Return of drabble: intermission and meme
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petroniaTwo to go in this round. Yes, I'm on it - halfway through the Hiroyuki one. ^_^ This is something else, though; kind of inspired by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
acadine's intricate Snape character blurb. I told her I'd do one for Crawford, but halfway through I decided a musespace-wide sampler would be more interesting.
CRACK CRACK COCAINE HALLUCINOGENS CRACK! Don't say you weren't warned.
Weiss Kreuz
Crawford's hippie parents had him on a horrible macrobiotic diet until he was about five, when his father died and his mother ditched him with his WASP Establishment paternal grand-parents. She'd fed him piles of wakame. It's just as well, though, because at least now he likes Japanese food.
He also owns a bloody huge mansion somewhere in New England (Long Island IIRC, there's a view of the Atlantic through the windows), with all the furniture in plastic wrap. Hasn't been back there in years.
Farfarello has repeatedly crashed the PSX by GameSharking Sephiroth into his FFVII party.
Hikaru no Go
When Akira was two he swallowed a go stone (it was black), and Akiko-san told him a go board would grow in his stomach if he wasn't careful. He was in fact terrified of this happening for the longest time, which may explain why he has minor issues with food. It did stop him putting the things in his mouth, though.
Vagrant Story
Lea Monde can be conceived of as a big ol' mystical mainframe, and all the runes a horking pile of badly-commented legacy code that downloads itself into wetware when an "heir" is chosen: think of the Blood-Sin as a kind of port.
Sydney is the only heir in centuries who's been able to modify the code. He wrote a lot of himself into it, almost to the point of becoming a ghost in the machine. He's the best hacker the VS world has seen - not that it's seen many of them - as well as the best baritone. Some people are born with it all, frankly.
Aldous Bardorba was actually kind of hot when he was young.
Yuu Yuu Hakusho
Kurama is an Elder Dedicate of the influential Temple of Inari, which is hugely embarrassing for them since he's technically supposed to be excommunicate. The Temple Pillars in the know realise that he's the Avatar of the Trickster shadow-aspect of Ukanomitama, theologically speaking, but that doesn't mean they like it. In tLoN he eventually returns to make trouble for them - pulls rank in order to gain passage and spiritual aid, supported unexpectedly by the moon-aspect Yumemi (his first speaking role in years!). Two votes versus one, the Hierarch had to cave, but she wasn't happy.
Fushigi Yuugi
In the tLoN continuity, bignameDJ!secretagent!Hotohori and librarian!bartender!Nuriko eventually hook up - professionally, as a band. N sings, H spins. Think Fischerspooner (though I knew this since before Fischerspooner was formed, and indeed before I had any idea what a "synthpop duo" was).
Their first official gig: Miaka and Taka's white wedding.
Initial D
Ryousuke and Keisuke's mother is a blonde French former model named Marianne, who ditched them and went back to Europe when Kei was three. Ryou's been to visit her since, as he was the one in which she showed marginal interest; they developed a weird half-spoken hostility/validation thing that mostly involved taking hairpin curves in the Apennines insanely fast in a little red Alpha Romeo. (He was twelve. Marianne was about as concerned with legalities as Bunta.) The odd bit in this is that the ex-Mrs. Takahashi actually met Mogi Natsuki some years later, after she graduated in fashion design and started working as a couture sewer for Rei Kawakubo at Comme des Garçons. Absolutely nothing came of it in strict story (what story?) terms; but as they say, it's a small world.
I mean this to be a meme, because I want to hear about your character gremlin lore of which you're secretly convinced, but that you leave out of your stories due to sheer crackishness. ^_^ Out with it.
acadine's intricate Snape character blurb. I told her I'd do one for Crawford, but halfway through I decided a musespace-wide sampler would be more interesting.CRACK CRACK COCAINE HALLUCINOGENS CRACK! Don't say you weren't warned.
