#and the Scions are remarkably good at mechanics

[sundered-souls]

Aïcha Bedi

B A S I C S

Name: Aïcha Bedi

Nicknames: none

Age: In her thirties

Nameday: 28th Sun of the 5th Umbral Moon (which she probably shares with a bunch of my characters)

Race: Midlander hyur

Gender: Cis woman

Orientation: Mostly straight

Profession: Adventurer, formerly a contract killer

P H Y S I C A L     A S P E C T S

Hair: Long and curly. She takes great care of it and regularly despair at what Inge does with hers.

Eyes: Brown

Skin: Fair, but tan easily. Considering how much time she spends outside, people tend to assume her skin is darker than it actually is (on this point the screenshots aren't very accurate since they don't show her tan but that'd be a nightmare to represent accurately XD)

Tattoos/scars: No tattoos whatsoever. She's got plenty of scars, most aren't really remarkable, but there are two that are special: one from Zenos' blade when he stabbed her in Rhalgr's Reach (it's not just her ego who got bruised that day, sorry MSQ), and one from her cesarean section while she was on the First. Don't worry: nothing creepy happened while she was unconscious, G'raha just had the worst timing ever.

F A M I L Y

Parents: Her father lives peacefully in Tural. She has no idea where her mother is, if she's still alive or even who she was since she left when Aïcha was still an infant.

Edmont de Fortemps also counts (haha) as a paternal figure in her life.

Siblings: None by blood. She does consider Alisaie and Alphinaud like her siblings, however. Artoirel and Emmanellain are more like extended family.

Grandparents: Long dead of her father's side. No idea on her mother's.

In-laws and Other: Well, she's in a relationship with Estinien so I suppose Alberic counts as her father in-law. The moment both realized that their respective father would have to meet eventually was glorious, because the dad jokes will be neverending and mostly at their expense.

Officially, they also have a kid together born during her time on the First.

Officially, because Estinien offered to adopt the kid and pretend he was the biological dad. Only three people know who said bio dad truly is, none of them is the man in question, and Aïcha would rather die than say it out loud. It's one thing to make dubious life choices, another one to let the world know about it...

(I haven't decided on the name or gender yet, but we can thank @gatheredfates for the prompt she sent me. It got completely out of hand but I'm having a lot of fun with the idea it gave me.)

Pets: None

S K I L L S

Abilities: Excellent shooter, although her mechanical skills don't go much further than what she needed to maintain her guns. She hasn't touched one in years and has no intention to change that.

Excellent dancer given that she's trained since childhood. She dances about as much for the artistry of it as for the self-expression it allows without having to speak her feelings out.

She also went through the GLD/PLD quests in Ul'dah, and that's mainly how she's been fighting since then.

She's also a surprisingly good poet and singer, albeit that's not known to many people.

Hobbies: Writing or reading poetry, singing, dancing and trying out new food (including the kind of food that even the most adventurous people hesitate to put in their mouth). She's pretty receptive to art in general to be honest and will gladly watch plays or go to concerts if she can.

T R A I T S

Most Positive Trait: Open-minded

Most Negative Trait: her competitiveness. You'd think someone who succeeds as well as her would be graceful when she loses but fuck no! Every Scions and most people who played even a card game against her once know that she's a sore loser and will use every loophole under the sun to try to win lmao

L I K E S

Colors: carmine and gold

Smells: campfires, incense, fresh flowers, the ocean

Textures: Soft fabrics (silk and satin especially), the sand under her feet, the breeze against her skin (yeah it counts as a texture)

Drinks: the main thing that matters is how much caffeine there's in it and how much sugar she can add to it

O T H E R    D E T A I L S

Smokes: No

Drinks: Alcohol sometimes, but never a lot and only very, very occasionally since the banquet and then the drugged beverage in Falcon's Nest. For the most part, she runs on water as well as coffee and tea if available.

Drugs: No, she hates not feeling in control of herself

Mount Issuance: Aïcha didn't join any free company. That'd mean taking orders and she's no soldier, so she didn't have a mount until Haurchefant offered her her black chocobo. As you can guess, it's been her mount ever since.

I'm not entirely clear on the timeline in StB yet for her, but if she got her yol, she left it with the Mols.

Been Arrested: no but she should have.

Tagged by: @lilbittymonster (ty again! I'm probably not gonna tag you every time because you'll get tired of it at some point I think XD)

Tagging @xsummoner-kuro @hinganskies @briar-ffxiv @confusedtia @paintedscales @fair-fae @mrlarkstin @thatonediviner @fatewalker @otherworldseekers @saeta @airis-ray @mymistymornings @riftdancing @sailor-artemis @starforger and anyone else interested. Feel free to ignore the tag if that's not your thing, and I'll do that template for more characters during the week so I'll tag new people then!

[crystal-verse]

Day 10 - Stable

[this one got away from me a little bit, and is only tangentially related to the prompt, but have more of eighth umbral era g'raha]

"Are you quite sure that these schematics are stable?" Worries Raha, as he pokes at the schematics in question. They've made good progress on drafting up plans for the Tycoon -- their artificial god, their mechanized Alexander which makes use of Omega's rift-travelling capabilities and will be designed to run off of the Tower's aether -- but actually building the thing is an entirely other question.

"It'll be good enough." Assures Heimdall, flicking a long, nicked ear. The years have scarred the viera, not just physically but mentally, but the viera who once was Mitron, in a past life eons ago, is strong despite that. Because of that, even. ('Tis almost a shame that Heimdall is the only one left, of the once Scions of the Seventh Dawn, but -- he is a viera, with the lifespan implied, and Raha does not know if he took advantage of some Ascian trick to linger past his should-have-been-death. Nonetheless, Raha is ever grateful that Heimdall decided that he valued his current life over the memories of one eons ago.)

"Besides, we can always rework 'em." Adds Udutai -- whom Raha had only initially known as a stranger who impressed upon them the importance of conserving warmth. But it is warmer now, in what passes as summer in this new age, and it has been a year, and they are building.

"I'd prefer if we didn't have to spend more time than we need, reworking the schematics." Raha retorts, wincing as, in an attempt to lift some scrap and other parts, he makes some wrong motion, and his arms give a brief flare of pain. Tis not the worst pain they have felt, not a torn muscle nor a twisted joint, but it is a reminder that even now, after half a year, their body still is yet to return to the level of fitness, of muscle, that they had had before their deep, deep slumber. Perhaps it never will.

"Y'alright, Raha?" Calls Biggs, from somewhere behind them, and Raha can feel their ears press against their skull in embarassment. Shame, for all the good that that does him.

"Fine!" He calls back, carefully lowering the metal and other material. Someone else will have to move them -- as just now demonstrated, Raha is still not capable of such a task. "I merely overextended myself a bit, 'tis all. But I am fine, I assure you."

"Better not risk it." Udutai decides, and ambles over from his perch on some patch of wall that had remained in this space (in Revenant's Toll, changed as the now-fortress may be) to stand beside Raha. "Need me to carry you, or do you have strength enough to walk to your rooms yourself?"

Raha debates, but he knows the answer -- he simply doesn't want to admit it. "I am. . . getting to be quite fatigued." He says, after a few moments. "If you are willing to aid me, 'twould be appreciated."

"Of course, my friend." Udutai -- all of the Ironworks, really -- have been far kinder and patient than Raha had hoped for. When they had found him, weak and bleary and confused within the Syrcus Tower, they had simply lifted him up and took him with them, had explained everything that he had asked. When his weakness prevented him from moving much at all, for the first few days, they patiently took turns helping Raha eat, and move a little (very slowly, very gently), and simply. . . spent time with him. Even now, as Raha's weakness slowly disappears, and he begins to put proper weight on again, 'tis still remarkable that these people would have so much kindness and charity towards him, a veritable stranger -- especially in the world that has been born of the Eighth Umbral Calamity.

Raha is used to the sudden change in perspective that comes with being scooped up into another's arms -- oh, part of them chafes at it, but they have been slowly learning how to accept aid from others, how to set aside their pride for the sake of accepting the genuine, earnest care that others would give. Perhaps it will be some two hundred years more before Raha can truly do so -- but however long it takes, he will find a way to repay the Ironworks. (He will. If it is only with an unblemished world, with an Eorzea free of the Eiighth Umbral Calamity where the Scions of the Seventh Dawn live -- even if that is the only way he can repay these people, Raha swears to himself that somehow he will find his own way to make up for all the kindness they have freely given him. The love, of a community to one of her people.)

[mousieta]

Review: Big Dragon

Year: 2022 Country: Thailand Platform: iQiyi Big Dragon managed to get under my skin in the most spectacular of ways. There are flaws in the writing, but in ways I’ve come to expect out of Thai dramas (they weren’t fundamental and structural like in the case of LITA) and I’ve elaborated on them elsewhere.

While the characters *are* in college, that fact is almost incidental to the plot, it affects them in that it has impacts on their decisions and futures but doesn’t feature prominently in their lives and also - importantly, for me - does not force this story to feel ‘young’ (which is why I often don’t care for college age stories and flat out refuse to watch high school ones). The characters actually feel like adults - with responsibilities and jobs and a certain maturity level - albeit young adults still figuring themselves out but still adult. They aren’t glorified adolescents, inept and inexperienced. (except for in the areas they *are* inept and inexperienced but those feel characteristically relevant).

Yai is the scion of a rich family, in his last year of college and responsible for managing his family’s nightclub. Mangkorn is a brilliant, award winning Architecture student finishing his last year of study which includes a professional internship. The two are known playboys and rivals who clash when they pursue the same woman and through a just barely plausible series of events (trigger warning for dubcon and drugging) wind up in bed together which presents its own host of issues they must then work though.

Like I said earlier, there *are* parts of the writing that don’t work for me, in particular how their relationship is presented/ built. However, I do feel their characterizations were refreshing in the drama landscape. I enjoyed their particular brand of dysfunction and toxicity.

The actors are delightful, MosBank providing some of my favorite off-camera shipwork in the BL landscape, and I do hope for a second season as I feel the characters have more growth before I feel the audience can truly feel good leaving them, especially as this show is only 8 episodes.

I do, also appreciate, the way sex is treated in this show, not as a vehicle for titillation but as a true mechanism for exploring these characters and the relationship dynamic between them (though yes, there is significant titillation) Remarkably this wound up being one my favorites this year and garnered a few rewatches.

2022 Drama Reviews Masterlist

[okami-zero]

So after having finally seen one of the characters much written/talked about in a bunch of the fics that got me into playing FFXIV, I have come to the current conclusion regarding Emet-Selch/Solus:

Emet in fic: *scheming, slick, darkly mysterious mastermind, maybe not so bad?*

My current, based-on-cutscenes-so-far conclusion: *100% absolute chaotic evil shitgibbon with zero fucks to give and would probably kick puppies for funsies*

Now, that us my initial read on him and is in no way any sort of final call. I am just highly amused but the differences. Granted, he's only been like this around his grandson, maybe just for shock factor because he's trying to get a rise out of him (and he sort of did, Emperor shot him deqd from behind, not like it stuck LOL).

But yea, he currently seems more like Batman TAS Joker than anything else. But those fics also came in at a point farther along than I am in the game (I JUST finished Dohn Mheg last night), se we shall see how this chaotic evil gremlin of a man comports himself around the Warrior of Light/Darkness.

