I wasn't, but you wouldn't be the first.linkhyrule5 said:(On a side note, was the only one who did a double-take at "Kamijou" and wondered what Kamijou Kyousuke was doing here?)
Look on the "plus" side; Saten is so computer illiterate there's a fair chance she'll get caught up in the increased monitoring activity. I mean, we're dealing with someone who didn't even know what torrents were when she went looking; that means she won't have taken any precautions, and if Academy City monitors its students' searches, then she'll have "tried to search for 'Level Plus', blocked by censors, then went and torrented something for the first time" + "is level 0" on her file. And they'll be doing increased monitoring right after a terrorist bombing.NotAlwaysFanfic said:
Considering the opening lines? It's the real deal.EarthScorpion said:
I wouldn't put down her lack of knowledge about torrents or FLAC files as being computer illiterate, considering this is set more than ten years from now. Computer technology changes over time - if something better than bittorrent or flac came out tomorrow, do you think anyone below the age of twenty would know what they were in ten years? It'd be like me asking whether you know what a .mod or a .s3m file is, or any of the other similar formats.EarthScorpion said:
There's "improved" and "expanded upon", and then there's "flat-out unrecognizable". Something like 37% of Uiharu's character is being flustered. We're introduced to her by way of her flustered. The bits in her story where she rushes to confront a mad scientist powered by a giant esper fetus, or stands up to a psychotic Level 5, or etc etc, are made all the more awesome by the fact that most of the time she's, well, Uiharu. Pretty much the only one of her friends she isn't routinely flustered by is Kuroko. "Flustered" is a perfect adjective for her.Shockz said:
And compare it to the scene your avatar comes from.Chapter 3 said:
I agree with you that this felt a bit off to me, but just to play devil's advocate, it might be partially a result of culture difference between canon AC and this version's AC. Individual espers seem to be played up more here, even given Misaka's canon celebrity as the 'face' of the level 5 and AC as a whole; here this has been ramped up to the point that there are illegal Chinese knockoff goods bearing Misaka's image floating around. Saten demonstrates a rather non-canon streak of blatant esper worship possibly as a result. Meanwhile, Uiharu's oujou-sama worship is absent, perhaps in part because that 'elite' status gets less play in comparison to the individual celebrity of particular espers. It might also reflect the fact that the characters are older, but since this Saten has known Uiharu for much longer than canon Saten it seems like Saten would know if Uiharu had just grown out of her awkward phase.Revlid said:
...I liked emacs.iospace said:
Stop. This is not the place for it.
This Uiharu has found a use for her power that is both valuable and something only she can do. It's not odd that she has a ton more self-confidence as a result.Revlid said:
Apologies on that; that really is something that I need to clearly explain in-story. Anti-Skill is essentially ACPD's SWAT division, though it's much larger and much more heavily equipped than most.allfictions said:Excellent chapter as always. Nice to see more of your Saten.
...and as always, another useless review
Gotta practice on this.
However, I am still confused over whether ACPD and Anti-Skill are 2 different things in this universe or the same thing under different name ('ACPD' being the official one). The last chapter seemed to suggest that my former assumption was the right one, but now the lines blurred again in this chapter. I'm sure it's just me reading incorrectly, so can anyone show me the light and dispell my ignorance?
Heh, no, her first search was on Google. (The warning she got is pretty much copied from Google's "Results have been removed because of a DMCA request" message.)
You're absolutely right; I've pretty much thrown out Uiharu's canon personality, and--right now--for what looks like no good reason. There are a few reasons, most of which I'm not going to go into right now, but one is that I simply didn't think canon Uiharu's personality fit with the role she's going to take in the story. (Put it this way; this Uiharu used to be a lot more like canon Uiharu; then she joined Judgement and spent a couple years working with Kuroko, Konori-senpai, and the rest of 177th Branch.)Revlid said:
I kinda thought you were purging the moe the way you purged the rest of the fanservice.Shockz said:
Well, here and now--believe it or not--Yahoo! is still the most popular search engine in Japan (though it's run by a separate company from Yahoo US), though Google.co.jp runs a close second. (Youtube is also more popular than NicoNicoDouga; NND just caters better to the otaku crowd.)allfictions said:
Indeed, at least she knew enough to try to look for other search engines. That's not really something you usually encounter on fiction, you can be a Hollywood's usual magical hacker that can somehow hack things that shouldn't even be connected to the internet, but using other search engines outside the default fake Google variant? Damn, that's thinking outside the box.iospace said:
Um, wow. Cute, but perhaps an example of 'all canon espers are crazy in some way, to various degrees,' yes?universalperson said:
Theory or way out abstraction?Blackraptor said:
Huh. We could make a game of coming up with nightmarishly horrifying explanations for the weirder quirks of the characters. Maybe Kuroko is actually hoping that Mikoto will kill her to end her suffering (what is she suffering from, though?), or something.Blackraptor said:
You suggest there may be a Troll in the flower garden?universalperson said:
Speaking of the head garden, I seem to remember a piece of fan art somewhere comparing how Kazari's flower garden changes as she grows up. First it was a flower on the head band, next was the canon flower wreath and I think a third scene where she was older and the flowers had grown as well.universalperson said:
I think that was an actual 4-panel omake comic done in the the magazine that railgun runs in; just author trolling really ^_^;.jwolfe said:
Actually in canon this is explicitly not the case. Though they don't tell anyone about it (since it would ruin their image), when it was up and running Tree Diagram could actually predict with a fair amount of accuracy the maximum level that any given esper would ever be able to achieve when provided with a given amount of support (drugs, surgery, Testament treatments, etc.) This data was compiled into something called the 'Parameters List.' So even if they knew that a particular level 0 would never advance with the amount of support provided by the standard curriculum, they never told anyone. In canon esper powers really are a super power lottery, regardless of whether an esper starts at their max level or has to grind their way up - but that aspect of it is hidden behind smoke and mirrors to keep the desperate hooked into the game. This makes the viewpoint held by many 'nice' espers such as Mikoto and Kuroko - that those without powers 'just aren't working hard enough' - ring a bit hollow.Antumbra said:
Yeah, it really does seem like they are trying to make it just elicit and difficult enough to find that people will try very hard to obtain and use it.Antumbra said:
Hmm... Hei, maybe? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DarkerThanBlackDarth Artemis said:
Thanks. Do you remember what chapter/volume it was in? Omake or not it was funny.Alhazred23 said:
If Misaka does end up getting to level 6 from the MISAKA Network, she probably owes an apology of sorts to Saten.Alhazred23 said:
I'm not sure she needs to apologize for that since Kihara Gensei forced it on her, but her answer to the collected despair of the AIM burst angel - begging the desperate low-levels in the Level Upper network to stop feeling sorry for themselves and 'try again' - comes off as extremely hypocritical and condescending, if unwittingly so (since Mikoto has no idea that the system is designed to only really support the sure bets like her). I do wonder how much of this rigged game transfers over to this fic's world; it feels like the 46% figure that Saten was able to dig up is at least a little more favorable than canon odds, if it's true.Aranfan said:
Sorry, i've been digging for it but i can't find it. The manga author did a bunch of 'What could Uiharu's power be?' strips when S1 of Railgun was running and it was leaked that Uiharu's power would be revealed before the end of it, but i can only find the one where she would basically gain Juufuku Miho's enhanced Dummy Check power whenever she took off her headband.jwolfe said:
Ah - well, no real light in sight at the end of the tunnel yet, then.RedSurv said:
