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rheasilvias journal...
Sum up your former/current fandoms in a few sentences, as if they were human beings/very convincing sockpuppets on your flist. Ask your friends to guess which fandoms you're talking about!
May I introduce the following animes, books, and mangas:
1. There were countless references, endless rides, comical elements and serious issues. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes on the edge of pain. Your violet sparkles, golden light, and green eyes caught me.
[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, guessed correctly byelbales]
2. Nobody believed in you. There were four attempts before the fifth turned out working, and even that was a haphazard chaos, few people put faith in. Yet it worked out, in the past and the future and even in the darkness of a new middle ages.
[Babylon-5, not guessed]
3. Spaceships on the surface, a war against the gods on a planet not fully terraformed yet. You are a beautifully drawn movie, but still I always believed your story to be more complicated than could be told in your roughly two hours.
[Big Wars, not guessed]
4. When I discovered that you are based on novels written in the 1940s I was thrilled. But before I even read them, I played in my mind with your drop-formed ship.
[Captain Future by Edmond Hamilton, not guessed]
5. I just discovered you, after I fell in love with your arch enemy a few weeks ago. Your name means nothing, but you are anything but. In fact, you kind of remind me of the hero in 4. :)
[Cosmowarrior Zero by Leiji Matsumoto, not guessed]
6. You are feckless and powerful, strong and confused; a knight in shining armor, who scrapes his knee on the parapet of a crumbling wooden fortress with an owl to lead him through the shadows into the arms of one soon to be king.
[Fortress in the Eye of Time by C. J. Cherryh, guessed correctly byelbales]
7. You are tough, smart, and deadly - and despite you telling your own tale, I'm sticking around waiting eagerly for the next natural death.
[John Rain the assassin created by Barry Eisler, not guessed]
8. Kill the frogs! And then fall back to earth, Commander! 264 is waiting for your astrogator.
[Raumpatrouille, guessed correctly byrheasilvia]
9. You leave none of your characters truly unharmed, though your creators proclaimed never to do a resurrection, at least one of your (minor) characters came back from destruction.
[X, guessed correctly bysolo____]
10. You carry the X and the pentagram. Sakura petals flutter like snow flakes through your blood tinted pictures. Your men are dead, guilt-ridden, powerful, mysterious and/or perverted.
[Yami no Matsuei or Descendants of Darkness, guessed correctly byjjblue1]
11. Your dead sidhe prince changed forever my perception of what elves (and sidhe) are supposed to be. I never wrote fanfic about you, but there are two pastel chalk pictures and an original shortstory of mine, clearly being inspired by you.
[The Dreaming Tree by C. J. Cherryh, guessed correctly byelbales]
And? Any idea who they are? :)
rheasilvias journal...Sum up your former/current fandoms in a few sentences, as if they were human beings/very convincing sockpuppets on your flist. Ask your friends to guess which fandoms you're talking about!
May I introduce the following animes, books, and mangas:
1. There were countless references, endless rides, comical elements and serious issues. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes on the edge of pain. Your violet sparkles, golden light, and green eyes caught me.
[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, guessed correctly by
elbales]2. Nobody believed in you. There were four attempts before the fifth turned out working, and even that was a haphazard chaos, few people put faith in. Yet it worked out, in the past and the future and even in the darkness of a new middle ages.
[Babylon-5, not guessed]
3. Spaceships on the surface, a war against the gods on a planet not fully terraformed yet. You are a beautifully drawn movie, but still I always believed your story to be more complicated than could be told in your roughly two hours.
[Big Wars, not guessed]
4. When I discovered that you are based on novels written in the 1940s I was thrilled. But before I even read them, I played in my mind with your drop-formed ship.
[Captain Future by Edmond Hamilton, not guessed]
5. I just discovered you, after I fell in love with your arch enemy a few weeks ago. Your name means nothing, but you are anything but. In fact, you kind of remind me of the hero in 4. :)
[Cosmowarrior Zero by Leiji Matsumoto, not guessed]
6. You are feckless and powerful, strong and confused; a knight in shining armor, who scrapes his knee on the parapet of a crumbling wooden fortress with an owl to lead him through the shadows into the arms of one soon to be king.
[Fortress in the Eye of Time by C. J. Cherryh, guessed correctly by
elbales]7. You are tough, smart, and deadly - and despite you telling your own tale, I'm sticking around waiting eagerly for the next natural death.
[John Rain the assassin created by Barry Eisler, not guessed]
8. Kill the frogs! And then fall back to earth, Commander! 264 is waiting for your astrogator.
[Raumpatrouille, guessed correctly by
rheasilvia]9. You leave none of your characters truly unharmed, though your creators proclaimed never to do a resurrection, at least one of your (minor) characters came back from destruction.
[X, guessed correctly by
solo____]10. You carry the X and the pentagram. Sakura petals flutter like snow flakes through your blood tinted pictures. Your men are dead, guilt-ridden, powerful, mysterious and/or perverted.
