#underacheeiver

Well, I don't know about things that aren't replicated--There might be little things. But there's something human Randy has, even after becoming a Mew, that Mo didn't know about. :>

second:

the circumstances of scourge's death feel almost poetic. he was probably used to cats underestimating him due to his size, but firestar was fighting him as though he were the massive dog of his nightmares. i wonder if that contributed to his defeat.

i can't wait to see the fallout of this. you've mentioned wanting to highlight the problems of firestar's ascension to leadership so young, and with the rest of the book to go, unless scourge's more devoted followers stage some sort of revenge, it seems the rest of the book is perfectly suited to explore this.

regardless of what happens next, i am very, very excited, and immensely pleased with what was written so far.

This is such a relief to hear, you have no idea. I say with no exaggeration that this book caused the most panic, stress and preemptive terror of any of the projects I have worked on in my life. I was fully expecting people to get to this chapter and absolutely hate it. I had no faith at all in my work here. It was an extremely mentally and emotionally taxing book.

Aww, this is lovely. I've honestly been so uncertain if I should keep bringing Spottedleaf up in these books, because she really only did feature in half of one at the very beginning. But she left such an impact on Firestar as the first dead body he's ever seen, as well as being one of his biggest supporters back when he first joined the Clans. It's a difficult thing. I didn't even know if anyone misses her, outside of the story.

Lynx found exactly what I was talking about! They're called Precious Moments.

oohohhh yess.........

most of their functions that were kept up by code degraded over time, and their ancients didn't really. care about it. it never affected them and would've only done so after the mass ascension.

they have to manually manage their functions and stuff, which they can only do because the self-mod taboo also degraded over time to the point where they can modify their own code to fix it. otherwise, when they can't exactly fix anything by themself, one of their citizens - the mechanics kid, seven leaves in an oasis - got left behind and stayed with them, helping them out and learning along the way. eventually when they couldn't stay functional anymore, the mechanic's kid had learned a bunch about bio-engineering and the like from hearing binary infodump about their interests - and offered to make an organic body for them using their own genome, but modify it to binary's own liking.

binary was - hesitant. at first. but it was better than slowly dying to your own code degrading to the point you could no longer function, so they reluncantly accepted it. being the crafty little fuck (/pos) that oasis was, they'd found a way to make it feel nearly the same as hb's puppet.