SolipsistSerpent
Endlessly Devouring
The one from the end of the update? It's literally called "With Cat-like Tread" from the "Pirates of Penzant."
Calibration (BAHHSCQ/Sanctioned)
- Thread starter Alivaril
- Start date
- Crossover
- Location
- Somewhere.
Penzance, actually, if you're going to google it. But yes.
(Also known as "the one with the Modern Major General Song", if I recall my Gilbert and Sullivan correctly.)
- Location
- Usa
Fuckin metal. I loved the stained glass windows.
Of course Symbie had to ruin the aambiance with showtunes
Did.. did Taylor just get kicked out???
Oh good, cuz I'm super interested.
Shard ranks really don't translate well into english. There's just too many ranks and the shards of similar ranks are often slightly above or below each other. For example, Harvester, Administrator, Shaper, and Destroyer are the top ranked Warrior shards. Together they start and end the cycle but Harvester and Administrator have a slightly higher rank. Not that they get to order the other two around though.
The top 9 are the noble shards who help with the cycle. The other 36 would be noble shards of lesser but still high rank. Alternatively they could be the vital shards (the ones that stay with the entities even during the cycle and make up their core selves) but I don't think that fits well. They probably wouldn't be ranked under the nobles so I think they're not incorporated into this representation.
Fanart: Window into Despair
Squirrelly-Sama
Founder of QQ
- Location
- I don't know... Somewhere?
captain_belgica
But you'll call me Captain or Sir
- Pronouns
- Captain/Sir
Decided to do a bit of art on this
Aside from the black and white vs the implied colours
this is a really cool picture.
Thanks now I won't be sleeping tonight.
Neruz
Rogue Spiderbanana
- Location
- The Land of Fire and Poison
Then that opens up the possibility for the answer to 'why would anyone do this?' being 'because the insane arcology AI made them do it'.
And that it let Hebert out because it ran out of people and needed to lure more in to continue its experiments.
- Location
- Finland
Potentially, or, because the depictions seem sympathetic towards Taylor, and the arcology is terrifying, but not outright hostile, the arcology broke down and killed the ones responsible, and is now trying to explain what happened to best of their ability.Then that opens up the possibility for the answer to 'why would anyone do this?' being 'because the insane arcology AI made them do it'.
And that it let Hebert out because it ran out of people and needed to lure more in to continue its experiments.
Squirrelly-Sama
Founder of QQ
- Location
- I don't know... Somewhere?
I didn't really have colors, just black markers. I figured it's probably be like the Madoka witches, but couldn't really do that myself so I went with something similarly creepy but artistic in the form of silhouette style.
- Location
- Britain
I feel like the Endbringer's are definitely important enough to include, not because of the damage they did to Earth Bet, but because of QA's interpretation of the Antagonists. Right now the probable assumption for QA would be that she is holding back because she sees both the antagonist and human forces as peer combatants and that exceeding those ends badly, so she plays everything as safe as she can.
Without that additional hint that there were other forces that wielded otherwise excluded powers exclusively at the will of Zion and Eden it will probably take them a long time to make progress on that front.
Without that additional hint that there were other forces that wielded otherwise excluded powers exclusively at the will of Zion and Eden it will probably take them a long time to make progress on that front.
Asheram
Not quite altogether
- Location
- Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground
As a fan of Pirates of Penzance, I laughed out loud as I read this.
Though I ponder if "When the Foeman Bares His Steel" hadn't been better.
I think that Team Valkyrie would be interested in endbringers due to their durability. Not only do nuclear weapons start shaving off less than atomic widths of material once they get skeletal enough, but more importantly, they do so without any impellers. Some of the more arbitrary endbringers would also be a bit of an experience. Water-spam is one thing, weird, and actually requiring a rather large power supply, but not much of a threat, but it is an entirely different matter to deal with temporal-differential spam or "any four [valid targets] combined". I doubt that valkyries and type zeroes are valid targets for the Voltron/Captain Planet of endbringers, but if they are, well, that could be eventful. The right combinations of Worm powers would most likely be sufficient however.
But mostly the lack of impellers. That would just be completely and utterly weird in every way to them. I mean, yes, there are supposed ot be some materials that are pretty much invulnerable in V.C., but they are apparently rare drops from type zeroes that presumably cannot be altered to fit a purpose and wouldn't bend much, so would have nothing in common with endbringer material.
Their destructive output would be fairly small-scale, but they could pull off a pretty terrifying unstoppable force/determinator impression even by type zero standards, and would do it in a way that is completely alien to known technologies.
Unless, that is, Taylor invites to the party a Ziz with an impeller. I have no idea at all what Ziz would do with an impeller, but I believe that Ziz knows exactly what Ziz will do with an impeller.
But mostly the lack of impellers. That would just be completely and utterly weird in every way to them. I mean, yes, there are supposed ot be some materials that are pretty much invulnerable in V.C., but they are apparently rare drops from type zeroes that presumably cannot be altered to fit a purpose and wouldn't bend much, so would have nothing in common with endbringer material.
Their destructive output would be fairly small-scale, but they could pull off a pretty terrifying unstoppable force/determinator impression even by type zero standards, and would do it in a way that is completely alien to known technologies.
