Speaking of 100 words XD

[petronia]

(EDIT -- Unlocked)


Whimsy

"His what?"

Fuji turned, brows raised as if to say, what a charming surprise.

"The Sparrow Tail?" He actually demonstrated, giving a hop and a sweep of his racket before falling back into step. "It's Nittouryu, from the--"

"I know," said Tezuka, who'd caught the reference a second late. He frowned, thinking of Fuji's taste in nomenclature; trying to remember who'd invented the now-ubiquitous sobriquet for Kaidou's whip shot. Inevitable though that one was... "The proper name is one-footed split step."

"With a hand switch?"

"With a hand switch."

"You have no sense of whimsy, Tezuka," Fuji said cheerfully.

***

Nemo

"Here, then," Fuji said thoughtfully, gesturing with a wasabi roll, "is a great mystery. For you and for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere - we do not know where - a few aquarium-dwellers managed to free themselves into the sea... Look at the ocean. Ask yourselves: yes or no? Did the fish escape their plastic bags? And you will see how everything changes..."

Eiji looked accusing. Kappamaki, oshinkomaki or inarizushi, not a scrap of ichthyous protein on the table: Ooishi's eyes harboured guilt, Eiji's stomach rebellion.

"Next time I'm picking the movie," he said.

***

Cursive

Fuji's handwriting was compact, rather than sprawling; even, rather than messy; sparse, rather than elaborate. He elided strokes in a manner reminiscent of running-script calligraphy. The result was neat and completely illegible.

(Kikumaru: "I dunno. Ignore the fact that the characters are all weird, I guess."

Kawamura: "I cross my eyes, Buchou. Er. It seems to work."

Inui: "Have you tried holding it out at arm's length?"

Ooishi: "Well, it is pretty cursive. ...Really you can't read this, Tezuka?")

"You're in the minority, Tezuka," Fuji said, smiling, and Tezuka had to remember not to take him up on the challenge.

***

1. So as I'm sure we all know, "tsubame gaeshi" is the name of an actual sword technique, associated in the popular imagination with Sasaki Kojiro, Miyamoto Musashi's opponent in perhaps the best-known of his duels. We also all know that Musashi wrote the book on ambidextrous sword-wielding, don't we?

I'd write a fic in which Ryouma whaps Fuji over the head with a cricket bat, but my life would be in danger.

2. This is from the under-the-sea remix edition of the Little Prince, of course.

3. Handwriting meme. See thread. <3



Y'know, I've got enough of these Fuji snapshots to justify making a public post.

Comments

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

XDDD

I love you so. I love your Fuji so.

(Was trying to categorize the various Fujis I've been reading these days -- Bing's and Sai's and mine can be grouped together, I think, except Sai's is a bit nicer and Bing's is a bit more ebil; Cathy's is more darkly passionate; Aki's is more vulnerable; and then I reached yours, and all I could think was 'niche's and Sabina's are just plain odd.') ♥

[summertea.livejournal.com]

And mine is just all too nice but teasing. .__. Well. Sort of. As much as I /CAN/ show how he is via picture. >_>

But I like Sabina's! I can understand that Fuji! You, Bing, and Cathy's have so many layers that my poor simple mind just goes BOOM. D:

*is simple! cannot help it!*

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

o_o

See, I tend to think of Sabina's Fuji as much more layered than mine. Mine is simple; understand that self-preservation is the force that drives him, and you have the key to his mind. Sabina's, on the other hand, is just this huge bundle of quirks, and WHY? What turns his crank? What's going on in that head of his?

I can completely relate to Tezuka/Yuuta/whichever poor devil whose eyes we're looking out of when I'm reading. XD

The great thing about Fuji is that canon gives us a multitude of ways to read him. Yours IS nice, and I suspect it's because YOU are nice and don't enjoy making him suffer so much, ahahaha. If we had a sliding scale of niceness, I picture it as running thus:

Cathy - Bing - niche - me - Sabina - Sai - Aki - Yin

(Yes, this is what I do when I'm bored. XD) It's harder to compare Tezukas, mostly because I don't think most of us have a fixed Tezuka in mind; I know I don't. If only someone would lend me theirs. >"

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

... So do I have the eviliest fuji or the nicest one?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

If Yin has the super-nice Fuji then you must have the evilest one. XD

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

.... But! But! He hasn't DONE ANYTHING! If everyone ACCUSES him of crimes he hasn't done he might just HAVE TO eat Nemos!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't look at me, this is Chrissie's scale. XD

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

<3

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

BUT HE MIGHT. I mean, if you had to BET on one of our Fujis eating Nemo, WHOSE WOULD IT BE?

(I bet he swallows Nemo just like he swallows the lychee pit -- WHOLE.)

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

OBVIOUSLY, YOURS. YOURS IS THE ONE WHO EATS SOUR PLUMS, RAW FISH = ONLY A FEW STEPS AWAY!

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

First of all, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH SASHIMI. Sashimi = yummy!

Second of all, okay, you've got me there. But my Fuji would eat Nemo because he thinks he's tasty; your Fuji would eat Nemo because, because IT'S THE NAME OF TEZUKA'S PET GOLDFISH.

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

...

XD do not tempt me.

[one-if-by-land.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA. CATHY AND I ARE APPARENTLY THE MOST EVIL OUT OF ALL OF THEM *GRINS* No wonder we get along so well. And with NICHE by our side, WE SHALL DOMINATE THE FUJI EBILNESS. GO, FUJI, GO!

