English isn't even my third language.Originally Posted by Reiu
English isn't even my third language.
You clever multiple language people.
It is written in The Law of Beasts' Lair that anything that might tempt me to be active on the forum must be corrupted by irrelevant and pointless argument wars.
For the purposes of this contest, any already existing characters from Fate would be ineligible, which sort of makes me think that you posted after just reading the topic and not the thread itself >_>
In any case, the March issue went on sale recently and there are a few details that have come out courtesy of the でもにっしょん blog.
First, let's take a moment to fully appreciate how incredibly cute Makidera is:
Sadly, I don't appear to have made the cut. However...
DRJONES, DUDE, YOU WON!
If you look very closely, you can see him between Himuro and the あー word balloon, crediting Dr Jones from Spain. I am crying salty bitter tears of envy as I type this, which I can only hope will not short-circuit my keyboard. Did you get a postcard yet? Fill us in!!
Other Vietnamese heroes include:
Lê Lợi, emperor of Vietnam and founder of the Lê Dynasty. Himuro is remarking that his myth bears a resemblance to King Arthur; namely, they both possessed magic swords granted by a lake spirit.
Also mentioned is Triệu Thị Trinh, a female warrior who rebelled against the Chinese in the 3rd century. According to legend, she was nine feet tall and had three-foot-long breasts.
Noah, on the left. You know, the guy with the Ark. His Noble Phantasm is listed as "Gate of Arkalon".
On the right is Emperor Shoumu, 45th Emperor of Japan (701-756). His Noble Phantasm is "Gate of Shousouin". The Shousouin is a treasury filled with artifacts devoted to Emperor Soumu by his wife, Empress Koumyou, after his death.
It also appears that General Sherman, the largest known tree on earth which is also over 2000 years old, is on the list, as is Sterling North's pet raccoon, Rascal.
I can't read anything else on the tiny image, so I will have to wait warmly until next month, when I can get my hands on this issue.
Last edited by Ragnar; January 28th, 2015 at 08:16 PM.
Not that anyone cares (I do, 'cause I'm a biology nerd), but I'd just like to point out that it's only the largest by volume. It's neither the tallest, nor the widest tree around. Also, it's the largest known living tree on earth, but there have been bigger ones that are no longer around. The Crannell Creek Giant, a coast redwood that was located near Trinidad in California, was quite a bit larger, but it was cut down in the mid-1940s. And before you ask/make fun of me, yes, I copied all of that info from Wikipedia...I was curious, and I found it interesting...
"The world is just another word for the things you value around you, right? That's something I've had since I was born. If you tell me to rule such a world, I already rule it."
Oh, wow, that Noah servant can summon creatures from the Cambrian period! I totally didn't expect to win, but I'm happy that my suggestion made the cut and will sit alongside other vietnamese heroes in the fate/school life lore.
I don't know if there's any prize attached other than the satisfaction of seeing your hero in a manga, but if I get a postcard I'll scan it to share with you guys.
Well it's kind of your fault for using the word "Servant" when the contest is explicitly not about Servants.It is written in The Law of Beasts' Lair that anything that might tempt me to be active on the forum must be corrupted by irrelevant and pointless argument wars.
For the purposes of this contest, any already existing characters from Fate would be ineligible, which sort of makes me think that you posted after just reading the topic and not the thread itself >_>
Personally I blame the guy who started the thread by crossposting from spacebattles. It was cursed from its inception.
I didn't start the thread, so I have no control over the title
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DrJones: You should be getting a postcard drawn by the author, assuming you provided your address with your entry.
Would they really send internationally though?
I would assume so. The contest was intentionally open to international submissions.
The results are finally out, and I've finished translating and annotating the first two pages from the contest. Again, please do not host these on other sites without permission, because I'd really hate to have to break your kneecaps. I've put a letter next to each entry that you can match up with the notes, which give the hero's identity and noble phantasm, along with the description (if any). Remember that these are supposed to be cards in the 英雄史大戦 card game played in the manga. There's probably a bunch of style references I've missed, so feel free to shout out if you see any.
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A. Gideon Mantell (Ireland) - NP: "My Dinosaur (Iguanodon)"
Gideon Mantell was an early 19th-century geologist and paleontologist. His wife found some fossilized teeth in a layer from the Mesozoic period, and believed they had belonged to a giant reptile similar to an iguana. They were dismissed by his peers who believed them to be from more recent fish or mammals. He was eventually vindicated in 1825 and he named the creature "Iguanodon". He would later discover much more of the skeleton and several other types of dinosaurs.
