Chapter 5, Page 17
[Archived NetMail / Dr. Hastings’ Personal Files]
[Dated: Eleven Years Ago]
Beverly,
I’ve looked over the first draft of your thesis last weekend. Your dissertation is very interesting, though I feel a great deal of it is based entirely on your personal—and very passionate—beliefs on the subject. Though I wish all of my students shared your passion, I suggest settling on a more scientific approach, backed with research and verified data, to prove the point you’re arguing. I believe this would be invaluable in streamlining your paper and validating your argument that humanity is both the greatest threat to marine life and the planet, as a whole. Respectable effort on the early draft, there is no shortage of potential here. Once revised it could be very persuasive. (A thesis like this, coupled with your talents, might very well earn you a position with Nex Coast in a few years.) I do think some of the genetic manipulation points you make could be omitted. They delve a bit to far into what some may consider outside ethical practices.
Markin Resco
Marine Biology Department
Silica University
Danger Zone One. Story by Midnight. Art by Salaiix.
NOOOOOO!!!! You killed Subject 37!
He was gonna make beautiful shark babies with Reena and Madison!
Now my fanfic is ruined!
Don’t bet on it.
It would not surprise me one bit if Subject 37 is quite capable of regrowing a head.
So, am I to assume our cast has now doubled in size?
TL;DR character summaries:
ninjabitch (name TBA): “I am the product of generations of tradition, and I kill for honor.”
merc-chick (name TBA): “Honor won’t put food on the table or champagne in the glass. I kill for money, but when I’m bought I stay bought.”
Madison (the cynical veteran):”They all say they stay bought, but nobody ever succeeds. Money to too corrosive an influence, I’ve seen it all before. I kill because its cheaper than housing those crooks and they’ll just get out of jail on technicalities anyway.”
Reena (the bright-eyed newbie): I’m going Great Things in the name of Truth and Justice, and I only kill when I have to. I believe that everything is Awesome and will work out in the end!”
Okay it took me a month’s worth of updates to figure out that the person I was tagging as “merc-chick” wasn’t a fourth person also dropped in to solve this little lab problem, but was actually Madison herself. So, the cast is only 150% larger not 200%. I lost track of when she got free/separated from Reena. That’s the problem with reading this as its released online; the story would flow well in a binge-read or a physical compilation (buy one if you can!) but reading as-it-goes makes for a glacial pace! I read over 80 webcomics every week, its easy to drop stitches in the meantime…
And now burn the whole thing up. Or continue slicing and dicing until small enough to be cooked..
Nope, lost me here. Bullets do not work, an explosion in its fucking mouth does not work. A bloody sword swung by a woman is not going to do anything.
Suspension if disbelief is the main thing in these shindigs. Oh well.
I’m guessing the “absurdly sharp blade” trope is at play, also wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not just any ordinary sword.
You do understand, that bullets are blunt-force kinetic damage, similar to explosives: something that is resilient to bullets can be very vulnerable to a blade