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Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest (No SV, you are the Waifu)

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DaLintyGuy said:
AN: So... Yeah, this is kinda my idea. A retrieved Core from a Valkyrie downed during the opening shots of the war (or near enough) hangs onto the first person who finds it, and then that person is introduced to a completely new culture. And giving something of a look at what it means to be on the ground level of a fight with the Antagonists. Is it a terrible idea? Maybe. But Cores aren't very well understood so it's possible. Plus, story.
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Liked the work shown so far.

As for why it could hang on to the character shown, there are a few reasons. It is highly possible that more than a few people don't get tested, either because of clerical errors involved in repeated evacuations and subsequent loss of records, or because there simply isn't time for all people to be put through testing. As men have so much less chance of syncing with a valk, if there was a group that I would pass up on testing first it would be that. The idea that the valk has about everybody being tested is quite likely bogus and a result of UN propaganda (most people, sure, but if some men are left off the search, it probably wont matter, right?). That he happened across a core and then synced with it accidentally is quite possible, in my opinion. So good work with your plotting.
 
I've gotten somewhat bored waiting, but that's not really on Avalanche so much as it is the chatter that seems to frequent the thread. There's just not a whole lot of productive discussion in here, since the last update. The omakes are nice, the geometry blather is not, that kind of thing.
 
"...and that's why we have nanobots in our bodies, ready to shut us down if we go rogue."

"Uh...huh."

"Don't give me that."

"I didn't say-"

"You were thinking it."

"I was thinking about how they would be able to inject something that harmful into us without our cores reacting some...would our cores react to that?"

"Well, I've noticed that I haven't got sick ever since I started synching with a core."

"Really? Wait, oh, wow. Neither have I. I hadn't even thought about it. This just makes your thoughts even more implausible, Lim."

"The nanobots are integrated into the core's systems, along with all the fancy weaponry! Think about it. We have been trained, molded, into highly effective, highly dangerous weapons. Do you really think there wouldn't be a failsafe? What about after we defeat the antagonists? There'd be a bunch of us, with power that can be...they'd have a way to shut a Valk down. They'd have to."

"Lim, I just don't-"

"I'm going to lunch." With that, the vexed Lim walked off, hands in her pockets, leaving behind the rest of Shuri's scraps in silence.

It was a silence that lingered, until Claire, who hardly spoke at all, asked, "Does Lim really believe that the antagonists will be defeated?"

There was another, much shorter silence, then Rosa said, "Claire! Don't say that! Of course we can win!"

Claire tilted her head.

"I think what Claire is trying to say is that Lim thinks humanity triumphing is an eventual certainty, rather than a possibility," Mirabel said hastily, "It's why she has her theories. They all have the similarity that humanity has more control over the situation than what is probably the case." She sighed. "Let's leave it at that."

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Rosa looked at the mirror again. She had just gotten off a video call with her family. Apparently, she 'had never looked better'. That, combined with the realisation that she had never gotten sick...

The girl that was in her reflection, that was still her, right?

She narrowed her eyes, examining the image that was Rosa Silvia...just...better. Her skin was clearer, her hair bolder in colour, her posture...well, her mother was pleased, if shocked.

Was it the Valk Core, or just a consequence of moving from a refugee camp to an arcology? The thought of Rosa not being Rosa didn't sit well with her.

What did Lim say again? They were being molded into weapons. Highly effective weapons.

The girl broke eye contact with her reflection. Well, isn't as if she had much of a choice. At least her family was safe now. Safer. Not close to starving, anyway. At least if she was lost, in combat or otherwise, they'd been saved.

That would have to do for now.
 
Were the hell did humanity get the Valk cores from?

Did humans start to use Valks because of the Antagonist or did the Antagonist start to atack because humanity discovered Valks?
 
If I remember right, physics got wonky (vortexes or something that eventually turned into the Breaches), Valk cores came from somewhere undefined (a few seconds to the left-ish), and the Antagonists showed up as humanity was uplifting itself with unlimited power and the physics defying nature of the cores.
 
Pinklestia said:
Were the hell did humanity get the Valk cores from?
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They just started appearing after humanity was starting to pull itself together after the asteroid hit.
Did humans start to use Valks because of the Antagonist or did the Antagonist start to atack because humanity discovered Valks?
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Valks were in use (though not in military use) before Ants appeared. As for why the Ants attacked, no one knows.
 
Well, acording to the Author a lot of first and second Gen Valk pilots did die because of basically toying around with several parts added to their Valkyries without caring if they would work well together.

Meaning that eighter they started to add safety protocols later, taught the pilots to not be idiots, parts you can add became tighter regulated, or all of the above.
 
Icipall said:
Valks were in use (though not in military use) before Ants appeared. As for why the Ants attacked, no one knows.
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They attacked because they were responding to the First Strike attack on their homeworld that Humanity did. Almost completely destroying their civilization.

Yes, that humans did due to time travel - trying to stop the attack on Earth in the first place.
 
DaLintyGuy said:
I think we can also read that they had to go through the equivalent of the Cold War's "Radiation is bad for you" lesson.
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Hence why I had the idea of early Gen American Valk pilots being military women who were limited to use Jet parts and even had to design the schematics of any non standar upgrade to explain how it all fit together and to make sure that "No, this won't kill me in the field."

Ironically, that same designing experience made the survivors of those times good at designing Arcolologies as they actually had to design whole planes since "It will work due to magical Valk bullshit" not only wasn't a valid excuse, it had been proven to not work.

So in a way, it helped to advance Earth tech as US Valks were designers at first.

Just don't get any of them drunk, they will start to curse about stable time loops and highter ups being morons.
 
GamingGeek said:
They attacked because they were responding to the First Strike attack on their homeworld that Humanity did. Almost completely destroying their civilization.

Yes, that humans did due to time travel - trying to stop the attack on Earth in the first place.
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Wait, what?! Where was this revealed?
 
Dark as Silver said:
It wasn't. No reason has yet been provided and since we're sort of mid season in the first of three seasons, it will not be provided for a while yet.
Haters going to hate. Antagonists going to antagonise.
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But was that the actual reason why Ants attacked, or am I simply having my leg pulled?
 
Icipall said:
But was that the actual reason why Ants attacked
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Well, humanity was mining the breaches for quite some time, taking Higs material and reactors from inside, and then suddenly all the breaches have Ants coming out of them.

if I had to take a wild guess, the breaches are portals/bridges to some Ant home dimension, and by mining the space time anomalies for future-tech humanity was unknowingly doing Bad Things to whatever was on the far end. thus, it's all our fault, and the Ants are just defending themselves.

that's my headcanon so far anyway.
 
Ehem, the topic thread says "Original", so what seasons?

Unless this is based on another Quest or story that also uses the Antagonists?
 
Pinklestia said:
Ehem, the topic thread says "Original", so what seasons?

Unless this is based on another Quest or story that also uses the Antagonists?
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The setting of this quest is a fictional anime called "Project: Valkyrie Core". Koujirou is the main character, Anna is a side character.

Edit: Durga'd
 
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