LostArchivist
Sane, unfortunately.
- Location
- The State of Confusion
Hah, I love her viewpoint, it's adorably warped. And even if she grows an empathy later, we can still say nothing of value was lost.
Oh, so she's not a drop-in this time. That might actually be somewhat worse for several people's mental states...
As Maxwell Smart said, "Missed it by that much." Missed what? A good mulching, probably...
Good thing QA seems to be in a friendly mood... and probably scanned their minds already despite what should have been shielding.
Yes, to take careful notes, because this one was successful.
One day they'll regret not listening carefully to that disclaimer. Probably when the local version of Noelle starts wandering about absorbing people... again...
Why do I get the feeling she's having weird thoughts again?
This is high praise given who it's from.
Again, everyone is going to regret that assumption at some point. There's both whatever the hell espers are and actual magic in this setting. We don't need them researching shards when there are basically gestalt gods and old ones already here. I know full well those 'cleaners' are just going to transfer the interesting stuff to another lab where they try again and hope they got the bugs out this time.
They are going to be getting very used to this phrase soon, I suspect. And somewhere,
I hope this happens sooner than later. There's no way this can go badly.
...Yeah, that is a fair point. Ignoring how she's said in other stories how that's literally a lesson they learn early, just... *gestures at canon.*
Oof, she must be tired.
Snerk.
Do we have any idea what the heck esper powers are? Canonically? Are they actually entropy-breaking or something insidious?
Also, "Yeah, I accidentally created mass the other day trying to get cryokinesis working." I really look forward to that revelation...
QA: Mmhm, proof they're shards... wait, I just shared something I shouldn't have. Quick, think of something!
Oops, sorry about the accidental trauma there...
This is a completely understandable reaction.
Funny how true yet misleading that statement is...
QA: "I can get EVEN STRONGER and no one will bat an eye?! This is the best world!"
Nope, that's all her. I wonder when she'll get her own power-granting back online; I feel like the good doctor is going to be one of the first recipients of either that or a Friend.
Is it wrong of me that I hope one day they run across her drunk after a long day and she tells them a few stories?
I like the eye contact there.
She probably just considers that a reasonable precaution. Not that it would block her in all probability, but they made a cute attempt to try.
That said, this will probably bite them in the rear later if she should ignore the scientists with their shielding and they try something again.
(Then again, she probably regards 'people' as more dangerous than the non-people. Those are furniture, and for her, people are hosts.)
Where are we in the timeline? Are the others aware that people have been trying shit yet?
Admittedly, they clearly were making a clone of Mental Out; QA is just... borrowing it. So they should certainly know now...
And I'm somewhat worried what happened to the mind of clone that apparently tried to reach out to her. This might end up like the cultivation demon incident, where she doesn't even know she has a mental passenger due to her size.
Mood.
Wrong direction again. Y'know, you do a good job with the miscommunication aspects. Normally that makes me cringe like no one's business but here it's always funny.
Don't ever tell her about that, you'll have uncomfortable thoughts when she finds that cute for some reason. Best not to wonder why...
How's that phrase from APGtE go? "She's done more with less"?
Everyone is going to look back on this moment and wish they'd seen the warning signs.
Or just wish they'd called her 'Versatile.'
Instead she's just going to use that name as a distraction as she manifests whatever blatantly OP bullshit she happens to want at the moment. It being hard to change is probably a plus for her. That said, I feel like they might end up making that effort - although whether 'they' is her friends or Academy City depends on the scale of that chaos. Probably the city, given past sampling.
Well, she is older than you? Although there's that huge blindspot where she really doesn't know social norms, so it kinda cancels out.
Snerk. Yeah, she's totally being a shit. That's almost worse than her previous joke names!
QA is grading how well you take notes on this.
QA: I don't need no high-level programming languages! Get me a butterfly!
...Oh, crap. SOMEONE WRITE ME THAT SKITTER OMAKE STAT!
Like, Ack's It Gets Worse level of chaos, but she can just remotely Simurgh anything remotely computerized just out of bug control and enough processing power to make The Eye weep...
Also, that's realistically the level of processing power that the Shards have to have in order to operate as described. So, there's that...
I'm surprised there wasn't another mention of QA seeming proud for some reason again...
I really wonder what it is that QA's using most right now, actually. She's gotta either be thinking it's shard powers or granting them herself. I bet she'll soon be even more exasperated than her older sister with how the heck this stuff works.
...She's not wrong though?
QA is taking notes. I wonder if her Friend-making techniques would be even more horrifying here? After all, if she comes up with some sort of unnatural, perfectly-trained creature, they'll probably think she's experimenting...
Even showing how she makes them whole cloth out of... whatever... would likely disturb them, because when do you need to assemble a mammal out of chemistry?
I'm curious if that was the reason or something else? I feel like she's being uncharitable to QA. I'm just not sure what was what made her decide.
Full shard speech in 3... 2... 1...
Pffft! She is going to have quite the learning curve I see. I'm 90% sure QA is going with her full unlimited powerset here, although she's probably artificially limiting the range for game balance purposes, if the decrease since her original head-a-splode incident says anything.
Shokohu is going to have to get used to being upstaged, but it seems QA is not above sharing some choice maths to be helpful.
Sorry, QA, but the bee dress will only make it more common that total strangers want to pick you up and coo.
Okay, so since it's not hats is it just because it's cute?
No, I hadn't, but this is great. I'm still waiting for her to include the full identifiers, though. Hah, the Misaka Network would instantly think it's the best idea ever, too...Anyone noticed how immediately after this, QA uses descriptive text in every single communication? Prior to this, she's only used context tags twice in the first three chapters, but then she goes and uses three back-to-back in as many lines.
Such an influenceable little sister she is
Yeah, when she figures out that her older sibling actually broke conservation of energy and doesn't have a multidimensional colony super-organism faking it, she's going to be very interested.
Thinking on it, wasn't there one of these that had that actually be a thing? Or am I thinking of something similar? I can't really think of many other shard-as-main-character stories, so not really sure on that one.
It was either her going completely down a rabbit hole because in reality she was too ADHD to notice them trying to give her the download, and she has also ignored the (probably few) times anyone tried to remind her because by this point they know her too well, or it was real. I would honestly find it hard to say, because the others are kinda terse but she also has a, shall we say, very different perspective than the others.
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