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Summary:

This is the third and last part of the Side Effects trilogy.

Volume 3 takes over right after the end of Volume 2. 

After having been reduced at the end of Volume 1, Kelly, Lisa and Casey are giant again in Volume 2, this time in a big city. They are all 250' tall, but Kelly has known for some time what's the force behind their growth. Fearing that her plans of using her size to rule and have fun are threatened by her former friends, Kelly will make herself much bigger than them and lets them know that she will be the one in charge from now onwards. She is tired of Lisa's naiveté and Casey's mindless violence.

At the end of Volume 2, Kelly uses her newfound size to defeat an army attempt at her and destroy the research center that could threaten her power. Once she is done, she sets on a quest to take over the world. This is what she will try to do in Volume 3. 

Left behind, Casey will set herself on a mission to become as big as Kelly, to be the one on top again. In the meantime, Lisa will try her best to stop her former friends and protect her family.


Categories: Giantess, Destruction, Violent
Characters: None
Growth: Giga (1 mi. to 100 mi.), Mega (501 ft. to 5279 ft.), Titan (101 ft. to 500 ft.)
Shrink: None
Size Roles: F/m
Warnings: Following story may contain inappropriate material for certain audiences
Series: Side effects
Chapters: 21 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 115533 Read Count: 169396
[Report This] Published: August 22 2015 Updated: January 02 2016
Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: December 05 2015 Title: Chapter 17: Chapter 16. Dawn

¡Oh Dios mío! Como si esta historia no podía ser más loco ! Yo sabía que Casey conseguiría encogido por los viales reductor , pero ella todavía poseo la fuerza unatural y durabilidad ! Además ... ya que ella sólo comió un montón de gente , ¿no habrían estallar fuera de sus entrañas ? La lógica no trabaja aquí! Y creo que era necesario llegar tan en los detalles de sus acciones. Es mejor mostrar la matemáticas después de la ciudad y, posiblemente, pasar a otra sección de la historia.

 



Author's Response:

Man... Google Translate (or whatever you used) really did a very poor job in the Spanish translation (of course, I'm assuming that your original text made some sense...) ;P

I'd reply if I could guess what you wanted to say...

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: December 06 2015 Title: Chapter 17: Chapter 16. Dawn

¡Oh Dios mío! Como si esta historia no podía ser más loco ! Yo sabía que Casey conseguiría encogido por los viales reductor , pero ella todavía poseo la fuerza unatural y durabilidad ! Además ... ya que ella sólo comió un montón de gente , ¿no habrían estallar fuera de sus entrañas ? La lógica no trabaja aquí! Y creo que era necesario llegar tan en los detalles de sus acciones. Es mejor mostrar la matemáticas después de la ciudad y, posiblemente, pasar a otra sección de la historia.

 

So much for Google Translate. What I meant to say was:

Oh my God! As if this story could not be more crazy! I knew that Casey
would get shrunk by the reducers , but she still possesses the strength and
durability unatural ! Also ... since she only ate a lot of people , would they
have not bust out of her gut? The logic does not work here! And I think it
was unnecessary to get that into the details of their actions. You better show
the aftermath of the city and possibly move to another section of the story.

So what's your next chapter going to be about?

Author's Response:

I'm still trying to guess what your intention using Google Translate was... I'd say my English is much better than Google's Spanish, so if the purpose is to communicate I'd suggest sticking to English from now onwards...

As for your comments: glad to know you knew what was going to happen. I don't remember you mentioning, but I guess you know what will happen in the remaining 4 chapters of the story as well.

As for the people she ate: you can consider that they are either digested or part of her when she shrinks, whatever explanation suits you better. Otherwise, no shrinking method in the world would be effective unless the subject has not eaten in 24 hours or so (and they would need to come with instructions similar to the ones for medicines).

As for your suggestion on going straight to the aftermath: it was a possibility, but I think that the one I chose works best. In the end, part of the interest in this chapter was suprising all those readers that, unlike you, did not know what was going to happen. This required investing significant time in "Casey in the city" and even bringing in the deception of the Millenium Tower still having its spike...

Next chapter will be the beginning of the end ;)

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: December 09 2015 Title: Chapter 17: Chapter 16. Dawn

Review 101!


Not as important as the 100th but important nonetheless!

 

I can't help wondering what K's going to do when she finds out that Lisa is still not back in Hollner. Or if/when she finds Casey at her diminutive size. Either that will make her amused or fearful...

 

Assuming NONE of the Nations agree to her terms, what will she do then??

 

I can picture it. This cocky realist speaking to her through a microphone:


"No matter how much power you have, you will never be able to convince the world to surrender. You are not a goddess but a freak made from a test tube. And whether they know that or not, is irrevelant. Because no matter how unlikely it seems, that that they can win, no matter how many people die... they will never stop fighting. It's human nature. Liberty is more important to us than life, because what is life without freedom of choice?"

 

Damn, that speech would be nice!



Author's Response:

101th is not bad either!

Well, you are assuming Kelly is going to find out about Lisa and Casey. Who knows what will happen? Well, I do. And you will... in four weeks.

As for your speech and your reflection: it's true enough. It's not in human nature to yield or give up in front of oppression. This is probably the reason why Kelly keeps getting attacked, even when some of the attempts are quite laughable. Sooner or later the people are going to find more effective ways to hurt her. Of course, this does not prevent her from considering herself so powerful that all resistance is futile, but there is a little bit of delusionality induced by her size in there, as we have discussed in some previous reviews.

