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madmanandhenchlad · 23 days

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Snowcrash

He's laying face up in the snow. It's a beautiful day. Someone should paint this, the red splashes look like flower petals.

There's a poem about red poppies in the snow. He can't remember.

Fuzzy. Static, Snowcrash. -can't think. He's useless like this.

[Graceful degradation is the ability of an electronic system or network to maintain limited functionality even when a large portion of it is inoperative.]

What information can he access? They are currently loosing whatever fight this is.

He can't make his eyes focus enough to see who's laying dead around him.

He moves to push down his visor and use its HUD.

His arm isn't there. The red splash next to him is growing.

[At 2,000 mL of blood loss the death rate spikes to 95%.]

From rate of loss, estimate 60 second till death, 30 maximum before he passes out again.

2 seconds have elapsed since he regained consciousness. He *is* slow right now.

He opens his mind up to their link. It feels half open like he's been trying to push in from the other side.

"Lucas?"

"Hey Teddy." His brother's thoughts poor into his mind. "I'll be right there, just ah-." He's in his own pit of trouble. Three knives of pain in his chest. Broken ribs likely. They both have concussions. *Taking care of business* plays on a loop as he scrambles.

"50 seconds."

He's locked hand to hand with one of the exoskeleton creature,

[Three pronged head orimants indicating high rank warrior cast. High rate of healing, fast, strong, lowest psychic resonance. The ornimates act as psychic amplifiers to control-]

"Come on Ted-ed, keep talking to me." His brother slips under a blade aimed for his neck. The creature is backing him towards the homeship. "Isn't there a science thing you want to ramble about-?

"Up!"

Lucas jumps 20 ft without hesitation and the ships guns track him to the end of their range of motion, trailing blasts of superheated plasma.

"Ship can't shoot straight up."

"Should I get on top of it?"

"No! You're prime target. Would scuttle the ship to kill you."

Luke lands and is set upon again. The exosuit moves to fast for even his brother's inhanced senses to fallow.

"Eliminate the head-spikes."

Luk takes another stab to the chest to make the opening he needs, but he breaks off two of the three antennai.

It will have to be enough.

"Ready, land flat, drop body temp. Heart rate to zero. Two seconds."

He rips his mind away from his brother's and into the dripping greasy *mind*/ control system of the ship.

[Signal strength low]

He navigates through its verifications. It wants to let him in. It craves the signal he's giving it. The creature is doing the equivalent of clicking every icon when the computer freezes. He just has to switch a single value [target found = true.]

Every gun on the ship fires at once and it drills holes through the only heat signature it can find. The creature's exosuit and the meat of its body look like swiss cheese.

[Zaranan Warrior cast have geneticly enchanted healing factor.] Estimated 20 seconds before returning to functionality. Plenty of time.

"Oh brother mine what would you do without me?" Luke is already kneeling next to him. Makeshift tourniquet tightens around his stub.

"Don't worry. All the cool kids have metal arms these days anyway."

"Gonna go with- 30 seconds- something classy-"

He fuzzes out. Snowcrash.

#Madman #Alien invasion #Paragon #Theo #Luke

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anyanpre · 6 years

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Everything wrong with Whole Cake Arc

I had a really high hopes for that arc. This actually was arc that brought me in One Piece fandom from being casual reader. Too bad that it ended up sucking. And sucking big.

First of all, I wanna say what I liked in this arc. I liked how Charlotte daughter had slightly more diverse designs. I liked some parts of Sanji’s backstory and how it made so much sense in context. I really liked Luffy’s “Without you I can't become the Pirate King“ moment. And several other small moments.

However, there are so. SO MUCH BULLSHIT. And let’s talk about it.

● Rescue team composition and how it affected emotional context of the story. Or how it DIDN’T affect emotional context if the story. Seriously, Oda got all the cards in his hands, but never actually used it.

I’m not really fond of who was on the rescue mission. And no, I’m not saying that Zoro should be there, tho it would be heartwarming for me personaly and it could lead to interesting and emotional moments. No, it’s Usopp who I think should be on the mission.

Let me explain why. I think Usopp would be the one who would understand Sanji the most. He knows how it feels to be weak, he knows how it feel to loose your parent to an illness. He understands and he could be a very comforting person for Sanji to be around.

I also feel like Chopper - another character who was ostracized and understand how it feels to be different from the others - was underutilized.

● Vinsmoke’s backstory dosen’t really make that much sense.

