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pip25 · 2 years

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As you wish

Phantom pain. An unpleasant sensation seemingly originating from a limb that’s no longer part of the body.

This phrase resurfaced in Zelgadiss’ mind time and again, ever since he and Amelia had left Saillune City towards the Kingdom of Ruvinagald. He, of course, had all of his limbs intact and was not experiencing any type of chronic pain, either – but a different sensation, the feeling of a certain weight upon him, surfaced with alarming frequency. And the source of that weight, he knew, was obviously no longer there.

He risked a glance to his right. Amelia walked next to him with a spring in her step, humming some sort of tune he could not place. Her good mood was hardly a surprise: this so-called mission of theirs not only allowed her to leave the palace behind for a while, but also let them meet up with Lina and Gourry again, and travel together for at least a week or two.

It’s been some time since they’ve returned from the Outer World, after all, he thought. If they’re especially lucky, maybe Xelloss won’t show up. One can only hope.

No, he would not bother her with this. The last thing they need is him bringing her down with his own problems. That’s not why they’re here, that’s not what she would want… right?

Zelgadiss pulled his hood deeper into his face in frustration. A year or two ago, the answer to that question would have been straightforward.

“Oh, look!” Amelia’s excited voice interrupted his ruminations. “There’s the border outpost, Zelgadiss-san!”

He forced his attention back to the road ahead, and indeed, there it was: a rather unremarkable two-storey tower of stone and wood at the edge of a forest, with a couple of soldiers standing guard nearby. While the states of the peninsula lacked precisely assigned borders, well-traveled trade routes, like this one, tended to have boundary stones to show roughly where one country ended and the other began, often with similar outposts on each side.

Before they could enter the Alliance of Coastal States, which Ruvinagald was a part of, they needed to take a tiny detour: Amelia was supposed to sign some deeds on Prince Philionel’s behalf here in this tower. As they drew closer, between its first and second storey windows, Zelgadiss spotted the crest of Saillune’s Chivalric Order; it seemed like the outpost was manned not by simple soldiers, but the kingdom’s knights themselves.

An uneasy feeling spreading over him, his hand unwittingly reached to touch his left shoulder, trying in vain to chase away the sensation of a certain weight pushing him down.

“Your Highness, welcome! We have eagerly awaited your arrival.” A forty-something man with a finely trimmed full beard came forth to greet them, wearing chain mail and a turban on his head. There was a bit of an odd pause before he gestured towards the entrance. “I have been notified that Your Highness has little time to spare; the scribe already has the documents prepared in the hall. Is there anything else we can do to assist?”

It did not escape Zelgadiss’ attention that the man barely acknowledged his presence; in fact, his gestures very much suggested that he expected the princess to go inside alone, as if he wasn’t even there.

Amelia seemed to have caught on as well; her good mood deflated a tiny bit as she sent a questioning glance in her companion’s direction. Though inwardly grateful for the gesture, Zelgadiss immediately shook his head with a tiny, barely visible movement. He wanted to get this over with, the quicker the better.

“No, that will be all, thank you,” the princess finally replied to the bearded knight with a polite if meaningless smile, mouthed ‘just one minute’ to her companion, and disappeared behind the oaken double doors.

Zelgadiss decided that, in the present situation, he was perfectly content with simply gazing at said entrance with his arms folded while he waited for the whole ordeal to end. To begin with, he never had much of an appetite for small talk; if the others here wanted to ignore him, that was fine as far as he was concerned.

This assumption of his, however, was quickly turned upside down.

“Let me take a guess.” The middle-aged man’s half-amused, half-exasperated voice made him turn back in his direction despite himself. “You never had any chivalric education or training, but were knighted anyway because you slew a dragon, rescued a princess or something equally dashing and heroic.”

With a wince, Zelgadiss once again started rubbing his left shoulder. While the ceremonial blade used by Prince Philionel had been light as a feather and rested on him only for a few moments during the accolade, this ‘phantom sensation’ now felt like several tons forcing him towards the ground.

