Gear of Corruption
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From Zero to Hero!
"This way sir!" Said teenager I didn't recognize. "Sunnydale high school is around that corner."
I nodded to him. "I can get my own way from here. Try to find a place to hide from the monsters. They're all kids, I don't want them to get hurt or for them to hurt others."
"R-right. Can I know your name?"
"Call me Sol. Now go kid, we will never see each other again."
He nodded nervously before dashing to safety. As for me I simply decided to run as fast as I could towards the school, before taking out the map and checking for directions. Course set, I turned to the right corner and started running once more.
"... isn't that Yu?"
~~O~~
I was in front of the Ethan's Costume shop, which looked nothing special, aside from the fact that it was oddly pristine during this chaos of rioting child monsters. I took a single step forwards, before turning around in an instant and pressing my weapon on the neck of the girl that had followed me for a while.
"Wha!" She said startled, but didn't move as my weapon was pressing under her chin. All it would take for her to die would be for me to superheat and sharpen the blunted blade on my command.
"I don't have time for this", I told my own personal stalker, "start talking and I might let you live."
"Please don't hurt me! Your name is Yu Inami and you're currently possessed by your costume! Speaking of which, how can you touch me, I'm a ghost right now!"
So that's the name of the guy I took over? If I remember it afterwards when this is all over we're going to have very pointed words later.
"Don't get in my way. I'm about to fix the mess I'm in."
"What, how?" Said the ghost woman who was starting to sound really annoying.
"Don't make me repeat myself." I finished the conversation before smashing the door open, looking for the owner of the store. It didn't take long for a man to came running to meet me, startled that someone had the audacity to invade his sanctum. Pfft, I saw five year old kids making better wards on their tree house than what was here.
He tried to came with a spell on his lips, but I had already ran the small distance separating us before grabbing him on the neck and lifting him.
"Here's how it's going to go. Option A) you tell me where the statue of Janus is; option B) you tell me where the statue of Janus is while in pieces; option C) I leave you crippled and burn this whole place to cinders, with you inside."
He tried to speak, but I didn't let go of my grip, until he finally raised his hand to a certain direction. With him still in my grip I went further inside into the shop while following his instructions until I saw what I assumed was the statue of Janus. I could see the magic in the air, and with a simple weave of my hand I placed a magic circle to give me information on the enchanted object.
Five minutes later I was cursing my luck. Technically speaking the statue would hold a charge of magical energy for some time, about a whole night worth if my estimate is correct, before the spell effect harmlessly dissipates with no further consequences, aside from the general chaos and rampage the child monsters did while transformed with however much death and destruction they brought during that time.
Of course, the object was rather frail for such a wide and powerful magical effect, and a good blow should break it and dissipate the magical energy immediately in a mostly harmless explosion. Except that from the reading I'm fairly sure this sudden burst of magical energy being let on instead of slowly dissipating would cause unintended consequences.
That moron knew. That moron knew this would happen and was counting on it! Screw having words with him, I'm going to gut him like a fish if I ever see him in front of me.
Damn it, I wish I were the heartless bastard people make me out to be. The most safe thing to do is to let the spell run it's course, since I'm fairly sure that nothing they could do would match the risk of what I suspect might happen. On the other hand that meant death of innocents, among them many children if I hesitate too much.
Worst still, there is an unknown power hanging over the statue, watching me. It's interested in what I might do and might interfere if I try to mess with this with more finesse. A power comparable with some of the strongest magic users or even a gear at that. No doubt it could interfere any delicate handling of the statue, so my most realistic options were either wait it out or smash the statue.
Fuck. I guess I will just cross my fingers and hope for the best.
"Ghost girl", I told the stalker still trailing at my side, who up until now was still talking. Once she heard my voice she promptly shut up. "Tell this Yu Inami that I will wash my hands off this incident since this isn't my world. But know this, when I came here to visit if I don't like what I see he's fucking dead. Did you get that?"
She nodded frantically before I knocked out the man in my grip. I didn't cared that he could have a contusion and likely brain damage, he had done enough to deserve a rough treatment. Taking my substitute Fireseal I flooded it with magical energy before slashing the statue with all my might, making it burst into several little pieces.
I just hope this Yu Inami doesn't fuck up with this world. But who knows, perhaps my worse fears won't come to pass.
...
Yeah right, those guys are boned.
I nodded to him. "I can get my own way from here. Try to find a place to hide from the monsters. They're all kids, I don't want them to get hurt or for them to hurt others."
"R-right. Can I know your name?"
"Call me Sol. Now go kid, we will never see each other again."