Anyway, four weeks to go...

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: December 12 2015 Title: Chapter 18: Chapter 17. Resistance

I gotta say... that was interesting. Once again though, way too many fighter jets wasted. Aside from that... Incredible.

Yet another development in Kelly's personality. Crushing civilians just to piss the military off... she's becoming more and more like Casey. Surely she realizes now that the only way she can win is destroy every single ship on this planet.

The fact that she got hurt is awesome. It proves that she is still mortal. And now the nuke. If it really peeled her skin off, she'll look like a monster.

I hope that killed her yet somehow I doubt it. Time and time again, we've been fooled by you (Papayoya) and here it certainly isn't 100% conclusive to what happened. [Though it's safe to say, none of the military made it out]

As for her growing... what if that causes her to explode? The formula might have some other side effects that we still don't know about. I mean, there's no way she can cheat death forever... right? -_-



Author's Response:

Well, I'm glad that you found it interesting :)

 

The fighter jets were meant only as a distraction, not as an effective means to fight her. Still, she dealt with quite a few, true. As for the civilians: she is not crushing them to piss the military off. She is crushing them out of anger after having been attacked. She's starting to feel that she needs to be harder to the population around her to show that she means business. And I think that, as you say, she is starting to realize that it won't be so easy and she will need to crush many more armies before she can prevail (if she can prevail, that is),

 

The fact that she got hurt was one of the important parts of this chapter, of course. She is still mortal. As for the effects of the nuke... it's not just her skin that was peeled of. If a conventional bomb could hurt her, you can imagine what several thermonuclear warheads can cause.

 

As usual I won't reveal what happened to Kelly or what will happen next. You can call it fooling... I prefer to call it "keeping the story unpredictable" :P

 

More details about what happened next week.

 

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: December 19 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

Well fuck...

I can't say I'm not surprised but seriously that nuke should have killed her even in her current state.It's not like one needs to be vaporized to be dead or anything.

And now you've just created an excuse for more mass slaughter and destruction...

(Though points for completing her evolution into a full-blown psychopath :P)

And I assumed at first she was done with ruling and is now focused more on wholesale destruction... after all, she has not bothered to pick up George or Charlotte which means she no longer cares about them. And yet you still want to make that her agenda even though she has made it clear she will not stop killing.

I am frustrated that you went riiiight to K, not to the reaction of the FSD after having heard the news. Surely she must have been 'dead' for hours and that should have given the FSD time to prepare their antidote

(Unless you have an explanation in the next chapter)

The name of the chapter is wrong BTW, seems she is not getting revenge, she's just doing this because she can. The ones who did this to her cannot be punished so she's taking her anger out on the public.

 

So, K's CIty size (seems she's the only one who keeps getting bigger), C' miniaturized but still super-powered, L is completely normal, as far as I can see, and the death toll must be approaching six million.

Hope there's good follow-up... the last two chapters had BETTER not be focused on K's lording over Earth like her playground... I can read those kinds of stories in 1 chapter or less.

Change something.

For mercy's sake, make this story GOOD!

 

P.S. (My story might be on hiatus... but that's irrelevant right now)



Author's Response:

Well, the effects of the nuke were unpredictable... Kelly was considerably tougher than a woman of her prodigious size should have been, and in the end this made her resistant enough to the nuke to get killed but not vaporized, which in turn made her bigger.

Yes, she now has an excuse for mass slaughter. She has never been so pissed off before, and she has never had the power to create so much destruction with a simple gesture before. So... it's not going to be nice for those that cross her path. 

She does not think abour ruling, right now. She does not care about George or Charlotte anymore. We knew that Kelly was self-centered and now, with the wish for vengeance that she has, all she will focus on will precisely be that.

As for your idea on going to the FSD... you'll see what I have in mind for their front in the next chapter. 

BTW, you might disagree, but I can assure you that kelly is acting out of spite and is looking for vengeance. She is not doing to enjoy anymore. The "issue" is that to her individual people have become too inconsequential to care. So in her mind, the focus of her retribution is the people itself, who cannot accept the new status quo. 

You'll tell me if I managed to make this story good by the end. It's only two weeks left...

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: December 21 2015 Title: Chapter 19: Chapter 18. Retribution

Let me think about your reasoning...

 

Nope, not buying it.

 

It just doesn't compute. Even though it was expected, it shouldn't have happened. The last thing this story needs is more growth. Any of that shit should have happened way back then. And I know you like to explain your reasoning and why you thought your method worked, but please don't. Not to me.

 

Just take this in and see if anyone else feels the same way. I just feel that you've seriously overvalued the formula's side effects as an excuse to make shit happen. At this point, nothing is rational anymore, not even in crazy-rational.

 

This chapter makes me want to travel back in time and repeatedly smash both Kelly and Casey's heads in before they ever get their hands on the formula... without even giving them the courtesy of explaining why I'm doing it. Doubtless you understand.

 

So again, no need to explain your reasoning. I just want this to be read and discussed by others.



Author's Response:

Ok, I will not explain my reasoning then.

 

While waiting for feedback and discussion from others you might want to notice that this is not a forum where everyone can answer to anyone's posts but a story site where you can post reviews and just the author can reply...

 

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: December 26 2015 Title: Chapter 20: Chapter 19. Climax

Hmmm...

Dude, I'll be honest, I hardly read any sequences from Kelly's perspective because I knew at this point, (with her size and durability) there is no weapon powerful enough to kill her. It seems even a hundren megaton nuke would do no less then put her in a state where she became maybe ten miles tall.

