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[Javier Cross]

X_of_Pentacles

Javier Cross

Care to add more to the matter?

Its Badass, then again, Haseo happens to be Badass regardless of which of the 4 Major forms you'd gun for, is he not?(Your take on 1st Form Haseo kind of reminds me of the G.U+ Manga's take on 1st form Haseo to boot, actually!)

Funny enough, stop me if you heard this one before, but the CyberConnect(CC) Corporation of the dot hack universe would remind Potter-world fans of the Ministry of Magic if they even had a modicum of a decent glimpse at the common grounds they'd share, yes?
No? lol blaugh

I kid you not about that, and neither would Dual Gunner X about this if he accepted the offer to join up.

P.S: Granted, Harry Dresden from the Dresden Files(by Jim Butcher) is more Badass overall, not gonna lie, there's always something about the (former) Terror of Death that tends to keep me around for more from time to time, would you believe me on this?
Kind of like how I'm actually very much aware that Dresden himself may be more heroic than Harry James Potter actually, but there's always something or another leading to yet more things that keeps me around for more on Potter's life among other things, is there not?


Where to begin on this. sweatdrop xp

I've heard a few theories related to Pokemon, where Ash is in a coma, and always figured Harry Potter would go the same route. Real life sucks, so instead of continually hoping to fight the system, he goes with the flow and a .Hack character like Haseo would result, not unlike Tsukasa.

They both feature magic, adventure, high-fantasy related things. CC Corp did do an excellent job covering the viruses up, but while they share similar ground, I've never felt the Ministry of Magic really cared to solve problems if they could continue keeping the peace. Harry Potter was a brat that would have prevented the cover-up, so they actually did something only when over-reacting was perfectly reasonable. CC corp covered up only what they must and tried preventive tactics, rather then reactive tactics. Their shared ground ends when it comes to their differing philosophies on society and keeping an economy running.

Sadly, I've never read Harry Potter and _____, for the main character. No matter how deep his character building was, he seemed two dimensional for most of those books. James has more character and charisma in those flashbacks then Harry in the first three books. I've only seen a few Dresden episodes, but I was never hooked. The plot was decent, but I stayed for the supernatural occurrences. The books look interesting. Badass-ness has never really kept me hooked. Angel had vampires, .Hack had awesome plots and character design, Adventures of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac had all the insanity that Invader Zim held, plus a little more for adult humor.

I will admit I prefer the earlier .Hack/GU to the later episodes. The mystery and suspense that the episodes held would have me spending hours playing catch up when I finally found it. He wasn't cocky. I liked that. The latter episodes made me wonder how they didn't hit him every so often.

Heh, truth be told I could actually imagine the idea of Potter + Haseo actually being buddies if they ever met, it could actually happen, you know, with interactions and everything. (Hey, if Hermione + Pi and Ginny + Atoli share legitimate common grounds with each other, it'd be more difficult to fathom why would they not rather than why would they, actually!)
Granted, Haseo's more immediately violent but he can weaponize his anger correctly, at least, must be to do with the fact he wasn't necessarily surrounded by idiots 24/7(DANG YOU DURSLEYS!!!!), at least not without publicly lampshading the fact for just as often, right?
I feel something's horribly wrong when we don't see Potter do so, very often in general, right? gonk

The themes in both would be the most blatant in terms of legitimate common grounds with each other, no doubt about that, I wouldn't be surprised if the two were spiritual cousins committing cousin-on-cousin sexual incest and BlazBlue was the result when it was taken up via Guilty Gear, actually.(BlazBlue + Guilty Gear are both from Ark System Works, actually, so this makes sense!Don't get me started with how Guilty Gear + The Dresden Files share common grounds with each other either, and not just the themes only!)
The theme of love is always an imperatively common theme both the Potter-world + the dot hack universe shared especially speaking, underneath all the Supernatural content both share among other things.

So there's more content to discuss than just all the similarities + differences that the MoM + CC Corp would have with each other than meets the eye, and we're each only scratching the surface at best, right? eek '
The Shacklebolt-Era(which the Potter-world Role-plays are starting at, except its just 5-6 years after Voldemort's demise!) is working to remedy the matter overall, and time will tell whether or not they will succeed at it, will it not?
Who knows?
Maybe there's less needs for cover-ups overall compared to the Fudge-Era British MoM, hopefully speaking.

You gotta admit and give credit where its due, Potter himself became a functioning MAN in The Deathly Hallows kind of like when Haseo finally became a Man as of G.U Volume 03: Redemption or the final 2 Graphic Novel volumes of the G.U+ Manga, did he not? emotion_dealwithit

The Dresden Files TV series happened to be at least inspired by the novels by Jim Butcher, they're a World of Badass and speaking of Angel, one of the cast members from the Buffy + Angel shows(James Marsters, AKA the guy who played Spike in both) happens to be doing the Audiobooks for the Dresden Files novels, actually.
I might have to give Adventures of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac a shot to watch, sometime. smile

The 1st two dot hack eras(R:1/Virus Core/IMOQ era where dot hack//SIGN + the Legend of the Twilight Bracelet Manga took place and the R:2/G.U era where dot hack//Roots happened in particular respectively) are Epicness Incarnate, its pretty dang hard to try to readjust to the dot hack universe beyond those two eras with the R: X(where dot hack Quantum takes place, and brings us Pi back) and Force:Eras take place, is it not?
Working on it, but its not easy.

