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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 108
Message ID: 2
#2, RE: GG 3/I: Nuits à Paris
Posted by Croaker on Nov-16-20 at 06:52 PM
In response to message #1
>> Oh, thought Berjeau, she's going to be one of those guests.
>
>What does he mean by that? Was it meant to sound disgusted?

Yeah. He thinks she's going to be the kind of demanding, insufferable noblewomen who demand to have their every whim catered to -- a Karen, in today's vernacular.

Fortunately, she's about as far from that as they come.


>
>> In spite of her rapidly advancing maturity, Flandre saw nothing
>> incongruous about her continued love of stuffed toys
>
>Ah, a woman after my own heart.

*grin*

>
>> the latter had been to Paris more recently than Remilia, but had
>> still missed everything after the late 1860s.
>
>So she hasn't been to Paris, France, in the 2400s? Or is that
>different? Though if she had, it would explain how she knows the
>Eiffel Tower.

Perhaps she missed the opportunity, or the TARDIS simply declined. I'm sure Ben will elaborate.


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>> "Then the Fourth Republic is a damned disgrace, and we'll
>> have to overthrow it and set up one that isn't,"
>
>The scary part is he could, if he set his mind to it.

He probably could, but he'd really rather not. It's be impossibly rude. Especially since he's technically a German nobleman.

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>> Meiling had just about exhausted her limited fund of small talk
>> within the first few minutes, and she and the primly dressed,
>> thirtyish woman from the Interior Ministry had been sitting across
>> the coffee table from each other in an awkward silence
>
>Ah, a woman after my own heart.

The joys of two people with nothing in common waiting on their superiors to act, yes.

>
>> On the Thursday of their first week in Paris, Meiling had the
>> unusual experience of celebrating her birthday twice in the span
>> of a few weeks
>
>Ah, time travel. The best way to forget how old you actually are. I
>can't decide if the worst way is amnesia or having your years stolen
>by an evil sorceror.
>
>I'm just a bit sad that Meiling's erhu playing doesn't have a Youtube
>link attached, though.

There are worse reasons for Second Birthday. Meiling doesn't qualify for the most common one, however -- 'Being a Hobbit'. She's a bit on the tall side for that one.

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>> She wasn't sure how she knew — she hadn't progressed far enough
>> in her studies yet to recognize the gentle whispering of the Force
>> in her mind's ear
>
>Interesting, very interesting! So, like Anne between Ash Knight
>and Blades, she's connected to the Force, but doesn't recognize
>it as such yet.
>
>Also, it's June 21st, the solstice, and at Paris's latitude that means
>over 16 hours of full daylight. I know Remilia and Flandre don't go
>sizzle fwoosh in the sun, but it seems like bad luck that they wind up
>going into the outside world for the first time in the summer.

They'll have to face it eventually, and putting it off means making Ben go through another few months of managing mangled timelines. Remilia is a far more considerate woman than that.

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>> "The Minister wants to see us on Monday afternoon, ahead of
>> President Auriol's return, which it say here they're expecting
>> next Wednesday."
>
>And that's very near the new moon. Now I'm worried that someone in the
>government may decide to try and finish the Committee for Public
>Safety's job by keeping them in paperwork until Friday, then striking.
>I doubt it'd be President Auriol, but it's not like he would screen
>his staff based on their feelings about vampires.

I suspect it's possible, or it could be one of those bait-and-switch things where we go in expecting a vampire hunter to ambush us and end up ambushed by Big Fire instead.


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>> "Oh wow," said Flandre, leaning closer. "Is that really what I look
>> like?"
>
>It occured to me just now that portrait artists would be invaluable
>for vampires, which (aside from their usual charm) explains their
>desire to have Julien Boissard draw them.
>
>Speaking of which, is he based on anyone, or is he just a bohemian
>artist type?

He reminds me a lot of one of the "Young Indiana Jones" episodes, where Kid!Indy is in Paris and ends up hanging out with Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, and Edgar Degas.