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Omake: A charm for Bakuda
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    • UnwelcomeStorm said:
    Haru shook his head. "Nah, she's in college. Graduated high school early and went up to Cornell." He grinned suddenly, then laughed. "She's not really the mystic type, being an engineer and all, but even if the charm does nothing to help it'll at least give her something new to call my mom and complain about."
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    OMAKE
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    "Grabbed your mail for you".

    Grace blinked as a heavy envelope landed in front of her, obscuring her view of the physics textbook that she'd been staring at for... she rubbed her eyes wearily before fumbling at a pile of notes to unearth a cheap LED clock... holy shit - five hours?

    "Um. yeah, thanks Angie" She called after her roommate as the other girl flopped onto the bottom mattress of the bunk bed they shared.

    Her response was a floppy arm wave, signalling a magnanimous acceptance of her thanks, followed by a mumbled, "Yeah yeah, just don't spaz out too much this time studying. I don't wanna wake up to you muttering dark incantations while walking in circles again.".

    "Those were just Physics equations I was trying to memorize!"

    Another arm flop, "Physics equations, dark verses trying to summon the shade of beelzebub, 'bout the same as far as I'm concerned. Just relax. Or at least go explode in the library so I don't have to clean bits of Grace out of my hair."".

    Grace snorted, "Easy for you to say, you're done with exams already. And you don't have any grants on the line.".

    Not even an arm twitch this time, Angela was either asleep, or feigning it and she was good enough at the pretense that Grace couldn't tell at first glance. A moment later an overly dramatic snore confirmed that it was definitely the latter. Grace rolled her eyes.

    Sighing faintly, she looked at the fat envelope from... Haru? That was a bit of a surprise, she actually did keep in contact with her cousin every once in a while but snail mail wasn't something that actually happened. Curious, she rather indelicately tore the envelope before shaking its contents out onto her desk and...

    A charm? Really? She rummaged around in the envelope before pulling free a short note that read:

    One of the girls in my class is doing a whole bunch of Miko stuff and she's pretty good at doing these. Anyways, I remember how you completely freaked your last year and figured you could use this.

    -Haru
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    Grace narrowed her eyes at the note, a faint smirk playing on her lips, she'd have to.... chastise Haru the next time she was in town for using her as an excuse.... Either that or figuring out the exact right time when he was talking to this Miko of hers then.... boom, embarrassing older cousin.

    She glanced at the charm itself and well, she had to admit, it was pretty well done. A nice mix of almost professional brushwork on not-quite-commercial paper that gave it a nice authentic feel. After a moment, she took a bit of tape and hung it up just above her desk.

    After looking at it for a few moments, she sighed and flipped her physics text closed. Maybe she'd call her Aunt and vent for a bit. Angie and Haru might be onto something really.

    It wouldn't do to just... Explode before Finals after all.

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    Man, I really need to scrape some rust off my writing.
     
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    • @Angurvddel, I thought those charms were done on wood? I think it was mentioned before when Haru got his made.

    EDIT: nevermind, I went back and checked. She used Tag-board paper the first time.
     
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    I do like the notion that Bakuda is related to someone in BB, because that makes the alternate universe where she's the mad bomber actually make SENSE... otherwise, why the hell DID she come to BB? It ain't like it was some grand mecca, and who in their right OR wrong mind would say "Hey, I should join that psycho rage dragon and his unfeeling tele-bomber, because reasons"
     
    armorfiend said:
    I do like the notion that Bakuda is related to someone in BB, because that makes the alternate universe where she's the mad bomber actually make SENSE... otherwise, why the hell DID she come to BB? It ain't like it was some grand mecca, and who in their right OR wrong mind would say "Hey, I should join that psycho rage dragon and his unfeeling tele-bomber, because reasons"
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    Well when you're wanted by the law, it does make sense to go to someone you can be reasonably sure can keep them off of you. And that meant gangs like the E88 and the ABB in canon. And well... The E88 would have killed her. And if they only did that, then they would have been being nice.
     
    Pax_Empyrean said:
    Well there's one situation defused.
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    Man the anticipation for the Lung meeting has me so stoked.

    Also the fact that the mirror has been in the shrine the whole time! Nevermind the army of grannies, the ABB goons doing constructive things, and a potential derail of the entire Bakuda situation.

    I'm not afraid to admit that I have actually stopped reading another fic mid-chapter when I've seen this thing update (I went back to it once I was done but I love the entire feel of this story so much).
     
