Frostweaver
Ancient + Prehistoric
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- Age 36
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- Seen Sep 12, 2016
@ TTYO
Err another digi-poke crossover? I dunno... those are hard to stand out. The witch idea is actually quite pleasing. You don't HAVE to follow history's suite in such a strict manner you know. It's your fanfic, meaning that you can twist things around to your appeal.
Now as your loyal fanfic supporter, Oni, who keeps nagging you all day long, tonight I'll do the same ;p LONG REVIEW.
@ Call of Dragons
-now this grammatical mistake is beginning to repeat itself too often...
"Nina muttered as she broke the silence between her and Dennis."
In cases like this, it's always the 2nd person going first in an And clause, then the subject of the sentence. The logic works just like "me and Dennis," when it should be "Dennis and me." So, it should be...
"Nina muttered as she broke the silence between Dennis and her."
(a very hard mistake to pick out, as I didn't even know of it until my english teacher told me this year... good way to avoid this easy trap is to say "Nina muttered as she broke the silence between the two of them." XD)
-once again we see a nice job of Nina being very consistent with her personality, as she continues on with those naggings and pleading XD
-on the other hand, sadly, we don't see as much consistency with Dennis. Even though he's always at a bad temper now (which is an improvement), in the Dream Sequence he's still the perfect man o.o; dream or not dream, that should not be happening, or at least give some transition. More rant about the Dream Sequence later...
-now I hereby confirm that all ladies in Call of Dragons will always crumble down in tears waiting for the nearest male being to lend a shoulder XD; meh my biased self for liking blue as my favorite manga character still thinks that Blue is unusually dependent on everyone else... this one maybe because that I'm biased... thought Blue will do a little better than that, kids or no kids >_>; Either way, this trend is starting to become a little of a problem, as now if I strip off all the physical descriptions of Yellow, Blue and Nina, and swap all of their lines around, you won't even realize that I swapped them because their teary personality is pretty much identical. Nina is a little better due to the pleading nature, but then Blue and Yellow are identical twins so far... other minor personality (doesn't even necessarily have to be plot-breaking) being added to Blue and Yellow will help with this problem.
-Silver also suffers the "I'm easily emotionally affected and I'll probably cry if a bad news hit me" dilemma. He seemed too cool in the manga to frown and sigh and feel guilty *that* easily, especially since you added a cold and frightening first image to him when the gang is on the way to Saffron from Cerulean. Back then he sounded so all knowing and just know exactly what's going on, but then feel too cool for the party to tell them everything. Now he's just another helpless ordinary citizen... o.o;
-small note regarding realism, but news will never say the army just disappeared like that in a flash. When everyone's eyes are on them, the news will certainly follow the armies tight enough to find out that the Machops got their sad behinds handed to them.
-the scene of Vincent and Dennis is strange but not wrong either... the scenery around him is of a fairy tale state, so we expect good stuff to happen (and that is fulfilled with the upcoming Dream Sequence). However, at the same time we see Dennis being greatly annoyed by Vincent's barrage of questions, which contradicts the setting. So the setting is half fulfilled and half contradicted. It's weird.
-We see Dream Sequence #3, which again I had plenty to rant about
a) I'm still feeling goosepumps when the spirit says those "I never had a feeling for mortal before" stuff, especially since it's so repeated. Repeating is fine since it represents that the line is very important, which is obvious, but then the corniness so kills me x_x;
b) now plot flaw... the spirit has "feelings" for Dennis, yet asks stuff about love (aka "feeling"), which seems rather contradicting. Either have her know what's love, or don't let her know anything about it. She's so certain that she got moved and has "feelings" for him, yet has no idea what's love like. It's rather strange and highly awkward, making the spirit look like a Psyduck incarnation.
c) now that the spirit is named Naomi, she's on a one way trip to "fanfic sainthood." With a name meaning "my blessing," "my pleasantness" and "step mother," instantly we know taht the spirit is on Dennis's side. Not necessarily the good side, but Dennis's side. A very nice name chosen for a character once again, and that's 2 in a row ^_^ Very nice job to use a name as character description.
