W'Kar

Mark II Technology

Thanks everyone! No Frost, sorry to say the only thing I got was my electric bill paid. And that was my money so not sure if that counts.

Here's the next one to consider... What if Ira had bonded to the W'Kar unit instead of Greg?

Omega, I also enjoy C.S Friedman, though I have not perused the prodigious prose of Mercedes Lackey. I'll take your suggestion in account next I scan the fantasy aisle at my local book seller. Any particular you suggest. I do also shun at the stereotype of the 'Fantasy Geek'. Though personally I do live in a world of dwarves and elves. Mostly gnomes, I have some in my lawn. But I agree, though I don't believe that it should bother anyone more than a wink. Fantasy films have grossed MAJOR profits! Spiderman, LOTR, Harry Potter. It's obvious more than just your pimple faced teen is interested in fantastical stories, else no money. Though Omega I was refering mostly to the storytelling quality of fantasy and science fiction literature. J.K Rowling's work, though influential, is really so because of it's marketability, at least to me. Her setting is extremely beautiful, though not unique, and carries greatly into the imagination especially for children. However I feel that Harry as a protaganist is amongst the lowest quality I have ever seen. He is a 'Deus Ex Machina' almost and of himself. He violates the said laws of magic of his community with no real ramifications, and regularly tromps wizards of far greater power and experience out of mere boyish luck. He is excellent for a child audience but beyond that and how he is treated by J.K Rowling as a protaganist, is woefully weak. My previous argument on one of my major pet peeves of fantasy does not apply to Harry Potter, he is quite a character within the world. However the status quo of that world is beaten back and altered to allow Harry to pretty much do as he pleases. This act breaks the realism of the story so harshly that I'm surprised more readers don't have to take oxycontin just to dull the pain in their skulls. And yeah, please, overanazlyze to your heart's content. Personal opinions are just as important as facts. WE ARE NOT MACHINES!

That is frighteningly badass.

Actually McAvoy, your right. But we've been using the newer date codes. The rearrangement of dates.

We can't remember either, Xenon. But we will never turn down a piece of art on one of our characters! I like the different design you did on the Aceaer Faye pic. Definitely a good redesign of the Aceaer/Guyver merging. A+!

LOL! Yeah, possibly. Doubtful, but possibly. Though a sock in the pants should have worked fine!

LOL! SERVED! SERVED! Amusing as that would definitely be the point still stands. That power of the gigantic woefully draws it's power to cosmic levels. What point would there be if Dreadnought could suddenly hit like 200-300X? None really.

HA HA! Yeah Exscaped_psycho, people like you and me, we should seek medical advice.

Technically Alexandria is not 'Merged' with the W'Kar Element. The Element is part of her completely, ingrained in her body from birth. Cassandra, the surrogate mother, and Greg both had portions of the element in them. And the Element is organic matter. You could percieve that the child has something like W'Kar Element in the cells of her body. Like mitochondria. As much a natural part of her as blood is to people. It was the matrix made Apothecary Unit that kept the child from miscarriage in Cassandra. It was also the Matrix that changed the genetic code of the child just enough to accept the W'Kar Element as part of her body rather than a foreign element. In other words, she is a W'Kar organic. Like an Alien race to humans. Whether or not she is close enough to being human to breed with them is unknown. But her tinged blue skin and red hair should be enough to convince you she's not human. She's not a zoaform or lycanlord. Not a guyver or technically a W'Kar. She's a W'Kar Organic.

Possibly. Though I find it far more likely it is merely artistic oversight. Mistakes happen. Afterall, would you want to wear pants, shirt, socks, shoes and everything and THEN put on a Chronos uniform on top of that? That almost sounds ridiculous.

There is about a 99% chance we will not be utilizing this feature of the gigantic in the story. It would seriously out balance everything.

When a host appears out of bio-boost with different clothes I think it's very likely an artist oversight.

The Anubis personality is complete, taking over the Warlord Evolution completely.

Hair has DNA.

