Yor is a charming, surprisingly gullible woman who manages to make the combination of "looks that good" and "still single" believable. Also, she's the cheapest drunk ever, appears to be a lethal chef, and has a severe case of "only tool is a hammer" syndrome. ("Problem: Anya was not accepted to Eden College, but is on the top of the backup list. Solution: Murder?")

And she loves Anya. For that, I'd forgive a multitude of sins.

Peter Eng
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The animation was very fluid and the fight scene was beautifully choreographed. So was the incident involving the charging cattle. Which I watched for the. The animation. And not the. Not Yor. Not Yor's thighs.

i need a lie down.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

No, you're fine. Perfectly rational response. I'm just better about pulling my tongue back in my mouth after a Tex Avery wolf reaction.

Peter Eng
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Here speaks someone who's never stubbed three toes at once on a breezeblock.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

Dyspraxia: teaching your brain new ways to hate since time immemorial.

I maintain she's the most realistic six year old in all of fiction.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

Even if she is almost certainly lying about being six. :)

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Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

There's been a few blink-and-you'll-miss-it scenes in the anime which lead me to suspect that Anya is an escapee from an Ostanian genetics program. I could be wrong, of course.

Peter Eng
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"No! Yor is my mother!"
"OH HOLY SHIT RUN!"

edit tried and tried again to get the images to show, but no dice, even looked at the html reference thing in the post window,if anyone knows why it didn't work I'd like to know

I'd guess it was because there are no file type extensions in the URLs. DCF is pretty dimwitted--it has to be tricked into NOT showing an image inline if there's a filename extension it recognizes at the end, but it also doesn't know enough to show images that are on another page (as opposed to just being called directly).

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You take your fun where you can find it in I Can't Believe It's Not East Germany.

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My guess is that between growing up there and the training to make her into Thorn Princess, she's been so steeped in Ostanian propaganda for her entire life that her only option was to develop a mindset of almost impenetrable gullibility. Barring strong evidence to the contrary, she'll believe anything she's told as if her life depends on it.

I suspect that if UF's Boba Fett met Yor, he'd class her as, "...one of those psychically scarred former child soldiers from some third-galaxy hellhole on the Rim." She's been trained enough to put up a good front, but that only goes so far.

Peter Eng
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To be fair, I think everyone in that world is a bit prone to holding the idiot ball. I mean, Loid the superspy didn't even question why his office worker faux wife was inches away from kicking his ass while she was screamingly drunk.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "My headcanon is that he fell for Yor almost instantly and so has an absolutely enormous blind spot regarding her, but YMMV."

I mean, to be Westalis's greatest spy, he only has to be smarter than everyone in Ostania, which doesn't seem like a tremendously high bar.

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Also, someone mentioned that Ostania is East Germany and... no? This is clearly pre-WW2 Third Reich inspired. Look at Donovan Desmond again, and look at the designs of the not-Gestapo uniforms. Not germane (ha) to the discussion but it was on my mind and this seemed as good a place as any to drop it in.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

The clothing is designed on that line, but the politics appears to draw more from the Cold War era. Also, take a look at the van Loid and Franky are driving in episode 2. As far as I can tell, that's a VW microbus with the logos removed for purposes of not getting Volkswagen annoyed. I'm pretty sure I've seen a Trabant analog more than once.

It's something of a mishmash of eras.

Peter Eng
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The countries are called Westalis and Ostania, for crying out loud.

--G.
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