Emergancy DE Activate: Teach Me

[bjornwilde]

Milliways is an amazing resource, both for time and filling plot holes from canon. Those training montages, leaps in logic or skills, suddenly make sense. So my question today is whom has your pup learned from at Milliways and what did they learn?

Or on the flip side, what upcoming plot hole/character development are you planning and what sort of teacher/mentor/sensei are you looking for or have planned?

BTW, Fury you sneaky bastard.

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[thenewblack]

Artemis is convinced that Milliways, or something like it, is how Batman actually functions without being a team of workaholic, insomniac triplets.

That or robots.

[bjornwilde]

I can totally see this. It also makes me wonder if there is a council of Batmen that help each other out.

[thenewblack]

*cough*

[genarti]

I fully intend to use Milliways for Thor to learn some of the moral lessons which he displays at the end of his movie despite never having learned them onscreen in the middle. (He does learn some important lessons onscreen! Just, uh, not everything he talks loudly about at the end.) He's already gotten started on some.

Also, this isn't a plot hole, but I look forward to many more lessons about human culture for him. Some of them will doubtless be completely misleading. :D

River: ahahahaha oh man. What HASN'T she learned here? Milliways completely reshaped her worldview and her options, in a lot of ways. It didn't change anything about the series canon, since she came in post-canon, but we made a lot of alterations to the movie's plot based on Milliways developments. That was less plot holes (mostly) and more the fact that a lot of movie events just didn't work with post-Milliways character dynamics and otherworldly options, but still.

Trowa: is also well post-canon. I don't have any particular mentoring plans -- Trowa is pretty resistant to having mentors, although he's good with equals teaching their particular skillsets -- but basically I enjoy using Milliways to force him to have more social interaction.

Clare doesn't have plotholes I plan to fix so much as emotional dynamics I want to expand on and explore. I've definitely had to go through canon carefully picking the points at which she can come into Milliways and the points at which she shouldn't, and when certain emotional revelations (*cough*Teresa*cough*) can occur.

But there might, a good way down the line, be plans for recruiting from Milliways for a great big fight scene. *cheerful*

[bjornwilde]

That was awesome. = D

[biggerstingers]

"I know where you can find an army."

Some days canon has just the right quote.

[silveraspen]

Moiraine learned how to weave the threads of the Pattern itself from Raven. :)

This took place over the span of literal years of in-game time, and paid off here. (Links to specific historical threads are included in that OOM; it's ported to DW here for the LJ-avoidant.) I love long-term story arcs, especially ones that develop naturally over time, and this one would have been impossible without Lynne's amazing help.

Moiraine also learned a significant amount about Chinese history and automatic weaponry from Dale Cooper in this thread, which stood her in very good stead during Operation Shu Guang (omg, that 24-plot was amazing fun). Many thanks to Sweeney for responding in such stellar fashion to a completely unplanned question which seemed simple at the moment Moiraine asked it: "Tell me what I need to know about China."

[thenewblack]

SCM's stuff is generally pretty cracky. And anime heavy.

(Observe the Card Captor Sakura/Harry Potter crossover, where Harry writes Naruto fanfic and posts it online during the summer.)

[gavin62truck]

After marathoning the final seasons of "Rescue Me" together with Kate Barlow-mun, we've decided that Kate is the reason that Tommy suddenly becomes more literate. Or at least literate-minded enough to peruse a book when he sees one, and to be able to make a Frankenstein pun by going off the name Mary Shelley. I seriously would have thought that was out-of-character had his experience at Milliways not made it plausible.

There was also a part where Tommy enters his apartment and asks, "Did I just walk into another dimension?" LIKE THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.

[mnt_raph]

There was a point in time, many many MANY moons ago when Raph had befriended a wee-ickle-tiny Bruce Wayne. There may have been some training there, but mostly there was trauma because Raph brought him to a dark alley in New York without thinking.

And the kid had Hannibal Lecter as a shrink at the time.

Whoops.