    Pax_Empyrean said:
    Well gosh Taylor I don't know! You're not a parahuman, but you're definitely a cape.
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    By the loosest possible definition(and/or the strictest possible technical definition), perhaps; she doesn't really hit any of the traditional notes- really, she neither commits nor causes crime, she doesn't really have any special powers(at best, she's running on Ammy-Trump), and she doesn't really have a cape identity. Besides that, pretty much all she's done is inverse vandalism.
     
    CaesriusPolybius said:
    By the loosest possible definition(and/or the strictest possible technical definition), perhaps; she doesn't really hit any of the traditional notes- really, she neither commits nor causes crime, she doesn't really have any special powers(at best, she's running on Ammy-Trump), and she doesn't really have a cape identity. Besides that, pretty much all she's done is inverse vandalism.
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    You forget Rogue Parahumans, the ones who use their powers to make a living, like Parian did before Leviathan. It can be argued that Taylor is making being the shrine priestest her day job, which would classify her under this umbrella.

    Krika said:
    So kill Scion's mate before she lands on earth. And then probably Scion just to be sure.
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    Eden's already on earth. And already dead. That didn't stop her shards though.
     
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    Clearly someone needs to trigger with the ability to retroactively prevent all triggers.

    The Madoka solution, basically.

    (also I laughed out loud and nearly dropped my drink when I read the line about Bakuda. Well done!)
     
    Pax_Empyrean said:
    That's like... a Dire Gazebo, right? Extra hit dice, more damage, more XP?
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    "IT CANNOT BE ONE OF HER GAZEBOS, AS SHE IS NOT IN THIS FIC."

    VC Project said:
    I wonder if that little charm butterflies Bakuda's trigger enough to net Brockton Bay an Onmyou Tinker who likes spamming explosive ofuda...
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    Is pre-Bakuda's first name Rei, by any chance? Grace is a popular fanon choice due to some older fics, but it's still fanon.
     
    Given that IIRC the shards (and Scion himself) are solar-powered (in the sense that they each have the bulk of their body devoted to being a solar power plant on an uninhabited parallel Earth), an Ammy restored to the fullness of her power could probably chump them with minimal effort.
     
    Oh hey, a new update! Shiny.

    UnwelcomeStorm said:
    Through some ritual of seniority that Taylor feared she would one day understand, Yuuta's grandmother was elected the spokeswoman of the group.
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    Hahaha nice, the mysterious and strange grandmotherly pecking order, whose mechanisms are poorly understood even today.

    UnwelcomeStorm said:
    "Thanks, Miko!"

    "It's Ta-- oh, never mind. You're welcome."
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    And here is when Taylor finally accepts her position.

    UnwelcomeStorm said:
    "He thinks I'm a parahuman?" Taylor asked, mouth agape. "That-- I guess that would explain it, but I'm not! Why would he even think that?"

    Oni Lee didn't answer directly. Instead he turned his head once to look at the shrine, its fixtures and form like new, then turned his head the other way to stare at the bamboo that was growing around them, forming shapes and structure like a bonsai with years of careful tending.

    "...okay, I guess there's that." Taylor admitted. "I know it's probably strange to everyone else, but that's all Sunny's doing."
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    Taylor for magic doG shenanigans.

    UnwelcomeStorm said:
    "...Sunny, you don't think anyone else mistakes me for a cape, do you?" Taylor asked, as she pedaled and the wolf trotted alongside. Sunny snorted, once.

    "Yeah, I didn't think so. That'd be silly."
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    Well there is the PRT, who assume everything decent has something it's hiding.
     
    UnwelcomeStorm said:
    Uh, not quite. It's close, but that was for success in endeavors, basically. This one is for academics." He dragged over her school bag, and Taylor handed him the book of ofuda to flip through while she picked out her ink and one of her special brushes. "It's actually for my cousin. Finals are coming up, and she's always stressing about every test she takes."

    "Sure, I've met a few like that. She go to Winslow?"

    Haru shook his head. "Nah, she's in college. Graduated high school early and went up to Cornell." He grinned suddenly, then laughed. "She's not really the mystic type, being an engineer and all, but even if the charm does nothing to help it'll at least give her something new to call my mom and complain about."
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    .... wow, that's a wonderful way to tie in Bakuda, hopefully in a way that wont make her into miss "i think it's a wonderful idea to plant bombs all over the place" and more "spirited" .
     
    The Sandman said:
    Given that IIRC the shards (and Scion himself) are solar-powered (in the sense that they each have the bulk of their body devoted to being a solar power plant on an uninhabited parallel Earth), an Ammy restored to the fullness of her power could probably chump them with minimal effort.
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    Whaaaat?
    Source please?
     
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