That is pretty much the reaction I had in mind when I got to that point in the scene and realized, "Oh. The episode ends here." :)

>Also considering most people ship Marisa with Alice I'm surprised you
>went with Marisa/Reimu, but I guess that is also a popular pairing
>since they're both the MCs.

I feel like this came up when "A Day at Crone Rock" came out, but just for the record: I haven't made a scientific study of it, but as a general wild-ass guess I feel like the split in fanart and doujinshi I've seen is more or less even (not counting the occasional outliers like that one where it's Marisa and, uh... Shanghai??). Although I didn't go that route because I reckoned it was the most popular, as such; it just feels right to me, for the particular versions of the characters that have emerged here.

Mind you, as we have seen toward the end of this episode, there are probably days in Marisa's life when she wishes she had fallen for Alice instead, just because she's less enmeshed in a bizarre relict feudal magocracy. Or at least Marisa thinks she is. Given that Alice's mother is a noble of the Scottish Saelig Court, this may be a mistaken assumption on her part. :)

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They're fun to do. The characters all being fluent in a single language that, IRL, at least some of them would probably not be very skilled in is part of the cost of doing business in a work like this, but I like to include little touches when I can as reminders that it's a multinational cast. I try to include translations in the annotations, though.

>And the ending...oh, it's hard reading that. Love is difficult some
>times.

Amour, c'est un champ de bataille.

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Thank you Pat Benatar :)

I have to say, I'm really hoping that we get to hear the tale of Flandre and Meiling's adventure, but it feels like that's not really part of the main storyline that's pushing right now. And I'd say that I hate you for that cliffhanger, but honestly I think that the story wouldn't have flowed properly if you didn't end it there. It's one of those moments in writing where you finish typing a sentence, think about what comes next, and realize that the answer is, "Nothing. Not a single word more or it'll be ruined. Just end it there before you mess things up." (And yes, I've experienced those moments before, why do you ask? :))

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It's sort of running in parallel in my head, which is honestly a little bit of a problem. It means I'm torn between pushing straight on with OWaW 26 and backing up to fill in GG3/7 first. Twenty years ago I'd just have worked on both at once, jumping back and forth, but for whatever reason, as I get older I find it harder (and honestly kind of annoying) to multiplex like that.

>And I'd say that
>I hate you for that cliffhanger, but honestly I think that the story
>wouldn't have flowed properly if you didn't end it there. It's
>one of those moments in writing where you finish typing a sentence,
>think about what comes next, and realize that the answer is, "Nothing."

Yeah, that's kind of how it went down. I got to the "you know what has to happen now" bit, and at first I said "maybe the episode should just end here" in the studio as a joke, but as soon as I typed that I realized it wasn't a joke, that was where the episode had to end.

I almost threw on "Roundabout" by Yes as the closing music there, but then I remembered that I already made that same Jojo's Bizarre Adventure reference very recently in TFLF. The back-arrowed "TO BE CONTINUED" is a relic from that plan. :)

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(They got better.)

Same here. I'm sure that Remilia would love to hear about Flandre's adventures and recent acquisitions, but between getting some rest, working ahead for the wedding banquet, and the likely noise of Marisa and Reimu settling their differences, they probably won't have time to talk about it before the wedding anyhow.

Beyond that, I expect that Flan would like to tell the tale only once, which means getting Gryphon and Sakuya as well. So, narratively, it seems like it would happen after OWaW 26 anyhow.

Of course, there's always the chance that the path of least resistance is writing the next Gallian Gothic and holding on to it to release later. I vaguely remember that happening before at EPU.

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My impression is that they have a tradition of the last-resort option for settling disagreements being a magical duel. In my head, this began with something like "who gets the last coffee jelly," and was much more playful in previous instances.

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