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I like her, she's a cutie.

When we saw her stare, yesterday, I had a feeling she had feelings for him...

I was actually wondering, at the time, if she was only brought out in order to have a love triangle, except that in this case, both Hiroshi and Castela have feelings for each other, but they won't admit it publicly. So that triangle has an unconfessed side, and an unrequited side...

Hilarity will ensue?

"Hilarity" may not be quite the right word...

New girl is fighting way outside her weight class.

Opus the Poet wrote:New girl is fighting way outside her weight class.

I think she's completely clueless as to the weight classes involved in this fight.

Opus the Poet wrote:New girl is fighting way outside her weight class.

Maybe. We don't know what her weight class is. Castela is a living bio-weapon who may be near the top of the power levels in the paranormal universe; but that doesn't mean there may not be others just as dangerous.

Confucius say: Wise person does not use .22 to trade shots with Abrams tank, is bad for health.

eee wrote:

Opus the Poet wrote:New girl is fighting way outside her weight class.

Maybe. We don't know what her weight class is. Castela is a living bio-weapon who may be near the top of the power levels in the paranormal universe; but that doesn't mean there may not be others just as dangerous.

She attends Gryphon, so she's SOME sort of para.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

eee wrote:

Opus the Poet wrote:New girl is fighting way outside her weight class.

Maybe. We don't know what her weight class is. Castela is a living bio-weapon who may be near the top of the power levels in the paranormal universe; but that doesn't mean there may not be others just as dangerous.

She attends Gryphon, so she's SOME sort of para.

Most likely, though she could just be para-aware for some reason and they want her there to keep an eye on her.

--FreeFlier

Remember, there are Predats and there are Bevys.

What this little lady doesn't realize is that she's dealing with "gatekeeper level" paras...

Opus the Poet wrote:New girl is fighting way outside her weight class.

Well, she knows that the girl who transmogrified Hiroshi is a fae, and is talking about punching her anyway. So either she thinks that she's equal to a fae, or else she's just engaging in some wishful thinking.

I doubt that she has much of a clue as to how powerful Castela is (Daylla didn't even know until just recently), but she also probably doesn't have a clue that Hiroshi is interested in Castela.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:She attends Gryphon, so she's SOME sort of para.

Is every student at Gryphon a paranormal, though? Some humans are “in” on the whole paranormal world and are active members of the community. There's no particular reason I can think of why their kids couldn't go to a paranormal school, and perhaps several good reasons why they ought to: it would limit the younger human kids from blabbing away about the vampires and golems who they know before they're old enough to have some restraint, and it would give the paranormal kids a close-up view of what authentic human kids are like so that they can perfect their human guises.

Warrl wrote:"Hilarity" may not be quite the right word...

"Mayhem" may cover it.

(I'm envisioning Shawna in her para-morph form of a samurai warrior, bravely pursuing a Fae girl in a gorilla suit who has kidnapped Hiroshi, tied him down in an operating theater, and sworn "If you don't love me, I will make you love me!" Fare thee well, Peter Bergman... and you were right, Love Is Hard To Get.)

Catawampus wrote: . . .

AnotherFairportfan wrote:She attends Gryphon, so she's SOME sort of para.

Is every student at Gryphon a paranormal, though? Some humans are “in” on the whole paranormal world and are active members of the community. There's no particular reason I can think of why their kids couldn't go to a paranormal school, and perhaps several good reasons why they ought to: it would limit the younger human kids from blabbing away about the vampires and golems who they know before they're old enough to have some restraint, and it would give the paranormal kids a close-up view of what authentic human kids are like so that they can perfect their human guises.

Precisely my thought.

I'd been working on a fanfic involving a character who comments at one point: "You go to Gryphon . . . I figure that's about a 98% chance that one or the other of you is a para, and about 80% that both of you are."

--FreeFlier

There are multiple Japanese mangas about being either the only human going to a high school for monsters (or one of the few).

The most famous is Rosario + Vampire, if you care to read such things. (Do not watch the anime. It is crap with so many gratuitous panty shots that even a hard-core perv would get impatient with them.)

Thor wrote:There are multiple Japanese mangas about being either the only human going to a high school for monsters (or one of the few).

The most famous is Rosario + Vampire, if you care to read such things. (Do not watch the anime. It is crap with so many gratuitous panty shots that even a hard-core perv would get impatient with them.)

"Queen's Blade"...

Why do I have the impression that Shawna is fully capable of doing something equally nasty to him should Hiroshi turn her down...? I mean, the emotional capacity seems to be there... now if the physical capacity is there...

Thor wrote:Do not watch the anime. It is crap with so many gratuitous panty shots that even a hard-core perv would get impatient with them.

Heard a story about post-war Japanese cartoonists trying to advance their styles, and the ones who focused on Disney saluted him by the tradition of exposed panties due to Minnie Mouse and others having their buns in the sun!

jwhouk wrote:Remember, there are Predats and there are Bevys.

What this little lady doesn't realize is that she's dealing with "gatekeeper level" paras...

She might be one of those herself. Or have a power that would be an effective counter. A telepath could 'freeze' Castela's thoughts and prevent her from taking any action in a fight. We don't know how immune Pickle is to magic, assuming Shawna practices that. Shawna might be like Devyn and able to 'blip' people to another reality, or a teleporter who can send them or herself far away, or materialize objects inside their body for lethal effect. The possibilities are considerable since we don't know what she is. But since her imagined response to the Fae girl would have been a punch, that suggests she thinks along purely physical lines.

Perhaps, when angered, she turns into the para version of the Hulk...

- I hadn't heard about the Post WWII/Japanese Anime/Manga connection w/ Disney, but who's to say. One thing I had learned was that the post-war Constitution and ensuing Moral Code 'Adjustments' enforced by the Occupation meant a lot of Adult Activities that had previously been, if not exactly on main Street, had been right around the Corner. These things then became relegated to relocating to the Alley, so to speak, and there was crafty push-back to get around imposed restrictions.

'Bare, but with Hair'? verboten

"OK, so we go Pantsu or shave everything and exploit the loop-hole."

- Secondly; Our new Shawna might just be a low-powered para who it needs to be made sure that she doesn't get swatted like a bug, over a boy.