Morning, everyone!
Now we are discussing Eight Bit Theater? Great, another series that I don't know.
@Boristus - Pretty soon, just not this chapter.
Wow, proofreading is taking much longer than I thought. I would have been a total disaster if I posted this version straight away. 0_o
edited 21st Dec '11 5:51:27 PM by dRoy
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.![]()
Agreed. The entire comic is a brick joke, by the way.
Yes, it has a dozen hundred strips and it's all simply the setup for one single joke.
edited 21st Dec '11 6:14:31 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariI've always thought it was Meridiana.
(Just watched a hilarious sequence involving a group of teenagers, a dog and two kids. Two teenagers set upon demonstrating 'dude stuff'.)
edited 21st Dec '11 6:42:43 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariDecadently Rational, Habitually Emotional
So, she was back. After so long, after all that had happened, she dared showing her face at the old Academy again.
She really didn't want to.
Despite it being the thing she wanted the most in the world.
The mighty Forgotten Princess, bane of all magic users, able to put the Lifemaker down, was scared out of her wits to face her dear friends again.
She couldn't do it, at least not right now, she decided, while heading away to rest and think. Yes, she'd just think a long while about it, before most likely turning tail and run to do nothing somewhere else. Eventually, she'd cope with it and come back.
To Negi.
And his children.
Children that weren't hers.
Yeah.
Asuna flinched and headed to that old place she always had escaped to when she was a child, wheber Ayaka bothered her too much, or whenever parents visited and she wanted to be far from everyone and their families. It still was pretty much the same (it was good to see some things never changed), except because there was someone else sitting under her favorite tree.
It was herself.
The other her noticed her arrival quickly, jumping back to her feet and readying a fist while pulling a Pactio card out. "Whoa, whoa, calm down!" Asuna told her, stepping closer into her full sight. "Trust me, you don't want to hurt this face!"
The other girl blinked, realization sinking in. "Oh," she babbled lamely. "Oh, it's... you."
"Yeah, I think so. Although I'm frankly not fully sure about anything anymore. So... Asuna, right?"
"Right, duh," the other Asuna smiled a bit. "Wait. You know about me?"
The older Asuna tapped with her fingers on her own skull twice, then made a spin of said fingers in the air. "I was told, yeah. The person who called me back here told me everything."
"Oh. So you were called," the younger Asuna, somehow, seemed disappointed. "You didn't come out of your own will."
"Well, I wouldn't put it exactly like that..."
The other Asuna sat back down on the grass. "You didn't want to be here. At the Academy, I mean. Otherwise, you'd be with Negi and the others, instead of... right here."
"Point taken," Asuna sighed and sat next to Asuna. "But it goes both ways, too. Why are you here?"
"Because of you."
"Huh?"
"I've been living in your shadow since I arrived here," the younger Asuna said. "When your friends look at me, they can't see anyone but you, and I can't be the person they want me to be."
"How about your friends?"
"Well, yeah, they can't really understand. Next to your Negi, our Negi plays the little brother, and to some degree, so does everyone else with your guys. Even Arika-sama and... your mom... complement each other despite how much they hate each other's guts. I'm the odd fish out. And your Negi... Negi's the worst of them all."
"How's Negi?" Asuna asked eagerly. The other Asuna snorted to herself.
"Sad."
Asuna's face fell down.
"It's creepy, to see how he loves you so much," the other Asuna grabbed a peeble and tossed it into the small river. "I know he tries his best to see me as a different person than you, but still... everytime he looks at me, I can feel some new part of him is breaking down."
The older Asuna was still speechless. Unfazed, her counterpart continued, "And you know, it's freaking annoying how every counterpart of mine I meet is the other half of their Negis. Not to offend you, mind, but... At this point, it's like everyone's expecting me to go that route as well. I can't love him that way, why can't anyone see that? Even if I try to set facts straight, they'll still only think I'm in denial. Hell, why can't a girl and a boy be just friends? They're just as bad as those obsessed manga friends of Haruna and their anime couples..."
"Wait, you've met others like us before?-!" Kagurazaka held to the last vaguely not threatening to her sanity thing she could understand.
"You're the second one, actually," the young Asuna said. "The first one would be one who played superheroine... Weird, huh? And yet, she was so cool..." she sighed. "She was like the big sister I never could have. And yet, despite all she said on the contrary, I think she loved her Negi that way, even if she hadn't realized it yet. They were very close, either way. Much like you and yours... Much closer than I ever could be to min— ours."
Kagurazaka bit her lower lip. "You were told about..."
"The other layers of your relationship? Yeah," Asuna sighed and rested her head against the trunk. "I'm... not like you on that, either. Arika-sama, I mean ours, said she only had one child. I'm still not sure who or what the hell I am."
Asuna was startled.
"Ironic, huh?" the younger Asuna commented bitterly. "We were born in the wrong places. I'm the one who should be related to Negi, so I at least could have some family, and you... you should have been free to..."
"I don't mind that," the older Asuna cut her sharply. "That isn't why I left. At least, I realize it now. I left... so I wouldn't continue hurting him."
"Huh?"
"And that's why I was so afraid of coming back..."
"You idiot," the young Asuna snapped blandly. "No way your presence is going to hurt that kid as much as your absence. He's a haunt on two legs. Erebus... I mean, the Negi of my Other Me-Neechan, was full of energy and life, and our Negi, well, he's a dumb brat, but he's got hope. Yours is as powerful as Erebus-kun, but... lacks life. Lacks spirit. And that's because he lacks you."
The other Asuna rubbed her eyes.
"Something in your eye, I know," Young Asuna played along before her other self could even open her mouth.
"Shut up," Kagurazaka sniffed. "I don't think I ever talked that much."
