Hahaha
Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)
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- Wisconsin
Erika trying to literally saw through her costume and damaging everything but the costume is hilarious. I was honestly expecting a bit more disrobing as she tried to get a better look and feel for the main outfit but maybe that'll come later.
Though now I have the amusing thought of Erika removing all of her outfit and somehow getting stuck in her 'power up mode' so her hair is constantly in it's Cure style.
Though now I have the amusing thought of Erika removing all of her outfit and somehow getting stuck in her 'power up mode' so her hair is constantly in it's Cure style.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Given that the shoes of her Pretty Cure costume's show a tendency to dissolve into the magic mist from which they came under conditions outside standard operating parameters...
Erika is now very understandably reluctant to take off the main dress itself for experimental purposes.
Tsubomi's grandmother would absolutely lend her some old clothes in an emergency, but it's not a good situation to be in. So she'll be focusing on the accessories for research in the short term.
Furthermore, while UsagiQuest as a whole is kind of PG-13, TsubomiQuest runs on more of a PG paradigm with at most occasional subtle nods to the fact that the adult characters may do adult things.
This is in keeping with the fact that the main protagonist's romantic fantasy dreams undergo total mental meltdown at the level of "the lean, bold, mysterious stranger-protector draws you into an embrace under the moonlight" and go no further.
So if Erika were to take off her Cure Marine dress to experiment on it, you'd be getting an entirely off-camera description of the results and aftermath, after she'd found something else to wear and/or detransformed back into her civilian clothes.
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- Painting, Peach's Castle
Aaaand we discover that Erika is very dedicated!
Too dedicated. Sweet Mother of Mary.
Also, surprised the Hacksaw survived. At least in that it's still an intact hacksaw, if not very functional.
I expected far worse collateral!
Also, pretty sure the only way she's fully cracking open a Pretty Cure cuff is if she wrapped it around some dynamite and then lit it off.
Too dedicated. Sweet Mother of Mary.
Also, surprised the Hacksaw survived. At least in that it's still an intact hacksaw, if not very functional.
I expected far worse collateral!
Also, pretty sure the only way she's fully cracking open a Pretty Cure cuff is if she wrapped it around some dynamite and then lit it off.
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
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- She/Her
You slipped into third person a few times.
PG with subtle nods to the fact that the adult characters may do adult things.
Doubt that'd work. She needs to borrow a magical girl's sword.
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- Location
- San Ramon, CA
Erika: Fashion is serious business!
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Oh, crapbaskets. I knew I'd missed some even as I got most of them. Fixed- and particularly thank you for pointing out the second one; I rewrote that line and didn't finish rewriting it, so it came out rather garbled.
There was, it must be noted, a period in 1947 during which Kaoruko was both a Pretty Cure and a married woman in her early twenties at the same time.
When Erika decides to undertake a project, she takes it very seriously. She's often a slacker about other things, but... what I just said.
Hacksaws generally have replaceable blades, precisely because you normally use them to cut things (like pieces of metal) that will dull even very tough, very sharp blades very quickly.
Dynamite might well have been less effective than prolonged hacksawing. Concussive force is not really the answer here.
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FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
- Location
- Tennessee
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Atleast Erika didn't try using her teeth. Explaining a missing tooth would be awkward.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
The problem there is that for Erika's purposes that wouldn't give her an intact, functional item to examine, nor would it selectively damage or take apart the bits that are in the way without doing the same to the bits she wants to inspect.
Well, that plus the only people on Team Good with a working copy are the Sailor Senshi and they only have one because Ami broke the other one.
If Erika had tried to fray or otherwise open up a part of her costume with her teeth, she wouldn't have gotten better results for her purposes, but she wouldn't have lost a tooth.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Now THAT you could probably use as a seam ripper on a Pretty Cure outfit if you got clever with the leverage... but it'd be damned unwieldy.
It bears remembering that threats like "hypersharp cut-anything blades" were not an unknown concept to the designers and that the outfit/armor is designed to fail gracefully under most reasonably foreseeable threats, subject to the limits of the wearer's power.
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Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
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- She/Her
On the other hand, Precure outfits weren't unknown to the designers of that hypersharp cut-anything blade, so it might not be that cut and dry.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Now that you mention it, yes; Beryl was presumably designing magic weapons that were capable of punching through the functional equivalent of "power armor for magical champions" if you used it right.
It all comes down to the details... and to the practicality of using a spear as a seam ripper or something similar.
Honestly, if you're looking at non-destructive ways to get a look at the mid-layer, maybe taking a rubbing like it's an archeological inscription would be the better way than trying to find more and more sharp and strong things to rip it apart with your own body strength. I suspect a precure trying to rip her own seams is a bit like trying to lift herself by her heel-straps into the air.
I also think that any attempt to get Erika and s-e-x in the same scene will result in a repeat of the Monty Python 'Say No More' sketch. Or maybe in her mock-retching at it like she does when her dad gets lovey-dovery for her mom.
I also think that any attempt to get Erika and s-e-x in the same scene will result in a repeat of the Monty Python 'Say No More' sketch. Or maybe in her mock-retching at it like she does when her dad gets lovey-dovery for her mom.
Giving it some thought, I'd expect that - if the outfit is designed to be taken apart at all - it would have some specific disassembly process. Something like take the entire outfit off, then apply these precise amounts of precisely attuned energies at these specific points on the inside of the dress, then the accessories "detach" and the layers peel themselves open.
Grue
滅亡迅雷
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Step 1: Get a change of clothes for the Precure form.
2: Track down Ryoga Hibiki.
3: Have Ryoga Breaking Point the Cure outfit(once changed out of it)
4: ???
5: Profit
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
That's a reasonable characterization, though I'm not saying it's impossible to succeed that way.
But as forms of magic armor go, Pretty Cure costumes are pretty far down the list when it comes to "user-serviceable, right-to-repair-friendly." Not least because the transformation artifact generates a whole new costume/armor for you every time you use it, so you don't really need to do repairs one would hope!
Yeah. I'm not saying Erika's ace in the long run, and I'm pretty darn certain she's not aromantic. But she's got a constant supply of things that she gets very enthusiastic about and if any particular boy, girl, or C-neither-of-the-above person is on that list as a love interest, that was like... a lot of things ago and she's not really interested right now. So much to do!
That probably won't change within the game timeline.
Good luck with that plan... on multiple levels.
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- Location
- USA
[x] Escape Plan
So, that's confirmed that Coupe is at least as old to have lived within memory of the Silver Millenium, if not be an outright survivor of the Fall.
No, that's Coupe confirmed to be part of an Oral Tradition stretching back that far.
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Plan Belay Rope takes it then.