Transposition, or: Ship Happens [Worm/Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio | Arpeggio of Blue Steel]
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IT'S BEAUTIFUL! IT'S GREAT! I'M PROBABLY GOING TO REREAD THIS BECAUSE I'VE FORGOTTEN EVERYTHING! YAY! Anyway, yes, I did forget everything. Time for another pretty enjoyable reread.
eschwartz
Glorious Wordsmith and Author-Whisperer
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Just going to add my voice to the people saying this was a great introduction for Amy into the world of actually being a useful combatant... and I really look forward to seeing how she continues.
All my this.
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More generally, I cannot wait to see what Carol's reaction is going to be. General consensus in the fandom seems to be that she is very suspicious of Amy doing anything that looks like getting into conflict and *definitely* anything that is less PR-friendly than simple healing, out of paranoia that she'll become a villain. But at least here, it's probably not going to go that way, if simply because that reaction has to fight with "thank you for attacking the villain with an animated tree so you could get to me and heal me from being very hurt", so... what are the next steps here? And just how paranoid is this Carol?
All my this.
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More generally, I cannot wait to see what Carol's reaction is going to be. General consensus in the fandom seems to be that she is very suspicious of Amy doing anything that looks like getting into conflict and *definitely* anything that is less PR-friendly than simple healing, out of paranoia that she'll become a villain. But at least here, it's probably not going to go that way, if simply because that reaction has to fight with "thank you for attacking the villain with an animated tree so you could get to me and heal me from being very hurt", so... what are the next steps here? And just how paranoid is this Carol?
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Takareer
Words and feathers
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Nice chapter! There were three things that I noticed, though:
This seems really odd; what can't Taylor do? Sure, she may not be aware of the best thing to do, but it's weird for her to see herself as powerless.
How would this work? If you swung the blade against something, surely it would cleave through the nanomaterial just like it would cleave its target?
I'm confused as to how much growing the tree did... if it was a lot, where did the biomass come from? More importantly, since Panacea didn't put the tree back, why does no one notice the weird deformed tree that just appeared? If the tree only grew a little, how did it stop Menja?
John Tarsitano
Iron Scout
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Dear Ensou,
Wow, what a way to come back to this story! Someone (possibly Coil) just unmasks the Nazi capes and a bunch of others and all heck is going to be breaking loose. You not only got the hero off of the cliff(hanger), but had an epic battle waiting for them...for the hero to meet with a smile and a come at me gesture. Then you had Amy go Poison Ivy on one of the twins and showing once again you do not make the person who patches up people mad at you, for they know how to take you apart as well.
Also, will Taylor offer to make New Wave better costumes, after seen how unarmored most of them are or will you have Victoria ask her tinker buddy for something to keep her sister safe (that spirals into everyone getting better suits)? It always seemed like New Wave got lazy with their defense gear as they had access to the worlds best healer and an Alexandria light. You could also have Amy just grow her own set of protective gear (think iron man meets swamp thing or even something like the Cyberman made of wood that the Cybermen fielded at Trenselor). She could even explain away her new bio-tinker ability for plants as a second trigger...
Taylor's new body performed well too and makes me wonder what she could build to help fight larger enemies. I picture a mini-cherno alpha (built with the same material as Taylor's new body), punching Leviathan in the face, like a boss, while her ship self peppers him with overwhelming firepower. Its even cannon as one of the Fog built a self replicating robot army in the comic version. Sure they were more like giant rock'em sock'em robots, but quantity has a quality of its own.
Thank you for letting us read your work and I can't wait to read more of it.
Sincerely
John
PS. Also Happy Halloween.
Wow, what a way to come back to this story! Someone (possibly Coil) just unmasks the Nazi capes and a bunch of others and all heck is going to be breaking loose. You not only got the hero off of the cliff(hanger), but had an epic battle waiting for them...for the hero to meet with a smile and a come at me gesture. Then you had Amy go Poison Ivy on one of the twins and showing once again you do not make the person who patches up people mad at you, for they know how to take you apart as well.
Also, will Taylor offer to make New Wave better costumes, after seen how unarmored most of them are or will you have Victoria ask her tinker buddy for something to keep her sister safe (that spirals into everyone getting better suits)? It always seemed like New Wave got lazy with their defense gear as they had access to the worlds best healer and an Alexandria light. You could also have Amy just grow her own set of protective gear (think iron man meets swamp thing or even something like the Cyberman made of wood that the Cybermen fielded at Trenselor). She could even explain away her new bio-tinker ability for plants as a second trigger...
