User blog:DiamondHound/The Fiction (an Introduction)

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On an aside before I begin, does anyone know how to fix that thing this is doing? Where it just suddenly changes the way I'm typing to backwards? Like, trying to type "Good" ended with "dooG." While I appreciate the thing acknowledging that I am a dog (sans the extra O) ​​I dislike having to fiddle with the text bar to get it to revert to normalcy.

Anyway. Onwards with tonight's subject: What I plan for my literature on this site.

So I'll begin with the first idea I had. It's... different.

This requires some pretext. So, I am rather knowedgable about the​​ culture of firearms in the US. I know, a lot of you just put on a strange face and thought 'okay what?' and 'don't tell me.' In that order. Probably.​​ But don't tune me out, just wait. It gets better.

So, at least in the US, those of us that partake in the gun culture really... really... really like our guns. I've often compared it to cars, Barbie dolls, so on. Generally, we hunt, target shoot, trap shoot, so on, with the firearms that we own, and after a while, you know, we start to think of ways to make them really do the job right. Like, a competition-worthy gun, or the flat-shooting deer dropper this side of the Hemisphere. To put it very simply, we really love our guns. We mod (modify) them up, break 'em down, and often treat them like an extension of ourselves.

Now, Lamias may be very cross with someone like that, but I took the time to imagine an MG-verse that's set just a little bit... a lotta bit into the future, where the MGs emerge again to a considerably more advanced world, with these things called firearms. Now, if you've ever watched an action movie, you know what guns do when fired at something fleshy, like a human. Or watermelon. Not pretty. As Mamono have an extreme aversion to killing, and their weapons (where applicable) are noted to be non-fatal, you can imagine that, if they could, they'd get rid of firearms entirely. Which would be... difficult, if we use today's climate as an example.

I know, I know, politics, but let's ignore that and focus on the clingy-ness to weaponry.

I have no doubt that, should a Mamono be married to a gentleman that likes his toys loud and magazine-fed, she'd pull a few strings (and ropes, I suppose) to get him to do away with it. Given that, if at least one were sympathetic to her husband's hobby (so long as it didn't interfere with their sex life, as if it ever would) she might try to find a way to let him have his cake and eat it, as well.

To be honest, I've had this idea for a long time. It's that I couldn't figure out a way to make it mesh with the 'killing isn't that big of a thing here' and the natural aversion to killing MGs we all have.

... some of us, anyway.

That is, until the Second World Guide dropped, and I saw Demon Realm Silver. Oh boy... So my first thought was to make the ammo itself created from an alloy of copper and DRS, which, as quoted, would make the 'mana wounds' instead of actual wounds. Drain them of energy instead of blood, you understand. The next thought was to have the weapons made (at least in part) out of DRS alloys, and... it kind of went on from there.

I found out I had created an entire line of non-fatal weaponry, and had to give them a name. Just 'Guns' didn't do them justice, so I started calling them DM Guns, or Demonic Mana guns, since their creation includes infusing them with Demonic Mana so that they can function, and do some... other things.

So, following that, we have non-fatal weaponry that drains mana instead of cause serious damage, and is more than likely going to be produced for the husbands of Mamono, or those that just want to have a DM gun.

Then I wondered what I would do with something like that.

Hmmhm. <3

I'll have the first chapter up in a week or two, hopefully. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions.

~ Hound out.