Magical Girl Yuu's First Day pt 4
“Listen dude, I don't know what kind of cult thing you’ve got here and at this point I don't care. I just need to get back home before my mentor freaks out.”
This time it really isn't Yuu’s fault she got lost!
“Cult?! Night Raven College is the most prestigious school in all of Twisted Wonderland!”
“Cool story bro. You still kidnapped me.”
“The black carriage does not kidnap – !”
“The what?”
So according to Birdman all students are recruited via some spooky carriage and horse that Yuu does not remember seeing.
Actually she can't remember anything of how she got here. The day was Tuesday, or maybe Wednesday? She had been getting ready for… something important. Something that had the adult magica gearing up. Yuu remembers a sense of urgency, this had been different from the usual fiend attacks.
What happened? Did something go wrong?
For the first time since waking up Yuu feels truly scared.
Panic rises as she tries to go over what enemies could have the power to transport someone while fogging their memories.
Meanwhile!
Totally oblivious to Yuu’s mental crisis, Birdman was reaching his own conclusions.
“... truly weren't meant to be here then that could explain why you couldn't be sorted. I suppose there's nothing for it. Step back in front of the mirror, young man.”
Finally Crowley looks back at the child, Yuu, and takes in his state.
One hand is tugging at his hair while the other grips his strange magic pen. The boy’s eyes are unfocused and he rocks his weight back and forth from one foot to the other.
Hmm.
Hmmmmmmm.
That’s probably not good. If only Crewel were here to deal with this instead.
Remembering the damage from earlier, Crowley approaches cautiously. He keeps an eye on the hand holding the oversized pen and grasps Yuu’s shoulder in a clawed grip.
Yuu does a full body jolt but listens when Crowley tells him to approach the mirror again
*Return to sender!*
…
Nothing happens.
Yuu’s anxiety is getting out of control, so she tries channeling it towards something more productive. Specifically anger.
This mirror!
First he calls her a freak, now he's saying her home doesn't exist.
“I cannot discern –”
“Well, is there anything you do know? Or should I do this place a favor and break you out of that frame!”
For the record, Yuu wasn't actually going to break the mirror. Squakface still wasn't willing to risk it as he dragged her out of the room.
Crowley guides Yuu to the library where they spend some time looking for references to her home city Duskfront.
Eventually Yuu asks what the books are referring to when they say Twisted Wonderland.
After some more back and forth Crowley concludes that Yuu must be from another world.
Yuu is like okay bro, a likely story.
She’s still concerned this might be a plot, and thinks it's pretty convenient that they happen to be on an isolated island.
Crowley suggests that they shelve this for now and he offers to house Yuu in an unused dorm.
Yuu is not having it and tries to walk out, determined to swim back home if she must.
Crowley protests, despite the many complaints from both students and staff alike Crowley does in fact have a sense of responsibility. And while this particular student is, for whatever reason, unsortable, he cannot allow a student to just walk out. Not even one as unruly as Yuu.
Yuu really, really, doesn't want to be alone with her thoughts waste any time, but she understands this isn't the type of situation you can just bully your way out of. So with gritted teeth Yuu finally hisses out, “fine!”
Birdface is leading her far away from the main building.
Really far.
How big is this campus?
Finally they reach a derelict building that may at one point have been a dormitory.
“It's a little old, but a building with such character is suitable for such a rambunctious young man.”
“Why do you keep calling me that?”
“Calling you what? Rambunctious? I’d say it's rather accurate.”
“No. Young man. I'm not a guy.”
“What?”
Yuu loosens the sash holding her outfit and pulls back the outer robe to reveal modest, but still visible, breasts.
“WHAT!”
I was going to make it longer but I decided to split the final into two parts and give you this now. Sorry about the long wait (╥_╥). I'm kinda disappointed by how close to canon I've been but I know there will be big opportunity for change later. Specifically with the ghosts.
Ive been thinking about writing some drabbles or trying to draw out some scenes, turns out even making a short comic is hard. Im working on a short piece about the mine based more on the manga than the game. I'll focus on that after the last part of Yuu's first day, but might also do some smaller posts as well.
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I am, like probably a lot of other people, here due to the absolute INSANITY of the ChatGPT case, and I’m curious: if the original dude, the one supposedly injured by the airline, loses his case due to all of this, would he theoretically have a lawsuit against ChatGPT? Because afaik there’s nothing on ChatGPT saying “yeah, this thing can just spit out bullshit sometimes,” all of that has been found by people playing FAFO. So his counsel is obviously responsible for just…making up shit, but does ChatGPT potentially hold liability for not disclaiming its product can’t be used this way?
I'm going to be cautious in answering this, because consumer litigation/products liability is NOT one of my practice areas (hell, I might well be missing an entire cause of action). So take everything I say here with many grains of salt (and if someone more familiar with the issues would like to chime in, please do!).
So as far as I understand the issues (again, giant grains of salt), even if he could establish negligence, or (if chatbot is a "product") a defect in the design or the marketing, his big issue would be causation. That is, he would still have to prove the negligence/defect was the actual and proximate cause of his damages (and that there were damages). (Also he would be filing against the makers/distributes of ChatGPT, not the product itself.)
And (again, based on my limited understanding) there would be two enormous hurdles to proving causation:
Proving that the negligence/defect was the reason he lost the case, not because his lawyers fucked up. (Because if I was defending the makers/distributes of ChatGPT in this hypothetical case, one of the first things I would point to is the inevitable sanctions order against the lawyers detailing all their ethical and professional violations.)
Proving that he would have won the case except for the use of ChatGPT. Part of the reason I think this is a different issue from the above, is going back to how this all started: a motion to dismiss by the defendant asserting that the plaintiff's claim was time barred. If the defendant is correct, the plaintiff would not have been able to recover regardless of the use of ChatGPT. The actual and proximate cause of any damages would be the failure to file suit within the necessary time frame (assuming that he could/would have won had the case proceeded).
His much better case in this situation would be a malpractice suit against his lawyers. (Especially because, looking at the docket, it looks like they were the ones (Schwartz in particular) who were representing him when he originally filed a suit back in 2020, and fucked up by not appropriately preserving the case while the defendant was in bankruptcy.)
(Also, I'm going to take this opportunity as an excuse to say to anyone reading this: please don't make assumptions about the plaintiff? As OP states, he was supposedly injured, and we know very little else. Making up facts about what might have happened, or what his motives might be - either in "support" or him or against him - doesn't help. When someone is allegedly injured in an accident, the way our system determines who has to pay - the person who was allegedly injured or the person who allegedly caused the accident - is through the court system. He was/is using the court system as intended. There is absolutely no indication that he did anything wrong here.)
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