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If that's the case or if they can be manipulated, could it be conceivable that someone with really powerful psychic powers, such as Shizu (as Griselda) can force them to fight? Of course, in my story, vampires and vampire hybrids, and even the wolves are at least somewhat resistant to influences like that. Bella would be highly resistant because that's her main ability--as well as using it to protect others. For her part in my story, Shizu (because of reprocessing) is much more powerful as a psychic, and though--partly though some inability, and partly because she chooses not to--can't really directly control several Twilight creatures, she can still use telepathy to communicate with them and give them info, even in her human form.

Hi everyone. Sorry I haven't posted here in like forever. Here's some highlights in my life since I last posted. --I finally saved up enough money to buy some stuff on Amazon that I've been wanting for a while. --I'll be going out on an outing with some friends within the next few days --Audi dominated the Sao Paulo WEC round, while Toyota went down to a single car effort, lacked performance, and got taken out in an accident. At least Audi found something useful for the rear dorsal fin on the R18: it caught an errant wheel from one of the cars after a pit stop went bad. --I'm convinced that after watching the NASCAR race at Richmond last night, that to many fans that mayhem=action. May I refer them to Bio-Booster Armor Guyver, especially the OVA: --I had blood work done yesterday, and I need to see about getting a doctor's appointment set up within the next week or two. So that's about all the major stuff that I've been up to.

And even that's a bit open to debate: Guyver was first published in 1985, and Shin was introduced in the Manga in the early 1990's. Most of that time, Armenia was still part of the Soviet Union. And then there's the issues that the country has faced since then to the present day. So I would be interesting to see what Shin's thoughts are of his homeland during those eras.

And that's the problem with such comparisons. Within the canon of one universe, the writer will always find a way for something to (at least in theory) be defeated. That happens enough within the canon of such stories with it's own characters, like the Guyver Units' control medals and the Zoalords' Zoa-crystals. If they can be destroyed or irreparably damaged, that Guyver or that Zoalord is toast. But when such characters are inserted into another universe or canon, especially if they're an enemy to the main heroes, the newcomers will have some way written in for them to be destroyed. As Ryuki wrote, the best way to deal with this is to take them out of their canons and put them in a neutral world or universe. As a writer, I sort of had to do that when I decided to write a fan fic derived from both the Twilight Saga and Bio-Booster Armor Guyver. What complicates matters there is that there are some vampires and such that are allied to Guyver characters, and some who aren't. So how does one side lose and the other side win? That's the great thing with fan fic, that we can do damn near whatever the hell we jolly well want with it, as long as we have a good explanation for how things work. However, in something more serious than fan fic, we do have to push these characters out of their universe and into a neutral one that the writer has to make up. Otherwise, it's just going to be biased eventually to who's side the writer is on. Of course, it should be pointed out also the big difference between manga and most western comics in terms of writing style. A lot of the Marvel and DC comics don't really have a clear ending point, where as most manga does, including Guyver, though we don't see where the end is going to come. It's been in publication for nearly 30 years and there's still no clear end in sight. We know it's coming, but not when.

And I have another idea for a Twilight fan fic, this one centered on what the Volturi did during World War II. That is, if I ever get around to writing it. Between work, other things I'm involved with, and my current fan fic, it'll be an uphill battle to get stuff done with it. But I have another Twilight/Guyver crossover that's WIP. It's mostly about Twilight and Guyver characters in Volterra. Caius from the Volturi gets his hands on some Zoanoid processing equipment, and has managed to find some World War II era armaments. However, considering that I believe that most of that stuff wouldn't stand a chance against Twilight vampires or vampire hybrids, I'd have to say that Caius' chances against a Guyver, even in basic form, are equally as slim. For instance, how would a basic Guyver do against a Panzer VI Tiger/King Tiger tank? I assume that the Tiger wouldn't do well, but how quickly would it's fate be sealed, since modern MBTs would barely withstand an assault by normal Zoanoids. This is probably better suited for the science area, but did anyone during WWII have anything that could challenge a Guyver of a similarly powerful creature? It's not like RAF Mosquitoes could drop a 4000lb bomb on such a creature or a Lancaster could drop a 11 ton Grand Slam on them, or at least do it accurately. I guess if modern weapons can't do a damn thing to them, 70 year old weapons would be just as about as useless.

