My hat is off to you, and a bottle of Chivas Regal is sacrificed in your honor. The only way I could try to get through this is by reading your comments. I've tried to get through this verbal sludge on my own and never got past the third chapter... of the first story. I think I once tried to read a random chapter of Shinra Soldier and my brain screeched to a halt at:
Sephiroth knocked on the door. "Julia my love, are you awake?"
When my browser crashed, I took it as a sign that going further risked permanent brain damage. What boggles my mind is that she is *proud* of this collection of brain barf and parades it as an accomplishment. I have to wonder what her friends thought of her portrayal of them for all the fandom to see. Then again, this is the girl who left her friend behind at a shopping mall after she kneed a guy in the groin, then took off.
As a consolation gif (NPI), I offer you a platypus:
Paging Ms. Won. Paging Ms. Won! There is a...Mr. Veld? here who would like to have a word with you~
I get that Rude and Reno are sort of comic relief, and sometimes bungle things up--without Elena's help even--but good lord. I sometimes wonder if these badfic writer's realize that these characters have their jobs for a reason. They can't be totally incompetent!
-puts head down and sighs.-
I need some cookies, or brownies. I suddenly wish I hadn't eaten my last piece of cheesecake a few days ago.
A year ago, there was a separate training program for Turks...but President Shinra chose to cut the budget for the program in favor of giving more money to the SOLDIER Program. This is like deciding to cut the firefighters budget and have them train with the police officers (or, y'know, running potential FBI agents through the army boot camp). This isn't what they need to know to do their jobs.
Neither of them were ever the brightest among their peers Then why the hell were they chosen to be Turks?
The class broke into gales of laughter at the thought of the Trainees biggest prankster, Bennett Again, Sephirothslave seems unable to grasp how little time has passed. This is their second day here. Bennett has not had time to establish himself as a prankster.
I was going through the old sporkings looking for something, and I noticed this: Let me introduce, Tseng Nakahamou Not sure how we all missed this, but shouldn't Tseng and Julia have different surnames? I'm trying to remember if it was ever explicitly stated that Nakahamou was her father's name, but even if it wasn't, foster children don't take their foster family's last name! How does Slave manage to fail in just about every way imaginable?
Because Slave doesn't know anything about adoption, fostering, or... well, anything, Tseng is Julia's foster brother, adoptive brother, or brother-in-law, depending on whatever Slave felt worked at the time.
Julia does mention that she refused to use her family name (though we never learn what it is) and used Tseng's family name instead. Of course she doesn't explain taking their name in the first place, if she was fostered.... yeah its a clusterfuck.
I'd be more willing to accept that if that was just on an informal level. But she's clearly listed as Nakahamou in the school paperwork, which would mean she'd have to have officially changed it. Between her age, her father's temper, and her generally unwillingness to put any effort into anything, this just doesn't line up. (Yeah, I know, just one more lack of consistency.)
Come to think of it, shouldn't Tseng have had a heads up she was at the school? I mean are there really that many people with the last name "Nakahamou" in the universe that someone at the school wouldn't have mentioned it to Tseng out of curiosity? Even if that didn't happened, Tseng taught World History and Julia was enrolled in his class, meaning he should have known she was in his class after receiving his student roll sheet.
And why didn't Julia know she had Tseng for World History? she knew she had Hojo and some of the other teachers because of the class schedule every student gets, yet somehow it's SUCH A SURPRISE when she sees Tseng....
It's almost as if Slave doesn't realize what the Turks are and just assumes they are a military force like any other.
::headdesk:: We are first introduced to the Turks via the more unsavory side of their job, namely, them trying to abduct Aerith. I don't understand how she could miss that they are a black ops/spy organization.
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Sephiroth knocked on the door. "Julia my love, are you awake?"
When my browser crashed, I took it as a sign that going further risked permanent brain damage. What boggles my mind is that she is *proud* of this collection of brain barf and parades it as an accomplishment. I have to wonder what her friends thought of her portrayal of them for all the fandom to see. Then again, this is the girl who left her friend behind at a shopping mall after she kneed a guy in the groin, then took off.
As a consolation gif (NPI), I offer you a platypus:
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I get that Rude and Reno are sort of comic relief, and sometimes bungle things up--without Elena's help even--but good lord. I sometimes wonder if these badfic writer's realize that these characters have their jobs for a reason. They can't be totally incompetent!
-puts head down and sighs.-
I need some cookies, or brownies. I suddenly wish I hadn't eaten my last piece of cheesecake a few days ago.
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This is like deciding to cut the firefighters budget and have them train with the police officers (or, y'know, running potential FBI agents through the army boot camp). This isn't what they need to know to do their jobs.
Neither of them were ever the brightest among their peers
Then why the hell were they chosen to be Turks?
The class broke into gales of laughter at the thought of the Trainees biggest prankster, Bennett
Again, Sephirothslave seems unable to grasp how little time has passed. This is their second day here. Bennett has not had time to establish himself as a prankster.
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Let me introduce, Tseng Nakahamou
Not sure how we all missed this, but shouldn't Tseng and Julia have different surnames? I'm trying to remember if it was ever explicitly stated that Nakahamou was her father's name, but even if it wasn't, foster children don't take their foster family's last name!
How does Slave manage to fail in just about every way imaginable?
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Julia does mention that she refused to use her family name (though we never learn what it is) and used Tseng's family name instead. Of course she doesn't explain taking their name in the first place, if she was fostered.... yeah its a clusterfuck.
~Iscariot
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And why didn't Julia know she had Tseng for World History? she knew she had Hojo and some of the other teachers because of the class schedule every student gets, yet somehow it's SUCH A SURPRISE when she sees Tseng....
Jeez, can't believe we didn't notice that before.
~Iscariot
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::headdesk:: We are first introduced to the Turks via the more unsavory side of their job, namely, them trying to abduct Aerith. I don't understand how she could miss that they are a black ops/spy organization.
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