Of course they’d know he’s also a knight, he realized, at least as of a few days ago. They’ve been briefed about Amelia’s arrival, and he is her official escort – his newly acquired title was necessary for that exact purpose.

Not that he would’ve admitted any of the above to the man in front of him; the conversation was vexing enough for him already.

“Something like that,” he conceded with a sour expression.

“I suspected as much.” The other man nodded with a sigh. “Well, listen here, hero boy. If you enter one of our outposts, you are expected to greet your fellow knights, or the commander at the very least if you’re feeling all shy,” he said gruffly while pointing at himself. “Don’t just march in here with your head in the clouds and then act disappointed when the others don’t know what to do with you.”

Zelgadiss stared at him with the same bewilderment on his face as if he had just been exposed as a spy from Zoana.

“Do you understand what I’m saying?” the commander pressed on. “I don’t care what sweet nothings you and the princess whisper to one another, you’re not her consort, a baron or any other noble, at least not yet. But you’re also not a peasant who’s just passing by. You’re one of us. Try to act the part, and we’ll get along just fine, got it?”

Robbed of words, all Zelgadiss could do was blink. Rudeness or insults certainly weren’t new to him, but it somehow did not feel appropriate to simply write this off as either of those. Indeed, that was the most perplexing part: annoyed as the middle-aged man may have been, he could not glimpse any malice, fear or even surprise on his features, even though they stood close enough that his hood barely hid anything at all. It was baffling, yet oddly familiar – and of course excruciatingly embarrassing.

“…Understood,” he finally managed to blurt out, surprising even himself.

“Very well then.” The bearded knight looked satisfied with his answer as he gestured back towards the tower. “We’ll look after your charge while she’s here; feel free to take a breather in the meantime. If you need any rations for the rest of the journey, you can—”

His sentence was cut short by a whole tree – complete with the trunk, branches, leaves, bird nests, and roots – slamming into the ground right in front of them. As the incredible momentum made it skid a few additional yards, the commander disappeared in its sizable canopy; only the muffled sounds of his barely restrained cursing made it out.

“Argh! Gods… my leg’s a mess!” he shouted, clearly in pain. “What the hell is happening?!”

Zelgadiss whirled around to face the forest, though he already had a pretty good idea of what they were facing. Not many creatures had the sheer strength necessary to uproot a tree like that, and the intelligence and willingness to use it as a weapon.

He was right. A dozen hulking, hunched beasts hustled towards them from within the forest, their forms roughly humanoid but somewhat ape-like, their skins colored in dirty shades of yellow, green and blue.

Trolls.

His gaze snapped back to the other knights nearby. The enemy’s display of strength, along with the disappearance of their leader sowed the seeds of panic within their ranks; even those who had rushed out of the tower with weapons drawn seemed more inclined to turn around and flee than to defend their post.

“Doesn’t matter,” Zelgadiss muttered to himself. “They’d only get in the way…”

“Hear me, brave knights of Saillune!” The thundering declaration reached his ears as he was about to rush forward alone. He looked up, and saw Amelia standing at the very top of the tower (where else?), resolutely pointing towards the approaching troll horde. “No evil can hope to defeat those who walk the path of righteousness! No strength born from malice can deter those with a heart of valor from seeing justice done! Stand with me, and let us show these monsters the true virtuous might of our kingdom!”

Her speech was not without impact: the fog of panic gradually lifted from the knights’ ranks, and the fear in their eyes was replaced by resolve. Not enough to make them move, however; while they no longer wanted to run away, it still looked as if they were waiting on each other to take the first step forward.

Someone had to set an example, Zelgadiss realized with a frown, and lead the charge against the enemy.

You’re one of us.

The commander’s words echoed in his mind, and at that moment, he finally understood why they felt so strangely familiar.

Fine. He’ll do it, just this once, he thought to himself, and raised his sword towards the top of the tower in what he hoped to be a knightly salute.

“As you wish, my Lady.”

Then he ran. Both to set that example, and to avoid having to see what effect, if any, his incredibly awkward-feeling line has had.

Battle cries sounded from behind him. Innumerable boots hit the ground, their rumble melding into the chant of Chaos Words springing forth from Amelia’s lips.

