Recent content by Pale Wolf

Well, the reason they would is because the members of that order believe in things. They do not know nor care about the Order's founding purposes, they believe in the lessons it teaches so as to create those effects. They believe there's a holy purpose the Dragon-Blooded are called on to perform...

Solars do have a tendency towards strong opinions. Quite often those strong opinions don't quite mesh :p That and Sidereals tend to try to worry and account for things ahead of time, before a problem actually happens. They're not fond of leaving things to themselves to have what result they will.

Mostly as Barachiel says. It's somewhat wibbly in the direct explanatory text, which does refer to the DSS as a prophecy, but possibly in a metaphorical sense, because it doesn't really make sense for it to be a prophecy. Because, as he says, any kind of Impact is entirely against the actual...

I mean, he is in pretty good shape. Boy takes a combat career, and is pretty serious about it. He's gonna be in great shape. Alex would like to stop thinking about that shape now please.

Nah nah, you didn't do anything wrong. You asked questions about points that confused you, you didn't argue. I will respond to that question and various other older commentary I still didn't get to, but I had real life fuckery going on that kept me from getting done on that or getting any...

Pretty sure I said I don't want the thread for this story - which is not about Sophia and doesn't even feature Sophia in a prominent role - to become a Sophia debate. I, and many others, would like to engage with things germane to the story in the thread for the story. I'm not opposed to people...

This is one of those invalid readings of Sophia I was talking about. It massively, ridiculously overinflates the bullying to truly titanic levels, until it becomes a parody of anything that actually happened. It was pretty bad as bullying goes, legitimately severe, and there was a definite...

So, Sophia is not in any way a paragon. She's a fucked-up teenager with a fucked-up life, who has done some pretty fucked-up things. She hurt Taylor very badly - not just Taylor, I'm willing to assume her casual cruelty to Taylor indicates she is willing to kick others around too, but Taylor is...

You're not wrong, but 'flanked by the rest of the Slaughterhouse 9' is a sufficiently-stacked deck that while I wouldn't raise an eyebrow at his luck running out quicker than it has, I don't find it too hard to suspend my disbelief that he's not already dead and accept that the time his luck is...

Other responses pending but I could do this quick: Tbh Jack Slash's long-running survival is to a degree less because of active protection, and more because common wisdom leads people into screwing themselves over against him. Like, he's got superpowers. He is very lethal. Faced with such an...

... ugh, I had a long reply getting worked on in the edit window, but apparently I got taken hostage by real life bullshit for so long that SV erased it. I mean to respond but that's a real morale hit and now I have to redo the whole response.

The trick is to be an asshole. Men are the ones holding the power. Therefore, men are the ones who matter. The ones worth paying attention to. And there's only uncertainty of paternity if the mom fucks anyone other than that one man. Easy to deal with, if you just control her sexuality and she...

So things started hammering me again and I didn't get much done, but I can at least respond to commentary finally. ConsiderableHat fielded this one pretty well but basically, yes. I mean, these are English-speaking communities. That means their only exposure to non-primogeniture systems is...

I mean also just. How long do you think they had? Sachiel's entire presence from emergence to berserk was like less than six hours. A commercial flight from Vladivostok to Tokyo-3 takes longer, let alone loading an Evangelion onto a superheavy transport and getting it there from literally the...

I mean, her apartment's location ain't great but it's not a deathtrap. It might even have been a pretty decent location back before the Angels start hitting and chunks of city started getting wrecked, Shinji first sees it after two distinct Angel battles which would inflict a lot of damage and...