He nodded nervously before dashing to safety. As for me I simply decided to run as fast as I could towards the school, before taking out the map and checking for directions. Course set, I turned to the right corner and started running once more.
"... isn't that Yu?"
~~O~~
I was in front of the Ethan's Costume shop, which looked nothing special, aside from the fact that it was oddly pristine during this chaos of rioting child monsters. I took a single step forwards, before turning around in an instant and pressing my weapon on the neck of the girl that had followed me for a while.
"Wha!" She said startled, but didn't move as my weapon was pressing under her chin. All it would take for her to die would be for me to superheat and sharpen the blunted blade on my command.
"I don't have time for this", I told my own personal stalker, "start talking and I might let you live."
"Please don't hurt me! Your name is Yu Inami and you're currently possessed by your costume! Speaking of which, how can you touch me, I'm a ghost right now!"
So that's the name of the guy I took over? If I remember it afterwards when this is all over we're going to have very pointed words later.
"Don't get in my way. I'm about to fix the mess I'm in."
"What, how?" Said the ghost woman who was starting to sound really annoying.
"Don't make me repeat myself." I finished the conversation before smashing the door open, looking for the owner of the store. It didn't take long for a man to came running to meet me, startled that someone had the audacity to invade his sanctum. Pfft, I saw five year old kids making better wards on their tree house than what was here.
He tried to came with a spell on his lips, but I had already ran the small distance separating us before grabbing him on the neck and lifting him.
"Here's how it's going to go. Option A) you tell me where the statue of Janus is; option B) you tell me where the statue of Janus is while in pieces; option C) I leave you crippled and burn this whole place to cinders, with you inside."
He tried to speak, but I didn't let go of my grip, until he finally raised his hand to a certain direction. With him still in my grip I went further inside into the shop while following his instructions until I saw what I assumed was the statue of Janus. I could see the magic in the air, and with a simple weave of my hand I placed a magic circle to give me information on the enchanted object.
Five minutes later I was cursing my luck. Technically speaking the statue would hold a charge of magical energy for some time, about a whole night worth if my estimate is correct, before the spell effect harmlessly dissipates with no further consequences, aside from the general chaos and rampage the child monsters did while transformed with however much death and destruction they brought during that time.
Of course, the object was rather frail for such a wide and powerful magical effect, and a good blow should break it and dissipate the magical energy immediately in a mostly harmless explosion. Except that from the reading I'm fairly sure this sudden burst of magical energy being let on instead of slowly dissipating would cause unintended consequences.
That moron knew. That moron knew this would happen and was counting on it! Screw having words with him, I'm going to gut him like a fish if I ever see him in front of me.
Damn it, I wish I were the heartless bastard people make me out to be. The most safe thing to do is to let the spell run it's course, since I'm fairly sure that nothing they could do would match the risk of what I suspect might happen. On the other hand that meant death of innocents, among them many children if I hesitate too much.
Worst still, there is an unknown power hanging over the statue, watching me. It's interested in what I might do and might interfere if I try to mess with this with more finesse. A power comparable with some of the strongest magic users or even a gear at that. No doubt it could interfere any delicate handling of the statue, so my most realistic options were either wait it out or smash the statue.
Fuck. I guess I will just cross my fingers and hope for the best.
"Ghost girl", I told the stalker still trailing at my side, who up until now was still talking. Once she heard my voice she promptly shut up. "Tell this Yu Inami that I will wash my hands off this incident since this isn't my world. But know this, when I came here to visit if I don't like what I see he's fucking dead. Did you get that?"
She nodded frantically before I knocked out the man in my grip. I didn't cared that he could have a contusion and likely brain damage, he had done enough to deserve a rough treatment. Taking my substitute Fireseal I flooded it with magical energy before slashing the statue with all my might, making it burst into several little pieces.
I just hope this Yu Inami doesn't fuck up with this world. But who knows, perhaps my worse fears won't come to pass.
...
Yeah right, those guys are boned.
johnwedd
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In short, yes. By offering a sacrifice to janis, he makes the god obligated to listen and respond in kind depending on how he acts. In this case, as a gate to skills and power type of dollars badguy from guilty gear. By destroying the bust of janus, he evokes that obligation while empowering it. And now he has a copy sol badguy's skill and power type in a lesser form.
Sol saw what he was doing and got miffed at being used as a magical template without permission. Thus him saying that it better be docking worth it.
