Just to prove that KHR! is aimed at an intelligent audience~!
Ah, a week since the last update (and heck if I even remember what that was about), so just a couple notes before we BEGIN (because, obviously, there is ONLY ONE THING I would take time out of dealing with the frosh to rant about!):
Point number one: UNI. UNI, YOU WIN MY LIFE AND IT KIND OF REALLY KILLS ME. This girl has to be one of the greatest people in KHR!, especially when she GOES AND TIEFS THE ARCOBALENO'S PACIFIERS FROM BYAKURAN. AND THEN RUBS IT (unintentionally) IN HIS FACE. (Because pissing off a mafia boss is EXACTLY the thing to do and not at all a BAD IDEA.) And then she pulls a Fuuta and goes, "Well, I could other take refuge with the Giglio Nero Mafia Family / Black Spell, who are no longer Black Spell because I've just seperated the Giglio Nero from the Gesso / White Spell; OR I could forsake the Giglio Nero and put all my trust in the Vongola Tenth and his family and Family." Which totally pisses off Byakuran even MORE; but HEY, that works out because MUKURO IS STILL AROUND, OYES HE IS AND WOW THAT MAKES ME HAPPY. A lot. Very much. And now, we're onto--TADAH!--ANOTHER MANHUNT. Yes, another. Because it seems to be Byakuran's favorite pasttime to hunt down and kill the Vongola, especially those who happen to have certain things that he wants.
[Oh, Tsuna. We make jokes about people trying to kill you, but this is getting to be too ridiculous, even for the Vongola. Then again, considering that even Reborn's favorite pasttime is shooting Tsuna in the head (often point-blank), I think it's just a trend. "It's cool to kill the Tenth!" or something. ...which would probably make Gokudera go on a rampage if he heard that, but ~anyways~~]
Point number two: ARIA. ARIA, YOU ALSO WIN MY LIFE. AND LUCHE. LUCHE AS WELL. ...screw it, everyone in this whole damn family wins my life. (And if the rumours of Luche being blood-related to the Vongola are true, then that would only really make sense. And would also break my brain, because that would mean that Reborn is Tsuna's great-uncle or something. Which really shouldn't be surprising, since when you think about it, Reborn and the rest of the Arcobaleno have been, well, Arcobaleno, for... about fifty years?) BUT THE POINT REMAINS: ARIA. O, ARIA. [I'm currently playing the song "Aria of the soul" from the SMT:P3:FES OST in honour.] What breaks my heart is that Luche (apparently?) agreed to become the Sky Arcobaleno so that her daughter wouldn't need to, but then Luche dies and Aria agrees to bear the curse of the Arcobaleno because Luche tried to give her so much. And then ARIA dies, and UNI takes over (which should not be so surprising, considering that Uni looks almost identical to Luche, and like daughter-mother-grandmother, I guess).
But I do like Aria's Trial. Temperance is such a FUN thing to test, apparently, especially when it means you get to order around one of the most powerful people in the world like he is a slave for an entire day. "Escort us." "Wade into that mob of crazy, obsessed people and buy us that limited-edition chocoalte." "We're clothes shopping. Carry all of our bags for us." "Go return this shirt and get the same style in another colour that would better suit our new friend [Chrome]." "Go get us drinks." And of course, this is Tsuna, so he's just, "Errrrr... I guess so?" And does it. AND THEN VERDE--O, VERDE. YOU JERK. I had kind of liked Verde before, being the crazy professor/doctor he is, AND being one of the creators of the box weapons, but NOW I DO NOT. OR, NOT YET. Because he has now tried to kill Tsuna how many times (and while never succeeding, has at least done enough damage, AND maybe apparently sort of been in league with Byakuran? Which makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER, because then, also apparently, Byakuran goes and kills him for his piece of Tres-ni-sette anyways. ARGH, THIS MAKES NO SENSE, BUT I DIGRESS). One thing I do have to give Verde and his goon squad props for is for what happened with Aria and Tsuna (and then Yamamoto, Gokudera and Ryohei; but those three are somewhat like stalkers through this whole thing, and so I am not surprised they happened to magically show up out of freaking nowhere).