Zelgadiss ran even faster – and could not suppress a smile.

The battle did not last long. The knights apparently knew about Amelia’s prowess as a spellcaster, and once Zelgadiss fried a few trolls with lightning, they included him in their tactics as well: they drew the beasts’ attention away from the two of them while they mowed them down with a combination of sword, sorcery and bare fists. As fearsome as their foes’ strength and regenerative abilities were, they stood little chance against such a fierce, coordinated onslaught.

After healing the injured, including the commander’s broken leg, the midday sun found the princess and her official escort already well beyond the Saillune border.

“Zelgadiss-san, those knights have been very rude to you. I’m so sorry!” Amelia apologized hastily as they climbed the mountain road at a brisk pace. “I don’t know what has gotten into them!”

Her companion awkwardly cleared his throat. “Um, right, them. It was a… a misunderstanding. We got over it.” The hint of a smirk tugged his lips. “Not the first time I got chewed out for my lack of knightly manners, anyway.”

That visibly caught the princess by surprise. “You’ve traveled with knights before?”

At first, Zelgadiss felt frustrated that he let that slip, but the emotion quickly morphed into guilt. He had enough of keeping secrets from Amelia for one day. She deserved better than that.

“His name was Rodimus.” He kept his eyes on the road, though his gaze seemed to be somewhere far away. “I’m not sure if he had a proper title, but he certainly considered himself a knight. Acted like one, too. The problems started when he wanted everyone else to act the same way. I remember butting heads with him… a lot.”

There was a certain warmness in Zelgadiss’ voice as he spoke of his late friend that made the princess smile.

“Whatever he may have found wanting in you back then, I don’t think you have much to worry about now,” she commented playfully.

“Right.” Her companion nodded slowly, his eyes still on the road ahead. His smirk now had a slight self-deprecating edge to it. “To start with, in my case this title is just a formality. So what if I don’t measure up to the—”

“That’s not true at all, Zelgadiss-san.”

He stopped and finally turned her way, perplexed. Amelia’s smile was gentle but unrelenting.

“A knight’s title is more than just a formality. Believe me, it’s not something my father and I would give away unearned,” she spoke softly. “Father considers you a dear friend and ally who has fought on Saillune’s side for justice several times. And I…” Her cheeks turned a darker shade of pink. “…I consider you… dear… in many ways. I-I just want you to know that… you have nothing to prove to me.”

Gentle wind stirred the leaves of the beech trees on both sides of the road around them.

Standing motionlessly as if his feet had taken root, Zelgadiss tried really hard to answer something, but could not keep himself from stumbling over his own words.

“Uh… No, I… That wasn’t… It’s not like I wanted to…”

His face now even redder than hers, he forced himself to turn away. Desperate to do something, anything to serve as a distraction, his hand moved towards his left shoulder out of habit… and stopped halfway.

Only then did he notice. The ‘phantom weight’ that haunted him for days – it was no longer there. He somehow also knew it would never return.

Finally able to calm down, Zelgadiss took a deep breath. Then another.

“Alright, I… guess I’ll give this… knight business some more time then. See what comes of it,” he murmured almost to himself, then began walking once more. “A-Anyway… Come on Amelia, let’s get moving. We still have a long journey ahead of us.”

“Right!” The princess beamed as she followed him without skipping a beat.

Long it may have been, it was a journey to look forward to.

EPILOGUE

“Zelgadiss-san?”

“Hmm?”

“When you… raised your sword like that and said… I mean, when you led all the other knights into battle… that was so, so incredibly cool! I even forgot about my incantation for a second.”

“Uh… thanks? Just so you know, I don’t plan to make a habit of it.”

“Aw, but why?”

“Well, it was a… spur-of-the-moment thing. You don’t write your speeches in advance either, do you?”

“Usually no, but I have a couple of Father’s best ones memorized, just in case.”

“…I …see.”

“So I was thinking, rumor says the smiths of Ruvinagald can produce some really high-quality, shiny-looking armor. When we get there, maybe you could… try some of them on?”

“…Absolutely not.”

