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3. "RE: (DS05) Among Honest Hearts"
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   >Hm, are there already references to other things that happened? IIRC
>that's when spirits started entering Diqiu proper, but will we see a
>list at some point?

Probably not. Lists are so confining. It may be worth noting, though, that "started entering" was in some regions perhaps better phrased "overrunning". Things got pretty weird in some places for a while.

>>unlike Nature Priestess - It's cute how Utena still pretends
>>she believes that's the real reason Anthy shied away from all the
>>technological solutions.
>
>The alternative is to admit to herself Anthy lied to her to have an
>excuse to sleep with Corwin. That's...stark, and all three of them are
>past it, but it's no less true.

That's not really accurate, though, as written. She did genuinely want a child, and she did genuinely not want the process to involve a lot of Science. She may have exaggerated how much of an obstacle the second really part was, but even then, it wasn't that Anthy wanted an excuse to get some action; she was attempting to give Utena an excuse to get some action. ... It didn't work, and possibly nobody even slightly better-versed in how these things play out than Anthy-at-that-time would've believed that it would, but that's neither here nor there now. Point is, it was considerably more complicated than that.

>This may be the first time in UF Utena has caught Anthy off guard.
>Usually Anthy knows what Utena's going to do before Utena does.

She's been catching up lately; viz. last movement, when - although she didn't notice what Korra was doing before Anthy did - she had been expecting it rather longer. "Did I get somewhere before you for once? Mark your calendar, Garnet, you may not see this happen again for years."

>>more like what I remember - Ikki was a mightily loud
>>child, capable of summoning her father from up to two miles away.
>
>She hasn't gotten all that much quieter. XD

No, although she uses more words now.

>>She's been studying ba gua; the
>>obvious thing was for her to throw him instead.
>
>Well, I only disagree in that I think it's not obvious.

Obvious to her, anyway. :)

>>spontaneous firebending manifestations - Spontaneous bending
>>manifestations are very rare in the third century, but they do
>>occasionally happen. Most students of the phenomenon believe that the
>>people they happen to have really been benders all along, but their
>>talents have lain latent in them for various reasons, until unlocked
>>by extraordinary stimuli, like Korra's own airbending ability.
>
>Were they possible before Harmonic Convergence?

Probably, in the same sort of "for one reason or another you never Did the Thing until a lot later than most benders do" sense. People developing bending talents completely out of nowhere in adulthood that they really never had before only happened in the Convergence's immediate aftermath, as far as I know (and they were all airbenders, which is excellent evidence that the cosmos is a) sentient and b) fucking with people :).

>>I haven't played since... almost 40 years - In other words, she
>>put it away when Asami died.
>
>...Wow. I hadn't put that together...

Hence Corwin's "I'm-a just be over here out of your way" approach to the moment.

>I confess I also wonder what's happening
>with Emily. =)

Oh, you'll find out...

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