Subject: [FFML] Re: [FanFic][Utena] Finishing
From: Alan Harnum
Date: 7/19/2000, 8:55 PM
To: "C. Richard Davies" <masefield_k@yahoo.ca>, ffml@fanfic.com

Spoilers for Utena TV series and the movie.  You've been warned.

At 08:05 PM 7/19/00 -0400, C. Richard Davies wrote:
  In honor of Alan's joining that august body of authors known as the
Fanfic Revolution and admitting to being a Miki/Nanami 'shipper, a
Miki/Nanami story.

Oh, good.  I'm, err, honoured.  I think.

  Switch our loves?

  She thinks that Miki and I should switch our loves? As in, between each 
other? That I should be pining after the Rose Bride, and he should be --

Juri didn't mean it that way, but it's just like Nanami to take it that
way.  :)

  I mean, ick. Why would /any/ man every chase around after another man's 
ugly butt? Now, I suppose I could understand if Miki were mooning after 
oniisama's cute butt, but there's no way that oniisama would ever -- I mean, 
let's face it, girls are cuter. Ask anyone!

Depending on whether you take Miki's visions of the shirtless Touga in
Episode 5 as flashbacks or just a vivid imagination... gosh, imagine if
Nanami found out that lil' detail...

  I wish I'd just ignored it, like I ignore most of the crap that she comes 
up with at Council Meetings. 

Council meetings (you can get away with using 'Council' as a proper noun,
but not 'meetings')

  What's she know, anyway? Crazy old witch. Probably wanted to have the 
Rose Bride /and/ Tenjou as part of her harem. Ick. More disgusting thoughts. 
And I thought bugs were bad.

You know, I'm surprised Nanami is even able to figure out Juri's
orientation, given her seemingly profound ignorance about sex in
general--witness the egg episode.  :)

Then again, it would explain why she's not more jealous of Juri... getting
to spend all that time at Council meetings with oniisama and all.  Maybe
just subconscious recognition that Juri would sooner eat glass than make a
move on Touga.

"We've replaced anime Juri's brain with manga Juri's.  Let's see how long
it takes Touga to notice the difference... wow, five seconds."

  The door to the music room slides open. I could stop playing but Miki 
never does so I don't etiher.

either.

I shift one eye to catch a glimpse of the 
person's reflection in the window. Bluish hair, boy's uniform -- yep, 
Mickey-chan.

Interesting.  IIRC, she refers to him as "Miki-kun" a few times, but you've
mentally got her thinking of him as "Miki-chan".  Cute.  :)

  K-LICK.

Hmm.  Nitpicky, but you might want to make it a mere "Click." instead.  The
all-capitals "K-LICK" gives me a vision of Miki flicking the safety off his
Glock and putting it to Nanami's temple.  Maybe I'm just weird that way.

Then again, considering who it actually turns out to be...

  -- and what is up with that thing anyway?

Ikuhara's answer, IIRC, was, "It's just there."

  Only on my shoulder -- /shoulders/ now, but he's touching me. I ought to 
stand up, turn around and tear him a new hole, but he's touching my 
shoulders and that means I can't stand up. Nobody touches me but oniisama, 
and he certainly hasn't touched me on my upper arms the way that Miki is 
doing now, or moved down just barely skirting past my bosom to brush against 
my elbows and this is improper and I'm going to tell oniisama and he'll kill 
Miki.

Nahh.  It would be more like, "Way to go, Miki!  Maybe she'll finally get
off my back now!  Want some advice?  Want some money?  Want to borrow my
way-cool motorcycle?"

  I say "No," but for some reason it doesn't come out like an order should, 
it sounds like I'm wimpering

whimpering

and I never ever wimper, 

whimper,

  And if I didn't already think that these skirts were waay too short the 
fact that a moment later his hand is under would convince me and I resolve 
to insist to oniisama that he see about lengthening them.

Possible canonical problem: from Episode 10 until Episode 37, we never see
Nanami in her regular school uniform again.  We do see her in a casual
dress in Episode 21 (Keiko's Black Rose episode), but from 11-36 she seems
only to wear her Council uniform during school hours.

(So says I, nitpicker and canon-obsessive).

  But I remember who I am in tmie 

time

I find myself disagreeing somewhat with Nanami's voice in this story--I
tend to see her perspective as being more childlike and naive.  Perhaps you
just have a different vision of the character, however.

Kozue is easier to buy.  Her use in this reminds me of something I came up
with on first watching the Utena movie, after the scene between Juri and
Miki in the parking garage...

"You know," says I, "it would make a lot of sense if Kozue killed Miki in
the bathtub, took out her earrings, put in some green contacts, and put on
his uniform so she could take his place.  See, that's why Juri flirts with
Miki, because she's subconsciously able to tell it's Kozue using her
lesbian powers."

I then walked around the hotel room snapping my fingers and babbling about
how I had to write this, which I do quite a lot.  Then I realized that
movie Kozue probably couldn't make her hairstyle look like movie Miki's,
and scrapped it.

Again, I'm honoured.  And kinda annoyed it wasn't actually Miki/Nanami.  :)

Ciao,
-Alan Harnum


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