Thanks! I *tried* to do him canon justice...but there's so little of him in canon to work off of, I don't really know. If you picked up fondness and arrogance, though, that means I succeeded. :D Writing angry!annoyed!Murata was incredibly hard, because 1) he's hardly EVER annoyed in canon, except for one FRICKIN' ADORABLE SCENE WITH MINI!SHINOU (Murata didn't even get to say anything besides something like "I told you not to ride on my shoulder!" looking really perturbed) that MADE MY LIFE. I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW BECAUSE OF THAT SCENE. (Can you tell I fangirl them hard?) And 2) the way Murata speaks is so distinctive, but I'm pretty sure that's only his voice actor's intonations, not any particular idiosyncratic speech pattern. At least the subs never translated it differently, and from my incredibly sketchy knowledge of listening to Japanese, it wasn't noticeable.
It is canon that these two prank each other, though. <3 (WAIT UNTIL YOU GET TO EPISODE 25 OF SEASON 3, IT IS MY FAVORITE KKM EPISODE EVER. Not just for the two-minute Shinou & Murata scene that is so fluffy and angsty [it's like, wow look, Murata can look really angsty!], there's a great brotherly Wolfram & Gwendel scene where they fight together.) I was satisfying my fangirl desire to see Murata in the Daikenja's awesome outfits. Okay, he didn't quite make it there in the fic (Murata-in-my-head is really stubborn and won't let me do anything fun *pouts*) but it was getting there.
OMG have you heard Murata's character songs? There's this one, which is really pretty; I never figured his voice actor to sound good singing, but he does (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZEwqdsWfGQ). And then there's this crack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR65wGMDmsg. I've heard it a zillion times, but it still makes me laugh so hard every time I hear it. <3 It makes any bad day like 1000x better. I haven't been able to find any translation of the lyrics, but various sources have translated the title as something like "The Wise Man's Holiday." He has a third one, but it's not quite as wonderful as these two. :)
It is canon that these two prank each other, though. <3 (WAIT UNTIL YOU GET TO EPISODE 25 OF SEASON 3, IT IS MY FAVORITE KKM EPISODE EVER. Not just for the two-minute Shinou & Murata scene that is so fluffy and angsty [it's like, wow look, Murata can look really angsty!], there's a great brotherly Wolfram & Gwendel scene where they fight together.) I was satisfying my fangirl desire to see Murata in the Daikenja's awesome outfits. Okay, he didn't quite make it there in the fic (Murata-in-my-head is really stubborn and won't let me do anything fun *pouts*) but it was getting there.
OMG have you heard Murata's character songs? There's this one, which is really pretty; I never figured his voice actor to sound good singing, but he does (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZEwqdsWfGQ). And then there's this crack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR65wGMDmsg. I've heard it a zillion times, but it still makes me laugh so hard every time I hear it. <3 It makes any bad day like 1000x better. I haven't been able to find any translation of the lyrics, but various sources have translated the title as something like "The Wise Man's Holiday." He has a third one, but it's not quite as wonderful as these two. :)
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