B. Ueshiba Morihei (Japan) - NP: "Aikido Founder's Power"
Ueshiba Morihei (1883-1969) was the founder of the Japanese martial art Aikido.
C. "Cannon King" Krupp (Germany) - NP: "Paris Gun"
It's unclear exactly to whom this refers, as the Krupps are a German family dating back 400 years who are famous for steel production, especially firearms. However, it bears the closest resemblance to Alfred Krupp (born 1812) whose innovations catapulted the company to become the biggest in the German Empire. In particular, they produced many of the weapons used during the World Wars by the German army, such as the "Paris Gun" that shelled Paris from as far away as 81 miles, and the Big Bertha howitzer. The company was also infamous for their use of slave labor during World War II, and was prosecuted for war crimes.
D. Dante Alighieri (Italy) - NP: "The Path I Saw Leading To Heaven (The Divine Comedy)"
Italian poet who lived from 1265-1321. After being exiled from Italy, he wrote the Divine Comedy consisting of The Inferno, The Purgatory, and The Paradise. In these words, he is guided though Hell and Purgatory by the poet Virgil, then through heaven by a woman he loved, Beatrice.
E. Kaguya-hime (Japan) - NP: "Demand for Treasure" - If the opponent is a male hero using a 'tool' of any sort as a weapon, this ability forces it to be handed over.
Kaguya-hime is the titular princess of a famous fairy tale from Japan. Found inside a stalk of bamboo by an old childless woodcutter, she was actually a citizen of the moon. When five princes approached her to marry them, she requested each bring back an impossible item, such as the Buddha's begging bowl or a scale from a dragon. Eventually she was forced to leave the earth and return to the moon.
F. Thánh Gióng (Vietnam) - NP: "Iron Horse and Bamboo Spear" (Submitted by Dr. Jones!)
Thánh Gióng is one of the Four Immortals of Vietnamese legend. He was born to an old couple who desperately wanted a child after the woman placed her foot in some large footprints she found in a field. However, he was unable to speak, walk, or smile even at the age of three years old. Faced with an invasion from the Yin Dynasty, the king sent messengers to gather men to fight. Shockingly, the baby called out to a messenger, asking to be brought an iron horse, an iron spear, and iron armor. When they were brought to him, he instantly grew into a full-sized man, and mounted the horse with his armor and spear. He fought and killed many of the invaders, until his iron spear broke, and he continued to fight using uprooted bamboo. The terrified enemy fled before him all the way back over a mountain. When he reached the top, Thánh Gióng took off his armor and ascended to heaven with his horse. (Source: http://stories-online.blogspot.com/2...anh-giong.html)
G. Lê Lợi (Vietnam) - NP: "Sword of Promised Victory (Thuận Thiên)"
Lê Lợi (1384-1433) was the emperor of Vietnam and founder of the Lê Dynasty. He led a revolt against the Ming dynasty resulting in Vietnamese independence. To quote from Wikipedia: "One story tells that he obtained the sword, inscribed with the words 'The Will of Heaven' (Thuận Thiên) from a Golden Turtle (Kim Qui 金龜) a demi-god to the local people. The stories claim Lê Lợi grew very tall when he used the sword and it gave him the strength of many men. Other stories say that the sword blade and the sword hilt came together from different places, the blade fished out of a lake, the hilt found by Lê Lợi himself. The stories largely agree on what happened to the sword: One day, not long after the Chinese had accepted Vietnam as independent, Lê Lợi was out boating on a lake in Hanoi. Suddenly a large turtle surfaced, took the sword from Lê Lợi's belt, and dived back into the depths. Efforts were made to find both the sword and the turtle but without success. Lê Lợi then acknowledged the sword had gone back to the Golden Turtle and caused the lake to be renamed 'The Lake of the Returned Sword' (Hoan Kiem Lake) located in present-day Hanoi."
H. Triệu Ẩu (Vietnam) - NP: "Super Big Boobs"
Triệu Ẩu (or Triệu Thị Trinh) was a female warrior who rebelled against the Chinese in the 3rd century. According to legend, she was nine feet tall and had three-foot-long breasts, and was known for riding elephants into battle.
I. Taira no Tokitada (Japan) - NP: "Those Not of the Heike Are Not Human" - Anyone not of the Heike is turned into an animal. Does not affect the Heike.
