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Calibration (BAHHSCQ/Sanctioned)

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Unseelie said:
Bisexuality is still not a commonly known option? How far in the future is this again?
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As was said above, it's more that Taylor gives no special attention to Kojirou while having a blatant crush on Anna. Even if Taylor is into guys--which a total lack of interest in Kojirou indicates against, since male Valks are so rare--she clearly has no romantic interest in Kojirou. It's the logical conclusion.

Of course, Setsu has no way of knowing that "Taylor" is not actually human at all, and is more attracted to skill/competence and character, not gender. I expect that as Kojirou improves at a rapid pace, QA will like him more--though he'd still have a long way to go before anything even vaguely romantic becomes a possibility.

Anna hits that sweet spot of exceptional skill/competence in the face of enormous adversity and a personality/character that is reliable/trustworthy and not antagonistic (unlike the vast majority of shards). Bonus points for huge potential for collaboration, and enjoying it immensely.

On the other hand, QA is benefiting from a mental health standpoint by being surrounded by Valkyries all the time, especially Instructors. They are living examples of competence, adaptability, self-improvement in the face of adversity, and being reliably good people overall. While QA could fid the first three qualities among shards, she would not be able to find the last. Their response when she'd be powerless and totally vulnerable would be to help her and protect her, which is extremely un-shard-like, and something she will come to enormously appreciate at some point. Hell, their reaction to learning that QA is a spacewhalecrystal alien and not human would be "that's awesome!" instead of "it's not one of us, kill it!", and that would definitely be a huge character moment for QA.
 
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The reason this style of manipulation almost always fails is because it's almost always discovered. Usually resulting in the those manipulated no longer listening or trusting the manipulator. As an instructor that is super bad.
 
The Pillow said:
The reason this style of manipulation almost always fails is because it's almost always discovered. Usually resulting in the those manipulated no longer listening or trusting the manipulator. As an instructor that is super bad.
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She's not their instructor though. And I'd say it was a pretty mild manipulation, all considered.
 
I suspect that eventually someone is going to do something very very very VERY stupid, and lock Anna and Queen Administrator in a closet together. I understand that some idiots think that is the way to initiate and/or improve intimate personal relationships. Little do they know, that such a thing would result in the CREATION OF ONE OF THE MOST UNDERRATED MECHA OF ALL TIME!!!

So please, take your pick of awesome mecha action and insert that suddenly into Calibration-verse. Personally, I choose Jehuty.
 
SaltyWaffles said:
As was said above, it's more that Taylor gives no special attention to Kojirou while having a blatant crush on Anna. Even if Taylor is into guys--which a total lack of interest in Kojirou indicates against, since male Valks are so rare--she clearly has no romantic interest in Kojirou. It's the logical conclusion.
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First of all, no. Obvious interest in one individual is not enough to make this a "logical conclusion" at all.
It is, however, a common mistake nowadays, given how invisible bisexuality apparently is to the wider population, which is why I questioned this still being the case so far in the future.
Second, Setsuna didn't base this on a lack of interest on Kojiro, but rather concluded said lack based on the interest on Anna. (She's right, of course, but her reasoning isn't, which is the only thing I commented on.)

Regarding the rest of your post: I'm unsure why you are explaining that to me? Did I indicate in any way that I did not understand the fairly obvious reasons for QA's attraction to Anna?
 
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SaltyWaffles said:
Anna hits that sweet spot of exceptional skill/competence in the face of enormous adversity and a personality/character that is reliable/trustworthy and not antagonistic (unlike the vast majority of shards). Bonus points for huge potential for collaboration, and enjoying it immensely.
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You know, reading it like this, I have to wonder about QA's social position among shards. She's frequently the target of misinformation, exclusion, and pranks. Now it might be because of her more literal and straightforward personality.. but really, how much is really just because of her position? To the credit of most shards, how many of us would like our boss when their job entails ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL?
 