[thecreaturecodex]

Nascent Demon Lord, Apharoe

Image © @tredlocity​

[Commissioned by @crazytrain48​, and the first unique fiend from Arduin. Probably not the last. In Arduin, Apharoe is one of the few neutral demon lords, as that setting’s demons are more along the lines of Goetic demons (incredibly powerful and dangerous, usually evil but not always, called by mortal summoners to assist them with particular tasks). So I needed a hook to make her suitably evil for the more typical D&D/PFRPG model. In Arduin, she’s said to be conjured for matters of “conceiving special children”, and it mentions that she takes her own children with mortals back to the Abyss. Which inspired the flavor text I went with, which makes her a patron of eugenics and planar scions, and using one to make the other. ]

Nascent Demon Lord, Apharoe CR 24 CE Outsider (extraplanar) This curvy and statuesque woman has skin the color of the night sky, freckled with stars. Her eyes seem to shift in color, and she has three navels, but is otherwise human in appearance.

Apharoe The Star Witch, the Night Lover Concerns cold, eugenics and space Domains Chaos, Charm, Evil, Void Subdomains Cold*, Demon, Lust, Stars Worshipers astrologers, enchanters, planar scions Minions cambions, star demons, void dragons Unholy Symbol a white dove or a black swan on a starburst Obedience Achieve sexual release under the night sky. This may be done alone or with a partner. Gain a +4 profane bonus to saving throws against cold effects Boons 1: unnatural lust 2/day; 2: wall of ice 2/day; 3: cold ice strike 2/day *clerics of Apharoe can use the Cold subdomain to modify the Void domain

Apharoe the Star Witch is something of an enigma among demonologists. Unlike many nascent demon lords, she isn’t fighting to gain control of a layer of the Abyss, and indeed enjoys good relations with multiple demon lords. She is remarkably easy to summon with gate spells, and is friendly with those who call her, providing services related to cold magic, love and lust, and fertility. Her costs for service are very low by the standards of demons, merely consisting of sexual favors provided by a man of her choosing, if the caster themselves does not meet her standards. The truth of the matter is, Apharoe is playing a long game. She views mortals as weak and in need of “improvement”, and is working on a colossal eugenics program to create enough half fiends, cambions and tieflings to conquer multiple planets. The most trusted of her generals are her own children and other descendants. The worlds they rule will eventually be the backbone of a new layer of the Abyss created by her and for her ascendance. But for now, these goals are held close to Apharoe’s ample chest, and only her most devoted cultists know her ultimate plan.

The Night Lover would much rather talk than fight. Her seductive words are backed up by mind influencing magic, and those that get too close succumb to her gaze. In those who are attracted to women, the gaze overcomes their minds with intense lust; those that are not are instead overwhelmed with loathing (which function mechanically identically). Those that resist her charms are typically frozen to death, or torn to pieces after she assumes animal form. Any weapon that strikes Apharoe is inflicted with a chill that renders it brittle, and she can turn mortal flesh into solid ice with a touch. Apharoe flees at the first sign that a fight will not be easy; she has better things to do than endanger her life. She usually sends powerful minions, such as star demons, to punish those that would dare hinder her.

Apharoe is often found in the Material Plane. When going amongst mortals, she typically appears as a beautiful woman, a black swan, a white dove, or a fierce leopard. She is almost never found in the guise of a man or other genders, and women are typically in higher ranking positions among her cults. Her teachings are an odd mix of hedonism and “traditional family values”, as she wishes to encourage some “appropriate” people to breed, and others to stop breeding, by force if necessary. What the criteria for suitable breeding stock are is arbitrary, and may vary based on the whims of Apharoe or her high priestesses. Planar blood is almost always seen as of high value, and evil tieflings, aasimars and other such people are often drawn into her service. Some of the unworthy are deemed competent enough to work for the cult and are forced into positions of servitude, frequently after sterilization. Those that are judged especially unworthy, or who resist their enslavement, are typically killed through freezing, whether through exposure or via cold magic.

Apharoe stands about six and a half feet tall in her natural form.

Apharoe                                CR 24 XP 1,230,000 CE Medium outsider (chaos, demon, evil, extraplanar) Init +11; Senses darkvision 120 ft., Perception +32, see in darkness, true seeing Aura cloak of chaos (DC 27) Defense AC 42, touch 26, flat-footed 30 (+11 Dex, +1 dodge, +4 deflection, +8 natural, +8 armor) hp 525 (30d10+360); regeneration 15 (good or epic) Fort +26, Ref +32, Will +26 DR 15/good and epic; Immune charm, cold, compulsion, death effects, electricity, poison; Resist acid 30, fire 30; SR 35 Defensive Abilities brumal chill, integrated Offense Speed 70 ft. Melee 2 slams +37 (1d8+8 plus 3d8 cold damage) Special Attacks energy drain (2d4 negative levels, DC 34), frigid touch, gaze, master enchanter Spell-like Abilities CL 24th, concentration +33 (+37 casting defensively) Constant—cloak of chaos (self only, DC 27), true seeing At will—charm monster (DC 25), cone of cold (DC 24), greater teleport (self plus 50 lbs of objects only), suggestion (DC 23), icy prison (DC 24), unnatural lust (DC 23), wall of ice 3/day—dominate person (DC 26), freedom of movement, glibness, quickened greater dispel magic, greater scrying (DC 26), quickened mass suggestion (DC 27), empowered polar ray 1/day—interplanetary teleport, meteor swarm (DC 28), overwhelming presence (DC 30), polar midnight (DC 28) Spells CL 20th, concentration +29 (+33 casting defensively) 9th (7/day)—dominate monster (DC 30), gate (DC 28), time stop 8th (7/day)—demand (DC 29), irresistible dance (DC 29), maze 7th (7/day)—finger of death (DC 26), insanity (DC 28), waves of exhaustion  6th (7/day)—cold ice strike (DC 25), greater heroism, veil (DC 25) 5th (8/day)—baleful polymorph (DC 24), feeblemind (DC 26), icy prison (DC 24), mind fog (DC 26) 4th (8/day)—confusion (DC 25), enervation, fire shield, greater invisibility 3rd (8/day)—arcane sight, displacement, protection from energy, reckless infatuation (DC 24) 2nd (8/day)—eagle’s splendor, glitterdust (DC 21), mirror image, oppressive boredom (DC 23), touch of idiocy 1st (8/day)—identify, magic missile, ray of enfeeblement (DC 20), shield, unprepared combatant (DC 22) 0th—arcane mark, daze (DC 21), detect magic, light, mage hand, open/close, prestidigitation, ray of frost, resistance Statistics Str 26, Dex 32, Con 34, Int 23, Wis 21, Cha 29 Base Atk +30; CMB +38 (+42 sunder); CMD 64 (66 vs. sunder) Feats Acrobatic, Acrobatic Steps, Combat Casting, Combat Expertise, Craft Wondrous Item, Dodge, Empower SLA (polar ray), Eschew Materials (B), Greater Spell Focus (enchantment) (B), Greater Sunder, Heighten Spell, Improved Sunder, Nimble Moves, Power Attack, Quicken SLA (greater dispel magic, mass suggestion), Quicken Spell, Spell Focus (enchantment) (B) Skills Acrobatics +40 (+56 jumping), Bluff +36, Diplomacy +36, Disguise +36, Fly +37, Intimidate +33, Knowledge (geography, planes) +33, Knowledge (arcana, nature, religion) +30, Perception +32, Sense Motive +32, Spellcraft +30, Stealth +36, Use Magic Device +31 Languages Abyssal, Aklo, Celestial, Common, Draconic, Elven, Sylvan; telepathy 300 ft. SQ change shape (humanoid or animal, polymorph), nascent demon lord traits, unnatural caster Ecology Environment any land or underground (the Abyss) Organization unique Treasure double standard (Mantle of the Star Witch [otherworldly kimono/bracers of armor +8 that takes up the chest slot], other treasure) Special Abilities Brumal Chill (Su) Creatures or weapons striking Apharoe must succeed a DC 34 Fortitude save or take 3d8 points of cold damage. An object that takes this damage has its hardness halved for 1 minute. The save DC is Charisma based. Energy Drain (Su) Apharoe can deal 2d4 negative levels with a kiss or other intimate touch if she so chooses. An unwilling creature must be grappled before Apharoe can kiss them. Frigid Touch (Su) Once every 1d4 rounds, Apharoe can touch a single creature. If it fails a DC 34 Fortitude save, it is turned to ice. Treat this as a petrification effect, except that the“stone” has hardness 0 and vulnerability to fire. A creature that saves successfully still takes 3d8+30 points of cold damage. The save DC is Charisma based. Gaze (Su) Range 30 ft.; save DC 34; effect stunned 1d4+1 rounds. A creature that successfully saves against this gaze is staggered for 1 round, and then is immune to Apharoe’s gaze for the next 24 hours. Integrated (Ex) Apharoe always takes minimum damage from disintegrate spells, or other similar spells and effects. If reduced to 0 or fewer hit points by one of these effects, she is not reduced to dust, and her regeneration continues to function. Master Enchanter (Ex) Apharoe gains Spell Focus and Greater Spell Focus in enchantment as bonus spells. She applies the effects of these feats to her spell-like abilities of the enchantment school. Nascent Demon Lord Traits (Ex/Su) Apharoe is a powerful unique fiend with the following traits:

Immune to charm and compulsion effects, death effects, electricity, poison

Resist acid, cold and fire 30

Telepathy 300 ft.

Apharoe’s natural weapons, as  well as any weapons she wields, are treated as chaotic, epic and evil for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction.

Apharoe can grant spells and boons to worshipers as described in her cult entry above

Spells Apharoe gains spellcasting as a 20th level sorcerer. She does not gain any bloodline abilities. Unnatural Caster (Ex) Apharoe can use her spells when assuming animal form, as if she had the Natural Spell feat.

[amememightywarrior]

The Echo mini-echoes

Short stories that I could probably shoehorn into the actual story but won’t because they’re short. btw the story itself can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16151819/chapters/37739003

Below the cut are 3 short stories/drabbles.

Battleship

“Ye sank me battleship again, ye swivin' whoreson!” Skaetswys shrieked. “'ow're ye doin' it? Out wivvit!” She shook a finger in the direction of her opponent, and then swung around to glare at me with betrayal in her eyes. “Ameme! Ye set me up! I thought we were friends!!”

“I didn't think you were that cheap,” I replied. “Come on. It's only for some food and I know you guys have plenty to spare.”

“Aye, well, I didn't think the little rat bastard'd 'ave the balls to cheat me in the middle o' camp,” she replied.

Ga Bu, my tiny kobold buddy, only twitched his whiskers and tapped another point on his side of the board. “A5!”

“YAAARGH!” went Skaetswys, marking the end of yet another battleship. “Fine! Fine, I give. Anythin's better than this.”

I gave Ga Bu a gentle pat on the helmet. “Good job, kid,” I said. “That's enough for your whole Order for the night.”

Ga Bu, pleased, wiggled his big, sensitive ears, which he'd used to pinpoint every single spot Skaetswys had placed her battleships with disturbing accuracy. Victory was ours.

~*~

Good Communication Is Everything

There was only one person in the store room of the Waking Sands. One person should not be intimidating. I could take on basically anything at this point, so what was one robed Elezen man who seemed emotionally attached to his goggles? And yet here I was, frozen stiff and watching him like I would've watched a wild predator.

“Prithee doth speak thy mind,” said Urianger. “What bringeth thee to this place?”

“Uh,” I said. “Um.”

No part of his bearing changed. He simply stood there in his hood and his goggles and his weird sandals and waited.

“I need pen and paper,” I said. “I'm gonna write a letter. To a friend. You know.”

“Housed within the desk,” he said, waving at the desk next to him. I scooted slowly around the room, giving him as much berth as I could manage. He turned away to browse the bookshelf again, though I could see his ears twitching beneath the hood as I eased a drawer open.