Unless, that is, Taylor invites to the party a Ziz with an impeller. I have no idea at all what Ziz would do with an impeller, but I believe that Ziz knows exactly what Ziz will do with an impeller.
Roth963
If I become inactive with this massage, I died
QA's words in the chapter she had seen a type zero fighting implie endbringers are much more powerful than they had shown to humans, by a large margin.
I know that it might not happen but I can see that when someone asks QA about the song she is going to say that it's Symbie's thus causing mass confusion.
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Thanks! I h—wait, no, wrong response. Sorry, autopilot. I love it! It's been a few years since I got any fanart, and I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed this enough to make some. I've been happy about the omakes lately, too.
EDIT: Please tell me if you'd prefer the Threadmark to have a different title; I pretty much just made something up.
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- Location
- Russia
I hope someone asks Taylor why she called Type Zero 'Decimator' and she just: "I didn't recognized him and so I asked for his name." Leading to more 'Antagonists do not infiltrate'
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Anna is supersayan! (Compared to rest of Valkyries now))) and QA is secretly sayan
Sorry. Need to sleep. Ideas run wild.
This reminded me about Dragon Ball fic where SI!sayan tried to learn ki manipulation from Sayan Prince... and got very similar explanations.
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Anna is supersayan! (Compared to rest of Valkyries now))) and QA is secretly sayan
Sorry. Need to sleep. Ideas run wild.
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- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
ಠ_ಠ Between you and a few others (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE), I would be tempted to reinstate my policy of not posting too late for EST, but you're in a time zone that makes such attempts counterproductive. So please, just go to bed. I'm genuinely glad you're enjoying the story, but I'd prefer not to be an enabler to any sleep-deprivation hangovers later.
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Alayne
The Reader
- Location
- Home of the Vikings
That is doomed to fail you know. With readers literally all around the world someone will get it posted at a bad time.
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Yup. That's why I did away with the policy in the first place. The above was primarily intended as a
In other news (eardrum warning):
Shards: What overpopulation? Oh, you mean scaling up. Yeah, that can use some increase.
I think, they fully embrace the infinite monkey theorem.
It reminds me of the fractal effect of shards reaching through dimensions. Are they even on BAHHSCQ Earth anymore?
Does this mean that a Major-General equivalent awakens at the end?
Do note that Decimator was trying not to give away that QA's assumption are all wrong. I imagine, when you are communicating at that fidelity, lying becomes inreasingly elaborate to the point of being impractical for anyone less than a shard, as it needs to remain consistent and believable. Or you get really vague and lie by omission, which, it seems, is what Decimator has ended up doing.
Undead Antagonists?EDIT: I didn't mean to come across as a killjoy here.
Valkyries: So they have found a way to reanimate Antagonists. As if for some reason we didn't have enough of the living ones already.
Not only that, but they can't even control her that well. Note that the fingers connect to the other figures' heads directly, but pinch probably-Hebert's head instead.
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
UNOMI was worried about either that or an ambush. The apparent lack of either has a couple wondering who the hell was in charge of psychological warfare for this place, because they're doing a pretty good job with content that should be fairly innocuous.
1: I looked far and wide before making Decimator, and we don't actually have WoG on their sizes or appearance. All that's said is that they come in a variety of forms, and a few Type-Zeros were small enough to fit in a hole in Arcology plating only a couple meters large at the widest part. In other words, some of them are around human-sized. We don't really know about the rest, and that leaves room for authorial freedom.
2: I mean, AGs are still far bigger than Endbringers, modern military forces, and future forces. So it really depends on what you're comparing them to.
There were some normal lies in there, too, but he did definitely work hard to maintain consistency.
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- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
@Avalanche I thought you'd appreciate the irony here. The problems with parodies, eh? (I've encountered the same thing with It's Not Wrong to make Friends in the Dungeon.)
Valkyrie Cores "improve" pretty much everything. (Following quote is related to Valkyrie Syndrome)
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OctarineShrike
Avatar of Mandos
It's an Original Fiction quest thread. Anna is the protagonist of the quest(Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest (No SV, you are the Waifu) Original). The Premise is for Anna to acquire enough popularity in the imaginary anime to get her own spinoff and being in Kojirou, the anime harem protagonists orbit, helps with that. This is crossed with Alvarils worm what-if scenario where Queen Administrator took over Taylor's body while Taylor is being a shard and QA is trying to pass as human.
Assuming Valkyries remain synced with their core at all times they are totally transhuman existences minimum. Possibly posthuman depending on their level of cognitive divergence from baseline humanity.
I'm operating under a model like this(Edit: Refined the Model Some)
Baseline human - having the mental patterns characteristic to baseline humanity, including potential neurodivergences, mental illnesses, failure states, and the cognitive biases characteristic to humans such as the Fundamental Attribution Error.
Transhuman - Human minds in augmented(human shaped or otherwise) bodies(If a human mind manages to be transferred perfectly into a telepathic dolphins body and can obviously talk to us and we can understand them, do they not still deserve recognition as human)? Their mindset is still recognizable as human, they can still relate to baseline human beings.
Posthuman - Humans(Edit: Or more precisely human derived minds) who's mindset has diverged from baseline human so massively through technological or supernatural means as to be difficult or impossible to comprehend for baseline human beings.
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