Meme and Stuff

[mark_asphodel]

I did not enter fe_contest  this time, even though I liked the prompt.  I had an idea I really liked for "Vanity" involving courtship/marriage between Innes and L'Arachel in a 1930s-ish setting, an evolution of the 'fic I keep wanting to write entitled "A Simple Game of Self-Respect."

When a 'fic title is derived from Elvis Costello's "Two Little Hitlers,"

Comments

[raphiael]

Yeah, if a piece is really insisting on being written? No point putting it off to work on something that isn't singing to you, you know?
I actually wish I hadn't entered at all this time. I feel iffy entering my own prompt, and I don't particularly like what I came out with, so. :x

MIKAGE~
what, me? I don't have favorites!

[mark_asphodel]

1) <3 <3 <3

He won me over immediately with that "bribe" scene in his office coupled with the attempt to recruit Miki. And it just got better from there. Also, I like that he's short for an anime dude. I really am tickled by that.

2) NO ONE. He fails at romance. Completely.

3) No. Not gonna say "Mamiya." My head hurts now. Now, if we're speaking what-ifs... if he'd managed to recruit Miki, that would have been way interesting. And if he and Utena would have been able to join forces in some fashion instead of being like matter and anti-matter, that might have been interesting too.

4) Mikage is awesome as a character, but the "Nemuro" side of his being gives him necessary depth and context, IMO, and I don't feel that gets properly appreciated. That's who he actually IS. Or was. Or...

5) No follow-through elsewhere in the series, dammit. And I still don't know how I feel about his manga sidestory.

[raphiael]

We seem to find him interesting for most of the same reasons, ha. (Which isn't terribly surprising, since we seem to be drawn to the same sorts of character. . . things.)

[sailorvfan10]

My biggest disappointment was that he was only there for the Black Rose arc and then...we never see him again! Sadness. Also we don't get to see his Nemuro side until the end and that could've been this whole interesting thing...

[mark_asphodel]

Clearly the budget could afford a season of Koyasu or a season of Midorikawa but not both.

[sailorvfan10]

Maybe one of them should have used another name, worn a disguise, and been paid less because they were "some n00b".

meanwhile we would still know it was them because they have very distinctive voices.