All seemed well. I found my pen and paper without getting too close. Still, my heart hammered in my chest and I could not help but watch him the entire time. Just as I thought I was about to get away, Urianger broke the silence.

“Wherefore art thou so taken with fear of me?” he asked, turning his head slightly.

I turned red. “Me? Afraid? I'm not afraid.”

Urianger looked at me (I think). Then he sighed and went back to browsing, content to ignore what must have been a tooth-gratingly obvious lie.

“Okay, maybe I'm a little nervous,” I said.

“'Tis clear as the light that shines forth from thy soul,” he said, which I actually understood for once. “Thou art as a kitten confronting a flight of stairs...”

“Thanks,” I muttered. “Look, I just...have a problem with people who only wear goggles and hoods and...sometimes I don't really understand what you're saying but I don't wanna admit it. So yeah. Oh, and you've got like no body language. But that's my problem, not yours, so...I'll just get out of your hair. Robes. Yeah.”

Urianger moved to get between me and the door. “Prithee stay your flight,” he said, and twitched down his hood to reveal dove-grey hair that matched his beard. “That which you describe is easily fixed...though mayhap my speech less so than the rest.” He pulled his goggles off, too. His silver eyes gleamed even in the low light of the storage room.

I blinked. “Oh,” I said. Other than the honking big tattoo on his face, he was a perfectly normal Elezen man. That was kind of a let-down. I went over to see what he was reading. He tilted the book to show me the spine. “'Constructing An Optical Aetherometer'? Wuzzat? Are you measuring something?”

“'Tis of great import that we Scions measure and track aetherial currents in Eorzea,” he said. “As the life force of this star ebbs and flows, so too doth—or rather, does the fate of the Spoken. I would create a more accurate instrument with which to measure these currents, to better understand the nature of them and better foresee our fates so we may prepare ourselves.”

Sounded interesting and also completely beyond me. “Well, I guess let me know if you need help with anything,” I said. “As in killing things or putting meters in dangerous places.”

Urianger wasn't the type to smile, but I thought I spotted the barest hint of one in his eyes. “I am capable of completing such menial tasks myself, but I will keep your offer in mind,” he said. “Ever doth thy kindness resonate, heedless of light or shadow.”

Whatever that meant. I retreated and he put his goggles and hood back on, ending our very first proper conversation. What a weirdo.

~*~

Little Mage Lost, pt 1

Edda was, she admitted to herself, completely lost. Oh, not location-wise—she knew she was in the Carline Canopy—but just...on the journey of life. It was as though without Avere she had no purpose, no goals, not even a smidgen of direction. Even with Ameme, she had...

Well. Ameme dragged everyone along with her with the force of an Ul'dahn freight train. Edda envied her conviction, her drive to move forward despite everything. Meanwhile, here Edda sat at her usual table, watching people come and go as she had done for the past week. Thinking...if it hadn't been for Avere, would she have ever left her village? Without Avere, what should she do now? Avere, Avere, Avere...

It made her sick to think of how everything had ended.

The doors to the Canopy opened and an Elezen man strode in. Edda idly wondered which type he was. There were three to choose from and they all looked alike to her. She was actually rather scared of them, if she had to admit it. They were always so friendly to Hyur women and her first encounter with one had caused Avere to shout at her for flirting—

She had stayed away from them until Gridania, where they were everywhere and remarkably unfriendly because she was an outsider. And for the record, she had not been flirting. She didn't even know how to flirt. She barely knew how to talk to people.

The Elezen man turned and she realized she knew him, maybe, if one could know Elezen around here. Their gazes met and he decided that gave him permission to stalk over to her even though she quickly looked at her hands instead. In broad daylight she could see how rangy he was, how thin and starved-looking were his cheeks. Tendons stood out in his neck as he moved and his armor, once well-fitted, sagged in places as though he'd begun to shrink away from his former contours.

“It's you,” he said in a voice as rough as gravel, nothing like the mellifluous voice of Mother Miounne. “Where's your bloodthirsty friend, hmm?”

Edda peeked at him from under the brim of her hat. He was horribly dirty but alive. Now, with him looking right at her, she discovered he had glowing pinkish-red eyes. “Um, Ameme? She's gone.”

“Gone? As in dead, or just elsewhere?”

“Not dead...she had to go to Coerthas,” Edda said, although in actual fact she had no idea where Ameme would be now, given how fast the warrior traveled. Her eyes drifted to his side. “Did you find a healer?”

The man snorted. “And what healer would go near a Duskwight and a criminal, hmm? No one. Your healing job was enough. I'm too strong to be taken out by such a little wound, anyway.”

She peeked at him again. He hadn't sat down, so his face seemed a malm away. “It was a deep wound. You're lucky you healed, although you're awfully dirty and thin. Have you been eating?”

The man's lip curled to show off-white, slightly pointy teeth. “No inn would give me the time of day, never mind a room. I've no money, either. That's how it is to be a Duskwight in Gridania. I've had my fill of playing servant to Wildwoods and Hyurs.” He tched and finally lowered himself into a chair, the knuckles of one hand pressed against the table for support. The water in her glass rippled in response to hidden tremors. He was shaking.

Edda pushed the remains of her meal towards him. “You should eat,” she said.

He gave her an offended look. “Think me a pity case?” he demanded. “That I am so pathetic that you have to feed me your scraps?”

Edda wanted to hide from his anger. At the same time, the voice inside of her that had stirred once before cried out in indignation that he would protest stupidly for the sake of pride. She took a deep breath. “I think,” she said, in a voice that trembled as much as the man, “that you've no money for food, and I've money for this much but cannot finish, so I will give you the rest because you are starving.”

That gave him pause, his eyes on the food. But he was still suspicious and glanced at her again. “These meals are not large,” he said.

Edda bit her lip. “I haven't had much appetite,” she said, hoping he wouldn't ask more.

“Are you ill?” he asked.

She studied her hands once more. Small, thin fingers...no longer any sign of her engagement band on her finger, for it had been pulled off by Liavinne before... “I am heartbroken because my fiancé and his lover tried to get me killed so they could be together,” she said.

There. She had said it out loud. Mechanically, certainly, but perhaps by saying it she could come to accept what had happened.

“What a coward,” said the man, sounding so thoroughly disgusted that her heart clenched. “Who was this? You should get revenge.”

Edda shook her head. “No. He—he's not worth my time. As they say, the best revenge is living well.”

“Eh? What fool said that? I say the best revenge is showing them how wrong they were and watching them suffer for it,” said the man. He snagged the bowl and tipped the contents into his mouth. What was a decent amount for her was hardly a mouthful for someone his size. “Listen,” he said around the greens. “Listen, you—what's your name?”

“Edda.”

“Edda. Mine's Foulques. Look, you need to show this idiot you're better than him,” Foulques said. “He's utter rubbish. You ought to find him and the cheating whore and leave them for dead.”

Edda shook her head again. “No,” she said. “That won't do me any good. What I need is...a purpose, I suppose.” She pushed her glass towards him as well. He snatched it up and downed it in one gulp. “I left my village because...because he wanted to go see the world. So we became adventurers, only it wasn't so wonderful.”

Foulques grunted, now occupied with getting a small stem from between his teeth with a dirty nail.

“I wasn't very good, or so I thought,” she said. “Avere kept leaving me behind. I always thought it was me. I need to try harder...I need to be better...but I had to rely on potions because my healing is so slow. I can't do it in battle.”

“Most can't even do it outside of battle,” said Foulques. “Being slow, though, that's your problem.”

“I know. I—well, I think I kept up with Ameme all right, but she moves so fast all the time. Faster than Avere. I know I was holding her back but she never got mad.”

He licked his chapped lips and rubbed his chin, thinking. “So you want to get stronger?”

“I—I think I'd like to be able to keep up and heal,” she said.

“Same thing,” he said. “Living well...getting stronger...” He gazed at one of the many stained glass windows, his mind far away.

“Ameme told me this before she left,” said Edda. “'If you really want to live well, get so strong you don't even need to think about them anymore.'”

“Huh! That's not a bad idea,” said Foulques. “Then they are as vilekin beneath one's boot...hah!” He started to say something, but froze at something behind Edda. She twisted to look but only found a mild-faced Hyur man coming up the stairs to the airship landing. Hardly cause for alarm, in her opinion. He wasn't even armed.

She turned back, saying, “What's wrong?” only to discover she was now alone at the table. Foulques had bolted.

[arcticdementor]

The past few years have witnessed the inception of a new genre of affluent lament — a kind of marriage of our disparate cultural obsessions with the misery memoir and the university. The progeny of this union is the memoir of the elite university education that confers status but destroys souls. The plot of such memoirs almost always begins with a young scholar thirsting for wisdom who encounters our meritocratic educational apparatus, excels by its standards but is morally disfigured by them, wins admission to an Ivy League school, discovers that the place overlooks his secret cravenness and grants him success with professors and attractive women anyway, and is driven to the extremes of existential angst for a brief period by this discovery. When our wiser and more cynical scholar finally recovers, he concludes that elite education is rotten, graduates from the school, and proceeds to a brilliantly successful career as a writer, abetted by the publication of his memoir decrying the rottenness of his elite education. If these books don’t make obvious the devastating costs of an Ivy League education, what could?

The genre seems to have taken off after the publication in 2005 of Ross Douthat’s Privilege, a memoir of his undergraduate years at Harvard. It was followed by David Samuels’s memoir-disguised-as-reportage, The Runner, in 2008; the most recent contributor to the cause is Walter Kirn, whose Lost in the Meritocracy indicts Princeton. If one were inclined to include former Yale professor William Deresiewicz’s partially autobiographical 2008 essay, “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education,” among these laments, then all three bulwarks of American status-lust — Harvard, Yale, and Princeton — will have come in for a beating. It may be a partially or, if you’re really cynical, wholly deserved beating, and our clever meritocracy lamenters unfurl their verbal whips in so many directions that they do hit some of the truly rotten parts of our elaborate educational mechanism, but the requirements of memoir always direct their thoughts back to crafting narratives of their innocence and corruption.

…

All remark on the class disparities and the snobbery among the student bodies. Douthat and Kirn register the now-ubiquitous complaint against radicalism and obscurantism in the humanities, Kirn and Samuels home in on the arbitrariness of the system of standardized tests and melodramatic personal essays that selects Ivy League admits and condemns the rejects to a life of dullness and obscurity with state-school diplomas, and so on. But there remains something implausible in these authors’ combination of purported naïveté about the meritocratic game and their canny manipulation of it. They manage the impressive feat of becoming unwitting victims of the same system they so cynically and effectively exploited, and then they ask us to sympathize with the raw deal they’ve gotten.

…

This precocious knowingness is essential to the genre. Unless one has been cursed with the kind of crippling cultural deprivation associated with backwoods religious homeschooling and a name like Jedediah Purdy, it’s nearly impossible to make an unironic claim to childhood innocence. So these writers admit to knowing all along that meritocracy is an elaborate status game, that college admissions is about faking the appearance of achievement and intellectual seriousness. But even as they concede that their outsized lust for admission to elite schools deformed their character, these writers insist that they seriously believed that attending these schools would make them whole again. As Douthat puts it, after the trials of being unpopular and overlooked in high school, Harvard “became a beacon of hope to my semi-alienated teenage mind.... At Harvard, athleticism and good looks and popularity would count far less than the things that really mattered: native brilliance, and intellectual curiosity, and academic achievement.” College would transport them away from the craven striving of their high schools to a world of integrity, refinement, truth, and beauty. How such an idyll would be created out of a class of craven strivers exactly like themselves seems not to have come under their consideration.

