So if we want to Ask a question do we post it on three's fanfic Guidelines here?

Whatever works.

Okay. Is it okay if Three's sterility was reversed some how with like some sort of very advance technology?

The writing here is very detailed. You've obviously put a lot of thought into this.

That and I get asked a lot of questions! Amazing considering her only complete comic so far is the one I did on 24-hour comic day, and that was a prequel sort of thing.

It would be great if you'd put in a little bit about personal quirks and habits; without that information, it's hard to reliably write a character into a story since your own habits tend to sneak in!

Small problem about the black paw-pad thing: you've never depicted her with black paw-pads on her hands. I did a quick look at your gallery before posting, they're not there. Granted, most of the pictures showing her bare palms are sketches, and I suppose you could say "I left them out because it's a sketch", but still, they're not there.

A bigger problem is that she has a sci-fi origin, but many of the restrictions you have on her are only justifiable by fantasy logic. Don't get me wrong, I agree with most of your restrictions. Most of them are straight-up shark-jumpers. And you seem to recognize that "Mah karecter! Mah karecter! Get offa mah karecter!" is lousy reason to create a restriction, which is awesome. However, most of your "hand waving" feels like fantasy hand waving and not sci-fi hand waving.

Like the genetic encryption. All encryption has an unavoidable weakness: the intended receiver has to be able to extract the original message without distortion. Decryption might be N-P hard (to use computer science terminology) but not unsolvable. I know it was done to prevent clones from popping up all over the place, but there is no such thing as an uncrackable code. Just codes that take so long to crack the hacker gets bored and gives up.

And after reading that, I sound like I'm pissing in your cornflakes.

Kind of. Sorry.

Here's the simple answer:

1.) She isn't necessarily sci-fi. Just because her origins are in a genre doesn't mean her whole storyline is. And Sci-fi need not be bleedingly realistic. Heck, I just spent the past week watching old Flash Gordon episodes and some of the things they did were hilarious. She may have SF in her background, but she has a lot more magic and fantasy in her present. Now, if a whole bunch of people start coming to me and telling me that I'm just going too far maybe I'll reconsider it, but since I don't make any claims to be a huge science geek or an expert in DNA and biology, I have to just go with what seems most plausable with just enough hand waving to get the results that I want.

2.) I know a lot of fan writers and they like to go for the easy stuff. If I don't draw the lines at the shark jumping points, the first stories out of the gate will be time traveling, cloning, pregnancy stories. And I know this because I've had to tell people already not to go there. When you have a character like Three that a lot of people like, they often start deciding they know the character better than you. I've heard about people telling Hopkins that he was going against his own world and character for the changes made to Farrago. And I hear from the Dewalts about how people tell them that Vinci and Arty are acting out of character in their stories. I'd rather annoy people now and nip stuff in the bud before it happens rather than have someone present me with a 40 page draft and then explode at me for telling them they're doing all the things I didn't want other people to do. And if I tell them that they can print it and I'll just consider it non-canon, I get exploded at again.

3. The lack of pawpads is laziness and absentmindedness on my part. I wrote it in because, well (speaking of suspension of disbelief) ever try to grip a slick surface in a fur glove?

Aaaaand Volk proves my point....

Part of my hang-up is that I was "raised" as a writer to believe that there is a boundary between fantasy and sci-fi, that there are fan expectations for each, and that because of those separate expectations you can't mix the two. I was told you cross that line at your peril.

And Three does the hokey-pokey with that line!

If you come to tonight's stream, remind me to tell you the story about the Italian fanfic writing bear.

Ok, I'm just doing this for fun (as I am by no means an accomplished writer), but I have a problem that could be a potential plot hole. How does Three get into different realms? I don't suspect she has a Tardis or that massive contraption from Timeline. Or does she?

I think Gen deleted the prior write-up that explained it, but it's magic. Really. Three has a special case of "weirdness magnet" where mages trying to summon a familiar grab her by accident. In other words, she's succeptible to involuntary extradimensional summoning.

Note: I tend to ramble, so I summed up the point of this message at the bottom in case you don't want to read through all of this.

I was wondering if it would be alright if I toyed around a little with the concept of Three's character? What I may (or may not) write would not be a story with a plot or any real development or characters, but rather it would be Three's reaction/comparison to an environment. It would be a world/land of my making that has a conscious race, but there would be no significant individual interaction between Three and the members of this race. I would be exploring her character - not adding anything onto it but simply taking what you have already created and placing it in this environment - assimilating her, to an extent, into this world to act as an observer who participates, but is distanced, and is motivated to live this way (for a time) for the sake of observing how this race and the land itself function - curious to see how it can exist with no concept of the future, minds and thoughts oriented only with the present and viewing the past as a present that has already been experienced (not strictly as a past that is entirely different from the present, since each day is nearly identical to the previous or another that has occurred at some other point in time). There is little change in the land/race and it seems to maintain a level of peace where life predominantly appears content the way it is/with what it has.

*This is wordy and probably hard to follow, but it's still only an idea and nothing developed yet. The story itself would be - ideally (because I tend to be too wordy) - pretty short.

**Basically: I like Three's character, and I find her interesting, so I was wondering if I could experiment with her in a specific setting. ^_^'

I like reactionary fiction! This idea sounds just fine and I'd love to see what you produce.

Thank you. Hopefully I can make my idea develop into something. ^^