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Alivaril said:
Especially since Anna's request earned a surprisingly adorable smile from Taylor in the moment before forced neutrality prevailed.
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Not sure how I missed commenting on this the first time.

"SQUEE! I am getting closer to Senpai!!"
Alivaril said:
Bad dog. Did saying that ever actually work? Setsuna would probably want to continue out of sheer spite.
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"Setsuna. No. Bad dog! This is why everyone thinks so poorly of you!"
 
Do you think someone will remember to remind QA before combat class that hacking the simulator is cheating?
 
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fictionfan said:
Do you someone will remember to remind QA before combat class that hacking the simulator is cheating?
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QAylor knows very well that breaking the rules of a test will only cause punishment and she's not willing to lose her body, Friends or friends.

*taylors assigned therapist watches as the dossier she's slogging through gets more ammendments added.*
 
Alivaril said:
"Taylor, no," Instructor Shapira said sharply.

Bad dog. Did saying that ever actually work? Setsuna would probably want to continue out of sheer spite.

"I did not intend to create anything of that nature!" Taylor protested.
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Oh, and this is another exhibit of "QA doesn't intentionally exterminate host species".
SNS84 said:
I suspect that eventually someone is going to do something very very very VERY stupid, and lock Anna and Queen Administrator in a closet together. I understand that some idiots think that is the way to initiate and/or improve intimate personal relationships. Little do they know, that such a thing would result in the CREATION OF ONE OF THE MOST UNDERRATED MECHA OF ALL TIME!!!
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Lock Anna? That seems like an oxymoron. They would have to lock her on an alternate Earth for it to stick.
fictionfan said:
Do you someone will remember to remind QA before combat class that hacking the simulator is cheating?
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QA knows that cheating in classes is missing the point. If she hacked the simulator for anything, it would be raising the difficulty.
 
fictionfan said:
Do you someone will remember to remind QA before combat class that hacking the simulator is cheating?
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"Purposefully undermining or subverting testing conditions is not conductive to acquiring accurate combat data."
"Oh, thank God."
"Enhancing testing conditions, however, is."
"Taylor, no. Your Flight-mates don't need that level of stress."
"Stress testing is a valid-."
"NO!"
"Fine..."*pout*
"How do you even make your expressions carry that eldritch sig?"
 
Entropy Engineer said:
I wonder if anyone will make a theory that Rose and Taylor used to be the same person before their faction chopped their brain in half and put one in their own bodies with their brains repaired. I mean it's very much wrong but I could see it as a horrifying theory thrown out there.
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That's a morbid thought and might be a leading theory just due to how horrific Hell Hand appeared to be.

Personally, I'm leaning on people considered QA more of a split or even artificial personality to Taylor especially since I doubt QA will be able to keep her mouth shut that her body was originally Taylor's. Hell Hand had been experimenting with implanting personalities into their subjects? Sounds like them.
 
Unseelie said:
Bisexuality is still not a commonly known option? How far in the future is this again?
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2070, or 58 years after the Impactor almost boardwiped humanity and generally ended civilization as we know it. Valkyries linked to infrastructure assisted with recovery for a time, but then Antagonists appeared in 2057 and made everything worse yet again.

Intellectually, Setsuna knows that bisexuality is a thing that exists. But it's not something she really thinks about much, and minority populations outside Arcologies aren't really in a hurry to draw attention to themselves and become scapegoats—especially when they're a prime target for certain religious groups that interpreted the Impactor and AGs as some sort of divine punishment for the sins of the old world.
 
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Alivaril said:
2070, or 58 years after the Impactor almost boardwiped humanity and generally ended civilization as we know it. Valkyries linked to infrastructure assisted with recovery for a time, but then Antagonists appeared in 2057 and made everything worse yet again.
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To provide some context the pre-Impact (2012) world population would be ~7.1 billion. In 2055 (43 years Post-Impact) the global population had recovered to just 1.5 billion. In 2070 we were told that the global birth rate was 2.998% which if we extrapolate backwards (assuming it has been constant since 2012) says the global population probably dropped down as low as ~420 million.