Aria and her playing up the "evil mafia boss" persona is hilarious, especially when Tsuna's all calm and, "Uh, nnnnnno. Good try, but I know that you're not actually like that." HYPER INTUITION, FTW! [And Aria compliments him, which is absolutely adorable, because she's all, "Okay, I give up. You got me. As expected from someone with Hyper Intuition AND Vongola's Sky." And Tsuna's incredibly embarrased because the only people who really compliment him are his Family, and even then it's usually after he's done something supposedly impossible, and Aria just says it after talking with him. Aaaaaaaaaaw.] And then Verde's goon squad appears and attacks, and HEY, LET'S LAY DOWN THE SMACKDOWN, Y/Y? [Which is about when the Storm, Rain and Sun appear and kick ass, too, because they're already learning how to subtly stalk their Sky! Aw, good boys. Doing things like this years before they otherwise would need to = good training.] And Aria's all impressed because even though she's admitted that she's not how she's pretending to be, she still hasn't confirmed that she's actually an ally (which really has been in question since forever, largely because of Luche's death and none of the other Arcobaleno were one hundred percent sure who took over for Luche or what their goals were; and Aria suddenly appearing with that piece of Tres-ni-sette around her neck... well. Suspicious, much?). And Tsuna protects her anyways, because potential enemy or not, she has yet to do anything would make her anything other than an Innocent.
[Another random comment: it amuses me what is the definition of "Innocent" for these guys. Since, apparently (for Tsuna) as long as you are not actively trying to harm/kill anyone else, even if you are the mastermind behind a whole bunch of other plots, you are Innocent. Kinda screwy definitions and concepts, GET!]
SO. LATEST PART. M-256, I think? COMPLETELY RUINED THE SUN TRIAL FOR ME. I have not watched that far yet, but they left the "update" for A-148 at the end of M-256, and so I AM KIND OF DEPRESSED NOW. Besides that, though..........
A-146, I think it actually is? I adore. Love. Glomp. All of the above. Like you have no idea. Because FON IS FAR TOO ADORABLE FOR AN ACROBALENO/CHIBI-HIBARI KYOYA LOOKALIKE. And his Trial is for them to PLAY TAG. Hide and go Seek. Whatever. But I like even more the lesson he gets them (Tsuna; I-pin [relearn]) to learn. Something along the lines of, "If you want to catch the wind, you cannot chase after it. You must let the wind come to you." In other words, the wind cannot be forced, or trapped, or caught; it can be persuaded, and guided, and welcomed. [And, of course, the entire time I was all, "Aaaaaw, Fon might end up being a perfect guide for Gokudera to CALM THE HELL DOWN ALREADY." [Storm Arcobaleno, Storm Guardian? See? It all works out! Except it doesn't, since the Sun Arcobaleno has taken an interest in the Rain Guardian; and the Rain Arcobaleno has taken an interest in the Sun Guardian. Which is a bit counter-productive, but if it works~~]
Speaking of the Sun Acrobaleno; ooooh Reborn, how you amuse us. Me. Whatever. Because obviously the person known as the mafia's greatest hitman of all time goes around wearing a black suit, a black fedora, a black tie, black shoes and socks, and A BRIGHT YELLOW SHIRT. Because when working in the shadows and doing things ninja-style, OBVIOUSLY bright yellow shirts help you to blend in.
[And now, since we've been speaking of suits...... I think it's waaaaay back in M-239 or M-240 or something, right before Choice starts (well, before they've even left the base, really), that whole scene? With the suits and the history and how surprised Irie (I think?) is about the choice of apparel? You have to admit that they all look damn good in suits. And skirt-suits or whatever. AND. SPEAKING OF THAT PART. My love for these people knows no bounds, especially regarding..... oh, everything, but at this point the HISTORY. Because no matter how you look at it or what peole say, Vongola is about as far from "mafia" as the Andromeda Galaxy is to our own Milky Way. And because their history actually very nicely represents that.
