I think you guys are probably putting too much Undocumented Features into your Utena analysis. In the original canon, Akio is almost certainly less powerful than Anthy, though he is a master manipulator. Like, he's dangerous, but maybe only a little more dangerous than Harvey Weinstein. If he got ahold of some real power, it would be another story. But there are thousands of men just like him in the real world.
Touga, on the other hand, is very redeemable. He really just fell in with the wrong crowd. His first instinct is to play the prince, but his passions sometimes get ahead of him, and can be exploited. You give him something real to be passionate about, and it will all fall in line. Like, the Ohtori Student Council are all broken versions of their respectively colored sailor guardians. If you got Touga Kiryuu in the company of Rei Hino for a week, he'd start shaping up.
OK I'm getting sidetracked, because yay Utena analysis, but I really do not trust myself to write the characters in it. Especially Anthy. I still don't really get her. I asked a friend of mine what it was like living with a powerful abusive husband, and I still barely get it. (He's one of those thousands like Akio, though.) The thought process is still alien to me -- like how can a girl who ended up on national television later, let herself get into a situation that closed her world off? I can't feel what that's like in my heart, and when I try, the thought that I want to be a prince fills my mind.
On the other hand, the idea of adding the Art of Noise to this fic had crossed my mind.
I still feel like Azalynn could anchor a story by herself, even without getting citric. I am starting to think a little more seriously about the various Star Treks, though. (Shatner, for one, would love to meet the real Kirk.) Also going to start thinking about The Librarians and Nadia:The Secret of Blue Water. Honestly, just gotta wait for the right plot idea to hit me.
Touga, on the other hand, is very redeemable. He really just fell in with the wrong crowd. His first instinct is to play the prince, but his passions sometimes get ahead of him, and can be exploited. You give him something real to be passionate about, and it will all fall in line. Like, the Ohtori Student Council are all broken versions of their respectively colored sailor guardians. If you got Touga Kiryuu in the company of Rei Hino for a week, he'd start shaping up.
OK I'm getting sidetracked, because yay Utena analysis, but I really do not trust myself to write the characters in it. Especially Anthy. I still don't really get her. I asked a friend of mine what it was like living with a powerful abusive husband, and I still barely get it. (He's one of those thousands like Akio, though.) The thought process is still alien to me -- like how can a girl who ended up on national television later, let herself get into a situation that closed her world off? I can't feel what that's like in my heart, and when I try, the thought that I want to be a prince fills my mind.
On the other hand, the idea of adding the Art of Noise to this fic had crossed my mind.
I still feel like Azalynn could anchor a story by herself, even without getting citric. I am starting to think a little more seriously about the various Star Treks, though. (Shatner, for one, would love to meet the real Kirk.) Also going to start thinking about The Librarians and Nadia:The Secret of Blue Water. Honestly, just gotta wait for the right plot idea to hit me.
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