I'll be honest with you because I like you, *wink*
(I went with the easy one...sue me...)
I've been following your work relativly heavily since we met in the Tourny and you have tremendous skill but your writing feels forced alot of the time.
You have something but it seems like you ar emore concerend with squeezing a specific line you had thought about that afternoon then write what would flow naturally in the course.
A prime expample to me from the past was:
Quote: Violet in 'Trouble in the Restaraunt':
?You came in here on the intent of doing harm, didn?t you, you naughty boy??
The line just bothered me...what badass says that?
"Thought you'd cause some trouble, didn't you you naughty little boy?"
or
"Thought you were all big in bad coming in here, didn't ya? Now who's bad?"
I think the word 'intent' just killed the mojo to me.
It helps for me to just go through a conversation in my head and go "Would I REALLY say that? Would Yamu? Then go form there.
Another thing, a problem I used to have too, is sharing the spotlight. When we write we always want our own charachter to be the big dog and everyone else play our supporting cast, but sometimes it is just not logical. If Violet had a broken ankle and since 13 is already alot faster then anyone else in the party, it would probably be HIM that knocked the other out of the way...it just feels wierd for a gimp Vi to be 'shielding' Android 13.
As per your question...the humor fell kinda flat to me. Alot of other people would probably get a kick out of BukieBear raping Min...but I dunno again it seemed more like a forced attempt then what had come to mind naturally.
I know i'm being hard...but its only because I know you can take it and you know you're a great writer and someone of your caliber needs ot hear it tough!