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Writing adult!Neville was the most stressful part of this, since I'm always worried about getting it wrong. Glad to know I hit the right notes. :)

If you were going to remove Ix from Hogwarts, she never would have ended up in the PPC (and meet Charlotte). So while it was pretty awful, it worked out in the end.

I don't know if I'd call it a hard work ethic here and more just desperation. There's more to the situation detailed in her home fic, but I might expand on that in a later prompt.

Ah you see, the mini-balrogs find that hilarious.

But just so you know, the minis actually like me. With that behaviour, they will not show you the good stuff....

Fun little character piece for Peregrin. There's a lot of stereotypical "old wizard" to him here, but I like that we get a glimpse of his experiments and thought process involving PPC tech and physics.

I also like that, in his dialogue where he tries to retrace his steps, you can see the point where he left the CAD at DoSAT, and he even knows that he took the CAD out at that location, but he just can't recall where it is.

—doctorlit has an idiot habit of leaving his cell phone protection case next to his other go-in-pockets-on-work-shift things, rather than next to the phone on his night stand, where it belongs

No worries. I know it isn’t. Also got as you are happy.

The other that I know that caught a case is a much more pleasant lady to be friends with.

Is that something I even want to touch?

What personality do I have in the fics now? Nice? Grumpy?

The store does now shopping carts in all sizes so that baskets do not get overfilled. The small ones are repourposed children’s carts.

And where are my twin mini-balrogs? They are supposed to stop loitering in the aisles. They can also be bribed by either party to either stop or allow agents to get certain items.

They also know where all the best stuff is......

Oh, I really like your adult!Longbottom here. He's very kind and considerate, and noticeably more confident and mature than when we saw him in his teenage years. But he also still has that little familiar note of hesitation, and not wanting to insert himself too forcefully into another person's business.

Poor Ix. I keep trying to think of a way to get them safely out of the clutches of the bullies, but . . . it's never that simple, is it? But I like that we also clearly see their hard work ethic, even when it's piled up in much greater amounts than Ix can reasonably handle. The detail that the dorm stairs sometimes deny Ix access based on their fluidity is fun, too.

—doctorlit, thinking Neville would make an excellently patient teacher

Why must cool stuff happen all the time to a game I can't play!?

Also: thank GOD, her armor actually looks somewhat practical.

As many people have been speculating in the leadup to her announcement, Blizzard revealed that it is indeed Brigitte Lindholm, Törbjorn's daughter and Reinhardt's squire who has taken up arms to join the fight!



She's a support/tank hybrid who wields a chainwhip mace and energy shield, and her armor looks totally awesome.





Her melee attack heals nearby allies, and she can also throw health packs onto allies (and overhealing gives them added armor). She has a shield bash that can be used to stun and knock back enemies, and basically, I think I'm in love already.

I have no idea how I overlooked Agent May. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Forgot about the librarian, too. And, let's see. I think season one, maybe two, of Agents had that episode with the fire-powered Japanese guy, but he got killed off. And Daredevil had some villains, Lady Gao (though I'm not clear yet whether she's really human or not), and the entire Hand, plus the Black Sky child. I believe that plotline gets picked up in Iron Fist from what my brother has said, but I haven't gotten there yet. As for the Mandarin, I'm not sure what that character was supposed to be, even in-universe. I think the actor was going for "generically scary foreigner." Not sure why they didn't cast Killian as Asian, if they were going to give him that big "I AM THE MANDARIN" line at the end, anyway. Whiplash was Russian, though. Oh, and one of Thor's warrior friends in from that Japan-inspired realm, but again, that's the "Asian character" vs. "alien character that looks like and is portrayed by an Asian actor" weirdness.

I don't really know the comics that well. If they ever adapt Morbius's side of the Spider-Man canon, they could make him Romanian/Transylvanian like he was in the very excellent 90s Spider-Man cartoon, which is sort of arguable west-Asian, but I suspect they'll stick with the comics canon of making him Greek. I also randomly know of this Fin Fang Foom, an eastern-inspired dragon who would almost certainly be CGI, but ought to at least have an Asian voice actor. One should hope. And I've just come across mention of this Shang-Chi, which sounds like it could be a legitimately Asian culture-focused movie in the same way BP was for Africa.

—doctorlit really wants that Morbius-and-Blade movie, now that he's thought of the idea

However, the entire Hand clan is east Asian, so that's... something? Maybe? Probably not.

(I need to answer quicker.) Still, please accept a bag of black-hole chocolates as a welcome gift.

...You should see SeaTurtle. Alistair and Corellieth are adorable. :-)

And yeah, the human aspects of Space Marines, which the games do their best to claim don't exist, and the novels explore far better (yet another reason to prefer novel canon to 'dex canon, if you're counting), are what make them interesting characters. They're not brainless, they're not inhuman. They're stoic supersoldiers, but they have thoights and feelings of their own.

