@Tsuruya pic: Looks more natural than the original pic was, IMO.
edited 6th Oct '11 1:18:12 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Even if it's in a gravy boat? Besides, I'm talking about getting same-charged particles to stick together. Just pretend I'm talking about finding a way for protons to be gay with each other and you'll love it.
I think it's because she is an artificial construct and as far as we know she's never been anywhere except Earth. She's a lot closer to traditional notions of an AI than she is to being an alien as they are normally imagined.
Any suggestions? I can't really think of anything else to do with it, other than set it as my wallpaper.
In an Ave Machina sort of way. :)
edited 6th Oct '11 1:53:56 AM by PaxEmpyrean
She is Alien to humans, as she is something that a human can't exactly understand. So regardless of place, time, or processes, she is Alien. And, Pax, if something is born or made on Earth that looks human, seems human, but isn't really human, you'd call it one of three things. An Alien, a Shapeshifter, or an Android. Since Yuki is neither of the last two, she must be the former. I may be forgetting a possibility here or there, but the summation is just that. Yuki isn't human, therefore she is an alien.
Besides, Yuki herself has called herself an Alien, and I think she is in the best position to know whether she is or not.
In case of emergency, please press F4 and break glass.I think we can all agree that Yuki, being an Artificial Human that was created by extraterrestrial (perhaps even extradimensional) Starfish Aliens, fits the definition of a Human Alien (or maybe Alien Human?), no?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.@Pax: Um...
Considering a certain spoiler that I will not name here, I would actually think that that would possibly be the case...
Of course, Power of Friendship and Power of Love can also be considered like such forces as well, if applied correctly, like it is here, kitsu.
I have returned, and my vacation in the void was so boring...There is no doubt that Yuki is alien. Whether or not she is AN alien... Pfff. Semantics. Everybody's an alien somewhere.
I just find it odd that Haruhi desires aliens, and what fills that role is (IMHO) more Artificial Human than Alien. Then again, I'm one of those people that when you say "Alien" I imagine things pretty far removed from humanity (floating gas-bag crabs that absorb food through baleen-like gills, etc etc) so it could just me me.
Yuki's still my favorite character.
Wait, what?Nagato is an alien human enough to count as a human (Artificial Human) from most points of view. Fair?
And Kuyou is even more alien still (which would kinda make the argument itself moot), but I digress.
Besides, if we go by the definition of aliens as Starfish Aliens, then the Combine would definitely count, if only as antagonists.
edited 6th Oct '11 9:00:55 AM by MadKitsu
I have returned, and my vacation in the void was so boring...Kuyou seems like an Anthropomorphic Personification of sorts. O_o
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I think Yuki currently has a much more human-like mind than Kuyou does. While both see the mundane world in an unusual way, the scale of their perception is vastly different. Kuyou doesn't know everything, but it seems like her actual location is irrelevant when it comes to knowing something, at least when she's not focusing on her local surroundings. Yuki's knowledge of things outside her immediate vicinity was previously reliant upon the IDSE. Currently she's getting some information from her future self, but the extent of this isn't really clear yet.
I don't think so. It takes special weaponry to actually kill an interface.
Like I said, "unless she has countermeasures in place", where "countermeasures" includes any augmentations and modifications done via data-manipulation.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

edited 6th Oct '11 1:14:20 AM by OneMore