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*...not that Index doesn't, mind.

It's not their choice, as such - the Index Librorum Prohibitorum is a real document (albeit a quite distinctly Roman Catholic one, so it's a little odd that Index is an Anglican nun), so the reference would fall completely apart if they changed it. I'm just making fun of the fact that the function they have the character serving for dramatic purposes is not actually what an index does. :)

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What, a roving black hole? A devourer of any and all food she can get her hands on?

Oh wait, you said "dramatic purposes," my mistake. Nothing generally dramatic about watching one's food budget disappear in a single sitting.

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That's not technically a function, it's an avocation. :)

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"Who would build such a thing? What's its purpose? The consumption of the entire galaxy's supply of chicken vindaloo?!"
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The Roman Orthodox Church, for instance...

Then she would be the Catalog of Prohibited Books, surely.

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"When you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the
truth." - Sherlock Holmes

One provides the identifying reference; the other then quotes chapter and verse. <grin>

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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

She's perfectly within averages of children of her age, so she's possibly not so little anymore. Heck, based on the fact that the source material keeps up with time book by book, she's 19 or so.

Of course, to be proportional to the amount of ass that she can kick given provocation, she'd need to be the size of a small planet.
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-Pasha (No, I'm not dumb enough to make a fat joke to The Archive. Especially where Kincaid can hear.)
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."

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She did so with considerable skill, and the only one she ever dedicated an entire hand to defending against was their boss. One of her best efforts was a frictionless free-floating shield bubble that effectively put their bruiser out of the fight by making him run in place.

That she would occasionally reach over and spin just for the hell of it.

Long story short, Ivy, the one they're talking about, is the Archive, the living repository for all written knowledge, ever. And as the previous post indicates, she knows how to use said knowledge.

Having not seen the show Index is from, I have no idea how they compare, besides being cute girls screwed over by a stupid job.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

Ivy and Index have basically the same shitty job, but Index only has her head stuffed with forbidden books of magic. There was also something about erasing her memories every year to keep her from going rogue, but psh, who remembers unimportant details like that?

Thanks for the clarification, I thought Ivy was a fanfic version or someone I missed from ACMI anime (since I haven't read the manga).

Sadly, I still don't know Ivy, as not having read the Dresden Files and it has been TOOO Long since I watched the short lived series.

Phantom

"When you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the
truth." - Sherlock Holmes

The main difference between the two I think, from what I recall of the anime, is that Index has to manually look up any information like a living search engine which includes a huge lightshow and with a self defence personality kicking in when her life is directly threatened.

The Archive on the other hand has a constantly updating database which contains of the sum of written human knowledge everywhere which she totally comprehends and is able to use at her fingertips whenever she wants.

Index on the other hand ONLY has the grimoires and texts they could shove into her head; depending on which point in canon you look at, John's Pen (the self defense personality, pronounced 'Johan's Pen') may or may not be active, since it's part of that whole 'seal her powers so she can't run away' thing.

It's kind of up in the air which would have the bigger arsenal, though Ivy does have the edge on speed.

...and this has officially devolved to the point of needless pedantry, so I think we should stop here. Dead horse, et cetera.