...And balancing that rigid training and actual emotion is something I worry about, because it's a bit tricky. But I do my best.

Even though I'm pretty sure I joined long after you did lol. Anyway, have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

All typos fixed in both versions.

I hadn't thought about the contrast with our guys and Androch, but the importance of those bonds between battle-brothers is one of the things that makes the Horus Heresy novels really appealing to me, which does make Androch's selfishness even more irritating. It's not all big boys with big weapons destroying stuff because they can, like I thought it would be—there's a lot of real human emotion there, too. I mean, I'm pretty sure soldiers everywhere really only fight for the people beside them when it comes down to it, and your average Space Marine is no exception. Which makes the whole thing extremely tragic, because nobody can ever have nice things, ever.

And one of the great things about the PPC is the opportunities it affords to throw people together who could never meet any other way and see what happens. And I think it's fair to say both Thoth and I are suckers for things turning out nice. {= )

~Neshomeh

Hi, Leto! Long time, no see! Last I heard, I think you were teaching English in Japan? How was that? How's things?

As hS says, we do indeed still use the General Store! As mentioned at the end of that story, my DMS team go there for Dragon Chow—and don't worry, they definitely pay properly. {= )

Have some welcome-back Canon Cookies!

~Neshomeh

There's also Agent May, and Wong the super-librarian from Doctor Strange. Plus various supporting characters around them, but they're fairly minor. On the flip side, I don't think you can count Mantis as an Asian character - that would be like claiming Jar Jar Binks as a black man.

I feel like one of the Iron Man villains was Asian? The Mandarin pretended to be, I think, but wasn't the guy with the whips from somewhere on that continent?

Anyway, yeah, we don't have an Asian-heavy MCU film any more than we have a woman-centred one (and it should go without saying that 'only one' isn't the solution here!). Captain Marvel may start to address the latter point; do you have any ideas for Marvel comics/characters who either are or could be Asian-centred? (Doc Strange and Iron Fist don't count, at this point.)

hS

It has been a while- I was a Techno-Dann in the bad old days, and then I caught a case of the genders. Welcome back!

Have a plate of brief welcome-back SPaGhetti!

I forgot to talk about Shuri in my own review! I super-duper love that the smartest character in the movie is a teenage girl—and let's face it, she's probably the smartest character in the entire MCU, considering the level of tech she's working with. Tony Stark, eat your heart out. But I also like that she does very much have a good heart, as well. Despite her cracks about Ross being a "white boy" and "colonizer," she was clearly more concerned about his welfare than stopping the weapons shipments during the final sequence, telling him to leave the simulation before the barrier around the lab could be destroyed. Actually, the fact that she remodeled the simulator to feel like a U.S. airplane is interesting too. She spent the moments leading up to the final battle in exile from her lab, so she certainly couldn't have made that modification in the instants before Ross needed it, nor could she have any knowledge that such an attack on Wakandan ships would be necessary. The only time she could have changed the program to have U.S. plane features would have been while Ross was recovering, which shows she respected his opinion and flight record enough that she wanted to show him the program after he healed, and ask his opinion on her programming. It also seems, from the final after-credits scene. that she has been responsible for rehabilitating Bucky Barnes. I wonder if he was removed from cold storage at her urging? Definitely a complex and strong-minded character.

I did notice the rhinos were rather poor CGI, but there was so much going on in the movie, I easily dismissed that purely aesthetic issue. Actually, come to think of it, there must have been some moments, like the car chase and the fight in the vibranium mines, where the panther suits themselves had to be CGI as well, but I couldn't tell at all while I watched, either because they looked that good, or because, again, the story was so gripping I was just too focused on it to notice the effects.

The one Asian character you missed in your list is Skye on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and her mother, but I don't want to say too much about them in case you aren't caught up yet. But I definitely agree it would be nice to see further diversity moving forward.

—doctorlit, realizing that the vibranium in Bucky's old arm seems completely unaccounted for in the timeline of "vibranium that has left Wakanda"

She walked up to the man slowly as he stood by the dressing table. He was barely more than a boy, really, but muscular in a lean kind of way, a swimmer's build. He had sleek dark hair and piercing silver eyes, gazing out from behind some fashionable - and, she knew, highly advanced - thick-rimmed black spectacles. He was wearing an excellently tailored suit that fit him very well indeed, emphasising his physique and teaming well with the long Japanese sword he wore at his waist. Everyone assumed it was an affectation, right up until he killed them with it, like he had that commoner during training.

"Agent Morgan," she said, cutting the primness with just a little suggestiveness - it was how he liked to be addressed.

