Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

[X] Professional – Pant suit and an adorable fedora. Slaying monsters is just a regular day at the office for this Guardian Beast.

[X] Masque for the cape name

[X] Roxy for normal name


Roxy is insofar as I can tell the female name equivalent of Rocky
 
[X] Bii
[X] Skimpy – Tiny shorts and a reallytight shirt. This is something a mother should never wear, especially not in public, but she will not be denied

:p
 
[X] Professional – Pant suit and an adorable fedora. Slaying monsters is just a regular day at the office for this Guardian Beast.

[X] Masque for the cape name

[X] Rachel Procyon

I heard women in suits were a potential thing so I came as quickly as I could.





 
[X] Professional – Pant suit and an adorable fedora. Slaying monsters is just a regular day at the office for this Guardian Beast.
 
[X] Professional – Pant suit and an adorable fedora. Slaying dragon is just a regular day at the office for this Guardian Beast.

[X] Tanuki
 
[X] Rose
[X] Flowing – Loose robes and cloth pants. It isn't the most practical outfit, but it's definitely elegant.
 
[X] Lenore for human form and Masque for cape identity

I just like the sound of Lenore.

[X] Flowing – Loose robes and cloth pants. It isn't the most practical outfit, but it's definitely elegant.

To help hide the tail. Maybe she should still get a hat for the ears, though...
 

It is stored in the Linker Core, an unusual structure of nerve tissue found in the spinal column of magic-capable creatures or sapients.

Huh, so you're not taking the non-biological approach. Other fics often treat the Linker Core is an extradimensional organ. Or is Perfect Storm just simplifying things?


Vote: So it looks like SB is bandwagoning around Samantha, while SV is mixed on Silvia vs Rachel, and some want a cape name of Masque...

[X] Flowing – Loose robes and cloth pants. It isn't the most practical outfit, but it's definitely elegant.
[X] Masque for the cape name
[X] Rachel Procyon for normal name because Procyon lotor is the Latin name for raccoon.
 
[X] Casual – Jeans and a tee shirt. Easy to grab replacements off the shelves, but not remarkable in any way.
 
[x]Sylvia
[X] Flowing – Loose robes and cloth pants. It isn't the most practical outfit, but it's definitely elegant.
 
Choose your Guardian Beast's name
[jk] Snooki the Tanuki

[X] Claire

[X] Skimpy – Tiny shorts and a really tight shirt. This is something a mother should never wear, especially not in public, but she will not be denied.

Miss bombshell could desecrate the history behind the name Claire, which is said to date way back to a devoted nun. Claire might cause traffic accidents with skimpy outfits, sensually bite into a long éclair, have its cream drip onto her face, and become PHO waifu. And make every couple feel insecure and jealous for teh lulz. Except Legend.
Or wear a nun's outfit if flowing is selected.
Casual? Mom jeans? More like "Mama mia! Look at those Apple Bottoms!"
Professional suit? Profess sin now! At confessional! And have a lawsuit for harassment!
 
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[X] Professional – Pant suit and an adorable fedora. Slaying monsters is just a regular day at the office for this Guardian Beast.
[X] Masque for the cape name.
[X] Rachel Procyon for normal name because Procyon lotor is the Latin name for raccoon.
 
Huh, so you're not taking the non-biological approach. Other fics often treat the Linker Core is an extradimensional organ. Or is Perfect Storm just simplifying things?
Call me crazy, but the idea of having a biological organ, along with all its associated blood vessels and nerves and mana channels, shunted off in another dimension just seems like a recipe for trouble. And with all the autopsies that have been done over the centuries, including the dissections done every year by anatomists and medical students, I just can't help but feel that someone would have noticed it. So instead it's all sitting nice and pretty in the spinal column, and because it's a nervous structure inside another nervous structure, it's easier to ignore as a benign anomaly when it is found.
 
[X] Tanuki

[X] Skimpy – Tiny shorts and a reallytight shirt. This is something a mother should never wear, especially not in public, but she will not be denied
 
Call me crazy, but the idea of having a biological organ, along with all its associated blood vessels and nerves and mana channels, shunted off in another dimension just seems like a recipe for trouble. And with all the autopsies that have been done over the centuries, including the dissections done every year by anatomists and medical students, I just can't help but feel that someone would have noticed it. So instead it's all sitting nice and pretty in the spinal column, and because it's a nervous structure inside another nervous structure, it's easier to ignore as a benign anomaly when it is found.

