[Soul Eater] The Snake and the Moon 3
Quick in-and-out, people...
The Snake and the Moon
By Ryo Hoshi
3.
Medusa had not expected any of it. Most of her previous dates, before she started pretending to be a high school student, had been (for good reason) with rich creeps with lolita complexes. Her date wined & dined her perfunctorily, unless he felt like showing off how fat his wallet was, and then it was off to some place with a bed and privacy. The last had ended in a bit of a black comedy: a pair of Shibusen students had turned up after her date's soul.
She'd not come away with a good impression of the school's efforts to teach 'ethics.' If she'd not been a witch…she would have died before the two had seen fit to strike. As it was, she didn't feel that guilty.
Spirit's date was not what Medusa had expected: Kami's name might have been thoroughly Japanese, but… She was blond, with slightly wavy hair and blue-grey eyes. If it wasn't for her name, the witch would never have believed that the young woman-slightly older than Spirit, and more assured of herself-was Japanese.
Well, that and the fact that Kami's English carried a faint, yet identifiable, Japanese accent. They'd collected her from a café run by her family, and she'd talked to her grandmother in Japanese; Medusa vaguely recognized it as having a Hokkaido accent. She supposed that explained a lot, though Japan had never quite made the top ten of countries to hide in.
She'd still learned the language, though.
Stein, meanwhile, was…definitely not like any date she'd ever had before. He'd carefully watched his friend, picking up cues from him. Medusa pretended not to notice; not only was there something rather amusing about it, she knew she would have been blissfully unaware of it if she was really a nerdy high school student.
She settled on being glad that the white-haired boy also watched Kami's reactions to Spirit's sometimes clumsy courtship efforts.
It helped her ignore the feeling that, if she wasn't a witch, it would have been successful in the honest sense-that she'd have made two friends, instead of useful connections for her plans.
Spirit was the largest surprise, in a way. He flirted with any and all females, but…he didn't quite seem to know how else to deal with the other gender. He seemed to also be wary of her; it made Medusa think of the times she'd heard somebody described as acting like a protective elder sibling, not that she'd ever personally experienced it.
Of course, Medusa was quite willing to plan another date.
Strangely, while I was writing this, I figured out rather more than I'm ever likely to need of Kami's family history, mainly to figure out how a half-Japanese like Maka is canonically established as being could have blond hair and green eyes.
Also, I will admit that the language talents are not established as a witch thing, but unless everybody in Soul Eater speaks the same language, one would expect an intelligent, well-aged witch like Medusa to speak many different languages just for those times when half a planet seems like a good amount of distance between herself and whichever meister/weapon team last spotted her.
Also, do remember that this is all from Medusa's PoV: if she doesn't know it, it isn't getting mentioned.
The Snake and the Moon
By Ryo Hoshi
3.
Medusa had not expected any of it. Most of her previous dates, before she started pretending to be a high school student, had been (for good reason) with rich creeps with lolita complexes. Her date wined & dined her perfunctorily, unless he felt like showing off how fat his wallet was, and then it was off to some place with a bed and privacy. The last had ended in a bit of a black comedy: a pair of Shibusen students had turned up after her date's soul.
She'd not come away with a good impression of the school's efforts to teach 'ethics.' If she'd not been a witch…she would have died before the two had seen fit to strike. As it was, she didn't feel that guilty.
Spirit's date was not what Medusa had expected: Kami's name might have been thoroughly Japanese, but… She was blond, with slightly wavy hair and blue-grey eyes. If it wasn't for her name, the witch would never have believed that the young woman-slightly older than Spirit, and more assured of herself-was Japanese.
Well, that and the fact that Kami's English carried a faint, yet identifiable, Japanese accent. They'd collected her from a café run by her family, and she'd talked to her grandmother in Japanese; Medusa vaguely recognized it as having a Hokkaido accent. She supposed that explained a lot, though Japan had never quite made the top ten of countries to hide in.
She'd still learned the language, though.
Stein, meanwhile, was…definitely not like any date she'd ever had before. He'd carefully watched his friend, picking up cues from him. Medusa pretended not to notice; not only was there something rather amusing about it, she knew she would have been blissfully unaware of it if she was really a nerdy high school student.
She settled on being glad that the white-haired boy also watched Kami's reactions to Spirit's sometimes clumsy courtship efforts.
It helped her ignore the feeling that, if she wasn't a witch, it would have been successful in the honest sense-that she'd have made two friends, instead of useful connections for her plans.
Spirit was the largest surprise, in a way. He flirted with any and all females, but…he didn't quite seem to know how else to deal with the other gender. He seemed to also be wary of her; it made Medusa think of the times she'd heard somebody described as acting like a protective elder sibling, not that she'd ever personally experienced it.
Of course, Medusa was quite willing to plan another date.
Strangely, while I was writing this, I figured out rather more than I'm ever likely to need of Kami's family history, mainly to figure out how a half-Japanese like Maka is canonically established as being could have blond hair and green eyes.
Also, I will admit that the language talents are not established as a witch thing, but unless everybody in Soul Eater speaks the same language, one would expect an intelligent, well-aged witch like Medusa to speak many different languages just for those times when half a planet seems like a good amount of distance between herself and whichever meister/weapon team last spotted her.
Also, do remember that this is all from Medusa's PoV: if she doesn't know it, it isn't getting mentioned.