Alicornutopia

DanielH wrote:Maybe I’m being uncreative but what is the version with post-1800s materials science?

HPMOR.

And the climax thereof?

I hope Timothy eventually settles on the much more sensible option of marrying Karen (I don’t think meeting the peal would be enough to make the non-1800-approved options the best suited to his goals, but I could be wrong).

I realized that might not be clear if you can’t read my mind and aren’t reading a specific one of the other elf threads. I mean they marry each other for political reasons but each extramaritally get invinvolved with (or pine over; do Karens ever start dating non-Bells on their own?) other people that society says they can’t date.

The original template member didn't pine at all; he was immediately thrown at Tony instead. There may be other characters who could serve the Tony role there.

timothy nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I mean, he should have acted differently but it was not the worst possible response. I expect, mostly based on this being fiction and the authors probably driving at a certain result, that she would have kept escalating until he did something.

I only say that with the Doylistic predictions of what would have happened; otherwise I’d have put more emphasis on the damning-with-faint-praise of my first sentence.

Whoa, did something happen last night that got deleted?

Yes (though not the thing being discussed above).

Oh ok! Which thing is being discussed above? (I can think of a couple different things it could be)