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Xenovia's hair will be her usual shorter hair. What can I say? I look at my waifu's, and I suddenly realize that 90% of them either have blue hair, shoulder length hair, or both. Also, I'm a tomboy lover at heart, so yeah, I'm keeping Xenovia's design in that realm, although I should mention that while DxD may not portray her this way, considering shirtless shots of Xenovia have her with a flat stomach, I want to reflect Xenovia's training more, so I've specifically mentioned in chapters earlier that she's got abs for days in this story. I want her to be more 'Amazonian' if that makes sense, to reflect her traits as a warrior more than anything else. Her appeal in this story is less from her massive honkers, and more from the fact that she's got the whole 'dangerous' aura around her, also Vin's written to be a fan of muscles, so there's that too.
The outfits for training are the same leotards as Xenovia and Irina wear in DxD, yes. They have to wear them for training with Griselda, kinda like having to wear a uniform to school. On weekends, then Xenovia or the others may wear something different, but their usual is the leotards. Same with the guys, the jumpsuit-coat combo I created as the 'male equivalent' to the leotards is what Vin and the others have to wear on weekday training.
I hope this answered some of your questions, and I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Scatman SSJohn EX (Fucking amazing name, btw) Says:
"I love this story you wrote and personally enjoy good OC that are not gamer si.
I hope to see Xenovia x Vin shipping in the future and honestly just more chapters in general."
Thanks for leaving such a nice review! I'm glad you're enjoying the story so much!
I've said before, but I really wanted to make this story so that there could be that quality DxD story where we could get an OC/Xenovia pairing. She's kinda criminally underutilized in fanfics, but I think I can chalk that up to Xenovia truthfully being a character in canon who has a lot of interesting things about her, but terrible amounts of inconsistency in her characterization, mainly because of her never getting a lot of screen time. In order to make her a character that can stand on her own in this story, I've had to take my own approach to writing her, mostly by expanding on pre existing elements, and by mixing a hint of her post-devil rebirth personality into her pre-rebirth personality, in order to make that little transition less jarring on the whole.
I'm glad to see that the Vin x Xenovia ship is getting support. I was really scared early on that people were going to come out of the woodwork to slander it, and just call Vin a 'struggleporn self insert' character. But the amount of positivity has been remarkable! As a writer, bits of myself are obviously going to be reflected in the characters, but I think I've done enough with Vin to separate him enough from myself to call him his own, independent character.
By the way, you've gotten your wish for more chapters! I hope that you enjoyed this one, and look forward to many more to come! Next chapter is one that I've been wanting to write since the beginning, so yeah, get excited for that!
The Black Kraven Says:
"Wholesome. I take back my demand for a harem and now want a single pairing. (Maybe add Rossweisse lmao). Anyways the only thing I want to ask is why would Azazel take an interest in Vin. Guess he has some rare kinda SG."
Hey, first of all, thanks so much for leaving all those reviews! It was really fun to watch them come in and see how your views on this fic evolved chapter by chapter.
Chapter Nine was the wholesome, feel good chapter for this arc, and it's what we in the industry call 'the calm before the storm', and what a storm we're about to get into, let me tell you…
I love Rossweisse, and I have a special place in my heart for girls like her, it triggers both feelings of 'I want to hold this adorable thing and love it forever', and a certain special type of pity where I think it's just so cute; kinda like watching a baby fall while learning to walk, something like that. Anyway, leaving that aside, Rossweisse will get some love, rest assured, but it won't be from Vin, and it won't be for a long while…
Great final question: you see, the reason that Azazel would develop an interest in Vin would be because as a Sacred Gear researcher, Azazel is drawn to new, interesting developments in Gear's. Vin's gear is a bizarre subspecies of a half-decent, pretty common Sacred Gear, that doesn't seem to change anything except the material it creates. It's suspicious, and had to have been caused by something, especially since Vin awoke his Sacred Gear in this subspecies state, he didn't ever develop it. So there must be some form of external influence. That's why Azazel is interested in Vin right now, he's got an anomaly for a Sacred Gear.
Thanks for taking the time to review this story so much, I greatly appreciate it, and hope that you enjoyed this chapter too! Looking forward to hearing from you again.
mark94 Says:
"It's a really sweet chapter. I find the crush Vin has really funny. Also the baking scene was comedy gold. About not celebrating birthdays is kind of strange because most Christian Churches celebrate one specific birthday every year. You could say they patented the concept for 2021 years. Just an interesting thought. :D"
Hey, how are you doing?
Like you, I also derive a lot of humor out of making Vin's crush this massive joke. Even while writing these chapters, I still manage to crack myself up thinking of how I'm going to make those two idiots act next. I mean, Vin's got to get closer to Xenovia for the romance to work, and one of the only ways to get that to happen with the way Xenovia is right now is through training; so I might as well be self-aware about it and poke fun at the idea that Vin either has it for Xenovia so bad that he willingly gets punched on the daily to hang out with her, or he's actually just a masochist, like Irina theorizes.
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