Okay, I'm working on my way overdue fic swap thing, but this one plot mokona got into my head that I think Fuu people might like, so I'll just get it out and get back to work.

Fuu ends up doing programming for astronomy purposes, say, developing software for rovers or calibrating telescopes or something spacey like that, and the astronomers she works with discover Cephiro.

As much as we love most of the regular cast, the universes of Magic Knight Rayearth don't just consist of them. So, here's the place to tell us about the MKR Original Characters you've developed. Maybe give us a name, a bit about who they are/what they do/where they show up, if you'd be okay with others 'borrowing' said characters in their stuff, whatever. This isn't just limited to quality OCs either, so feel free to post about your most blatant self-inserts or cliche stock characters! Will post some of mine later.

Quote from: Trin-nya on November 10, 2015, 08:20:38 PM
The girls run a channel together about anything and everything.

Which character(s) play table top games like DnD?

Obviously Fuu. And there's been talk about Fuu and Eagle playing chess together, but what if they did DnD together? Let's see, Fuu as Dungeon Master, then how about Eagle, Tatra, Zazu, and Presea? With Ferio only joining in because more time with Fuu. That could be a fun mix... (Also, Fuu occasionally consulting Ascot for fiend inspiration without ever telling him why )

Which character is the most forgetful?

Dropped a heavy cafeteria table on my foot today, had to go to the ER. Thankfully, it's not broken, it just hurts like hell.

There's also that evil Hunger Games!AU of mine, in which Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu are all tributes that become friends and form an alliance in the pre-Game period, but get split up at the beginning and don't meet again until they're the last three left. How that would end, all three living, all three dying, or only one living, is up for debate.
Also featuring:

• Eagle as a tribute who volunteered after finding out he had a terminal disease and wouldn't live another year anyway (Him and Fuu as the tributes from District 3, perhaps?)
• Clef as Umi's mentor
• Ascot as a twelve year-old tribute with the horrible luck to get picked on his first Reaping, Caldina as his mentor determined to get him out alive, and Lafarga as the escort for that district
• Maseru and Kakeru demanding to volunteer as tribute in Hikaru's place, only, of course, they can't

Quote from: Revolutionaren on November 07, 2015, 11:25:05 AM
Um, who is most likely to start cooking their own meth?

I'm sure Caldina already has. For the money.

Which character is most likely to become an internet vlogger?

Quote from: suzanami on October 27, 2015, 12:39:37 AM
@Mokonalord it's been a very bad day IRL but this post made me so happy I cried

Glad I could help! Though you might not be the only person I made cry today...

QuoteShipping variety is always limited when the fandom is five people and a potato.

WE HAVE A POTATO NOW?!

You know, I was thinking meta-y about Fuurio while looking at Suz's fanblog earlier and thought I'd share with the class.

When you ship just about every other 'canon' couple in Rayearth, you're shipping what they could be. You ship what Zagato and Emeraude could be if they weren't stuck in a fucked-up system, you ship what Umi and Ascot or Umi and Clef could be once the initial issues are worked out, you ship what Hikaru and Lantis and/or Eagle could be given just a little more time, you ship what Caldina and Lafarga could be if they got a little more screen/page time.

But when you ship Fuu/Ferio, you're shipping what they are. You're shipping two cute characters that canon has together, and, plot twist, you agree completely. There's no need for rants on why they belong together, though you can certainly make them if you're so inclined, because even if you can't articulate why they're so right for each other, you feel it. You feel it in their initial interactions, you feel it in the looks they give each other, you feel it in the way they have those moments where they might as well be the only people in the room (at least in the manga), you feel it in how they act differently with each other than they do with other people but you're not even sure they realize that's happening.

Suz, you've bemoaned before that the Rayearth fandom doesn't really do much in the way of non-canon shipping, and in a way, I see that, but I think part of the appeal of non-canon shipping in other fandoms is that the creators haven't made enough of a case for the canon ships. This is especially true in cases when, say, they've neglected to flesh out a female love interest beyond being a love interest for a male lead, so of course a relationship between him and a more fully developed male character is gonna be more interesting. So, while non-canon shipping is great fun and all, I see the fact that we can get so much out of the canon ships to be a positive for the series, a testament to CLAMP's ability to create a full cast of beautifully nuanced characters and make us want to play with all the relationship dynamics they've set in place.

And Fuu/Ferio is Exhibit A.

I've accidentally come up with my headcanon for Caldina's origin.