You also proved that her new size even gave her new weapons. Using her urine to dispatch tanks was hilarious (Why were tanks summoned though?)

There has to be no more growth though. If you're story plays out the way I think it will [I'm not telling ;)] then teh excess growth at the end will actually have been a good plot-point. At her new size she was unable to hear the plane approach her until it was too late. If she was still only 2000ft or less the she would have seen it coming and destroyed with ease.

I realize now that will Kelly was recovering, Ron and the Major were mounting into their plane.Not the best explanation, but a reasonable one.

So, one more chapter. Which brings me to my big question:

 

Where did Joe hide Stella?

 

 



Author's Response:

Yes, one more chapter to go. Let's see if, by the end, things play out as you were expecting :)

 

I'll wait for your review next week. As for Joe and Stella... it will be resolved... or not ;P

 

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: January 02 2016 Title: Chapter 21: Epilogue

I give you an A minus review for your story.

 

This was a rather well-thought-out plot without too many scenes of masturbation or worshipping. It did have however, a considerable overdose of violence and waton destruction of cities. Total massacre, with the army not strategizing enough. The girls' motives were all reasonable, though I felt that Lisa's overall role was somewhat diminished, and not as explored with as much as with the other two.

As for Casey, well her role in this volume started with promise of a major smackdown between herself and Kelly and I was somewhat dissapointed when that didn't happen. Kelly's only real adversary was the FSD, though it makes sense that they were the ones to bring her down.

Kelly turned out to be my favourite character to read because she was the only one with major character developments. Her perceptions of herself in contrast with the rest of humanity became warped and to see it happen was beautiful. Losing touch with her own humanity, K found it easier and easier to trample humans until she felt no feelings for them at all. She even enjoyed it. And when she was finally defeated, all her ideals and beliefs of her godesshood shattered and she broke down, dramatically.

Her death also made sense... no one gets spared for committing the murder of over 1-10 million people or more.

(She IS dead right? It would be stupid if she wasn't.)

One last minor complaint was of course, not wrapping the story up. But if you think you can build upon this trilogy, then by all means... go for it.

 

P.S.

 

My story is somewhat behind, due to a brief trip to Saint-Sauveur, where I celebrated the last days of 2015. I am also resuming classes so I now have no idea when I'll be finished.

 

P.S.S.

 

Happy New Year!



Author's Response:

Happy new year!

 

Well, I'm happy to get your review for the story and to see that in the end you are looking at it in a quite positive light! Thank you!

 

As I mentioned some times during our discussions, one of my objectives with Side Effects was to have a plot that had certain consistency. I'm happy to see that you thought it was well though-out. Of course, this is intended to be a giantess story, which implies having plenty of giantess action. I did not want the sexual part (masturbation mostly, due to the women's size) to be the main argument driving the plot though. Sure, we are talking about young women enjoying a power that in some cases turns them on, but this only meant that I had to address how they overcame this need, not that I had to focus the story on that (it would have become very boring pretty soon). I'm glad to see that I achieved the right balance. As for worshipping, this is not what I wanted the story to be. Kelly, who is the one with the God-complex, is not actually interested on being worshipped. She is more "practical" (if I may use this word). To her, her goddesshood does not have a religious implication; in the end, she sees herself more as the ultimate absolute ruler than the ultimate goddess.

 

I know that we have not agreed about the amount of violence on the story. It's a matter of tastes, I believe. Casey's character required it, and the evolution of Kelly's character required it as well. We can always discuss about the dose, of course. 

 

I know we have typically disagreed on the approach from the army. In the end, my starting point was simple: they were not ready for that, the chain of command was broken pretty soon and they did not have too long to strategize. When they did, they organized a pretty effective attack (the navy and the nuclear bomb); they could not have known that it would be ineffective due to the nature of the women.

 

The girls' motives where the main element driving the plot, so I'm glad to see you thought they were reasonable. I also agree that Lisa's role was diminished. The fact that she has not had enough attention (and probably the same could be said about Ron) is probably one of the main shortcomings of the story (of course, there are others), and it's something I would need to address if I ever re-wrote it. 

 

As for Casey, I set-up the possibility for the smackdown with Kelly on purpose, knowing that I would not use it. It's one of the elements I used to keep the story unpredictable. Hopefully I achieved that in an elegant way. To me, even if the story used plenty of common places in the giantess genre, it was important to keep it interesting enough to read because what would happen could not be taken for granted.

 

As you mention, I set things up so that just the FSD (i.e. the regular humans) could fix the mess they had created when making Kelly big. It felt better. During a lot of the story many readers (including you) felt frustrated that Kelly was so utterly powerful that she could not be stopped. This was the way to show that it did not require another giant to stop her. People could do that, even if the cost was dire.

 

Of course, the story was set up in a way that Kelly was the most interesting character. Seeing the amoung of "hate" you professed for her during part of the story, I'm surprised that she ended being your favorite one, though :P Of course, Kelly is the one whose character has the biggest evolution, and the brief moment where she realizes what she has done and, with megalomania now gone, feels the weight of her actions on her, was intended to close this loop. I hope that it was effective enough. If you may, I used Kelly to explore a potential "path" of evolution for someone as the rest of the world starts appearing smaller, weaker and less consequential to that person. There are, of course, other possibilities and I may explore them in future stories.

