Quote:Sounds about right, although from Natsuki's example we know that it's the intensity of the feeling that does the trick, so an MIP doesn't neccessarily have to be alive to count...
I've always thought Mai's MIP went from Takumi, to Tate (once Takumi bit it), to Mikoto (once Tate bit it), and back to Tate (once he revived). It seemed to fit the feel I got from the series for her to still have someone important on the line, even as she lost the previous MIP.
Karadajuu anata de mitasareta toki ni
I thought Mai was dead. What else could I think? The monster had caught her squarely with one of its primary tentacles, and she'd gone plummeting off into the forest - then not returned.
At the time, I was upset, sure, and I take a little comfort in the fact that it wasn't 'cause of how having her gone would screw up every plan I'd tried to make to get through that whole mess... but not much.
Chiisana hoshi orita no
I've never thought of myself as a very fond person, but... it rather disturbs me to remember that, despite the apparent loss of someone who I knew, respected, liked, even had more than a bit of a crush on - despite the fact that a real, living, breathing, feeling person had been - apparently - snuffed out...
And all I could feel was the kind of hurt outrage that you get when your favorite TV show's writers kill off a character.
I hate what that says about me.
Watashi no ude no naka he...
Natsuki was a lot more upset about it than I was - she was too far away for me to really hear or see, but I really can't think of any other explanation for the fact that I haven't seen Duran fire as fast before or since. The aerosquid didn't take that too well, of course, and swooped down and began to lash out at him... Which of course put his mistress in danger, and Shizuru wasn't about to tolerate that.
The anime is wrong, by the way - Kiyohime has seven heads. The one tentacle that left free should have been easy enough to avoid, save for the fact that each pair of tentacles was backed, just like the squid it resembled, by an array of octopus-like arms. I could hear Nao cursing as she pelted around the nearer side of the main classroom building and twisted to look back over her shoulder at the action. "C'mon!" she snapped at Julia, "They need help!"
Doko ni aru no?
Shinjitsu wo sagashite iru
The Child paused a moment to let her mistress swing onto her back before she bounded away, but even if she hadn't I think she still would have been too late. Kiyohime had dragged the Orphan to ground, and though she might have been able to ignore the way it was flailing its wings and free tentacle at her back, she couldn't do the same for the arms it wrapped around her necks and used to rip her free of its body. Three tentacles came away in her teeth, but aside from letting out a howl loud enough to make me flinch even from the other end of campus that didn't slow the monster down much.
Fukai yoru
Kodoku na sora samayou
It hoisted Kiyohime off the ground and twisted furiously - you don't know what pain sounds like until you've heard a scream from a single being with that many throats - and batted aside Duran's attempt to distract it almost contemptuously.
Anata ni deaemasu you ni
Quote:It's not as though either of these yarns makes any pretension of being anything more than shameless self-indulgence anyway, after all. ^_^ But yeah, I'm enjoying it, too.
That was fun. I'm pretty much resigned to mangling Nao and pretty much everybody else, but I'm having fun writing this. Is that an excuse? Not really. Good enough for me, though.
Quote:*starry eyed* Mmm...
I dunno, I think two Shizurus and possibly two Natsukis having a ... freindly meeting, and ... continuing a vigorous discussion ... with me in the morning would indeed be a blessing.
Ja, -n
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