…

Unsurprisingly, once they arrive on campus and confront a place full of perfect reflections of themselves, all their pleasant illusions are shattered, and they indict their classmates as phonies. The rich — targets we love to hate because all Americans, and particularly the readers of such Ivy League laments, are supposedly part of the long-suffering middle class — come in for the harshest attacks. Douthat’s formative Harvard experience consists in being rejected from a club so exclusive that no nonmember has glimpsed its interior for two centuries. Samuels is tyrannized at Harvard by his roommate’s vast collection of neckties. But it is Kirn’s account of the cruelty of the wealthy that most absurdly plays to popular resentments — he alleges that during his junior year, he was led into a car by “a handsome blond campus prince — the descendant of a legendary industrialist,” blindfolded, and driven for hours out into the country. When he removed the blindfold, he found himself in front of “an actual castle, with countless tall windows, pediments, and columns.” In the middle of New Jersey. “My family’s estate. Behold, poor serf! Behold a power you will never know!” the scion told him, and drove off leaving him stranded.

…

Here again, the conventions of memoir undermine the meritocracy lament’s broader argument against elite education. All these writers want to drive home the quite valid criticism of the hypocritical “diversity policy” at these schools, which Deresiewicz describes as “the heartwarming spectacle of the children of white businesspeople and professionals studying and playing alongside the children of black, Asian, and Latino businesspeople and professionals.” The superficial diversity of race and ethnicity masks the underlying social homogeneity that arises from selecting a student body almost exclusively from America’s wealthy suburbs, its elite urban enclaves, and its top hundred high schools. The dominance of affluent culture at elite schools may be a real problem, but not for these authors, who are themselves the children of white businesspeople and professionals. But how else to demonstrate the problem in a memoir except to inflict it on your subject, who happens to be you? The results are barely believable claims of victimization of the rich at the hands of the really rich that do little more than provoke a pointless game of poorer-than-thou, in which the authors’ own claims to victimhood can be easily contested on the grounds that other students have it even worse.

The rich are just as corrupt as we’d like them to be in these stories, but, as blogger and English professor Margaret Soltan has pointed out, these caricatures can backfire: “One reasonable conclusion to draw from Lost in the Meritocracy is that only extremely rich people should go to schools like Princeton. Kirn describes a college culture in which the vast majority of the students — rolling-in-dough Percodan-snorters — are happy and well-adjusted, and the tiny minority of middle-class students like Kirn are miserable and alienated.” Indeed, Kirn himself points out that this is a problem inherent in the idea of meritocracy: “A pure meritocracy, we’d discovered, can only promote; it can’t legitimize. It can confer success but can’t grant knighthood. For that it needs a class beyond itself: the high-born genealogical peerage that aptitude testing was created to overthrow.” Possibly to ward against such a reactionary conclusion, Kirn and his fellow Ivy League-lamenters take aim at every other student type as well — the radical activists and the establishment politicos, the ethnic priders and the anglophiles, the prude and the prurient, the women and the men, the studious and the lazy — all phonies.

…

This contradictory hatred forms the crux of the problem with the meritocracy lament — the authors urge us to save the elite university but describe no one in it as worth saving. The misery memoir makes a terrible platform for serious social commentary — it is too bound up with the author’s own ego and his effort to distinguish himself from the mass of his very similar peers to be able to offer much insight. What they seem to be aiming at is the authority and historical vision of Allan Bloom, but the result is something that rarely gets beyond the pint-sized resentment of Holden Caulfield. In reality, as their own logic inexorably leads us to conclude, the authors are really no better than their classmates, and if they want to expose the rottenness of elite education, they must either excuse themselves from the story and shine a light on these schools objectively, or they should do us the service of finding the kind of students who are what they wish they had been — sincere, honest, diligent, and intellectually independent — and figuring out how they got to be that way.

…

Part of their difficulty lies in the fact that sincere, serious, and intellectually honest students persist beside them — a handful among their own classmates, but more often, at other schools — and their character proves difficult to fit into the meritocracy lament paradigm. Theoretically, no one should be able to pass through the system and remain whole, so how did these students manage to do so? One answer is that they sought after some purpose besides head-patting from adults and distinctions for their résumés.

For some, that purpose is salvation. Religious students are anathema to Samuels and Kirn, who share in common early repudiations of their own faiths. For Samuels, admission to Harvard was his ticket out of the repressive Orthodox Jewish world of his childhood, and Kirn claims to have discovered early on that the Mormon Church was just another branch of the meritocratic system, rewarding shallow displays of oratory with hot chicks to make out with in the parking lot after services.

But religious colleges in America have been sources of explicit opposition to the decadent, established elite ever since Yale was founded in 1701 to preserve Puritan orthodoxy against what some viewed as the increasing laxity of Harvard’s faculty. The social status of these schools seems to vary indirectly with their denominational orthodoxy — the Newman Guide to Catholic colleges, for example, heaps its praises on such schools as Christendom College and Franciscan University of Steubenville for their “vibrant and pervasive spiritual life,” but that’s not enough to sneak these schools into even those backhanded “best colleges you’ve never heard of” guides, not to mention the canonical U.S. News rankings. At the same time, the Newman Guide laments the decline of Notre Dame into degenerate secularism, and Georgetown University, perhaps the highest-status Catholic school in America, doesn’t even merit a mention on the Newman list.

…

Where the meritocracy lamenters come closest to getting at the source of the moral distortions perpetuated by meritocracy is where they put their personal grudges and ambitions aside to report on what is actually happening at these universities. From these accounts emerges a common thread of abdicated adult responsibility. In part, the theme arises out of the conventions of memoir as well — these are all coming-of-age stories, and coming of age is always to some degree a process undertaken alone. However, it is no coincidence that some of the most memorable absurdities described by Kirn and Douthat are moments in which adult authority is notably wanting.

…

Who would leave this kind of money to the sole discretion of a bunch of nineteen-year-olds? It might be said that such responsibility is good practice for a future in which graduates of these clubs will go on to manage even larger sums in investment banking portfolios and national budgets, and perhaps that’s true, at least for those who aren’t caught pocketing the loose change first. But at bottom, the Suzanne Pomey incident illustrates the refusal of adults at Harvard — and, indeed, outside of it — to exercise not just punitive but moral authority over what Douthat calls “the high-IQ club.” Douthat describes the glee with which the campus derided her after the embezzlement was made public, and suggests that justice was served when she was sentenced to probation (the judge argued that “no purpose would be served by a sentence of incarceration”) and denied her Harvard diploma, a punishment that amounts to, as Douthat puts it, being “expelled from the paradise of the American overclass.”

Only that’s not quite how it worked out, or how it ever works out with the children of the meritocracy. Once one attains the requisite credentials — the GPA, SAT, and hours of tutoring underprivileged children — then it becomes increasingly difficult to justify exclusion from elite circles on the basis of mere character flaws. Pomey, like the more recent Harvard disgrace Kaavya Viswanathan, who was found to have plagiarized portions of her much-touted first novel in 2006, fled to the shelter of an elite law school to rebuild her respectability after the Harvard embezzlement flap. Gina Grant, whose admission to Harvard was famously rescinded in 1995 after it became known that she had murdered her mother (a fact she omitted from her application), graduated instead from Tufts. Moral considerations should not stand in the way of a person’s clearly demonstrated “potential,” which may be the only thing the adults in these books value in education and the only realm in which they are willing to exercise authority.

…

In her essay “The Crisis in Education,” Arendt described education as the situation in which “authority in the widest sense has always been accepted as a natural necessity, obviously required as much by natural needs, the helplessness of the child, as by political necessity, the continuity of an established civilization which can be assured only if those who are newcomers by birth are guided through a pre-established world into which they are born as strangers.” And Kirn himself corroborates the value of such authority after he suffers a karmic bout of muteness caused by his lifetime of abusing language to get ahead: “What I learned from [Uncle Admiral], his master lesson — the one that would help me reconstitute my mind after it dissolved at Princeton, worn down by loneliness, drugs, and French philosophy — was that the world could indeed be grasped and navigated if one met it with a steady gaze. Matter wasn’t truly solid, no, but it was packed tightly enough to set our feet upon.”

This is essentially what the adults in these books have removed from the curriculum and from education more broadly. No longer certain of anything about the world, the adults of the last two generations have given up trying to pass it on — the culture, politics, and institutions that have constituted American civilization as a species of the West — but they have found nothing with which to fill the holes left behind. They have lost credibility, and, regrettably or happily depending on whom you ask, ceded authority so that succeeding generations can start from scratch and figure out how to fix things. One of the notable products of this abdication of responsibility has been the rise of the educational meritocracy that continually rewards “aptitude,” which seems like something everyone can still agree is good to have and adults are willing to reward, even when they cannot agree on the essential question of what is worth directing one’s aptitude towards. The result is a system that produces an elite that has no clear idea of its own purpose: “I’d been amassing momentum my whole life,” Kirn explains, “and I knew only one direction: forward.... No one ever told me what the point was, except to keep on accumulating points, and this struck me as sufficient.”

[ganymedesclock]

Masquerade: A Voltron AU

(okay, so it’s not entirely a masterpost but typing this much took longer than I expected)

Premise

In the middle of the desert lies the city of Galaxia- a radiant metropolis boasting the latest and greatest technology. Foremost among Galaxia’s crop of inventors and geniuses is the research conglomerate Daibaz, owned by reclusive millionaire Zarkon and its research led by Dr. Honerva Garos, widely regarded for her advances in medicine and humanitarian efforts.

Despite a glowing PR record, Daibaz- and Galaxia in general- has its shadows.

After an unknown chemical leak and a hasty cover-up, certain members of the population have been turning up with strange powers- and many are exploiting those powers to commit crimes. Dubbed “Psykers” by the media, police are frequently left without leads for how to investigate the source of the phenomenon, and often underequipped to match the unknown abilities of the Psykers, it’s created a context of panic where they’re desperate for any kind of ability to catch a Psyker- and even those without particular illegal inclinations get to hiding their powers fast. Masks and pseudonyms are a necessary precaution, but some people aren’t just happy not being criminals...

Some people are becoming superheroes.

Characters

Allura

Orphaned after the sudden, tragic death of her father and her mother’s disappearance several years prior, the influential young heiress has returned to Galaxia, city of her birth, from her schooling abroad, accompanied by her stalwart-if-strange honorary uncle. While ostensibly coming home to settle her father’s estate, she has another reason for returning to Alfor’s sprawling manor.

Harboring deep suspicions about her father’s business partner and friend Zarkon, Allura sets out to investigate the cryptic message Alfor sent to her three days before his death, accompanied by the gift of four peculiarly clever mice, and whether or not the “laboratory fire” that claimed his life was deliberately set. Of course, stepping off of her plane and right into the Psyker Crisis was not for the record, but a proper scion of the Alteos family is nothing if not resolute.

Investigating renovations she doesn’t remember from her childhood, Allura is able to discover a hidden lab containing pieces of his research into a serum proposed to “elevate potential”- of which the mice appear to have been successful test subjects. Lacking Psyker powers herself, Allura uses the laboratory to build and test a suit of mechanical armor, taking to the front lines of the Crisis as the white-armored Paladin, while civilian side, struggling with a lack of contacts and trying to keep her vigilante activities hidden from Honerva, who after many years of aloof distance is making a seemingly earnest attempt to connect with the daughter of her estranged colleague... always at the worst time.

(But perhaps she could be trusted? Surely, the good doctor couldn’t possibly be aware what Zarkon might be up to...)

