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>I think it's the replication of experiences that gives off that vibe.
>Might be I'm not pulling the right word for it from my mental
>thesaurus though, since it seems less about who 'wins' and more about
>a certain sense of fairness through the lens of someone who isn't
>quite past the 'fair means precisely equal, right' stage, for the
>rather obvious reason you've noted.

That, or she's not to the point yet where she's having her own ideas about things to do, and is just following the published dance card, as it were. :)

>>(As you can probably tell from her internal monologue in this scene,
>>Remilia is aware that they're probably going to have to have A
>>Conversation about this at some point, but, well, one bridge at a
>>time.)
>
>I look forward to seeing who will be more embarrassed by those
>proceedings.

Oh, I suspect that will be me, when the time comes. ;)

>This being UF, while she doesn't have one yet, she might end up with
>an album one day.

It is entirely conceivable.

>Indeed. Gomez and Morticia are pretty much aspirational figures for
>how to live life (in spirit if not specifics,) and I don't recall as
>much of the Munsters but I do recall Herman being basically the
>equivalent of a huge, friendly dog in sentient person form.

Herman and Lily were more direct parodies of the classic family-sitcom parents—the well-meaning bumbler and the eternally patient nurturer. Markedly less eccentric than Gomez and Morticia, despite the fact that he's a Frankenstein monster and she's a vampire. :)

>>(I will now invite you to picture Nyima and Meiling fighting crime.
>>Or bankrupting a dim sum place. Whichever you prefer. Or, you know,
>>¿por qué no los dos? :)
>
>heh, to quote the lady herself, 'I heard that.'
>Though I am getting a mental 404 on Nyima, and Google is not
>furnishing ready results without more details. Not sure if I'm simply
>spacing on a character, or if I missed something.

Nyima's one of the Air Nomads who appear in The Order of the Rose and The Dìqiú Suite. She's one of the descendants of Aang in that era, an airbending prodigy, and has the same kind of open-book honesty about her (as well as a similar confidence in her physical ability that's offset by an underlying insecurity, in Nyima's case about her looks rather than her intellect).

>Ah, so not explicitly shadowy and nefarious, well no more so than a
>government agency with such a remit would have to be.

Mm. Notably, Septième Bureau is not a secret agency, but an overt arm of the Ministry of the Interior. If you do anything magic-related in Gallia that isn't connected with the national defense (such as, for instance, operating a divination service for the finding of lost objects, or maintaining a church organ that is powered by aeolian spirits), you deal with the 7ème Bureau as a matter of course.

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