Subject: Now that you mention it...
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Posted on: 2014-01-15 13:01:00 UTC
I've realised that Subject 23 is nothing more than a genderbent, disgustingly stupid version of X-23 (aka Talon, Laura X, et cetera). I mean, if you're going to plagiarise something, at least pick a different number.
Who do YOU think would win in a fight?
Subject 23: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6622631/1/Subject_23
or Parallel Realities' John Shepard: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6399402/1/Parallel-Realities
I have my own theories, of course, but they must be revealed at the proper time...
I've realised that Subject 23 is nothing more than a genderbent, disgustingly stupid version of X-23 (aka Talon, Laura X, et cetera). I mean, if you're going to plagiarise something, at least pick a different number.
Subject 23's Powers are basically a combination of the powers of Iceman and Wash-out, so I doubt it was meant to invoke X-23. Couple that with the fact that the fic as a whole ends up becoming disgustingly sexist at various points (it turns Tali into a love-obsessed bimbo and then turns FemShep into a horny lady who obsesses about how she hasn't gotten laid despite the fact that, you know, she's busy fighting the Collectors and all that), and I very much doubt he's going for an X-23 rip-off.
No matter what, though, I can say this: Parallel Realities is still far worse than Subject 23. Subject 23 at least had the dignity to attempt something new, even if it did a terrible job. Parallel Realities was just a lazily written pile of laziness.
And of course the lazier fic is impossible to PPC because it's too damn long.