 

The story does not clarify if Lisa and Kelly are actually dead. I agree with you that it would be quite fitting. I don't plan on re-using them right now, though. I think they're done as characters. I left the open ends with Stella and Casey on purpose, in case I decided to return to this world in the future. Who know?

 

Anyway, I've enjoyed reading your reviews and commenting the story with you. I Hope that you will continue letting me know what you think if I write new stories in the future.

 

Cheers!

 

P.S. I'll wait to see when your story is done :)

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: January 24 2016 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

OKAY, I've effectively blown off my story and am working on something completely unrelated to this site. If you have Celtx, then maybe I'll share it with you. I feel I could learn from you on how to write a longer story, and maybe you might learn something from me (less likely).

 

But the main thing I;m interested in is what I agreed to hold off until this story's finale. Now it's happened and I want to know if you intend to keep using the formula so that it only affects females. This BS about men not suffering any effects makes no sense (SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN).

Also I feel that maybe there will be an added twist with Men either being more stable so that they can operate as Soldiers and be part of an ANTI-GIANTESS attack (Operation Goliath Mk. II)

OR

They will be more unstable that women and will kill anyone and everyone.

I just feel you should keep options open. Attack of the 50 Ft Cheerleader did not specify whether the formula worked on just women, and yet they made it work anyway.

I am interested in hearing what you have to say.



Author's Response:

A pity to hear about the other story. I do not have Celtx. I guess it won't be that hard to install it and create an account but, quite honestly, I'm going through a very busy moment right now, so I'm not sure I would be of too much help in the short term. The only piece of advice I can give you about writing a long story is this: planning. Once you have an idea and a character (or characters) in mind, decide more or less what you want the story to be about and then write an outline: which will be the settings? who will be the supporting characters? how will things evolve? With that, plus a list of the chapters or scenes you want and a few bullet points of what you want each chapter to be about you'll be set. 

Quite honestly, I think that what I have been posting can be considered a draft of a story with a certain structure. I set myself to write each chapter with the outline in mind and then I let myself get inspired as I went. I went as far as rewritting a few chapters once the story had progressed, but in most of the cases I just left them as I had originally created them and corrected a few things, plus the spelling, grammar and style.

As for the giants: honestly, there is no scientific reason why the formula should not work on men except for the one I made up for the story (it requires 2 X chromosomes). The reason it does not work on men is because male giants or giant couples are not really my cup of tea. I don't know too well why, but it's an idea that does not inspire me. Maybe it's because my liking to the giantess theme has to do with a combination of beauty and female power (that's why I like superwomen as well, especially the ones that use their powers in a naughtier way than Supergirl or Wonder Woman). I don't know... but I don't see myself writing about a giant man unless it is for a very brief moment in a story where the plot might justify it. But I would not expect that in the short term to be quite honest.

It's a matter of taste...

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: November 01 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

"Stronger presence"?

 

Any "presence" at all would be stronger! They have not shown their faces whatsoever.

 

About my desire for male growth... I'll admit it's not that I like it, from from it, but I wouldn't mind seeing that kind of battle and I think if you want to keep it to women, then don't bother with excuses as to how the formula works! It would be easier to say that Fred, Kevin and Joe were just too wimpy to try it out, or not have them come at all.



Author's Response:

Well, it was a way of expressing it :)

You won't have to wait that much, now. Just two more weeks (as next week's chapter will be special in a different way than showing Ron and Mendel). You'll like Chapter 13, I think.

As for men: yes, I want to keep it to women. I decided to bother with excuses. Having something work only in people with two chromosomes X is pretty plausible, so that's what I decided to use. To me it was more plausible than accepting that the girls' boyfriends would be too wimpy to use the formula even when Casey was using her size to abuse one of them... 

As for not having them come at all: they were very helpful for the plot of Volume 1. Without their boyfriends there Casey would not have started getting rough, the girls would not have started getting apart from each other, Casey would not have had a motivation to get to Henford once the boys escaped and... well, nothing would have happened the way it did. 

Cheers!

 

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: August 27 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

Hi. Remember me?

 

Just wanted to get several things cleared up so I'm not constantly waiting for the next chapter.

First, did POTUS get airborne before Kelly even arrived? And if so, where's he headed?

 

Secondly, about Ms Hanson's quest. Do you plan to focus several chapters solely on her intentionally/unintentionally flattening houses and helpless victims to demonstrate her increased inhumanity? That might be an interesting point to bring up. She may not even think of humans as lifeforms any more.

Thirdly, does Casey want revenge on Kelly for humiliating her? Assuming she finds a way to increase her size, will she intend to eliminate Kelly so she doesn't threaten her position as number one?

Fourthly, what about Lisa? Is she more focused on stopping Casey or Kelly? Granted Casey is more unstable and unpredictable, but with Kelly's new power, she might be a greater threat to the human race. Does Lisa have any plan what to do with Kelly if she stops her. Would she be willing to kill her? Perhaps that be an internal conflict.

Fifthly, what about Ron and Dr Mendel? Have they found anything useful through the analysis of Kelly's blood or whatever? Any progress on a permanent antidote or explanation for their near-invulnerability? I'd like to know about their status every now and then.

Lastly, and most importantly, do you have a fixed ending for this story? Or are you going to change things based on reviews? You already know how I feel about this story but do you have in mind.

 

Thank you for taking your time to read this exhausting reply. Answer only if you see fit.

 

Oh... and are you posting two chapters a week? Or just one?