#zelame #amelia wil tesla seyruun #zelgadis greywords #zelame week #slayers

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ahb-writes · 2 years

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Fools! You've turned your backs on sacred law to do evil's bidding! But can your sullied blades truly slay the will of justice?! Come and find out if you dare!

"Amelia Saillune" (in SLAYERS Omnibus #2, by Hajime Kanzaka)

#amelia saillune #amelia wil tesla saillune #slayers #hajime kanzaka #rui araizumi #shrine maiden #manga #fools #anime #justice #the slayers #princess of saillune #white magic #sacred law #do evils bidding #truth and justice #the will of justice #come and find out #if you dare

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saturnis777 · 4 years

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The Six Million Dollar Anime Girl

As a fan of anime we must look at both sides of the coin, in most anime the people depicted as main characters are above average in the gold and silver department. Lets start naming a few magical girl franchises and we will see a clear trend!

North American audiences probably never gave much contemplation on the economic class that Sailor Moon belongs too. To the average North American viewer, Usagi and company were typical middle class, living in typical homes in a seemingly average neighborhood. However, if you know anything about Tokyo, you’d realize Usagi and the other Sailor Scouts are pretty well off. Every one of the five main characters live in the Juuban district in Tokyo, which is a very affluent area.

On top of that Haruka Tenou said her monthly rent was a million yen which works out to 10 thousand dollars. Michiru Kaiou had her own apartment which presumably had similar if not higher rent, on top of that she owned a giant palace outside of town, and rode in a helicopter to and from school. Yeah that's what you call normal middle class living, yeah right, give me a break! And don't even get me started on Dr Tomoe, and the multi billion dollar Mugen Academy Corporation that he founded.

North American viewers who watch Cardcaptor Sakura think Sakura is a typical middle class girl with a somewhat wealthy friend Tomoyo Daidouji. Well if you pay attention to the details you will realize she lives in an extremely affluent fictional district called Tomoeda. just one look at the schools architecture, as well as the area in general reveals that Sakura Kinomoto is borderline wealthy by any standard. However it gets even better it turns out she inherits her grandfathers fortune witch includes a giant five story mansion with servants to boot. So much for middle class living, we are talking 100 wealthiest people on earth material, and that's just from the story who knows what corporation Sakura's grandfather owns to amass such wealth?

Many Americans when they see Saint Seiya think that Saiori Kido lives in an upper middle class home, with a butler working out of devotion for her. Actually Saiori Kido is extremely wealthy, in fact if she were in this world she would be the wealthiest woman by far, and that's even before she awakened as the Goddess Athena.

Now with this scale set lets scroll down the list of magical girls.

The plus signs in the following are not coincidence they are the sub orders of magnitude within each corresponding class.

Billionaire

Billionaire+ greater x10

Billionaire++ much greater x100

Billionaire+++ massively greater x1000

Example billionaire +++ is a potential trillionaire.

Note the cheeky term Zillionaire refers to fictional characters with untold wealth.

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Usagi Tsukino... Upper Middle Class+

Usagi Tsukino's ascension to Neo-Queen Serenity Zillionaire+++

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Saiori Kido... Billionaire+

Saiori Kido's ascension to Goddess Athena... Zillionaire++

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Tomoyo Daidouji in Cardcaptor... Billionaire+

Tomoyo Daidouji in Tsubasa... Billionaire+++

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Sakura Kinomoto... Billionaire+

Michiru Kaiou... Billionaire+

Haruka Tenou... Millionaire+++

Ami Mizuno... Upper Middle Class

Rei Hino... Upper Middle Class

Minako Aino... Upper Middle Class+

Makoto Kino... Middle Class+

Amilia Will Saillune... Billionaire++

Bulma Briefs... Billionaire

Hotaru Tomoe... Billionaire+

Snow White... Billionaire+

Ice Queen Elsa... Billionaire+

Queen Anna of Arendelle... Billionaire+

Little Mermaid Ariel... Billionaire++

Alice in Wonderland... Millionaire++

Sleeping Beauty... Billionaire+++

Akiho Shinomoto... Millionaire+

Princess Kairi... Millionaire+

Princess Zelda... Billionaire+++

Barbie... Millionaire++

Lina Inverse... Middle Class+

The less than 0.000001% of humanity gets most of the Anime glory.