Well, all I can say is welcome to Takaya-san's expressions of regrets for killing off Oswald Lisker/original Guyver II so early in the manga. The biggest thing that he seems to personally feel that he let himself down on was the fact that Oswald didn't even get much of a backstory. We only got enough to know that he's cocky, contemptuous of some of Chronos' management (the only people who probably hated Genzo Makishima more were Agito, Shizu and Yohei, and of course Richard Guyot), and enjoyed the power and authority his position at Chronos gave him. I do see Yoshiki bringing Val in does two things: it's an homage to Guyver: Out of Control, which is no where near as popular as the 12 episode OVA and the TV series, and it does give him the opportunity to give Lisker some (much belated) backstory by having Val essentially being his lil' sister, adopted, half, or otherwise. Only issue with how Mr. Takaya does things, though, is that the whole period that Bio-Booster Armor Guyver has been in publication (1985-present), it's been in a monthly Shonen Manga mag (Shonen Captian or Shonen Ace primarily), and only one compilation volume gets released a year (up to two a year in early years of Guyver), and only about 5-6 full chapters get released in a year, and with only about an average of 15 pages a month getting released (it used to be 30 a month in early days), between those factors, telling the story does become agonizingly slow. It's great that so much detail gets shoe horned into the story, but having new material released once a month on average does make things move pretty slow to the point where, as Matt suggested, it may be just as well to take a few months off and hope that a couple of full chapters have built up. Of course, this is unlikely because most fans of Guyver are pretty die hard and will always wait for the next portion of the story to come out and discuss it Speaking of which, it'll be interesting how high Val got up the ladder at Chronos, and if she even out-ranked Oswald. Oswald and her stepfather, as pointed out, def. seemed pretty damned surprised that she got as far as she did as quickly as she did. Of course, she obviously still was greatly bothered by her brother's death, but, as asked earlier, who will she try and take her wrath out on: Sho, or Chronos, or both? She teamed with Guyot when he attacked the mansion that Sho and his friends were staying at. But did Val want to fight Sho and/or Agito (if she felt up to fighting the latter), or is she using her association with Guyot as a means to an end against either Sho or Chronos?

And this is something that I thought of just a few minutes ago re-reading this topic. After Shizu and Agito captured the control medallions from the Ark at the Arizona HQ, Agito attempted to create his own gigantic armor after Sho was able to permanently take control over the original (to the point where Agito had great difficulty trying to get it back and had to give up on it because of Sho's willpower willing the armor to him). Agito and Shizu concluded that Sho knew something about the history of the Guyver units and Zoanoids/Zoalords and the Advents that they were unable to figure out. Clearly, Shizu, Agito and Dr. Hekkelring figured out that it was something that Sho picked up from the info he gleaned from the Relics Point Ark's control medallions. We all know why Sho created the Gigantic Guyver Armor (and the Exceed armor as well)--to allow him to take on Zoalords on even terms for the former and to give him the power to decimate any threat beyond a "normal" Zoalord for the latter. It was a product of Sho's thoughts, dreams, and imagination based on what he'd seen from Alky and his desire to protect his friends and the people of earth from Chronos. However, clearly, Shizu and Agito, at least at first, didn't really know this. After all, this is something that Sho never shared with them, and in fact, he's only shared these thoughts in any real detail with only a very small handful of people--Tetsuro, Mr. Hayami, and maybe Mizuki and Natsuki. Aso and Toki also probably know a bit about this, but not as much as Sho may've confided in with his closest friends. But Shizu and Agito figured out that, clearly, Sho's willpower had to come from somewhere, and that he probably knew something that they didn't at the time. So we head back to Agito obtaining his own gigantic armor though his learning about stuff from the Ark's control medallions. The part where Shizu and Hekkelring were freaking out and Agito was like "that's it, that's the reason! That's what Sho knows!" is where Agito found the source of Sho's power and will, and that seemed to be when Alky destroyed the asteroid that the Advents intended to use to destroy the earth, and how much firepower it may take to destroy Alky if one or the other has to fight him. Hence, I have a theory. Maybe Agito was trying to "beat" a truce or alliance out of Sho, using the Gigantic Armor he aquired as a means to demonstrate to Sho that "I now know what you've known for a while now!" Sort of like how Aptom threatened to deliver an ass-kicking to Sho over his reluctance at the time to fight Murakami/Imakarum unless he got his "fire" back to fight. Of course, it would've been simpler for Agito to just take things at face value, since he couldn't get the original gigantic armor back under his command that Sho had to have gotten a major willpower/desire to kick someone's ass boost. But he had to go see for himself, and all he got for his efforts was Shizu nearly killed by Val/Female Guyver II when she was trying to protect Mizuki, Tetsuro and Natsuki from her and Guyot, and Sho demonstrating that he's now the equal of Agito as a fighter and a demonstration of what Sho may do to him if Agito goes out of his way to piss him off again, that is if Sho intended for the Gigantic Exceed to be a warning for Agito. I do think that Sho did that to prove to Agito his will to fight beyond any shadow of doubt. However, the info that was exchanged between them though their units' control medals may hold the key to what actually happened. However, I do believe that it's highly unlikely that Agito can easily manipulate Sho again, and that any possible allegiance between them will have to be a true allegiance, and not just him using Sho as a means to an end like last time. Sho's grown up and has some balls now, and he's no where near as willing to take crap from people like he was at the beginning of the story.

