There was a joke about him telling Brianna that something about him “sticks with you”, with the follow-up joke being that she didn’t know he was the Adhesivist yet so he had to add “hang on to that, it’ll make sense later”.
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Yeah, I realized once they started reading other letters that my interpretation, which was “out of all time, which relationships did readers most suspect might actually be real or probable in canon,” was not the definition of “shipping” that other people inferred, including C&A. That’s why I omitted gay relationships for non-gay characters, because as much as Legacy + Baron Blade is titillating, no readers would seriously suspect it would ever happen. Certainly, the list of what ships people would like to talk about in 2016, as a snapshot of both character development and the fandom, would be a very different list.
I could have sworn the Vantage/Rival relationship was more “will they” than “won’t they.”
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I’ve been slowly plotting a letter for the eventual third shipping episode for a while now, and one of the things I was definitely going to put in it was an affectionately amused observation that the RL fandom is almost an unrealistic model for the Metaverse sometimes, because we are way too sane and reasonable on matters like this compared to what an actual fandom for a mass market property would be like.
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The relationship between Karr’Dcharque and the Roulette is a interesting inverse of Kris Barron and Revocorp.
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Since Fashion is the intersection of 1950s clothes horse and sci-fi adventurer, I think she should have like a sexy skintight (modesty padded) spacesuit that’s colored to become invisible while not exposed to vacuum, so that when she’s in atmosphere she can have clothes, but if she’s spaced, she instantly has a spacesuit on under her clothes and a bubble helmet pops out around her head.
The character they introduce here under the name Gaslight is a common example of the word being misused. It isn’t any form of hypnotic suggestion, it’s specifically trying to convince a person that they are insane.
I’ve been unsatisfied this whole time with the name Fashion, but only now have I figured out a name I like better: Fashioneer, with a stylized E that looks like either one E or two depending on how you read it, I dunno how that would look eexactly.
Letters on meat? They must be from Biomancer. (I miss the Biomancer letters and their war with the Cult of Gloom.)
Crossword can be named Wordsworth Crosslyn.
Degenerate is a walking advertisement for Early Parse having the right idea about how to solve problems. You can’t lock her up, you can’t bring her to trial, the only reasonable way for the legal system to bring her to justice is to authorize a special one-time “kill on sight”, bounty.
That letter is DEFINITELY not from #1 Gluen.
I want to believe that Brianna spends the entire day being super intimidating and serious, but in the meet cute with Glenn he’s so dorky and disarming that she just laughs through her nose and cracks up so hard that an entire week of work stress just melts away instantly. That’s the only way I can see her giving him a chance to win her over the rest of the way.
Did Adam actually miss the line “slow paste”, or did he intentionally blow through it without giving him the dignity of a response?
The bad lawyer who tries to use Brianna’s husband against her in the courtroom? It’s Judge Mental during a short time when he ostensibly has no powers and is back to being a practicing “barrister” but stuck in America because of his former Southwest Sentinels activities.
Very briefly going down a mental rabbit hole about the origin of the imprisoning cards. Some ancient alien society had a caste system informing the suits, and anyone who broke the radically different rules of their own particular caste would be put on cards to keep them in stasis. Only if you broke the rules outside your caste might you be executed or exiled or tortured or whatever.