I kid you not with the legitimate common grounds that Ginny + Atoli share with each other, its a big deal for me, actually. crying (WickedREMY would be aware of the fact, and it generally turns me into the Nickname only REMY would know in some respects!)

Funnier still, I noted that Potter + Haseo actually share some common grounds with each other as Scott Pilgrim(from the world of the same name by Bryan Lee O' Malley) + Travis Touchdown(No More Heroes universe) share said common grounds, the difference between Potter + Scott and Haseo + Travis is that the latter two did enough to make Potter + Scott look like the sanest and most rational people alive, in fact.
I wonder why. sweatdrop  

[Javier Cross]

X_of_Pentacles

Javier Cross

....a really long post that would form it's own quote tower.

Provided Harry Potter's world welcomed electronics, I wouldn't be surprised at all. They share common interests, get sucked into assisting with the same goals (Harry didn't have to save the world. Another good manipulator does their job.), and are up for exploring. Potter might not be able to vent anyway in the society he's chosen to survive in as it would be frowned upon, regardless of dullards raising him. The themes share common ground in their story basis of the Hero's tale, so there'd be very little in group fighting. If Haseo could have become King, he'd have fulfilled the epic quest plot. As it is, people run when they see him.

As I've only played guilty Gear on the DS, I can't really hold an opinion to the ark system short of pad directions and their wonky design. Jumping is a real pain, though I doubt that's part of the Ark system. I do notice Dresden and Guilty Gear do share supernatural themes, but there's no real case work I think. Beat 'em and knock 'em out. Twice. ;D Love is a common denominator regardless of the situation, and I do believe it ruins some plots. Even childhood shows like Winnie the Pooh thrive on love though. Teen angst and drama just fit the themes that Rowling and .Hack needed to tie everything together, as failing to include it would make both worlds quests and resulting causalities (Down a twin, some uncles, wonderful friends) meaningless.


I have every expectation that the public will demand less cover ups in the wizarding world and those in the elite directly involved in the higher ranks. Shacklebolt could be expected to release far more information then he's comfortable with, not just because Voldemort may still be believed to be alive and well depending on how rural an individual lives, but there's far more scrutiny on Shacklebolt.
Both main characters did their fair share of Growing up, but while Haseo learned what his priorities were and played for the fun, Harry Potter resides in a world where immaturity plays a role in spells. It'd explain the moving pictures, which seem useful at first, but fail to explain why no a batch of wand users experienced in the art of body language miss the fact they've locked up an innocent man. He grows up some, but I have the feeling reality sucks as soon as they leave Hogwarts.

Spike, towards the end, was the only character worth watching. Angel started strong and went through so many improbable circumstances, even in a supernatural realm, that he wasn't believable in the end. Spike's character gained a personality, while Angel just turned into a lost child. XD

Johnny comes in comic book form, but I picked up my copy at Hot Topic. Try a book store and custom order? I doubt it'd be on the shelves as a popular shojo manga and there's not a mutant ability in sight so you won't find it by X-Men. Fair warning to you however; Death, Trips to hell, Blood, torture, and death of a salesman are to be expected. The wall needs fresh blood or the tentacle monster comes out and aims to kill.

Perhaps Quantum was simply a parallel world. Multiple Universes, with fate being decided by a flip of a coin. Heads, Haseo decides to play for fun after it all. Tails, he leaves the game behind for the real world.

Ginny and Atoli struck me as very clever and quick thinking, so I'm sure they'd get along well. Accepting a situation and working around it; or failing to see a benefit, force changes to the original situation towards their favor. Often in dire circumstances that involve helping out of the goodness of their hearts provided the end result is favorable and heals more then hurts. Not every character has that ambition. (Summer Wars comes to mind)

It was all about the situation I suppose. Crazy situations lead to crazy solutions. I've only heard about Scott, but I was always more of an anti-hero fan. They seemed more down to earth. Potter and Scott would have simply lived by the phrase, "If you want to look thin, surround yourself with fat friends.". All Potter would have had to do to appear more mature and sane(Despite his background) is surround himself with crazy people. As mature as Hermione was, she was booksmart up until the 3rd book, and her lack of real world experience showed. Potter and his exploits would seem far cooler in comparison.

