[FFML] [Mai Hime, Future] Teaser for Road Trip

[Bert Miller]

Just a few token comments on the token teaser...

John Biles wrote:
>     "Love?  That man wouldn't..." Crystal began.  Mr. Sakomizu glared at her
> and she shrank in on herself.
>   
Bringing back Sakomizu-sensei was an interesting idea.  The kids don't 
pry nearly enough, given
how much he could tell them.  But, of course, they don't know how much 
he could tell them.

>
>     "So Octavian took his revenge.  Marc Anthony had betrayed his duties as
> a leader of Rome because of his crush on that woman, and betrayed the wife
> he'd sworn oaths to.  He knew Cleopatra was just using Marc Anthony for her
> own gain," Hayao said angrily.  "And so they, who had once been companions
> in battle, turned on each other and led armies to war.  But Marc Anthony was
> a loser, lost in a haze of lust for the evil Queen of Egypt, and when she
> panicked at Actium and her fleet fled the scene, his fleet was annihilated.
> In the end, he killed himself thinking her dead, and she killed herself not
> for love of him but to avoid being humiliated by the victorious Octavian,"
> Hayao finished.  He sounded as angry as if he was Octavian himself.
>
>     I couldn't figure out why he was so worked up over something that
> happened to other people thousands of years ago.  
This part obviously is intended to mean or point at SOMETHING, but 
what?  Hayao, whose
only obvious role so far is as a potential source of conflict between 
Crystal and Kasumi,
is obsessed with this story, and identifies strongly with Octavian 
(later Emperor Augustus).
Can we read 'Antony and Cleopatra' as a metaphor for anything in 'Mai 
Hime'?  Let's see...
(Nagi and Reito/Obsidian Lord were allies in a task; Reito's infatuation 
with Mai influenced
the Obsidian Lord too much, and hence the O/L blew the job, and Nagi 
wants revenge
on Mai?  And Hayao is Nagi in disguise?)  No, that's too far-fetched, 
for multiple reasons.

Still, you obviously intended Hayao's outburst above to mean SOMETHING.