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  1. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Convinced him….by telling him that there's unrest in the city already and they need their leader at the helm in case of any other random acts of Epics, perhaps?
  2. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Have her brief him on the way? Delegate the organization of the neutralization team to someone else? Some combination of the two?
  3. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    But I thought Megan was the one who provided the nightmare/weakness connection. When she tells him "I still have nightmares about that day...ask them what their nightmares are about."
  4. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    I wish I was better at translating these things.
  5. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    "Yay! More!" Meanwhile, he predicts her entire character arc.
  6. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    I'm imagining Funtimes sitting across the table from him, perhaps while he's tied to a chair, clapping her hands and saying "Again, again!" as he makes yet another gibberish prediction.
  7. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    To douse him in acid! Try to tell me it wasn't for a good cause. Try. See? You can't.
  8. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Or the inciting incident could've happened years before, completely separate from school. Maybe Paul had a father or an uncle or a grandfather who abused and terrorized him, responding to Paul's attempts to stand up for himself with "You think I'm afraid of you?" Paul could've taken out his fear on his fellow students, keeping them in fear of him to assuage his own fears. I'm not saying the school shooting incident isn't plausible, because it is; I'm just pointing out another way he could've had that fear instilled in him. While I'm pointing things out, I might as well say that it is really, really weird to think of a muscular seven-foot giant of a man as Paul.
  9. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Another reason why I don't think the water fear was a red herring is because its development acts as a road map to how Epic fears develop. First, David realizes he's afraid of water. He doesn't like it, doesn't like the idea of sinking into it, hates the idea of Regalia watching him, but the fear doesn't rule him or anything. Then, the trauma. Obliteration attempts to drown him, intensifying his fear tenfold. After that comes the spyril. This I don't think is a parallel to how fears work in the real world; rather, I think it was meant to showcase how Epic powers provide artificial empowerment over their fears. David was exposed to the water, and he used it to make the spyril work, but he never actually had to face his fear of water. With the spyril, he was able to master the water, but his fear remained. While all this is going on, we see David's fear of water congeal into anger when he stares down Obliteration through his rifle scope. The hatred he feels parallels the hatred Epics feel for those who set off their fears—Sourcefield's anger toward the Reckoners for reminding her of a cult, Steelheart's anger toward David's father for reminding him of whatever fearless person traumatized him. And then David faces his fear. He makes a choice, freely and knowingly embracing the water to further what he believes is the right course of action. It turns out to be a trap, but in this case, the joke's on Calamity because David escapes his clutches. His choice to stop running, stop using the spyril as a crutch, allows him to master his fear and thwart Regalia's plan.
  10. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    You…. I…. I don't know what to say. I…I'd judge you, but my own shameful secret precludes me from that luxury. How many more *shudder* literate men are there in this game, anyway?
  11. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    When I was homeschooled, I used a curriculum from a Christian school (BJU, I think). The reading books were collections of short stories, where we got two fantasy stories a year and they were almost always about talking animals or talking food. Something was talking that shouldn't be talking. Anyway, public school wasn't much better; I still had to slog through all those stories so I'd have time to read what I really liked.
  12. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    What I wouldn't give to hear a political debate between those two.
  13. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    This can be remedied, good Sharders. (I kid, I kid. Truth be told, I'm doing the Stormmeme Archive for the fun of it. The upvotes are just an awesome bonus. )
  14. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    So much. Which book did they ruin for you?
  15. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    I'm cursed. Every time I start a task. Every. Single. Time, I'm interrupted by a customer. Sometimes, I'll be in the middle of helping one customer in the building, only for another one to call on the phone, only for yet another to call in the middle of that call. They must know what they're doing. They have to know.
  16. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Thus far, we don't have any evidence one way or the other whether Calamity ties the powers to all trauma, or just the worst one, but from what we've seen it looks like the latter is happening. If the corruption is tied to one specific trauma, why would facing another have any impact?
  17. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    "Calamity Percentages" over on the main Reckoners board.
  18. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Even if it was a modest one-piece with a frilly pink skirt and little bows on the straps? Or...would that be part of the reason?
  19. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    I'll put Funtimes in a swimsuit and have her padlock and deadbolt the door to Lightwards' bathroom, pronto.
  20. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    There seems to be an equation where nudity is concerned in this game. The chances of a character being seen in the nude are directly proportional to the amount of revulsion that sight would cause. We are really, REALLY bad at fanservice. Not that I'm arguing for more nudity, but still. We're really bad at this.
  21. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    She'd rule Portland better than the actual Tallest on that show. You have my wholehearted, undying, and enthusiastic support. (Though....Nighthound has been nude in-game before, so there's precedent. Horrible, horrible precedent. )
  22. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    There's an old Nickelodeon show called Invader Zim. On that show, Zim's people, the Irkens, choose leaders based on height. The ruling class is called The Tallest, or "my Tallest," if you're the one addressing them. The Babath system of rule only makes slightly more sense.
  23. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Tie him down and read passages of The Absolutely True History of Remington Springfield, unpublished sequel to her first Remington book?
  24. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    Yes, but if so, why didn't Calamity just use the fear of seeing his father murdered in the first place? Why bother with the water fear at all? And if Calamity was using one of those other fears, why was David focused on his water fear at the time? It seems like Calamity would've gotten him into a state of mind where he was focused on another fear.
  25. TwiLyghtSansSparkles
    There's a trope for that.
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