Coran

Allura’s dearly beloved eccentric father figure and dedicated, if deeply concerned keeper of her secret mission and vigilante activities. He’ll do research, he’ll keep the house clean, he’ll coordinate missions, prepare tea, position pillows when late night adventures get too much, and offer first aid and the occasional (frequent) dry remark, anything for the young miss. Heaven help him if the ruffians Allura seems to be collecting track mud on that rug- that’s imported.

While largely content to toil in relative silence, Coran quietly holds claim to history with some manner of highly classified government intelligence cell- and while his military days are long over, he wasn’t born yesterday young man, and he doesn’t carry that tactical knife around for sentimentality’s sake. And of course then there’s those people he meets for tea and reminiscing about the old days... and possibly, gleaning some intel in the process.

Shiro

Takashi Shirogane held down an utterly unremarkable security guard job while attending local college. Not that any of that matters, of course, because he’s very definitely, certainly dead- one of the first Psyker-related deaths that sparked major panic and outrage. Not every day the only remains you have of someone are one arm.

The Psyker Wraith, on the other hand, is practically a local cryptid- between his incredible agility and the power to render himself briefly intangible, he’s barely even seen, much less anybody having a hope of catching him. Shrouded in concealing black layers and goggles, he’s identified only by the tuft of white hair that escapes his hood, his unusual metal arm, and the sword he carries, a straight-bladed weapon that he’s able to empower with unusual cutting force. The unnaturally perfect cuts he leaves behind are often the only signal of his passing- despite his power and formidable reputation, he seems rarely interested in destruction, but has been observed attacking certain facilities.

It turns out Galaxia stands atop a labyrinth of sewers, catwalks, and support columns- a sunless, unmapped region where even a legally dead person turned runaway lab rat with a scrambled memory can hide out. Having a surface contact who can smuggle him niceties like changes of clothes, hair dye, and sunglasses to cover up those distinctive electric-colored Psyker eyes (unlike most, he can’t turn those off) helps, but suffice to say not being able to recall who spirited him away from the accident and how he got clear, besides a nebulous connection to Daibaz, is just one of many stresses chewing on his head. Though a not-so-chance meeting with the mysterious “Paladin” may be able to turn things around for him.

Keith

Having grown up as far as he knew an orphan, Keith honestly didn’t put that much thought into the fate of his parents, what had happened to them so long ago- until a day before the spill he received a cryptic phone call from an unknown number warning him something was going to happen.

Since then, normal high school has gotten a little less normal and a lot more of an issue, with him and his self-declared rival accidentally discovering they both have superpowers now. In Keith’s case- a precognitive hypersensitivity to his surroundings and the power to generate flames. Which is just another problem he has to deal with, after his best friend went missing and then turned up a month later injured, feverish, and deeply disoriented on his doorstep.

Keith is quick to take to vigilanteism, not out of any particular yearning for justice as much as determined to help Shiro figure out what happened. Like Shiro, he doesn’t come up with his own name, but is dubbed Firefly by local news pundits. Dangerous work, sure, but not as frustrating as the way his sister has started hovering lately because she’s convinced he’s getting mugged on a regular basis.

Lance

Lance wanted superpowers, okay? As soon as this Psyker thing hit the news he tried everything, even dragged a totally uninterested Hunk into helping him try to awaken super abilities one way or another. Was right in the neighborhood affected by the spill, went to bed with a weird headache and everything- but no dice, whatsoever, was willing to write himself off as a super dud.

Turns out he copies powers from other people, which was super exciting except the part where he got in hot water with the local punk kid he’d been competing with for most of the school year and accidentally set his pant leg on fire.

While he’s not sure what Keith’s hiding besides the superpowers, intervening in an armed robbery ended up putting himself in the public eye as an unknown Psyker (though he was pretty miffed to discover himself making headlines as “Hoodie Avenger”, it wasn’t like he actually got to use his power without another Psyker around- just the usual being stronger and faster than normal), which ended up setting him on a crash course with Allura when he made exactly the wrong assumption about seeing a seemingly defenseless young woman being attacked by a Psyker.

That said, while accidentally scaring off someone Allura had been hoping to interrogate wasn’t his finest impression, it sure led to a more meaningful partnership. He’s still looking for a way to casually drop the name Echo to the press without risking his identity.

Hunk

Hunk got the luxury of being a second wave Psyker- initially completely powerless, even though he knew about Lance’s secret and through him, met and started working with Allura, bringing his own ideas to the technology she and the rest of the team were using. Through his awakening, gaining the ability to selectively crystallize parts of his body, the team realized that the Psyker population was actually climbing since the original spill... that was ostensibly cleaned up.

He operates under the pseudonym Granite.

Pidge

Thanks universe, she already had enough problems with people thinking she was weird before she started sprouting leaves. Pidge is really not sure what besides that her Psyker gift does- and keeps meaning to find out, but it seems obstinate to most of what she’s tried.

She was practically pulled into the team by Lance after he helped her hide during a bad “flare-up”- unlike the rest of the team her control of her powers is iffy, but just because she doesn’t have this actual super thing found out doesn’t mean Dryad isn’t packing a homemade taser she’s not afraid to use.

[sian22redux]

Faramir Fridays

ok.. I have some time today and thought I would get back to regular posts if possible, and remembering that I never did get around to posting from my TVM talk, I decided that is what I shall cover today---  my hypothesis of how the character came to be.  

It will be about 17 images of the slides from the talk..and a few written points..so after the first few I will put them under a cut... (note: not to be reproduced without permission)

Faramir, Tolkien’s sensitive, reluctant warrior who declines the Ring, arrived quite late in the story of The Two Towers, appearing suddenly, and to Tolkien’s surprise, at a pivotal moment in the creation of the chapters ‘Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit’ and ‘Window on the West’.

Ithilien’s Captain of record at that point, one Falborn, son of Anborn, was just finalizing his interrogation of Frodo and had been amusingly dressed down by Sam, when much lore and history of Gondor and Numenor began to be discussed.  And, although a substantial part inevitably was cut to go into the Appendices, there was much that JRR wished to keep.  To do that he needed a new character

The name Faramir is most commonly translated as ‘sufficient jewel’ from ‘mire’ the Quenya for jewel and ‘far’ the Sindarin for sufficient or enough. In the Peter Jackson version of the character this was a deliberate slight, that he was essentially lesser than Boromir—the steadfast jewel.  Perhaps, there can be a different take. If name is destiny, Faramir, named for a Prince of Gondor who defied his father’s orders, is actually, quite simply, enough. A modest, yet noble man, with just the wisdom to resist the Ring and a play a pivotal part in Sam and Frodo’s story.

Despite this, and his enduring place as the most popular minor male character, Faramir has not often been a subject of critical analysis.

The character was conceived of and came to fruition in less than a week in early May 1944 and the relevant chapter, ‘Window on the West’, according to Christopher Tolkien, was written at great speed. May 4th there was no thought of him but by 11th he had appeared.  How was an author famously obsessive about revising, one who took a decade and half between first sentence and finalized manuscript (and in so doing converted his protagonist from a hobbit called Trotter to a scion of Numenor) able to fully realize  such an enduring resonant character so swiftly?  

   I suggest to you that it was because he had a model to draw from…. his childhood friend Robert Quilter Gilson

Robert Gilson, an artist and designer, was a member of the famous ‘Tea Club and Barrovian Society’. Hewas born in 1893 in Harrow on Hill, where his father, Cary Gilson, taught Classics. In 1900 the family moved to Marston Green when Cary became Headmaster of King Edward’s school.  There, the TCBS tight circle formed, and like the others of the group, he went on to study Classics at Trinity College.  His letters are a wealth of knowledge.  He wrote daily, to family and friends, from university and from the Front where he served as a Lieutenant in the Suffolk regiment. He shared many qualities with Tolkien: a love of lore, and antiquity and history, but also strikingly many more with Ithilien’s Ranger.

The influence of Tolkien’s war on his writing is fertile ground for study, be it the allegory of evil mechanization in Grond; or more direct examples in his imagery of the Dead Marshes, or Sam—the doughty british batman.  Tolkien was part of a generation turned their grief to work, from Everest expeditions to his own scholarship-- it was a fertile time after that great conflagration.

With respect to Faramir much has been made about him as the embodiment of a modern warrior archetype,  and Tolkien, when asked by a pesky journalist which character, presumably Gandalf, he was most like, replied “Faramir,” noting though, that he lacked the character’s essential courage.

I am going to suggest that Tolkien drew on a man very like him in many ways but one who also was demonstrably courageous: Gilson.

Creating characters readers connect with is one of most important challenges for a fiction writer, for a good use of characterization always leads the audience to relate better to the events taking place in the story.  Physical and psychological traits, sociological and biographical details all lend themselves to creating character.  Much of what we know about Faramir in the book comes from indirect characterization.. through the lens of Sam and Frodo, how he relates to them, and they to him, and his own actions.  This approach is considered more effective because it slowly discloses the inner turmoil of the character, over the course of the narrative and lets the audience understand.    

For the process of this I like Alexandra Sokoloff’s quote:

‘I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along...[stored in] the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer’s shop.’  

This surely lends richness…but also requires one has the 'bobs and buttons’ stored.  

Below I shall compare the two men, real and fictional, through the lens of the character components outlined above.

First are superficial similarities…

Faramir is typically depicted as more finely featured then his brother..an influence artists pick up, presumably from Finduilas of Dol Amroth and her descent from the elleth Mithrellas and Imrazor, the first Prince.  In fact, Legolas remarks on Imrahil’s elven features in RoTK.  Gilson had something of the Numenorean look given to Faramir: fine features, dark haired, and, as John Garth notes, calmly apprising eyes; a feature remarked of Faramir by number of characters in book.

Next we consider psychological traits.  The above slide and below, via direct quotes from letters and the books,  and John Garth’s extensive overview of Gilson’s own letters, illustrates a number of key commonalities. 

Both were good leaders, loyal yet also thoughtful and poetic, but for Gilson this new role did not come naturally: he agonized over it.  In a moving letter from Albert Bradman, his batman, to Cary Gilson, Bradman noted that Robert was ‘loved by all the men in the Platoon, and I may say Company, as he was a very good officer and a good leader.’

Of course, Pippin’s thoughts when first viewing Faramir, bowed and weary, at the entrance to the citadel run this very way.  

There are sociological similarities between them as well.  Both were conservative, as was typical of men of their social rank; pacifists and compassionate by nature, at ease across society and with people of every class. 

Both had a love of the archaic.  For Faramir it is exemplified by his words to Sam and Frodo, and in his delight in tutelage by Mithrandir. Gilson, similarly loved an earlier time, for him it was Renaissance painting and sculpture and 18th century Neoclassical styles that looked back to earlier era. Both men enjoyed atypical, one could say unsoldierly pursuits.  For Gilson it was art, design and even embroidery. For Faramir this was music and lore. Tolkien speaks of this deliberately, that these pursuits made men superficially judge him less courageous.

Both have a reverence for wild spaces and living things.  Faramir was quite evidently at home in Ithilien and dreamt of making it the garden of Gondor once again. Gilson, restricted in what he could say in his letters from the Front, spoke frequently of his enjoyment of being on the move,  in the beauty of the French countryside.  

Both were modern soldiers in the sense used by Stephen Carter-- highly skilled,  yet classically trained and not caught by conventional views of martial glory.  Both were marksmen.  Gilson’s eye for artistic detail transferred to riflery, where he won the Shooting 8 of the Officer Training Corps.