Plus I like to imagine the possibility of the unit clearing your sinuses upon activation But honestly, I have a hard time imagining the guyver unit, being an advanced genetic machine, not being able to tell the difference between boogers and a finger. As far as the clothes go, unless the unit is actually bonded to a pair of Fruit of the Loom undies I can't see how it could regenerate them at all really.

All right. In order to jack up this board with a little more activity I'm going to start a new series of topics relating to What if... questions posted by me. Everyone add in your opinions and tell the story as you see it would have happened. And here is the first...! What if... The Anubis personality had presented itself when W'Kar had reached his 3rd Evolutionary Stage? Speculations? How do you feel the story would have changed?

Here's a little excerpt from Obtenebration featuring Sedah for you... ------------ Across the street a lone figure dressed in Italian finest stood with his cup of salt water, sipping ever so slightly. Sedahs eyes were hidden behind a pair of RayBan G-15 sunglasses and wearing a type of Thierry Mugler cologne that blended a mix of vanilla, coffee beans and a hint of peppermint. Sedah was quite particular about his appearance. After all, what better is one than what they present themselves to be. His own mind went back to the moment he tortured that woman in New York. The dear girl dared to say his accounts had been closed due to inactivity. It was a false name, sure, as all of his were. But the scoff on her face to his apparent ‘lowliness’ was enough to make Sedah cut off her breasts with a switchblade. Perhaps now she would feel what is what like to not be so popular and pretty. He took her purse which happened to be full of credit cards and the like, got the appropriate information out of her and made withdraws to the max of her limits. Over fifty thousand dollars was hardly enough, but it was enough to get Sedah at least a new wardrobe. Chronos had agreed to grant him a stipend for his efforts. The effort on their behalf was truly pitiful. Chronos control centralized industry. At least in the ‘Free’ parts of America and Europe they still had a taste for the proper and the tangible. Conformity was best to Sedah, it gave a sense of belonging and community. Those who stood outside of this social ranking simply did not deserve to live. They were just such a hassle. Which is the reason his own metamorphosis was beginning to really bother Sedah. He was out of place. Even going as low as to dye his hair was not really helping at all. It was disgusting. He looked like some rock and roll person. Like some drug addict in a fancy suit. Pathetic, it was not who he was. In his time he had a well groomed set of jet black hair and always kept a professional cut. His hair seemed to grow too fast, and all attempts at coloring it would simply vanish in a few days time. Changes were taking place. Faster they were, than Angel, but still they were. So Sedah began walking down the street.

W'Kar is fighting with himself just as hard if not harder than others.

Haven't tried that author yet, but I will read the first of the series. Usually if that doesn't grasp my interest the rest never will. Currently I am reading 'The Electric Church', by Jeff Somers. Want to read a bit check out http://www.the-electric-church.com Not bad so far. I'm about 1/4 of the way through it. That much of it is worth reading anyway.

Robert Jordan had an excellent series and should be considered one of the best fantasy authors in the past few decades. An excellent source of character narration, plot, and setting. My only complaints with his writing was that his plots were SO interwoven with SO many characters that it actually took 12 books to write out what could probably have been done in 8 and left the reader far more satisfied and less jaded from reading such a mass of material. And don't a single one of you suggest Harry Potter. I'll smite the wrath of Webster, god of words, upon your heathen heads!

