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Thanks for waiting - can't wait to see your conclusion.

Love your wrap-up, Boot. Action flows along really well, and I give two thumbs up to the way you wrote Zoe, Jazmin, Jenni, Brek and the rest. You've given me a new appreciation for Pol (Paul)and Thom.

By the way, when Kid Quantum is handed over to me I'll change her code name to "Kairos" - Greek for "the right or opportune moment (the supreme moment)."

Okay, sorry about leaving BW for so long. Fact is, I've hit the writer's block wall for a while...

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ANCIENT Greek

Curious as to the reasoning for KQ2 adopting it

Jazmin isn't the type to care what other people think, but:

a) Spark mentioned her codename being silly
b) I'll have Kid Quantum be the code name her brother James wanted to adopt, and even Jazmin herself finds it clunky!
c) Maybe a convo with Spark/Polarity on choosing their own names

Personal reasons - make our Legion a bit more "global", which is why I chose "Amihan" for Nightwind and "Hygeia" for Infectious Lass

I'm almost done with the current Act. I've wrapped up the battles with Amazon/Wildfire and Shifter/Element Lad. Just need 1-2 posts each for Amihan/Rebound and Hygeia/Quislet.

Snuck in a mention for Shifter being able to reach Cos' team too.

Apologies, I haven't been able to dress the writing up. Just want to keep things simple and fast

Enjoying your posts, IB!

And 'Boot, sorry to hear about the writers block! I've been there before. Maybe IB should just do the post where the 'transfer of characters' takes place, letting you focus on the Academy?

I've still got my posts ready to go to bring us to the conclusion but think it's better if I wait entirely for now before I start back up again (rather than posting a little now, then a little later).

On (a), Spark's like that with everyone! [if KQ2 switched to "Kairos", the first thing she'd do is google it. And the second would be to sing the Dodo's "I never never ever do a thing about the weather for the weather never ever does a thing for me" song from Alice in Wonderland until Jazmin's head exploded! (That, or do a faux televangalist thing, since the name is used by a bunch of evangelical Christian groups!).]

And on (c), neither Ella nor Paul originally chose their codenames - all the Workforce's codenames were focus-grouped by McCauley & co (they just kept them going when they transferred to the Legion on a "that's what everyone else would call them anyway" basis. Laurel, OTOH, will never EVER call herself Andromeda again!)

And on the "global" front... KQ2's not [Ancient] Greek, nor has anything to do with Greece, surely?

Oh, I had that mostly done anyway ( posted now ) and was waiting for iB to post readiness. The Academy story... well, the stuff I said in my PM still holds, and I'm also having more general trouble getting into that headspace - for that set of characters - right now.

No, KQ ha no Greek origins. But I've been trying to write these Legionnaires as taking seriously the "be an ambassador to the world" aspect of the team's mission (plus I couldn't find any good African words related to time ). Similar to Hygeia - she doesn't have anything to do wih Greece either.

Re Spark and Polarity, didn't think of it that way. I'll just have Jazmin choose "Kairos" just cause she likes it better

re Academy story, take your time. And thanks for handing them off to me!

Thanks! They're totally not my best work, but I like having them up. I'll probably polish the prose later on.

By the way Boot, what powers does Starboy have? Mass-induction; he doesn't have full gravity manipulation powers or the Kryptonian powers as well?

Actually, Starboy (no space) does have gravity-manipulation powers, although he's more practised with the "heavy" end of his powers. No Kryptonian powers, though.

[And note that his name's in reference to the stars on the Australian flag ]

I noticed the lack of space, now I know it refers to the flag. Nice touch

E-Lad's transmutation, Kinetix's TK, Jazmin's time manipulation, Starboy's gravity powers, Berta's wind powers, Blizzard's ice powers and Wildfire's anti-energy... the Legion's getting quite powerful!

Still trying to work on finishing BW as I feel able, but in the meantime, I was at LSCC last weekend, and got 21CL Spark & Trinity sketches done while I was there [I asked another guy for a 21CL Cos, but he didn't get to it before the con finished]




*also picked up a postboot Umbra, and is meant to be getting a comics-Sofia - that the artist had started but not finished - through the post. Will find the right thread to post them when the Winddancer arrives *

Awesome! That's so cool! Love the action-posed Trinity!

And the Spark drawing fits right in with your characterization of her, 'Boot.

(PS - hope the writer's block starts to wear off!)

Love the art, 'Boot. Those are awesome costumes, and I especially love the coat on Trinity.

As for me, I have a plot outline for my last acts. I just need the time (and I guess discipline) to actually write. We've got a ton of ongoing projects right now

Posted BW part 4 of (hopefully!) 5 last night.

*blames Shikari again for all the trouble he's been having with this one!*

On the character at the end, she previously appeared briefly in two posts back in 2005 . And, yes Cobalt, she's the one I said in PM8 we'd discussed at length before - check PM3 for that

Love the escalating tension and the great use of all your characters - even supporting ones like Jubilee, Tomb and Inferno.

And wow, you must be working pretty hard with editing to fit the finale into one post! Can't wait.

I'm working on it

[I've actually, finally, got a big chunk done now. I'm HOPING to post on Monday, but no promises. Though depending on how long it gets, I may split it!]

Wild!

Read and loved part 4 today! I've been waiting forever for Tazmin to join the others.

IB, also loving your bits as well! It's been a tour de force of Asia. Its like I want to visit all these places, with super powers.

Can't wait to read more from you too Cobie - that's a major motivator for me to get going with MY posts. Glad you're liking the places. If I had IB's powers in real life, first thing I'd do is hit those places I've used

So I'll have 3 more "small" posts to look in on the remaining 6 Legionnaires on my team, then 1 post to bring the team together, and 1-2 posts for the finale. I won't drag these out as much as I did my last act. Hope to be done by April 9/10 at the latest - April 5-9 is a looooooooooooong weekend here.

I hate writing fight scenes.

I'm sitting here, for about the fifth time in a week, having now managed to outline the last part - which is mostly, unavoidably, a fight scene - about as tightly as I'd want to do so. I know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen. And I'm sitting here and I just can't turn it into prose.

It is frustrating. Very, very, very frustrating.

Just read your latest post 'Boot. You did well with the little "skirmish" between Comet Queen and Tazmin, though I guess it wasn't really a fight scene. (shades of Tasmia, look forward to seeing how that will develop).

I'm sure you'll get to working it into prose soon.

As for me... I have the outline done too, I just need to really set some time aside and sit down and do it. Unfortunately I'll be in Japan tomorrow up to whole next week. I'll try to move the story along before I go but I doubt I'll be able to finish the whole thing.

Working on my finale now, I figure I'll finish that first so I don't hold up the finale of Earthwar.

Almost done, will try to finish my portion tomorrow. I'm thinking 2, maybe 3 posts.

Oh, I think we *both* crossed that line a good while back

I'll wait for you to be done before I post then - I'm not quite done, and I'd rather not split your posts.

Looking forward to both your finales! I can't wait to read them and then bring Earth War to it's conclusion!

And I know all too well the feeling of not turning an outline--even a tight, almost exact one--into prose. But you're almost there!