fanfic question part 2

[minako134]

I'm sorry for spamming so much. Well maybe I'm not. I dunno. ^o^;;;; But I guess I'm gonna be making posts like this throughtout the month as I make my fanfic... I guess. Maybe. Please let me know if I'm being annoying and posting to much! ;_;

Comments

[shiningdays]

I think the mark only dissapeers if she seals the mushi entirely (by writing stories.) Since there are births going on in Tanyuu's family during this time (perhaps not her parents directly, but within the family as a whole), i get the impression that the mark doesn't re-appear until the person who currently has dies. and even then, there appears to be a few generations between mark-bearers (it's mentioned in the episode/chapter i think, but i can't recall it off the top of my head)

[minako134]

Yeah, all that makes sense. *nods*

I just thought of something, though... Do they *need* Tanyuu to have a baby, to pass the mark on through and stuff...? Or perhaps the mark goes to any blood relatives the Karibusa descendents, regardless of who become Recorders...

[shiningdays]

I think it goes to anyone in the Karibusa bloodline once Tanyuu kicks the bucket

[minako134]

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna do the baby thing, it was just something that popped up in my head. And you do raise a good point that her family would not be happy *at all* if she had one out of wedlock, and we can definitely assume she's not married...

After doing some research on Edo Japan and the periods before and after it, I came to the conclusion that this is supposed to be somewhere near the end of Edo Japan, and I also read somewhere that the author said that it takes place in "a Japan where the Meiji Restoration didn't happen, and all remained peaceful" or something along those lines... In general, Mushishi presents an incredibly peaceful and optomistic Japan, with no mention of taxes or government or large-scale conflict at all. 0_0 It's interesting... I wonder if that's another reason that it's so popular a manga in Japan, because it's kind of a really sugar-coated depiction of the Edo period, or something...

[cal_reflector]

What is certain is that the efforts to reduce the mark is cumulative; even if the mark were passed, her offspring would certainly have far less to deal with than she had.

The question you ask is good however, and any good explanation will have to depend on the author's imagination and a convincing presentation, the previous post's explanation sounds workable to me... but the mechanics of the inheritance of that mushi seem extremely difficult from a logic point of view to work out.