Ehhhhhhh? O_O;

Oh, heh, I wasn’t really focusing on whether or not the negi thing is canon. They were kind of out of character as far as things go, despite the fact that they are things that one could easily imagine them doing.

Shizuru (at least, in my opinion) really knows where to draw the line as far as things go.
…
Er, well, the Shizuru rampage withstanding.

And by the way, has anyone told you yet how adorable the name “Du-chan” is?
We all know Natsuki is squealing at the name’s cuteness.
*begins nefarious plotting*
</non sequitur>

And curses, I forgot to close the parentheses on one of my comments, and worse yet, I stuck in another pair between those. =(

Ohhhhh! Rightrightright.
*nods enthusiastically in complete agreement*

-I

> Unlike you, though, I sprinkle Japanese terms here and there on occasion in fanfiction.
I can see your point. My narrower view is just “If I can’t give a clear yet implied definition within the immediate context, I can’t use it” (e.g. food names and other easily contextual cultural nouns–which I obviously use). I’ve seen entire dialogue sentences as Japanese, but I think that’s stupid. Also, I’m not sure it’s fair to assume the negi joke is required canon. Firstly, in the United States, only the DVDs have been released, not the CDs. Not everyone will be able to find the translations online. Heck, I had no clue about the extended episode 26 until it was too late. But, well, everyone should know that my canon list is shorter than most people’s. ^_^; Lowest common denominator, perhaps.

Guess I shouldn’t speak another word about poor Du-chan. :X
And I think I’ll just leave Tomoe to her fan club. ^_^;

> statutory-rape/perversion thing
I mean Arika and Nina with WANG. [gagging] T_T …[barf]

(Don’t mind me– I’m just playing around and trying out various things.)

-I

And ooo, Du-chan has a “purpose”? *feels curious* This is the bad part about corresponding with the author of a work– you start feeling curious but you know you don’t want to find out or know what things mean until you can read it. Well, at least that’s so, for me.

Mm, I don’t see giving Tomoe backstory so much as “practicing fanfiction”, but more of a “project”. Actually, now that I think about it, I’m not focusing so much on “backstory” as on justifying Tomoe’s actions, while I ignore the more illogical bits. It’s ridiculous how Tomoe survived the fall, but hey, I’m not complaining that she’s alive, canonically. But admittedly, the whole episode 20 Tomoe/Shizuru interaction was rather surprising.

Tomoe’s “craziness”, I just felt it was another lame, clichéd attempt by Sunrise to put more obstacles up.
Why is it that the people with money and the resources are the idiots? The ones that are satisfied with a mediocre job? </rhetorical>
And so I’m rather sympathetic towards Tomoe, but perhaps that’s just me being maudlin and biased, to an extent.
The whole “battle” was weird. I felt that really was no true premise or basis for the whole thing.

On another note, I felt that Shizuru was acting rather un-Shizuru-like by almost doing an “in your face!” thing to Tomoe when they “confronted” each other near the end. Shizuru was very in character when she had that little talk with Tomoe, though– how Shizuru said Tomoe reminded her of herself when she was younger. And there was this faint wistfulness the way she said it.

Er, I suppose I’m “getting you started” on it, but are you referring to Arika and Nina, respectively?

Ehh… let me check. I took notes on that part.

Hmmmm. I think I’m confused. =) I had so many ideas just sitting in my brain (not necessarily fermenting, alas) and to say more may “give away” this little idea of mine– I hope to get around to actually writing it one day, though. It’d have to be AU, since I really don’t like how all the focus was on Mai and the weird little “confrontation” thing they had in the end. Why can’t it be more like Maria-sama ga Miteru and not have some “ohmygosh” final battle? Geez.

Or at least, stick some variety in it, yeah?

-I