AND TO PROVE MY POINT (the history is great one, not the "they all look waaaay too good in suits" one), I BRING YOU QUOTES. FROM REBORN HIMSELF.
"I had [these outfits] specially prepared for today. The Vongola originated as a team of vigilantes who fought to protect the people. For generations, when the Vongola Family fulfil that duty, they have always gone into battle and risked their lives in full uniform."
And then, of course, he goes on to qualify the previous incidents;
"The Kokuyou struggle was a test given by the Ninth, and the Varia battle and Ring Conflict was an internal matter. But this time, things are on a completely different level."
And since Tsuna is Tsuna, he immediately complains about Reborn making things seem much grander than they are... and then Irie shoots Tsuna down (I know; big surprise, y/y?):
"He is doing no such thing! Though this battle may be known to only a select few... the future of the world rests on its outcome! Even in the entire long tradition of the Vongola Family... this will likely be the greatest battle of all."
In other words, "If you screw this up almost everyone in the world will DIE; but hey, no pressure!"
And we can argue EVERYONE in the world now, since we FINALLY KNOW WHAT BYAKURAN'S POWER IS. YAAAAY. Cue the Phalaenopsis Paradox! [Phalaenopsis, I believe, is a family of Orchids or something along those lines; the term is just a reference to the Hanakotoba that Byakuran likes playing on.] (And now I am about five second from making an SG-1 reference, since really only SG-1 and... uh, I think the crew of the Enterprise on StarTrek have any actual experience with this sort of thing.) Because it would SUCK to have to go up against someone who remembers everything that happened in all current parallel universes. That's right: we're dealing with Quantum Physics and the Many-Worlds interpretation.
Here, I quote from Gribbin and Gribbin's The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials:
"...even though they pass all the tests experimenters can think of, the quantum rules are very strange. They don't match the "common sense" view of the world that we get from everyday life. Physicists have been arguing about how we can understand the quantum rules ever since they were discovered.... The standard way of thinking about quantum physics (especially in the twentieth century) is called the Copenhagen Interpretation.... There are two crucial things about the quantum world that any good theory has to explain. The first one is called quantum probability. According to the quantum rules, nothing is certain in the quantum world. Things happen by chance, but there are rules of chance.... [It] is more complicated still, because you are dealing with lots of atoms, but there are still proper rules of statistics that you can use to work out what is going on.... The other strange thing about the quantum world, according to the Copenhagen Interpretation, is that nothing is real unless you look at it. Even stranger, the nature of something like an electron changes according to how you look at it."
But that doesn't really explain it, so we go to another interpretation, this one actually being the Many-Worlds Interpretation:
"Instead of saying that nothing is real unless you look at it, [this] says that everything is real, even when you don't look at it.... Instead of saying taht the atom sits in a mixed-up state without deciding whether to decay or not, [this] says that it does both! It says that the whole world (the whole Universe) splits in two. In one world, the atom decays and the cat dies. In the other world, there is no decay and the cat lives. In one world, you open the door and see a dead cat; in the other world, you open the door and see a live cat. So there are also two "yous" and two of everybody and everthing else. All because a single atom had the choice of whether to decay or not. According to the Many-Worlds Interpretation, this splitting happens every time anything in the quantum world is faced with a choice. So there are millions and millions of worlds, all different from one another, which somehow exist side by side, or on top of one another. The differences might be very small (a dead cat in one world, a live cat in another). Or they might be very big.... It isn't just radioactive atoms that "make" other worlds in this way. Your brain runs on electricity, for example. So there are electrons in your brain that have to obey the quantum rules. The way the electrons move around affects the way you think. So what people do is affected by the quantum rules.... Some people think that the splitting of worlds happens whenever we make decisions, as well as when things like atoms decay."
