>I think Laura is an interesting character, but has an all too familiar
>background - how many ronin-style folks are roaming this galaxy?

Quite a few, I must concede, although there's actually a lot more to what Laura got up to during the years between the two threads of Weapon of Choice than just the ronin thing - I mean, she did wander the galaxy quite a bit, but it wasn't always just to blow into town and murder a crime syndicate, Zatôichi style. As we will see in her BPGD file if I managed to finish it, she's also been and done a good many other things.

>And how many children has G. saved over the years from becoming the
>Ultimate Weapon(TM)?

I actually can't think of any others off the top of my head - Rei, maybe, but she wasn't really intended to be an Ultimate Weapon in and of herself, and her rescue was much more of a team effort. In the "modern" era, child superweapons are actually pretty rare, because of advances in biosculpt technology that mean most such creations are decanted as adults. Laura's a bit of an oddity in that regard, in that she was actually born, like a regular person. Most villainous labs in the 25th century aren't going to budget 13-16 years for their product to become operational.

>I also thought Skuld was slightly out of
>character (I mean, she turns pink!) but that could be the BatB
>treatment

I was actually a little disappointed that there ended up being relatively few fragments of the Brave and the Bold style left in Weapon of Choice by the time it was finished; as comparisons to Batman animated productions go, it wound up much more resembling, say, Under the Red Hood in tone. That was probably inevitable with a character like Laura involved; it's like making Wolverine the central character of a children's cartoon. He's the best there is at what he does, and what he does is... curiously bloodless. :)

As for Skuld, she was having a hard day already and Victor can take a person a little bit aback at the best of times. At least she didn't respond to his introduction the way Urd would have ("Oh my! Good sir, you may consider me seduced," which is what she said to Hank McCoy when he introduced himself in a similar fashion; she just has a thing for leonine gentlemen with good manners, I guess). :)

>one question - is that the
>same battledome Corwin fought in?

Yep. Ordinarily used for containing giant robot fights, it's the perfect place to arrange things if you want to minimize the risk of a punch-up spilling into the streets, endangering the public, and frightening the horses.

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