It is in their biographical details that the similarities become almost uncanny. Like the classical element of fairy stories, both lose a parent, their mothers, at a young age.  Both men lived under the shadow of important, larger-than-life fathers who were the ‘rulers’ of their worlds. Faramir's being the ruling Steward and scion of Numenor;  Gilson’s the headmaster of King Edward’s school,’ the self-contained world in which Tolkien and Gilson lived. Cary Gilson was an intimidating, formidable man, who moved in important circles but unlike Denethor, loved his son greatly, however much, in keeping with his era, he did not show it publically.

Gilson, like Faramir, followed his duty, if not his heart.  The first of the TCBS to enlist, he left Cambridge where he had undertaken studies chosen for him by his father. Like Faramir, he struggled to live up to parental expectation at times, finding it hard to achieve grades expected in a subject he did not love.  Ultimately he was confident enough to defy his father’s will and societal convention: just before the war, he announced he would give up Classics to study Architecture…something considered a ‘trade’ in those days, not a vocation.  

Both loved above their station and were initially rebuffed.   Faramir’s true love is of course Eowyn of Rohan, niece of, and sister to, a King,  Gilson’s was Estelle King, the daughter of the American Consul. They became friends on holidays in the Scottish Highlands but she was at first utterly shocked and flummoxed by his declaration of love.  Gilson went off to France thinking his suit was lost but it was not so. On shore leave they became engaged.  Letters between Gilson and the adventurous King, who was serving in Holland as a nurse, detail and deep affinity.    

Most heartbreaking of all is the echo of Gilson in Faramir’s charge on Osgiliath: another personally courageous scholar-soldier, calmly leading his men against overwhelming odds into a rain of endless slaughter.  Gilson’s battalion went over the top the first morning of the first day of the battle of the Somme, one that would in live infamy.   Gilson, the last officer surviving in the midst of battle, he unflinchingly and briefly took over leadership of the entire company.  The Suffolk Regiment’s loss that day was the largest of any single battalion in their division.  70% of the officers and 50% of men, far greater than Gondor’s retreat.  

Unlike Faramir, Gilson did not survive. He was killed by a shell burst that morn.

Tolkien said of his friend’s death that ‘something has gone crack’, and it was so seminal a loss that for the first time in a decade he said he felt ‘a mere individual’.

Geoffrey Bache Smith of the TCBS memorialized Rob in his poem “Let us tell quiet stories of kind eyes”

To conclude, I suggest Tolkien was able to paint such a resonant portrait in so short a time, to develop a fine characterization of a sensitive poet-soldier, adored by his men, driven by duty to do what goes against his nature, by drawing upon one he knew in life, subconsiously or otherwise.   And in this we have another influence of the Great War and his childhood friends on Tolkien’s work.

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Different advances have arisen over the long haul to help in the particular area of a harmed tissue, which is actually known as useful confinement.

Neuronavigation involves the utilization of at least one of these high level imaging advances, just as cutting edge careful gear to help the specialist in arranging himself with three dimensional pictures of the patient’s life systems previously and during medical procedure.

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• Resection of a cerebrum tumor like Meningiomas , metastatic tumorSurgery on the pituitary tumor

• Skull base tumors

• Deep situated gliomas

• Intracranial hematomas

• Subdural hematoma

• Shunt medical procedure

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• Epilepsy is treated through conscious cerebrum medical procedure

• Brain biopsy

• DBS in Parkinsonism

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In neurosurgery, the main part of frameless frameworks or neuronavigation is in mind a medical procedure. The size of the skull opening or craniotomy can be restricted because of this localisation and intra hub injuries, for example, cerebrum tumors can be securely taken out. Therefore, frameless stereotactic gadgets have generally been tumor resection.

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Summary:

Neuronavigation is getting worked on over years to incorporate progressively progressed imaging procedures and careful hardware. In the possession of the top neurosurgeons neuronavigation can be a lifeline for patients experiencing everything from epilepsy to cerebrum tumors to versatility challenges.

Such tasks were beforehand only accessible outside of India. Neuronavigation-helped strategies are presently accessible in India for a portion of the cost exhausted abroad.

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Hrodric stood outside the waypoint, waiting for his older brother to arrive. A magical storm raged around the golden walls of Elysium in a never ending cycle. It was impressive and terrifying all at the same time, certainly easy to see why Theo thought this would be a good place to lay low for a while. He let out a long sigh, his chilled breath steaming out in front of him before being swept up in the current of moving air.

Finally after a few minutes of waiting, Theo emerged from the halls of Elysium, a member of the Aegis in tow. He wore a stunning black-tie outfit, his favorite to speak to clients with. “Why are you waiting outside? It’s freezing out here!” Theo called to Hrodric as he reached the waypoint.

“Needed a change of scenery, and I wanted to see you off.” Hrodric responded. “You could’ve done that in the foyer.” “I like the cold.” “You know I know you’re lying.”

“Whatever.” “What is it you want?” Theo finally asked.

“Stop by the house and grab some of my things. If I’m going to be here for a while I might as well have something to do. Warm clothes at least.”

“Anything else?”

“Say hi to Dem for me.”

“I will.” Theo’s final remark felt heavy as it left his throat, he had not been to Demitrius’ grave site recently, not since he moved into Elysium with Aspir and the other Scions. Theo and his guard stepped into the waypoint system and nodded to the other guards there. “Send us to Divinity’s Reach, please.” The guards nodded and began activating the waypoint mechanism. Aetheric energy began to build around Theo and his Aegis, at first slowly, but after a few moments, accelerating exponentially. The air around them crackled with the raw magical potential until it reached critical mass. There was a loud cracking sound as the two of them disappeared, only a wisp of the magical energy remained where they once stood.

The scenery changed around Theo in an instant, one moment he was smiling to his brother, the next he was smiling at a set of well manicured hedges. The excess magical energy exploded around the pair as they arrived in Divinity, creating a small fire on the ground beneath them. The flame quickly fizzled and died, only leaving a minor scorch. Theo looked up to the large man covered in golden armor, quickly wiping himself off. “Shall we then?”

The Aegis spoke simply, not for lack of want, but out of necessity. “After you, Master Patience.”

Together the pair set off to meet with one of Theo’s more regular clients within the Ossan Quarter, a friendly man by the name of Mus’ab Farra. While most of Theo’s clients relied on his skills to create functional gear for a variety of labor skills, Mus’ab called upon Theo to create artisanal coats that he can wear over his lighter formal attire. Mus’ab and Theo chatted for a brief time, Theo carefully taking notes on what Mus’ab was looking for in his next piece. Once the business had been conducted, Theo took his insurance share of the final cost to make the coat as usual, and headed out on his way.

“We need to make a couple stops before we can head back to Elysium.” Theo remarked to his Aegis guard. “Sir, that is ill advise-”

“I need to visit my brothers grave.” His tone turned harsh and unforgiving. “I won’t hear another word of protest, understand?” “Yes, Patience.”

They soon arrived at the markets in Divinity, Theo scoured up and down the roads looking for a bouquet of lilies to place near the headstone, eventually coming across his prize. He payed the women operating the stand and headed to the waypoint nearby. Theo and the Aegis arrived in Claypool moments later. Outside the city, the sun was beginning to set, orange rays of light spun through the windmill’s fans as they went around. A cool spring breeze drifted across the training grounds of Claypool.

“Hrodric wants us to grab a few things from the house first, change of outfit, warm clothes, and probably his sharpening stones.” He pondered what else he might need for a moment. “Then we can stop by the grave, after that it’s home to Elysium.”

The pair marched across town, Theo clung to the bouquet as tightly as he dared, allowing the scent to fill his nose. As they reached Hrodric’s house, Theo quickly undid the lock with his key and made their way inside. “Stones should be around here somewhere, I’m going to go upstairs and grab him his outfits.” The Aegis nodded his understanding and began digging through the main level of the house searching for the sharpening stones while Theo made his way upstairs to Hrodric’s room. He carefully picked through his younger brothers clothing, making sure to find the outfits that actually go together. “I really need to get him some better clothes for his birthday and Wintersday this year…”

After Theo had finished pulling out the clothes that he decided were acceptable, he neatly packed away the things he wasn’t bringing and made his way down to the main floor. “Oh, you found them! Perfect. We’re almost ready then.” Theo handed the sets of clothing to the Aegis to hold for now. “Last stop, I promise.” They made their way outside and locked the door, descending the small hill in front of the house and crossing town to the grave site.

As the crest of the hill pulled back to where the grave stood, Theo’s fingers numbed, the bouquet falling to the ground as his grip failed him. The plot of land that once housed Demitrius’ body was emptied and the headstone was cracked in half. A singular note left folded in front of the stone, unsealed. Theo rushed to the bottom of the hill and rounded the corner, tears began to stream down his face. “No, no, no. No this can’t be happening.” He rambled to himself. He landed on his knees next to where the casket should have been in the ground, deep sobs echoing in the empty grave. “How could they have done this?” Again he spoke to himself through tear-choked sobs. He grabbed the letter from the stone and pulled it open with excessive force.

“You could never save them both.”

Tears stained the singular line of text on the page, the ink began to slowly stream down the page. He clutched it close to his chest, wrinkling the letter in his fist. “I’m going to kill them all.” Theo’s voice shook with rage and consuming sadness, choking on the words in his throat. “I’m going to watch them all bleed out in front of me one by one.”

“Oh you really think so, huh? In that outfit?” A feminine voice called to Theo and the Aegis from above them near the windmill. “I’d like to see you try.”

Theo shot up from where he was kneeling, wiping the tears away from his eyes. “You’re a part of the Adriano family, aren’t you? Did you destroy his grave?!”

The voice called back again. “Oh I wish I had, the look on your face would be that much more satisfying. That glory belongs to another.” The woman stepped out from behind the shadows of the windmill to look down on Theo and his guard. “Where’s Leonidas and Hrodric?”

The Aegis stepped forward and placed a hand on Theo’s shoulder. “Master Patience, adhere to your virtue. We’re vulnerable here, we need to leave.”

Theo brushed off the hand on his shoulder and stepped around the open grave. “Leonidas is dead, I killed him myself.”

The woman scowled at Theo. “When you see him again in the Mists, tell him Isadora avenged him!” She lept off the hill towards Theo, she pulled a sword and pistol out of her jacket. She quickly cocked the hammer and fired at Theo.

A pulse of blue magic formed as a shield in front of him, shattering the instant it completed forming, an aegis granted by his guardian. “Patience, to me, quickly!” The golden man shouted, kneeling down and creating a blue dome to protect them.

Theo quickly rushed inside the protective barrier, bullets bouncing off the shield in different directions. He grabbed one of the cuff links off his shirt and crushed it between his fingers. The illusion of his dress clothes shattered, revealing his combat armor beneath. “Never leave home without it.” He remarked through a sniffle. He quickly drew his own daggers and a moment later disappeared in a cloud of black smoke.

“You can’t hide from me, Astrophel!” Isadora shouted. With a wide swing of her arm, purple magic pulsed around her, stripping Theo of his stealth. This action made her vulnerable as well, however.

Theo struck out with his daggers, blade caught cloth and flesh, ripping into her outstretched arm. The wound was deep, severing her tricep muscles. “And you’re a fool to fight a grieving man.”

Isadora cried out in pain as her pistol arm went limp, dropping the weapon in the process. She swung around with her sword, bloodlust and insanity consuming her. “You think I’m through yet? You haven’t seen anything!” She swiped at Theo wildly, it was difficult to say if it was intentional or random.

Theo backed off, jumping away from the wild swings, and retreating to the dome created by his Aegis. “She doesn’t seem quite right.”

