^_^ Every time I get a Lucki review, I laugh happily for several minutes

[farla]

Good lord, it's... it's some bizarre combination of solid writing and horribly foot-plodding SI trainer 'fic

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[recalesce.livejournal.com]

She's not even aware that the battle has overflowed being between pokemon until Keegan tackles her, and even then, she initially plans to get the battle between her and Keegan, returning things to the status quo. She's not scared at the time.
Uh-huh, she was out to get him, no doubt about that. (I was just saying that even someone who hadn't been would have done the same thing for different reasons.) After Keegan knocks her down, she looks and sees that she can't get the battle between them again, and then she runs; if it had been pre-Irin I'd have expected her to stand her ground and judo-flip him despite a couple of scrapes, but as it is, she doesn't seem to think she can beat him, or want to try even though she's mad at him. She does seem scared of fighting and risking worse injury when she runs instead. (And she may not have realised that climbing the rubble would hurt her that badly, but to be that desperate to abandon her revenge and her property does suggest 'panicked caution' of some sort by that point - though that's probably after the point you're referring to as 'at the time'.)

it's quite plausible that the group's plans might have worked if they hadn't been utter idiots who somehow thought the red orb controls Kyogre and the blue orb controls Groudon
Well, that's... bizarre canon... But if the game's Aqua couldn't control Kyogre because they had the wrong orb, and that was why the downpoar was unrestrained and potentially apocalyptic, then wouldn't the Aqua that did have the right orb actually be able to control it enough to keep from all getting killed? Or else what would the correct orb do? (The orb must have drastically reduced the legendary's power in the game to have made it catchable only by the orb's bearer...)

(...and I've just figured out their real reason for wanting to expand the oceans.)
For pirate cosplaying? o.o?

[farla.livejournal.com]

I'd have expected her to stand her ground and judo-flip him despite a couple of scrapes, but as it is, she doesn't seem to think she can beat him, or want to try even though she's mad at him. She does seem scared of fighting and risking worse injury when she runs instead.

I hadn't even considered that. But Lucki's not much of a twink sue, so even before the absol, she wouldn't have fighting ability. Someone would have to show up and help her.

Lucki's running because she doesn't think she could take Keegan in an actual fight, but does think she could outrun him. (He's two years older, male, and probably actually trained in fighting) In a fight, he'd pin her pretty fast, as he does when he finally does get her. She's not going to surrender if she doesn't have to. She's also running, in part, because he's chasing her and she's doing anything that Team Magma/he doesn't want. She's getting injured doing so, but it's more spite than fear.

then wouldn't the Aqua that did have the right orb actually be able to control it enough to keep from all getting killed?

Yes, but game Team Aqua's stated goals amount to "unrestrained and potentially apocalyptic downpour whee!" anyway, with the idea this is somehow helpful tacked on. In Lucki, they just aren't trying to make the world a better place. They're well aware of the fact that meddling with the existing balance is going to cause cataclysms, and that's why they're doing it.

It would be an interesting fanfic where the regular game team got the correct orb, though. GAH PLOTBUNNY.

For pirate cosplaying? o.o?

It makes more sense than anything else!