Under certain circumstances, I could see Flan using a pistol, as a prop more than an actual weapon. It's like the guy who shows you the ropes in the tutorial level of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines says. Paraphrasing from memory, "It won't do squat against one of us, but in this town, you gotta convey the right image, and that means comin' strapped."

>Well honestly, there's been nothing in the mansion or on the grounds
>that G would want to shoot and/or do more than make angrier by
>shooting at them. Never bring a semi-auto to a danmaku fight and all
>that.

Yeah, I mean, it could have been useful in the big fight with Flan, in a limited and specific way. He could have bought himself a very handy second or two here and there by shooting her in the right places at the right times, even with a mundane firearm. But he's funny about that kind of thing. Even with all his training and experience, he's still a twentieth-century man at heart, and even though he knows she'd regenerate completely in seconds and suffer no lasting harm at all, he has a powerful aversion to shooting a girl in the eye, or the spine—or anywhere really, but especially really critical places that would kill or instantly and permanently disable a normal person. Particularly one he's so personally attached to.

>>You know who would look completely ginchy in the hat Flan's wearing
>>there? Sakuya. Especially in her "butler in the streets, maid in the
>>sheets" outfit? Tellin' you.
>
>That'd be something roughly like this I expect:
>https://i.imgur.com/IZmjcou.jpg?x

That's good too, but not quite what I had in mind. I can't find it now, but there was a specific pic on DB I based that outfit on. She basically looks like a blackjack dealer from the waist up (men's dress shirt with ribbon tie, tailored waistcoat, those elastic band things on her upper sleeves and her usual self from the waist down (bell skirt with frilly petticoat, waist apron, Mary Janes with no socks or tights). Mm-mm-mm. Tellin' you.

>Also damn all the figurines for being so pricey. The detail is top
>notch (you can count watch chain links) but the page I swiped that
>image from listed the associated art object at $210.

I know, right? Like I mentioned in the annotations, the black version of the "super fancy Remi" figurine is like 500 bucks. My car payment is like 500 bucks.

>"Full Auto Landscaping: Manicured Lawns via Excessive
>Firepower."

Image: Crazy Mode Flan as the greenskeeper from Caddyshack.

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