And then they go on to explain that both big and small things are effected by this: for example, in our world the Norman Conquest happened a certain way; in another world, perhaps it never happened, or the events were different, and so the England of that world is significantly different from the England we know.
...point is, BYAKURAN. Knowing ALL OF THAT. As in, everything that happens in every parallel world (well... what the "Byakurans" of all those other worlds know, anyway). And-and-andandAND!!!!!!! That Byakuran basically wiped out all those other worlds, just to control Tres-ni-sette, but didn't know or didn't realize or didn't CARE that the Heart needs to be part of it....
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Y HALO THAR, D.GRAY-MAN REFERENCE.
Okay, getting back on track.
Sort of.
[I just ended up looking at the splash for M-253 and I nearly started crying. Again. Even though I might have possible misread the caption on the image, I do not even care because my reading, "He sleeps in the deep forest in the coffin of the mafia," is not that different from, "Inside the deep forest sleeps a coffin of the mafia." Either way, THERE IS A DEAD BODY IN THAT COFFIN. A DEAD BODY THAT SHOULD NOT BE DEAD. And now I'm just ranting. But Tsssssuuuuunnnnnaaaaaa, come baaaacccccckkkkkk. And stop getting shot in the head--it is not good for you. Very unhealthy.]
- Moved back into rez... yesterday? Really? Feels longer than that. >< UC504 and my roommate is about a million times better than last year's. I think. She likes Tsubasa, too (and anime/manga?) so I really can't complain.
- Everyone has been SICK, but I think we're all better now. I hope. Mother's had some kind of muscle cramp or something that keeps her from turning her head to the right without EXTREME PAIN, and I spent a day puking my guts out, and Kristen, one of my coworkers, has been running a high fever. Altogether I think we have the symptoms of H1N1, but seperately I think it's that A) Mom's been working too hard (it can be a rather physical job), B) I was incredibly nervous about this year, and when I get that anxious I tend to suppress it, which means I don't notice it until I... need another way to release it? And C) Kristen has an eight-year-old son who tends to get into really random things. She catching a slight cold from him is not at all surprising.
- I really need to stop eating Sour Keys before bed, elsewise I apparently have weird dreams (so now I'm eating them when I wake up), and I should probably start eating better up here (meaning, not so much junkfood, y/y?)
- AND I was putting up my posters around my room and realised that, HEY!, I have a TON of posters about one of the most amazing groups of people ever; and so, the impulse to rant and rave about EVERYTHING THAT HAS RECENTLY HAPPENED IN KHR! HAS BECOME TOO GREAT TO IGNORE; AND THUS, I DON'T.
Point number one: UNI. UNI, YOU WIN MY LIFE AND IT KIND OF REALLY KILLS ME. This girl has to be one of the greatest people in KHR!, especially when she GOES AND TIEFS THE ARCOBALENO'S PACIFIERS FROM BYAKURAN. AND THEN RUBS IT (unintentionally) IN HIS FACE. (Because pissing off a mafia boss is EXACTLY the thing to do and not at all a BAD IDEA.) And then she pulls a Fuuta and goes, "Well, I could other take refuge with the Giglio Nero Mafia Family / Black Spell, who are no longer Black Spell because I've just seperated the Giglio Nero from the Gesso / White Spell; OR I could forsake the Giglio Nero and put all my trust in the Vongola Tenth and his family and Family." Which totally pisses off Byakuran even MORE; but HEY, that works out because MUKURO IS STILL AROUND, OYES HE IS AND WOW THAT MAKES ME HAPPY. A lot. Very much. And now, we're onto--TADAH!--ANOTHER MANHUNT. Yes, another. Because it seems to be Byakuran's favorite pasttime to hunt down and kill the Vongola, especially those who happen to have certain things that he wants.
