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Oct. 11th, 2010 08:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedWas so looking forward to looking at a few of my MMZ clips with Natsue together and having some stuff translated for the first time since Chelle translated the one half of #4. Was gonna save it till the end of class, since that's not what her job entails, but by then, we didn't really have time to look at anything. She and I agreed that next week, we'll look at it during the first fifteen minutes of class before going over the regular material.
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Parts of Long Island Avenue have been reduced to gravel dust, have yet to be repaved, and as a result, dust gets kicked up each time a car passes by. Also, Grandpa Bob has been in the hospital for days after having some kind of heart attack. Mom had me wash her car (and Dad's van, while I was at it) before driving to New Jersey to see Grandpa. She's probably gonna be there for a few days more or less.
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8 Most Satisfying Deaths in Manga, by That Guy With The Glasses. (Something that Jake showed me just two days ago.)
I told Jake after watching it that I would use this as a cue for something special two days later. So, here is a follow up to this post, about the downfall of a fellow villain. But first, let's also introduce someone else who will also be relevant.
For clarification, Hitomi is a childlike gynoid who, at some point in the first fic, will become a friend and ally of the Knights. Originally, she was going to start out as one of Warp's generals, but once defeated, it would turn out that she was only serving him in return for promised humanity from him. The Knights would then "adopt" her, warning her that Warp might more likely eliminate her instead once her end of the deal was finished; and promising to help her feel human anyway whether or not she would actually fight alongside them (which she does in return). However, since the war has been completely scrapped, whatever her new background might be has yet to be confirmed.
She was mentioned by Chelle in a comment under this post (a comment I'd rather not re-read, let me note), but was unnamed at the time. Upon suggesting her as one of eight initial generals that would have served Warp for different reasons, Chelle did point out that she thought I didn't want any high tech for Mon World (since I was supposedly reserving that for Mech World). Not entirely true; it is actually welcome, just not to the point where things start to feel more like Star Wars or Contra than a fantasy world. (Grandia II probably has a similar kind of world to what Chelle knows Mon World (a.k.a. Rokumon Sekai) to be, with a few gynoids and some high-tech compounds (and one town) in an otherwise mostly medieval-like world.)
Now for the real star of our show, Commander Julius Maxwell of CONTRA!
So, who is this guy and the organization he leads? Well, at some point after the Mon Colle Knights and their main associates (except Hitomi) got killed off for real (taking Osama bin Laden, Takeshi Okimichi, and any Nickelodeon spawn still alive with them), the Community Of Nations To Repel Attacks had been formed for the initial purpose of eliminating what was left of Al Qaida. Hitomi, whose last job assigned by McKnight was to kill as many bio-demons in New York City as possible, was later on found by this organization and (forcefully) re-programmed to fight alongside them (even before Maxwell gained authority over its ranks).
Exactly 100 years after the events of the anime, Maxwell, along with his grandson and top assassin Ashura (mentioned here, but currently updated) and the currently brainwashed Hitomi, are now in command of the organization. They, along with a division of their forces, station themselves within Spacequarters (where the Knights had been residing. Until near the end of the fic, Maxwell actually does work alongside with Hiragi and McKnight against the destructive forces known as Giygas that have been bombarding the worlds, but they don't exactly get along that well. But then comes his crossing of the Moral Event Horizon after any number of disputes:
It is revealed that he had a machine built for him for the sole purpose of giving captives a slow, torturous death. Rokuna is the first one he attempts to subject this to, for unspecified reasons (possibly to blackmail the Knights and co. into meeting some kind of demand of his). This machine is designed to cancel out auras, gates, and telepathy, which means that even McKnight wouldn't be able to locate her with his sixth sense (since no one's aware of the machine's ability to block it out), and Rokuna can't contact anyone to come rescue her. Nor can she just be summoned out of it, meaning that if she perishes, even McKnight is powerless to revive her.
To make things worse, Maxwell had another cell for Mondo, and probably more each for everyone else. Just as Maxwell himself is about to throw Mondo into his cell, Ashura and Hitomi come to his and Rokuna's rescue. While the latter simply turns the machine off and open Rokuna's cell, Ashura jump-slams Maxwell into the cell from behind with enough force to snap his back and knock him flat on his face, destroys his transmitter, yanks Mondo out of the cell, tells the other three to join their friends as they drive CONTRA out, activates the cell after they leave, and takes a few more minutes to say a few last words to the person he was loyal to up until then and who showed him what little love and compassion he had for anyone.
So now, this guy is condemned to dying by having his skin gradually become stiff and fall apart, with no hope of anyone coming to his rescue. Rokuna and McKnight won't feel his pain because the machine blocks auras from entering or leaving its cells. And worst of all, the person who screwed him over was his own grandson!
