Quote:Adopt him? Like how?
I am most definitely looking forward to the Stoned!N-Tate/Shizuru conversation. She'll either kill him, blackmail him, or try to 'adopt' him.
Quote:Entirely true - but {SPOILER DELETED}...
As for the thinking small thing? *chuckles* We're talking, in part, about Searrs. You know, they who blow up bridges and bring in a private freakin' _ARMY_, complete with aircraft carriers and such, into the game just to make a bloody point.
...Never mind.
I don't remember too much of what happened after the Orphan jumped me - I had bigger things on my mind at the time, understand - but about the time I was discovering the wonders of the emergency health care system, quite a number of the 'canon' relationships were taking an abrupt turn for deep left field.
The biggest surprise was Akane. It just didn't seem like something she'd have been capable of... but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Something none of the fictional material I'd seen had gone into was why a particular HiME ended up with a given Element - once I'd discussed it with the girls, though, it seemed fairly clear: an Element's design and abilities are guided and decided by the HiME herself, based on the weapon with which she was most comfortable.
Despite her inoffensive personality, Akane was a quite skilled practitioner of several different martial arts - most notably an Okinawan one whose name I never learned. While her family wasn't anywhere near as involved in the whole Festival cycle as, say, Akira or Shizuru's, there were apparently still enough family legends for her HiME mark to be recognized as roughly what it was. They weren't, she told me later, taken seriously enough for her parents to try and force her into practicing combat skills, but the connection with her heritage had been enough to make her genuinely interested in the matter - though not so seriously as she would become after her powers began to manifest.
The security video I got a look at eventually had full sound as well as color video - it was poor quality, so the only reason you could hear the door opening into the largish room in the Academy's athletic center where Akane had been waiting was the way it echoed off of the hardwood floor, but still quite clear.
"'Multiplly Intelligential Yggdrasil Unit'... That's what you are, right?"
"How do you know that?" Miyu shot back as she walked into the frame, sounding even colder than she usually did.
"I'm not going to tell you," Akane answered, then bent down and pulled something out of the bag lying at her feet. I had to pause the video and squint for a couple seconds before I could make out that they were a pair of police batons. "And I'm afraid that I can't let myself become your guinea pig. What that'd cost those precious to me... I can't allow it." Her voice had been rather hard, harsh - determined - but as she settled into what was unmistakably a combat stance it softened, became almost pleading. "You understand? If it were you - and Alyssa?"
"Yes," Miyu said after a moment. "Perfectly."
In animation her sword-materialization trick looks pretty neat - all slick and fast and stuff. In real life, it's fucking disturbing.
I'm going to keep working on the actual fight scene, but that's too cruel a stopping point to pass up. ^_^
And blondies a sweetheart, yeah.
Ja, -n
("Wau! Puru-puru Ers-chan no oppai nitai!")
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."