the sin that I impute each frustrate ghost

[incandescens]

I couldn't write Nii from his own pov -- I don't know enough about the man, and besides, he's better and more dangerous seen through the eyes of others. Like Kanzeon Bosatsu; the enigma is part of the fascination, and part of the danger, and both of those are necessary to the character. Like Muraki in Yami no Matsuei, or Akio in Utena, leaving the character undefined allows the other viewpoint characters to be that much more uncertain, and the reader to share the uncertainty.

And if it's about Nii, through someone else's eyes, that's bad enough too. Nii's like Koumyou, for me -- either I get him right or I get him wrong, and it's very hard to get him right, and very easy to get him wrong. Not knowing what the hell's going on behind those eyes doesn't help, either.

Grey and wet today. Grey and wet yesterday. My brand new shoes are still painful at a couple of points, though growing less so. I find new shoes are always that way, unfortunately. They need breaking in. Cue scene with whip and . . . on second thoughts, don't cue scene with whip and.

I realise that I'm growing frustrated with the edits I'm having to do, and that this isn't having a good effect on my temper as a whole. I should really take a night off and work on something personal, or frivolous, or both, but then I'd feel guilty. Annoying.

Ordered a copy of the just-out third DVD of Revolutionary Girl Utena, beginning the Black Rose run. Mm. Now I just get to watch for the post every day till it arrives, in growing frustration. Ah, the little things that make us happy. :)

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Mmmm. Mikage. Well-worth the wait. ^_^ Mine should be here soon too.

Fukaku. Motto fukaku.

The unbearable lightness of Nii-ing

[(Anonymous)]

It was not I who put Nii on the list in the first place, I point out. And if I like, I have a pov character in no condition to register anything as it truly is, which is proving to be a godsend. Even so. Nii. Enh.
-mjj

Re: The unbearable lightness of Nii-ing

[incandescens]

Intriguing. Very intriguing, if I think (and I think) what I think you're thinking.

(And you complain about my paronomasia.)

Re: The unbearable lightness of Nii-ing

[(Anonymous)]

I don't complain. I react as the recovering alcoholic does to the fifth of scotch shoved into his hand. It's the ancient family curse of the Johnsons. 'Puns! I must- have- **puns**!!'
-mjj

Re: The unbearable lightness of Nii-ing

[incandescens]

My father's the main culprit in my family. Worse, as a lecturer in French, he's been known to make complicated bilingual jokes at times. And at supper.

On the positive side, I can get juicy details about nineteenth-century France off him.

Re: The unbearable lightness of Nii-ing

[(Anonymous)]

I got it from my father too. It's a Brit male thing, don't sweat it.

To which end, given that Nii's character remains largely an unilluminated mystery- no details, and what few we have nasty- I see I should rephrase the subject line.

Hence, the unlightable bareness of Nii-ing.
-mjj

Re: The unbearable lightness of Nii-ing

[incandescens]

I didn't realise I could _make_ noises like that. Good thing there's nobody else in the office.