YGO manga!
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ladybug_archive**puurrs.** Look at the purty icon Aubrie made! =3 The German lyrics are from a song, and it translates to "Master, Master, give me roses." XD She says she always thinks of Siegfried now when she hears the song.
**flops over.** I am so tired. -.-; I haven't been getting much sleep of late.
I had to take the stuff back to the library earlier. Along the way we stopped at Barnes & Noble so that I could look for Alucard's alias in volume 3 of the manga, because I didn't want to have to search through the online manga translation for it. However, B&N didn't have any Hellsing manga at all. .__. I was rather stunned. XD; I did find the last Duelist Kingdom volume of YGO, however, and I bought that. I'm getting slightly more interested in the manga now that we're approaching Battle City. XD; I'll probably be collecting it regularly now.
I dunno, though . . . the manga never has had the appeal for me that the anime does. I thought it seemed kinda farfetched in this one that Pegasus broke down and told Yami Y about how he got the Eye, when their duel was done. The anime version seemed more plausible, where Pegasus was mentally broken and left the room. Then when the others chased after him, they found the diary in the tower and Téa read it. I just don't see Pegasus telling Yami Y all his deepest secrets. And his grand plan to bring back his wife failed. Why shouldn't he be broken, as he was in the anime? Plus, Pegasus is funnier in the anime. XD; His best lines are mostly there.
And the whole thing with Bandit Keith was just weird. Penalty games are based on illusions, right? What he saw must have been an illusion, hence, is he really dead in the manga? If he's dead, the only explanation that's logical is that because he believed he saw a gun, his body reacted as if there was a gun, and he actually did die because he fully believed that he had been shot in the head. You know, that's the way Jin-E from Rurouni Kenshin played his mind tricks.
Viz did a whacked out translation with Mokuba. What the heck is up with him going "Kaiba"?! He would say "Seto." Oy. That just looks so wrong that I feel like whiting out him saying "Kaiba" and replacing it with "Seto." **smile.**
I did enjoy the scene where everybody was crammed into the helicopter. XD That was great. I wish the anime had done that. Seto looked so irritated! I also liked where Seto saw his younger self and the doppelganger led him out of the dungeon cell.
It's hard to really explain why I don't like the manga as much. When I write stuff down, it just doesn't look right. XD; I just know that I prefer the way the anime handled things, for the most part. Maybe it's just because it's ingrained so deeply in my mind, or maybe it's because in the anime, I see new scenes with my favorite characters (and no, I'm not just referring to the anime-only characters). Some of it may be that the manga's too gory, but I know that isn't it all the time.
Speaking of gory . . . I oddly enjoyed the page where Yami B was licking the Millennium Eye. XD; Good opportunity for Pegasus hurt/comfort.... Takahashi-sama, if I remember right, said that Pegasus might as well be dead because he was no longer needed in the story, but he didn't come out and flatly say that indeed, Pegasus was dead. Of course he isn't, in the anime. But there's no concrete proof that he's dead in the manga, either. For my part, I'll probably say that he's not dead there, either.
And for the last week or so, I've been pondering over an interesting idea. Alexander said that he's always existed. What if Alister met him when Alister was a child? I wrote this scene of their meeting. I know it leaves a lot of loose ends, but I plan to tie those up. Perhaps Alexander has no memory of this meeting now, just as Alister does not. But as you can see, Alexander was not greatly different then as compared to now.
Four-year-old Alister pressed himself against the wall in fright. All was dark around him, and his head was throbbing. He remembered hearing the screams and protests of his grandmother as the strangers had started to beat his grandfather. He had run out, afraid for the man, but then he had been viciously kicked back against a desk by one of the strange men. When he had finally regained consciousness, he had been all alone in the darkened house. He did not know where those people had taken his grandparents, or even if they would ever be coming back.
The child curled tightly in a ball, tears trickling from his eyes. He had never been all alone before. There had always been someone with him in his short life: his mother, his father, his grandparents, Holly. . . . Now . . . what if no one ever came for him? What if his grandparents were dead and his mother and father did not know to come for him? He was so young, yet he already knew something of death. Holly's father had died in a car accident not that long ago and she had been so sad. He did not want any of the people he loved to die. And he knew he did not want to be alone. He could not stand it!
Now the boy felt himself growing dizzy. He had taken such a hard blow to his head, though he was too young to understand this yet. Mumbling to himself, he slipped to the floor and laid there, wanting to sleep but being too frightened to do so. After a moment he closed his eyes, starting to unwillingly drop into a doze.