I need not even go on with this list its pathetic, one thing i can plug Dragon Ball Z on is at least Son Goku wasn't rich, nor was he an elite saiyan ether, he was a commoner.

Undoubtedly the wealthiest of all these magical princesses was Usagi Tsukino, when she became Neo-Queen Serenity and inherited the literal universe of Silver Millennium. The second closest was Saiori Kido who as Athena ruled the sanctuary dimension.

Yes that’s Queen Serenity’s crystal palace with spires towering several miles into the sky, it totally dwarfs all the skyscrapers around it.

Heck even Scrooge McDuck incarnate wasn't that rich. The true wealth of Tomoyo Daidouji is unknown, but the fact her future self is depicted running a future global corporation indicates she is at least Scrooge McDuck level, probably higher. Bulma Briefs would rank the same level as Princess Tomoyo, and come to think of it there was a scene where Bulma said to Vegeta, if your the Prince than that makes me the Princess.

The little mermaid is the same thing, you can't just be a mermaid, no its got to be the richest mermaid in all the seven seas.

Virtually all the magic girls are spoon fed from golden platters, with one exception to this rule.

There's only one magical girl out of all the listed characters that is based on a somewhat typical common girl, and that is Lina Inverse, the anti-heroine of the Slayers Anime.

Lina Inverse lived with her two parents and sister who ran a grocery store in a small town called Zephilia. Out of all the magic girls I have ever seen in my life, Lina Inverse is the only one who is not borne of some royal lineage.

To simplify matters Lina Inverse is the only staring character I know of that isn't dirty, filthy rich.

However even Lina Inverse was depicted with a repeating fixation on becoming a wealthy princess that repeated throughout the series. Not only that there are several times where Lina refuses to help people unless they pay her lots of gold coins, one of the jokes of the series was she rarely got her reward. But still the fact she only offered to help oppressed people if they gave her money is kinda rotten even for a comedy based anime.

On top of that one of the main villains in the story bent on ruling the world turns out to be a peasant living in a garden shed, or more precisely a run down falling apart old shed.

Yep that's the headquarters of the Zein, an organization created by Galev and his sole underling Zahhard.

Well to be fair I will give the slayers a pass on this one, especially considering the entire show is comedy based, and doesn't knock people by class. Lina is Lina after all and regardless what class one may be she will deck them if they dare make fun of her.

However I will not be giving any passes to Sailor Moon, Kingdom Hearts, Cardcaptor Sakura, Saint Seiya, Tsubasa Chronicle, and the infamous Disney Princess Movies. They all blatantly program children with princess like delusions of grandeur, and in my opinion that is not cool in any way.

You will be surprised to learn all the girls I listed above are called princess, not just the Disney characters. To me that is crystal clear proof of the subliminal princess agenda! Its very in the face what is going on here, it's clear this whole princess/wealthy girl theme is a subtle program.

I haft to ask the question is this the magical girl genre, or is it the wealthy girl genre? I'm asking this question because it kinda looks like the latter to me, and that is kinda sad.

Kind of like Batman became a hero because he was a billionaire and had the resources to build himself a sleeked down inspector gadget suit. What kind of lessons are they setting for kids, seriously what kind of role models are these magical girl themes creating?

Seriously why can't they feature ordinary characters, why do they all haft to be royalty, and billionaires.

They are almost all Scrooge McDuck level or higher, needless to say these are totally unrealistic goals for children.

Talk about ten minutes to ruining ones childhood dreams, you ether haft to be extremely aristocratic, or in some cases not even human to be a magical girl. I call it monarch butterfly syndrome, only those born in certain lineage make it in this world.

Make no mistake this is a subliminal class system aimed at our children, and its happening all across the board. What is the message that children receive watching these shows, is it good morality, doing the right thing, or is the message to love money?

One last thing before I sign off this blog post, what if the magical powers they are depicting are actually something else entirely? What if its trans humanism and only the super rich could afford this technology upgrade?