[Oh, Tsuna. We make jokes about people trying to kill you, but this is getting to be too ridiculous, even for the Vongola. Then again, considering that even Reborn's favorite pasttime is shooting Tsuna in the head (often point-blank), I think it's just a trend. "It's cool to kill the Tenth!" or something. ...which would probably make Gokudera go on a rampage if he heard that, but ~anyways~~]
Point number two: ARIA. ARIA, YOU ALSO WIN MY LIFE. AND LUCHE. LUCHE AS WELL. ...screw it, everyone in this whole damn family wins my life. (And if the rumours of Luche being blood-related to the Vongola are true, then that would only really make sense. And would also break my brain, because that would mean that Reborn is Tsuna's great-uncle or something. Which really shouldn't be surprising, since when you think about it, Reborn and the rest of the Arcobaleno have been, well, Arcobaleno, for... about fifty years?) BUT THE POINT REMAINS: ARIA. O, ARIA. [I'm currently playing the song "Aria of the soul" from the SMT:P3:FES OST in honour.] What breaks my heart is that Luche (apparently?) agreed to become the Sky Arcobaleno so that her daughter wouldn't need to, but then Luche dies and Aria agrees to bear the curse of the Arcobaleno because Luche tried to give her so much. And then ARIA dies, and UNI takes over (which should not be so surprising, considering that Uni looks almost identical to Luche, and like daughter-mother-grandmother, I guess).
But I do like Aria's Trial. Temperance is such a FUN thing to test, apparently, especially when it means you get to order around one of the most powerful people in the world like he is a slave for an entire day. "Escort us." "Wade into that mob of crazy, obsessed people and buy us that limited-edition chocoalte." "We're clothes shopping. Carry all of our bags for us." "Go return this shirt and get the same style in another colour that would better suit our new friend [Chrome]." "Go get us drinks." And of course, this is Tsuna, so he's just, "Errrrr... I guess so?" And does it. AND THEN VERDE--O, VERDE. YOU JERK. I had kind of liked Verde before, being the crazy professor/doctor he is, AND being one of the creators of the box weapons, but NOW I DO NOT. OR, NOT YET. Because he has now tried to kill Tsuna how many times (and while never succeeding, has at least done enough damage, AND maybe apparently sort of been in league with Byakuran? Which makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER, because then, also apparently, Byakuran goes and kills him for his piece of Tres-ni-sette anyways. ARGH, THIS MAKES NO SENSE, BUT I DIGRESS). One thing I do have to give Verde and his goon squad props for is for what happened with Aria and Tsuna (and then Yamamoto, Gokudera and Ryohei; but those three are somewhat like stalkers through this whole thing, and so I am not surprised they happened to magically show up out of freaking nowhere).
Aria and her playing up the "evil mafia boss" persona is hilarious, especially when Tsuna's all calm and, "Uh, nnnnnno. Good try, but I know that you're not actually like that." HYPER INTUITION, FTW! [And Aria compliments him, which is absolutely adorable, because she's all, "Okay, I give up. You got me. As expected from someone with Hyper Intuition AND Vongola's Sky." And Tsuna's incredibly embarrased because the only people who really compliment him are his Family, and even then it's usually after he's done something supposedly impossible, and Aria just says it after talking with him. Aaaaaaaaaaw.] And then Verde's goon squad appears and attacks, and HEY, LET'S LAY DOWN THE SMACKDOWN, Y/Y? [Which is about when the Storm, Rain and Sun appear and kick ass, too, because they're already learning how to subtly stalk their Sky! Aw, good boys. Doing things like this years before they otherwise would need to = good training.] And Aria's all impressed because even though she's admitted that she's not how she's pretending to be, she still hasn't confirmed that she's actually an ally (which really has been in question since forever, largely because of Luche's death and none of the other Arcobaleno were one hundred percent sure who took over for Luche or what their goals were; and Aria suddenly appearing with that piece of Tres-ni-sette around her neck... well. Suspicious, much?). And Tsuna protects her anyways, because potential enemy or not, she has yet to do anything would make her anything other than an Innocent.