Looks kinda like fan art. It def doesn't look like Guyver I's design from the very early issues of the manga. In fact, it looks to be influenced by the design the armor took on couple of volumes in, or even the OVA. But it's def not original manga art. Of course, the Bio-Booster Armor Guyver light novels are pretty rare and obscure, so I might have come from that for all I know, but it certainly could be fan art or doujinshi.

Well, I did say that I'd have more about the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and here I go. I already mentioned the some of the stuff about Audi winning it yet again in the post I made about Rob driving either the Tesla or the A5 he was photo'd with, and I mentioned the Audi R18 e-tron quattro diesel-electric hybrid car in that post. That's the car of which one example won Le Mans yesterday. It was the first win for 2013 pole winner Loic Duval, the third for many years Le Mans and Audi veteran Allan McNish, and it was a record extending 9th win for Tom Kristensen, AKA "Mr. Le Mans". Though I enjoyed the outcome of the race and the fact that Toyota was able early on to make a race out of it (the Toyota threat faded once the track dried out and the Audis were consistently a couple of seconds a lap faster), my enjoyment of the race was tempered by two things. First, with mixed weather conditions and tons of caution periods (mostly due to barrier damage), the race lacked flow and it was frustrating waiting out caution periods for those barrier repairs. And also, if anyone has read news about the LM24 this year, you'll know that a driver named Allen Simonsen, a friend and countryman of TK, died shortly after an early race accident when his Aston Martin slid off the road into a barrier and impacted a tree behind the barrier. Simonsen was attempting to avoid a spinning Ferrari when the fatal accident occurred. After that, it was definitely less fun watching the race for quite a while, and it's a dark cloud that will hover over the race for quite a while, too. I enjoyed the outcome and the battles, but I didn't enjoy the caution periods and certainly didn't enjoy hearing that someone died in an accident, let alone one that it seems that the death could've probably been prevented. It all sort of reinforced my reasons why I won't likely be watching the full race next year. It's just getting harder and harder for me to stay up and watch the whole race. A 6 hour race, fine, a 10 hour race, OK, a 12 hour race, well, it's long but easily manageable. 24 hours? A pretty big stretch for me now. Not that I could watch the whole race next year even if I wanted to anyways, due to Speed Channel's rebranding as Fox Sports 1. If it's not NASCAR, I don't see it getting a ton of coverage there as far as motorsports go. But at least some of the guys who I hoped would win did, and Porsche in the two GT classes did get their 99th and 100th Le Mans class wins. With Le Mans out of the way, I went back to work today, and I had a pretty good day overall, but it's hot and nasty where I live, as it is though most of the American Mid-West. And it'll be that way most of the rest of the week. At least I have plenty of fans here at home, and I have the AC installed in my bed room. So that'll help when I'm in there playing VG's and such. Aside from the weather totally sucks, I'm fine right now. At least I'm not one of the guys who goes to LM and and gets hungover from all the partying that happens in the infield of the track, and at least I'm not the guy who mooned the camera during Speed's coverage of the race. I'm glad that Speed reporter Justin Bell (who's father Derek won LM 5 times) didn't see that happen until later LOL. I'll be back later

