Mirage of Blaze vol.16

[petronia]

Sarah wanted to know, but I stayed up too long last night talking with Justin and now I'm a complete zombie. XD So y'all make do.

petronia: Halfway through 16.
petronia: Haruie just totally bitchslapped Naoe.
petronia: I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.
sesame_seed: ooooohhh
sesame_seed: does she know it's naoe yet?
petronia: Not really.
petronia: Sort of.
petronia: Okay,
petronia: let me put to you a hypothetical case:
petronia: you hear an explosion.
petronia: You run to the scene.
petronia: You see some total strangers getting into an ambulance with your friend, who is badly hurt and on a stretcher.
sesame_seed: mm-hmm?
petronia: You run after the ambulance but it doesn't stop for you.
petronia: You talk to some people who were there, and they assure you that the total strangers who were just with your friend FLEW DOWN FROM THE SKY.
petronia: You go to the hospital.
petronia: You run into said total strangers who tell you you cannot go in to see your friend because they are operating and his life is in danger.
sesame_seed: ...........
sesame_seed: sabina, where are you going with this? o_O
petronia: These total strangers (who may or may not have FLOWN DOWN FROM THE SKY) suggest to you that rather than sit in the waiting room chewing on your nails, you leave to continue your investigation, and they will handle the waiting room bit for you.
petronia: Do you:
petronia: A) say fuck you all, I don't know you, I'm staying here until I get some back up from MY team,
petronia: or B) yeah, you're kind of right, I'll just be going now, give me a call if he croaks thx.
petronia: Chrissie?
sesame_seed: mmm?
petronia: A or B.
sesame_seed: oohh, only a and b?
sesame_seed: a, of course?
petronia: Well, apart from a or b, what would you do?
petronia: Yes.
petronia: Yes, so would I have.
petronia: Guess who didn't?
sesame_seed: *nodsnods*
sesame_seed: ...O_O
sesame_seed: from what you said earlier -- naoe?
petronia: No.
petronia: Chiaki.
petronia: WHO IS BRAIN DEAD.
sesame_seed: ..................
sesame_seed: he would've been my first guess
sesame_seed: but. if so
sesame_seed: why is haruie slapping NAOE?
petronia: Well, Chiaki did call a little later and got Haruie to come up by express train from wherever completely other city she was,
petronia: however, because of his BRAIN DEAD DECISION,
petronia: by the time she got there, Kagetora was gone.
sesame_seed: mm?
petronia: She calls the hospital and they're like, oh we're very sorry ma'am, he passed away, here's the time of death. She runs over and demands to see the body; well, they don't have a body, because the people who were THERE all the time and the hospital thus assumed to be in charge signed him out and took him away.
sesame_seed: ......................
sesame_seed: XD;;;;
petronia: At this juncture Naoe-as-Kaizaki comes busting into the hospital looking somewhat mussed, as he's just come from the park where he found devastating ki battle signatures and a pool of Kagetora's blood on the grass.
petronia: Haruie turns around and goes, You! What are YOU doing here? OMG YOU'RE BEHIND IT ALL, AREN'T YOU? MURDERER! I KILL YOU ALL! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH KAGETORA???
sesame_seed: .................
sesame_seed: oh. my. goddddd XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDd
sesame_seed: POOR NAOE
sesame_seed: *FEELS SO SORRY FOR HIM*
sesame_seed: kuwabara does this ON PURPOSE
sesame_seed: WHAT DOES SHE HAVE AGAINST HIM?