The image above is Hotaru Tomoe after being turned into a cyborg by her father Professor Tomoe. There are claims she is the only cyborg in Sailor Moon, but how do we know for sure, they even said they originally intended for Ami Mizuno to be a cyborg. Its possible all the sailor senshi were biologically enhanced super soldiers. One of the ways to tell was when Hotaru Tomoe experienced pain from her body rejecting the enhancements. There are scenes in the new Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card Hen show depicting Sakura passing out for no apparent reason, and going through all the symptoms Hotaru Tomoe did. In Sailor Moon Crystal there is a scene where Usagi Tsukino collapses to the ground and says she feels like her body is being ripped apart. I don’t know are these subliminal hints that something sinister is going on? Throughout Kingdom Hearts Roxas is often depicted holding his head in anguish, and Sora was once in a strange pod to allegedly put his memories back together, was it that or did they augment him somehow? The very first people that will be augmented with transhuman technology will be wealthy people, most likely ones near death like Hotaru Tomoe who was injured in a serious lab accident. Then it will spread to all wealthy children being upgraded, and eventually it will trickle down to a fair sized percentage of human beings. Imagine an augmented person being capable of downloading a library worth of books into their digitized brain in the span if a few weeks.

Could you imagine a class of people with limitless knowledge and nigh immortality? Anyone who isn’t augmented with this nano tech serum will be totally obsolete, there will be no place in society for them. This is the technological singularity they are trying to create for us. If this agenda transpires in the following decades the gap between rich, and poor will become totally insurmountable with aristocratic magical people with godlike powers and several thousand year lifespan ruling over the short lived plebs.

You see that in many Disney movies where the prince and princess are tall and beautiful well everyone else is short and ugly. Yeah some of it is due to animators not wasting time on side characters, however there is a clear gap between two kinds of people.

That is exactly what the fallen angel archons would like to manifest, the return of the gods to lord it over the pawns like something out of hunger games, or game of thrones. Because lets face it the ultimate plan is the total borgification of humanity. Is this the reason why the magical girls with the exception of Lina Inverse all have magical tools, pens, wands, and staffs. Is this the real reason why they are all extremely wealthy? Are they depicting our future, one in which humanity splits into two factions one being a Star Trek civilization, and the other a class of subservient plebeians?

If you think getting augmented is cool maybe the following image will change your mind.

The title for this episode of Cardcaptor is the threads that bind, its an episode where Eriol Hiiragizawa literally turns Syaoran Li into a puppet, as if he were playing Geppetto the puppet master. If you understand anything about augmentation technology this is exactly what can, and most certainly will happen to those who take the upgrade. That’s how a hive mind will work, in the end there will be a collective of augmented elite living in the cities whereas everyone else is banished from society. The choice will most likely be take the upgrade, or hit the road Jack and don’t you ever come back.

You even see that depicted in the bible where it describes one group of people deemed righteous living in a city with streets of gold, and outside the city lived the dogs, sorcerers, liars and moral outcasts.

I don't know about you but that is trans humanism based on a social credit score, if you obey the mandates you live in paradise, if you disobey you are banished from society.

That is the true new world order being laid out for all to see, and don't forget any tyrant can call themselves righteous, and even the borg in Star Trek believed their collective was 100% pure perfection.

Lastly the only place where we see streets paved with gold are the connections on a computer chip, that is the yellow brick road, and the Wizard of Oz was a man operating a holographic machine, and don't forget that.

Really something when you realize they depicted a hologram being used to control people back in 1939, and they even depict the fog, another thing that can be used to enhance holographic projection, the steam makes a screen with which to reflect the image upon. Many people don't know but it requires steam, or some kind of glass screen to project a 3D hologram upon.

