Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest (No SV, you are the Waifu)
- Thread starter Avalanche
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We get it, you don't like Worm. Can you stop finding excuses to complain about it? This thread has nothing to do with it.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
The same way that the real one is, except maybe just slightly worse because they're seeing from Koujirou's PoV and not ours? The concept is pretty good, and the show is apparently financed by Gilgamesh himself, but probably the main sticking point would be just how well it's been executed. The characters actually act like real people, cliches are averted multiple times (See both Anna tsun-blocking and not signing up for that tournament, despite being a main side character), and there is Sufficient Foreshadowing.
Avalanche
Atypical Netizen
- Location
- Australia
Fimbulvetr Type Zero Subjugation Squadron yeah. A bunch of the Three Hundred including no few Instructors would find excuses to come and watch if you practice Wave Force to see if they can Eureka part of the process.iirc, the term supposed to be 'name of the unit' Actual.
So, is Fimbulvetr Actual the leader of the Fimbulvetr Unit?
Subtly. (As subtly as they can manage within visual distance of Wave Force anyway lol)
You were noted as being kinda crowd shy previously.
No idea, whenever the harem tropes have proliferated enough to have become trite to a notable percentage of the anime watching community I guess.
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Slith10
Back from the dead and ready to party!
- Location
- New Zealand
Once Anna's backstory was revealed, they would probably unanimously declare her best-girl.
- Location
- Somewhere near L1... I think
Well, Fimbulvetr Actual is correctly named then. One out of two ain't bad.
Right?
Radio speak = meaning
Over = 'I have finished what I was saying and await your response.'
Out = 'I have finished what I was saying and do not expect a response.'
----- Actual = 'I am the leader of this unit, and I am speaking to you.'
----- Romeo = 'I am the radio technician, and I am speaking to you.'
Repeat = 'Fire again on last given target.'
I say again/Say again = 'I am repeating what I just said for clarity./I did not understand your last transmission, please say it again.'
Copy all, roger, wilco = 'I received your message, understood it, and am moving to comply.'
Ex:
Rock 4-1R: Break, break, break, Dustoff 4, Dustoff 4 this is Rock 4-1 Romeo requesting MEDEVAC, over.
Dustoff 4: Rock 4-1 this is Dustoff 4, go ahead, over.
Rock 4-1R: Roger, Line 1 NV1243568790. Line 2 123.4. Line 3 Tree Alfa, Two Bravo, Fife Charlie. Line 4 Two Delta. Line 5 Fife Alfa, Fife Bravo. Line 6 X-ray, Break.
-Pause-
Rock 4-1R: Line 7 Charlie. Line 8 Fife Alfa, Fife Charlie. Line 9 none. How copy, over?
Dustoff 4: Solid copy Rock 4-1. MEDEVAC is in route callsign Big Bird. ETA 20 mikes, Dustoff 4, out.
Translation:
Rock 4-1R: All transmissions on the frequency stop, I have an urgent message. Medical ATC, I am part of unit Rock 4-1 and am requesting medical evacuation from the field.
Dustoff 4: Rock 4-1, I am medical ATC, tell me what's wrong.
Rock 4-1R: Okay, these are my coordinates, this is the frequency my unit is on. I have 3 soldiers in urgent condition, 2 in need of surgery, 5 are priority. I need to ventilators on the vehicle(s) sent. Five of my injured can walk, five of my injured need to be carried. Armed enemy units are still in the area. I am pausing for other urgent messages and will resume shortly.
Rock 4-1R: I will be marking the landing zone with colored smoke. I have five injured US military, and five injury non-US military. There is no sign of CBRN.
Dustoff: I understand everything you sent. Vehicles are on the way. Their name is Big Bird and they will use your frequency given. Expect them in 20 minutes, goodbye.
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
- Location
- Brazil
You just made me imagine Gilgamesh in full golden regalia ranting at the producers about how modern anime don't even begin to compare with the Original Anime made back in Uruk (where the concept of Anime was first created, then stolen by the people that would eventually migrate to Japan) and how he would spare no expenses in making something actually worth watching.
Sure, modern artists and animators are mere shadows of what they were in his age, but they should be good enough to make something at least with at least a thousandth of the quality of the originals, as long as they follow his rules and bare minimum standards.
Have a like.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Eh, protagonist bias. There would be Anna fans, of course, and given her level of dakka and general themes, she would be more popular on SV/SB than in general, but with her limited screentime, I doubt it would be as overwhelming as some make it sound.
Besides, it's kind of trite to say that a character that makes choices based on the SV hive mind would appeal to a hypothetical audience identical to the SV hive mind.
Besides, it's kind of trite to say that a character that makes choices based on the SV hive mind would appeal to a hypothetical audience identical to the SV hive mind.
Alphaleph
The Firstiest of First
How many of those would be in the Twenty?
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The thing is due to the pervasiveness of Worm on SB/SV I did end up getting into it for a while. Hell I had ideas for a story of my own. I preferred the lighter fanfics though, and how people tended to try and shoehorn memetic Taylor into everything irks me, not to mention I disagree with some of Wildbow's themes. Now I'm mostly ambivalent toward it.
Well it's still too early in the series/quest to really say how popular we'd get.
Avalanche
Atypical Netizen
- Location
- Australia
Aye, I usually write such sections with a table open to reference. It doesn't come to mind naturally for me though so yeah, mistakes.
Undecided on this point. Will think further on this matter should it occur.
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samdamandias
Apprentice Plane Wizard
It's Pact.
