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Topic ID: 143
Message ID: 48
#48, RE: Gedankenexperiment II: Fly Girls
Posted by Nathan on Sep-14-14 at 01:42 AM
In response to message #47
><b>P-61</b> Is an odd duck ---- she's rarely awake during the day, and
>she's very pale. She's almost always dressed in black and likes
>standing in the shadows, scaring the other girls, who don't know she's
>there until she speakes. She has excellant night vision, but doesn't
>like to be called a goth. She only appears a couple of times in the
>series, usually as a gag when she scares one of the girls.

That's the character design, but she shows up fairly prominently in the 'Shadows' episodes... I remember 'Shadow Dances' giving her a visually spectacular moonlight duel with He 219, for instance. For some reason, Avalon TV keeps scheduling them at weird timeslots, though, so you might've just been unlucky and not caught them on.

Although I have to admit that my favorite member of the night-fighter subcast is Beaufighter. *cough* And, yes, for character-design reasons, even if there's something irresistibly hilarious about a girl her height slinging around loads nearly as large as P-47 manages.

I also deeply approve of Beau's 'Enh, I have no clue what I'm doing but let's give it a go' attitude, and think her travel scrapbook is hilarious.

(...I suppose I had better explain for the non-viewers. Beau is a very short and compact sort of girl, reflecting the stubby proportions of the aircraft that inspired her, and also reflects the prominence of the airframe's twin radial engines by being the bustiest recurring cast member. Pity about the horrible Heidi braids.)

That said, He 219 is also gorgeous, even if the 'ultra-slender' look usually doesn't do it for me and her perfectionist streak is occasionally grating.

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