Hi everyone. Well, I did say that I'd have more about the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and here I go. The race was petty well dominated by the three Audi R18 e-tron quattros that were entered, with the #2 winning, and the #3 getting third after losing time due to a punctured tire, and the #1 losing more than half an hour after an alternator failure. It was the first win for 2013 pole winner Loic Duval, the third for many years Le Mans and Audi veteran Allan McNish, and it was a record extending 9th win for Tom Kristensen, AKA "Mr. Le Mans". Though I enjoyed the outcome of the race and the fact that Toyota was able early on to make a race out of it (the Toyota threat faded once the track dried out and the Audis were consistently a couple of seconds a lap faster), my enjoyment of the race was tempered by two things. First, with mixed weather conditions and tons of caution periods (mostly due to barrier damage), the race lacked flow and it was frustrating waiting out caution periods for those barrier repairs. And also, if anyone has read news about the LM24 this year, you'll know that a driver named Allen Simonsen, a friend and countryman of TK, died shortly after an early race accident when his Aston Martin slid off the road into a barrier and impacted a tree behind the barrier. Simonsen was attempting to avoid a spinning Ferrari when the fatal accident occurred. After that, it was definitely less fun watching the race for quite a while, and it's a dark cloud that will hover over the race for quite a while, too. I enjoyed the outcome and the battles, but I didn't enjoy the caution periods and certainly didn't enjoy hearing that someone died in an accident, let alone one that it seems that the death could've probably been prevented. It all sort of reinforced my reasons why I won't likely be watching the full race next year. It's just getting harder and harder for me to stay up and watch the whole race. A 6 hour race, fine, a 10 hour race, OK, a 12 hour race, well, it's long but easily manageable. 24 hours? A pretty big stretch for me now. Not that I could watch the whole race next year even if I wanted to anyways, due to Speed Channel's rebranding as Fox Sports 1. If it's not NASCAR, I don't see it getting a ton of coverage there as far as motorsports go. But at least some of the guys who I hoped would win did, and Porsche in the two GT classes did get their 99th and 100th Le Mans class wins. With Le Mans out of the way, I went back to work today, and I had a pretty good day overall, but it's hot and nasty where I live, as it is though most of the American Mid-West. And it'll be that way most of the rest of the week. At least I have plenty of fans here at home, and I have the AC installed in my bed room. So that'll help when I'm in there playing VG's and such. Aside from the weather totally suckin' a$$, I'm fine right now. At least I'm not one of the guys who goes to LM and and gets hungover from all the partying that happens in the infield of the track, and at least I'm not the guy who mooned the camera during Speed's coverage of the race. I'm glad that Speed reporter Justin Bell (who's father Derek won LM 5 times) didn't see that happen until later LOL. I'll be back later

Sorry I haven't posted any thing on this forum at all in like forever, but I've been pretty busy lately with work and other things. Tomorrow and into Sunday is the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race. Audi have dominated in the WEC so far, and have won the 12 Hours of Sebring, and 6 hour races at Silverstone and Spa. Toyota are hedging their bets on whether or not they can run 12 lap stints at Le Mans compared to Audi's 10-possibly 11 laps. So far, though, the furthest that Toyota has run in testing is 11 laps at Le Mans. On top of that, Audi have often been 2-4 seconds a lap faster in practices and testing so far. That's more than fast enough for Audi to knock out Toyota's range advantage. I'll be back to more routine posting possibly starting Monday, or at least soon afterwards.

I like the idea of the Nazi documentaries because they show some really corrupt and inept stuff going on. It's actually kinda shocking to think that a political and military machine that conquered much of Europe by the spring of 1942 and had an "empire" that extended into western Russia, North Africa, and almost all of western Europe had some pretty screwed up stuff going on. And that's not even counting the evil of the Holocaust. There was also political and military blunders and ineptitude. In particular, I enjoy the studies of Benito Mussolini and Fascist Italy if you want a comedy/tragedy/tragicomedy of errors. And of course, Tea with Mussolini is one of my favorite World War II themed movies, even if it's kinda a PG-rated chick flick (remember, I'm a fan of the Twilight Saga), though I also liked the old Great Escape and Battle of the Bulge films that the History Channel used to air often on Saturday nights. I really like the Nugus/Martin WWII documentary series and others like them, such as Hitler's Bodyguard, Secrets of World War II, Nazi Collaborators, and The Secret War. I also like shows and books that talk about WWII technology and weapons, because he weapons and tactics do sort of shed a light on how things worked and even give a bit of a lead in to the political factors and strategies in the outcomes of such battles. I like to study the Pacific Theater as well, but one area that often really gets overlooked IMO is the North African/Mediterranean Theater, also known as the Southern European Theater. Much of the discussion focuses on Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Pacific and the Atlantic, but some of the fiercest battles and most interesting events happened in Southern Europe and North Africa. Maybe that neglect is what draws my interest there.