[Yami no Matsuei or Descendants of Darkness, guessed correctly by
jjblue1]11. Your dead sidhe prince changed forever my perception of what elves (and sidhe) are supposed to be. I never wrote fanfic about you, but there are two pastel chalk pictures and an original shortstory of mine, clearly being inspired by you.
[The Dreaming Tree by C. J. Cherryh, guessed correctly by
elbales]And? Any idea who they are? :)
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Date: 2006-12-02 20:22 (UTC)From:2. yep but it seems he has to kill to feed the tree as well... because the tree seems to need to be feed. So, if there are no people threatening Japan or spotting him he would have to kill someone, some minor criminal maybe, like the one the tree murdered. (of course it might be the tree knew that guy would be troublesome... and I always wonder if he tried to 'eat' Subaru only because he wanted to push Seishiro at action or because Subaru looked tasty...)
5. Not in the canon we can get. If I've got it right CLAMP said its name in the tale in Shoten... but I can't read it.
On a sidenote: I use nandarou as well despite being just a nickname... *shame on me*
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Date: 2006-12-02 20:40 (UTC)From:2. depends on how long the Tree can really forgo sustenance, and when it's just obnoxiously getting on its guardian's nerves. ;)
I think a serial rapist might not be a minor criminal. Also, the terminus "threatening Japan" does include future deeds - think of the reasoning at the MS insitute in TB. "In a few years, you will..."
So there is a preemptive element in it, too. Ever wondered how that agrees with the law of causality? ;)
5. The Shotens are funny, but hardly X or TB canon. They are Clamp's first playing with figures, as far as I know.
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Date: 2006-12-02 21:13 (UTC)From:2. A minor criminal in general terms no. But it's a criminal that generally doesn't get sentenced to death (too bad...) and yes, I've wondered if the tree choice was based on how that criminal would affect future events.
5. yep, they are... and i can't jusdge how much canon there's in them until someone will be so kind to translate them...
Most of their canon had been kept but... shadowed... for example the previous Rijichou had been created by an ex-CLAMP member... CLAMP kept it but never showed her face.
Tomoe is a character from Hagunsei Senki. in it she's not Yuto's real sister but they call each other brother and sister (how would I love to get my hands on Hagunsei Senki...).
Anyway all this to say that... with CLAMP you can never know! ^_-
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Date: 2006-12-02 21:22 (UTC)From:2. :)=
3. Hagunsei Senki?
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Date: 2006-12-02 22:08 (UTC)From:An early story by CLAMP based on an ancient tale (Hakken Den if I'm not wrong) that involved Yuto Suoh and Nagisa and a certain Shiro Fuyukaze (however it's rumoured the character to write this Shiro's surname were different from the ones used for Kamui... thought I know that Japanese can ask for the kanji in their name to be changed... so he might be Kamui's misterious father only he's rather tall and Kamui instead... but maybe Kamui hadn't hit his grow spur yet... [have bizzarre vision of a Kamui who had grown taller than Fuma...]). Sadly they wrote only 4 chapters then decided to quit it because, in their opinion, someone else was writing a better interpretation of that ancient tale.
To make matter even more complicate Leeza Sei was the main artist for it, helped by Tamayo and Mokona so I fear the rights for it are... split and that's why there's almost no material for it. Now only a pic In CLAMP North side remain (also another pic is in CLAMP platinum in the page showing the articles Newtype made for CLAMP).
You can find some info here (http://membres.lycos.fr/x1999/clampgakuen/hagun.htm).
Sadly I don't know how much of Hagunsei Senki can still be considered canon and how much is not.
However in it Yuto is a CLAMP university student and the reincarnation of an Hakkenshi like Suoh (who's an elementary student) while Nagisa is the reincarnation of their enemy...
I do wonder if what happened in Hangusei Senki was supposed to be what made yuto so fatalistic...
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Date: 2006-12-02 22:17 (UTC)From:I know the Hakkenden anime, though not that well. It didn't really grab me as a tale.
Leeza... *Sigh*. I wish she'd finish Combination! (and she has the rights to that one).
Or maybe Yuto is a fatalistic trout? *g*
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Date: 2006-12-02 23:01 (UTC)From:Hakkeden is an ancient 'Samurai Novel' in 108 chapters.
Here (http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~opaku/) more info.
Leeza is just cruel! But I'll content myself if they would consider printing vol 6 in Italy. Why only vol 1-5?
It might be... but it still make me wonder what happened to him...
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Date: 2006-12-02 23:06 (UTC)From:Besides, let's not start about the issues you get with causality in that regard.
I know the story of Hakkenden. I just didn't care much about it.
Wish I could get my hands on vol.6 somehow. In German there's also only vol. 1 - 5. No idea if the story was ever continued. *sigh*
What happened to him? He's a Clamp character in pastel colored suits. That should make any man fatalistic! *eg*
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Date: 2006-12-02 23:41 (UTC)From:*sighs* I only know about vol. 6... so I've no idea if the story continued further either...
ROTFL Poor Yuto...