[Another random comment: it amuses me what is the definition of "Innocent" for these guys. Since, apparently (for Tsuna) as long as you are not actively trying to harm/kill anyone else, even if you are the mastermind behind a whole bunch of other plots, you are Innocent. Kinda screwy definitions and concepts, GET!]
SO. LATEST PART. M-256, I think? COMPLETELY RUINED THE SUN TRIAL FOR ME. I have not watched that far yet, but they left the "update" for A-148 at the end of M-256, and so I AM KIND OF DEPRESSED NOW. Besides that, though..........
A-146, I think it actually is? I adore. Love. Glomp. All of the above. Like you have no idea. Because FON IS FAR TOO ADORABLE FOR AN ACROBALENO/CHIBI-HIBARI KYOYA LOOKALIKE. And his Trial is for them to PLAY TAG. Hide and go Seek. Whatever. But I like even more the lesson he gets them (Tsuna; I-pin [relearn]) to learn. Something along the lines of, "If you want to catch the wind, you cannot chase after it. You must let the wind come to you." In other words, the wind cannot be forced, or trapped, or caught; it can be persuaded, and guided, and welcomed. [And, of course, the entire time I was all, "Aaaaaw, Fon might end up being a perfect guide for Gokudera to CALM THE HELL DOWN ALREADY." [Storm Arcobaleno, Storm Guardian? See? It all works out! Except it doesn't, since the Sun Arcobaleno has taken an interest in the Rain Guardian; and the Rain Arcobaleno has taken an interest in the Sun Guardian. Which is a bit counter-productive, but if it works~~]
Speaking of the Sun Acrobaleno; ooooh Reborn, how you amuse us. Me. Whatever. Because obviously the person known as the mafia's greatest hitman of all time goes around wearing a black suit, a black fedora, a black tie, black shoes and socks, and A BRIGHT YELLOW SHIRT. Because when working in the shadows and doing things ninja-style, OBVIOUSLY bright yellow shirts help you to blend in.
[And now, since we've been speaking of suits...... I think it's waaaaay back in M-239 or M-240 or something, right before Choice starts (well, before they've even left the base, really), that whole scene? With the suits and the history and how surprised Irie (I think?) is about the choice of apparel? You have to admit that they all look damn good in suits. And skirt-suits or whatever. AND. SPEAKING OF THAT PART. My love for these people knows no bounds, especially regarding..... oh, everything, but at this point the HISTORY. Because no matter how you look at it or what peole say, Vongola is about as far from "mafia" as the Andromeda Galaxy is to our own Milky Way. And because their history actually very nicely represents that.
AND TO PROVE MY POINT (the history is great one, not the "they all look waaaay too good in suits" one), I BRING YOU QUOTES. FROM REBORN HIMSELF.
"I had [these outfits] specially prepared for today. The Vongola originated as a team of vigilantes who fought to protect the people. For generations, when the Vongola Family fulfil that duty, they have always gone into battle and risked their lives in full uniform."
And then, of course, he goes on to qualify the previous incidents;
"The Kokuyou struggle was a test given by the Ninth, and the Varia battle and Ring Conflict was an internal matter. But this time, things are on a completely different level."
And since Tsuna is Tsuna, he immediately complains about Reborn making things seem much grander than they are... and then Irie shoots Tsuna down (I know; big surprise, y/y?):
"He is doing no such thing! Though this battle may be known to only a select few... the future of the world rests on its outcome! Even in the entire long tradition of the Vongola Family... this will likely be the greatest battle of all."
In other words, "If you screw this up almost everyone in the world will DIE; but hey, no pressure!"
