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[akk]

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!

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Re: JJ here (who somehow can't log in... ;_;)

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I looked at the picture in which you spotted Utako. However, I don't think it is specifically her. To me it looks more like a generic kindergarten kid. CLAMPs drawing doesn't vary characters that much and they didn't include any specific features in it.

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... ;_;)

[akk]

I won't even try and argue about what Clamp had in mind when drawing a certain scene and what not. Sorry, but that takes the meta just a tad too far for me. :)

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

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

As you already know I think it would be boring if we all were to think the same so at each his own... ^____^

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

[akk]

Well, there's almost a Sue in Hit-Su(e)-Zen. ;)

Re: JJ here

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

LOL Way too true!