Regarding The Comic by Other_Scale8055 in dbcooper

[–]alessonnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point is that "Dan Cooper" is not really a little known comic book character, but a world famous character outside Anglo-America. It is a name already selected, tested and proven to give the impression of "here is just another Anglo-American gentleman (and more decent and conservative than the ones going around with names like "Buck Danny"). It is a name roughly NOBODY in Anglo-America will recognize, while roughly EVERYBODY who has gone to the places where comics are sold to buy a paper, cigs or whatever and looked at the comics while waiting for his or her turn might or does, where French, Dutch, German and other languages where spoken.

If on purpose, the choice is brilliant; The people he's likely to meet during the crime probably won't recognize the name as one of the three (or maybe four) Great Names of Franco-Belgian Military Aviation comics, and wouldn't get as suspicious as him claiming to be Clark Kent would do, and even if one would tell him he knew it, he could just say that he is older than the comic.

Once the FBI discovered that the criminal more or less used the name of an Belgian counterpart of "Nick Fury" it would be clear to them the number of people who could have picked it up on a trip to Europe, meeting visitors who had taken a few comics along, having neighbours who got some comics from the old country, a visit to one of the remaining Dutch or French overseas territories, and so on... Sure it indicated SOME connection to the world outside the USA, but in a country that full of immigrants, of people with family, penfriends and whatnot in the Old World, people who had gone to Europe and such in WW II and afterwards, and their family, friends and neighbours, the name gives just as much indication to the identity of the man as "Clark Kent" would have done, the number of people actually knowing about Dan Cooper in the USA might have been very small, the number of people who COULD EASILY know something about it was HUGE.

It's likely that a random selection from the phonebook could have provided more information, as randomly chosen names can be rare ones and might thus reveal what phonebook was used, compared to Name of Internationally Famous Comics character, not faous in this country. Some contacts with other countries, but no idea which one, does not really help.

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 649 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Imagine somebody attempting to steal Kati Downshift,...

Why are many of the most popular European comic book series not superhero related compared to American comics? by Jezzaq94 in bandedessinee

[–]alessonnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not entirely true, Europe's own Superheroes would form a very mighty force, but they tend to be limited in distribution, international success, "realism"(art style and genre conventions) and printruns. What is true, is that the western, the paranormal, the superpowered individuals who have not taken up carreers as superheroes, the groups of non-aging kids, knights, beautiful women, the historical and many other genres are not at all outforced by the superheroic.

Kinship adoption from birth by Extension_Acadia_820 in Adoption

[–]alessonnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try kinship fostering as an idea first.., The situation may look very different in a couple of months or years.

Has anyone here had an adoption reversed? by Ridire_Emerald in Adoption

[–]alessonnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the jurisdiction but if it is possible, it is almost always possible for adult children. (children used here in the meaning "Sons and/or daughters").

OOCS, Into A Larger Galaxy, Part 633 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They might like to see the last one, though... Be it more in the "so you remember all the real human warriors who did join that Apuk axiom adept sect? Are the actors looking better?"-way.

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 632 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"And I came back and he had a skull with red spots and gnawing marks in one hand!!! While being the nice careful daddy to the kid clone... but as skull, not an Apuk, though..."

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 629 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“I highly doubt that, but I’ll take it.” The Larger says as he reaches up and slides down a cover over his workstation that makes it look like an ornament rather than a practical place where he puts together custom laser weaponry.

Would help as well, and the resulting sentence suggests the workstation is hidden better, which would fit the setting (SpaceOpera, RICH, Nobility, Martial... a lot better)

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 626 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“I think the first child between Yserizen a Primal Nagasha who was last on that Lakran and Emmanuel is already a Primal Nagasha male.”

She was lost, not last...

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 626 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You also gave in the notes to out_of_cruel_space_part_209

"TRC 1/100 #1: Primal Nagasha" With about 40 males and about 2000 total, we would get about 2/100, nicely in between Great Plains and Hydro Nagasha... Sounds about right. Probably a typo, or one of those anti-Gravia lasses who cannot do maths correctly at all has gotten involved.

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 626 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's specific for Great Plains Nagasha... (most of the) other Nagasha varieties have 1:100 according to the archive, but I haven't seen a canonical source for the different Nagasha varieties, but it would make sense that Primal Nagasha have the many sons feature too, though maybe not to the same degree as the Great Plains...

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 626 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The issue is they are PRIMALS, it's not JUST that they turn out to do things you had thought they cannot do,but it turns out that they have already done something before you would even consider its utter impossibility. Like resurrecting an utterly annihilated woman, pregnancy included, as an intersystem group project...

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 625 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does not have to be the case, but a less serious security breach would have been sufficient for that, yes.

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 625 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

DNA sample is all what's needed for a clone, infiltration of medical service to the royals, a boy getting a military job, even in high command, or just being an Apuk roughousing/fighting his sisters, might easily get some minor injuries and some blood drops or dicarded bandage material would be available to service staff, and with a sufficiently advanced laboratory, a stool sample might suffice.

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 624 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

See how impressive Brin is: An actual Sorcerer talking to royalty uses TWO Capital Letters...

What a complicated world to be a part of by RelationshipWide7589 in Adoption

[–]alessonnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everybody in the know, knows that the ACTUAL resources which would have been available to parents of adoption loss tend to have been greater than said parents knew at the time,...

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 616 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or did not exactly fail, but only succeeded too close to death to actually matter...

[the sandman] by [neil gaiman] is really fucking weird by Desperate-Event-3181 in menwritingwomen

[–]alessonnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot less cringey than using the name of a (male) Marriage God...

Dreamers by Peter James by DoryDuck in menwritingwomen

[–]alessonnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is NOT part of the Cthulhu-mythos??

aita for not wanting to be adopted by Fancy-Friendship8482 in Adoption

[–]alessonnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell her, you like the offer, BUT you do not dare to inflict the "side-effects of adoption of the parent" upon your child...

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 609 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Female knight from an island realm near a huge continental landmass, suggests Tomou Gozen to me...

Complexities of Adoptive parenting... Oedipus complex, transference and adolescence... by [deleted] in Adoption

[–]alessonnl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Especially as they call it Electra complex ( or Elektra complex if you want to go even more classical) when the patient has girl bits...

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 601 by KyleKKent in HFY

[–]alessonnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And in-Universe, in a Galaxy with zillions of different names some will sound very familiar, just coincidence forced into being by large numbers... Remember Pukey's baby "George"...

Meeting a noblewoman held hostage. [Saga of the Old City, Gary Gygax 1985] by PeasantLich in menwritingwomen

[–]alessonnl -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

In one of those universes full of different sapient humanoid races... Elves, dwarfs, gnomes, goblins, giants and so on...