Since a pan/skillet is involved, is this for deep dish use only, or will it serve for thinner crusts? (I know this is getting a bit far afield, I just want to take some advantage of experience having run across someone with it.)

>It could go either way. Her signature could show up as an extreme
>potential threat, or so unlike anything Minna's ever seen before that
>it's just the witch sensing equivalent of a blank spot on the screen
>and a little graphic that says [NO DATA].
>

Under the circumstances, one might interpret 'No Data' as translating to 'oh shit.' Now I'm hoping for an encounter that answers this bit of curosity (I expect Flandre and Minna will cross paths eventually, so this should only require patience, but that's never been a strong suit of the EPU fandom. Though I think we have, on average, gotten better over the years.)

>When I dropped it in a Twitter DM to BZA without attribution, her
>immediate response was, "Hahaha! Is that Erica or Lucchini?" And to
>be fair, it could also be Lucchini, but she was in sickbay at
>the time. :)
>

If she had been present, she probably would have seconded Erica's motion regarding marriage requirements.

>(The former could actually be arranged, but there's a thing they'd
>have to do that they haven't done. At least not yet.)
>

Well, there's some speculation fodder. I can think of a few of front runners, from the stereotypically vampiric, to the lewd, to the almost mundanely mystical. I can rule out one of my suspects if Flandre does currently possess an ability to sense where G is (time bubble notwithstanding I'd imagine.)

>Oh, no worries. I've confused myself repeatedly while writing the
>dang thing. In fact, it's just occurred to me that there's at least
>one small continuity blunder in this very episode: Erica put up that
>signup sheet on the door some time before the narration in this ep
>says she did. (I suppose we could apply the Marvel No-Prize rubric
>and say that the narration only means she put up a fresh copy. After
>all, it's not a whiteboard, when it fills up it has to be replaced. :)
>

Is it a No-Prize if it comes from staff, or just a mild not-quite-retcon?

>It just occurred to me, as I was typing that, that she and Flandre
>have unusual grounds for bonding. Heidemarie spent her childhood
>stuck in a basement too, not because she was a Danger to Herself and
>Others, but because her magical night vision made her so
>light-sensitive that if she'd gone outside during the day, or even
>looked out windows on a regular basis, before she learned to control
>it, she'd have gone blind. (That's canonically why she wears glasses:
>because her eyesight was damaged by daylight exposure in childhood,
>when her parents didn't realize what the problem was soon enough.)
>And, like Flandre, while she was down there she had plenty of time for
>reading.
>
>(She probably remembers more of the books she read than Flan does,
>admittedly.)
>

Team Basement Dweller... nah, the initials could have some humor value, but that just seems like all the wrong connotations. But someone might at least chuckle so I'll leave this mark of my not quite right thought processes here.

>Pretty much this—and the fact that the last group we saw were
>the most relaxed anyway, because they were on downtime and not
>involved in the prep for Operation Hammer. And one of them was Eila,
>who plays her cards close to the vest, while another was Shizuka, who
>isn't as forceful as Mio but is similarly as pragmatic as a bag of
>nails. :)
>

Did Mio even notice Remilia's nature, it didn't seem like it. Certainly if she did, she clearly didn't much care. Though out of all the witches she's probably the absolute most likely to go the path of 'if G is OK with it, why should I worry?'

>Speaking of cards, I suspect immediately after that scene, Eila
>retired to her room and ran off a whole bunch of Tarot
>readings. And got The High Priestess
> and The World a lot. :)
>

The second card would probably trigger various amused sounds from G and Remilia that Eila would entirely not comprehend. Interesting that both cards official (as much as Tarot can be said to have it) interpretations actually do seem fitting, above and beyond their winking reference value.

>She spends a good bit of her time revolving the "just my type" joke in
>her head, but she can't... quite... get it to a punch line yet. :)
>

Not without some blushing I expect. I'm sure she'll get it sorted out eventually.

>Heh, that's like the kind of nickname she would have had in the '60s
>and '70s if she were an American comics character. Especially DC, all
>their guys had like five names back then. :)
>

I read a lot of comics, including older comics from garage sales and flea markets, as a kid. It probably permanently warped my thinking. Plus it has pun potential, so how could it not slip out into the wild?

>Someone in the original "so I ran across this interesting character"
>thread about Touhou over on Source Material described her as Remilia's
>"vorpal maid," which is a phrase that takes some beating. (Apologies
>if that was you, I can't be arsed to go look it up at 2:30 in the
>morning. :)
>

I knew nothing of Touhou before this storyline came about, so that wasn't me. It does give me the mental image of one of the Scarlet sisters actually wielding Sakuya as a weapon and beheading someone with her.

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