Weiss Kreuz
Crawford's hippie parents had him on a horrible macrobiotic diet until he was about five, when his father died and his mother ditched him with his WASP Establishment paternal grand-parents. She'd fed him piles of wakame. It's just as well, though, because at least now he likes Japanese food.
He also owns a bloody huge mansion somewhere in New England (Long Island IIRC, there's a view of the Atlantic through the windows), with all the furniture in plastic wrap. Hasn't been back there in years.
Farfarello has repeatedly crashed the PSX by GameSharking Sephiroth into his FFVII party.
Hikaru no Go
When Akira was two he swallowed a go stone (it was black), and Akiko-san told him a go board would grow in his stomach if he wasn't careful. He was in fact terrified of this happening for the longest time, which may explain why he has minor issues with food. It did stop him putting the things in his mouth, though.
Vagrant Story
Lea Monde can be conceived of as a big ol' mystical mainframe, and all the runes a horking pile of badly-commented legacy code that downloads itself into wetware when an "heir" is chosen: think of the Blood-Sin as a kind of port.
Sydney is the only heir in centuries who's been able to modify the code. He wrote a lot of himself into it, almost to the point of becoming a ghost in the machine. He's the best hacker the VS world has seen - not that it's seen many of them - as well as the best baritone. Some people are born with it all, frankly.
Aldous Bardorba was actually kind of hot when he was young.
Yuu Yuu Hakusho
Kurama is an Elder Dedicate of the influential Temple of Inari, which is hugely embarrassing for them since he's technically supposed to be excommunicate. The Temple Pillars in the know realise that he's the Avatar of the Trickster shadow-aspect of Ukanomitama, theologically speaking, but that doesn't mean they like it. In tLoN he eventually returns to make trouble for them - pulls rank in order to gain passage and spiritual aid, supported unexpectedly by the moon-aspect Yumemi (his first speaking role in years!). Two votes versus one, the Hierarch had to cave, but she wasn't happy.
Fushigi Yuugi
In the tLoN continuity, bignameDJ!secretagent!Hotohori and librarian!bartender!Nuriko eventually hook up - professionally, as a band. N sings, H spins. Think Fischerspooner (though I knew this since before Fischerspooner was formed, and indeed before I had any idea what a "synthpop duo" was).
Their first official gig: Miaka and Taka's white wedding.
Initial D
Ryousuke and Keisuke's mother is a blonde French former model named Marianne, who ditched them and went back to Europe when Kei was three. Ryou's been to visit her since, as he was the one in which she showed marginal interest; they developed a weird half-spoken hostility/validation thing that mostly involved taking hairpin curves in the Apennines insanely fast in a little red Alpha Romeo. (He was twelve. Marianne was about as concerned with legalities as Bunta.) The odd bit in this is that the ex-Mrs. Takahashi actually met Mogi Natsuki some years later, after she graduated in fashion design and started working as a couture sewer for Rei Kawakubo at Comme des Garçons. Absolutely nothing came of it in strict story (what story?) terms; but as they say, it's a small world.
I mean this to be a meme, because I want to hear about your character gremlin lore of which you're secretly convinced, but that you leave out of your stories due to sheer crackishness. ^_^ Out with it.
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Date: 2003-07-11 10:33 pm (UTC)I think I died at the Farfarello bit. XD
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Date: 2003-07-11 11:43 pm (UTC)(I just went to see LXG and am now picturing you writing Professor Moriarty/Dorian Gray. For some reason it just seems to come to mind in your style, like Nanafic comes to mind in Harpy's.)
Farfarello is also a big dorky fan of Kurata Sana on Child's Toy. Basically my Schwarzverse is a lot less sane on the edges than would appear from what I end up writing.
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Date: 2003-07-14 06:04 pm (UTC)Eriol: *beam*
Jae: *hates*
But it is funny! ^_^
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Date: 2003-07-14 08:59 pm (UTC)Maybe one day I'll even write a story about Ryou's bitchy French mum. But I always feel as if I should explain the reasoning, and it's pretty esoteric.