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current chapter word count: 3664
scene worked on today: Akechi
scene complete? yes!
amount of plot done: 95 %
number of scenes in total: 9
number of scenes really done: 4 - [Ameru 1, Akechi, Yue, TSF]
number of scenes to be tinkered: 4 - [Michiko 1, Ameru 2, Michiko 2, Akiko]
number of scenes with gaps: 0
number of scenes still missing: 1 [Omi]
character live for the first time: Ijyuin Shigetoshi (bonus brownie if you know who he is in the CLAMPverse)
quote of the day: "Not all statutes of limitation are expired yet."
related side-note: It's way too much fun to use obscure MacArthur references in this!
scene worked on today: Akechi
scene complete? yes!
amount of plot done: 95 %
number of scenes in total: 9
number of scenes really done: 4 - [Ameru 1, Akechi, Yue, TSF]
number of scenes to be tinkered: 4 - [Michiko 1, Ameru 2, Michiko 2, Akiko]
number of scenes with gaps: 0
number of scenes still missing: 1 [Omi]
character live for the first time: Ijyuin Shigetoshi (bonus brownie if you know who he is in the CLAMPverse)
quote of the day: "Not all statutes of limitation are expired yet."
related side-note: It's way too much fun to use obscure MacArthur references in this!
Re: JJ here
Date: 2009-05-19 20:15 (UTC)From:But Nokoru-Sei is one of the few things with which I full-well ignore canon completely. The dynamics are just *too* tempting.
So, basically the Japanese line is equally ambiguous as the German and the English I know of. So I might have a little bit of leeway there, esp. with respect to the M.D study involving a thesis work and therefore isn't fixed at six years entirely.
To reveal the reason behind all this number-shoveling: If I go with the calculated date of Tohru giving birth to Kamui at 18/19 in 1983, I am basically forced to make Ameru a pedophile to maintain proper time order within the fic. However, if she can be two years older, the issue is less problematic juristically, and I also avoid this "pregnant at the first try", which I just consider "used way too often in fanfics".
Yes, you are right about Fuma's age. I remembered the age difference between him and Kotori wrongly. It's in X-1. Kotori's in the last year of middle-school and Fuma's a highschool freshman.
Re: JJ here
Date: 2009-05-19 21:00 (UTC)From:I'm not sure if it's ambiguous. Even if the litteral translation sound ambiguous it could be the sentence is said when you're sure (or that my litteral translation isn't good... which is very likely...)
Or have you checked it already with someone who knows Japanese well? *curious, curious*
So I might have a little bit of leeway there, esp. with respect to the M.D study involving a thesis work and therefore isn't fixed at six years entirely.
Wait, wait, you've lost me... which 6 years and whih thesis?
According to my book high school in Japan usually last 3 years and I've never heard of the boys making a thesis but having exams (though on this I might be wrong... I never had to check)... or is it something else?
Is Ameru that older? Here major age is 18 so, even if it's awfully eary, if she got pregnant at 18 it's legally acceptable. Of course the age difference issue can cause an unpleasant reaction from people but nothing else.
As for the margin... it depends mostly from when Tohru and Kamui are born, if before or after April.
Kamui is given as 15 when he's in high school so this could mean he's born before April.
Tohru might have been 18 when she finished high school if she was born after April. If she's born before aril she was 17.
Tokiko should have been in junior high school from when she was 12 to when she was 15 if she was born before April and from when she was 13 to when she was 16 if she was born after April.
Considering she said Kamui had birth when she was 14 and that Tohru told her while she was already in JH, but at the end of the year and assuming Tohru had just found out chances ar she was 13 or 14 already (and Kamui had birth some months before she managed to turn 15).
So the margin is most in making Tohru younger but I doubt it would work to make her older... sorry about this...
I don't like the pregnant at first try either but Kamui kind of gave me the impression of th guy whose birth date was 'already foreordained' and I wouldn't be surprised if his conceivement date was foreordained too...
I guess Fuma too could be the same but I generally don't think Saya knew. Her ability was to foreordain things about Tohru not about herself (unless she foreordained that, if she weren't to switch place with Tohru, it would have been Tohru who would have gotten pregnant that day soshe kind of knew someone had to get pregnant that day...) so I don't think she knew when she was going to get pregnant.
Most of X is about things being foreordained which is why I'm fine with Kamui's mother more or less knowing when she would get pregnant (though I can also figure she might not know the exact day and maybe not even the exact month but make assumptions according to her cicle and Kamui's supposed birthday date...)
