Talk:Olivia Viridi/@comment-4773581-20140121152721

What kind of goals she imposes on herself, as well as why she imposes them and how often she imposes new ones, could do with some explaining.

Why a van had an Ursa in it, what it was doing in the city, and what caused it to upend could all use some explaining (unless you're purposely keeping the event vague for some sort of super-secret RP or FF or somesuch, in which case the secrecy is understandable), as that's a pretty strange thing to have happen. There really isn't anything else to say about the history, though, as it's really short. Can't even complain about its length (or lack thereof, in this case).

With the weapon, I agree with Imosa. While it's true that metal bows do exist, none of them are made with doubling as a melee weapon in mind, and are indeed too flexible to double as swords (except for the Urumi, which they're actually too rigid for), as the ease at which they'd have to bend to create the necessary tension from the string being drawn means that they'd also bend whenever they hit something, which isn't exactly the best thing for a sword to do. Compound bows, on the other hand, use pulleys instead of the tension created by the bending of the bow itself, which puts less stress on the archer's forward arm than the tension system that other bows use. But I don't see any room for pulleys on Gale Leaf, and compound bows have a cable between the string and the bow itself (for what reason is something that I don't know, but I'm sure there is one), which GL doesn't. An explanation of where the string goes and why it doesn't just snap off of one side when being drawn back is also something I'd like to see, as at the moment it just seems to magically appear from nowhere and retreat to nowhere when going in to or out of the bow form, and looks like it's just sticking to the blade via some sort of mysterious mystery adhesive of mystique and mysterism when actually in bow form.

How she affords the dust for the arrows is also something that could do with an explanation, as I'm sure her fighting style could get pretty costly to maintain at times, and would probably put some strain on the average family's wallet, even if only a little. Though I'd assume she does her best to avoid it having to come to that, as she seems like that kind of person.

And while the statistics thing is neat, since there's no discernable context or canon reference for its scale, it seems superficial to me.