Legion's Quest/Trivia
Trivia about Legion's Quest includes:
- Author Appeal: Well, it is a Self-Insert Fic, after all. But among other elements, Minerva's physical appearance -- modeled in part on Elvira, Mistress of the Dark -- is a specific example.
- Early Installment Weirdness: Some of Legion's more outre abilities, as cataloged in the introduction, never actually show up again anywhere. And his status as an avatar of Coyote seems to eventually get displaced by the idea of him as a descendent in training for his own ascension to godhood.
- Shout-Out: Given Becerra is One of Us -- an avid reader of SF, Fantasy and fanfiction, among other things -- we're not going to try to catalogue every little reference. But they're there to find. In the meantime, a select few:
- The "Introduction" starts with a tongue-in-cheek invocation of Mr. Peabody and Sherman. (It's the last tongue-in-cheek passage we see for a long time.)
- Dr. "Smith", the "mad scientist" running Ed's experiment in the beginning of Legion's Quest 1, references the works of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, clearly expecting Ed to be ignorant of them. Ed counters by citing the Harold Shea books by name.
- Ed throws a The Prisoner reference at "Smith", who either doesn't get it or ignores it.
- As "Smith" indulges in Evil Gloating, Ed thinks a Ghostbusters quote.
- The Calypso is named for Jacques Cousteau's famous research ship.
- Minerva's speech patterns strongly resemble those of several different characters from Robert A. Heinlein novels. In fact, Becerra's writing as a whole is strongly Heinlein-flavored.
- The forward to Tangled Skeins is a deliberate pastiche of the forward to Bored of the Rings.
- Stock Quotes: "I am Legion...", of course, from Mark 5:9.
- Technology Marches On: Both in and out of the story. Ed remains involved with the experiment against his better judgment because he needs the money to get a better computer than his outdated Amiga 500. However, from the modern perspective, the newer, more powerful computer he was about to order is just as underpowered and outdated.
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