TwiLyghtSansSparkles
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Those two words, "sparks" especially, bugged me the most throughout the first book. (By the second I was totally used to it.) Curse words in out era have roots stretching back at least a few years, roots that tell us why society came to regard them as foul. "Slontze" and "sparks" don't seem to have much connection to anything. And where I can see a random word like "slontze" becoming a curse, it's not quite the same with "sparks." Sparks are just...well, sparks. Maybe those two words are connected to something that happened shortly after Calamity's rise?
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Okay, so I need a Unicyclist reply and Financier's intro....anything else?
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I have no objections. You might want to steal the Moral Guardian code from the Vault so he can properly express his outrage, though.
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No, it's just an exaggerated take on how fancy the baristas in those cities can get. Another shall rise in her place. Behold, THE SHIRTLESS BARISTA!!!!! ….maybe he needs a new name?
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Oh, come on. That half-caf-mocha-frappe-with-a-shirtless-seranade is going to be the best thing you've ever tasted.
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I found a video that I must share for worldbuilding purposes. This is what ordering coffee in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle can be like. (Except in Starbucks, but true coffee lovers just skip them anyway.)
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Things you learn reading historical nonfiction: Respected Italian physicists pulled the best pranks.
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Did you hear that, Voidus? I think that was destiny calling.
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They always said that the good okay halfway decent not completely morally reprehensible die young.
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Oh, no, there's no need to apologize. I just meant that I rounded the numbers up or down because I get math anxiety and work better with round numbers, so my guesstimates will be rough.
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Guys. I did the math (using round numbers and guesstimates because it's easier for me). If the human-to-Epic ratio is about 866:1, and the current Epic population is about 346,000, then the population of the FSA is about 299,646,000. The US population in 2014 was 319,900,000, so some quick subtraction tells us that the Epics have collectively caused roughly 20,264,000 deaths. And I don't even know if that accounts for Obliteration.
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Another thing to keep in mind is that there are fewer than ten vanilla player characters, with every other player character being an Epic of some sort. Just as making almost every canon character a vanilla made vanillas seem more common in Steelheart and Firefight, making almost every player character an Epic in our fanon makes Epics seem more common here. Taking a step back from the game itself, it seems that vanillas are indeed more common than Epics. As for the prime invincibilities thing….that could be a concern. We do have quite a few indestructible Epics. However, in many cases, their own authors despise them, making their chances of surviving the RP slim to none. While I don't know if the guy who made the estimates (which are fantastic, by the way) took the destruction of Oregon into account (though I don't know how he could, seeing as we don't have any figures on how many evacuated before its total destruction or how many lived there beforehand) but I'm sure that by the time this RP concludes, the vanilla-Epic-High Epic ratio hinted at in canon will be preserved.
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Firefight spoilers:
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Am I the only one who wished that...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to greenturtles6's topic in The Reckoners
I thought that it was easier for Megan to stay sane around David because she wasn't afraid of him. If Epics are fearful by nature (and that fear usually manifests through anger and aggression) then Megan would have had plenty of reasons to be scared of the other Reckoners, but Prof especially. David, kill-Steelheart-through-bad-similies David? I'm not saying he's harmless—he's a crack shot with a rifle, knows more about most Epics than he has any right to know, and came up with a solid plan to kill a dictator before his eighteenth birthday—but he's not exactly threatening. And that's a good thing. If I were Megan, I'd feel safer around an adorkable guy who compares an arms dealer's shop to a banana farm than I would around just about anyone else. Especially if I'd been made an Epic against my will and served under ruthless dictators who could squash me like a bug—and would if I made one false move. -
Blake is easier to say, is it?
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You don't suddenly want to enslave a guy named Ricardo, do you?
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Oh no. My headcanon has it that this is how Mister Meh felt RIGHT BEFORE HIS RENDING!
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So I'm not the only one who wondered about this? I just thought I missed something really obvious. It did seem strange to me. Enforcement probably could have fought back against many of them, but considering their structure was organized around groups of soldiers who all worked under different Epics, you'd think those Epics would've found some dirt on those soldiers before Steelheart's defeat--the names and locations of their families, significant others, etc.--and used that info afterward to stay on top. "Fight back and I murder your husband/kids/parents/girlfriend/boyfriend/pet dog," that sort of thing.
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And before reaching the relevant dream, Backtrack would have to wade through one where the dreamer goes to space in a wormhole made of guitar chords where he gets rescued by a ship full of sentient newts who turn him into a giant cat just in time to fight Steelheart. Which is to say, this must happen.
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Plot twist: His nightmares are about Autumn rejecting him for a sparkly Epic with awesome sunglasses.
