Bender makes him/her really unlucky but male Ash was described as being an average high school guy before that and he does fit the rest of the trope description.
- I wouldn't think so. You can't really project any other character interpretation on Ash except grease monkey and racer.
Kyeudo: Can someone put up one of the better pictures for the comic, like maybe the origional cover art? The current one isn't Chris's best work.
- Holy crap, I thought that was fan art, yeah that is a pretty poor pic.
John 17 Martin: Does
Failure Is The Only Option apply to Misfile? I have only read a little of it, so I hesitate to edit the main page to say so.
- No. They never have gotten a chance to fix the Misfile, so they've never failed to fix it.
Cryptic Mirror: I've changed the entry:
__>*
Vapor Wear: Fallen angels apparently don't approve of brassieres.
because the only fallen angel (i.e. one that is expelled from Heaven) is Rumisiel and the thought of Rumi...
No Just No
Haven: Just
Archive Binged and, wow, this was a lot better than I thought it would be. The explorations of gender relations, identity, etc. are really good, not to mention its status as a really weird
Coming Of Age story. For some reason I thought Ash was going to be a complete
Cosmic Plaything and it would just be too bummer-y to read, but I'm glad that aspect of it isn't played up so much that it overpowers the rest of the story's tone (but also that it's not completely ignored, of course).
Moved the following debates to the discussion page:
- Vapor Wear - Angels apparently don't
approve of need brassieres.
- A certain guy-turned-girl didn't originally like bras either, but came around to it eventually. S/he absolutely hates thongs though.
- This troper has no idea why Ash even had to wear a thong. There's the "pantylines" excuse, but s/he was wearing a loose-fitting dress.
- because it wouldn't show through the high slits would be my guess
- Fanservice/author cruelty potential, most likely. This troper speaks from experience when she says that visible panty lines are far preferable to a perma-wedgie...
- Weirdness Magnet - A lot of weird stuff just happens to all happen in a small town in Western Massachusets.
- Starting with an abandoned mine and a mountain road more appropriate to Colorado.
- Um...they're called the Berkshires. Mountain roads aren't hard to find. (As for the mine...well, they abandoned it for a reason, didn't they?)
- I've been all through the Berkshires and those ain't the Berkshires. too steep, for one thing.
- It's implied that Ash was still a rather tomboyish girl even in the retconned history, so the change might not be as huge as some think; there's also the implication that dear ol' Dad isn't as clueless as he seems, but goes along under the theory that the truth will eventually come out.
- The only difference noted between the "girl Ash" and the "post-misfile Ash" is that by all accounts "girl Ash" was completely straight and "post-misfile Ash" is completely lesbian.
- Not if James and the family photo album
are to be believed. Molly also seems to imply it's a character shift for Ash
