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A Cat Is Fine Too (Worm CYOA)

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Ronan O'Brien said:
I know you're not entirely serious, but I'll respond anyway!

I'm not really asking for it to be realistic. I'm not asking for it to be crack, either. I'm asking for it to be sensible, to make sense. Like how exasperated the PRT is with Amaterasu in the other worm fic, Constellations, that's what you can call an appropriate response to something outside the norm despite that scene being straight up comedy. Danny doesn't act nor sound like he should, and that's not because of some clever trope subversion. It's just surreal.
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Ahem LOL
 
Ronan O'Brien said:
I know you're not entirely serious, but I'll respond anyway!
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It's just surreal.
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I know, you're serius, but I'll respond anyway. Sanity is for the weak!

I just treat it, like I treat anime, where ordinary high school student finds a cat-girlboy, brings to his home and parents just find it reasonable, because they're either useless, insane, abroad or don't exist. Sometimes it's not cleverly written into the narrative or even acknowledged. It's just how things are.

We're all mad here, as wise cat said once.
 
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GuesssWho said:
Ahem LOL
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Firkraag said:
I know, you're serius, but I'll respond anyway. Sanity is for the weak!

I just treat it, like I treat anime, where ordinary high school student finds a cat-girlboy, brings to his home and parents just find it reasonable, because they're either useless, insane, abroad or doesn't exist. Sometimes it's not cleverly written into the narrative or even aknowledged. It's just how things are.

We're all mad here, as wise cat said once.
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I'm not sure why I even try, really.
 
Fiction is illusion. It is not real. Never was and never will be.

Any fictional work has accepted deviations from how reality works, made for the sake of providing fun.

Your tolerance to bullshit is rather a spectrum, which is based on accumulated experiences and personal tastes. But it doesn't make any particular fiction any less bullshit. You just conditioned yourself to kinda ignore logical flaws of particular fictional works, you find to your liking.

Embrace your madness!
 
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Firkraag said:
Fiction is illusion. It is not real. Never was and never will be.

Any fictional work has accepted deviations from how reality works, made for the sake of providing fun.

Your tolerance to bullshit is rather a spectrum, which is based on accumulated experiences and personal tastes. But it doesn't make any particular fiction any less bullshit. You just conditioned yourself to kinda ignore logical flaws of particular fictional works, you find to your liking.

Embrace your madness!
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I know when to suspend my disbelief. That particular moment in this story was not one of those times. I'm not saying I hate this story, I'm saying I hate that specific part, because it's frankly, quite terrifying even without the iota of thought put into it. Just the direction of it all felt perverted, and not in the good kind of way, definitely not in the fanservice kind of way.

"Embracing your madness" is an excuse and a cop out. Repeating that over and over again doesn't make it true. This isn't even about comedy- I've seen and read far more absurd things without batting an eye. I've seen stupid crap like Jesus Christ getting mistaken as a Yakuza. I've read Golden Boy. This one, though? I can't. I've already expressed my reasons why.

But let me explain one more time, this time with slightly different words, maybe this time my point can come across clearly.

Great stories, no matter what genres they have, have internal consistency. It doesn't matter how they play their cards- subverting or just making really good representation and execution of them- they all follow along their own line of thinking. This fic already set up it's own conventions- the world playing the straight man to the main character's comedy routine. There wasn't any indications of it anything but the vanilla as-is, no AU or anything of the sort save for the butterflies the SI's existence will cause. I took the fic as such, so when I come across a scene that breaks character of not one, but two characters, all seemingly to move the story along (operation get a house), and does it in such lackadaisical way I can't help but call out the BS because it already broke it's own internal consistency.

Anyways, that's it. No more addendum, explanations or counter arguments from me, because it's making me sound like I hate this story, when I really don't.
 
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Ronan O'Brien said:

I'm not sure why I even try, really.
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Firkraag said:
That was exactly my point.
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Ronan O'Brien said:
so when I come across a scene that breaks character of not one, but two characters, all seemingly to move the story along (operation get a house), and does it in such lackadaisical way I can't help but call out the BS because it already broke it's own internal consistency.

Anyways, that's it. No more addendum, explanations or counter arguments from me, because it's making me sound like I hate this story, when I really don't.
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Alright, enough, both of you. To put any future arguments to rest for everyone else I've done a bit of editing to the chapter to keep a bit more consistency to the tone even though I didn't see any character breaking myself. I did change a few hundred words to reflect a different nuance as well as expanding dialogue a bit because I did feel it was a bit lacking. Nothing drastic as the end outcome is similar but some of the road traveled to get to it has been renovated. It should read a bit better than before, if nothing else.
 
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CrunchySharpie said:
Alright, enough, both of you. To put any future arguments to rest for everyone else I've done a bit of editing to the chapter to keep a bit more consistency to the tone even though I didn't see any character breaking myself
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probably wasn't worth your time, but effort is always appreciated.

and now I'm debating whether or not it's worth rereading with said changes.
 
Archeo Lumiere said:
Super duper faking it, he was being facetious and obnoxious.
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To further answer the question; I like everything about Schrodinger as a character. Including the accent. So I'll probably be using it on occasion to piss off Kaiser and his merry band of jackasses.

And probably some other people to.

consequences said:
So, ummmmm, about those possibly Crispy Crittered Undersiders?
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It's still the start of canon. Woke up a second past Midnight on April 8th, kicked Hookwolfs metallic butt, pawned him off on MM, then met up with Taylor all in the same day. The meet and greet between the Undersiders and Lung happens a few days later on April 11th. Which I could, feasibly, crash. Do I want the Undersiders to be a nice crispy golden brown? No, probably not. If anything I might just hijack (heh) the Undersiders for myself. I can reasonably do for them what Coil is doing, if not better, plus provide them with a lot more money than they're getting paid now.
 
CrunchySharpie said:
The meet and greet between the Undersiders and Lung happens a few days later on April 11th. Which I could, feasibly, crash. Do I want the Undersiders to be a nice crispy golden brown?
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Ah but one thing about that. Coil wouldn't wanting to lose them for nothing when they still have oh so many uses. Even if you don't intervine he'll just change the plan in order to avoid losing a useful tool.

Only reason that I would see him not caring is if they are a liability, threat or further fuel his plans.
 
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