And we can argue EVERYONE in the world now, since we FINALLY KNOW WHAT BYAKURAN'S POWER IS. YAAAAY. Cue the Phalaenopsis Paradox! [Phalaenopsis, I believe, is a family of Orchids or something along those lines; the term is just a reference to the Hanakotoba that Byakuran likes playing on.] (And now I am about five second from making an SG-1 reference, since really only SG-1 and... uh, I think the crew of the Enterprise on StarTrek have any actual experience with this sort of thing.) Because it would SUCK to have to go up against someone who remembers everything that happened in all current parallel universes. That's right: we're dealing with Quantum Physics and the Many-Worlds interpretation.
Here, I quote from Gribbin and Gribbin's The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials:
"...even though they pass all the tests experimenters can think of, the quantum rules are very strange. They don't match the "common sense" view of the world that we get from everyday life. Physicists have been arguing about how we can understand the quantum rules ever since they were discovered.... The standard way of thinking about quantum physics (especially in the twentieth century) is called the Copenhagen Interpretation.... There are two crucial things about the quantum world that any good theory has to explain. The first one is called quantum probability. According to the quantum rules, nothing is certain in the quantum world. Things happen by chance, but there are rules of chance.... [It] is more complicated still, because you are dealing with lots of atoms, but there are still proper rules of statistics that you can use to work out what is going on.... The other strange thing about the quantum world, according to the Copenhagen Interpretation, is that nothing is real unless you look at it. Even stranger, the nature of something like an electron changes according to how you look at it."
But that doesn't really explain it, so we go to another interpretation, this one actually being the Many-Worlds Interpretation:
"Instead of saying that nothing is real unless you look at it, [this] says that everything is real, even when you don't look at it.... Instead of saying taht the atom sits in a mixed-up state without deciding whether to decay or not, [this] says that it does both! It says that the whole world (the whole Universe) splits in two. In one world, the atom decays and the cat dies. In the other world, there is no decay and the cat lives. In one world, you open the door and see a dead cat; in the other world, you open the door and see a live cat. So there are also two "yous" and two of everybody and everthing else. All because a single atom had the choice of whether to decay or not. According to the Many-Worlds Interpretation, this splitting happens every time anything in the quantum world is faced with a choice. So there are millions and millions of worlds, all different from one another, which somehow exist side by side, or on top of one another. The differences might be very small (a dead cat in one world, a live cat in another). Or they might be very big.... It isn't just radioactive atoms that "make" other worlds in this way. Your brain runs on electricity, for example. So there are electrons in your brain that have to obey the quantum rules. The way the electrons move around affects the way you think. So what people do is affected by the quantum rules.... Some people think that the splitting of worlds happens whenever we make decisions, as well as when things like atoms decay."
And then they go on to explain that both big and small things are effected by this: for example, in our world the Norman Conquest happened a certain way; in another world, perhaps it never happened, or the events were different, and so the England of that world is significantly different from the England we know.
...point is, BYAKURAN. Knowing ALL OF THAT. As in, everything that happens in every parallel world (well... what the "Byakurans" of all those other worlds know, anyway). And-and-andandAND!!!!!!! That Byakuran basically wiped out all those other worlds, just to control Tres-ni-sette, but didn't know or didn't realize or didn't CARE that the Heart needs to be part of it....
...
...
Y HALO THAR, D.GRAY-MAN REFERENCE.
Okay, getting back on track.
Sort of.
[I just ended up looking at the splash for M-253 and I nearly started crying. Again. Even though I might have possible misread the caption on the image, I do not even care because my reading, "He sleeps in the deep forest in the coffin of the mafia," is not that different from, "Inside the deep forest sleeps a coffin of the mafia." Either way, THERE IS A DEAD BODY IN THAT COFFIN. A DEAD BODY THAT SHOULD NOT BE DEAD. And now I'm just ranting. But Tsssssuuuuunnnnnaaaaaa, come baaaacccccckkkkkk. And stop getting shot in the head--it is not good for you. Very unhealthy.]