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This explanation may be the most satisfying and "realistic" I have read for a YAHF type fic. Plus Janus keeps a possible agent out of this.
johnwedd
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Thank you. And since Janus is the god pf transition and doorways, the SI is under his care and patronage by default. And he gives zero shits what the powers that be and the wolf ram and heart crowd think of him, whistler has fuck all influence, officially speaking. Won't stop him from being fucking whistler though.
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All true.
I will say it again, your explanation screams logical, real, and just 'this should be made canon now'.
Most stories just give a single character, Alexander(hate the nickname Xander) everything about the costume and offer no explanation for it, except the usual lame because he is Xander. That may as well be because I am the writer and I said so.
Unless its a sort of magical type costume and you could wing it with: the guy did a spell giving me that shit or something which could be accepted since its magic. Or some other the costume guy dimension traveled back Home and the transition gave the powers.
Both not as satisfying as yours.
It was also nicely written how Yu not only told the costume what was going on but also hedged his bets and basicly fucked over the guy by not giving him a choice. I keep your powers, no either, ifs, or, perhaps, I only deal in absolutes.
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ryuan
From Zero to Hero!
"We need to talk", whispered Willow to me in between classes, "later at the library. About our costumes. The guy who possessed you had a message to you."
Well fuck, looks like Sol didn't take it well to being jammed into my body. Still having to go all the way to the library instead of taking a nap during lunch. What a drag.
I blinked, before shaking my head. No, I can't act lazy, I need to explain myself to the slayer gang.
Later at lunch we all gathered to the library, and as both me and Willow stepped inside the room all eyes were on us.
"Uh, can you let us be for a moment", said Buffy in what she thought passed as a sweet tone, "we need some privacy here."
"If you want privacy you should find a non-public place for the meeting", I replied dryly and I could see that Buffy wasn't thrilled by my response.
"His costume knew about him!" Blurted out Willow, making Giles and Buffy widen their eyes.
"Hey G-man!" Came Xander voice from behind us as he entered the library, "what's the w...h...at? Uh, what are you doing here Yu?"
I sighed. "Is anyone else going to come?"
We looked around, but nobody else came to distract us. "Alright everyone, sit down and I will give the heads up of the situation." Once we were all seated I continued. "So, do you want the short version or the long version?"
"Can we get a summary of everything?" Said Xander, and I approved of his need to expend the least energy to get shit done. Sadly, I was the master of it.
"Your live sucks", I said while motioning them all, "and will suck harder in the future. I had been roped to your cause so we can all suck together."
There was wide silence on the room, before Giles broke it wit a cough. "Perhaps you could elaborate a bit more then?"
"Long or short version?"
"How about the long version?" Tried Willow and I nodded.
Taking a deep breath I started. "I was just your normal slacker in Brasil before this all started. I don't have the memories of the next events and every time I try too hard to remember my head starts to hurt. Basically, someone or something kidnapped me from my home, gave me some choice bits of information so I could very through appreciate how fucked-"
"Language!" Said Willow with a disapproving tone.
"-fucked", I retorted with a glare, "the world, and me in particular were. Living demons, spirit demons, undead demons, giant insect monsters, government being compromised on all levels, government conspiracies to keep the populace ignorant, the world is literally fifteen minutes from the apocalypse every -fucking- where. This sudden and lovely realization aside, I somehow agreed to some nebulous deal that I have no recollection off, and I was tossed into Sunnydale High School. The people who did this to me were also kind enough to tell me this city was founded on top of a hellmouth."
I let my words sink in for a few moments before I continued.
"I had a bit of information on the next greater event in the year for Sunnydale that would happen, the Halloween and the magical costumes incident. At this point my options where to either warn people in advance, or let it run it's course. The thing is, from what I gathered this event is tied to some prophecy chains in the nearby future and preventing it would cause more trouble than it's worth it, so instead I decided to take advantage of it."
"I knew more or less what would happen, so I took several costume pieces in order to make my own customized piece based on a proper character, considering the shop had a distinct lack of iconic costumes. I planned to put a message for the person I had become for him to take care of the halloween incident quickly, and I knew that once the statue of Janus would be broken the effects of the spell would give lasting consequences."
I said the last while looking at them all. "Before I continue though, what was the message Sol gave me?"
"Sol? That's his name?" She shook her head, "right, sorry. I think he said, 'when I come to visit here, if I don't like what I see you're dead', or something like that."
Well, fuck, looks like I became enough of an annoyance to Sol that he is entertaining paying me a visit. Considering what I have planned, he will try to gut me like a fish first thing he sees me. Well, I was expecting something along those lines, but as they say, all is fair in love and war.