"Well, hey there, Roxy." He turned and smiled, gleaming, white, perfect. "And I told you already, you don't need to call me what that meddling old coot Arthur does. The special people in my life call me Bandit, and the people I love?" He walked closer, running his hand over her back. "Well, they get to call me Storm."

"Yes - Storm - of, of course." The blonde shivered at Storm's touch, but then, so many women did. "I... I just came by to give you this." She held up a small box.

"Aw, thank you, Roxy! What's the occasion?" Storm was already unwrapping the box's sober navy paper and white ribbon and plucking out the bottle of aftershave.

"Just the occasion of us being... us, I suppose," she replied. "Or you being you."

"Heh, guess all that world-savin' is paying off a li'l, huh?" He smiled again, sleek and white and evenly spaced as a military cemetery. "Man, and here I was thinking I'd get British girls just with the accent." He quirked an eyebrow.

She blushed a little and giggled. "It helps, Morg- Storm. It certainly helps."

"Yeah?" Storm put the present down on his dresser and moved towards her. "Is it helpin' now, Roxy?"

"Yes and no," she said, smiling. "Yes, because I like an accent, and no because, well..." She stood up, tossed her hair back, and changed.

"Storm Valerian Gunner," said the short, mousy-haired brunette in front of him, "also known as Agent Morgan, also known as Callsign: Bandit, you are charged with bending the Kingsman canon into an n-dimensional pretzel, killing the series main character to take his place, being an American Kingsman agent, being a secret ninja lord Kingsman agent, getting all blood in my hair from when you decapitated all those people, turning Roxy Morton into a quivering damsel to be rescued and bonked by you, taking Merlin's job despite being a field agent and also impossibly dense, getting blood in my hair do you know how long it takes to wash that stuff out, and generally being a Gary Stu of the first order. Not the First Order first order, because this isn't a Star Wars crossover, thank God, but still. Your sentence is death. Any last words?"

"What?" Storm unsheathed his sword and brandished it at her. "Who are you, and what did you do with Roxy."

"Those'll do me," said Cassie Aubrey, and she sped out the room and slammed the door shut behind her.

Her partner sidled over as the Stu began hacking at the door with his katana. "Damn, girl, that stunt took some hella balls!"

"Em?"

"I mean, there's balls, and then there's balls, ya dig?"

"Em!"

"Because I totally get that you're not into them but hot damn, Cass, those are some huevos muchachos ya got-"

"EM!"

"What?"

"DETONATOR!"

"Whuh?" Three inches of sword blade appeared by Em's right shoulder. "Oh, yeah. Whoops!" She fumbled through her bag and pressed the button. Three beeps and a horrible ker-splutch later, the execution was complete. The agents walked down the stairs as the uncanonical room disappeared behind them, and they left the Kingsman tailors' shop soon after, another well-dressed couple on a day out in London.

"You know, we've got the run of the city for a bit - the real city, not the Stu's version with all terrorists in it," said Cassie. "Fancy lunch? I know this fantastic little pizza place in Euston-"

"You had me at lunch, hun. Girl's gotta eat!" Em ruffled her partner's hair and didn't stop, loving the feel of the soft, brown curls against her fingertips.

"I will too, Em. I did promise."

"Yes you did."

And arm in arm, they walked away.

Wow. That was a ride. I know nothing about Warhammer beyond, uh, memey pictures posted online, but I feel like you guys painted a good picture of the battles there, and the general mood of seriousness and pessimism that seems to be the thing, there.

I like that you've brought together two very serious, somber, large-bodied men, and spent a lot of time developing an emotional bond between them. In addition to their own ongoing character development, it makes a nice contrast with the Sue in this mission: one hulking space cyborg thinks only of himself and interacts with his fists, while our big PPC boys are supportive of each other and keep their violence in check until the moment it's needed. Tom is also a welcome source of humor and light-heartedness throughout the mostly gloomy environments of the mission.

Little moments I liked: the warsheep, the Python chanting, Huinesoron's rant, and Tom's arrival on the battlefield, flanked by rock-and-roll speakers.

One typo I noticed: I believe you wanted "gates of Bree"?
". . . the agents hadn’t bothered to look ahead, and were suddenly yanked to the gates Bree with the abruptness of a poorly written transition."

—doctorlit, rebelling against imagining movieverse!Thorin in his mind's eye

I wish you well, have a half-kilo of lembas bread.

[Fumbles for light switch; gives up; pulls out matches and lights candle instead] See? Still works! ^^

You'll probably only recognise a handful of names, but yes, we're still here, still insane, and still <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mJb2N_MzN3NF0rJUhXQj-k5qU37-lNc--11xNElDdM/pub">visiting the HQ General Store whenever we need something too ordinary to be found on a mission. We even had a snowball fight a few months back...

hS

Hello, haven't been around for a long time. Just thought I would pop my head in and see if the lights still work.

Leto