(& Sabina, I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU because I love your Fuji and with that added onto my initial love for just you, you have flooded the charts. Though, I've always thought of Fuji's handwriting as small and compact and normal-looking, very unsuspecting, like a poor victim student teacher reading out his name on a homework assignment in class, and then getting all uncomfortable when he goes up to get it. XD)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, Fuji's teachers have no problem with it either. In fact Tezuka almost has to wonder if there's something wrong with himself, doesn't he? XD

But! Tezuka has grown wary-wise with experience. He still doesn't know how Fuji's traps work or how to spring them, but at least he recognises the traps now. XDXDXDXD

[summertea.livejournal.com]

BUT SEE. I get quirky. Quirky is ... um... STILL SENSIBLE IN MY BRAIN. .... Self-preservation is not in my blood, I don't think. ._.;

I AM WITHOUT A BACKBONE, IF MY MOTHER HAS HER CHOICE OF WORDS. It's not 'nice', it's 'too afraid to offend' and 'cannot stand to hurt' people. Which of course, isn't Fuji. So I try to mash some wierdness into him and it FAILS and that is why I DRAW AND NOT WRITE because it'd be an UTTER PIECE OF FAILURE.

*coughs*

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

Well, I find you very very nice AND backboney, and I can't comment on something I've never seen, but if you write Fuji half as well as you draw him, he will be 100% believable and loveable. ♥

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

...I'm referring to the niceness of our Fujis in the scale, of course. XD;;;

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Odd, yes. Odd is a good word for him. XD There's some sort of point here re how Tezuka in certain ways is worse at "reading" Fuji than everyone else, and possibly in certain other ways is better, but 100 words run out very fast.

The handwriting meme makes me want to engage in a spot of graphology. XD

[summertea.livejournal.com]

We can try somehow to 'make' Fuji's handwriting? 8D;

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I have a mental idea, but I wouldn't be able to do it. XD

(I know someone like that. British former diplomat. I'm the only person in my family who can read this guy's postcards, and I have to hold them out at arm's length and deliberately unfocus my eyes. Beautiful hand, but it's all one aesthetic squiggle with the occasional dot enlivening the landscape.)

[summertea.livejournal.com]

The head of the volunteers department of St. Peter's is like that. Not as .... squiggly as the person you know, perhaps, but undiscernable enough that it takes two or three of us to figure out what she wrote. *shakes head* BEAUTIFUL script, but just... um.... Yeah. We have a hard time reading it. @_@

To try to get Fuji's would be hard, as it's in JAPANESE and I can barely write ENGLISH well, much less Japanese. XD

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think you made the point in the hundred words very well. <3333

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Do people in Japan often still write in the Japanese version of cursive? I was looking at some examples in a book the other day and couldn't make head or tail of them.

Yes, you should unlock; many people post things that are far less polished, though I don't know your criteria for unlocking.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

(What is happening to lj's images? O_O)

Dunno about the Japanese, but Chinese do. Aesthetic illegibility is a skill that takes effort to acquire, and is considered a sign of literary 1337ness. XD A triumph of pattern recognition. This is why I have issues re my Chinese handwriting: it is, essentially, block print.

For the Fuji-drabbles, I wanted to have at least three so I could string them together and add footnotes. ^^;

[serendip.livejournal.com]

ohmigod, same with korean XD Hence I write Korean like a 3 year old. (Which matches my actual linguistic abilities, but no one needed to know that)

Driveby, babeeeeee ^_^

[tongari.livejournal.com]

the Nemo one. those two completely opposite-ended endings you managed to knit together. xDDDDDD!

and 'whimsy' is exactly what your Fuji has, in spades.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

But this is exactly what I thought at the end of the movie? :D;;;

(Up to the credits, anyway, when I realised they'd escaped the plastic bags, but even then I couldn't figure out how they managed until someone posted links to this Nemo slash story in which actually never mind.)

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

The NEMO one. I cannot help laughing hard enough to cry over that one. EIJI'S EXPRESSION. The way he must LOOK.

You are so brilliant. I love your dialogue so much.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

But is this not tragic inevitability. XD

Fuji: Hey, guys, want to watch Finding Nemo with me? ^_^
GP: Okay!
[movie is watched]
Ooishi: OMGWTF GUILT I'm going to go dump my fishtank out in the ocean now. ;_;
Eiji: ...Dude, fiction. Your fish won't survive.
Ooishi: Oh. ......WELL OKAY I WILL ONLY EVER ORDER VEGETARIAN SUSHI FROM NOW ON.
Eiji: >:O!!!
Fuji: ^____^ *arcane literary reference*

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

Well, eventually you know that Eiji would convince Oishi to buy him a clownfish and then the WHOLE ENTIRE CAST and then they will meet Atobe at the fish shop and both parties will try to hide their purchases behind their backs to pretend that neither of them are buying pretend members of the cast.

And fuji would laugh.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

XD &seriesofverylargehearts;

[fable.livejournal.com]

I can so picture this!

*hearts to infinity*

[fable.livejournal.com]

Your Fuji is so weird and wonderful and so Fuji, and your writing flows so seamlessly from canon and is so wonderful to read.

[kovaa.livejournal.com]

oh man, i'm not the biggest fan of fuji (um, chrissie linked me to an entry of yours a long while back re: how we view sports, and thus pot characters by extension. you articulated everything i feel personally so well, and yes. hard to love fuji with all that. /tangent), but yours, i can so get behind. just love all his pile of quirks. <333

I'd write a fic in which Ryouma whaps Fuji over the head with a cricket bat, but my life would be in danger.
:OOOOOOOOOOO FROM WHO? OMGPLEASEDOIT.

gah, i've been remiss in fbing you. must do so more often. ^_^;;