"That's... oddly reassuring, in a way." I said making all other room occupants stare at me. "it meant I actually got the right person since I put Sol in a tight spot and he have reason to be angry to me. He read me too well, besides I don't think he's serious about the death threat anyway." Oh, I'm sure he will try to murder me at some point, but I doubt it isn't something that beating the shit out of each other with lethal intent won't solve. I mean, he does that with Ky all the time and they're both alive!
Yeah, right. I'm fucking boned.
"Anyway the consequence of destroying the statue of Janus instead of letting the spell fade on it's own is that the sudden influx of magic means some of the summoned aspects imprints on the user, meaning you gain some of their memories and their skills, and perhaps some of their supernatural traits if they had them. Since I was on the epicenter of the magical burst and I had set up a small bribe to Janus beforehand-"
"What was the last one?" Interrupted Giles, but I ignored him.
"- I actually regained a very large portion of Sol's skills and memories."
Which I wasn't being entirely honest about. Oh sure I had Sol memories and skills, I just didn't told them how deeply ingrained those skills and memories were. At the moment I still felt like myself, but even now some habits of Sol started to sink into me, like how by now I am really craving a good smoke.
I think that if things keep going, I will lose myself in his memories and life. The main problem is to balance his memories and expertize while still retaining my identity.
Besides, if I lose myself on his memories I doubt Sol would like the thought of a discount clone running around.
"You really put yourself at risk unnecessarily by pulling this stunt", finally said Giles, taking off his glasses and cleaning it once more. He did that at least five times during my talk. "You were lucky to have managed to gain the favor of a god of chaos like Janus."
"He's... really not?" I raised an eyebrow at him. "Janus is a god of gateways and beginnings, worshiped when new cycles would start, like at harvests or during the change between childhood to adulthood. I'm mostly certain that the reason calling this particular god ended in this mess had more to do with this being the hellmouth than with Janus being a god of chaos."
Giles nodded, taking his glasses out once more before muttering something under his breath.
Buffy choose this time to speak her mind. "How come you risked so much for power?" She said with disgust clear in her voice.
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe the fact that I learned the world is such a shithole", by now I learned to ignore Willow attempts to correct my foul language, "and the lowliest of the low monster in the evil totem pole can munch on a baseline human like bubblegum and the fact that the forces of darkness prevents the governments to take decisive action to hunt down this plague once and for all, and the few people that decide to take on them are labeled crazy lunatics at best, serial killers at worst, and finally that I had been thrust in this kind of world with no skills, no equipment, no power, no support? Well, I'm not going to ask for forgiveness for trying to tip the scales a little bit in my favor."
I looked at the others in my little rant. None of them looked particularly supportive of my choice, even if I hoped that Xander understood my desire to become stronger and survive the mess I'm in. Then again he could be weird like that sometimes, and I'm not really his friend at the moment.
"Still, it was reckless of you." Finally settled Giles.
"Reckless is to go to the supermarket across your street after dusk to buy groceries. Reckless is to walk around this town without a cross around your neck", I said while pointing at my own plain wooden cross I had since I came to Sunnydale. "Reckless is to pretend none of the dangers that plague the world are real, and living with your head buried in the sand. Reckless is to choose not to arm yourself when the enemies are at the gates and there is nobody to protect you."
At that, they had nothing to say.
"You could have walked away from all this", I heard Buffy mutter under her breath.
Oh Buffy, like I said we will get along swimmingly.
Well fuck, looks like Sol didn't take it well to being jammed into my body. Still having to go all the way to the library instead of taking a nap during lunch. What a drag.
I blinked, before shaking my head. No, I can't act lazy, I need to explain myself to the slayer gang.
Later at lunch we all gathered to the library, and as both me and Willow stepped inside the room all eyes were on us.
"Uh, can you let us be for a moment", said Buffy in what she thought passed as a sweet tone, "we need some privacy here."
"If you want privacy you should find a non-public place for the meeting", I replied dryly and I could see that Buffy wasn't thrilled by my response.
"His costume knew about him!" Blurted out Willow, making Giles and Buffy widen their eyes.
"Hey G-man!" Came Xander voice from behind us as he entered the library, "what's the w...h...at? Uh, what are you doing here Yu?"
I sighed. "Is anyone else going to come?"
We looked around, but nobody else came to distract us. "Alright everyone, sit down and I will give the heads up of the situation." Once we were all seated I continued. "So, do you want the short version or the long version?"
"Can we get a summary of everything?" Said Xander, and I approved of his need to expend the least energy to get shit done. Sadly, I was the master of it.