Hi everyone. For those of you who might know me, I have admitted to being a World War II history fanatic to a degree. Hence, when an interesting one's on, I often will watch it. I have two favorites that I've always taken time to watch, and one's called High Hitler, and the other is Hitler's Bodyguard. In High Hitler, the story of how Adolf Hitler was probably turned into a meth addict by his personal doctor Theo Morell is told, as well as some rather unconventional medical treatments that Hitler put himself through to cure various ailments, such as his frequent stomach upsets and, as Dr. Morell put it, "constipation and colossal flatulence", which is what started this whole deal with the weird medical treatments. The most prominent of these treatments included a series of injections that were heavily loaded with methamphetamines, as well as some potion that was made from human feces. Yep, Dr. Morell was a craptastic crack pot who unwittingly helped bring down his own Fuhrer, and probably made the Allies job much easier than it would've been otherwise--after all, Allied commanders actually though that Hitler was worth more to them alive than dead because of his blundering from 1942 onwards. And then there's Hitler's Bodyguard, a 13 episode series from the makers of Churchill's Bodyguard (which I have yet to see) talking about the bodyguard elements of Hitler and other Nazi party officials. After you watch enough episodes, you do really begin to wonder the following: How the hell did this bastard live until 1945?! For those of you who know about the history of such things, it's known that Winston Churchill had very few bodyguards, namely a former Scotland Yard detective named Walter Thompson who adopted the codename "Intrepid" and a handful of other people who he commanded. Hitler, on the other hand, had thousands of bodyguards. This series does show that bigger isn't always better, and how confused things were within the bodyguard elements of Adolf Hitler, and, in fact, it was partially intended to be that way by Hitler himself. Hitler always though that a certain amount of chaos in the ranks did help insure his safety and also kept his underlings occupied with rivalries so they couldn't challenge him for power. Other dictators did much the same, namely Benito Mussolini and, to a lesser extent, Joesph Stalin. Hitler's bodyguard included a palace guard that was part of the dreaded SS which soon became a mechanized Panzer division just before World War II broke out, and even a special division of the regular German Army called the Fuhrer Escort Battalion, which was at one point commanded by Erwin Rommel before he became head of the German Army's Afrika Corps. As part of the regular German Army, and not the SS, the Escort Battalion was granted Amnesty after the war as simple enemy combatants as opposed to being a criminal organization. But it did show how far some were willing to go to ensure Hitler's protection, as the Escort Battalion guarded Hitler's military HQ's, such as the Wolf's Lair in Rastenburg, in modern day Poland. But, remember what I said about how "bigger isn't always better"? In hindsight, Hitler's Bodyguard as an organization was so large, unwieldy, and over-complex that many screw ups did happen, some of which nearly lead to Hitler being assassinated. A Swiss man got tickets to view a military parade in 1938, and nearly shot Hitler if it wasn't for his Close Escort Command elements. He also tried to assassinate Hitler in Berlin and at his Bavarian retreat called the Burghoff, and was only caught when police questioned him about riding a train without a valid ticket. In 1939 during a Munich Beer Hall memorial celebration, Hitler avoided being killed in a bomb attack only because he left the festivities about 15 minutes early, and then there was the July 20, 1944 bomb plot at the Wolf's Liar. Those were just three of the over 40 attempts to kill Hitler before and during World War II. His own generals were able to plot an attempt to have him removed from power that nearly succeeded if not for some political poker playing by Hitler to obtain the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, and even in the last days of the war, some of those closest to him wanted to snuff him and other Nazi leaders out. Add to that political infighting within the ranks of the massive security apparatus, it's kinda a wonder that Hitler survived so long. So many plots to kill him nearly succeeded and it was often chance and fate that intervened to save on of history's most evil men, and if any such plots succeeded, the course of history could've been significantly changed. World War II may've been shortened or even averted in Europe, at least in the way that the events as we know them now, had Hitler been killed in any of those attacks. Anyone else here a fan of historical documentaries? As I said, I'm a pretty big fan of World War II history, and it's interesting to think about what could've happened if some event intervened to change history as we know it. Also, its kinda funny to think that Hitler may've been turned into a meth addict in part because he suffered from stomach cramps, constipation and bad gas...

