#taliblog

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Pretty sure the main reason I don't feel particularly strongly one way or the other about Fiveman so far is because we're coming off of Shinkenger and Shinkenger was so very specifically targeted at me that very few things are going to hit the same.

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My thought on reconciling the kind of contradictory use of them as both pieces of the Silver Crystal and as prisons for the Seven Great Youma is as such: Serenity's Miracle (her "wish" as it came to be understood, causing everyone to be reincarnated) caused the Silver Crystal to be shattered into the seven gems we all know and love/loathe- but the Seven Youma didn't exist prior to that time. No, what happened is that a chunk of Silver Crystal came into conflict with something else in some person or other that corrupted it into the gems as we know them. Whether it was a current host or a previous one is largely inconsequential, save for one- Urawa Ryo ("Ryou", to distinguish from Sanada Ryo). Now why is he an exception? Because he has the potential to be a Trooper, but that's not important right now. The point of all of this is, something once broken can never truly be whole again, and this means two different things for the two different above-stated entities. For Arago, it means that he will never have his full form and power back, because the armors weren't just made from them, they've had a thousand years to develop on their own and we all know the old legend about objects gaining sentience at a certain age, and as for the Silver Crystal, it can never be Queen Serenity again. It can become someone/thing like her (NQS), but even as powerful as she is, she lacks the completeness, the unity, with the Crystal, because she isn't QS or PS, she's Usagi. A chunk of it that was broken off and had millennia and a whole human lifetime to shape into something of her own.

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Thank you for that look into multiple layers of cultural references that I have absolutely no context for. Your people are so fascinating

You're absolutely welcome but you are REALLY going to have to be more specific.

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I have acquired a truly irresponsible amount of Tamiya paints so it's time to learn to paint the shit out of some gunpla.

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*standing at a whiteboard looking at The Plot*

Okay so basically the only way to make this work is to put it in backwards, isn't it.

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Please stop tagging me with Naruto stuff. I don't care for it, and I never will.

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So anyway short of Takeuchi herself saying that I don't think I'm going to get higher praise.

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FIVE MONTHS. 14796 WORDS. 24 PAGES.

AND THIS IS JUST THE FIRST CHAPTER. FUCK.

Anyway handing it off for beta reading and hopefully it'll be up Saturday.