"Your live sucks", I said while motioning them all, "and will suck harder in the future. I had been roped to your cause so we can all suck together."
There was wide silence on the room, before Giles broke it wit a cough. "Perhaps you could elaborate a bit more then?"
"Long or short version?"
"How about the long version?" Tried Willow and I nodded.
Taking a deep breath I started. "I was just your normal slacker in Brasil before this all started. I don't have the memories of the next events and every time I try too hard to remember my head starts to hurt. Basically, someone or something kidnapped me from my home, gave me some choice bits of information so I could very through appreciate how fucked-"
"Language!" Said Willow with a disapproving tone.
"-fucked", I retorted with a glare, "the world, and me in particular were. Living demons, spirit demons, undead demons, giant insect monsters, government being compromised on all levels, government conspiracies to keep the populace ignorant, the world is literally fifteen minutes from the apocalypse every -fucking- where. This sudden and lovely realization aside, I somehow agreed to some nebulous deal that I have no recollection off, and I was tossed into Sunnydale High School. The people who did this to me were also kind enough to tell me this city was founded on top of a hellmouth."
I let my words sink in for a few moments before I continued.
"I had a bit of information on the next greater event in the year for Sunnydale that would happen, the Halloween and the magical costumes incident. At this point my options where to either warn people in advance, or let it run it's course. The thing is, from what I gathered this event is tied to some prophecy chains in the nearby future and preventing it would cause more trouble than it's worth it, so instead I decided to take advantage of it."
"I knew more or less what would happen, so I took several costume pieces in order to make my own customized piece based on a proper character, considering the shop had a distinct lack of iconic costumes. I planned to put a message for the person I had become for him to take care of the halloween incident quickly, and I knew that once the statue of Janus would be broken the effects of the spell would give lasting consequences."
I said the last while looking at them all. "Before I continue though, what was the message Sol gave me?"
"Sol? That's his name?" She shook her head, "right, sorry. I think he said, 'when I come to visit here, if I don't like what I see you're dead', or something like that."
Well, fuck, looks like I became enough of an annoyance to Sol that he is entertaining paying me a visit. Considering what I have planned, he will try to gut me like a fish first thing he sees me. Well, I was expecting something along those lines, but as they say, all is fair in love and war.
"That's... oddly reassuring, in a way." I said making all other room occupants stare at me. "it meant I actually got the right person since I put Sol in a tight spot and he have reason to be angry to me. He read me too well, besides I don't think he's serious about the death threat anyway." Oh, I'm sure he will try to murder me at some point, but I doubt it isn't something that beating the shit out of each other with lethal intent won't solve. I mean, he does that with Ky all the time and they're both alive!
Yeah, right. I'm fucking boned.
"Anyway the consequence of destroying the statue of Janus instead of letting the spell fade on it's own is that the sudden influx of magic means some of the summoned aspects imprints on the user, meaning you gain some of their memories and their skills, and perhaps some of their supernatural traits if they had them. Since I was on the epicenter of the magical burst and I had set up a small bribe to Janus beforehand-"
"What was the last one?" Interrupted Giles, but I ignored him.
"- I actually regained a very large portion of Sol's skills and memories."
Which I wasn't being entirely honest about. Oh sure I had Sol memories and skills, I just didn't told them how deeply ingrained those skills and memories were. At the moment I still felt like myself, but even now some habits of Sol started to sink into me, like how by now I am really craving a good smoke.
I think that if things keep going, I will lose myself in his memories and life. The main problem is to balance his memories and expertize while still retaining my identity.
Besides, if I lose myself on his memories I doubt Sol would like the thought of a discount clone running around.
"You really put yourself at risk unnecessarily by pulling this stunt", finally said Giles, taking off his glasses and cleaning it once more. He did that at least five times during my talk. "You were lucky to have managed to gain the favor of a god of chaos like Janus."
"He's... really not?" I raised an eyebrow at him. "Janus is a god of gateways and beginnings, worshiped when new cycles would start, like at harvests or during the change between childhood to adulthood. I'm mostly certain that the reason calling this particular god ended in this mess had more to do with this being the hellmouth than with Janus being a god of chaos."
Giles nodded, taking his glasses out once more before muttering something under his breath.
Buffy choose this time to speak her mind. "How come you risked so much for power?" She said with disgust clear in her voice.
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe the fact that I learned the world is such a shithole", by now I learned to ignore Willow attempts to correct my foul language, "and the lowliest of the low monster in the evil totem pole can munch on a baseline human like bubblegum and the fact that the forces of darkness prevents the governments to take decisive action to hunt down this plague once and for all, and the few people that decide to take on them are labeled crazy lunatics at best, serial killers at worst, and finally that I had been thrust in this kind of world with no skills, no equipment, no power, no support? Well, I'm not going to ask for forgiveness for trying to tip the scales a little bit in my favor."
