In the original Sea Trials thread, Verbena said:
>First and foremost, I wrote my last post when my blood sugar was
>somewhere in the 300's. I was...not entirely coherent, and I
>apologize.

Yikes. With that in mind, you weren't doing too bad. I mean, it wasn't hard to follow.

>As for the update, yeah. I can't remember if the original version
>mentioned her hereditary title, but that definitely feels a lot like
>Sakura from Sakura Taisen there--a reason for her to have more than
>the bog standard abilities.

In hindsight, "hereditary" isn't quite the right word for it, but yes, Reimu's situation is very similar to Sakura's in some respects. If they met, they would have many notes to compare.

>I only realized this when I read that just now: She never manifested a
>familiar. It's not explicitly mentioned in the text but is obvious in
>hindsight.

These three are all a bit... odd by the standards of regular combat witches, which is a thing I'm hoping to get the chance to explore further as we go. I'm actually working on an interstitial right now that will slot into one of the time skips in Sea Trials (similar to the way "Late for Work" fits into GG1/V), which will make a start on that, since I suspect everyone is going to be too busy for those matters to get much screen time in Fighting Fleet 3.

>Both of them, plus Perrine, Neuroi-chan, and Yoshika, all benefited
>greatly (as did the narrative!) with the extra sceneage. I'm inspired
>by your ability to take constructive criticism and funnel that
>directly into creativity. Usually I need to stew a bit before I can
>internalize that kind of thing.

To be fair, I think I did sort of sprain something doing it; it's taken me two weeks (admittedly two fairly fraught weeks) to get back into the saddle in any meaningful way. :/

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