OK, fan fic update. I finally finished chapter 8 a few days ago, and on Sunday, I already got nearly half of chapter 9 done. It's a chapter involving Lia, who is the wife of Camel, fighting a couple of Zoanoids who were attempting a plot involving plastic explosives. She soon finds out what they were planning to us it for, and, though not as sinister a plot as she suspected initially, she still stopped them from carrying out something evil. Aside from the fact that some Twilight characters (Bella, Edward, Renesmee, Jacob) and Guyver characters (Shizu and Agito namely) show up, it's mostly about Lia acting on her own to stop the plot. This also includes a demonstration of Lia's powers, which involves manipulation and generation of electrical and electromagnetic fields. Her powers would put those of Elegen to shame, and would also turn him into a smoked eel if he fought against her. Actually, if anyone wants a character list and descriptions, I'd be happy to post them here for when I get this story finished, beta'd and published, or if anyone just wants to know what I'm doing with it.

Hi everyone. At work, I now have what I consider to be a pretty tedious, miserable job for a while. I'm probably gonna spend a majority of the coming days that I work shredding documents. That involves removing staples and paperclips, and standing over a noisy, droning machine, and having to stop to empty it. Not really physical labor, but it's boring, tedious, and a job that feels like it's gonna take for-smegging-ever. Other than that, I've been fine recently. The weather can't make up it's friggin' mind, it's hot one day, cold the next, just annoying. I have been working on my fan fic recently--finally--too. It took me forever to finish chapter 8, but I'm half way though chapter 9 after only working on it for one day over a couple of hours. It's an action chapter with my OC Lia in it, so it's gone kinda fast. The more action/humor/emotion/story driven chapters do go by kinda quickly when I'm allowed time to work on them. I'll explain more in the fan fic thread about this story. But aside from that, I haven't been up to too much. I'll be back later

For my part, I'm gonna try coffee with some artificial sweetener I bought today. Because I have diabetes, I've been trying to cut back on my sugar intake, and the plain coffee at my house is pretty god-awful without some sweetener for it, and flavored coffee syrup isn't getting the job done alone. With flavored coffee, it's fine, but the plain coffee is some really concentrated instant stuff.

I do have to say as someone who about a week ago found out that I'm diabetic, and also tends to be moody, I've found that the best thing that one can do with any food is portion control. Instead of eating 2-3, or even 1-2 big meals a day, it's better to try and eat 4-5, or in some cases even 6 smaller meals a day, and don't keep meals so spread out. That's probably part of my diabetes problem, because i used to eat usually only 2, or sometimes even 1 big meal a day. That can cause a big energy crash, and you have to compensate by snacking, which doesn't do one's weight or blood sugar any favors. I've cut back on sweet snacks and fried foods--not completely, mind you, but I've cut back a bit, and I'm on medication for my stuff now. My blood sugar at it's lowest since I had it first taken during a physical was 198. I'll bet that times during some days it was significantly lower than that. But since I've started on my altered diet, my blood sugar went from a high of 329 last Friday morning, to a low of 215 this morning. Still a ways to go, since I've been told that normal is between 90-160 or so for most people. You don't have to cut out fast food and sweet stuff--I haven't. But it's about portion control and meal planning, and find healthier alternatives to some things.

Well, it took me forever it seemed, between work, doctor's appointments, finding out I have diabetes, and not feeling well due to weather changes, but chapter 8 is done. I'll try and start on chapter 9 soon. But right now, I'll probably be going to sleep soon, so no work on that tonight. So far, there's been some TMI moments involving the Guyver males (Agito, Sho and Aptom), a Twilight male (Jacob) and a male OC (Camel), with all the girls listening in to their amusement. Also, the man antagonist at this stage got arrested when Shizu called the cops on him--she, perhaps, might regret not using her powers to kill him or maim him more than she did. However, it's up to Lia (an OC, vampire hybrid and Camel's wife) to find out what may happen next. So that's what I've gotten done so far, and I'll try and get back to work soon.

Mild fan fic spoiler: At the conclusion of the chapter that I'll try and finish for Bio-Booster Armor Twilight, the males get into a discussion/argument/whatever you wanna call it about their significant others (Camel, Agito and Sho talk about Lia, Shizu and Mizuki, respectively, and Aptom also joins in, too, as does Jacob from the Twilight Saga). Mostly what makes a girl a girl, and a man a man. Just a stupid argument because Camel seems to the be the least "mascuiline" of the males and why girls like him. Of course, the girls (Shizu, Lia, Mizuki, Natsuki, Bella, Melinda, Jess, et al) just listen in for their entertainment...

