It's yet another sign of Slave's poor writing that she literally cannot do anything but reuse the same characters, over and over again. Even Stephenie Meyer's characters in different stories could be distinguished at least marginally from their counterparts in her other universes. Here, the only thing different about Megami compared with Julia is that she doesn't have Sephiroth to cling to - although, as you said, she ripped off the burning city part
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However, It had to be guarded at all times. Who knew what would happen otherwise? Given that it goes unguarded for half the night every two-three days, I'm not sure what they're so worried about. And as you pointed out, cameras! You can watch the interns patients without sending guards to their deaths on a regular basis.
Out of the corner of her eye she noticed a small fire had started in the corner of her small cell. How? Even ignoring the question of "what's burning?", how did it catch on fire? Did a bolt of lightning squeeze between the iron bars of her cell to strike... whatever it was?
because apparently leather isn't supposed to burn very easily, much less catch on fire. Assuming you could get it to catch (I was unable to find out what temperature leather burns at), she's in a straight jacket. Burning it would require burning herself. Her legs would be useless pieces of charred meat by the time enough of the leather had burned for her to break free.
If that was a patient, he was dead.Why? I mean, sure, in horror movies, the
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Yeah... so, about Electronic locks- they require current to OPEN. Think about any keycard accessed hotel room. That's an electronic lock. They are always deadman style setups because the power CAN go out.
This is not star trek when the power going out means your force field jail shuts off, this is the real world, where the power going out on an electronic lock means IT WON'T OPEN.
Also, I do take offense to the term "godless" being tossed about as the equivalent of "evil."
I'm curious, though. In a mental hospital, would the doors lock in a power outage, or would they be set to open? Seems that if they lock during a power outage, that would be a fire hazard.
Also, I do take offense to the term "godless" being tossed about as the equivalent of "evil." Agreed. It would be one thing if the guard was depicted as a religious man, and he does start to pray later on, this hasn't been established at this point. Although a talented writer could use this to establish that Sergei is a religious man, here it just comes across as the writer's opinions bleeding through.
The doors would remain locked, but there would be manual overrides for each door well out reach.
This is the 'dangerous to themselves and others' ward, and keeping these people in is the first priority, even in an emergency such as a fire.
Of course, the way such institutions are run, you tend to have a not insignificant number of people who work ONLY the night shift to take care of all the patients.
BTW, it is downright bizarre that Slave apparently didn't know the word 'inmate' to use here, since that's the word most commonly used when referring to this sort of victorian era or older psychiatric ward. And still is, sometimes, for wards dealing exclusively with dangerous patients.
And, well, everything in this story comes across as the writer's opinion bleeding through, but Julia's use of 'godless' here is especially laughable given A: Her Weeaboo name means goddess, B: Her actions are very old testament YHWH, and C: like quite a lot of bronze age gods, she wants to be feared and worshipped simultaneously.
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Given that it goes unguarded for half the night every two-three days, I'm not sure what they're so worried about. And as you pointed out, cameras! You can watch the interns patients without sending guards to their deaths on a regular basis.
Out of the corner of her eye she noticed a small fire had started in the corner of her small cell.
How? Even ignoring the question of "what's burning?", how did it catch on fire? Did a bolt of lightning squeeze between the iron bars of her cell to strike... whatever it was?
because apparently leather isn't supposed to burn very easily, much less catch on fire.
Assuming you could get it to catch (I was unable to find out what temperature leather burns at), she's in a straight jacket. Burning it would require burning herself. Her legs would be useless pieces of charred meat by the time enough of the leather had burned for her to break free.
If that was a patient, he was dead.Why? I mean, sure, in horror movies, the ( ... )
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This is not star trek when the power going out means your force field jail shuts off, this is the real world, where the power going out on an electronic lock means IT WON'T OPEN.
Also, I do take offense to the term "godless" being tossed about as the equivalent of "evil."
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Also, I do take offense to the term "godless" being tossed about as the equivalent of "evil."
Agreed. It would be one thing if the guard was depicted as a religious man, and he does start to pray later on, this hasn't been established at this point.
Although a talented writer could use this to establish that Sergei is a religious man, here it just comes across as the writer's opinions bleeding through.
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This is the 'dangerous to themselves and others' ward, and keeping these people in is the first priority, even in an emergency such as a fire.
Of course, the way such institutions are run, you tend to have a not insignificant number of people who work ONLY the night shift to take care of all the patients.
BTW, it is downright bizarre that Slave apparently didn't know the word 'inmate' to use here, since that's the word most commonly used when referring to this sort of victorian era or older psychiatric ward. And still is, sometimes, for wards dealing exclusively with dangerous patients.
And, well, everything in this story comes across as the writer's opinion bleeding through, but Julia's use of 'godless' here is especially laughable given A: Her Weeaboo name means goddess, B: Her actions are very old testament YHWH, and C: like quite a lot of bronze age gods, she wants to be feared and worshipped simultaneously.
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