Because what you appear to be receiving doesn't seem to match up with what IANCE/others are sending.
Here's another way to put it, in context of the "debate" you and IANCE had going on last page: it doesn't matter how tough Char is, because Nanoha and all her buddies use a Power Limiter that enforces Set Swords to "Stun".
Even in the event that the Ace of Aces hit an unprotected Red Comet with a citybusting Starlight Breaker, it wouldn't cause any major lasting harm to him, because magic can have a selective damage output between targets, even within a single Wave-Motion Gun.
edited 4th Jul '16 9:49:37 PM by EvaUnit01
It still quite hurt, though. Not to mention mental scar from having sustained artillery strike to your faces (Seriously. Most PTSD in WW 1 got worsened by all the sustained noise from artillery barrage. That's why rlthey called it "shell-shock"). Even if it's non-fatal.
Someone remind me, what was the justification for Signum killing Zest even though magic is explicitly As Lethal as It Needs to Be in the Nanoha-verse?
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.![]()
Right, that's why I used As Lethal as It Needs to Be ("weapons or attacks that seem to jump between lethal and non-lethal as the plot demands") rather than Set Swords to "Stun" (characters taking should-be-lethal wounds but merely being "defeated" due to game mechanics). It's lethal if the characters want it to be, and not if they don't, but can blast through scenery either way.
Char's been through three cataclysmic wars.
If a nine-year-old Dark Magical Girl can go through her life without mental scarring from Nanoha's excessive Beam Spam, I feel reasonably assured that - with some time to adapt to the setting first - Char could do the same.
Furthermore, Nanoha's Beams of Pink Destruction aren't Death Beams of Traumatic Experiences, they're Death Beams of Befriending. Char won't be traumatized, even if he's hit by the biggest Starlight Breaker EX Nanoha can possibly fire, Genkidama style. He'll be befriended by it.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariTry telling that to the Darkness of the Book of Darkness, Quattro, and those few other villains who were on the receiving end of her Pink Beam of All-Consuming Agony and did not go through a Heel–Face Turn afterwards. Though you'd be hard pressed to get the first one's input, given that it's... you know, Deader than Dead.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Granted, the Combat Cyborg who shares an alias with him shows that the Giant Pink Deathbeam of Befriending isn't 100% infallible, but at worst Char just gets tossed in prison with Scaglietti and the other Numbers who didn't pull a Face-turn.
EDIT: semi-
edited 5th Jul '16 2:36:47 PM by EvaUnit01
Besides, the pink-beams-of befriending only work if Nanoha has a chance to talk with the person in question and discuss why they're doing what they're doing. The exception is Dieci, who's already a good person deep down anyway and was just doing her job.
You remember what Nanoha first did to Quattro when she saw the smug bitch touched Vivio's skin? She fired, without warning or attack calling, She just fired. Okay, that Quattro was a hologram, but still, you do not mess with Nanoha. It might be played as a Running Gag on the omakes, but as Quattro can attest, if you mess with Nanoha, she will find you and deliver a pink beam of OVERKILL..
And since the befriending effect failed, it proceeded to only defeat them and do otherwise all of jack shit to their mental state.
Because being hit with the Starlight Breaker isn't a particularly traumatic experience.
Furthermore, there is no 'Darkness of the Book of Darkness'. It's just a corrupted computer program. Of course you can't befriend it, it doesn't think.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariNeither Fate nor Vivio, the most memorable/notable Starlight Breaker "survivors", appear to have suffered any significant long-lasting harm. And both of them were in fairly/comparatively psychologically vulnerable states at the time.
They probably have comforting memories or dreams of being hit with it.
I can only imagine that at the Midchildan equivalent of Christmas, they sit next to a warm fire and recount the times they were struck by Nanoha's pink beams of friendship.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariI forget, which one of the Sound Stages ships Nanoha and Yuuno and implies that Fate is deliberately remaining away so she can give them 'room'?
Because that one's one big load of bullshit.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariI've heard that the creative team for the anime and team for the Sound Stages were having their own shipping war at one point in time.
Which, really, should tell you pretty much everything you need to know.
The way I'm running things in my fic, magic basically does what you want it to, since it's being mentally directed by the mage anyway. So it's not that magic can't be used to kill people, it's that (unlike mass weapons), they can be used to not kill people if the mage doesn't want their targets dead. That's why spells will do Clothing Damage and its target on their ass, but not so much as singe their hair despite being powerful enough to level buildings. The mage casting the spell wants the target defeated without doing any long-term damage, so that's what the spell does.
Amuro, whose combat experience is entirely in no-holds-barred fights where non-lethal takedowns aren't an option and his life and the lives of his friends depend on him killing the other guy before the other guy kills him, is going to have trouble with this concept.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.But you don't need to do that. Because the kill switch safety is on the Devices.
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IIRC, it's less 'shipping war between teams' and more 'disagreement'.
The voice actresses, IIRC, are on the yuri side.
edited 5th Jul '16 6:50:43 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari

Is this the game where a message is passed around in whispers through a chain of people, until the last one's turn is up and s/he declares what the message s/he received was
?
edited 4th Jul '16 7:51:27 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.