Subject: Re: Mission
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Posted on: 2012-02-09 05:17:00 UTC

I'm afraid I found this mission a bit hard to follow. It was structured well, but I am unfamiliar with Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. I didn't understand what gems and cores are/do, or how the magic system in this universe works, or even the plot, really. There seems to be some kind of war going on, with cadets being trained, and occupied vs. unoccupied planets, but I don't know the causes of that war, or how this story fits into that context. It's good to explain less well-known canons to your audience (us) so we understand why the badfic is a danger to it. Details about canon characters are important, too; you said that Fate was a "White Devil", which had me picturing an egg-colored version of the Red Guy from Cow and Chicken. I didn't realize Fate was female until one of the badfic quotes referred to her with a female pronoun.

That said, you did well to include passages that anyone could recognize as bad writing, like the cute animal summons and Fury's inappropriate behavior in a military setting. These are things PPCers will be familiar with, and really showed off the general Suishness of the OCs. I also liked the setup for the assassination scene. You gave enough details to get across the feeling of impending disaster without bogging down the flow with extra info that wouldn't be needed that late in the story.

One weird thing I wanted to mention. It seems that "Nature" isn't a legitimate element in MGLN, so I assume Might of Oaks isn't a canon spell. In that case, it's probably a ripoff/homage of this Magic: the Gathering card:
http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=191316
So if you feel like it, you could add "using a spell from another canon" to Hana's charge list. :)

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