Err another digi-poke crossover? I dunno... those are hard to stand out. The witch idea is actually quite pleasing. You don't HAVE to follow history's suite in such a strict manner you know. It's your fanfic, meaning that you can twist things around to your appeal.
Now as your loyal fanfic supporter, Oni, who keeps nagging you all day long, tonight I'll do the same ;p LONG REVIEW.
@ Call of Dragons
-now this grammatical mistake is beginning to repeat itself too often...
"Nina muttered as she broke the silence between her and Dennis."
In cases like this, it's always the 2nd person going first in an And clause, then the subject of the sentence. The logic works just like "me and Dennis," when it should be "Dennis and me." So, it should be...
"Nina muttered as she broke the silence between Dennis and her."
(a very hard mistake to pick out, as I didn't even know of it until my english teacher told me this year... good way to avoid this easy trap is to say "Nina muttered as she broke the silence between the two of them." XD)
-once again we see a nice job of Nina being very consistent with her personality, as she continues on with those naggings and pleading XD
-on the other hand, sadly, we don't see as much consistency with Dennis. Even though he's always at a bad temper now (which is an improvement), in the Dream Sequence he's still the perfect man o.o; dream or not dream, that should not be happening, or at least give some transition. More rant about the Dream Sequence later...
-now I hereby confirm that all ladies in Call of Dragons will always crumble down in tears waiting for the nearest male being to lend a shoulder XD; meh my biased self for liking blue as my favorite manga character still thinks that Blue is unusually dependent on everyone else... this one maybe because that I'm biased... thought Blue will do a little better than that, kids or no kids >_>; Either way, this trend is starting to become a little of a problem, as now if I strip off all the physical descriptions of Yellow, Blue and Nina, and swap all of their lines around, you won't even realize that I swapped them because their teary personality is pretty much identical. Nina is a little better due to the pleading nature, but then Blue and Yellow are identical twins so far... other minor personality (doesn't even necessarily have to be plot-breaking) being added to Blue and Yellow will help with this problem.
-Silver also suffers the "I'm easily emotionally affected and I'll probably cry if a bad news hit me" dilemma. He seemed too cool in the manga to frown and sigh and feel guilty *that* easily, especially since you added a cold and frightening first image to him when the gang is on the way to Saffron from Cerulean. Back then he sounded so all knowing and just know exactly what's going on, but then feel too cool for the party to tell them everything. Now he's just another helpless ordinary citizen... o.o;
-small note regarding realism, but news will never say the army just disappeared like that in a flash. When everyone's eyes are on them, the news will certainly follow the armies tight enough to find out that the Machops got their sad behinds handed to them.
-the scene of Vincent and Dennis is strange but not wrong either... the scenery around him is of a fairy tale state, so we expect good stuff to happen (and that is fulfilled with the upcoming Dream Sequence). However, at the same time we see Dennis being greatly annoyed by Vincent's barrage of questions, which contradicts the setting. So the setting is half fulfilled and half contradicted. It's weird.
-We see Dream Sequence #3, which again I had plenty to rant about
a) I'm still feeling goosepumps when the spirit says those "I never had a feeling for mortal before" stuff, especially since it's so repeated. Repeating is fine since it represents that the line is very important, which is obvious, but then the corniness so kills me x_x;
b) now plot flaw... the spirit has "feelings" for Dennis, yet asks stuff about love (aka "feeling"), which seems rather contradicting. Either have her know what's love, or don't let her know anything about it. She's so certain that she got moved and has "feelings" for him, yet has no idea what's love like. It's rather strange and highly awkward, making the spirit look like a Psyduck incarnation.
c) now that the spirit is named Naomi, she's on a one way trip to "fanfic sainthood." With a name meaning "my blessing," "my pleasantness" and "step mother," instantly we know taht the spirit is on Dennis's side. Not necessarily the good side, but Dennis's side. A very nice name chosen for a character once again, and that's 2 in a row ^_^ Very nice job to use a name as character description.