Author's Response:

Of course I remember you :)

One thing I can tell you: your reviews are the most original ones. As I believe I told you in some of my previous replies, I really enjoy them. And I think that I improved some things in Volume 3 based on them. I can also tell you that I don't expect you will like everything, but I think that you already expected that as well :P 

Anyway, I hope that you continue letting me know what you think regularly. I will try to give you my most candid answers; as always, though, without spoilers.

Now, going to your questions and comments:

1. POTUS got airborne when things in Hollner got out of control (after Kelly grew the second time). The Secret Service decided to move him out of security then. He is not heading anywhere in the short term, but you will see in future chapters that at some point the government has decided that the West Coast is probably the best destination for evacuations

2. I intend to have many chapters focused on Kelly at her new size. And if I did a decent job to have my intentions well represented, these chapters should clearly show Kelly's evolution and also how her view of the world and its people keeps on changing

3. Yes, Casey is really mad at Kelly. Not being the one on top and having been humiliated by Kelly was very frustrating for her. In the coming chapters you will see that her intentions in case she can increase her size will not be gentle towards Kelly.

4. Lisa is incredibly concerned both about Kelly and Casey. Your definition on why both of them should worry someone with a gentle heart like Lisa is accurate. The problem for Lisa is that she does not really know what to do about any of the two. A second problem is that Lisa is gentle but she is not incredibly smart and she is not very imaginative. I won't be able to answer your questions in detail since I would be spoiling some of the very next chapters, but let me tell you that Lisa will follow the "easy obvious path" and that her reactions from then onwards will be driven by what she finds in the way.

5. I will definitely cover what Ron and Mendel are up to. However, I'm afraid that you will need to wait several chapters for that. The flash of Ron and Mendel in the epilogue of Vol. 2 won't happen for a while. Timing wise, in the prologue of Vol. 3 Kelly has left Hollner less than an hour ago and has just destroyed the FSD. So, Ron is still trapped in the tower where she put him and Mendel has just been evacuated from the FSD. They will need some time to get to a new research location and get back to work. Once they do, I will try to explain what they do and what they find out (and hopefully the pseudo-scientific story I've made up will make some sense :P)

6. I have a fixed ending for the story. The entire story is written already. What I do every week is proof read and polish the chapters a little before posting. I will not change anything significant about the storyline based on reviews (but I definitely use the feedback for future stories)

I posted two chapters last week because it was basically a full chapter and the prologue. But I will post a single chapter every week from now on. They are not going to be short chapters, in any case. Using the complete draft I have right now, the story is 113K long, the shortest chapter is 4K words and there are a couple of chapters that are almost 9K long.

As I said, I'd appreciate your reviews and I would appreciate it it you keep letting me know what you think.

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: August 27 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

Oh and another thing. Redundancy. You spoiled the prologue and mentioned that "she was heading for Washington" two paragraphs before the last.



Author's Response:

Very true! Thanks for pointing out. I cannot undertand how I missed it (I typically proof read the chapters more than once...). The truth is that the prologue is probably one of the chapters in the story that went through less iterations, since I added it after most of the story was written and I reused some content that I actually had further down in the story.

Anyway, I fixed it. New readers will not have the last two paragraph spoiled.

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: September 06 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

Just read your latest chapter and I have to say, if you're trying to make Casey more hateful than ever, you couldn't have done a better job.

Reminds me why she's currently Lisa's top priority.

Seems like that was simply a workout for her. Letting off steam, taking it out on the "Lilliputians" because she's not ready to fight Kelly yet. Probably gonna go through a lot more small towns before she is.

I AM somewhat surprise by the fact that the town was not evacuated. Didn't the whole world hear the news? BTW, think you could mention a couple guys trying to catch a plane heading for Antarctica or Russia? (Just a thought...)

Good story, so far. No idea what'll happen next!



Author's Response:

Thank you. I'm glad that you don't know what's going to happen. While this story will definitely go through many giantess cliches given its nature, I did not want it to become just a predictable sequence of giantess action scenes.

Let's go to Casey: while she is not the most dangerous giantess around right now, she is by far the most hateable. She is a sociopath that needs no reason to kill. As a matter of fact, she just kills and destroys because she enjoys it. In a recent very well done critique that was posted in another site, someone said that, using a Batman analogy, she was a Joker type of character. I could not agree more. Of course, I cannot fool myself thinking that I will ever be able to write a character which is 10% as good as the Joker, but if I had to fit her in a category, I think that would be hers. As such, it's impossible to like her as a person.

I will not elaborate much more on what Casey will do in the coming chapters. But I can say this: she is mentally unstable, but she is smart and she has a plan.

Regarding your comment on evacuations: there is more about it in coming chapters. There is an evacuation ongoing. But in the end, Side Effects Vol. 2 happened in the course of a little more than half a day, and since the government and the army did not take the threat seriously enough until it became painfully evident that they had been mistaken, everything started very late. This, together with the fact that the women can move very quickly when they set their mind to it, made this town, along with many others, to be unprepared for Casey suddenly emerging on its beach.

I hope you will continue enjoying the rest. 

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: September 12 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

Agghh! There you again with that fantasy 'bull' and complete lack of scientific reasoning. There's no way a woman even at 17'000 ft feet could travel faster than the speed of sound, what with the pendulum-like momentum her legs move at. 

And when she jumped she should have gone through the crust of the Earth, with her force and her mass being far greater than they should be. I HATE PARADOXES!

 

I thought we'd been through this already. Well, nothing's perfect. Ignore my rants and keep writing!

