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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Even better.

I'm still confused about the beginning scene of the chapter though, care to explain?
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Rabukurafuto · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 2764 Location: Shadow Galactica

The beginning scene was Otome being taken to her hospital room and she was reflecting on how she met Tina. Then Night came in to heal her (Otome doesn't know how it is) and Otome became relaxed enough to sleep.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Oh, that makes sense then. That scene confused me since I couldn't tell which was the actual scene and which was the flashback.
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Rabukurafuto · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 2764 Location: Shadow Galactica

I suppose I meant for the scene to be somewhat confusing as Otome was presumably injected with painkillers and she was very confused and disoriented.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Oh, okay. Yeah, that really tripped me up.
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Rabukurafuto · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 2764 Location: Shadow Galactica

Well, I hope that answers everything.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Yep, everything's cool now. The whole scene with Ledford become a Chevalier was cool and she now has a pierced belly button. Night senses that La Foliae stuff or its chi anyway and Kokoro and the gang should be heading up to St. Thomas Hospital.
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Rabukurafuto · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 2764 Location: Shadow Galactica

Yes, that's how it is.

I wanted to have tina's Gemme Lunaire be different, so I made it a navel piercing rather than a brooch.

I was wondering whether qi or ch'i was the most used spelling in English for that concept. English Wikipedia seems to favor qi so I used that spelling (and I like pinyin more than Wade-Giles anyway).
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Well, I'm glad you decided to do it that way, it would be kind of silly to have everyone be wearing that as a necklace (not to mention fear of clones).

Wow, you're right, qi seems to be used more common. Eh, it's pretty much the same thing to me so it really doesn't matter to me whether you use chi or qi.
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Rabukurafuto · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 2764 Location: Shadow Galactica

It is the same thing, just two different ways to transliterate Mandarin. I do prefer pinyin for being newer and cleaner though.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Go for it then. Qi does sound a lot cleaner anyway.
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Rabukurafuto · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 2764 Location: Shadow Galactica

All right.

What makes pinyin cleaner that Wade-Giles to me is how longer terms would be written. An example would be the founder of Communist China. In pinyin his name would be written Mao Zedong. With Wade-Giles, his name would be written Mao Tse Tung. Yes, that space between Tse and Tung is needed in Wade-Giles. Sounds would need to be separated like that.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Oops, forgot about you, sorry about that Ra.

Yeah I perfer using the pinyin as well. Mao Zedong is a lot shorter and smoother for me to say than Mao Tse Tung. Strange that the history books decided to put a hyphen between Tse and Tung though.

Well, I have to head for bed. See you tomorrow.
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Rabukurafuto · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 2764 Location: Shadow Galactica

Good night then.
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Rabukurafuto · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 2764 Location: Shadow Galactica

I will talk about the writing of Muscle Cuties! now. This first part will be about the origins of the story.

I originally had two kin'nikukko story ideas, both very different from Muscle Cuties! They were called Zodiac Fighters (「五獣闘士」 Gojuu Toushi) and Prinzessin der Macht Walküre Diana (「怪力の王女ヴァルキューレ・ディアナ」 Kairiki no Oujo Varukyuure Diana).

Zodiac Fighters was going to be about a group of girls (and the mother of one of those girls), Hong Yumei (洪雨美), Zhong Xiaotu (鍾小兔), Shoka Reisen (霊仙初夏), Chun Xiangxiang (春香香), and Zhong Xiaoli (鍾小麗) who are granted powers of the Wushou (五獣), the five beasts of Taoist legend, by the goddess Guanshiyin (観世音) to protect the World of Splendor (華界) from evil demons. The story was going to be like Muscle Cuties! but in a fantastic China-based world (although with locations based on Japan and the Middle East) with Inuyasha-like action. The main character, Yumei, was a little like Kokoro Asagiri, but was a genius inventor too. Shoka Reisen was going to be the only Japanese character, and I think she was going to be similar to Mai Oodori. The most unique character was Xiangxiang, who I suppose was vaguely similar in personality to Tina Ledford, but she was going to be Muslim who wondered if being a muscular super heroine clashed with Islamic law. Beyond those characters, no one was developed very far.

Prinzessin der Macht Walküre Diana was going to be about a princess in the Germanic dream land of Immernia (永徳) named Frieda (フリーダ). Frieda's kingdom had been conquered by the forces of the evil Queen of Rêveam (冥夢界) when she was a little girl, and Frieda's family were being used as figureheads while the occupiers oppressed the people of Immernia. Frieda wants to fight back, but doesn't know how she can. She one day discovers an ancient shrine to the forgotten Goddess Nerthus (女神ネルトゥス). Nerthus appears and gives Frieda a magic sapient sword called Saphir (青玉剣), and Frieda can use Saphir to transform into the muscular Walküre Diana (ヴァルキューレ・ディアナ), leading a rebellion against the cruel occupiers while maintaining her secret new identity. Almost no elements at all were passed on to Muscle Cuties! so this story may actually be written in the future.
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