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Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen…
Take up your keyboard. Create the omake, and your journey to the dark side will be complete.
Now, young @TheSmallSauce … you will write.
I'm assuming this is Inevitable Dance with/of the Dragons? (on QQ, it's "with Dragons," on SB it's "of the Dragons")
Tanya reincarnates as "Elaena," second daughter of Viserys and Aemma, thus becoming Rhaenyra's younger (full-blooded) sister.
This is, of course, a House of the Dragon...
Had a thought on the subject of Shiro's potential relationships while rereading the thread.
Will we see, at some point, any of the more established racing families attempting to encourage Shiro to pursue relationships with their male descendants, with intent to add her outrageous stamina and...
I think it's likely she'll need to (probably unintentionally) perform a nigh-impossible Guts check against her opponents in each race.
Maybe she's in a foul, foul mood while doing the races, and auto-piloting at her top speed as she dwells on something negative.
Perhaps, as proposed by myself...
If the “No Man’s Land” idea is used, perhaps “Devil’s Charge,” or something like that?
I was thinking something using “gates of Hell” in that vein, though now my mind is full of Primo Victoria
What even is the skill? Her relentless charge? One that lasts the entire race?
… my mind thought...
Ah, hence the name "Silver Standard" got on its threadmark.
... Now we just need Shiro to be looking at a watch (perhaps comparing current time to previous times on that track), and occasionally seeing that she's behind her previous best ("I'm late...")
“Domain Expansion: Capitalism Marches On.”
I’m imagining a Danganronpa execution that appears as a hallucination/nightmare, perhaps as a scene in the anime?
I return to my previous post about the Lego Batman bit
That being in response to this previous comment
But, yeah, this whole idea is loaded for innuendos and implications of relationships and intimacy, and I love it.
Everyone thinks Shiro is the racing equivalent of an uncaring playboy...
Depends on the circumstances. If Legadonia (which might get a twinge out of Shiro, that name) manages to best Shiro in the same circumstances Merry failed (as in, challenging Shiro to the same type of race on whatever tracks Merry might have raced Shiro), then, yes, I could see that dealing a...
"She races once a week, every week. The minimum amount of rest time."
"... You're right. She does."
"She races and trains and never rests, and just keeps going."
"Correct, again."
"I could do that."
"Merry-"
"If I can train like her-"
"You'll tear yourself apart, running like her, Merry."...
Good, gooood~
Let the dark ideas flow through you~
Heh. I can imagine it'll very quickly start to grate at Legadonia, for her once fierce rivalry to be dismissed so casually. Again, there's jokes to be made about "shipping," and probably about "intimacy"- just one race, and your rival has...
My, my! Such wonderful work, and definitely not a perspective I’d considered. Honestly, I wonder if we’d see some racers come to loathe Shiro because of the way their teammates start to obsess over her, because of the despair she brings them to. The lingering effects of being so near to the bird...
Good stuff!
Even setting aside the Mary Sioux aspect, this is greatly enjoyable as another outside perspective on Shiro, on what other racers feel when confronted with her unnatural stamina and brutal pace. Not the fastest racer, no, but she doesn't have to be. She just has to make sure your...
Dunno why, but your comment made me think of this previous one
And I’m imagining all the “underground” Uma racers would be curious about this Uma who is “clearly” a former underground racer who hasn’t fully shaken old habits.
I’m also imagining any number of “punk” Uma looking up to Shiro as...
No, probably not, but, to slightly paraphrase Gabriel Iglesias' trouble making friend... it'd be funny, huh?
That said, I think it's possible she could phrase it poorly when mentioning that she doesn't think she can turn it into a "real career" for herself. I know those kinds of...
I'm also of this mindset. So no Mary, please.
To be honest, I think it'd be more Mary realizing than Shirogane, since Tanya seemed acutely aware of how fucked they were in most cases.
Also I dunno how well a "shonen confrontation" would work, unless Mary rapidly stops caring about her dad and...
Considering how she's managed to freak out other races without really trying?
I'd wager that either her smile or glare would cause any hated racer to freeze in place and/or have a heart attack, unable to continue for the rest of the race.
Then Shirogane gets a warning that she's got to start...
"Oh wow, I can't wait to meet my hero, the indomitable Shirogane Orzel! I'm gonna ask her what motivates her to race!"
insert the Atlantis: The Lost Empire scene
"That.... that's not right... that... can't be it, right?!"
"Well, no, that's not all, my family's important to me, too."
"Oh...
For some reason, I'm imagining the scene between Joker and Batman in the Lego Batman movie, with Joker insisting that "what we have is special," and Batman just not having it.
"I don't currently have a rival, I am racing several different people."
"What?!"
"I like to race around."
I’m wondering if that’s where we’d see the spark of others understanding Shiro
She drops out of a major race due to one of her grandparents falling very ill, and the misunderstanding of Shiro’s motivations leads to them saying the wrong thing.
“But wouldn’t they want you here, fulfilling your...