Now and Forever...Itsumademo... - Chapter 13A
Title: Now and Forever…いつまでも…
Author: Mayonaka no Taiyou/Unare Haineko
Pairing: [Juntoshi] Matsumoto Jun x Ohno Satoshi
Rating: R-ish.
Summary: This story follows Ayumu, a more or less normal child born in 2012, three years after the ending of ‘Kodoku kara Umareta Ai’ (which you can read here). His parents, Jun and Ohno, are everything ( Read more... )
The imagery and symbolism in Sho’s section (which I’ve covered in more detail in the post mortem sections) are rich with meaning for anyone with an eye to the plot. I raised a brow (for your benefit) at the wisteria reference -the same plant outside La Glycine. Ha! I had no idea you were going to throw it in there. It was a pleasant surprise, I own. And for that and this section, I thank you.
Of course, we wonder whether Sho actually notices anything he sees and makes sense of anything. The man probably hasn’t even noticed that the name of his ‘betrothed’ (aka Iris) keeps cropping up with the frequency and regularity of waves along the shore. I even doubt he’s noticed that the wisteria card was paper-clipped to Iris’s request for restricted material, or that Iris’s supervisor has the Greek version of Hades for a name. Shouldn’t that send warning bells to his brain? What kind of person has the god of the underworld for a dissertation advisor? Those thoughts have probably not occurred him. But that is to be expected - that man does only have one brain cell. To think that we were so pleasant and civil to him too, the least he can do to repay us is to remove his blinkers and grow a few more brain cells. *harrumphs at M. Sakurai*
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Of course Sho has not noticed a thing. He's too focused on himself (like everyone in Itsumademo) and how there are all these puzzling things happening all of a sudden to him. The boy went years without knowing the real Masaki. If he doesn't even know what lies beneath his beloved Masaki in a tin can, how can he notice the goddess of the rainbow looming in the shadows?
With Dr. Etrange's entrance, comes more mystery. Of course Iris would have to have a connection with Dr. Etrange and her colleague, Tsuchimoto Aides(u), would have to be Iris' faculty advisor. More connections, more wheels within wheels....XDDD
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I am still thinking of the connexion between the Goddess of the Rainbow vis-a-vis the God of the Underworld and Nemesis/Tyche/Beatrice. I choked on my tea when I saw Aides the name. "Surely not," my brain went, and then when I realised that the whole set up with Dr Etrange happens in "hell" it makes some tenuous sense. She's a creature of the shadows, so she should know Aides/Hades.
[Of course, now Lady Strange wonders whether Lord Hal has a finger in her pie with her boys and she is not pleased.]
And of course, Dr Etrange would stare down at Sho from her spectacles, rap his knuckles with a letter opener and tell him that this is hell and he's not out of it. Oh, all these connexions. At this rate, you'd have a 30+ chapter work at the very least. Very amusing. The twists and turns of this plot makes my week ever so less humdrum. For that, you have my affection and thanks.
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Iris, Aides, Nemesis &ca... I love that the wheels and cogs be turning round and round.... Aides was strictly for you, my dear. And I just had to put another reference to Greek mythology in Ch 14 as well.
30+ chapters? I wouldn't be surprised. But I try not to let it get too long because then people get intimidated by the length... Oh, well, they can just deal. Those who are not willing to think or are intimidated by complex plots, exit stage right via Dr. Etrange's elevator. *sniggers*
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