Taylor's new body performed well too and makes me wonder what she could build to help fight larger enemies. I picture a mini-cherno alpha (built with the same material as Taylor's new body), punching Leviathan in the face, like a boss, while her ship self peppers him with overwhelming firepower. Its even cannon as one of the Fog built a self replicating robot army in the comic version. Sure they were more like giant rock'em sock'em robots, but quantity has a quality of its own.
Thank you for letting us read your work and I can't wait to read more of it.
Sincerely
John
PS. Also Happy Halloween.
Neruz
Rogue Spiderbanana
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- The Land of Fire and Poison
Its roots probably, depending on the type of tree the roots can account for anywhere from a third to over three quarters of the tree's actual physical mass. Combine that with some biological restructuring so that it maintains sufficient strength even as it gets longer and thinner and you've got yourself a
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Not necessarily. It wouldn't work for the same reason knives don't cut right through sheathes. Because the sword widens from the edge and the nanomaterial is in contact with that. It hits something and the nanomaterial distributes the force to the sword body instead of the edge itself. It's basically a second edge.
ever seen Ben 10 Alien force?
Alayne
The Reader
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She creates shield panels that are stationary in the air unless she wants to move them. Which Haruna at least could do well enough to imitate a telekinetic. They aren't bound to a specific distance from her body unless she wants them to be.
If you want an example then I think it was ep 8 of the Arpeggio anime where Kongou used it to waterwalk by placing panels a short bit above the water surface.
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
-why? It's not like they can kill themselves with their power. Likely the worst that could happen is dislocated joints.-
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Nice! I think this is definitely a crossroads for Carol as a mother here- does seeing Amy bail her out of her own mistake and save the day help her snap out of it and actually start being a freaking mother for Amy... or does Amy controlling the tree (I don't recall if she's done anything near that scale before) set off her paranoid Marquilbog nutzo mode and freak out about the coming of the Scarlet Queen?
luca scaccia65
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And Relentless answering she's basically a nanite swarm since triggering.
I wonder what for structures Panacea could create using biological ways of production, I mean, just look at Canon Worm Taylor her costume.
And that makes me wonder what Panacea & Relentless can create together, you know.
For some reason I am looking at nBSG it's Bio-Cylon it's units, like say that bio-heavy-raider design.
It would mix living biological structures with nano-material structures, so both of them can use it.
I do think there is a mist change in terms of nano-materials limiting her hull size, a bit, you know.
That T-1 class would have been perfect to showcase this problem, while any ad-on hull futures could have shown her increasing her supply of nano-materials till she had enough for a bigger hull.
Anyway, these links may still be of use, if only in terms of possible hull modifications, qua shape.
Would give her something to work on and giving Armsmaster, Dragon & Kid Win, something to do, in terms of figuring out what the hell she has on board her hull.
T-1-class submarine - Wikipedia
USS Mackerel (SST-1) - Wikipedia
USS Marlin (SST-2) - Wikipedia
American submarine NR-1 - Wikipedia
USS Barbero - Wikipedia
USS Cusk - Wikipedia
USS Sealion (SS-315) - Wikipedia
USS Baya - Wikipedia
Balao-class submarine - Wikipedia
British T-class submarine - Wikipedia
I-201-class submarine - Wikipedia
Japanese submarine I-58 (1943) - Wikipedia
Type XXI submarine - Wikipedia
Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program - Wikipedia
As for a fun pun to I-401 her upgrade to Yamato class...
Maximum battleship - Wikipedia
But if you really want to get people scratching their heads.....
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Taylor told Leah to get comfortable and left her in Taylor's room. Odds are decent Leah was lying on Taylor's bed. Now picture Danny waking up to check on Taylor only to find Leah on her bed. Some quick talking to explain that no she isn't sleeping with Taylor and just where Taylor has sneaked off to would explain her removing the mic.
I was surprised when reading the end of the fight to see that Relentless didn't seem to escalate when Brandish was injured and it looked like Menja would escape. It is fine to practice when you are untouchable and your side is winning but once her allies started going down I'd have expected Relentless to step things up.
Amy's bit in capturing Menja still works fine since even ramped up Taylor wouldn't be willing to seriously harm Fenja so that would provide enough of a delay. But as is the single line:
doesn't really make it feel like Relentless had actually started using her wave force and such and was just continuing to play around with her sword.