The Aegis growled to Theo. “This is not the time to fight, Patience. We should’ve left when we had the chanc-”

Before he was able to finish his statement, Isadora seemed to have multiplied. There were now four where there was one, each holding their own weapons. “It’s time to play, little boys.” Four voices cackled from across the graveyard. The first began to unload pistol rounds in what felt like an endless stream upon the shield, another lobbed slow moving orbs from a staff’s focusing crystal. The other two began to assault the shield with swords.

The dome appeared to be holding it’s own just fine, but the Aegis didn’t seem to be taking the strain as well. “Patience, we must do something before my shield falls!”

Theo hesitated for a moment before nodding to the Aegis. “I can handle this.” Theo teleported behind the back two clones, striking the pistol wielder first, shattering the illusion into a cluster of purple butterflies. He threw one of his dagger towards the staff wielder, which shattered in a similar manner. Theo called out to the Aegis. “Take out the illusion! We can take her two-on-one!” After he finished speaking, he disappeared in a cloud of smoke once again, moving to pick up his thrown dagger.

The Aegis stood up at Theo’s command, he swept his shield in an arc in front of him, sending out a magical wave. The magic washed over Isadora, causing her final clone to shatter.

The real Isadora stumbled backwards as the magic wave hit her, she hissed at the golden man before her. “You’ll pay for this!” She struck out with her sword, only to find an unforgiving shield blocking her way. Again and again she tried to strike the Aegis, finding no opening.

Theo appeared behind Isadora and grabbed her sword arm, ripping the sword out of her hand while placing his dagger against her neck. He leaned in next to her ear and whispered. “Tell me where my brother’s body is. Tell me and I won’t gut you where you stand.” Theo’s voice lowered, betraying his deadly intent.

Isadora’s body began to shake, faced with immediate death. “He... he’s been taken to the Shaemoor cemetery.” She managed to squeeze out.

Theo pressed the blade into her neck, a thin piece of skin separating around the blade, a trickle of blood rolling down her chest. “Who is guarding it?”

“My brother. He’s the only one there.” she croaked. “Good.” Theo removed the dagger from her neck and pushed her into the Aegis in front of them. “Take her to the prison then meet me in Shaemoor. I’m getting my brother back.”

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SEMA is an organization that particularizes in aftermarket parts, vehicles, and accessories in the automotive market place and has morphed, over time, into a behemoth of an world-wide exchange organization with over six,466 member firms contrihowevering to a $31 billion a 12 months industry.

The crown jewel of SEMA is, yes, the once-a-year convention that showcases some of the freshest, greatest, and most inventive vehicles, parts, and accessories in the planet. 2005 provided an array of automotive goodness that was so huge in dimension that not even the gargantuan halls of the Las Vegas Meeting Centre could include it. The show boasted over 2 million sq.} toes of exhilittle bit room, 2 short term show halls, and numerous out of doors establishedups.

Every accessible space was packed complete of some of the most beautiful and innovative cases of aftermarket brilliance close to. Even so, the show was so substantial it virtually bgeted on chaos. There are random cars scattered throughout the entire show that are rarely in any certain order or marked with any data relating to what you are actually observing.

Yet getting mentioned that, the SEMA show actually is a distinctive experience that provides so much things to watch it is nearly extremely hard to see anything. Sadly for most of you, the SEMA show is an industry only occasion, which means it isn???t open up to the all round community. So we will do our best to express some of the incredible items that went on to you.

The place to start… There had been so a lot of different things to look at that the SEMA show experienced to be separated into numerous classes introducing, Vehicle Makes, Efficiency Tires & Wheels, Racing & Performance, Recovery Market, Restyling & Components, Scorching Rod Alley, Instruments & Equipment, Vehicles, SUV’s & Off-Avenue, and Cellular Electronics & Era, in an consider to maintain things arranged.

We could pay out times masking the different kinds of merchandise, cars, and exciting things that had to be considered to be imagined, but for your sake, and since I might alternatively not get carpal tunnel syndrome producing this post, we’ll basically adhere to the highlights:

Some of the main car brand names had a huge existence at SEMA. DaimlerChrysler manufactured a its presence identified with the not so refined inclusion of Mopar Alley, a protected walkway connecting two exhibit halls in which dozens of transformed Vipers, Mustangs, and conventional Detroit metal were prominently on display.

Ford also made its mark with a huge display that spanned the width of one of the convention heart’s massive constructions. When covering the backdrop of their exhibit with an attractive blue façade, the folks at Ford populated the area with plenty of tradition types of some of the business’s most common models, including the GTX1 and Ford ‘forty GT.

The GTX1, in case you were questioning, is the brainchild of Ford’s Special Vehicle Group (SVT) motorering manager Kip Ewing. Generally a roadster version of Fords algo throughy stellar Ford GT, the GTX1 depends on a unique 4 panel technique that allows it to morph from a coupe, into a targa configuration, to an actual convertible. Prime down, the GTX1 is a beautiful car. But it will cost you. Aside from the $1fifty,000 Ford GT, the GTX1 conversion will need yet another $38,000. But, given what we have seen, it’s benefit it.

Ford’s other eye catcher is a superbly manufactured copper bodied automobile that has been dubbed the Ford ’40 GT. The pristine copper panels, etched with a great flame trend, were produced in a previous Soviet plane manufacturing facility in Poland and then transported to the United Claims where they were assembled on a Ford GT body. Not remarkably, the ’40 GT percentages the exact same engine as the “genuine” GT.

Way too on display at the Ford exhibit was the new Shelby GT five hundred, a Ford GT that was sliced down the middle to allow prying eyes inside, and a yellow Mustang utilized for dynamometer drag operates inside of the convention center alone.

But be reluctant, there is certainly much more to the SEMA convention than just the cars…

Ridiculous Objects: If we occurred to win the jackpot in the course of our time in Las Vegas we would buy individuals decadent illustrations of blatant consumerism. The last in bling, these Asanti wheels aren’t just huge, they are encrusted with jewels. That is proper, each and every wheel has 1,one hundred karats of diamonds and sapphires set in the 5 spokes and center crest. Cost – $1,000,000 for a set of four.

Automotive Icons: All the influential men and women of the aftermarket world made the experience to Las Vegas to go to SEMA 2005, including Boyd Coddington, Chip Foose, Phillip McGuire, Vehicleol Shelby and many more.

Swag: Webster’s defines “swag” as slang for stolen home or loot. Nicely it’s not stolen if every person in sight is supplying it absent for cost-free. And if it was not free… we’d steal it in any case, because there’s some cool stuff to be had. In a selling ploy that is broadly followed by almost everyone at SEMA, companies give away lots of free stuff in an hard work to attract people to their exhibit booths. After a handful of days at the SEMA show, we remaining Las Vegas with luggage full of free posters, stickers, mystery chains, hats and much more.

Types: Aside from swag, it looks that the best way to attract focus to an differently unexciting or usemuch less product seems to be: A) Employ enticing women. B) Gown them in skimpy clothing with your firm’s name on it. C) Allow them stand around your booth and smile at possible clients. This technique, incidentally, is also widely adopted.

In-Car TVs: A wise man after said, “You can will not have way too many TVs.” Ok, so we probably just made that up. But that seems to be the sentiment at SEMA. Those men can cram a number of LCD displays into any vehicle, occasionally with awe-inspiring productiveness and attention to detail that borders on art, and sometimes with ham-fisted brutality to create a sight even Antoni Gaudi would say is, “a bit over the prime.” For an example of the former see the Scion xA beneath.

Honda and Acura were current with the usual slew of tricked out and greatly modified variants of their foundation models. Acura determined to toss in a new twist nonetheless, by making the very first ever RSX Problem, in which Acura volunteered new RSXs to six different publications to see who could arrive up with the best alterations. Ultimate benefits were tallied after every Acura had done a sequence of trials. Kudos goes to Car and Driver for using top honors.

The Mazdapace department of the Jap manufacturer of the same name also made an visual appeal showcasing some impressively styled versions of the MX-5, Mazda 6, and various effectiveness orientated parts.

Volkswagen, Hummer, and other folks also reared their heads for the SEMA show, though with marginally less of a presence. Every single, as you may count on, sported some sort of aftermarket motivated accessories and special modifications.

With all the speed oriented vehicles littering the Las Vegas Convention Center we probably could have made a killing with an armful of copies of the Mad for Automobiles best selling e-ebook, “How to Struggle a Speeding Ticket – And Get Every Year.”

Aside from the major manufacturers were numerous stellar customizations from the minds of prominent customizers and other aspiring mechanics searching to make a name for them selves, this sort of as this 1939 Lincoln Zephyr, or “Lead Zephyr,” created and signed by Boyd Coddington that will be showcased at the 35th annual Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, AZ.

There were other highlights too, such as the all-new Volvo roadster notion, a Pagini Zonda, a Saleen S7, dozens of custom motorcycles and vans, superchargers, electronics programs, more scissor doors than you can shake a stick at, a simulated off-road proving floor in the convention center parking great deal, speedboats, and a great number of other things to occupy our desires for evenings to come.

But we digress. As stated previously we could spend days writing about the SEMA show (hell, it took us that prolonged just to see it all), but there’s just excessive stuff to cover in one article. Or in two, or 3, or four, or… well you get the idea.

Well, that is about all we must share with you, the general public, about SEMA 2005. At this point you have fairly much read about all the highlights. Okay, that was a lie… there’s even now so much more for you to see. But we cannot probably convey it all to you, not even the best creator in the world could do that.

If you want to see SEMA first hand, just do what we did. Drum up a little ambition and start your own automotive business (for factors see the Nuts for Cars best selling e-book 1001 Approaches to Make Cash with Your Car Pastime). Then you are going to be regarded as “in the industry” and a ticket to following several years SEMA event is only $50 away, furthermore airfare. We are going to see you there.

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WASHINGTON | A life of courage, politics came down to 1 vote for McCain

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WASHINGTON | A life of courage, politics came down to 1 vote for McCain

WASHINGTON — For John McCain, a lifetime of courage, contradictions and contrarianism came down to one vote, in the middle of the night, in the twilight of his career.

The fate of President Donald Trump’s long effort to repeal Barack Obama’s health care law hung in the balance as a Senate roll call dragged on past 1 a.m. on a July night in 2017.

Then came McCain — 80 years old, recently diagnosed with brain cancer, his face still scarred from surgery, striding with purpose toward the well of the Senate.

The Arizona Republican raised his right arm, paused for dramatic effect and flashed a determined thumbs-down, drawing gasps from both sides of the aisle.

Trump’s health care bill was dead. McCain’s lifelong reputation as free thinker, never to be intimidated, was very much alive.

It was the capstone of a political career that had taken McCain from the House to the Senate to the Republican presidential nomination, but never to his ultimate goal, the White House.

McCain, who faced down his captors in a Vietnamese prison of war camp and later turned his trademark defiance into a political asset, died Saturday. He was 81.

With his irascible grin and fighter-pilot moxie, McCain won election to the House from Arizona twice and the Senate six times. But twice he was thwarted in his quest for the presidency. His upstart bid for president in 2000 took flight in New Hampshire only to be quickly flattened in South Carolina.

Eight years later, he fought back from the brink of defeat to win the GOP nomination, only to be overpowered by Democrat Obama in the general election. McCain had chosen a little-known Alaska governor as his running mate for that race, and in the process helped turn Sarah Palin into a political celebrity.

After losing to Obama in an electoral landslide, McCain returned to the Senate determined not to be defined by a failed presidential campaign in which his reputation as a maverick had faded. In the politics of the moment and in national political debate over the decades, McCain energetically advanced his ideas and punched back hard at critics — Trump not least among them.

Scion of a decorated military family, McCain embraced his role as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, pushing for aggressive U.S. military intervention overseas and eager to contribute to “defeating the forces of radical Islam that want to destroy America.”

