I really enjoyed this, too! I appreciate the thought and care that goes into a story like this, even though I'm not really a writer, as such.

Incidentally, is gblackrock17 a username we should know? Obviously, I expect to recognize who it is once the reveal happens, but this is still Golden Age--no reason for Gryphon to hide, and I don't think he'd make a video that risque anyway. Trying to think who it might be. Zoner, maybe?

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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

I do believe that is Soundwave, aka "Gabe Blackrock", aka The Guy Who Bullshitted Sylvie Daniels.

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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

This hypothesis is circumstantially supported by the fact that 17 was Soundwave's original item number in the Japanese Transformers G1 series.

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Heh, my only point of reference for BRS is people in Danbooru comments saying that Aircraft Carrier Wo-class from Kantai Collection looks like her, particularly in the anime when she gets shot in the eye. :)

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As the submitter of that part - inspired by the phrase, yes - the timing was not planned at all. It's just something that happened, for good or ill.

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Mikunopolis is also a city on Funkotron. They're... very dedicated fans there.

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Not really, no. There is, at least, a hell of a lot more stuff set in the FI era. The thing about the WDF's early Golden Age is that they mostly spent it nowhere near Earth, so to show Earth in that period, we for the most part don't show the main cast, which is in itself something that doesn't happen terribly often.

>The variety is nice.

I enjoy it too, when it comes together.

>I
>then tried to find examples of the music, found the really old stuff
>that sounds like it's been AutoTuned to death, and gave up. :-/

... Um, on a point of order, that's sort of what Vocaloid is, so... :)

>And finally, when y'all first used the line "My friend, don't be a
>dick," it seemed such a perfectly Venkman thing to say, so I was
>pleasantly surprised to see it fit neatly into two other characters'
>mouths in the course of the same story.

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm pretty sure it originally was a Venkman thing to say (as in, he says it in the movie, not just in The Other Side). And, to be fair, Kurusu was quoting Rodimus Prime. (No, he wasn't there for that conversation, but he heard about it later.)

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I'm not sure what it says about me that the first person I associated that line with upon reading it was Adam Hills - possibly just that I'm a fan of The Last Leg. Then again, later on in the story I had a brainfart and mis-attributed the "The right people will get this" line to Monty Python before correcting myself, so maybe I just need to work on expanding my reference pool. Still, I don't mind admitting this, since it led directly to me wishing I could see the Vocaloids perform the Camelot song from Holy Grail.

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LUKA
Look, my liege!

MIKU
Camelot!

RIN
Camelot!

MEIKO
Camelot!

KAITO
It's only a model.

MIKU
Shh! Knights, I bid you welcome to your new home. Let us ride, to, Camelot!

immediately starts the guitar riffs of Def Leppard's "Run Riot"

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[ Miku and company give StarRanger4 virtual simsense hugs in support. ]

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Oops, thanks.

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(BTW: found the original - http://archvermin.deviantart.com/art/Hatsune-Miku-on-Letterman-487361552 )

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You do realize in the long run that ISNT going take us anywere GOOD, yes, Jeff???