sm_monthly March 30 theme
Oh-God-what-if-I-have-any-genes-in-common-with-these-people-I-can-never-have-kids.
Title: Relatives
Author: purplekitte
Theme: Post-series--Image
Genre: Drama
Version: Anime
Rating: PG
“How can you stand those… people?!” Haruhi realized a moment too late that that statement might still be read as rude, even if she left out the “horrible, horrible” before the “people”.
“I regularly look straight up and say ‘Dear God, save me from my relatives’.”
Not offended, then.
“Are they, are they, always…”
“Yes.”
“And your grandmother…”
“My grandmother… was not like this before the stroke. She raised me. She’s out of the hospital and better now, though, except for the tendency--”
“Izumi, what are you and your friends doing out there? Do you want--”
“We’re fine!” She continued in a lower voice. “Other than the whole calling me by my mother’s name.”
“And the deafness.”
“She can hear. Eventually. When her hearing aids are on. If you yell. Twice.”
“And your aunt…” Obsidian added in.
“Which one?”
“The one that keeps trying to psycho-analyze me, but is always wrong.”
“I like to think it’s cause you’re not crazy enough for her to understand you. She’s the one married to the pseudo-doctor, but we try not to insult any of that when he’s around.”
Obsidian shook her head. “In my family, my mother handles Aunt Kouan and I beat up Durganite when he does anything that I catch him at. That’s about it.” Well, except for the crazy uncle who tried to destroy Tokyo, but he was dead.
“There’s more aunts?” Mai brought up.
“This is the house of my aunt who’s married to the one who glares at us a lot. She’s the one going around cleaning everything used to make the food before serving the food.”
“Who offers you every scrap of food in the house, specially, at every meal?”
“Who really wants to know what everyone was eating, anytime, anywhere?”
“We say she’s very detail oriented.” At their looks, Suzume added, “Who just gets distracted from the bigger pictures and doesn’t understand the concept of skimming. And has a strange fixation on food.”
“How do you stand these people?”
Suzume huffed, gesturing inside. “Does anyone here remember why I ran away to the Dark Kingdom?”
Title: Relatives
Author: purplekitte
Theme: Post-series--Image
Genre: Drama
Version: Anime
Rating: PG
“How can you stand those… people?!” Haruhi realized a moment too late that that statement might still be read as rude, even if she left out the “horrible, horrible” before the “people”.
“I regularly look straight up and say ‘Dear God, save me from my relatives’.”
Not offended, then.
“Are they, are they, always…”
“Yes.”
“And your grandmother…”
“My grandmother… was not like this before the stroke. She raised me. She’s out of the hospital and better now, though, except for the tendency--”
“Izumi, what are you and your friends doing out there? Do you want--”
“We’re fine!” She continued in a lower voice. “Other than the whole calling me by my mother’s name.”
“And the deafness.”
“She can hear. Eventually. When her hearing aids are on. If you yell. Twice.”
“And your aunt…” Obsidian added in.
“Which one?”
“The one that keeps trying to psycho-analyze me, but is always wrong.”
“I like to think it’s cause you’re not crazy enough for her to understand you. She’s the one married to the pseudo-doctor, but we try not to insult any of that when he’s around.”
Obsidian shook her head. “In my family, my mother handles Aunt Kouan and I beat up Durganite when he does anything that I catch him at. That’s about it.” Well, except for the crazy uncle who tried to destroy Tokyo, but he was dead.
“There’s more aunts?” Mai brought up.
“This is the house of my aunt who’s married to the one who glares at us a lot. She’s the one going around cleaning everything used to make the food before serving the food.”
“Who offers you every scrap of food in the house, specially, at every meal?”
“Who really wants to know what everyone was eating, anytime, anywhere?”
“We say she’s very detail oriented.” At their looks, Suzume added, “Who just gets distracted from the bigger pictures and doesn’t understand the concept of skimming. And has a strange fixation on food.”
“How do you stand these people?”
Suzume huffed, gesturing inside. “Does anyone here remember why I ran away to the Dark Kingdom?”