>Next stop: dakimakura!
>

Heh, all that would take is hooking a leg around him as well as an arm, which is probably what would have happened next if he'd continued to try to extract himself.

>It surprised G too, and he's still thinking it over as the act
>concludes, despite her admonition that he shouldn't think too hard
>about it—because she obviously has, despite how casually
>she tried to present her conclusions.
>
>I think it's fair to say that in virtually any other instance, that
>line you (and he) were expecting is there. In fact, looking at
>the passage now, there's a paragraph missing that I have a clear
>memory of writing which would have spelled that part out as well.
>I wonder what the hell happened there? Grumble. Anyway, she is
>only talking about Flandre there. Everyone else is out of luck
>if she has any say in the matter, which of course she has.
>

That added bit does make it marginally less surprising. It stands to reason that Flandre would be a deeply special case for a few reasons. Still surprising that she arrived at that point so seemingly smoothly, but I expect there was a lot of pondering off screen when she could be alone with her thoughts.

>It's true. When she wasn't being a straight-up magical doctor, she
>was all about what we would now call "quality of life improvements".
>The peculiar resistance to entropy that things in the house seem to
>have (like the fact that everything in the music room is still more or
>less in tune after being completely neglected for 70+ years) is also
>almost certainly her doing.
>

If she was known for such tendencies before they met and married, I'd suspect that was at least one quality that caught Count Victor's attention.

>This is also true. Not only is she temperamentally less formal than
>her sister, she speaks English more like Gryphon and Meiling
>do—not altogether coincidentally, since they're the people she's
>conversed with in that language the most since her recovery. (I
>haven't noted it in the text anywhere, because it felt clunky and
>fourth-wall-y, but you can assume that when she and Remilia are the
>only people in the scene, their dialogue is really in French.) How
>much of this is unconscious imitation of people she thinks highly of,
>and how much is just because she's at an impressionable "age" and
>those are the linguistic influences she's surrounded with, she
>probably wouldn't be able to tell you herself.
>

The answer is likely to be 'yes'. It's been known to happen that groups of people in isolated circumstances will start to develop their own linguistic habits, to the point of inventing new dialects at times (I recall some stories about scientists in Antarctica experiencing this.) Her esteem for those influencing her language use probably has a multiplier effect on how quickly and fully those traits get assimilated.

>As for Remilia, well, with all due respect to Meiling, nobody knows
>Sakuya better, and now that she's gone and deliberately ripped open
>the curtain of Professional Detachment that used to hang between them,
>she's going to make the most of it any chance she gets. She enjoys
>teasing Sakuya as much as Flan enjoys teasing her, and all is right
>with the world. :)
>

I expect Remilia enjoys it for much the same reason than Flandre enjoys her variation, and apparently that sort of thing is contagious going by Sakuya's interaction with Lena later on.

>The really fun part is that it's even crazier than that hypothetical
>guy thinks, because of the whole Crisis on Infinite Tracers thing. :)
>

Yeah, I'm still trying to file that bit. Do all of the Tracers exist essentially concurrently, with awareness of one another?

>It's not a specific reference to anything, although such a reference
>may be appearing in a future installment, since Gryphon and Meiling
>working on the house always give me "Han and Chewie trying to fix the
>Falcon" vibes anyway. :)
>

That might be the sort of scene that line pinged. Now that you mention them, I could swear I remember Han yelling something vaguely similar while trying to make the Falcon spaceworthy at some point or other.

>Probably not, and that is a logistical concern nobody's actually
>thought of yet in this scene, and will need to be addressed.
>(Technically speaking, it's not that hard to acquire, although
>the fact that Remilia isn't very good at the game, either socially or
>in terms of technique, does have to be taken into account.)
>

I had more meant hard for Remilia to acquire consensually, discreetly, and without whatever the domestic equivalent of a major diplomatic incident is. Anyway, I have probably spent more time than is healthy out of my life contemplating the care and feeding of vampires, so it jumped to mind quickly when the notion of an ethical vampire traveling away from their usual supply came up.

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