It will take a whole post just to touch base on the subliminal trans humanist ideals portrayed in anime and comic books. However there's one thing i will say right now, they cannot transform people into superheroes, technology cannot turn people into Sailor Senshi, technology cannot make you a Card Captor, and technology can’t make you Spiderman, Batman, Superman, Captain America, Iron Man, Green Lantern, etc. Life doesn’t work like that, the only thing that combining technology with human beings will do is create the borg, and that is not cool by any standard. The only two things they are promoting right now is the rich magical girl, and transhuman agendas. They did try the rich boy thing before with Richie Rich but it didn’t seem to catch on, not like the princess programing. Back when I was still into religion i heard several preachers say to the women your princesses, your daughters of the great king. To me this is further enforcing the princess program that starts in kindergarten, and goes on into the teen years with anime, and disney movies.

Oh i forgot there were two disney princesses that started out as commoners, however in the end its still part of the princess spell. Still i put this in here to correct the record.

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ameriagrae · 4 years

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Young Zelgadis (Grey) and Amelia (Meri) having fun around Saillune. After finding her crying by a fountain outside of the palace grounds, Zel tries to cheer the young girl up by taking her around the city. He never realizes she’s the princess. She doesn’t know that he’s Rezo’s grandson.

Based off an idea that they met once as children after the tragic loss of her mother.

#slayers #zelame #amelia x zelgadis #ameriagrae art #slayers fanart #the slayers #amelia wil tesla seyruun #zelgadis greywords

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shesamonkey · 5 years

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Candy Kong as Naga The White Serpent (Princess Gracia Ul Naga Saillune)

#candy kong #Donkey Kong Country #Donkey Kong 64 #donkey kong #naga the serpent #slayers

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kaette-kita-slayers · 6 years

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New Novel Ch.2 (Part 1)

(Part 2) (Part 3)

I don't have my copy of the magazine yet, but I've gotten an early start thanks to scans of the next installment by Shansito (kindly shared by Gruic)!

Here's the first scene:

Lina slows down and follows Gourry's gaze, trying to see what he was talking about. There are sunbeams peeking through the trees here and there, but those only make it more difficult to see into the shadows. She can't see anyone, but now that she thinks about it, something doesn't feel right, and besides, she knows that Gourry wouldn't be mistaken.

Both of them stand still, and Lina calls out to the unseen person.

"Good job out there! We've met before, haven't we?" I shouted.

The atmosphere changed. They probably thought---earlier and this time, too---that we hadn't noticed them.

"We know you're no ordinary bandits! But going by the fact that you've kept on messing with Atessa... Are you really after that?!"

She's bluffing, figuring that they'll take her statement one of three ways. They'll probably ignore it if they assume that it's either a bluff or that Lina really does know what they're doing. But if they think that Lina has information they don't and made a mistake based on that, then they might do something unexpected.

A man calls out, asking what she's talking about, and there's motion in the shadows of the forest as five figures reveal themselves. All of them are wearing dark green, with bits of sandy-colored cloth, completely covered so that only their eyes are showing, and even there, they have mud or sap from some plant smeared around them to hide the skin. They're camouflaged well for hiding among the trees, although they're quite obvious as soon as they step away from them, and Lina is aware that there might still be more of them lurking. It's impossible to tell anything about them, including age and gender.

Lina hears the same voice as before, again asking what she knows, and she can now see that it belongs to the one standing on the far right. He sounds like a man, though Lina can't tell whether he's speaking normally or trying to disguise his voice.

"You already know," I said.

"Just say it."

"You're not acting like you want an answer from me. Now, if you offer me a hundred gold coins and bow to me and say 'Please tell me, I beg of you', then I---"

Cutting me off, one of the others, on the left, stuck out his right arm, with close to ten Flare Arrows appearing from his palm. He must have used our conversation to hide that he was quietly chanting a spell!

Lina and Gourry quickly leap away in opposite directions. The Flare Arrows hit the ground where they had been and explode, burning the grass and moss and filling the air with smoke.

Lina finds herself separated from Gourry, unable to see. She can hear the sound of steel clashing against steel beyond the cloud of smoke, meaning that he must be fighting.

Lina starts to prepare for battle, but the enemy gets there first. Dodging a sword thrust at her, she jumps back, reaching for her own sword and beginning to chant a spell. A single figure with a faintly glowing sword emerges from the smoke, pressing the attack. Lina draws her short sword and parries.

