LAST EDITED ON Oct-17-20 AT 01:33 PM (EDT)
 
>Act V: "Une Inconnue Bien Connue"
>
>"Une Inconnue Bien Connue" - "A Well-Known Unknown" (or
>"Stranger").

Although not well known for some of us, it turns out. :P

(I don't really play Overwatch. They lost most of my interest when it came out there'd be no story mode when there's obviously a really fucking interesting story going on!)

>my little sister is a naturist - "Naturist" is an earlier, more
>euphemistic term for what we would today call a nudist. Not to be
>confused with a naturalist, which is a person interested in the
>science of the natural world. I once saw a poorly translated document
>which claimed that President Theodore Roosevelt was "a famous naturist
>before entering politics," which would be an... interesting
>alternate reality, but, uh, no.

Regardless, I think there is one telling take away that Flan has from her period of insanity: she now has a very much zero-fucks-given attitude. Albeit the happy variety. Azalyn is gonna eat her up.

>Fusōnese witches get things done - They're not always things
>anyone else particularly wants to get done, but that's another
>story.

Not quite following here, but I've always been kinda dense that way.

(Usually it's just because I *can* come up with the correct inference... It's just that I can also think of about ten or twenty other inferences as well. Trust me, you don't wanna know 'why' I do that.)

Aside: it could be said that this is an aspect of Japanese culture that isn't usually touched on. Basically, it has to do with gender roles within a Samurai household. Yeah, the man of the house sets policy and goes and makes bacon and all... But it's the lady of the house who makes the magic behind the scenes happen and generally ensures that the household operates like a smoothly oiled machine. Rightfully so, the wife of a Samurai is herself considered Samurai.

So it's no surprise that it'd be the Fusonese witches that are the stone-cold killers when it comes to the "Honey Do" lists at various JSF Squadrons.

>a little smitten with Emanuel - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
>(1714–1788), known to personal acquaintances by his third name and
>better known to subsequent generations as C.P.E. Bach, was the second
>of Johann Sebastian Bach's sons to survive to adulthood. A noted
>composer, performer, and teacher of keyboard instruments in his own
>right, he bridged the Baroque and Romantic periods of Western music
>both chronologically and musically. In the summer of 1730, he would
>have been 16 years old.

At first when I had read through the relevant bit, I had at first thought that Remillia was speaking of the father and not the son. Thing is, many historians suspect that, due to the content of letters between Bach and the rest of his family, that he had a form of Tourette Syndrome. It really does do Bach credit, though, that if he was indeed afflicted with Tourette Syndrome, that he was able to make the social connections that he had made despite that.

>wish I hadn't lost my JJ200s - Exactly when and why Meiling
>owned a pair of Joo Janta 200 super-chromatic peril-sensitive
>sunglasses, and of what use they were to her, is a mystery for another
>time.

I can almost see her dressed up as an MIB, and saying as she slips on her JJ200s, "You know the difference between you and me? I make this look good."

>immortalizing a mere lady's-maid - Not literally. If Sakuya is
>immortal, it's not because of the painting. It's just a painting,
>not, like, the Picture of Dorian Gray.

Well of course! Sakuya didn't suddenly keel over and turn into dust when she saw it! ;)

>Aw, jeez! My gazebo! - I never imagined I would ever have
>occasion to give a character this line, but here we are.

I don't think I've seen this used anywhere else in particular, though...

>unless you've done some reincarnating - Technically, what
>Lena's talking about isn't reincarnation so much as parallel
>incarnation. In essence, the mishap that gave her her
>time-manipulating powers also fragmented her into infinite aspects,
>each of whom inhabits a particular spot in a particular timeline, but
>they're all also the same person. Or, put more succinctly, in the EPU
>multiverse, all Tracers are the same Tracer. :)

Innnnnteresting. I'm somehow reminded of Jenny Everywhere.

>unlike certain vampires I could name, I can control myself -
>She's throwing shade at the Draculs again, not Flan.

And few people can sass like the French can. It's practically an art form.