Brian Welch wrote:

Hmm.  Mixing mythologies here; can't imagine the
Norse gods caring much
about what the Christian worshippers celebrated.  =)
 But perhaps you could
chalk this up to professional courtesy between
competing offices.

Well, there are several big-time AMG fans who believe
wholeheartedly that Kami-sama is the supreme being,
aka God, even God in the Christian sense.  I
personally believe he's a powered up Odin, not supreme
at all, but I realize not everyone sees him that way.
For example, Studio Proteus/Dark Horse translates his
name to "Almighty One."

It's still a moot point for the purposes of this fic, so I won't get into
it. (Nothing like the having a good out to cop to avoid a discussion. ^_^)

She may have just been trying to get Yoshi to put his
problems into perspective.  If she started with "did
she leave you?" and he said "no, she died" then he'd
have more justification to jump.  Assume the worst,
and if it's not that bad, you've got leverage to use
on the guy.

Heh. I might ah... acquire this as a future explaination instead of the
original one I used. Yeah. That's the ticket.

Well, Keiichi and Belldandy might believe, but
that's another story.  :)

As much as it pains me to even think of either of them
with another person, the truth is that either one
would have made an excellent mate for any number of
people.  Not as good a match as they make together,
but certainly good enough to be happy.

Pretty much in line with Urd's statement about it being all about degrees.

"Ice cream in the middle of winter? Why not?" Not
knowing what else to do, Yoshi slung the bag over
his shoulder, intent on going home, eating the

whole

thing, and getting the first decent night of sleep
in months.

Honestly, I'd prefer that you end the fanfic here.
The scene back at the
temple seems tacked on, and it breaks the mood too
much, and is, again, too
expository, spelling out things (like the fact that
Urd is the Goddess of
the Past) that are better left implied.  Leave it
like this and you have a
very nice, melancholy story that's paced nicely.

Personally, I loved the ending.  It neatly explained
the presence of the ice cream and showed that Urd's
reputation is such that even when she does something
truly nice she doesn't get and won't take credit for
it.  If it had just been Urd and Skuld fighting it
would have been worthless, but this was the
quick-shift-insight kind of ending Fujishima loves.

Thank. I was thinking that as well. Still, Rich's comments have been taken
to heart and they have been persuasive enough for me to post both version,
one with the ending and one without, in the webpages once I get a final
version of this completed. Was going to do something similiar for a longer
work of mine which I really can't decide which ending to go with, so the
concept is hardly appalling to me. This way people can choose which they
like more themselves. Seems to be a happy medium, IMO.

Thanks for the comments.

D.B. Sommer

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