[Janus Steel]

Originally Posted by Crash Ichimonji

I was wondering about how everyone feels about a process's catalyst/cause being made to be realistic versus just leaving it as a mysterious/magical thing.

What's everyone's feelings on this as far as how a process occurs? Be it BE, AR, AP, TF, SW, GTS, TG, etc. ?

I pointed this out to D.T. in his Beach Blanket Cuties/Beauties 2. When the gun is used to shrink Mandy. At no point what so ever in the comic was it ever said it was a shrink ray as well as an age swapping ray.

Personally as a writer I live in the world that unless you tell me something does something I assume it can't be done and want an explanation as to why it could be.

For instance, I don't expect a powder to turn you into an animal to also turn you into a giant or a doll. Now if that same powder is told to me to contain unknown side effects which may cause another random transformation I'm fine with that. Because the author has told me what type of world it is by explaining what it does.

Now, personally I don't understand magic, can't believe in it because I'm a seeing is believing sort of person. However in the converse Master PC and Science so advanced it seems like Magic are alright to me for some reason.

In our... hobby. The amount of realism is subjective to your own perception and opinion. So everyone will probably have a different take on it. All that matters to me is does it make sense? If so carry on. If not, well I'll spend the rest of the story thinking about why it worked but still keep reading.