Taira no Tokitada was a noble of the Taira(Heike) clan at the end of the Heian era who is said to have survived the clan's downfall. Heike(平家) is a name referring to the Taira clan by appending the kanji for "family"(read as "ke") to the kanji for "Taira", with the "Taira" kanji taking on the alternate reading of "hei". "Those not of the Heike are not human" is a phrase associated with him.
J. Sterling North (America) – NP: “My Far-Off Rascal”
Thomas Sterling North (1906-1974) was an American author best known for his 1963 book Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, where he recounts the story of how as a young boy, he adopted and cared for a pet raccoon named Rascal. The story was adapted into a Disney movie in 1969 and a Japanese anime in 1977. The result was an importation of pet raccoons into Japan, leading to a feral population that still survives in the country. Incidentally, North hated comics, believing that they were morally corrupting.
K. Yamamoto Heikichi (Japan) – NP: “Two-Shot Bear-Killer” - The legendary matagi (winter hunter) who took down the bear responsible for the worst animal attack in the history of Japan, the Sankebetsu Brown Bear Incident. If he is using "Presence Concealment" and his "first shot" hits the target, the success of the "second shot" is guaranteed. By means of reverse causality, the bullet will unfailingly pierce the target's head.
The expert bear hunter consulted to end the Sankebetsu Brown Bear Incident, infamous as the worst bear attack in Japan. Over the course of several days in December 1915 in a small town in Hokkaido, a brown bear raided the houses of several villagers, killing or maiming them. Due to panic and several miscalculations, the numerous attempts by the villagers to kill the bear failed. The expert bear hunter Yamamoto Heikichi was consulted after the first attack and claimed the bear was one known as "Kegasake", who had killed three women in the past. While at first he declined to help in hunting it, he eventually joined the team of men tracking the bear. After finally finding Kegasake, Yamamoto shot it once in the heart and once in the head, finally killing it.
L. John H. Watson (England) – NP: “Notes of Truth (Storyteller)”
John H. Watson, the doctor who was a close friend and companion of Sherlock Holmes. In the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Watson plays the role of narrator and relays his adventures with Holmes. He also serves the purpose of providing someone for Holmes to explain his remarkable deductions to.
M. Elite Four of Ryuuzouji (Japan) – NP: “But There’s Five!!”
The “Elite Four of Ryuuzouji” were a group of samurai in the employ of Daimyou Ryuuzouji Takanobu in Hizen Province during the Warring States period. Historical records differ as to exactly who the group consisted of, but include a list of five samurai. Five!? According to record, one of the original four samurai was later replaced by a fifth. In any case, they are known for their valor in battle, particularly the Battle of Okitanawate where Takanobu was killed while fighting. The Elite Four are said to have all died in the battle as well.
N. Nakamura Choubei (Japan) - NP: "Ochimusha Hunter"
According to legend, Nakamura Choubei was the name of the farmer who killed Akechi Mitsuhide with a spear when the latter was fleeing the battle of Yamazaki. "Ochimusha", written "fallen warrior", referred to a samurai on the losing side of a battle who had fled from the enemy. Given the code of bushido at the time, this was a considerably cowardly and dishonorable thing to do, and it was common for peasants or farmers to kill them, taking their belongings and presenting their heads for a reward from the victors.
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A. Toriyama Seiken (Japan) - NP: "Gazu Hyakki Yagyou (Unlimited Ghost Works)"
A Japanese ukyo-e painter and folklorist from the 18th century. He created a series of books cataloguing all the youkai in an encyclopedic manner, called "Gazu Hyakki Yagyou" or "Illustrated Night-Time Parade of 100 Demons". The Hyakki Yagyou was believed to be an event where every summer, Nurarihon would conduct a parade of youkai through the streets. The bird-shaped gas mask and wind-up screw are a parody of the self portraits of the Dragonball author, Toriyama Akira.
B. Emperor Shoumu (Japan) - NP: "Gate of Shousouin"
The 45th Emperor of Japan (701-756). The Shousouin is a treasury filled with artifacts devoted to Emperor Soumu by his wife, Empress Koumyou, after his death.
C. Noah (?) - NP: "’Gate of Arkalon” – Can summon any creature on Earth. This extends to creatures who went extinct millions of years ago.