[mnt_raph]

Raph, Mike, and Splinter have all learned what it means to be human while in Milliways. And er...heh, all that comes with that.

The purpose of making all of them human started out as a joke, but then in true Milliways fashion actually became something far more.

Raph has always wanted more than he could have, and he blamed that on not being human. Now that he is human, and is still mostly happy...he's learned that it was him and not his body.

Mike just learned about orgasms. That's enough for him.

Splinter is learning that there is a life to be lived outside of his sons. It...it's not an easy lesson, but he's working on it.


Bumi is going to learn what his father became at some point...probably not until the rest of the Krew is post season one. Until that point most people will just have to suffer/deal with Chong.

[the_man]

Just because no one else thought of it before...

[silveraspen]

That thread was amazing.

[camwyn]

Ellen learned how not to throw up under the OH DEAR GOD HOW BIG IS THE SKY. Also how to ride a cow. Among other things. But mostly how not to throw up under the IT JUST GOES ON FOREVER, OH GOD, WHERE ARE THE WALLS.

[minkhollow]

Sometimes the very act of taking more than a week between installments of canon makes things make more sense. My long pause between here and the next episode on the dock is going to make the speed of Pete's relationship feel so much more natural; I would have slowed down the pace on The Saga of Todd as well, except I needed Claud to have that bridge device for the Allpocalypse. XD

Also, Red. Milliways gives her a space to come to terms with the whole werewolf thing and learn to use it to her advantage. I maintain she wouldn't use it at home at all if there were a chance she'd hurt Snow.

[the_man]

Why thank you!

I give all the credit to our delightful bar mod.

[bjornwilde]

I'm honestly not sure if Ben has picked up anything from Bar but he definitely has made lots of friends. Oh wait, he's supposed to be learning better mental shields from Xavier! Need to get back to that.

Val learned magic and smithing as well as how horrible war can be (thank you Fallout world).

Captain Jane Roland (past pup) learned true swordsmanship as I had couldn't imagine Regnacy Era military training her properly or even giving her a sword appropriate since the only tolerate woman as Longwings will only fly with a woman captain.

I have plans for Hank to learn fighting skills within bar both pre and post Beast-ness. He's also beginning to see the world differently thanks to meeting Raven...the creator and the woman.

Thalia got to learn what love can be like.

Julie learned that powers don't define the hero. Thank you Wonder Woman.

[bjornwilde]

Ben promises to never take her flying.

[bjornwilde]

That kind of explains a lot. ; p

[sky_child]

He hasn't learned anything yet, but I should use the bar to help him with those mysteriously acquired archery skills, huh?

...to say nothing of the even more mysteriously acquired harp skills, considering how likely it is that he never even heard of a harp before the game starts...

[bjornwilde]

Do knights in his world not learn the arts? Granted the harp is pretty advanced for the arts.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen was actually okay on a jumbo jet in Bryan Mills' world so long as she didn't have to have a window seat. Being stuffed into a small space with metal walls that was full of uncomfortable people and limited resources reminded her of home. And even the window seat wasn't so much of a problem, since she could just pretend it was a vid screen. There was always the sound of equipment in the Vault anyway, so the plane engines weren't even an issue. Now, a fighter jet or something with a better ability to see all around- that would be a problem.

And don't even ask her about space travel. She's been on a space walk. The first thing she asked for when she got back into the ship was clean pants.

[sky_child]

Honestly the only subject that's shown to be taught at the Knight Academy is swordplay/shield defense, which, considering that's Link's to primary means of attack/defense...

Basically: bluh bluh video game school bluh.

I don't know if they teach the arts at his school, but Link, Zelda, Karane and I think Fledge have some sort of craft hobby. Link makes wooden statues and Zelda and Karane knit. But again with the harp, Zelda had to be told what it was when she got it, too. And yet she mysteriously was able to play it as well!

Video games, how do they work?

[sky_child]

Link is just staring at Ellen like I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM WITH THE SKY

[sky_child]

Now, a fighter jet or something with a better ability to see all around- that would be a problem.

Like a Loftwing (see icon)?