Asked how he wanted to be remembered, McCain said simply: “That I made a major contribution to the defense of the nation.”

Taking a long look back in his valedictory memoir, “The Restless Wave,” McCain wrote of the world he inhabited: “I hate to leave it. But I don’t have a complaint. Not one. It’s been quite a ride. I’ve known great passions, seen amazing wonders, fought in a war, and helped make a peace. … I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times.”

Throughout his decades in Congress, McCain played his role with trademark verve, at one hearing dismissing a protester by calling out, “Get out of here, you low-life scum.”

McCain stuck by the party’s 2016 presidential nominee, Trump, at times seemingly through gritted teeth — until the release a month before the election of a lewd audio in which Trump said he could kiss and grab women. Declaring that the breaking point, McCain withdrew his support and said he would write in “some good conservative Republican who’s qualified to be president.”

He had largely held his tongue earlier in the campaign when Trump questioned McCain’s status as a war hero by saying: “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

McCain, with unusual restraint, said that was offensive to veterans, but “the best thing to do is put it behind us and move forward.”

But by the time McCain cast his vote against the GOP health bill, six months into Trump’s presidency, the two men were openly at odds.

Trump railed against McCain publicly over the vote, and McCain remarked that he no longer listened to what Trump had to say because “there’s no point in it.”

Unafraid of contradictions, McCain himself had campaigned against Obama’s health care law, but voted against its repeal because Republicans had flouted what he called the “old way of legislating,” with full-fledged debate, amendments and committee hearings on the final bill.

In his final months, McCain did not go quietly, frequently jabbing at Trump and his policies from the remove of his Hidden Valley family retreat in Arizona. He opposed the president’s nominee for CIA director because of her past role in overseeing torture, scolded Trump for alienating U.S. allies at an international summit, labeled the administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy “an affront to the decency of the American people” and denounced the Trump-Vladimir Putin summit in Helsinki as a “tragic mistake” in which Trump put on “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.”

On Aug. 13, Trump signed into law a $716 billion defense policy bill named in honor of the senator. Trump signed the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act in a ceremony at a military base in New York — without one mention of McCain.

Over a 31-year career in the Senate, McCain became a standard-bearer for reforming campaign donations. He railed against pork-barrel spending for legislators’ pet projects and cultivated a reputation as a deficit hawk and an independent voice. He even attacked senators’ own perks of office, such as free, up-close parking spots at Washington airports.

But faced with a tough GOP challenge for his Senate seat in 2010, McCain disowned chapters in his past and turned to the right on a number of hot-button issues, including gays in the military, immigration and climate change.

When the Supreme Court in 2010 overturned the campaign finance restrictions that he had worked so hard to enact, McCain said he was disappointed, but he seemed resigned to their demise. “I don’t think there’s much that can be done, to tell you the truth,” he said. “It is what it is.”

After surviving the 2010 election, McCain wasn’t about to roll over on any number of other issues. During a long and heated 2011 debate in Congress over the federal debt, McCain dismissed conservatives’ arguments against raising the government’s borrowing limit as “bizarro” and foolish. In a 2014 hearing, he lit into Secretary of State John Kerry for “talking strongly and carrying a very small stick — in fact, a twig” on foreign policy.

Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden, offered his own summation for a senator whom he described as “quixotic.”

“I think John’s legacy is that he never quits,” Biden said in a 2015 interview.

Over a lifetime in politics, McCain’s anti-authoritarian streak was both his greatest asset and Achilles’ heel.

Often disinclined to follow the herd, McCain achieved his biggest legislative successes when making alliances with Democrats. He also piled up a full repertoire of over-the-top wisecracks, and had enough flare-ups with colleagues to cement a reputation as a hothead. Some questioned whether he had the right temperament to be president. McCain’s challenge always was to strike the right balance, offering himself both as a rabble-rouser and a reliable Republican standard-bearer.

John Sidney McCain III’s history as a Vietnam POW for 5½ years after being shot out of the sky at age 31 was a powerful part of his back story as the son and grandson of four-star admirals.

When his Vietnamese captors offered him early release as a propaganda ploy, McCain refused to play along.

“Now it will be very bad for you, Mac Kane,” they told him, and they were true to their word.

McCain returned home from his years as a POW on crutches and unable to lift his arms. Never again could he raise them above his head.

He once said he’d “never known a prisoner of war who felt he could fully explain the experience to anyone who had not shared it.” Indeed, he seemed more at ease joking about his incarceration than analyzing it.

More than once he quipped after a distasteful experience: “That’s the most fun I’ve had since my last interrogation.”

In his darkest hour in Vietnam, McCain’s will was broken and he signed a confession that said, “I am a black criminal and I have performed deeds of an air pirate.”

For all of that, though, McCain defied his guards. To his captors, just as to his superiors back at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, he was exasperating.

“He had to carry a different burden than most of us and he handled it beautifully,” Orson Swindle, a former POW cellmate, once said.

“He didn’t need any coping mechanism; that’s just built into him.”

Even in prison, McCain played to the bleachers, shouting obscenities at his captors loudly enough to bolster the spirits of fellow captives. Appointed by the POWs to act as camp “entertainment officer,” a “room chaplain” and a “communications officer,” McCain imparted comic relief, literary tutorials, news of the day, even religious sustenance.

Bud Day, a former cellmate and Medal of Honor recipient, said McCain’s POW experience “took some great iron and turned him into steel.”

McCain once said that Vietnam “wasn’t a turning point in me as to what type of person I am, but it was a bit of a turning point in me appreciating the value of serving a cause greater than your self-interest.”

It taught him, he said, “that if you put your country first, that everything will be OK.”

Still, a predilection for what McCain described as “quick tempers, adventurous spirits, and love for the country’s uniform” was encoded in the family DNA.

His father and grandfather, the Navy’s first father-and-son set of four-star admirals, had set such a low standard for behavior at the Naval Academy that John Sidney McCain III’s self-described “four-year course of insubordination and rebellion” got little more than a yawn from his family.

Speaking of his father, McCain once pronounced himself “little short of astonished by the old man’s reckless disregard for the rules.” And yet for all the raucous tales of misconduct, the midshipmen of the McCain family abided by the school’s honor code not to lie, cheat or steal.

McCain’s Vietnam experience gave him new confidence in himself and his judgment. But it did not tame his wild side, and his first marriage was a casualty. McCain blamed the failure of the marriage on “my own selfishness and immaturity” and has called it “my greatest moral failing.”

One month after divorcing his first wife, Carol, McCain married Cindy Hensley, 17 years his junior.

McCain’s war story made him a celebrity in Washington. When he became the Navy’s liaison to the Senate, he quickly established friendships with some of the younger senators, who would stop by his office, put their feet up, and chew over the events of the day. The experience opened McCain’s eyes to the impact that politicians could have, and to the notion that he could be one of them.

His marriage to Cindy, the daughter of a wealthy beer distributor in Arizona, helped clear the path forward. In one day, McCain signed his Navy discharge papers and flew west with his new wife to his new life. By 1982, he’d been elected to the House and four years later to an open Senate seat. He and Cindy had four children, to add to the three from his first marriage. Their youngest child was adopted from Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh.

McCain set about establishing a conservative voting record and a reputation as a tightwad with taxpayer dollars. But just months into his Senate career, he made what he called “the worst mistake of his life.” He participated in two meetings with banking regulators on behalf of Charles Keating, a friend, campaign contributor, constituent and savings and loan financier who was later convicted of securities fraud.

The S&L situation simmered for a few years, but eventually boiled over, and McCain got burned.

As the industry collapsed, McCain was tagged as one of the Keating Five — five senators who, to varying degrees, were accused of trying to get regulators to ease up on Keating. McCain was cited for lesser involvement than the others by the Senate ethics committee, which faulted his “poor judgment.”

But to have his honor questioned, he said, was in some ways worse than the torture he endured in Vietnam. He spent years trying to live down the taint.

Another move McCain would eventually say he regretted came earlier in his career as a lawmaker when in 1983 he voted against establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday. In doing so he followed the political tradition of Arizona, which was the last state to recognize the holiday for the slain civil rights leader.

In the 1990s, McCain shouldered another wrenching issue, the long effort to account for American soldiers still missing from the war and to normalize relations with Vietnam.

“People don’t remember how ugly the POW-MIA issue was,” former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey, a fellow Vietnam veteran, later recalled, crediting McCain for standing up to significant opposition. “I heard people scream in his face, holding him responsible for the deaths of POWs.”

Few politicians matched McCain’s success as an author. His 1999 release “Faith Of My Fathers” was a million-seller that was highly praised and helped launch his run for president in 2000. His most recent best-seller and planned farewell, “The Restless Wave,” came out in May 2018.

By NANCY BENAC, Associated Press

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2019 Kia Soul

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2019 Kia Soul

The Soul has actually been a strong seller, a brand name ambassador, and a visual example for Kia, however as the present model has carried on, the numbers have dipped. In 2016, the company moved 145,000 of the softly geometric runabouts, a number that decreased by 30,000 for the ’17 model year in a more remarkable decline than the industry-wide erosion of sales in the very same duration. We ‘d like to blame the absence of an au courant Hamstar Edition, but the truth is that the present Soul is aging– a procedure accelerated by the arrival of lots of new rivals in its sector. As much as Kia would have you believe that the new Stinger sport tourer is its image leader, for now, that title still belongs to the fun-signifying Soul. Making the next model a lot more enticing to clients is vital.

2019 Kia Soul Platform

The 2019 Kia Soul will share a platform with the soon-to-arrive Hyundai Kona and the Kia Stonic. The latter, like other B-segment utelets, provides a more conventional take on the section than the upright Soul, but we, like Hyundai-Kia, figure that will not matter much. With Scion and its xB having actually gone the way of the dodo, and Nissan’s Cube eliminated to some Picassofied asymmetrical limbo, there are but 2 options for those who jones for a Soul-like item: the Soul and the airier (within), more gelatinous (outdoors) Fiat 500L, and we’re sorry we brought up the latter.

2019 Kia Soul Powertrain

Kia presently uses a naturally aspirated 130-hp 1.6-liter inline-four, a 2.0-liter 4 draining 161 horsepower, and a turbocharged 1.6-liter four good for 201 horsepower, in addition to the electrical Soul EV. Given that Hyundai is prepping an electric version of the Kona, the Soul EV’s ongoing existence is essentially assured. The internal-combustion powertrains are where things get intriguing. Sources suggest that, while the Kona/Stonic will offer a mechanical AWD system, the Soul might feature rear wheels driven through electrical motor. It might be much like what Kia employed in the Trail’ ster concept car it displayed in 2015, and would mean including a hybrid or plug-in hybrid version to the range.

Hyundai’s Kona will arrive with your choice of a 2.0-liter inline-four or a turbocharged 1.6-liter 4, and as such, we expect the Soul to hang onto its 2.0 and 1.6 turbo. Kia will desire the base Soul to stay competitively priced, which likely necessitates the retention of the naturally aspirated 1.6 at the bottom of the line. We wouldn’t be amazed to see the six-speed automated continue its pairing with the naturally aspirated engines, while the 1.6 turbo is a lock for the dual-clutch system that is presently discovered in the Soul Turbo. The schedule of a manual transmission on the next Soul is something of an open question, however we ‘d a minimum of expect it to be available on the 1.6.

2019 Kia Soul Estimated Arrival and Price

We prepare for that the 2019 Kia Soul will make its launching at the Los Angeles auto show late this year and go on sale not long after. We do not anticipate the Soul’s base price to move much at all. The existing car begins at $17,095.