Re: JJ here
Date: 2009-05-20 05:43 (UTC)From:Subaru didn't decline it; afaik he didn't have time to answer before Hokuto declared she doesn't care about the end of the world in 8 years, but about the special sale next weekend" (or something along that line, I don't have the books at work).
Study for becoming a medical doctor. Tokiko is school physician, when she meets Kamui. That means she has to have completed her university time, including writing her thesis (and practical time as an intern in a hospital) in order to become a physician. And then she had to be employed by the school where Fuma, Kotori, and then Kamui go. The minimal time of study for a medical doctor in Japan is 6 years. University times aren't as fixed range as school times, because research & practices can (and often will) take longer.
Tokiko was told in middle school (3 years) when Tohru was finishing junior high school (3 years).
However, I merely asked because I wanted to know if there was another spot in canon where Tohru's age is connected - except what Tokiko set - luckily there isn't so I can wriggle. :)
Actually, the foreordained issue about Kamui's birth is one of the things I like to strain a bit - just to see how determined Destiny is. After all, isn't it unfair that the Twin Star is a year older than he is? If the foreordained had truly worked as it was supposed to, one should assume its timing were more precise! *eg*
Re: JJ here (who somehow can't log in... ;_;)
Date: 2009-05-20 19:53 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)Since there's a girl with hair looking like her, one with hair looking like Nagisa and the teacher's hair looks like their teacher's I think it's her. Back then CLAMP had lot of fun into crossing their characters like that, using them as background characters. You can spot lot of crossover chara (sadly some are of shot stories never translated) in Duklyon and CLAMP Gakuen also playing background sometimes in a very obvious manner sometimes in a more subtle one. It's a habit they kind of conserved even now.
Of course since I guess very few people notice her in that picture you can chose to ignore her.
Subaru didn't decline it; afaik he didn't have time to answer before Hokuto declared she doesn't care about the end of the world in 8 years, but about the special sale next weekend" (or something along that line, I don't have the books at work).
Errata corrige: I was more thinking at the scene in which Subaru denies being 'a warrior' and my mind ended up adding he denies the end of the world *hides in shame*. And yes, it could be he's lying on purpose to hide his role but still my impression is that CLAMP didn't have X in mind when they draw that scene.
Study for becoming a medical doctor. Tokiko is school physician, when she meets Kamui. That means she has to have completed her university time, including writing her thesis (and practical time as an intern in a hospital) in order to become a physician. And then she had to be employed by the school where Fuma, Kotori, and then Kamui go. The minimal time of study for a medical doctor in Japan is 6 years. University times aren't as fixed range as school times, because research & practices can (and often will) take longer.
LOL I've always had the feeling the CLAMP universe is one that defies school time. Not just because Sakura spent apparently 4 years of her life in 4th grade but because Sasaki is only 22 and has a medicine degree and also is a detective.
Actually, the foreordained issue about Kamui's birth is one of the things I like to strain a bit - just to see how determined Destiny is. After all, isn't it unfair that the Twin Star is a year older than he is? If the foreordained had truly worked as it was supposed to, one should assume its timing were more precise! *eg*
Well, CLAMP are really fond of how your birthdate and birthplace ties your destiny. I've no idea why they wanted the TS to be one year older apart from having him playing the big brother figure in the beginning but I don't think destiny cared about fairness about age.
The Chi no Ryu (apart from Fuma) are all adults, Satsuki, the younger, having been turned into an univesity student (according to the drama cd).
The Ten no Ryu are 4 teens and 3 adults... and I assume Subaru's younger than Karen and Seiichiro but, as of now, I can't be sure.
So I don't think age played a deciding factor (also CLAMP loves wonderchildren so they might have thought Fuma and Kamui would be even despite the age difference...)
Re: JJ here (who somehow can't log in... ;_;)
Date: 2009-05-20 20:04 (UTC)From:I think the background character crossovers are a similar matter. Whereas you believe them to be intended crossovers, I see it as using generic character schemes for backgrounds, because it saves them from the work of creating new ones. A lot of mangaka actually do that to some extend.
Sasaki: which is why I consider his official medical degree to be something like a medic assistant. Sometimes I violate canon to come up with plausible working plotlines. When that happens, I'm always guilty as charged and happily so.
I find it more disturbing how Clamp's character dates all circle around 1965, 1983, 1990, 1999... they might have intended it as "destiny" but it just comes across as "simplified math".
Re: JJ here
Date: 2009-05-20 21:10 (UTC)From:More likely they call it Hitsuzen... which for me means 'The author wants so and the world will bow to his will, no discussions allowed and no explanations needed'
Re: JJ here
Date: 2009-05-20 21:14 (UTC)From:Re: JJ here
Date: 2009-05-20 21:18 (UTC)From: