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but why is it that, when I sort the Ouran section by bookmarks, there are three separate Harry Potter AUs at the top???
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Jan. 28th, 2015 03:43 pmOuran High School Gray Warden Club
No, that name doesn’t sound good
Anyway, Alistair’s Tamaki, DAO female protag is Haruhi, Morrigan is Kyouya, Leliana and Zevran are the twins. Templars are the football team, mages are the Zuka club.
# I guess shale is honey? # if so sten's probably mori # I don't know what to do with Wynne though # oghren is... kasunoda? # anders is certainly nekozawa
No, that name doesn’t sound good
Anyway, Alistair’s Tamaki, DAO female protag is Haruhi, Morrigan is Kyouya, Leliana and Zevran are the twins. Templars are the football team, mages are the Zuka club.
# I guess shale is honey? # if so sten's probably mori # I don't know what to do with Wynne though # oghren is... kasunoda? # anders is certainly nekozawa
suddenly i have got several pages and a synopsis of this complicated au where bad things happen to kyouya and he remains a complete jerk throughout
i'm such a TERRIBLE HUMAN BEING
so terrible that i must type without caps
(it may be slavefic)
i'm such a TERRIBLE HUMAN BEING
so terrible that i must type without caps
(it may be slavefic)
Matt Thorn is asking for questions to ask Hagio Moto. I already provided the important one, so the rest of you guys can ask stuff about like... sandwiches or something, I guess. I don't know.
I am re-reading Ouran. It is kind of surprising me how studiously cynical it was about its genre early on. I mean, it still does that sometimes now, but not as much. I'm not really complaining, but there's definitely been a change in tone.
I still like Kyouya best. Because I am basically Renge, what this means is that I am hoping for an epilogue in which his terrible fortune from Nekozawa's evil Game of Life game comes true. I want my favorite character in the comedy manga to lose his massive fortune and become a janitor and be disowned by his family and probably contemplate suicide. I think that that would be excellent. There's a lot going on with me, I guess.
I am re-reading Ouran. It is kind of surprising me how studiously cynical it was about its genre early on. I mean, it still does that sometimes now, but not as much. I'm not really complaining, but there's definitely been a change in tone.
I still like Kyouya best. Because I am basically Renge, what this means is that I am hoping for an epilogue in which his terrible fortune from Nekozawa's evil Game of Life game comes true. I want my favorite character in the comedy manga to lose his massive fortune and become a janitor and be disowned by his family and probably contemplate suicide. I think that that would be excellent. There's a lot going on with me, I guess.
This is what our tree looked like.
Dec. 28th, 2008 11:22 am
Guest-starring in this tree: Berezhnoff from Ouran High School Host Club, sort of a stretchy raccoon thing, Buddha, Maneki Neko.
Supporting cast (on the shelf): sabre-toothed lime (from Kingdom of Loathing), Chinese Zodiac chicken, sort of a dog thing, Martin van Buren.
O I am ill, laid low by such a foul imbalance of the humors as to make me dirty up all my new hankies in one day, and re-read books.
But then I watched the last few episodes of Ouran and my nose wasn't stopped up anymore. It's a miracle! A piracy miracle!
I'm still all dizzy, though. I hate being dizzy. I don't even get to get intoxicated or go into a berserker rage first. It's totally unfair.
For some reason being sick always makes it a little easier to concentrate in class. And also apparently makes me write in real short paragraphs.
...Kyouya. Sigh. ( spoilers )
And I feel like "Éclair Tonnerre" is not actually a stupid enough name for a stereotyped French villain. It's just straight out of a dictionary. Very substandard Frappanese, doesn't scan. Quillsh Wammy and Mail Jeevas have a certain indefinable glory to them, but Éclair Tonnerre is mere Mary Sue quality, and can hope only to brush its fingers on the mantle of such greater inappropriate linguistic appropriations.
I bet she's an animagus who got kicked out of Beauxbatons for being too unconventional.
But then I watched the last few episodes of Ouran and my nose wasn't stopped up anymore. It's a miracle! A piracy miracle!
I'm still all dizzy, though. I hate being dizzy. I don't even get to get intoxicated or go into a berserker rage first. It's totally unfair.
For some reason being sick always makes it a little easier to concentrate in class. And also apparently makes me write in real short paragraphs.
...Kyouya. Sigh. ( spoilers )
And I feel like "Éclair Tonnerre" is not actually a stupid enough name for a stereotyped French villain. It's just straight out of a dictionary. Very substandard Frappanese, doesn't scan. Quillsh Wammy and Mail Jeevas have a certain indefinable glory to them, but Éclair Tonnerre is mere Mary Sue quality, and can hope only to brush its fingers on the mantle of such greater inappropriate linguistic appropriations.
I bet she's an animagus who got kicked out of Beauxbatons for being too unconventional.
I was watching Ouran episode 17 just now, and at the end Kyoya had a montage-flashback of Tamaki doing nice things for people, all surrounded with flowers and puffies and whatnot. I'm not that far into the anime yet, but manga-wise, I think everyone but Mori's had an inspirational Tamaki flashback by now. And the figure who, despite their general ineffectuality, is seen as special and pure and to be protected by all the others, is of course a perfectly normal and respectable shoujo trope with a long history, except that normally it's the heroine.
(Citations I can think of right off are Cardcaptor Sakura, Suki, Angelic Layer and all the other CLAMP manga with a little girl protagonist, Vampire Game, Penguin Brothers, Imadoki, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, and of course Fruits Basket.)
This is the show's real genderbending angle. Tamaki is clumsy, emotionally incontinent, and has no skills other than general niceness and sincerity in the midst of highly-competent people, yet is universally envied and adored and the center of everyone's emotional universe. Tamaki is the heroine. (Oh, man, I totally would have put this in my paper if I'd thought of it.)
Other inspirations courtesy of this episode:
1) The animators do not ship Kyoya-Haruhi. In the scene where Kyoya exposes the guy selling counterfeit raku bowls, they cut out the part about his doing it to avenge Haruhi.
2) I think they do ship Kyoya-Tamaki, because Kyoya had three Tamaki flashbacks here, and there was only one in the manga.
(Citations I can think of right off are Cardcaptor Sakura, Suki, Angelic Layer and all the other CLAMP manga with a little girl protagonist, Vampire Game, Penguin Brothers, Imadoki, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, and of course Fruits Basket.)
This is the show's real genderbending angle. Tamaki is clumsy, emotionally incontinent, and has no skills other than general niceness and sincerity in the midst of highly-competent people, yet is universally envied and adored and the center of everyone's emotional universe. Tamaki is the heroine. (Oh, man, I totally would have put this in my paper if I'd thought of it.)
Other inspirations courtesy of this episode:
1) The animators do not ship Kyoya-Haruhi. In the scene where Kyoya exposes the guy selling counterfeit raku bowls, they cut out the part about his doing it to avenge Haruhi.
2) I think they do ship Kyoya-Tamaki, because Kyoya had three Tamaki flashbacks here, and there was only one in the manga.