Hi everyone. Well, I'm gonna have a pretty crappy 18 or so hours. I have to start fasting at 2:00 this morning because I have a Doctor's appointment for blood testing to see if I may have diabetes. So that means no food, coffee, tea, or anything else other than water. So that sucks. At least Audi got a 1-2-3 finish at Spa last weekend, and I get to eat somewhere new tomorrow after the Drs appointment. But other than that, I'm not looking forward to the next day. I'll be back later

I had my Doctor's appointment today, and the bad news is that my vision is crap and I need new glasses. Good news is that I might not have diabetes, or it I do, it can easily be controlled with medication. My blood sugar reading was 198, while normal is 100-160. That number probably was screwed up by the fact that I ate before I went to sleep (only a few hours before I went to see him), and I had coffee, too. So I have to have blood tests done within the next week or so, and that'll be great, since I hate needles and the thought of fasting for 12 hours. Easy as far as food, but the only things I can drink aside from water is black coffee and plain tea. That's gonna suck as bad as the needle bit. But at least if my numbers come back within the good range, I have nothing to worry about for right now. So that's basically how my day went. It also sucked that I got a late night and an early start, but at least this day's almost over and I can start a new later tonight. I'll be back later

Hi everyone. I've decided to start this topic off with just some random stuff. For those of you who read my sports topic, I'm a huge auto racing/motorsports fan. Sadly, now isn't a good time to be a fan of American based motorsports. The United Sports Car Racing (USCR) group is made up of the merger between the American Le Mans Series and Grand Am. Grand Am and the ALMS are hence now majority owned by Jim France of France Family/NASCAR fame. Reports are that GA team owners got together for a meeting with series brass at Road Atlanta a couple of weeks ago and stated their case that they didn't want the ALMS classes aside from GTLM (as USCR calls it, it's known as LMGTE elsewhere). It's basically believed that the NASCAR-backed factions want it this way, in spite of an agreement and a written contract with the ACO and the FIA over the issue that USCR would follow certain request from the FIA and ACO. Since this seems to go against those agreements and against what most sportscar fans want, USCR's management is just pissing on their own feet it seems. And if the Daytona Prototype teams are afraid of LMP2s and a potential Audi V10 powered DP, I know of how things can be worse, namely if the ACO bullied USCR into keeping LMP1, then they can have to deal with cars such as the Audi R18 e-tron quattro and Toyota TS030 hybrid LMP1s kicking their asses every weekend. DP's can barely out run LMGTE cars at most tracks, and are 5-6 seconds slower than an LMP2, with an LMP2 only costing as much as a DP. There's a whole bunch of egos involved, and those egos remind me of a quote from the film "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane": "So many a**h***s, so few bullets", which leads to this comment which is my commentary on the situation: "You're 10 seconds away from the most embarrassing moment of your life." And NASCAR itself has had a few of those this year already. There's a few things that I'd like for Sho or Agito, or even Griselda, to do to NASCAR's management. Speaking of sportscar racing. The Spa WEC race is this weekend. Audi will run, once again, 2 of their "sprint" spec R18 e-tron quattros, and one Le Mans spec "long tail" car, while Toyota will have a 2012 spec TS030 hybrid, and one 2013 spec car in LM trim. Audi dominated Silverstone against Toyota, but it probably won't be until Le Mans when we get the full picture. As for me, I had a pretty good day at work, but I've been kind of tired most of the day, and since I have work tomorrow, I should be getting to bed soon. I did get done most of what i wanted to get done today. Tomorrow after work, I plan on spending most of the night playing some VGs and finishing up my fan fic chapter and working on another, and maybe soon going back to one of my more Twilight Saga themed fan fics--the current chapters I'm referring to is my Twilight and Bio-Booster Armor Guyver crossover. I'll be back later

Hi again. This is the first time that I've worked on my fan fic in about a week. It does take a while for me to get a chapter done because of work and other things. But with it getting warmer out and and me having more energy and free-time, I should be able to start to work on it more often. I got a few pages done, but nothing major aside from some plot stuff which I'll describe later on if anyone's interested. I do plan on working on it this weekend and I hope to get the chapter that I'm working on done soon, and I'd like to share with anyone the plot and the story so far, but there may be spoilers.