If there was a tipping option in group posts, you'd get tipped already, truth be told.
In a way, its kind of like a form of Chaos Theory except its targeting more than just two individual people, places or things, is it not?
Both the Potter-world + the dot hack universe deal with a lot of things worth noting, which makes it all the more fun to learn about the more further the both of them get explored, right? n_n'
As much as I hate to say this, you may have a point with the lack of chances for Potter to successfully vent it out on deserving targets
Its a wonder how people like Atoli even have the courage to not run from Haseo outright just from the mere sight of him, she deserves kudos for it considering that either she might have been in a coma all along and someone like Ginny resulted or it could have been the other way around, who can say?
I know I can't.

There's actually quite a bit more to the Dresden Files + Guilty Gear than just that, but given that I'd be unable to get surprised outright if the Dresden Files was a Spiritual Predecessor to Guilty Gear, I'm not sure where to begin on the legitimate common grounds via themes other than that both series are also another fine example of Chaos Theory at work in some form.(No two things are ever 100% alike, they may be the same kind of thing, but not the exact same thing!) both actually have complex storylines of their own as it turns out, but themes aside storylines aren't the 1st to come in mind and Badassitude's the most obvious thing for both to note.(Not to say there's no legitimacy, but still...)

Indeed, it still startled me whenever I got to think about the fact that Sakubo + The Weasley Twins were just twins at 1st, only(sooner in Sakubo's case, later in the Weasley Twins' own) for the half of the pair of twins to wind up dead whenever I had to think about it in retrospect.

Well either way, its a safe bet to imagine the Post-Voldemortian Wars Potter-world citizens to strive to get more involved with matters, and you can be willing to bet at the very least that even if there's no Combat-Orientated supplimentary side-stories meant to discuss the things between the end of the war and The Punilogue(which is my nickname for the all-too-puny-for-anyone's-tastes-epilogue!), those matters are going to be dwelled on quite a bit with this group, and in the long run of the thing those would be side-stories at best with the overall major plots going on, which I'll hope we can get to at an eventual point if enough members join in. smile

Still you gotta admit, Angel gives it all or nothing where it counts and when it matters, right?(Spike's still a Badass no matter what, though!)

That kind of sounds like an even more violent version of a lot of the events in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle in a way, you sure you kid us not about that? o.O'

Well either way, don't expect the 'Former' Terror of Death to make a direct appearance in the mini-series and just be glad that Pi herself might be in it at the very least, okay?(Which kind of reminds me of the Potter-world role-play projects we have to kickstart when more Potter-world role-players in particular are gathered, in a way!)

Ginny + Atoli actually mean well in the things they tend to do, the main overall difference between the two that's to come immediately to mind would lie in overall temperments in personality, Atoli's Cold, Ginny's Hot, pretty much.
There's more to it than just that, but that's part of the basics that the two are even more blatant examples of Chaos Theory being applied at the individual degree than Hermione + Pi are, although jury's still out on if its higher overall than what the MoM + CC Corp would have with each other, actually.

Speaking of Ginny + Atoli, there's plenty of room in discussion in this thread, I'm sure!

I wish to go have a look at Summer Wars for consideration one of these days, in that case. smile

Indeed, you have a point there, I suppose that's part of the reason why Scott Pilgrim's sociopathy potency seemed hidden even from himself while Potter admittedly didn't seem...right in the head to the point he'd beat himself up worse than any of my role-play party members would have done outside of Survivor's Guilt!-related circumstances.
So that might also partially explain why the sudden Badass decay and/or Skill Nerf in Hermione that was there from Books 05-06 until the 2nd half of The Deathly Hallows for the most part, right? confused
Interesting.

I even noted that elsewhere, there's even applications of Chaos Theory if one takes to account Madoka Magica + Dragon Age with the Puella Magi from Madoka Magica + The Grey Wardens of Dragon Age, or with the Amell Warden Candidate's cousin in the Player!-Hawke(to some meaningful degree as I'd agree with Dual Gunner X) and Ragna the Bloodedge(no matter which version of Player!-Hawke we went with!), given that both apparently were said to have a notorious kombat record in-universe, both have One-Man Army potency albeit Ragna's case is confirmed and both had to deal with when they either have to side with the surviving sibling or against said sibling outright, among other things.
I can definitely fathom Chaos Theory ensuring with Ragna's sister in Saya and Player!-Hawke's sister in Bethany, Pre-event where Ragna lost his original Arm, that is.(Because at the end of Continnum Shift they showed a plot twist with Saya involved and I am not gonna say it!)
While I still believe Ragna's cooler(don't get me wrong) the parallels are still somewhat visible to me.(Ragna also has some parallels with Haseo + Potter to varying extents, the latter is due to fighting a proverbal snake-inspired enemy who may as well be akin to Louis Cypher in some extent or another and the former is because of a lot of krap they went through, plus the nods on Noel that I am noting right now at the bottom!)

I even noted common grounds that the likes of Noel Vermillion from the BlazBlue universe might also share with Ginny + Atoli to some extent or another, except as REMY pointed out, Noel seems healthier in terms of stability overall.
Was it because she grew up as a Military Brat of sorts?