See, that explanation actually violates my SoD more than just handwavey "extradimensional organ", since a small extremely-hard-to-detect-yet-fully-represented-in-our-three-dimensions biological organ responsible for magic bullshit is just, well, hard to justify my belief in.

There's a reason why technobabble works - it allows you to invoke SoD yet defy current understandings of science. After all, "extradimensional" (or rather "multi-dimensional") is that working technobabble that applies to parahuman powers, plus that implied hidden dimensional connection to a massive fragment of a titanic being.

I actually prefer just side-stepping the problem of what a Linker Core actually is. The more you try to specify what it is in real world terms, the more risk you have of triggering someone's sense of realism. It should only really be elaborated on if it's important to the plot or for establishing internal consistency in a setting (e.g. in crossovers between MGLN and another universe that also has magic).
 
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See, that explanation actually violates my SoD more than just handwavey "extradimensional organ", since a small extremely-hard-to-detect-yet-fully-represented-in-our-three-dimensions biological organ responsible for magic bullshit is just, well, hard to justify my belief in.

There's a reason why technobabble works - it allows you to invoke SoD yet defy current understandings of science. After all, "extradimensional" (or rather "multi-dimensional") is that working technobabble that applies to parahuman powers, plus that implied hidden dimensional connection to a massive fragment of a titanic being.

I actually prefer just side-stepping the problem of what a Linker Core actually is. The more you try to specify what it is in real world terms, the more risk you have of triggering someone's sense of realism. It should only really be elaborated on if it's important to the plot or for establishing internal consistency in a setting (e.g. in crossovers between MGLN and another universe that also has magic).
I agree. I treat it as a slightly out of phase from the rest of the body organ. Hell, one of the more simple things they do with magic, well maybe not simple, but its definitely a base technique, is the dimensionally shift/shunt/phase everything in an area. Seems to me that Nanoha magic is inclined to dimensional shifting, so an organ designed to hold mana? *Shrug*
 
[X] Flowing – Loose robes and cloth pants. It isn't the most practical outfit, but it's definitely elegant.
 
See, that explanation actually violates my SoD more than just handwavey "extradimensional organ", since a small extremely-hard-to-detect-yet-fully-represented-in-our-three-dimensions biological organ responsible for magic bullshit is just, well, hard to justify my belief in.

There's a reason why technobabble works - it allows you to invoke SoD yet defy current understandings of science. After all, "extradimensional" (or rather "multi-dimensional") is that working technobabble that applies to parahuman powers, plus that implied hidden dimensional connection to a massive fragment of a titanic being.

I actually prefer just side-stepping the problem of what a Linker Core actually is. The more you try to specify what it is in real world terms, the more risk you have of triggering someone's sense of realism. It should only really be elaborated on if it's important to the plot or for establishing internal consistency in a setting (e.g. in crossovers between MGLN and another universe that also has magic).
I agree. I treat it as a slightly out of phase from the rest of the body organ. Hell, one of the more simple things they do with magic, well maybe not simple, but its definitely a base technique, is the dimensionally shift/shunt/phase everything in an area. Seems to me that Nanoha magic is inclined to dimensional shifting, so an organ designed to hold mana? *Shrug*
*shrugs* Different strokes for different folks. I can't help but see things like this through the lens of anatomy and medicine, but people like you with different education and interest view it another way. No explanation is ever going to please everybody, and that's okay.

Thankfully, what the Linker Core actually is is completely irrelevant to the larger story, so I highly, highly doubt that it will ever come up again.
 
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*shrugs* Different strokes for different folks. I can't help but see things like this through the lens of anatomy and medicine, but people like you with different education and interest view it another way. No explanation is ever going to please everybody, and that's okay.

Thankfully, what the Linker Core actually is is completely irrelevant to the larger story, so I highly, highly doubt that it will ever come up again.
Right, time to break/fracture our spinal column and make the GM eat his words.
 
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