I've come up with an opening for an Utena Step (quite unintentionally -- as someone I read once put it, I was just minding my own business doing something else when the idea bunny came up behind me and whacked me with the ideal mallet), but I don't know where to take it.
It's late in the series. To quickly sum it up, Doug arrives on the dueling platform, the castle drops a ring into his hand, and the next thing he knows he's on the express elevator to the ground floor. He walks his cycle out of the Forest of Secrets and eventually stumbles across Akio beginning his post-amusement park seduction of Utena; Doug sees this soulless undead thing leaning over a young, semi-entranced girl, thinks "vampire!" -- and promptly attacks. Doug drives off Akio through a combination of ferocity and surprise, but none of the usual autokills he knows for vampires have worked, and Doug's wondering if he hasn't bitten off more than he could chew.
And that's where it stops. I don't know what to do next that doesn't put Doug foursquare in the worst SI offenses that I can imagine.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
It's late in the series. To quickly sum it up, Doug arrives on the dueling platform, the castle drops a ring into his hand, and the next thing he knows he's on the express elevator to the ground floor. He walks his cycle out of the Forest of Secrets and eventually stumbles across Akio beginning his post-amusement park seduction of Utena; Doug sees this soulless undead thing leaning over a young, semi-entranced girl, thinks "vampire!" -- and promptly attacks. Doug drives off Akio through a combination of ferocity and surprise, but none of the usual autokills he knows for vampires have worked, and Doug's wondering if he hasn't bitten off more than he could chew.
And that's where it stops. I don't know what to do next that doesn't put Doug foursquare in the worst SI offenses that I can imagine.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.