Well, more that I hadn't really considered the question of whether the reader should be surprised, and I'm kind of annoyed with myself for overlooking it. I guess it does work, although for the sake of people who read the series after the fact and may not read the old discussion threads about it, I should probably backfill some mention of her time spent considering the matter later on. I can think of a decent place to do that in the outline I have in my head for act VI, though, so that works.

>Since this all takes place in a multiverse where the Force is a thing,
>and it is a thing closely coupled to magic, it wouldn't be outlandish
>for Remilia to have something akin to the common Force user battle
>precognition (which while powerful is known to have limits) and some
>variation on the whole prophetic visions shtick (which has always been
>portrayed as a deeply inexact science.)

True. She almost certainly does have some form of the former, since she can outmaneuver energy pulses in aerial combat, and as for the later, while I don't think she has visions as such, she sometimes gets a strong sense of how things will, or at least should, unfold. She claims to "see the threads" of fate, but that's a metaphor. It's really more of a feeling.

>She's bound to pick it up sooner or later, though Flandre strikes me,
>at this stage, as the sort who would break out the profanity for
>maximum (likely teasing/trolling) effect.

Given that her close reading of parts of Shakespeare is one of the only clear memories she has of all the reading she did during her confinement, I fully expect her to call someone or something a whoreson beetle-headed flap-eared knave at some point. :)

>I figured it was either that, or she had
>a Dr. Manhattan headache going on upstairs, and she seems far too
>chipper for the latter to be the case.

Yeah, the weirder parts don't really impinge on her consciousness unless she goes looking for them, so for the most part they don't bother her.

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