I looked at the others in my little rant. None of them looked particularly supportive of my choice, even if I hoped that Xander understood my desire to become stronger and survive the mess I'm in. Then again he could be weird like that sometimes, and I'm not really his friend at the moment.
"Still, it was reckless of you." Finally settled Giles.
"Reckless is to go to the supermarket across your street after dusk to buy groceries. Reckless is to walk around this town without a cross around your neck", I said while pointing at my own plain wooden cross I had since I came to Sunnydale. "Reckless is to pretend none of the dangers that plague the world are real, and living with your head buried in the sand. Reckless is to choose not to arm yourself when the enemies are at the gates and there is nobody to protect you."
At that, they had nothing to say.
"You could have walked away from all this", I heard Buffy mutter under her breath.
Oh Buffy, like I said we will get along swimmingly.
ryuan
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Except the fact that he wanted to get included in all this mess, of course. He's currently running both on SI and Sol logic, and for all of Sol posturing he's a good person who wants to help people.
As for Willow blurting out those things to him, that's the impression she gives to me from reading too much fanfiction. Like I said, it's been years since I last watched Buffy.
I can see that's a reasonable concern, but frankly I didn't wanted to beat around the bush for the plot to advance.
I should also mention that the SI planned to get involved with the Slayer gang sooner or later, this just made it sooner rather than later.
As for Willow blurting out those things to him, that's the impression she gives to me from reading too much fanfiction. Like I said, it's been years since I last watched Buffy.
I can see that's a reasonable concern, but frankly I didn't wanted to beat around the bush for the plot to advance.
I should also mention that the SI planned to get involved with the Slayer gang sooner or later, this just made it sooner rather than later.
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Awe, the scoobies don't like blunt truth. And even giles; notorious for rationalizing in fine tradition of the watchers, can't find fault with his actions. Said actions are going to have more consequences than he originally thought but it was a fucking sweet maneuver.
Now the SI has operate and train with the scoobies if he wants to get shit done.
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Now the SI has operate and train with the scoobies if he wants to get shit done.
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Perhaps governments didn't get involved but I never bought the "One girl alone..."
I never bought the whole Slayer is the only defense against the darkness bullshit line. Even with the Slayer power she is just a barely teenage girl with the only support being a Watcher, who only watches but doesn't participate at all.
To me it makes more sense that there were other independent group of Hunters, in the vein of Supernatural, roaming around doing their stuff plus several power organizations also doing their bits, in the vein of VanHelsing anime.
Another thing is that if you wanted to be involved you did not necessarily have to do it with the Slayer and group. You could use several semi competent teenagers to help out like future witch Amy, Jonathan and Andrew and Warren if you could control him so you could end up with high futuristic tech for help.
Thats if your SI would have remembered them.
I never bought the whole Slayer is the only defense against the darkness bullshit line. Even with the Slayer power she is just a barely teenage girl with the only support being a Watcher, who only watches but doesn't participate at all.
To me it makes more sense that there were other independent group of Hunters, in the vein of Supernatural, roaming around doing their stuff plus several power organizations also doing their bits, in the vein of VanHelsing anime.
Another thing is that if you wanted to be involved you did not necessarily have to do it with the Slayer and group. You could use several semi competent teenagers to help out like future witch Amy, Jonathan and Andrew and Warren if you could control him so you could end up with high futuristic tech for help.
Thats if your SI would have remembered them.
ryuan
From Zero to Hero!
I didn't remembered them, so my SI most likely didn't remember them. I'm writing the plot while reading the summary of the episode lists from the buffyguide.com site, so things will be a bit more episodic by necessity.
If I ever manage to go long enough to write a sequel to this story like Hiver does with his own pieces I will be able to get into a setting I'm more familiar with and which I can be more creative with the plot. As it is I started this because I was impulsive and wanted something for myself.
Still, I will take those considerations under review.
If I ever manage to go long enough to write a sequel to this story like Hiver does with his own pieces I will be able to get into a setting I'm more familiar with and which I can be more creative with the plot. As it is I started this because I was impulsive and wanted something for myself.
Still, I will take those considerations under review.
And in response to that last little bit of idiocy from buffy you respond with this:
ryuan
From Zero to Hero!
John Weddon likes his dominatrix like women for some reason. Must be the west version of the Shana phenomenon.
ryuan
From Zero to Hero!