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Parts of Long Island Avenue have been reduced to gravel dust, have yet to be repaved, and as a result, dust gets kicked up each time a car passes by. Also, Grandpa Bob has been in the hospital for days after having some kind of heart attack. Mom had me wash her car (and Dad's van, while I was at it) before driving to New Jersey to see Grandpa. She's probably gonna be there for a few days more or less.
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8 Most Satisfying Deaths in Manga, by That Guy With The Glasses. (Something that Jake showed me just two days ago.)
I told Jake after watching it that I would use this as a cue for something special two days later. So, here is a follow up to this post, about the downfall of a fellow villain. But first, let's also introduce someone else who will also be relevant.
For clarification, Hitomi is a childlike gynoid who, at some point in the first fic, will become a friend and ally of the Knights. Originally, she was going to start out as one of Warp's generals, but once defeated, it would turn out that she was only serving him in return for promised humanity from him. The Knights would then "adopt" her, warning her that Warp might more likely eliminate her instead once her end of the deal was finished; and promising to help her feel human anyway whether or not she would actually fight alongside them (which she does in return). However, since the war has been completely scrapped, whatever her new background might be has yet to be confirmed.
She was mentioned by Chelle in a comment under this post (a comment I'd rather not re-read, let me note), but was unnamed at the time. Upon suggesting her as one of eight initial generals that would have served Warp for different reasons, Chelle did point out that she thought I didn't want any high tech for Mon World (since I was supposedly reserving that for Mech World). Not entirely true; it is actually welcome, just not to the point where things start to feel more like Star Wars or Contra than a fantasy world. (Grandia II probably has a similar kind of world to what Chelle knows Mon World (a.k.a. Rokumon Sekai) to be, with a few gynoids and some high-tech compounds (and one town) in an otherwise mostly medieval-like world.)
Now for the real star of our show, Commander Julius Maxwell of CONTRA!
So, who is this guy and the organization he leads? Well, at some point after the Mon Colle Knights and their main associates (except Hitomi) got killed off for real (taking Osama bin Laden, Takeshi Okimichi, and any Nickelodeon spawn still alive with them), the Community Of Nations To Repel Attacks had been formed for the initial purpose of eliminating what was left of Al Qaida. Hitomi, whose last job assigned by McKnight was to kill as many bio-demons in New York City as possible, was later on found by this organization and (forcefully) re-programmed to fight alongside them (even before Maxwell gained authority over its ranks).
Exactly 100 years after the events of the anime, Maxwell, along with his grandson and top assassin Ashura (mentioned here, but currently updated) and the currently brainwashed Hitomi, are now in command of the organization. They, along with a division of their forces, station themselves within Spacequarters (where the Knights had been residing. Until near the end of the fic, Maxwell actually does work alongside with Hiragi and McKnight against the destructive forces known as Giygas that have been bombarding the worlds, but they don't exactly get along that well. But then comes his crossing of the Moral Event Horizon after any number of disputes:
It is revealed that he had a machine built for him for the sole purpose of giving captives a slow, torturous death. Rokuna is the first one he attempts to subject this to, for unspecified reasons (possibly to blackmail the Knights and co. into meeting some kind of demand of his). This machine is designed to cancel out auras, gates, and telepathy, which means that even McKnight wouldn't be able to locate her with his sixth sense (since no one's aware of the machine's ability to block it out), and Rokuna can't contact anyone to come rescue her. Nor can she just be summoned out of it, meaning that if she perishes, even McKnight is powerless to revive her.
To make things worse, Maxwell had another cell for Mondo, and probably more each for everyone else. Just as Maxwell himself is about to throw Mondo into his cell, Ashura and Hitomi come to his and Rokuna's rescue. While the latter simply turns the machine off and open Rokuna's cell, Ashura jump-slams Maxwell into the cell from behind with enough force to snap his back and knock him flat on his face, destroys his transmitter, yanks Mondo out of the cell, tells the other three to join their friends as they drive CONTRA out, activates the cell after they leave, and takes a few more minutes to say a few last words to the person he was loyal to up until then and who showed him what little love and compassion he had for anyone.
So now, this guy is condemned to dying by having his skin gradually become stiff and fall apart, with no hope of anyone coming to his rescue. Rokuna and McKnight won't feel his pain because the machine blocks auras from entering or leaving its cells. And worst of all, the person who screwed him over was his own grandson!
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Date: 2019-07-15 10:57 am (UTC)Kind of a Karmic Death then, that should work ^_^
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KarmicDeath
About skin stiffening and falling off, ever heard of Harlequin babies? It's something like you're describing, a disorder where the skin grows much faster than it should be, causing it to harden and break apart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin-type_ichthyosis
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Date: 2019-07-15 10:57 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNfbA6f3WkE&feature=grec_index
(Scene in question 26 seconds in.)