A soft flutter of wings caused him to start awake again. He stared in shock and terror at the strange creature bending over him. It looked to be a grownup, but it had fluffy red hair just like Alister's, though the shade was much brighter. The eyes were a soft ice blue, and kind, and they seemed to be filled with a certain childlike light. It was wearing a tight-fitting black turtleneck shirt and dark jeans, and gracing its feet were sandals. Sprouting from its back were the strangest part---one angel wing and one demon wing, both spread out and hanging down to touch the floor. Alister was not certain what to make of this at all. He moved farther away from it, again pressing himself against the wall.
"What are you?" he asked aloud in Swedish, trying to be brave. Angel or demon, or neither one? He had never seen anything like this being before. Since his grandparents lived in Sweden, Alister assumed that this creature must have come from outside and that it was native to the country, hence part of his reason for addressing it in Swedish instead of English.
It reached out, gently running a hand through Alister's hair. The child tensed at first, but then realized that the touch felt kind and harmless. The being was not going to hurt him.
"You're Alister," it said softly in a male's voice, in English. "I . . . I love you." It smiled gently. "I live for you, and only for you. You called me here."
Alister frowned, watching it in confusion. "I didn't call anyone," he answered flatly, switching to English as well.
It reached out, taking the astonished boy into its arms. "In your heart, you called me," it explained, holding him close. "I live in your heart. You were lonely . . . and more than anything, you didn't want to be alone, so I came. . . ."
Alister settled down after a moment, gripping a handful of the creature's dark shirt. Being at the age of acceptance, none of this sounded absurd or hard to handle, as it might have if he had been older. And for some reason, he felt safe. "I don't want anything bad to happen to Grandma and Grandpa, either," he said quietly, looking up at the being. "Can you fix it so they'll be alright?"
It bit its lip, looking stricken. Then it swallowed, holding Alister close and resting its cheek against his soft hair. "I wish . . . I had that power," it declared. "All I can do is stay with you . . . until they come home." He longed for the power to protect people that Alister loved and that he himself loved and to bring them safely home, but it was not until many years later, when Dartz was dying, that he realized just how much he longed for it.
Alister snuggled, more tears falling from his eyes. "You never said what you are," he said after a moment, his voice muffled as he buried his face against the entity's shirt. "Mommy said that angels don't really have wings."
The creature looked surprised. "Angel?" he murmured. "No . . . I'm not an angel."
Alister looked up at it again. "But . . . you're too nice to be a demon," he exclaimed. "Mommy says demons are bad."
"I . . . I'm not a demon, either," it said softly, enjoying holding the child close. "I'm a . . . I'm a doppelganger. Your doppelganger, Alister. All yours." He smiled in bliss. "You can call me Alexander." He did not know how he knew that this was his name, but somehow he always had. It sounded so right.
"Doppel . . . ganger?" Alister repeated, stumbling over the unfamiliar word. He frowned in confusion. "What's that?"
Alexander stroked gently at Alister's hair again. "It means I belong to you," he whispered. As in the future, his actions were completely innocent. He genuinely adored Alister and was devoted to making him happy. In his childlike mind, that was all that mattered.
Alister thought about this for a moment and then snuggled some more. "So . . . you'll always be here?" he asked.
"I always have been," Alexander answered.
And Alexander physically remained with Alister until his grandparents were returned the next morning, relatively unharmed. Alister never did understand why they had been taken away, and as he grew up and was faced with the war, he eventually forgot about that strange night in Sweden. He also lost all memory of his experience with the odd creature, but then, so did Alexander himself. The next time he emerged from Alister's heart, he believed it to be the first time. But as before, he also believed that it was his destiny to make Alister happy---even if he had to kill him in order to do so.
**flops over.** I am so tired. -.-; I haven't been getting much sleep of late.
I had to take the stuff back to the library earlier. Along the way we stopped at Barnes & Noble so that I could look for Alucard's alias in volume 3 of the manga, because I didn't want to have to search through the online manga translation for it. However, B&N didn't have any Hellsing manga at all. .__. I was rather stunned. XD; I did find the last Duelist Kingdom volume of YGO, however, and I bought that. I'm getting slightly more interested in the manga now that we're approaching Battle City. XD; I'll probably be collecting it regularly now.
I dunno, though . . . the manga never has had the appeal for me that the anime does. I thought it seemed kinda farfetched in this one that Pegasus broke down and told Yami Y about how he got the Eye, when their duel was done. The anime version seemed more plausible, where Pegasus was mentally broken and left the room. Then when the others chased after him, they found the diary in the tower and Téa read it. I just don't see Pegasus telling Yami Y all his deepest secrets. And his grand plan to bring back his wife failed. Why shouldn't he be broken, as he was in the anime? Plus, Pegasus is funnier in the anime. XD; His best lines are mostly there.
And the whole thing with Bandit Keith was just weird. Penalty games are based on illusions, right? What he saw must have been an illusion, hence, is he really dead in the manga? If he's dead, the only explanation that's logical is that because he believed he saw a gun, his body reacted as if there was a gun, and he actually did die because he fully believed that he had been shot in the head. You know, that's the way Jin-E from Rurouni Kenshin played his mind tricks.