You know, the dude with the big ark and all the animals. Noah’s origins lie in an ancient Babylonian myth of a great flood, believed to have been picked up and incorporated into Jewish scripture at some point. I doubt I have to explain this to you, but: in the Jewish version, God sees that humans are wicked at heart, except for the family of Noah, and he decides to wipe out the entire rest of the population. Noah is instructed to build an ark and take two of each kind of animal on board. It then rains for 40 days and nights, while the earth is flooded and all mankind drowned. Noah and his family are set down on a mountain as the waters subside, and God promises to never again destroy all of humanity (this is somewhat notable as it is the only contract God makes with someone who is not a Jew – Noah precedes Abraham and his covenant).
D. Kinokuniya Bunzaemon (Japan) – NP: “Fruit of Joy From the West (Vitamin The Vitamin)” – Bunzaemon being a wealthy merchant known for the “Legendary Mikan Boat”, this skill enables him to use the power of mikan however he sees fit.
Kinokuniya Bunzaemon (1669-1734) was a Japanese merchant in the Edo period from Kii Province – “Kinokuniya”, an adopted name, means literally “shop from Kii Province”. His legend goes as follows: one year in the area of Kii, there was an unexpectedly large harvest of mikan. Unfortunately, fierce storms from the pacific prevented much of any exporting, and the price of the fruits plummeted due to the abundance. Meanwhile in the capital of Edo (modern Tokyo), the same storms prevented any imports. The “Bellows Festival” was approaching, in which blacksmiths tossed mikan from their roofs to crowds below, and the demand caused the prices to skyrocket with such little available. Bunzaemon took out a loan and bought all the mikan he could, then set out to Edo with a crew of sailors, risking their lives in the harsh sea. However, when he made it safely, the reward from selling the fruits was substantial. While in Edo, he bought as much salted salmon as possible. In the Osaka area, great floods had caused the spread of disease, and the rumor circulated that “the best cure for the disease is salted salmon”. When he returned to Osaka, the salmon he brought with him sold like hotcakes. With the capital he gained, he was able to open a lumber business in Edo and became quite wealthy. However, this legend does not appear during the life or near the death of Bunzaemon: according to historian Takeuchi Makoto, it is unhistorical and was only first published in the Bakumatsu era.
E. Gary Gygax (America) – NP: “Copyright Issue” – Against cards of monsters with European or American origins, he can claim copyright and instantly change the target to a low-cost Youkai S for a limited amount of time.
Gary Gygax (1938-2008), the “Father of Role-Playing Games”, co-created Dungeons and Dragons in 1974. It is one of the most popular tabletop RPG systems in the world, and has seen five revisions since its inception, each with updated mechanics and rules. Dungeons and Dragons is also known for the wide variety of supplemental material published to complement the game system, especially the Monster Manual, which serves as a bestiary of monsters the player might encounter. Some of the monstesr in the earliest edition of the Monster Manual, such as hobbits, ents, and balrogs, were changed to halflings, treants, and balors. After leaving the company that owned Dungeons and Dragons, TSR, Gygax worked on a similar system called Dangerous Journeys. As soon as the product was released, TSR filed a very expensive copyright lawsuit, eventually settling out of court by buying the rights to Dangerous Journeys and immediately discontinuing it. The early editions of Dungeons and Dragons are infamous for being quite difficult for players.
F. Corporal Wojtek – NP: 1) “We Are Beloved War Buddies (Corporal Wojtek)” 2) “Proud Homeland’s War Front (Monte Cassino)” – As long as Woktek is in play, the supply line will not be disrupted.
Wojtek was a Syrian brown bear adopted by the 22nd Artillery Supply Company in the Polish army after being found by a refugee in Iran. He was fed on milk from a bottle before graduating to fruit and other foods. The soldiers also gave him beer and cigarettes, which he developed a strong taste for. Wojtek was officially made part of the army, and is said to have helped transport ammunition crates during the Battle of Monte Cassino. The emblem of the 22nd Transport Company of the Polish army was After the war, he spent the rest of his life in the Edinburg Zoo in Scotland.
G. General Sherman’s Tree (America) – NP: “Sherman General”
General Sherman (estimated 300 or 700 BC - present) is a giant sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park, California. It is the largest (by volume) living tree on earth, at 275 feet tall and 25 feet wide. It was named after Civil War General William Sherman in 1879.
