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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 115
Message ID: 9
#9, RE: OWaW 21.1: Sea Trials Mk II Mod 0
Posted by Gryphon on Dec-03-20 at 01:34 AM
In response to message #4
>You will be completely unsurprised to hear that I loved the fight
>scene.

Well, that's good! Under the circumstances, it would have been deeply demoralizing if you hadn't at least liked it. :)

>I also loved Yoshika talking to Perrine
>and communicating with Neuroi-chan, even if the latter can't talk
>directly. Absolutely heartwarming, and very human.

Thank you. The funny thing is, those two scenes only came about because I wanted to cut away between the Folkestone scenes instead of just having time jumps; if I hadn't needed them for structural purposes, I might not have thought of them.

I think my favorite thing about the one with Perrine is that I'm pretty sure this is the first time we've ever seen her properly act like Yoshika's superior officer. She's been Mio's executive officer since Minna was promoted and everyone kind of notched up, and technically she's always outranked Yoshika, but was never really above her in the chain of command proper before that development. But I can't remember her ever (effectively—she did plenty of ineffectual yelling back in the day) exercising actual command authority before, as she does at the end of their conversation.

>I did think for a second after Yoshika reflected on how much sleeping
>alone sucks that Neuroi-chan would end up sharing a bunk with her, but
>that's just my imagination. Besides, the Neuroi still needs to perform
>the Saint-Ulrich witch tradition of spending a night with Gryphon.

Funnily enough, I did consider it (that was originally part of the reason why she reconfigured her legs, besides the fact that it was awkward being that much taller), but when I got to the end of the scene it didn't seem like the right time.

>>Gryphon and the interloper from Fusō had just about
>>killed each other, and now they were... all heading
>>into town to have a drink together?
>
>You have no idea how many of Gryph's best friends have been people
>who've tried to kill him before.

It sometimes even serves as an effective courtship ritual, although in this case there's not much chance of that on a couple of different levels, not that that will necessarily stop Marisa from joking about it. :)

>Aside from that, I just gotta say that I'm now waiting with bated
>breath for the next OWaW and/or GG. My heart's pounding and the grin
>on my face won't go away.

Most likely, OWaW 22 next, then GG3/III--my original plan was to do GG3/III next, but that was when this episode was going to be the last part of Our Fighting Fleet and didn't end with a cliffhanger obviously leading into a battle scene. :)

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