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It's a long story. Can you narrow it down a bit please?
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I do kind of like that about this story, though I am kind of annoyed that every other female is attracted to OL. At least it is not every female being attracted to him.
Still, the story would be improved greatly if the romantic elements in Paragon were done away with.
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HanEmpire
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It's a proper response IMO. These are heterosexual women interacting with a fabulously rich, exceedingly polite young(looking) man with a statue-esque physique. Not only that, he takes interest in their lives in a genuinely caring manner.
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You heard the man, Zoat. Block those hormones again and dial down the physical perfection a notch, leave the romance to Grayven.
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On the contrary, I believe many fanfiction stories can be improved if romance is just done away with, you know? Fanfiction has ruined me, because whenever there is romance, I always think of the forty different badfics where all the girls want the main character.
... As I am writing this, I am starting to think I am asexual. Take that what you will.
I refuse to accept that as a reason. Ever. It implies that women always fall in love with nice guys with "perfect" bodies, which is just... ugh.
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No, no, asexuals are supposed to not be taken. It's kind of their thing. You don't often hear them saying, "Oh, take me, you gorgeous person to whom I am attracted, take me now."
Angle
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On the contrary, I believe many fanfiction stories can be improved if romance is just done away with, you know? Fanfiction has ruined me, because whenever there is romance, I always think of the forty different badfics where all the girls want the main character.
... As I am writing this, I am starting to think I am asexual. Take that what you will.
I refuse to accept that as a reason. Ever. It implies that women always fall in love with nice guys with "perfect" bodies, which is just... ugh.
I wouldn't say always, and we've seen plenty of women that weren't particularly interested - but they certainly help. Looking good and being nice are both qualities I look for in my romantic partners, both men and women. Being wealthy helps too.
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Is that a joke, or did you not understand the expression "take that as you will" (as a opposed to "take me")?
Empiricist2
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I mean it certainly improves the chances a great deal, and it's not like OL hasn't struck out repeatedly before. I really don't get your objections to this.I refuse to accept that as a reason. Ever. It implies that women always fall in love with nice guys with "perfect" bodies, which is just... ugh.
Somewhere in the second half of the fic, maybe the last third.
I disagree. You may have an adverse reaction to romance in fanfiction because either the author does it poorly or there hasn't been enough on screen character interaction to make the romance palatable/believeable, but I don't think either is the case here. And it's not like asking someone out on a date requires a ton of prelude IRL either.
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It was a rhetorical question, but thanks for the insightful response.
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Greatly improved would imply that the romantic elements have been terrible, some of them are like the anime protagonist denseness which exists mostly for comedic purposes and cheap romantic tension, but generally the romantic elements are pretty acceptable and don't go in the cringey area of things.
Him looking young doesn't help his cause at all, women are usually attrated to males olders than themselves, if he had a beard he'd probably look like a 20 something years old guy rather than a teenager. Being exceedingly polite wouldn't have much of an impact, it'd depend entirely to who he's talking to, so it's a variable thing. Him being interested in them or caring normally would be a good thing, except he's all push and no pull when it comes to women he tried to flirt with so it can't really be a point in his favor. Generally the girls he did manage to attract were those he accidently created some conflict with.
Well it's your issue if you can't properly seperate different fic and treat them for what they are. If you want to critize this fic I'd recommend actually explaining the issues with romance this fic has rather than making broad statements like "romance in fanfic is bad so don't do it".On the contrary, I believe many fanfiction stories can be improved if romance is just done away with, you know? Fanfiction has ruined me, because whenever there is romance, I always think of the forty different badfics where all the girls want the main character.
Well see most everyone else in the thread isn't so trying to ask the author to pander to your difference doesn't have much of an appeal.
Being a nice guy doesn't do anything for attraction, having a perfect body would be a very large advantage though.I refuse to accept that as a reason. Ever. It implies that women always fall in love with nice guys with "perfect" bodies, which is just... ugh.
And now I want a scene where OL wills his facial hair into existence, just to see what he'd look like.
Harleen Quinn: "Wow, you're like a live-action Woolly Willy toy!"
[(proceeds to braid OL's new beard)]
Reading it isn't much better.
Dyed Blonde she truely a ?Brunette?. Paul is attracting Dark Hair girls without even trying. Eris before Nu52 stated that Ms.Quinzel was someone that had her favor.PSSSTTT!
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I might be wrong. Freeze rays, ice guns, and cold guns might be different things. I just though they were called cold, not ice guns. It's probably nothing.
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Oh, no. I'd never hear the end of it if I made Grayven the one with the sensible work/life balance.
'Cold Gun' is the very specific sort of thing Leonard Snart uses as Captain Cold. A freeze ray is a beam which reduced temperature by arresting molecular vibration. An ice gun is a gun which encases things in ice. Cold Guns usually fulfill the requirements of both categories, depending on how much time he's had to prepare.
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so how does reducing the target to zero kelvin not kill the target? I mean I'm fairly certain humans need there liquid bits to stay liquid to not die.
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I wonder if that's one of those supposed ways in which DC humans are superhuman compared to our world.
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It does. Snart uses it to set up fields which disrupt the Flash's superspeed. It's very unusual for him to use it on someone who can't walk it off, but if he did they'd die. Other versions don't outperform other types of weapon enough to have entered wider circulation. When he fights he limits himself to just coating people in ice, which is unpleasant but perfectly survivable. This is because he's a thief and not a serial killer.
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I refuse to accept that as a reason. Ever. It implies that women always fall in love with nice guys with "perfect" bodies, which is just... ugh.
Attracted to does not necessarily mean in love with. Most of the time, in fact.
Empiricist2
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I think it was also mentioned that the freeze ray doesn't have all that much penetration, so barriers stop it, and wearing some form of metal/ceramic armor would make the beam fail to hit your squishy flesh.
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