I don't see it exactly that way, though I understand where you're coming from. We do have to remember that the Zoalords in Chronos are centuries old: Barcas is about 500 years old, Shin is almost 400 years old, and so on. Agito, of course, being only like 21-22 years old, is obviously much more modern. But there's a certain irony to my statement, too. Agito does seem to be far right wing socialist or right wing militant in a lot of ways, almost verging on him almost being portrayed as almost a fascist. But for all that seemingly right wing mentality that he has, he none the less had Shizu volunteer to become the Griselda and lead the Libertus. Of course, that's probably as much down to practicality as much as speaking to any liberal views he may have from his POV. After all, Shizu has shown to be pretty willing most of the time to do anything that she thinks will help Agito, often without him even asking her for her assistance. She's one of the few people who Agito can trust with his life and limb and his deepest secrets, and she's a willing participant in a lot of Agito's schemes, due to her wanting to wipe out Chronos out of his desire for revenge, and since Chronos is responsible for her grandpa's death, Shizu is probably fighting to get her own measure of revenge, too--she possibly wants Imakarum dead as much as anyone for what happened to Yohei. But back to your point, I do have to agree that the protagonist have a more liberal/modern view of women than most of Chronos does. Shizu is the action girl and a leader of men, as well as being aggressive and brave when she has/wants to be (she never seemed to be phased by Zoanoids unless Agito and to a large extent Sho and his friends were in some danger--but that only angered her much more than scare her), that's an obvious one. Natsuki is a sci-fi nerd and the brainy chick (not to slight Mizuki, who did well in school, but Natsuki is the one who can figure out stuff about Zoanoids and doesn't seem to be afraid of them), and she helps out Sho and Tetsuro with their research. And Mizuki, being Sho's true love, is a major motivator for him to fight against Chronos. As for Chronos, they seem to have a more traditional view of women in modern society--stay at home mothers, clerks, librarians, office workers, stuff like that. An exception might be Shin, but I can't say that for certain. But then again, this could just be that unless people pledge their services to Chronos voluntarily, most of the Zoalords seem to be largely indifferent to humans. Of course, for an antagonist POV for a liberal/modernist view, we had Purg and we still have Shin. They show concern for normal humans, and all employees of Chronos, and unless he's surprised and extremely angered, Shin treats even the most lowly of Chrono's workers and normal humans with the same or similar respect that he reserves for Barcas and others roughly equal to him in rank within the organization or above him. But as I mentioned, Chronos by and large just seems to hold to a lot of old fashioned views, while the younger people, especially protagonist (though with some exceptions, such as possibly Shin), have a veiw that seems to be more inline with modern western culture. It kinda goes back to the deal with Natsuki with the crucifix necklace. I believe that Takaya is aware of western culture and modern world views in general, and he seems to be commentating on the strengths and weaknesses of varying views to show that one isn't necessarily superior to the other.

Just like the TV Tropes thing, the guy who wrote this seemed to just be in the state of being a smart ass. I did see the original article, when I was doing a Google images search for Shizu/Griselda stuff, and that was my opinion back then. This person bashed Guyver without having much if any basic knowledge about it. I rip on film reviewers who crap on the Twilight films without even reading the damn books. My feeling is that if one wants to comment about something and not look like a total dumb-ass, at least cheat and read about the stuff on Wikipedia! That's better than nothing. Granted, it would be better if someone who wants to crap all over something would do a bit more than that and actually educate themselves first. It's like me and Twilight. I was indifferent to the novels until I found out that Kristen Stewart (who I liked in Speak, among other films) was in it, and I read the novel first before I watched the film. Since then, I was hooked to the whole Twilight deal, and if I didn't give that stuff a chance, it would've passed me by. But then again, I don't think that some people research stuff because it might change their view of something. That's ignorance at its finest (or worst) right there. Of course, we're talking about a shonen manga comic, but when it extends into other, more important areas, that's when the crap hits the fan. In all, the guy who wrote this article just comes off as obnoxious and he clearly didn't do his homework. Ironically, all he'd have had to do for some decent research to back up his arguments is come here and search for some info. Of course, had he done that, his article might have to be renamed Why Guyver is Cool, instead of Why Guyver Sucks, but, uhm, whatever...