***

petronia: And the students at ebil school have all been taken over by hatching snake aliens, which is a good thing because the high school girls have put several observations together and come to the conclusion that Chiaki-sensei and Ougi from class 2B are, er.
sesame_seed: ............
petronia: It has been observed, for instance, that they first showed up at the school on the same day; that they engage in lengthy closed door discussions in Chiaki-sensei's office; and that both of them seem to be living IN THE SAME HOTEL.
sesame_seed: XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
sesame_seed: NAOE WILL BE MIFFED
petronia: I almost wish the snake aliens had waited a day or two, just so this could become a bona fide rumour. XD

***

petronia: But see, as I was talking with Sarah,
sesame_seed: mm-hmm?
petronia: I think that in general I actually feel worse for Takaya than for Naoe.
sesame_seed: she thinks kuwabara tries to bias the reader?
sesame_seed: ohhhh
petronia: No, she thinks the anime biases the viewer.
petronia: Kuwabara is about equal in her torture, err I mean assignment of blame.
sesame_seed: XDXDXD
petronia: And I know why I feel sorrier for Takaya, too.
petronia: It's because he's dumber.
sesame_seed: mmm?
sesame_seed: ...XDDDDDDDDDDD
sesame_seed: i take it that this does not extend towards kagetora
petronia: Naoe strikes me as someone who should just know better.
petronia: It still does.
petronia: He's still dumb.
sesame_seed: ...KAGETORA
petronia: Like, when Chiaki finally pries out of him whether he remembers the events of thirty years ago or not,
petronia: and the answer is I quote,
petronia: I could if I wanted, I just haven't tried.
petronia: Also, he...
petronia: *waves hand*
petronia: He can't drive.
petronia: He can't solve tenth-grade algebra.
sesame_seed: really? o_O
petronia: When I said Chiaki tortures him by making him do math problems on the board, I meant it. XD
sesame_seed: askl;dfjsdjkl;ajkl;asdasdjkl;;asdfjkl
sesame_seed: but. but. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?
sesame_seed: he's 400 years old!
petronia: He just never learned.
petronia: That's what I mean.
petronia: I mean okay, he wouldn't have had any reason to learn algebra before the twentieth century,
petronia: but I bet for the past few lifetimes he just ran away as soon as he was fifteen or so and let Naoe handle all the rest of it.
petronia: And seriously, he can't drive.
petronia: Chiaki was underage and driving without a license,
petronia: because Chiaki is impatient and uncaring about regulations like that.
petronia: Kagetora just plain doesn't know how.
sesame_seed: ...isn't he supposed to have good physical reflexes?
sesame_seed: .............
petronia: After he breaks up with Naoe he makes Haruie drive him around.
petronia: It's the first lifetime Haruie has a driving license,
petronia: it's not something a Japanese woman earlier in the century would do,
sesame_seed: you'd expect TAKAYA to know how to drive
sesame_seed: BUT SHE LEARNED
petronia: yes.
petronia: Only to have Kagetora CRITICISE HER TECHNIQUE FOR NOT BEING AS GOOD AS NAOE'S.
petronia: To which she replied, as anyone would,
sesame_seed: ...asl;dkflajk;sdfljasfjkl;dasjkl;df
petronia: WHY DON'T *YOU* LEARN TO DRIVE YOURSELF THEN O HIGH AND MIGHTY ONE?
sesame_seed: ahahahahhahahahaha
sesame_seed: annnnd?
petronia: And Kagetora said, "Enh."
petronia: The funny thing about this is, back when Takaya *didn't* have his memories, he was really gung-ho to get his license.
petronia: Mostly so he would never have to be in a situation where he was being driven by *Chiaki*.
sesame_seed: XDDDDD
sesame_seed: so kagetora is just
sesame_seed: rigid of mind?
sesame_seed: thinks this is what he has retainers for?
petronia: Yes.
petronia: It's not so much rigid of mind.
petronia: It's more that he's a Hojo princeling down to his bones. XD
sesame_seed: XDXD
sesame_seed: *likes this side of kagetora*
petronia: There's a bit of the Draco Malfoy there, frankly.
sesame_seed: XDDDDDDDDDDD
sesame_seed: *was thinking atobe*
petronia: Haha, that too.

Comments

[kat-inka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this scene when Chiaki leaves Kagetora in the hospital. Such a stupid thing to do, it really pissed me off… It somewhat discredited Chiaki in my eyes, I thought he was smarter.
And Kuwabara-sensei… I know, she needed to make it so that Kagetora gets kidnapped and all, but not in such a dumb way…