"Tough. I spent all these months here living under your shadow, like hell I'm not going to vent out on you now I got the chance."
"It's unfair to dump this all on me now I'm here. You have no idea what I've gone through! Don't you think I suffered without him, as well?-! Just because you don't care about your Negi, it doesn't mean—!"
"I do care about him! Just not the way you do! Or should! I dunno, since I haven't been able to learn it since you weren't here all this time!"
Kagurazaka snarled. "I think it's fair warning you I used to feel that way at first."
Now that made Asuna go pale. "S-Seriously?"
"Ah-hah."
Asuna looked away. "I'll try never going there. Our Negi already has his own special person."
Kagurazaka grew intrigued enough to forget her own distress for a picosecond. "Who?"
Asuna told her.
"Oh, her. Well, I suppose it's logical, when you think about it," Kagurazaka reasoned. "You sure it's her?"
Asuna nodded. "It helps they aren't siblings either. Or so I hope, at least."
"You have a horrible talent for saying the worst things you could say at any point, don't you?"
"From what I've heard about you, it comes with being Asuna."
"Okay, those are fighting words."
"I was starting to believe you'd never say it. You know what did Twilight Nee-chan do to snap me out of my funk?" she twirled the Pactio card in her fingers. "We beat the crap out of each other. And it worked." She smirked.
Kagurazaka found herself smirking back despite herself. "You mean she beat the crap out of you, newbie."
"I've been practicing with Ku, Setsuna and Kaede here since I arrived here. Both sets of them, actually, while you were out moping. Wanna see if you haven't rusted too much, old timer?"
"Only one way to check it, don't you think?" Asuna summoned her harisen. It felt almost like the old times.
"Adeat" Asuna summoned her own Pactio. That made Kagurazaka blink.
"Wow. Whoever conceived the magic system in your world was a huge pervert."
"I won't disagree with you there. Bring it on, Nee-san!"
They returned home limping and laughing five hours later.
It felt good to be alive again.
edited 21st Dec '11 6:53:21 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
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I thought that was a joke...
No, no you're not. You're part of the Negima fandom. We do the bloody research. And I already said, my personal preference is and will always be Meridiana. POWER TO THE R.
edited 21st Dec '11 7:50:42 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariActually, I use Merdiana.
Yeah, but Honami also predicted The Blackest Night, which Mage has said WILL happen in the 2814 verse. Just because some of her revelations were Played for Laughs doesn't mean they can't happen, especially in the cracktastic 2814-verse.
edited 21st Dec '11 7:51:44 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
@IANCE - I said I was being obsessive because it is a pretty minor detail and it bugs me much more than it should.
Red Savant said that the official Romanization is Meldiana but ao said that he prefers Meridiana.
All righty, Meridiana it is.
edited 21st Dec '11 7:57:26 PM by dRoy
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.Unequally. An Interlude/Opening for the Nanoha chapter. Probably not very good, but I'm writing while I'm deeply sleepy.
Anya Cocolova was closing her small divination stand and preparing to call it a day. She felt tired and more than a bit grumpy, even for her standards, so when she heard the knock on her front door, her first instinct was to ignore it and hide behind the ciunter until the customer was gone.
However, then the thoughts of Negi's efforts came to her mind. Nekane often called her, telling her whenever Negi wrote, and talking about all the progresses he had made. Anya had promised herself not to play second stringer to him anymore, and that meant she'd give the best of herself in her day to day routines.
Nodding firmly to herself, she went out to greet the customer. "Good evening, and welcome! What can we do for you... Miss...?"
Much to her surprise, the customer was a girl around Anya's own age, with long white hair and large, bright red eyes. Her skin was very pale, and she wore a thick purple coat with a white scarf. Anya had to admit there was something unsettling about her, particularly her small smile, but she was very very beautiful in a way Anya didn't remember ever seeing before in another girl, and since she was fellow flat-chested, she couldn't possibly be that bad, could she? Even her voice was small and cute.
"Good evening," she bowed with perfect manners. "I'm Ilyasviel von Einzber, although I prefer being called Ilya. It's a honor to meet you, Anya Cocolova."
Anya blinked for a moment, before bowing back. "Oh! Oh, likewise, Miss Einzber. Come in and sit down, please. You... Did you come here alone?" she looked in all directions, not finding any adult around.
"I assure I'm quite able of looking after myself, much like you are," the girl's confident smile became somewhat obnoxious as she took a seat. Anya began regretting not feigning her absence. "You know, the sole reason I came here was because of your reputation. It's not every day you get to meet the second highest rated graduate of a junior Merdiana promotion!"
Anya blinked even more. "How did you—"
The girl's smile took another turn for the enigmatic and nasty. If you truly are a worthy fortune teller, you'll learn how by simply reading my future." She extended a petite, fragant hand over to Anya. "So read. I'm sure you'll find the experience... enlightening."
edited 21st Dec '11 8:26:14 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
@Overmaster: You honestly might want to rethink the thing with Akashi and Caster. Right now it reads to me as
Caster: My Master sexually abused my to the point I killed him, knowing it would be my own death. Will you be my new Master?
Akashi: No, but I'll let you maintain an existence dependent on having sex with me.
I'm not sure how sympathetic you want Akashi to be, but the implications of that exchange ... yeah.
edited 21st Dec '11 8:57:05 PM by Neep
You've lost. You're the Bomb Squad after the bomb's gone off. I'm the blast ongoing.Going about by saying 'It's the only non-morally dubious way to keep you alive.' is better than outright saying 'Let's have sex!', it would depend entirely on how much Caster wants to live, really.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari

edited 21st Dec '11 3:29:37 PM by rikalous