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crossingfield2013-02-27 12:49 am
protagchan) wrote in crossingfield2013-02-27 12:49 am
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will the real anime protagonist please stand up
[ ah, it's sunny out...
you know, as i get older i realize the days just start to blur together. i can't really tell one day from the next 'cause it's all the same to me. i do the same things over and over again that everything i do has lost meaning to it.
i wake up, i eat breakfast, i go to school, come home from school, sit around and play some games while i do my homework, eat dinner somewhere along the way and i go to sleep.
and then it repeats, just like that, every day. and it's been like this for, what, i dunno -- half of my life? and then this is just going to keep on going for... however long i'm alive for. it's really boring, isn't it? living that kind of life.
which is why, right at this moment, i sigh heavily. before me stands perhaps the greatest obstacle of my day: a hill that i must climb in order to reach the school campus.
ugh, anything but this...
it's true, this route could easily be avoided -- if i wake up early enough, i could take the longer way around, or if i had a bicycle i could just bike my way up the hill, or if i had friends who lived in my neighborhood, they could walk up with me and it wouldn't be so boring.
except it's all too much trouble and i'd rather not waste my time. it's going to be more work to figure out an alternative. best not to prolong the inevitable, either -- i'm going to have to climb this hill for the next two years of my life anyway.
it's way too early for this.
i take my first step -- left foot first -- and just as my foot is about to hit the ground, my right foot just about to push off to take the next step, something odd happens. it takes me by surprise and i stumble, losing my balance after not even one single step and i fall to the ground, my ass meeting the pavement that i would have been treading along had things... gone to plan, i guess.
something rustles from the bushes to my right, and within a moment's notice something i've never seen before comes out from it. a dark puddle or blob or something moves to the left, a little, then to the right. it stops, moves forward and then moves back... and looks right at me.
-- panic settles in --
what the hell is going on right now? why is it looking at me? shit --
why is this happening to me? ]
you know, as i get older i realize the days just start to blur together. i can't really tell one day from the next 'cause it's all the same to me. i do the same things over and over again that everything i do has lost meaning to it.
i wake up, i eat breakfast, i go to school, come home from school, sit around and play some games while i do my homework, eat dinner somewhere along the way and i go to sleep.
and then it repeats, just like that, every day. and it's been like this for, what, i dunno -- half of my life? and then this is just going to keep on going for... however long i'm alive for. it's really boring, isn't it? living that kind of life.
which is why, right at this moment, i sigh heavily. before me stands perhaps the greatest obstacle of my day: a hill that i must climb in order to reach the school campus.
ugh, anything but this...
it's true, this route could easily be avoided -- if i wake up early enough, i could take the longer way around, or if i had a bicycle i could just bike my way up the hill, or if i had friends who lived in my neighborhood, they could walk up with me and it wouldn't be so boring.
except it's all too much trouble and i'd rather not waste my time. it's going to be more work to figure out an alternative. best not to prolong the inevitable, either -- i'm going to have to climb this hill for the next two years of my life anyway.
it's way too early for this.
i take my first step -- left foot first -- and just as my foot is about to hit the ground, my right foot just about to push off to take the next step, something odd happens. it takes me by surprise and i stumble, losing my balance after not even one single step and i fall to the ground, my ass meeting the pavement that i would have been treading along had things... gone to plan, i guess.
something rustles from the bushes to my right, and within a moment's notice something i've never seen before comes out from it. a dark puddle or blob or something moves to the left, a little, then to the right. it stops, moves forward and then moves back... and looks right at me.
-- panic settles in --
what the hell is going on right now? why is it looking at me? shit --
why is this happening to me? ]
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[I'm sparkling. I'm sparkling.
I'm just really glad Shiro really loved this show - it's not one of my favorite favorites, but it's a fun show with a lot of neat twists.]
Ah, but I don't think it was his plan 'all along!' I think it was something he only thought of after what he did to Euphemia. Sort of a 'never look back.' thing.
Ah, but it was great, wasn't it? There's not a lot of mecha like it! Well, there are bits and pieces - the mechs are a little VOTOMS, the designs a little Wing, and Kallen is like Ryoma's long-lost daughter - but the focus on scheming and stuff is pretty unique! It's really cool.
Ah, who was your favorite character?
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I guess... it makes sense, I mean... After what happened to Euphemia, I'm sure he couldn't trust himself anymore... So he decided to keep going. Even though a lot of people suffered, and he even tricked the people that he cared for, I guess in the long-run he did something pretty great.
In a weird way.
[ Whatever Kyouko just talked about - references, I'm guessing, to things I'm not familiar with - kinda flies over my head.
I hum a little. ]
I liked Gino a lot. [ Can I be blamed for that? ] And his little sidekick, Anya? Although the twist with her at the end really was kinda weird...
Ah, Jeremiah kind of got to me too. Damn you, Orange-kun...
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[I snort at her favorites - of course she goes for the blond pretty boy.]
Ah, Orange-kun is definitely one of my favorites, but... I think my favorite was Kallen? It was kinda cool seeing a girl be one of the best pilots in the series - you don't get that that often. Usually if a girl's a pilot, she's average, or psychic. Or dies. Or both of those last two.
[I shrug, hold Shiro closer.]
Anyway, see, see? Mecha isn't just burning spirit and cool robots!
... I'm really glad you enjoyed it. It makes me happy seeing you get into the things I'm into, y'know?
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[ Of course, she was really badass too, but... Wow, okay, I can admit that I fell really hard for her during the fanservice-y parts. ]
I think C.C. was pretty cool too but... Kallen definitely tops the cake.
[ I snuggle closer to Kyouko. She's nice and warm. ]
Yeah, it was fun. I guess I just didn't give it a chance before I made any opinions on it. But mostly, I like it a lot since I'm watching it with you, I guess.
[ I hug her close, lean in to bury my face against her body. ] Thanks for showing it to me.
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[I pinch Shiro's cheek lightly.]
Shiro's becoming a perverted otaku. I'm a bad influence! [I laugh. It was pretty hard to miss the way she was staring during the bunny girl scene.]
No problem, no problem. I hope I can find more stuff you really like, instead of stuff you just like because I'm here with you.
If you like modern stuff, maybe Macross Frontier or something...
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[ I pout and move to bite at her fingers that pinch my cheek. Jeez. ]
What's that about? [ Maybe I do like the more modern stuff... The old stuff Kyouko talks about sometimes kinda turns me away - I don't think it's because they're old, but just... Iunno. I guess I'm weird about it. ]
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Well, the Big Zam comes across okay. Ramba Ral's last stand, too. And M'Quve's ambush. Mostly janky, though. It's not hard to see why someone used to modern, cleaner animation would get turned off by that.
I wince when she bites my fingers, give a little laugh.]
Hey, hey, never said I didn't! Just saying I was already a pervert otaku when I watched it. [I shake the fingers she bit a little, pull them away from her face.]
Uhm, it's theoretically about space aliens attacking a space colony, buuut it's really about music. How powerful it is, how it can get feelings across... hold on, lemme...
[I reach for my ipod on the night stand, just sorta jab one of the ear buds into Shiro's ear, then stick the other into one of mine. Couple listening is kind of a cute scene.
Then I turn on Lion.]
The two main girls are cute, too.