Subject: Re: Why's Effie a gijinka?
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Posted on: 2015-11-15 04:35:00 UTC

It' mostly because she's inspired by this comment on the Moe Anthropomorphism TvTropes page:

"The F-22 Raptor earned the nickname "Mary Sue With Wings" here on This Very Wiki."

The idea was bascially that a rookie agent heard the nickname and overreacted by attempting to mission her. Because she wasn't actually a Sue, he couldn't kill her, and she ended up being recruited instead.

While I do plan to have her spend stints as a talking plane (after all, she is somewhat confused as to what type of being she is), there's the problem of who would fly her. Her partner Min Ra is from a medieval Asian setting and thus has had no training in how to fly aircraft.

And according to the Holy Land of Quick Research, Wikipedia,

"The F-22 can also carry air-to-surface weapons such as bombs with Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance and the Small-Diameter Bomb, but cannot self-designate for laser-guided weapons. Internal air-to-surface ordnance is limited to 2,000 lb. An internally mounted M61A2 Vulcan 20 mm cannon is embedded in the right wing root with the muzzle covered by a retractable door to maintain stealth. The radar projection of the cannon fire's path is displayed on the pilot's head-up display."

In layman's terms, I think that means "yes".

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