The Dark Lords of Nerima, Chapter Twelve [R/SM cross]

[yakumo fujii]

Heh heh. Yes, you're absolutely right. The tricky part is, I can't diverge my themes too far either. "SM, except with the authorities actually taking action like they normally would" is pretty much a full fic idea unto itself. Throwing too many changes into the basic setup runs the risk of blunting the overall thrust of the piece.

So, if anything, I'll just throw some excuses around for why they didn't. I can probably get a fair bit of mileage just out of the simple "it's Nerima!" excuse. The "everyone knows they're all crazy there, and have these fantastical fights, so everyone just stays out of their way" kind of thing.

Either way, I'm trying to conform to the canon "feel" as much as possible, when it doesn't get in my way--and, of course, the cops are never really a solution to any of their problems in either story...

If you go that way I'll be fine with it, I just want to use this opportunity to note that I think the Nerima Wrecking Crew's (and where did that nickname come from?) reputation for collateral damage is a bit exaggerated. They usually throw down in an abandoned lot, a school field or out in the mountains. Usually the most that will happen is some walls get crushed. The worst damage that I recall was by Taro when he'd transform and take out a roof. I don't think they ever caused anywhere close to as much damage as portrayed in your fic or innumerable others. On the other hand it's been a couple of years since I've read the manga straight through, so maybe I'm completely wrong on this.

[Spokavriel]

Don't forget that the damages of these groups are most likely cumulative if not exponentially additive. Meaning you start out with the NWC damages then for every crack they would have caused drop in Senshi damage now for all the devistation from that add in the multiplication factor of just how many more monsters were involved. ((Similar to the difference between normal Jubaan fights and going against the DD Girls before Beryl)) All told that area came off light.

[claymade]

Definitely agree that this was atypical damage for a normal NWC romp. Usually, as you say, it's at most a few walls and such. Still, no one ever seems to come after the for it, and they do it pretty often, so I'm hoping to extrapolate it to a more general attitude of "keep your head down and your insurance paid up" to such rumbles.

I agree, however, that as you note, given what we see in the series, the above attitude still operating at the levels of damage in this chapter is not so much a "fact, demanded by canon", but rather an "excuse, hopefully compliant with canon" to explain why the cops or the JSDF don't get called in.

And yes, the more different combatants you add, the greater the damage potential grows--particularly when it's differing types of combatants whose abilities have the potential to interact in various explosive ways...

[yakumo fujii]

Definitely agree that this was atypical damage for a normal NWC romp. Usually, as you say, it's at most a few walls and such. Still, no one ever seems to come after the for it, and they do it pretty often, so I'm hoping to extrapolate it to a more general attitude of "keep your head down and your insurance paid up" to such rumbles.

Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson are on the case!

[Spokavriel]

Oooh that could be fun. A Trigun Cameo of the Bernard Daley Insurance girls.

[yakumo fujii]

After rereading the whole fic another question comes to mind. What's Nabiki's angle? She wouldn't be keeping quiet about the truth unless she has a way to profit from this. The first thing that comes to mind is selling pictures of the youma or the sailor senshi to the media, but that doesn't seem to be what she has in mind. I can't think of a favor that necessitates having to use Beneda, unless she's planning on outright killing someone.

[claymade]

After rereading the whole fic another question comes to mind. What's Nabiki's angle? She wouldn't be keeping quiet about the truth unless she has a way to profit from this. The first thing that comes to mind is selling pictures of the youma or the sailor senshi to the media, but that doesn't seem to be what she has in mind. I can't think of a favor that necessitates having to use Beneda, unless she's planning on outright killing someone.

Gah! Whoops, sorry about the delay; my email alert thingy on the topic didn't ping me for this one, for some reason. Must not have logged in properly to reset it, though I thought for sure I had...

Anyway, Nabiki's angle will be brought into sharper focus in a little while, but that's still a ways off for the moment. But it's not something as drastic as murder, I'll say that much.

Oooh that could be fun. A Trigun Cameo of the Bernard Daley Insurance girls.

Heh heh, that would be fun crossover! Nerima would be right up their alley, wouldn't it?

Probably not for this fic, though; I made a firm decision early on that it would be limited to just the two universes crossing over that're already here, nothing else being brought in.

[Spokavriel]

Guess it's another idea for future Stories or at least Omake. Think of it this way. After Ranma has Tornado's in his arsenal how can they avoid declaring his fight damage natural disasters/act of god category similar to what was declared for Mr Vash.

Then again it's almost the only way to change Ranma into a public enemy... And that would detract from the story allot. All that Nuisance damage not even covered by insurance. Well unless they record the fights and can prove the damages were caused by the other Martial artists.

Just like the Damages around Vash are caused by people trying to kill him.

Why do some ideas never go away?