In Chizeta, her family was lower to lower-middle class, and both her parents could only make a living with jobs that kept them away from their kids almost constantly (Asteroid mining? Attendants to a noble family who didn't want their kids interacting with the help's kids?). She had a sickly younger brother and ended up doing a lot of odd jobs/learning to dance because the money their parents made was only enough for food/water/shelter and not enough for doctors and medicine, and he couldn't do much himself because, well, he was sick, and also Chizeta's matriarchal society meant his employment prospects were more limited anyway. He didn't have a happy disposition overall, so Caldina usually took it on herself to cheer him up with tricks and routines and just trying to distract him from the shitty hand life dealt him. In return, he was her anchor, her stability, what kept her from throwing all caution to the wind. Whether she considered that a good or a bad thing varied from day to day.

But then he died. Caldina grieved, she tried to get back to business as usual, but she found things no longer worked the way they use to. She wasn't constantly saving for his medicine, she didn't have to stay close to the house, she looked around her and found nothing there worth staying for. So she saved up, got herself a spaceship, and left. She traveled the worlds, enjoying the new views, the new people, the new customs, and overall, she was happy. But on every new world, there always came a time to leave, and however much she enjoyed staying on that world, she never felt inclined to stay.

Until Caldina got to Cephiro, that is, and found herself thinking she would really miss Ascot and Lafarga when she left.

Yay/nay? Hey, Down, you got a lot of thoughts on Chizeta, does this backstory mesh with your theories about that world in general?

Quote from: VKiera on October 18, 2015, 01:38:23 AMNext: Who do you think has siblings that aren't mentioned in the series?

Well, suddenly, I have this huge headcanon about Caldina having a dead biological younger brother and I blame you entirely.
Also, I feel like Lafarga would be the 'Responsible Older Brother' type with siblings who either want to be just like him or resent him for raising the bar so high or both, so there's that.

Next: Suppose there's a MKR3, and one of the canon characters becomes the main antagonist. Who's the most likely culprit and why are they fighting?
(Warning: If anybody dares claim Ascot would after finding out Umi doesn't love him, I swear to Mokona, there will be an angry PM detailing just why that bullshit does a huge disservice to not only Ascot's growth as a character and his relationships with the beasties, but also to Umi's character by implying that the strength of her heart was getting someone to fall in love with her, so just don't even go there. I mean, if you got other reasons for thinking he'd turn coat, cool, let's hear it, but don't use that one)

Right now, I feel like 'Absolutely Flawless' by The Ones would make a ridiculously fun Eagle Vision AMV.

Quote from: Itena on March 04, 2008, 06:08:49 AMAscot would like cake...

Glad to see I'm not the only one who's considered the joys of Ascake.

Oh, this looks fun...

1. The first character I first fell in love with *holds a megaphone up to your ear* ASCOT!

2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now Probably Fuu. Blame Suz and Del.

3. The character everyone else loves that I don't Clef. But I'm getting better.

4. The character I love that everyone else hates If this thread is to be believed, Ascot. I see people here I need to fight. Of course, by 'fight' I mean, if I met some of you people while you were in a dunking booth, I would empty my life savings trying to hit the button, all the while yelling about how awesome and adorable my lil brother is. "I DON'T CARE HOW LONG THE LINE IS, THIS IS PERSONAL!"

5. The character I used to love but don't any longer Can't say I've really lost my love for anybody. Some of the people I used to be more indifferent towards I got more annoyed with, mainly Sierra and Debonair, but nobody I used to love that I don't love as much now.

6. The character I would shag anytime No.

7. The character I'd want to be like Well, ultimately, I'm just so proud of my lil brother and how far he's come, how can I not say Ascot?

8. The character I'd slap Okay, I adore Umi, but there are moments in the anime's second season I seriously want to slap her, mostly because they decided she should pretty much regard Ascot as 'kid I babysit for who happens to like me, how inconvenient' rather than, at the very least, 'good friend I can actually be bothered to care about when he's not saving my life, even if he has romantic feelings for me I don't share,' meanwhile Ascot's being all mature about his feelings like, "Oh, you don't like me like that? That's sad, but I'll live. Still gonna save your life, though." which is especially noteworthy given who he was in the first season... Oops, I did it again. *facepalm*

9. A pairing that I love *gets out the megaphone again* ASMI! Orchard scene, Orchard Scene, ORCHARD SCENE! *rolls in da feels*

10. A pairing that I despise Clemi. Granted, that's wrapped up in so much other baggage that I can't really say it's the pairing itself I despise.

It's not that I want to disappoint people. It just doesn't seem like I have a choice. *sighs*

If you got hella emotional baggage and counterproductive coping mechanisms, clap your hands. *clap clap*

Quote from: Revolutionaren on October 11, 2015, 09:43:18 PM
The entire Broadway Cast Recording of Hamilton!

hot damn, I'm not even American and I know next to nothing about American history, but this is just so so good!

I can't stop listening to it, I'm a changed woman because of it.

(rumour has it, it's coming to London in 2017 )

Well, to be fair, Rev, most of us Americans don't know much about American history, either.