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

IMO, i get the impression that Tanyuu doesn't really have the oppertunity to get married - in this era in Japan, especially since Tanyuu is of a noble famil y (or at least not some random pesant family) marriages are arranged at 13-14, latest. Tanyuu's a bit older than that, I beleive. I think, like Tama (her Mushishi, if i recall correctly) who also isn't married, once you get the mark that kind of determines your fate for the rest of your natural life. If she isn't married by now (she strikes me as ~19?) my guess is she won't be married, and probably won't have kids in wedlock (and if she had kids outside of wedlock, she'd probably be frowned on left right and center, ohhh god old uptight Japan!).

If you're thinking of getting Tanyuu pregnant, you're gonna have to be careful about this, and conform with societal conventions at the time. Mushishi takes place in umm.. crap, i forget the era; and though time is rather fluid in mushishi (recall the episode with the eyeball-monster in which Ginko uses a syringe and appears to be wearing a turtleneck?), it takes place within Mideval times in Japan. People didn't really get pregnant out of wedlock, and this wasn't a time (like in Kenshin) where hookers/geisha were around, it was quite a bit before that.

Good luck on your fic, and hope this helped.

[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...