H. Rouwenhorst Mulder (Holland) – NP: “A Normal Hollander Tried Being A Hired Advisor”
After the Meiji restoration, the Japanese government employed a number of foreign advisors in their push to modernize the country. Among them was Anthonie Thomas Lubertus Rouwenhorst Mulder (1848-1901), who was hired to oversee the construction of a canal on the Tone river to be used as a major shipping route. He is depicted here as Uogokuro-kun, the mascot character of the manga Locodol: Normal High School Girls Tried Being Local Idols.
I. The Fiend with X Faces (Japan) – NP: 1) “His Life is to Steal (The Thief)" 2) "The Challenge is my Honor (Risky Hide)" - The image of the “phantom thief” in Japanese literature. His offensive attack is weak, but he possesses godlike trickiness.
"The Fiend with 20 Faces" is the archenemy of detective Akechi Kogorou in the stories of the early 20th century Japanese writer Edogawa Ranpo. He is a "gentleman thief" in much the same manner as Arséne Lupin, and is similarly able to disguise himself as almost anyone. If these names sound familiar, it is likely because they were used as an homage in the Detective Conan manga by Aoyama Goushou.
J. Ono no Imoko (Japan) – NP: “Big Sister’s Plea"
Ono no Imoko was a Japanese diplomat sent by the Empress Suiko to deliver a message from Prince Shotoku to the Emperor of China in 607 AD, and again in 608. The characters in the name Imoko are 妹子, meaning “little sister” and “small”, respectively – hence the depiction here.
K. Sir Hugh Beaver (Ireland) – NP: “World’s Best World Records (World Records)” – The man who collects all of the “Best in the World”s. He is able to copy the strongest skill of the cards in play.
Sir Hugh Beaver (1890-1976) was a British engineer who became one of the directors of the Guinness beer brewery. Following a hunting argument with a friend over which bird was the fastest in Europe, he had 1000 copies of The Guinness Book of Records printed and sent to pubs. The surprising success of the book made it an instant best-seller, and according to Guinness it is the “best-selling copyrighted book of all time”.
I have the raws for the second rounds of results as of yesterday, and I WON!!!! I'll try to have those ready in the next month or so, so please look forwards to it!
Gygax. Oh my goodness, Gygax.
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Since DnD as I heard is popular in Japan, I'm not surprised that Gygax got in.
Kinnikuman's Parthenon makes the list
Good catch! I should have figured there would be a Kinnikuman reference somewhere.
Something arrived to my mailbox today, and it just happened to be a parcel from Japan. It looks like it ultimately arrived, afterall. I uploaded a scan to imgur to share the postcard with everyone involved.
Very nice! I got mine too at around the same time.
PUBLIC POST TO SHAME MYSELF INTO FINISHING THIS TRANSLATION FOR PART 2 AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF
Expect it later this week if all goes well.
Thank you, I'm looking forward to it!
<NEW FIC!> Revolution #9: Somewhere out there, there's a universe in which your mistakes and failures never happened, and all you wished for is true. How hard would you fight to make that real?
[11:20:46 AM] GlowStiks: lucina is supes attractive
[12:40] Lace: lucina is amazing
[12:40] Neir: lucina is pretty much flawless
Sorry this took forever
PART 1:
Unless otherwise stated, background information is paraphrased from Wikipedia or off the top of my head. Props also to http://megane123.wiki.fc2.com/ for the references I didn't manage to catch.
A. Baron Munchausen (Germany) - NP: "Braggart's Adventure"
Baron Munchausen is best known as a fictional nobleman known for telling wild tall tales of his fantastic adventures, such as wresting a colossal alligator or his voyage to the moon. Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia was written by Rudolfe Raspe in 1785, based off of a real-life Baron Münchhausen with a reputation as a colorful storyteller. In this illustration, he is drawn as William Zeppeli from Jojo's Bizzare Adventure.
B. Kyokutei Bakin (Japan) - NP: "Keisei Suikoden" - The ability to turn any Hero into a woman. Even a man with clear knowledge of his lineage is powerless to prevent it.
Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848) was a Japanese writer of popular literature during the Edo period. His most famous work, the Eight Dog Chronicles, consists of 106 volumes and took him 28 years to write, during which time he eventually became blind. Another of his works is Keisei Suikoden, a retelling of the classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (or Suikoden in Japanese) with all of the characters converted to women. He is drawn here to resemble the self-portrait of Type-Moon's own Takashi Takeuchi.