Lina finishes her spell, but then she senses something familiar. Giving up on the first spell, she spins around and takes off running at top speed, beginning to chant another spell. Her enemy catches up almost instantly, though, and tries to knee her. Lina jumps backward to dodge, but that leaves her with her back against a tree, her opponent staring her in the face.

As her opponent lunges for her, Lina fires off a customized Lighting spell, one that sacrifices duration of effect in order to produce a blinding level of brightness. Unfortunately, if Lina's guess about the enemy is correct, it won't work, so she again runs, preparing another spell.

Lina hears the sound of something moving through the air and is stopped short. On the ground, she can see a small knife stuck into her shadow, so she casts Lighting a second time to break the Shadow Snap.

Lina again faces off against her opponent, but then a loud whistle echoes through the woods, and all the people who had been fighting her and Gourry run away, deeper into the forest. Lina assumes that they must have had a sixth person standing watch, who whistled to signal them to leave.

Gourry asks if she wants to pursue them, but Lina doesn't, since they're dealing with too many people, all of who seem to know their way around the forest. Walking over to Gourry, she wonders what prompted them to retreat.

The two of them are looking around, trying to find an answer, when two men appear from the direction of one of the main roads. They're obviously official soldiers from somewhere, wearing identical sets of sturdy silver armor that reflect little flashes of light as they walk through the sunbeams.

One of the soldiers demands to know who they are and who they were fighting, meaning that they must have heard the sounds of combat while passing by and come to investigate the situation. Presumably, the "bandits" wanted to avoid them.

To show that they don't mean any harm, Gourry sheathes his sword and Lina puts her arms up. Lina explains that they were hired as guards in Atessa, and that they had been fighting bandits who fled when the soldiers arrived. She suggests that they confirm her story in Atessa.

Speaking in low voices, the soldiers briefly confer, then announce to Lina and Gourry that they want the two of them to accompany them to Atessa. They also tell Lina that she doesn't need to keep her hands up, but she'd better not do anything funny, either.

Lina and Gourry follow the men out of the woods onto the highway, where they can see dozens of soldiers standing in formation around three carriages and two wagons, all of which are finely made. Lina raises her voice and asks if there's someone important there. The soldier refuses to answer, telling her that they want to confirm her story first. However...

One of the small windows on the carriage opened up, and suddenly, a face peeked out.

"Lina! And Mr. Gourry, too! I thought I heard your voice!"

"Long time, no see!"

"Oh, it's been a while."

Hearing us exchange greetings, Soldier Number One was stunned.

The door of the carriage opened with a click, and a girl emerged, dressed in white ceremonial garb.

"Hey, stop! You're going to cause trouble for your guards, you know. We'll talk when we get to the city, okay, Miss Amelia?"

"Just Amelia is fine, Lina! See you later, then!" she said with a bright smile, and withdrew back into the carriage.

The soldiers were still dumbfounded. After a short pause, Soldier Number One, who was standing next to us, turned to stare at me in shock, with stiff movements that caused his armor to make screeching sounds, and said, "Do you... know each other...?"

"Kind of," I said with a wink.

Amelia, the princess of Saillune, is a little younger than Lina, with a face that hasn't quite matured yet, and she specializes in barehanded combat despite being proficient in both shamanistic and white magic. Lina thinks back to how she and Amelia had traveled together---as friends and allies, not as a princess and her guards---before Amelia returned to Saillune.

Lina and Gourry had become acquainted with various members of Saillune's royal family and their associates, so when Lina saw the emblems on the soldiers' armor and then the large group assembled, she thought that there might be someone she knew there. She was deliberately loud when speaking to the soldier, hoping that someone might recognize her voice, but she hadn't expected Amelia herself to be there.

Lina and Gourry make their way back to Atessa, along with Amelia and her soldiers.

Notes

1. I couldn't think of a way to show it in the translation, but when the soldier asks Lina if she knows Amelia, he shifts from informal to more polite speech halfway through, now that he knows Lina and Gourry are Amelia's friends.

2. Interesting that Amelia is now younger than Lina. Influence from the anime, I guess?

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