 

"Cheers!"



Author's Response:

Well, I knew this would come when this chapter was posted... 

Look, I know about the pendulum-like momentum of the walking movement. And while I did not bother on researching what should have been the exact effects of her mass/force on the ground as she jumped, I'm quite sure that I did not guess them right. In my favor, you'll admit that I got the relative scale of the earthquake pretty nailed down :P (the Giantess Converter definitely came in handy).

In the end, I'm being consistent with what I already did at the end of Volume 2 and that you did not like it already... I was not going to change the way the world works from one Volume to the next. So, having been through this already (as you say), I guess that the only thing I can do is to approach some of these elements with suspension fo disbelief. At least, you'll admit that even if this is not sci-fi but fantasy, I did try to make quite a lot of elements as realisting according to the laws of physics as possible. In any case, since a giant women would never be possible according to these same laws of physics, I don't have so much of a problem if I need to skip them from time to time for other things...

And don't worry, I'm writing like crazy :P

Have fun! (I thought I'd change the "Cheers!" just this time... :P)

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: September 18 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

I gotta say, while I have been more interested in this series any other, I disagree with you associating Casey with the Joker of all people.

She does not, by any stretch of the imgaination, come even close to comparing. The only thing she has in common is the fact that's she's a pschyo and a murderer. But that applies to many other villains, Massacre, Deadshot, Ultimate Bruce Banner, Electro, Ultimate Green Goblin, Lex Luthor, and so on.

The Joker is not only crazy but extremely brilliant and completely unpredictable. See, he's not afraid to die, and will even be willing to if he can kill Batman. He also once tricked Mxyzptlk into giving up his power to him, and became 'Emperor Joker' ruler of the universe. 

Casey is not afraid, simply because she think's she can't die. And while you try your best to make her seem unpredictable, I'm afraid it doesn't work. Casey's mindset iss rather simple: get bigger, kill Kelly, trample and torture little people along the way.

Crazy or not, she has an agenda, something the Joker never has. That's why he's so unpredictable that even the Batman can't figure him out.

Casey is at best, Giganta on steroids. Not that that's a bad thing, but not the Joker.

 

Then there's Kelly using electricity to increase her size. Now it may not be the same as the way it happened in "Honey, I Blew Up The Kid" but did you watch that movie?And now that Kelly is seemingly unable to feeel pain, can she still use that method? 

 

Finally, have the scientists actually found anything meaningful from their findings that they put together? If not... well then this story has already suffered. But I won't judge 'cause you're not there yet. 

Cheers!



Author's Response:

You know what? I agree. I'm not sure how I put it exactly, when I mentioned the Joker. I was actually quoting a critique I received in GiantessCity and that I found especially well structured and written (and incredibly insightful). I'm actually still writing a worthy enough answer to post, after having thanked the author privately. If you are interested it's here: https://giantesscity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=117424&p=1169470#p1169470

The person writing it was trying to explain character types from the point of view of how they fit in a story, and there he classified the role of Casey in Side Effects as an agent of chaos, like the Joker. I don't think that he meant to compare her directly to the Joker in terms of behavior. As you, I don't think they are similar (I kind of agree with what you are saying).

I think that she is more unpredictable what you credit her for, though. She was in Volume 1, then, Volume 2 did not really let her show it, but I believe that she will surprise you at least a little in some points of Volume 3. It's true that she has an agenda now, because there is someone more powerful that she needs to get rid of, but once she does, her agenda is over. Anyway, let's talk about this again in a few chapters :)

As for Kelly's growth... I've seen "Honey I blew up the Kid". I'd like to think that Side Effects is "a little" more elaborate than that... she used electricity but, in the end, what she did was to kill herself, which is a little different than the movie :P

As for whether she can use the same method: probably not with electricity but the way the formula works in Kelly now is that anything that brings her near to death will make her grow. It's true that, at her size, bringing her near to death takes quite a lot. I won't say too much more ;)

AND, finally... even if it has been a few weeks in terms of publication time, in reality it has been about a couple hours in the Side Effects World since Kelly became massive. Ron is not even back in a lab. He will be, soon, and I will describe it in detail. The scientists, especially Ron, are very important. I'll get there. It will take a few chapters.

Hope that you will continue enjoying until then!

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: September 19 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

Tell me, is there a reason that you're making the President so irrational? Aside from the obvious crap of super-sized strippers, he's only thinking of direct attacks. At least tell me he'll have the sense to stay far away from the battlefield.

I do like Casey returning to Henford to get revenge though. That makes sense.

And how Lisa now wants to kill Kelly more than anyone else, even Casey, who was initially her worst enemy. The change in goals and Lisa's realization that Kelly is no longer the same person she was, is excellent.

Also the part where she almost gets a 'growth' boost. Makes me wonder if she'll come on top, not Casey.



Author's Response:

Don't worry, the President is going to stay in Air Force One as long as there is a threat. As for the reason for him being irrational... the truth is I had some doubts about how it would received. I've watched many shows and read some books where a "not so great" President is not up to the task in hard moments (e.g. even if it's not the greatest book of all times and the author the greatest writer ever, I have to admit that I kind of enjoyed "The sum of all fears" from Tom Clancy). Having someone in the crisis team being blunt while other people, more rational and able to keep their calm pulled some strings on the back to follow the right course was a feasible enough possibility that will explain the development I have in mind for the story. I'm afraid you'll have to wait almost until the end to tell me if you liked the way I handled it or not...