The meeting had gone... alright for lack of better words. It could have gone better, but it could also have gone worse. I gave them warnings about their costumes and memories, advising them to try and cultivate and practice any skills they wished to keep and to make sure they didn't had mental contamination from the memories, like having dreams of fighting in wars or being spoiled little brats that thought the world revolved around themselves.
Xander almost imperceptibly winced at my remark, while Buffy eyebrow was twitching in annoyance. As for Willow I asked Giles if he could detect some kind of death or necromantic taint since Willow spent time as a ghost yesterday and we had no clear idea on what that meant for her.
"What about you then?" Finally said Buffy, "how are you going to handle your new memories and stuff?"
"I have my own ways to deal with it", I said and both Buffy and Giles looked skeptical of my claims, "the man I imprinted on was a super genius magical scientist with almost two centuries of experience."
"Oh really 'super genius'", said Buffy, "prove that you can actually back your claims. For all we know your abilities might work because of the halloween magic and not... because..."
I had in my hand a ball of fire that I soon shaped into the gear mark on Sol's forehead, silencing the people around me.
"Really now, you honestly didn't think that the very first thing I did was to make sure all that magical expertize I got from my imprint could be used, when I explicitly choose him for his skills and memories?"
Buffy frowned and crossed her arms before looking away.
"That's remarkable, really", said Giles after a while, "though I must insist that you learn how to control magic and learn it's rules."
At my chuckle Giles frowned, "is something funny?"
"I just think it's cute that you believe the things you consider magic come even remotely close to what I do. I don't work with intermediaries to grant me power to perform the spells, neither do I need to ask permission to the world for my magical effects to take hold. What I can do comes much closer to true magic where I merely impose my will on the universe and make it manifest, with reality having no say in it whatsoever. It is a truly miraculous energy and system that arose when the greatest minds tried to understand more of the universe."
"In the world were Sol came from, when the largest, strongest particle accelerator activated they didn't find the Higgs boson, they found Akasha." I shook my head, "if you want a rundown of the theory being Magic, that's capital M by the way, I can tell you later. Suffice to say that the consequences of using Magic are rather straightforward: if you make a bomb the consequence is that you have a bomb, and can either blow it up or use the threat of blowing it up to make people do things for you. If you set people on fire it means you're a pyromaniac instead of your fire powers mucking with your mind so that you solve all your problems with fire."
I really wish I had a cigar right now. "To put it simply Magic is a fundamental force of nature that can be shaped and harnessed for man's benefit, instead of being a mystical force that's the providence of gods, as counter-intuitive that might sound."
"I honestly doubt it is as miraculous as you make it sound", replied Giles with conviction in his voice, "magic always has a price."
I rolled my eyes but didn't wanted to get into a further discussion with him.
"Whatever, I will listen to your lecture later. Can I go? I still didn't had my lunch yet."
"Yes, yes. You can go and eat if you wish. I still have some things to talk about with Buffy. Please come back after classes for us to resume our discussion."
I nodded, and then went to the cafeteria to get my late lunch.
Now that I'm properly introduced to the slayer gang, I'm sure things will start to heat up soon enough. Which means research in a pre-wikipedia world and training with my somewhat sedentary body.
What a drag.
AN: A bit short, but after rewriting the chapter five times I said fuck it and posted what I got before I rewrote it once more. There will be another update today since technically this is yesterday update.
Xander almost imperceptibly winced at my remark, while Buffy eyebrow was twitching in annoyance. As for Willow I asked Giles if he could detect some kind of death or necromantic taint since Willow spent time as a ghost yesterday and we had no clear idea on what that meant for her.
"What about you then?" Finally said Buffy, "how are you going to handle your new memories and stuff?"
"I have my own ways to deal with it", I said and both Buffy and Giles looked skeptical of my claims, "the man I imprinted on was a super genius magical scientist with almost two centuries of experience."
"Oh really 'super genius'", said Buffy, "prove that you can actually back your claims. For all we know your abilities might work because of the halloween magic and not... because..."
I had in my hand a ball of fire that I soon shaped into the gear mark on Sol's forehead, silencing the people around me.
"Really now, you honestly didn't think that the very first thing I did was to make sure all that magical expertize I got from my imprint could be used, when I explicitly choose him for his skills and memories?"
Buffy frowned and crossed her arms before looking away.
"That's remarkable, really", said Giles after a while, "though I must insist that you learn how to control magic and learn it's rules."
At my chuckle Giles frowned, "is something funny?"