Sci-Fi novels. We love 'em. We hate 'em. Sometimes we even sleep with them (or is that just me ) It seems to me there is a serious flaw in many Science Fiction books that always irks me. And that my lovely friends is overwhelming scientific complexity. Serious almost overwhelming scientific complexity. A Novel is defined as 'a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.' Now that is a novel, whew... I feel winded just imaging it. An excellent example from an author I enjoy is Orson Scott Card. The novel Ender's Game, which I do suggest for anyone to read, is an excellent example of Sci-Fi writing. It is in a fantastic setting where the very definition of sci-fi is brought to bare, which is 'a form of fiction that draws imaginatively on scientific knowledge and speculation in its plot, setting, theme, etc.' However this is where my problem lies, and I believe a serious considerable flaw in many novels comes from. 'draws imaginatively on'. Draw means to form a basis, to pull ideas. Not to draw solely from and operate only based upon. Sci-Fi has a nasty taste in history of overwhelming readers with terms and scientific basis so complex and rigidly operated in that often it overwhelms the readers with needing to cite encyclopedia's or scientific journal's merely to understand what is occuring in the story. Ender's Game had a basis, a setting, with (IMO) well drafted forms of imaginative scientific possibilities. Speaker of the Dead and Xenocide, however, delved so deeply into various scientific terminologies and far out ideas that the author HAD to write extended nearly twenty to thirty page portions of the story merely to explain one story based concept. In gaming we define this as 'Grinding to a Halt'. This is a common problem faced by Role-Playing games and Tactical Simulations where the environment and rulesets are so complex and cumbersome that the illusion of the story or play is destroyed for a time while the meat and bones of the game must be re-examined and digested. In novels it seems to be a common occurance among Sci-Fi novels and possibly, in my opinion, one of the absolute worst examples of entertaining prose currently in circulation on the face of this planet. It is as though they sparsed a Fiction novel with an article from 'Scientific Monthly'. Not only does it tear you from the illusion of the world you are in like a premature birth, but it may even force you to search outside of the book for the answers for what is occuring in the book. How terrible is that? Now Fantasy. I love fantasy, even more than Sci-Fi really. Fantasy in literature is defined as 'Fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements.' Whew, I might need to get a gatorade after that, how about you! Well, fantasy, as it seems to be has turned a blind eye to one of the key elements of fiction. And this is 'organization of action'. Action in a fantasy novel is really more than just how the swords clang together, how the Orc's breach the hold, or even how the Wizard creates his magical force. Fantasy has to do with consistency and realism. Of course your eyes may have bulged when I used the word Fantasy and realism in the same sentence, but allow your humble narrator to explain. Realism is not merely the laws of physics. Physics should be shelved under 'Fiction' when writing 'Fantasy'. They are mutable, transformative and moldable. But it is the reality of the story, not the setting, that I speak of. Characters in a fantasy story are hero's, just as they are in Sci-Fi. Maybe not pleasant people but they are certainly the protaganists. Fantasy has a habit of shining a flashlight on the protaganists so that you can follow they journey, their story. And one of the worst parts about that is the lack of background and setting. The world seems formed around them rather than the world forming them. There is a big world out there and though the protaganist may be one of the larger parts of it, the remainder dwarfs him. People all over the world go on every day every moment engaing in conversation. Yet Fantasy seems to have a nasty habit of centering the main protaganist so much that the world around them falls under shadow. Quite a nasty habit indeed. The famous dirty word uttered in the sailor bars and mosh pits of literature is 'Deus Ex Machina' (partly the personal inspiration behind my own Deus). This is defined as 'An unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot.' DEM are nefarious because they pull you from the world just as I described before. You are introduced to an element that nothing has pointed to before and have it shoved in your face to make up for either an authors mistake, or merely poor storytelling in and of itself. It is literally a well packaged mistake made whole by an outside element. I have been guilty of using these before, as have every author on this site and in the world at large. Plot devices that are used to provide an easy solution to complex problems by acting as a fantasical or scientific god, solving plot issues as easily as flipping a switch. A horrible form of storytelling which I sacrifice goats for daily that the god of literature may forgive me of my transgressions. Fantasy has the nasty habit of using magic and divine power for this very purpose! I agree, fantasy is about magics or supernatural means, but there needs to be a set guideline for the readers or the fantasy seems unnatural rather than supernatural. Like a plastic world made of stickers and happy jelly beans. Science Fiction uses far stretched otherworldly beings or alien devices, or 'Recently discovered Technologies' for this. It sickens me and should leave a bad taste in any readers mouth. Well, my rant is over. Tell me, what are you opinions my lovely audience?

Thanks a bunch Largo!

Moved. Yeah, I'd love to see them. What engine? RPG Maker perhaps?