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15. "RE: OWaW 21: Sea Trials"
In response to message #11
 
   >I really liked Mogami's letter. Though I'm confused (like she is) as
>to why the good doctor asked her to write it.

I had in mind a psychiatrist like the ones many of the early astronauts mention in anecdotes about the astronaut selection process, who often seemed to think they were treating diagnosed lunatics rather than choosing people for a high-risk, high-demand assignment, and whose actions didn't really make a lot of sense in that context either. It isn't supposed to seem like a reasonably request, so much as the Dunning-Kruger-ish act of a doctor who is out of his depth and out of ideas, but refuses to acknowledge either point. :)

>> Gryphon wasn't sure what felt odder: that he was back at
>> Crone Rock, or that the rest of the 501st wasn't here.
>
>Just because it's still a point of confusion for me: we haven't
>actually seen this anywhere. Right? I didn't miss an entire arc
>somewhere? UF!Gryph keeps referring to previous adventures in Strike
>Witches land and I feel a bit lost at times.

There's a little bit of it as a flashback in New Tricks, the LBatB story that started the whole business off (and thus was sort of the retroactive "pilot episode" for OWaW), but his original tenure with the 501st does mostly exist just as backreference and anecdote in the current series.

>Typo, I suspect: 'one' instead of 'on'.

d'oh

>> "Don't pay any attention to me," said the black-and-white
>> blonde casually, her manner of speech instantly giving her
>> away as a Liberion. Winking one golden eye, she added, "I
>> ain't even here, see?"
>
>That sentence construct instantly throws my brain into Al Capone/Bugsy
>Seigel/Hollywood Mobster mode and picturing that fake Chicago mobster
>accent coming out of a cute lil' witch girl...

Kinda, yeah, or New York. In the source, Marisa speaks in a very tomboyish and informal-to-the-point-of-rudeness manner which doesn't really translate directly into English, but "that wasn't what I expected her to sound like" is a valid reaction either way.

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