First, for a scientist that worked with Vegapunk Judge is fucking stupid. One of his sons isn’t showing significant progress in developing superhuman strenght? And he like, just done nothing? He didn’t try to experement on Sanji more? Didn’t feed him a devil fruit? He didn’t try to raise Sanji as a scientist, so his less stellar son wouldn’t be a total waste of time and be usefull to his goal in a different way?

Second, Sora’s death dosen’t make that much sense to me. I mean, Juge seems to somewhat care about her. But he like, couldn’t cure her? Seriously? They have technology to create a fucking geneticly modified clones, but not enough to cure whatever side effect theese drugs had? No, seriously? I’m starting to think that Sora was just suicidal and sabotaged her own treatment. This, at the very least, makes sense.

And Sanji, sweet dear Sanji. WHY THE FUCK YOU DIDN’T CHANGE YOUR NAME. WHY THE FUCK YOU DIDN’T REALLY TRY TO HIDE YOUR EYEBROWS IF YOU DON’T WANT FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE FUCKING PRINCE OF GERMA. Like, seriously, how no one INCLUDING THE WORLD FUCKING GOVERMENT didn’t actually noticed? I mean, Germa 66 still operates as a mercenary army, and it’s seem that they working in all seas. SO WHY DA FUCK SANJI DIDN’T EVEN TRIED TO HIDE HIS IDENTITY?

Another thing that my friend mentioned and I agree oh so much: Vinsmokes came out of nowhere. Oda didn’t builded them up AT ALL. And they suppose to be a big names. Comicses with them are suppose to be well-known, but were never mentioned? Seriously? And the previous arc revolved around a pirates who operated mostly in North Blue, so like? Couldn’t Oda hint on Germa’s existense there? Like literaly, make it that it was Germa 66 that purged Law’s island. But nope, came out of nowhere.

● Also, speaking of Vinsmoke family and Sora particulary. HELLO ANOTHER SAINT DEAD MOM. I’m so, so tired of this trope, especially in One Piece. Dead women as a backstory is NOT GOOD. The only female-related trope in One Piece that I’m tired off more is...

● SEXY OUTFIT, FUCKING AGAIN. Seriously, I’m so, so pissed off by Reiju’s uniform. It makes NO GODDAMN SENSE. Why her outfit isn’t even invoking any designs elemets that her brother’s do? It dosen’t look like a soldier uniform, it dosen’t even invoke “super sentai“ look. Hell, outfit of her couterpart from in-universe comics about Germa 66 LOOKS BETTER. Fuck you, Oda, fuck your sexist ass.

● Year of Sanji they said. Well, I’m kinda dissapointed that Sanji didn’t really have a baddas moment in his own arc. He had like one small moment, when he saved his shit of a family and that’s all. His cake DIDN’T DO ANYTHING. He didn’t have a significant battle. And by the end of the arc he was way to overshadowed by Luffy and Katakuri.

● Speaking of, WHY DA FUCK IT’S LUFFY WHO FOUGHT KATAKURI. For me, it makes so little sense. Luffy’s specialization seems to be weaponised (Armament and Conqueror’s) Haki, not Observation Haki. So why make Luffy overpowered by making him stand agains a person with Observation Haki so powerfull that he can see the future.

Honestly, It should’ve been Sanji’s fight. He seems to be geared towards Observation and speed. This fight would make so, so much sense, it would FINALLY give Sanji a moment to shine. And it would be interestng clash of personalities: an older brother who surpressed his identity to protect family he cares about and family who adores him; and a younger brother who ran away to protect his sense of identity from the family who hated and abused him. This should’ve been amaizing.

And hey, it could also be Luffy + Sanji vs. Katakuri, so it wouldn’t make either of our protagonists seems to bee way too overpowered AND actually would be a neat illustration of “power of friendship”, an idea that you don’t have to be perfect, that having people who support you and whom you support is more important.

SERIOUSLY IT WAS SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL.

● Why Sanji had to go in a “pervert mood” in inapropriet momennts? Why Oda still thinks that this is funny, and isn’t an overdone gag that makes Sanji look kinda pathetic?

● Oda have a serious problems with pacing. Both Dressrosa and this arc seems to cram way too much evrything, so an arc ending up overstating it’s welcome. And that’s kinda sad.

One Piece is a very fascinating manga for me. It’s so good, but at the same time it’s so bad. It’s sexist, my fav boi is treated by author like shit, character development is never a prioriry, and did I say that it’s uncomfortably sexist? It so, so fucking is.

I love One Piece, but sometimes it’s a manga that is really hard to love.

#one piece #whole cake arc #whole cake island #Sanji #sanji vinsmoke #me talking about stuff

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