I didn't like Worm that much either, but I really enjoyed Pact. (Seriously, how the hell do the Astrologer's powers work anyway?) Part of it is that Blake is willing to admit his faults or mistakes and seek forgiveness. The escalation doesn't get out of hand.
Depending on when in their timelines they meet Blake and Anna might wind up commiserating for a short time, exchanging somewhat insincere hugs, picking up their gear and walking off, because come hell, high water, Antagonists, or Abyss they have a job to do. (I would say "or die trying," but Blake is too damn ornery to stay dead and Anna is to ornery to die in the first place.)
- Location
- Leeds
Does that make this a Fate crossover?
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Only on a meta-level, what with the Unlimited Budget Works/ Gate of Bucks-ylon that the pseudo-studio has going on.
Who knows, there could even be rumours about a military organization funding the anime because "REASONS!" and "RESEARCH!" and "MORALE!" Or some crazy shite like that.
This is legit-ly awesome, thanks for the lesson!
Alternatively:
In class: "I wonder where Anna's gone."
*Minor tremor*
In class: "An earthquake?"
Anna-to-Durga, at the test site: "Variation 13-D, flagged for potential to develop against on burrowing Antagonists"
*Moments later*
*Storm clouds steadily whiten from an intense light source, then disperse in an expanding ring*
In class: "Wut"
Anna-to-Durga, at the test site: "Variation 13-F, permitting emission of light particles during compression sequence reduces final output power significantly, but remains above Impeller integrity limitation, potential for Wave Force pumped laser weapon. Optics require regeneration after activation."
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
The ideal is that we tell the flight that we need to go for testing, and that further details are classified. If the anime shows a bit of what we're doing but skimps on the details, that can only help give the impression that we're secretly Buster Machine No. 7 a robot.
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
I just realised another way to be mysterious but foreshadowed: that game of tag was short enough that it could be a backdrop. 10 seconds for alert audience members to read a billboard with the rules, I think 22 seconds for the game, 2 or 3 seconds for the results to list off and get cut before they show Anna but after they get to Shuri. It gets shown through a random window that the main cast randomly walks past during a conversation, just unannounced and in the background. If you want to be really sneaky, they're doing some soul searching about combat and stuff, and they all glance at the game for a few seconds as they walk past the window.
Also, regarding an earlier question about how impeller fields would be animated: impellers aren't themselves animated, nor are there any convenient conventions. Instead, what gets animated is field leakage. Which Anna has effectively none of. Every other character we see use impellers heavily is inexperienced and will have bad containment, so it takes the audience a few episodes to realise that the FX aren't directly related to field strength like in every anime ever. And from there, maybe another episode to realise that Anna has been using her impellers without her frame, the whole time, with zero leakage. Could also massively subvert a variety of physical comedy tropes - everybody who noticed Anna doing unpossible things (tsunblocking, always having bread on hand) would dismiss it as stylized lols right up to the point where it's revealed that, no, she's just that good.
Also, regarding an earlier question about how impeller fields would be animated: impellers aren't themselves animated, nor are there any convenient conventions. Instead, what gets animated is field leakage. Which Anna has effectively none of. Every other character we see use impellers heavily is inexperienced and will have bad containment, so it takes the audience a few episodes to realise that the FX aren't directly related to field strength like in every anime ever. And from there, maybe another episode to realise that Anna has been using her impellers without her frame, the whole time, with zero leakage. Could also massively subvert a variety of physical comedy tropes - everybody who noticed Anna doing unpossible things (tsunblocking, always having bread on hand) would dismiss it as stylized lols right up to the point where it's revealed that, no, she's just that good.
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Slith10
Back from the dead and ready to party!
- Location
- New Zealand
And then It becomes a running joke with the writers that Anna is almost always just out of frame, in the next room over/etc doing something far more interesting than the rest of the main cast.
- Location
- Leeds
I like the leakage idea. Perhaps an easier way to show that visibility is inversely proportional to strength would be to show Koujiro powering on the first time and being really proud of how is brighter than anyone elses, only to get hit over the head by Setsuna as she explains what we're actually seeing.
ArchRegis
Schnee Property
- Location
- USA
Koujirou and Setsuna walking by the club rooms catching up while Anna pounds the shit out of a lump of dough through across the hall.
Shuri and Sandra talking about something and hear a loud thump. Above them is Anna dazed on the ground covered in pillows and blankets.
Setsuna and Koujirou goofing off while in the background are 10 cadets GTFOing cause Anna is practicing wave force, cue sim crash.
Shuri and Sandra talking about something and hear a loud thump. Above them is Anna dazed on the ground covered in pillows and blankets.
Setsuna and Koujirou goofing off while in the background are 10 cadets GTFOing cause Anna is practicing wave force, cue sim crash.
- Location
- Leeds
She doesn't even look at it. If we go with the leakage being animated it'd look like she stared at it and it ground itself.
- Location
- United States
That sounds like a Chuck Norris joke. Anna does not punch dough, she looks at it and it punches itself.
Restalaan
What do you mean i am not a real cowboy?
While going through elective classes, Anna will somehow always be at the backscene participating.
Only then later asked, she said she tried all the elective class.In alphabetical order.
ArchRegis
Schnee Property
- Location
- USA
While it's good for PTSD reasons, it's kind of a shame we don't get a roommate. If we got the superhuman later, it would have been funny if she tried to bring Koujirou over to steal a march, and Anna's just fucking there with her goddamm pillow fort trying to look composed but failing.