In any case, the figure of a President completely overwhelmed by the situation, seeing thousands of his people being killed and unable to do anything for hours is not so unrealistic. And the fact that someone is so much in rage (and at the same time, so concerned by the reaction of the citizens in front of him doing nothing) to react in a way that looks irratonal is human enough. Also, it has to be considered that within the confusion generated by the situation, without proper scientific advice, it must be hard for a President to believe that there is nothing his armed forces, the most powerful in the world, can do to stop her.

Moving on to the next comments.

- Casey is back to Henford to get the formula that she believes will make her grow even more. Seeing her old town and thinking on the people she knows there makes her think on both revenge and indulgement. I will put some focus in this in the coming chapters.

- The change in Lisa's target and, more importantly, giving her purpose in the story, was something that I had to do. Otherwise, her character would have become too irrelevant, and I alredy feel too guilty that I have not use it well enough along the series (she has got less attention than Casey and Kelly). I'm happy that you liked the way I handled it.

As for what will happen to her... you'll have to wait :)

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: September 26 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

I disagree with you considering her destruction of the Pentagon an evoultion in her character. She was already betshit crazy with power and had previously rationalized her crushing of innocents as inavoidable.

I wonder if you might be using Kelly too much for this story. Unless you intend to have someone either (a) HURT HER or (b) Suprise her

For example, someone delivers a logical and passionate speech about how she is no God and she will not be able to rule over anyone on her own. After all, it is obvious she is going to just step on people or play with them sadistcally. Either way, the human race will not surrender because it is human nature to not yield. Something like that.

BTW, does she know the President has left Washington?

At least I'm asuuming he has, or you're a crappy writer (no offense) because he's had plenty of warning and plenty of time to get out. So has the Vice President, and both of them should be at least twenty thousand feet above ground.

(WHAT ARE RON AND DR. MENDEL DOING??? WHERE ARE THEY???)

Aside from all that, good chapter, made me hate Hanson even more now.

"Cheers!"



Author's Response:

Well, I disagree with your disagreement ;)

It's very true that she is drunk with power and that she has previously rationalized that killing innocent people will be unavoidable. What has changed this time is that she is not accepting several deaths by accident. This time she is killing thousands of people on purpose and has created a justification for that that works well inside her head. She had previously killed thousands, but "only" in the heat of the battle. Now she has tagged an entire group of people as enemies and reached the conclusion that she is well within her rights to destroy them. This is yet another step in her dark path...

Kelly will be by far the character with more time in the story. Someone told me that since she has now become an antagonist (quite obviously), this might be causing some issues. I don't know if that is the case. I guess it could be, depending on the reader. In any case, Kelly is the character that is driving the story forward. Right now, both Casey and Lisa are reacting to Kelly's status or Kelly's actions. Kelly is the one that is creating a new storyline. This is the reason she is getting more attention (besides the fact that to me she is the most interesting character to write).

As for what will happen to her? As usual, I won't reveal any spoilers. I will just point out again that Kelly is an antagonist in this story. This has implications in the storyline...

The President has left Washington (he is still in the Air Force One, as in the previous chapter). Of course, Kelly does not know it (she has no means at all to know it), so she is heading for Washington with the "hope" of finding him there. In any case, finding the President is relevant but not key to her plans. 

And Ron and Dr. Mendel will show up in the story, and when they do they will be very important. It's still a few more chapters before that happens, though. 

I'm glad that you liked the chapter besides the points you disagreed on. I had already guesses that you would hate Kelly more after what she has done. No matter what she might rationalize in her head, slaughtering people by the thousands does not turn someone more popular...

I guess I'll change my typical ending, just for the sake of being unpredictable :P

Have fun!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: October 10 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

My God, can she get anymore delusional?

FYI, I don't like the fact that you call this a fantasy yet limit the army to regular weapons. You make it possible for a weapon of MD (Mass Destruction) such as the formula, yet no counter-measures for it. You can't seriously expect me to believe that "they didn't think it all the way through" BS. USA's a highly paranoid country and to have no super-weapons in this new age is ludicrous.

Something that could at least hurt them, even to minor scale should not be discounted!

 

I have more to say, but that will have to wait.

 

Can't wait for Lisa's next chapter... and Ron and Mendel's debut!



Author's Response:

Yes, she can get more delusional. Since her growth she has fallen quite quickly into it, but there is still some room for evolution. This evolution will have a certain twist, though. Kelly is killing people by the thousands and doesn't care too much about it, but she really has a plan. You'll see.

I know that you hate the fact that the army is ineffective agaisnt the women, especially Kelly. So far, their lack of effectiveness has been driven by the fact that the women have become much stronger than they should (and that anyone could imagine) but also by the fact that the response has been quite uncoordinated since they haven't had material time to work on it.

This story is a fantasy (obviously, any story about a giant woman needs to be a fantasy), but in the end, it is important for fantasy to set the scenario and the ground rules and then to make the story evolve from there, without changing them as you go. In Side Effects the scenario is the real world and the ground rules are that everything in the world is exactly how we know it except for the fact that three women have grown much bigger and have become much stronger due to an experiment the government did not pay the necessary attention to. I know you would prefer the setting to be a little different, but I'm just trying to keep faithful to the scenario and rules I set since I started Volume 2...

BTW, I never said anywhere in the story that there was nothing that could hurt the women. When she was 250 feet tall Kelly was hurt. Now she is much bigger, so the weapons that hurt her before will not hurt her now, but there are other weaponsin the arsenal.