C. Diogenes (Greece) - NP: "The Hero Within The Doctor"
Diogenes of Sinope (412-323 BC) was a Greek philosopher who was one of the founders of the Stoic school of thought. Perhaps most famously, it's said he carried around a lantern while claiming to be looking for "an honest man". The mech here is the "True Dragon" from Getter Robo Armageddon, although I'm not sure what the relation is supposed to be.
D. Hypathia (Roman Empire) - NP: "Taking the Stars (Astrolabe)"
Hypathia (~350-415 BC) was a mathemetician, astronomer, and philosopher from Alexandria, Egypt. Although the comic says "Roman Empire", Alexandria would have been part of the Byzantine Empire at the time of her life. She was very highly regarded and became the head of the Neoplatonist academy in Alexandria. According to history, she was murdered by a Christian mob during a period of sectarian unrest. She's shown here holding the Antikythera device, an ancient machine used to calculate the alignment of the planets and larger stars, recovered in 1900 off the side of a small Greek island. She is reportedly the inventor of a similar device that used water and gears, although I can't find any solid citations for this.
E. Lapu-Lapu (Phillipines) - NP: "Eternally Spinning Circle (Never-Ending Circle)"
Lapu-Lapu (~1521) was ruler of the island of Lactan in the Philippines. When the Portuguese explorer Magellan came to conquer the area, Lapu-Lapu refused to swear loyalty and pay tribute to the Spanish king, eventually fending off Magellan's forces in a battle where the explorer lost his life. He is regarded as the first Filipino hero. I am not sure where his Noble Phantasm comes from, although it is perhaps related to the legend that Lapu-Lapu never died but instead turned to stone. His depiction here is based off of the statue of him which currently stands on Mactan.
F. Georges Méliès (France) - NP: "The Eyes That See Colors and Amazement" - As befits the founding master of special effects, he bestows the power of concealment and illusion on himself and allied cards.
Georges Méliès (1861-1938) was an early French filmmaker, probably best known for his 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, which features a rocket crashing into the Man in the Moon's eye. He is one of the first filmmakers to use various special effect techniques that would go on to become industry standards.
G. Henrietta Lacks (America) - NP: "Hayflick Limit Buster"
Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) was a black woman whose cervical cancer cells were used to create the first human immortal cell-line. These cells do not die as easily as normal cells, and can be kept alive through multiple cell divisions, thereby bypassing the Hayflick limit which determines how many times normal cells can replicate before losing their ability to do so. It is impossible to overstate the importance of these cells in medical research over the 20th century, contributing to cancer and AIDS research, and even the Polio vaccine. Controversially, the cells were harvested without her permission or knowledge. Lacks died of her cancer when she was 31 years old.
H. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (France) - NP: "History's First Car Crash"
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725-1804) created the first automobile capable of carrying a driver, based on a steam engine. At this early stage in auto design some flaws still needed to be worked out, and indeed one report tells of a misadventure involving a crash into a wall, thus creating the world's first car wreck.
I. Yaoya Oshichi (Japan) - NP: "Waving Sleeve Fire"
Yaoya Oshichi (1667-1683) was a young girl who, after meeting and falling in love with a page during a large fire, set another fire the next year under the belief that it would lead to their meeting once again. As she had just reached the age of majority, 16, she was burned at the stake for arson. Her story was loosely adapted and romanticized into a novel, a kabuki opera, and a puppet play.
J. Marie Tussaud (France) - NP: "House Of Wax Figures Who Returned From The Dead"
Marie Tussaud (1761-1850) was a French wax sculptor and founder of the "Madam Tussauds" wax museum in London. Standing behind her here are Hitler, Napoleon, Michael Jackson, and what appears to be the Buddha.
K. Alexander Bogdanov (Russia) - NP: "Because We Are Many" - The Hero of "God-Building", a proponent of the evolution of man to God through science. Through the power of youth-restoring blood transfusion, he can temporarily transplant the ability of any touching cards.
Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) was a Russian theorist, physician, science-fiction author, and rival of a guy named Vladimir Lenin. His is well-known for embracing the controversial concept of "God-Building", which suggested that instead of completely banishing religion, its mysticism and ritualism should be adopted for the advancement of Socialism. The achievements and science of humans were to replace God as the objects of worship in the new system. Under Lenin's influence, this idea was considered heretical and officially prohibited, and Bogdanov was arrested and exiled at various points for his refusal to comply. Also a physician, Bogdanov experimented with blood transfusions in order to attempt to find eternal youth. Although he considered himself to have found success, he died as the result of a transfusion from a patient with malaria and tuberculosis.
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