FM-PMS

[akk]

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!"

Comments

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't read/speak Japanese either but the 'Boku wa... kimi wo' is rather famous and he keeps using Boku in drama cd, OAV and anime (plus I checked TB kanji). It's fun because 'boku' is kind of considered childish according to my sources...
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...

[akk]

Well, considering his appearance and size, I'd discount Seishiro as Kamui's dad right away (besides, why should he bother when he obsessed about Subaru?). Yuto also bears no resemblance whatsoever, ditto for Nokoru, and I admit I don't know Fuyukaze (What's the English title of Hagunsei Senki?).

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

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Hagunsei Senki can be losely translated as 'Chronicles of the war of the big dipper'. It's like 'X' an unfinished work only CLAMP interrupted it much sooner than X. They however kept almost all the chara that showed up in it as cameo appearence (and I think they kept Yuto's background since Tomoe was kind of his sister in Hagunsei too... kind of because, according to a Japanese web they were sibling in their previous life and continued to call each other brother and sister in the actual one...)
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...

[akk]

Hagunsei... can't make much out of it. sorry.

...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. ;)

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

...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. ;)

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...-_-

[akk]

actually, I found it funny. Though, I guess they basically just had to wait for Toru to become old enough for safely bearing a child.

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Mn... they had waited up until she finished high school... if I calculated things right it might be around the time Subaru left for Tokyo/met Seishiro... I do wonder if CLAMP did it on purpose... there are some interesting matching dates.
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...

[akk]

...let's keep Subaru around (like Seishiro in 36° *g*) and have Kamui dead at 25 because he argues with the Twin Star over the 34th majong stone...

The meet at 9, work at fifteen, mentor at 25, die at 34 routine is... yuck. ;)

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Kamui have a: part at 9 with the ones he loves, saw everyone he loves die and get his life ruined at 15 type of life... so if something is going to happen at 25 and 34 I guess it'll be different from what had happened to Sei&Su... Anyway CLAMP at that time should have had an obsession for the 9, 15, 25 and maybe 34 ages...

[akk]

Or maybe it's just that they juggle that much mystical baggage around that they try to avoid complicating the number mystics by staying with the 9,15,25,34... scheme. :)

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Well... I've been told 9 is a special number but as for the others I've no idea... Maybe they just chose 3/4 casual numbers and repeated them of purpose to underline the affinity between those 3 chara?
Or maybe they have some meaning in Japan...
Anciently 15 was the Genpuku age...

[akk]

Genpuku is what?

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

Ops... sorry. Genpuku was the historical Japanese coming-of-age ceremony and in 'Ruroni Kenshin''s time... which should be Meiji era... was placed at 15... at least in the Italian translation. According to wikipedia instead it ranged from 12 to 16...

[akk]

I'm not a fan of Kenshin, sorry. The art just put me off it.
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?

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a fan either, don't worry... No problem I'll try to skip use of Japanese words.

[akk]

:)

[jjblue1.livejournal.com]

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