Raildex verse (A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun, A Certain Scientific Accelerator)

I really don't think Mugino is portrayed sympathetically. She's a more or less unrepentant, violent murderer whose sense of morality is basically "If Hamazura doesn't see me do it, it's totally fine."

I more meant that Hamazura pointed out that she probably wouldn't be so psycho if it wasn't for AC.

Plus she is trying to fix herself. Sorta. I mean, she's doing about as well as one would expect for a psychopath trying to treat her own mental disorders with no help or specialists. I don't think I would trust an AC therapist though.

I think they're genuinely loyal to her and that she just treats them like crap sometimes. Is that better or worse?

edited 25th Oct '14 9:54:32 PM by Arha

I mean, it's definitely not as evil as brainwashing people into adoring you.

Mikoto has a big enough following that Misaki felt mildly threatened by it, so I think someone in her position wouldn't need to use her powers to make people slavishly devoted to her. She just uses her powers to weed out The Starscreams and anyone else problematic.

There's a serious difference between being a friend and literally being willing to be mind controlled by someone, I think.

Kuroko exists and you think Kamachi has a reasonable grasp of human relationships?

Mental powers do drag human relationships through an iffy, gray, and amoral area at best.

And forget Kuroko.

Despite Mugino repeatedly saying she didn't care about Accelerator, in NT 6, she saved his life and then snapped him out of his Heroic BSoD enough to cure his Death Seeker tendencies. She is also protective of Fremea. She has a heart, even if she is an asshole.

So, Kill Point is also in the next chapter. Cool. First time another teleporter has appeared in Railgun now that I think about it.

He's the guy with the really janky "can only teleport to places people aren't looking at" teleportation, right?

Nah, he's just not smart enough to completely do the 11th dimension calculations, so he has to use people as destination points as a crutch. This works out as him always teleporting behind someone.

edited 26th Oct '14 9:34:50 PM by redacer

If just landmarks, couldn't he use other things besides humans? Or is there an additional mind power involved, like using the minds of others as anchors?

Maybe he could? The nature of his power was just a guess by Accelerator after all. Probably the only real difference between him and a true Level 4 Teleporter is he can't teleport into places that he doesn't know the layout of. Since teleporters normally don't like doing that anyways, since they could accidentally telefrag themselves, he's not significantly worse than a normal teleporter really.

Does Gunha Sogiita qualify as The Fool?

No. Too strong.

New Accel chapter out.

That's alot of dead police officers. And Friction girl's power is neato, though it's basically just a shittier reflection with a slightly larger range. And I guess the other girl has the power to make paper explode?

New Railgun chapter out.

Poor Ringlet curls girl.

And, of course, a porn dream industry exists. Also, this really is going to go in the direction of brainwashing, isn't it, what with "instant learning" and all.

Any bets on Kuroko having taken one of those dreams to sleep with Mikoto, and starting to have some kind of effects?

Just ask yourself, is there any depravity that Academy City won't sink to?

You know there's an underage sex industry...and fuck, I've just made myself upset.

We've already known that for awhile. Volume 15, I think?

edited 31st Oct '14 8:49:14 AM by KSPAM

Volume 19, that Depart guy. To be fair though it's an illegal industry in AC, and they sent Accel to murder the crap out of the guy. They don't exactly endorse it.

If Kuroko really did something like that, then she's a genuine creep. As in, not even close to funny what the hell is wrong with you Kuroko kind of creepy. So I doubt she did.

Poor drillhair girl.

edited 31st Oct '14 9:15:56 AM by Arha

Kuroko did try to drug Mikoto that one time. So she can be kind of a creep.

At times like these I generally remind myself that technically every Esper in the city is insane. Especially the high-level ones.