I'm happy that besides everything you are still more or less enjoying the story. Thanks for the feedback, as always! I may agree or may not agree, but it's interesting to discuss it and as I mentioned a couple of times, it makes me think when I'm writing new chapters or new stories (which is the case right now, since Side Effects 3 is pretty much written).

Cheers!

P.S. I'm preparing the answer to your other, much longer post now :)

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: October 17 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

One more thing, I just realized. What if there was a male with an abnomality and an extra X chromosome, would it still not work. Is it the Y chromosome that cancels it out?

To find what I mean, click this link here: ghr.nlm.nih.gov/chromosome/3

 

Also, I noticed Many wants to be BIG as well. Will you be exploring that in later chapters?

Or this is just showing how similar she is to her cousin?



Author's Response:

Hi there!

You really want to have a male growing and stopping the girls! Honestly, I have not developped the pseudo-science behind the girls' growth nearly enough to determine what would happen if the formula was applied to a man with an abnomaly and two X chromosomes. I guess that we could consider that it's the Y chromosome the one that cancels out the growth. In the second part of the story you'll get an attempt at an explanation of what's making the girls grown and what made Kelly even bigger. Let's scpeculate then?

As for Mandy: yes, she wants to get big. And she won't just accept that her cousin can decide her fate. So, Mandy will show up later in the story, since she is on a mission as well. WIll she succeed? Well, I won't reveal that! :P

I hope that you enjoyed the chapter in any case :)

Cheers!

Reviewer: iHategiants666 Signed
Date: October 24 2015 Title: Chapter 1: PROLOGUE

She isn't a goddess, I can say that much.

And she really believes people are just going to submit. She really believes she is UN-BEATABLE and yet she completely forgets the fact that there are stil plenty of ways for her to be killed. I can think of several chemicals that would destroy her, though I can tell that's not how she's going to be beaten. I will say, that there must be some point where someone proves to her JUST HOW WRONG SHE IS.

Of course, the FSD probably knows how to beat her by now (or not), and unless Lisa can figure out how to get bigger, then they are effectively mankind's only hope, the ace in the hole, if you will. There has to be something that happens, something they do that actually makes a difference, or (no offense) I have wasted my time reading this. I don't mean to be rude but unless you have a plan for them to act.... never-mind I won't press the issue.

What I will point out is that Kelly probably has NOT thought about the long term. There is probably not even enough resources on Earth for her to last more then ten years, at her current size. My math might be wonky but seeing that she has easily the appetite of like a million people, it doesn't sound that crazy. If she DOES get bigger, and cannot shrink down, then she IS effectively screwing herself over. She won't be able to sustain herself and allow mankind to sustain themselves.

And BTW, since pain is a key factor to increasing her size, how would she get bigger, unless of course she got hit by a powerful missile to the face... or got punched by a certain giant woman?

Also, you said her body temp. has not changed. What would happen in the winter, huh? Big or not, she'd die of hypothermia. In fact, she has, ah, been inserting buildings right? Any possible repercussions on that one? Probably not, but still...

FYI, this is a good story, but it sucks as a fantasy. If that's what you were aiming for, you missed. Maybe you'll say I'm wrong because you have a different interpretation, but this is still a bit weird.

Finally, what is the time span of this story in terms of? You said it would be a few days. Is that still your goal?

 

Let me know

Cheers.



Author's Response:

Of course she is not a goddess. This does not mean that she cannot consider herself as such, though. And yes, she has got to the point where she thinks she is unbeatable and people have no other option but to sumbit to her. Her only doubt is how many more lessons she will need to teach them before the world finally bends the knee.

Is she right? Or will someone prove just how wrong she is? Well, this is one of the main mysteries that will be unveiled at the end of this story, of course :P

I already know which of the two outcomes is the one you want (and how much you would hate the other). I'm afraid that, as usual, I'm not going to reveal how the story will progress.

As for the rest of your comments:

- You're right. The FSD is the best chance the world has at fighting Kelly. The Secretary of Defense already admitted that in one of the earlier chapters, even if the President was not on the mood to exercise patiente and let them work unencumbered.

- At her current size, Kelly's needs are still pretty manageable. Being roughtly 300 times taller than an average person, she has 27 milion times the mass. If we rationalize that her nutrional needs are in line with her mass increase, she "just" has similar needs to those of a medium sized country or a big state in the US. She would need more or less the same food that the entire population of Texas. The country (and definitely the world) is definitely able to provide that in a sustainable way. Of course there would be some logistic challenges at the beginning but from a "raw numbers" perspective, she is not at risk of finishing the world's food stockpiles. Of course, if she were to grow bigger that would represent a bigger problem, but she still has some room to go.

- It's not actually pain that can make her get bigger, but actually a near-death experience which triggers the reaction of her body. She had it twice. What she meant when she was speaking to the journalists (even if she did not reveal all the details on purpose) was that she would rather stay her current size but that if somehow humanity did find a way to hurt her enough to nearly kill her, then she would get bigger. That is the mean reason Kelly is absolutely convinced she is unbeatable.

- Her body temp is the regular one, but one of the "nice" side effects of her increased strength/durability is a higher ability to resist cold (I know you will not probably like it... but Superman did not suffer from cold, right?)

- The span of the story will be a couple of days. It's my goal and what it's going to be.

I'm afraid I do not understand your last comment: it's a good story but sucks as fantasy? I'm not saying that you may not be right, but if you could elaborate a little further...

Cheers!