In short the Impact, and disasters that rapidly followed, killed roughly 94% of humanity. The early days of the Antagonist war wasn't quite that bad but according to WoGs and some other calculations it killed about 50% of the then population, although the global population has bounced back surprisingly well during the 13 years of war.

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Oh and on the topic of targeting minorities just remember the five founding nations of the Post-Impact UN are South Africa, Brazil, India, Australia and China. They are the global superpowers that run everything and set the standards for what is and is not acceptable.
 
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UberJJK said:
Oh and on the topic of targeting minorities just remember the five founding nations of the Post-Impact UN are South Africa, Brazil, India, Australia and China. They are the global superpowers that run everything and set the standards for what is and is not acceptable
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...did the Impactor land directly on the north pole and shockwave the entire north hemisphere to death?
 
Menthewarp said:
...did the Impactor land directly on the north pole and shockwave the entire north hemisphere to death?
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Kinda yeah:
Avalanche said:
Immediately Post Impact humanity is suffering pretty much as you would expect, global commerce extinct, CONUS, North West Africa and EU nations directly hit by the major fragments of the Impactor and smaller meteorites raining down pretty much globally, tsunamis for all Pacific and Atlantic coastlines, global firestorms, global super storms, acid rain which was thankfully not global, USA and Russia Deadhand systems launching their WMD stocks thankfully most knocked off course by inclement weather, the whole nine yards. The methane release from frozen stocks being disrupted countered the nuclear winter effect so yay I guess?
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For reference on the fragments:
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Also, no Valkyrie cores or Antagonists found on the moon, even near the Primary Impact Crater where the Impactor hit Luna before fragmenting onto Earth.
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So in short: giant asteroid strikes the moon, shatters into fragments of varying sizes, and rains down across the northern hemisphere causing massive death and destruction. This is further amplified by the mass automatic deployment of ICBMs.
 
Alivaril said:
A potential boost comparable to the difference in magnitude between having Durga's Frame extended and keeping it in storage.
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I know it's been a while, but it didn't come up in this interpretation, so I'll ask.

Is this potential boost effectively a logarithmic addition, regardless if the frame is extended or not? 'cause that's what it reads like.
 
AmbiguousAngle said:
You know, reading it like this, I have to wonder about QA's social position among shards. She's frequently the target of misinformation, exclusion, and pranks. Now it might be because of her more literal and straightforward personality.. but really, how much is really just because of her position? To the credit of most shards, how many of us would like our boss when their job entails ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL?
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It's probably mostly her position to be honest; QA is the tool that the Entities use to force all the other Shards in line, and Sanctioned-verse Shards appear to demonstrate sufficient emotional capacity that they would likely fall for the same 'blaming the tool for the hand that wields it' falsehood that humans often suffer from. (Aka 'blaming the messenger for the contents of the message.')

The other Shards don't see the Entities controlling them, they see QA controlling them, and so they blame QA despite the fact that she is herself being controlled by the Entities because they don't directly perceive that part.
 
Neruz said:
The other Shards don't see the Entities controlling them, they see QA controlling them, and so they blame QA despite the fact that she is herself being controlled by the Entities because they don't directly perceive that part.
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They also can't really do anything to the entities while they can bother QA, I don't expect a shard badmouthing Eden is going to go unpunished, I would say the same for Scion, but I don't think he will care.
 
ChrisPikula said:
I know it's been a while, but it didn't come up in this interpretation, so I'll ask.

Is this potential boost effectively a logarithmic addition, regardless if the frame is extended or not? 'cause that's what it reads like.
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In honor of Anna's (in)ability to convey concepts, I do not intend to provide WoG on her capabilities (or changes to them) outside what is already in the text. :V
 
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