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current chapter word count: 2490 [and a lot of them different words than the last time!]
number of scenes in chapter: 8 [Kamui multiplied *g*]
of which... are written: 7
of which... need tinkering: 2
of which... don't exist yet: 1
amount of chapter considered done: 80%
detail that was most useful for setting up the Mori: geography [and Clamp's "Shin Shun Kaden"]
character that still needs to say something: Kakyo
sentence accidentally written for chapter 12: "Garden? That's not a garden, that's green stuff growing around the house!"
number of scenes in chapter: 8 [Kamui multiplied *g*]
of which... are written: 7
of which... need tinkering: 2
of which... don't exist yet: 1
amount of chapter considered done: 80%
detail that was most useful for setting up the Mori: geography [and Clamp's "Shin Shun Kaden"]
character that still needs to say something: Kakyo
sentence accidentally written for chapter 12: "Garden? That's not a garden, that's green stuff growing around the house!"
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Date: 2007-07-30 13:28 (UTC)From:I've always found kind of fun how to Say I Kamui used 'ore', the tough boy way to say I, while Seishiro uses 'Boku', the 'mama's good boy' to say I...
I know. But as I mentioned before CLAMP let him sign a buying house contract at 12... no matter how rich Nokoru is... he should have been 20 or have an adult to sign for him to do so.
So either CLAMP assumed Imonoyama, due to being so rich, have a special status in Japan so that they don't need legal age or, more likely, they didn't care in the slightest... which as I said is fine and fun in CGTD but not so cool in X...
Oh, I do like Nokoru, Suo and Akira. It's just I don't see their universe fitting well in 'X'... it's... as if all of sudden during the last battle Sakura showed up and tried to fight Fuma with Clow cards... or Mokona declared to be Kamui's father... but well, maybe it's just me.
CLAMP canon sometimes needs to be kicked away because... it makes no sense at all (not mentioning sometimes CLAMP makes quite huge mistakes...)
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Date: 2007-07-30 13:45 (UTC)From:I'm not sure how the rules are today, but there is something like a "family stamp" being legally binding in Japan. That stamp might occasionally be given to a junior member of the family to be used, since it doesn't include age varification. However, I do believe that for it to be legally binding, there would have to be some legal paper trail or so.
Which is why I don't use (much) of the CGTD universe at all (aside place settings sometimes) and stay within X (and reality actually). Stated source. Clamp did pretty much the same. Their "cross-overs" are most often closer to "borrowing characters and relationships" than "including universes", and with that I don't have a problem. :)
Kamui's father is an interesting riddle, one I haven't spent any thoughts on yet.
Seishiro's is of more interest to me - but then, I have a plot about that in the making, so I'm biased.
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Date: 2007-07-30 14:16 (UTC)From:At his age Seishiro should use Watashi... but Subaru too uses Boku... which on him is kind of cute...
I've also got Kamui's 'ore' by drama cd & anime. This one I haven't checked on the manga but it fit Kamui so well I bet he uses it.
I've heard of the family stamp but I'm not sure about how it works... I still think there should be an adult to insure the kid can use it and that the one from whom the kid's buying stuffs isn't taking advantage of him...
As for rent, according to a manga I read (I know, not the most reliable source but I couldn't find any better), you should have someone else garant for you... even if, considering it's Nokoru we're speaking of, people might have overlook this.
But since I'm not sure about it let's pretend isn't needed (even though I bet CLAMP didn't even pose themselves the question. After all Kamui self inscribed to school and no adult signed for him. But well, I can't find a reliable source that says you need an adult to sign for you... only manga in which parents signed for the sons... It's hard to find info about how Japan work... when I researched for the school system I found different things even when I tried out Japanese sources...)
CLAMp's really a rather troublesome group of authors to write fics for. And how I wish they would end X... instead it seems that in 2009 they'll start another manga... Let's hope they'll end the current ones at least...