"I just think it's cute that you believe the things you consider magic come even remotely close to what I do. I don't work with intermediaries to grant me power to perform the spells, neither do I need to ask permission to the world for my magical effects to take hold. What I can do comes much closer to true magic where I merely impose my will on the universe and make it manifest, with reality having no say in it whatsoever. It is a truly miraculous energy and system that arose when the greatest minds tried to understand more of the universe."
"In the world were Sol came from, when the largest, strongest particle accelerator activated they didn't find the Higgs boson, they found Akasha." I shook my head, "if you want a rundown of the theory being Magic, that's capital M by the way, I can tell you later. Suffice to say that the consequences of using Magic are rather straightforward: if you make a bomb the consequence is that you have a bomb, and can either blow it up or use the threat of blowing it up to make people do things for you. If you set people on fire it means you're a pyromaniac instead of your fire powers mucking with your mind so that you solve all your problems with fire."
I really wish I had a cigar right now. "To put it simply Magic is a fundamental force of nature that can be shaped and harnessed for man's benefit, instead of being a mystical force that's the providence of gods, as counter-intuitive that might sound."
"I honestly doubt it is as miraculous as you make it sound", replied Giles with conviction in his voice, "magic always has a price."
I rolled my eyes but didn't wanted to get into a further discussion with him.
"Whatever, I will listen to your lecture later. Can I go? I still didn't had my lunch yet."
"Yes, yes. You can go and eat if you wish. I still have some things to talk about with Buffy. Please come back after classes for us to resume our discussion."
I nodded, and then went to the cafeteria to get my late lunch.
Now that I'm properly introduced to the slayer gang, I'm sure things will start to heat up soon enough. Which means research in a pre-wikipedia world and training with my somewhat sedentary body.
What a drag.
AN: A bit short, but after rewriting the chapter five times I said fuck it and posted what I got before I rewrote it once more. There will be another update today since technically this is yesterday update.
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Sometimes it's just better to bulldoze through a problem rather than wait for it to pass 
I like the guy's attitude. Is Sol going to fuck with him later?
I like the guy's attitude. Is Sol going to fuck with him later?
Create wikipedia. Hell steal crappie from vampire cripes and then sell it off for cash and invest in markets and companies you know do well and your more then set for life living off of the interest you could earn.
johnwedd
Above Average man
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It always erked me how magic, especially in the buff-verse, had not evolved. Yeah magic has a cost, but by there own admittion it's fucking every where.
The guilty gear verse used a scientific model when researching magic, thus the cost for magic is less paying outragoues prices to deities to get power; and more paying a specific price to get a.result.
In essence, treating it as a freemarket economy where worth quantified into a magical currency. As apposed to pray to gods like feudal lords that may or may not give you what you want.
Less barter more accounting.
The guilty gear verse used a scientific model when researching magic, thus the cost for magic is less paying outragoues prices to deities to get power; and more paying a specific price to get a.result.
In essence, treating it as a freemarket economy where worth quantified into a magical currency. As apposed to pray to gods like feudal lords that may or may not give you what you want.
Less barter more accounting.
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So the more classical Magic Spells cost mana instead of the highly unorthodox and slippery Magic Spells cost a sacrifice.
Why would Sol come to the story when he should be in another universe entirely unless the man has the means to traverse universes.
The most the SI can do is steal a Guilty Gear arcade machine and hook it up at the library so they can see who Sol is.
I also thought that Yu was gonna call Giles about Willow when he mention the part about getting training and being careful, considering she pretty much went without training unless it was behind cameras.
Why would Sol come to the story when he should be in another universe entirely unless the man has the means to traverse universes.
The most the SI can do is steal a Guilty Gear arcade machine and hook it up at the library so they can see who Sol is.
I also thought that Yu was gonna call Giles about Willow when he mention the part about getting training and being careful, considering she pretty much went without training unless it was behind cameras.
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ryuan
From Zero to Hero!
At this point I believe she isn't a proper witch yet, and can't do much on it.
I'm not sure if each season is six months or one year, but Guilty Gear: The Missing Link came out in 1998 for Playstation only. Nobody should have any idea on what it means.
As for Sol being summoned, do remember that A) Yu was dropped on the Buffy universe by unknown means and B) Janus is the god of beginnings and gateways.
I'm not sure if each season is six months or one year, but Guilty Gear: The Missing Link came out in 1998 for Playstation only. Nobody should have any idea on what it means.
As for Sol being summoned, do remember that A) Yu was dropped on the Buffy universe by unknown means and B) Janus is the god of beginnings and gateways.