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Age: 16 (I'm pulling her from NEXT after the wacky filler episodes but before Gaav shows up)

Height: Somewhere between 5'1" and 5'3"? Short.

Weight: Lina's pretty skinny so I peg her for being between 103-106lbs.

Medical Info: Fit as a fiddle. Had white hair after using the Giga Slave once, but it got better. She uses restorative magic on herself for minor wounds, so I don't think she has much if any scarring.

Eyes: Red

Hair: Red, wavy and goes down to the middle of her back. Has some impressive bangs.

Physical traits: Lina's small-breasted and her canon likes to remind her of that. Constantly. Also notable is that she has two moles on her forhead on her hairline.

What's Okay To Mention Around Him/Her: If your character recognizes her from the light novels/anime/manga, feel free to recognize her and/or call her by her less than flattering epithets (because Lina certainly won't call herself "Dragon Spooker" or "Enemy of all who Live"). Just don't spoil her on The Lord of Nightmares, Xelloss, or Hellmaster Phibrizzo. I've been struggling with this and as a player I think I'd get pretty fed up quick if a fanboy/girl character recognized Lina. I want to be fun and pile on the crack/lulz, but it's not going to be fun if I'm not having fun. So. I know this makes me kind of a party-pooper, but I think it's for the best.

Abilities: I'm going to have to do a whole separate essay on this. LET'S TRY AND SUM UP.

Physical: Anime!Lina can hold her own in a brawl. She's been known to clothesline full-grown men and tossed a huge freakin' rock at a werewolf in one of the OVAs. Lina is also a respectable swordsman, but she knows that she doesn't hold a candle to either Gourry or Zelgadis. She won't likely fall back on using her sword unless she can't use magic.

Magical: Lina is especially skilled in black magic, which calls upon the power of Dark Lords and their servants (in fact I took her from this particular point in NEXT so she'd have the widest available library of spells, as Phibrizzo and Gaav are still around to power their respective spells). She's also good at fire shamanism. She can do other shamanistic spells and a little bit of healing. Lina doesn't have a wide variety of defensive spells; I *think* she only knows two barrier spells. I need to find my season 1 DVDs. orz

Also, Lina can't use her magic when it's THAT TIME OF THE MONTH...which strangely only seemed to happen once in the anime.

Notes for the Psychics: Nothing particularly notable here. Constantly thinking about money, food, and magic.

Can I shapeshift/bodyswap/spit at/step on/etc?: Right now I'm inclined to say no, but that will probably change. Contact me if you think it will be super-special awesome.

Hugging/Kissing/Other Non-Violent Physical Contact: Go ahead, but your safety cannot be guaranteed. If you're annoying her, she's likely to give you a conk on the head or send you flying with magic. Kisses on the cheek are a proven way to throw Lina off-track, by the by.

Emo/Angst/Drama: Lina internalizes it all and transforms emotion into the desire to blow people up. As for other people's drama, she tends to respond to it with "there's no point in being depressed!", "get over it!" or "just cheer up!" Or she may just tease you.

Maim/Murder/Death: Lina has been beat up pretty badly before and she can get beat up pretty badly again. She came pretty damn close to dying once, but let's not do that again. Besides, Lina has no problem getting the hell outta Dodge if she realizes that you're an opponent that she can't handle.

Cooking: Lina can fend for herself, so she's experienced at cooking whatever you can make at a campfire. If you can put it on a stick and heat it over open flame, she can do it. As for the kitchen? Not so much.

SLAYERS EVOLUTION-R IS OUT AND IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE BEST THING EVER

I mean, check out the badass OP.

P.S. love me love me loooooooooove meeeeeeeeeeeee

I'M ACTUALLY TALLER THAN ONE OF MY CHARACTERS, GUYS.

Lina's 4'9".

Maybe it's work, maybe it's app excitement, maybe it's just plain burnout BUT AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED I have been incredibly thread-droppy lately. Even with Zidane, which is unusual! And especially with Lina, which means I need to canon review ("But Lina!" you say "what about that current season you're watching RIGHT NOW?!" the answer is "lol I'm behind on subs")

So apologies for that.

I'm not planning to mini-hiatus or really hiatus or anything because as likely as anything come thursday I'll be bright-eyed and busy tailed and all that.

IF I HAVE DROPPED A THREAD THAT YOU WANT CONTINUED, PLEASE LINK IT HERE. You are not imposing, I haven't dropped anything because I do not like you, tl;dr DON'T BE SHY.

Also if you want any of mine for a post/have post ideas, drop a line here too.

I'M WATCHING EPISODE 12 STREAMING

JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW, I LOVE SLAYERS

[EDIT:]

GOURRY, YOU'RE MY FOREVER MIMBO

I've been waiting so long for an episode where Gourry gets to kick some fucking ass. He missed out on all of TRY except for that one time he kicked Valgaav in the face.

I generally do not thread log because I am lazy but my god this CFUW game was amazing. Well. Basically Gourry was amazing. I love my castmates TTb

"Who wants to make balloon animals?"
Gourry deciphers the anagram
SUNNYSIDE-UP FULL MOON!!!!!
Mutton sammiches!
CONFRONTATION

Moar Radio Drama translations can be found here, but I had to copy and paste the best part:

( In which the Lina/Gourry Wedding Goes Exactly as Well as You'd Expect )

But wait, Lina's justice speech is pretty special, too:

( The woman has priorities )

Someday I might start doing in-depth reviews over Slayers Revolution.

But it's 10 p.m. and now is not that time.

EPISODE 10 WAS FUCKING AWESOME

YAY FINALLY INFORMATION ON LINA'S MOM. Also baaaawww Gourry's family. Baaaaaw Zel's family.

( lolololol about L-sama... )

Okay, so that was pretty much the best thing ever.

APP ZUUMA

SUPRAISE BFF VISIT GET

THEREFORE HIATUS OF INDETERMINITE TIME START!

Also Avacast, this link's for you. But especially for Ty Lee.

BANDWAGON? LET ME HOP ON IT. ESSAY MEME TIME

I will talk about anything! Relationships, canon, minutiae, state of the union, icons, ecetera. You name it! Hahaha wow my oldest canon is the only one that hasn't ENDED FOR REEL yet.

I PLAY: Lina Inverse, Zidane Tribal, and Suki I used to play: Hakim Atawari, Schierke

FANDOM IS GOOD TO ME

THIS IS THE BEST SLAYERS FANART SITE EVER

Just click it. Even if you don't follow the canon. It's just that good. And there's also papa Inverse art. I loev papa Inverse art.

HAHA OH WOW. New episode just wrapped up. I have one thing to say (right now):

( APP THIS FISH )

Router issues.

LET'S SEE HOW LONG THIS LASTS

Just some REALLY quick notes on Revolution. I'll do more when I have a better raw. But for now, I'm mainly concerned with what the OP sequence treated us to:

( PLOT HOLE?! They're using THOSE novel characters? )

EDIT: We can has youtube of the new opening!

( Cut to spare your flist and/or the Network )

Zel's thumbs-up cracks me up.

Aaand, a Caramelldansen Meme for Lina, too:

( Cut for your convenience )

Okay, so the first chapter of the Slayers Revolution has been scanlated (...but the translator said that they're not going to bother doing any more. Thanks.).

When I read this, I nearly spat out my cereal:

( I think Gourry hit his head )

Sky is falling, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, ecetera.