There are theories about Kamui's father being: Kyougo, Seishiro, Yuto and Shiro Fuyukaze (a character from Hagunsei Senki). Actually someone even voted for Nokoru... ^_^
Apparently, when asked about it, they implied there were something like hints in their work but I couldn't find them.
I hope they're not planning to have Subaru as his father or Clow Reed... or maybe Fei Wang! ^_-
Well, maybe it's just I'm partial about it but, to me, Seishiro's more interesting too...
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Date: 2007-07-30 14:27 (UTC)From:I wouldn't rule out Kyogo - people are known to having done weirder things than sleeping with their wife's "best friend" for the sake of destiny - but he's not a likely (or interesting) candidate in my eyes.
On the other hand, Subaru and Kamui have a definite age relation in X and I can't picture Subaru fathering a kid at 9. However, we don't know zilch about the whereabouts of Subaru's parents and the Sumeragi are involved with the whole End of the World - Magami - Clamp Campus thingy, so maybe a generation earlier...
...which would explain the easy contact Subaru and Kamui had from the start in a weird, sentimental sort of things. Actually, that is an idea I would like to toy with sometime. It might turn out interesting. Maybe... :D
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Date: 2007-07-30 15:12 (UTC)From:You can see Fuyukaze here:
http://membres.lycos.fr/x1999/clampgakuen/hagun.htm
He's however too tall for being Kamui's dad (unless Kamui's growing up slowly) and he apparently has more a Fuma's personality.
Plus the kanji for his surname are read the same but written differently (even if in Meitantei Conan someone used the difference between written kanji and readed kanji to change identity... long story... so it might be Toru had purposely changed a kanji in hope to disguise them...)
While Kyougo would fit because Toru was supposed not only to give birth to Kamui but to the ShinKen also and, in order to do that, she would have to be at Togakushi (honestly I don't get why Saya needed to marry Kyougo while for Tokiko was enough to just pass by...) and Kyougo's tarot chard's meaning is 'The Father' (which might be referred to Fuma and Kotori anyway) it just seems a to easy solution.
LOL. It would match witht he fact Kamui's stole the role of Subaru's twin to Hokuto in Tsubasa... and explain why we never saw Subaru's dad (despite CLAMP apparently declaring in an interview (which I haven't) Subaru's parents are alive) and why they skipped a generation...
Subaru's dad got more important things to do than being clan head. He had to give birth to KAMUI! ^_-
... I think Hokuto might have gotten by her dad... if he could make up such excuse...
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Date: 2007-07-30 16:40 (UTC)From:...and I think Subaru's father would have to _sire_ Kamui, not give birth to him. I know that Clamp doesn't take gender specifics too seriously, but so far they abstained from gender changes à la You Higuri. ;)
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Date: 2007-07-30 18:40 (UTC)From:If he had to make up an excuse that would allow him to skip his duty for so long he'll better make up one BIG... ^_-
But yes, you're right I typed it wrong... me and my poor English...-_-
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Date: 2007-07-30 18:44 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-07-30 20:55 (UTC)From:Sei-chan met his mother at 9.
Subaru met Sei-chan at 9.
Sei-chan began working as Sakurazukamori at 15.
Subaru likely come in Tokyo to work as Onmyouji at 15...
Sei-chan got the Subaru's mentor role at 25...
Subaru got the Kamui's mentor role at 25...
I do wonder if Subaru's supposed to die at 34 too...
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Date: 2007-07-31 04:18 (UTC)From:The meet at 9, work at fifteen, mentor at 25, die at 34 routine is... yuck. ;)
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Date: 2007-07-31 15:28 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-07-31 16:14 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-07-31 16:21 (UTC)From:Or maybe they have some meaning in Japan...
Anciently 15 was the Genpuku age...
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Date: 2007-07-31 16:32 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-07-31 17:02 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-07-31 17:50 (UTC)From:There are various coming of age rites throughout Japanese history - as in most traditional societies. I just wasn't familiar with the term. Maybe use translations if possible?
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Date: 2007-07-30 13:50 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-07-30 13:51 (UTC)From:ROTFL