Viz did a whacked out translation with Mokuba. What the heck is up with him going "Kaiba"?! He would say "Seto." Oy. That just looks so wrong that I feel like whiting out him saying "Kaiba" and replacing it with "Seto." **smile.**
I did enjoy the scene where everybody was crammed into the helicopter. XD That was great. I wish the anime had done that. Seto looked so irritated! I also liked where Seto saw his younger self and the doppelganger led him out of the dungeon cell.
It's hard to really explain why I don't like the manga as much. When I write stuff down, it just doesn't look right. XD; I just know that I prefer the way the anime handled things, for the most part. Maybe it's just because it's ingrained so deeply in my mind, or maybe it's because in the anime, I see new scenes with my favorite characters (and no, I'm not just referring to the anime-only characters). Some of it may be that the manga's too gory, but I know that isn't it all the time.
Speaking of gory . . . I oddly enjoyed the page where Yami B was licking the Millennium Eye. XD; Good opportunity for Pegasus hurt/comfort.... Takahashi-sama, if I remember right, said that Pegasus might as well be dead because he was no longer needed in the story, but he didn't come out and flatly say that indeed, Pegasus was dead. Of course he isn't, in the anime. But there's no concrete proof that he's dead in the manga, either. For my part, I'll probably say that he's not dead there, either.
And for the last week or so, I've been pondering over an interesting idea. Alexander said that he's always existed. What if Alister met him when Alister was a child? I wrote this scene of their meeting. I know it leaves a lot of loose ends, but I plan to tie those up. Perhaps Alexander has no memory of this meeting now, just as Alister does not. But as you can see, Alexander was not greatly different then as compared to now.
Four-year-old Alister pressed himself against the wall in fright. All was dark around him, and his head was throbbing. He remembered hearing the screams and protests of his grandmother as the strangers had started to beat his grandfather. He had run out, afraid for the man, but then he had been viciously kicked back against a desk by one of the strange men. When he had finally regained consciousness, he had been all alone in the darkened house. He did not know where those people had taken his grandparents, or even if they would ever be coming back.
The child curled tightly in a ball, tears trickling from his eyes. He had never been all alone before. There had always been someone with him in his short life: his mother, his father, his grandparents, Holly. . . . Now . . . what if no one ever came for him? What if his grandparents were dead and his mother and father did not know to come for him? He was so young, yet he already knew something of death. Holly's father had died in a car accident not that long ago and she had been so sad. He did not want any of the people he loved to die. And he knew he did not want to be alone. He could not stand it!
Now the boy felt himself growing dizzy. He had taken such a hard blow to his head, though he was too young to understand this yet. Mumbling to himself, he slipped to the floor and laid there, wanting to sleep but being too frightened to do so. After a moment he closed his eyes, starting to unwillingly drop into a doze.
A soft flutter of wings caused him to start awake again. He stared in shock and terror at the strange creature bending over him. It looked to be a grownup, but it had fluffy red hair just like Alister's, though the shade was much brighter. The eyes were a soft ice blue, and kind, and they seemed to be filled with a certain childlike light. It was wearing a tight-fitting black turtleneck shirt and dark jeans, and gracing its feet were sandals. Sprouting from its back were the strangest part---one angel wing and one demon wing, both spread out and hanging down to touch the floor. Alister was not certain what to make of this at all. He moved farther away from it, again pressing himself against the wall.
"What are you?" he asked aloud in Swedish, trying to be brave. Angel or demon, or neither one? He had never seen anything like this being before. Since his grandparents lived in Sweden, Alister assumed that this creature must have come from outside and that it was native to the country, hence part of his reason for addressing it in Swedish instead of English.
It reached out, gently running a hand through Alister's hair. The child tensed at first, but then realized that the touch felt kind and harmless. The being was not going to hurt him.
"You're Alister," it said softly in a male's voice, in English. "I . . . I love you." It smiled gently. "I live for you, and only for you. You called me here."
Alister frowned, watching it in confusion. "I didn't call anyone," he answered flatly, switching to English as well.
It reached out, taking the astonished boy into its arms. "In your heart, you called me," it explained, holding him close. "I live in your heart. You were lonely . . . and more than anything, you didn't want to be alone, so I came. . . ."
Alister settled down after a moment, gripping a handful of the creature's dark shirt. Being at the age of acceptance, none of this sounded absurd or hard to handle, as it might have if he had been older. And for some reason, he felt safe. "I don't want anything bad to happen to Grandma and Grandpa, either," he said quietly, looking up at the being. "Can you fix it so they'll be alright?"
It bit its lip, looking stricken. Then it swallowed, holding Alister close and resting its cheek against his soft hair. "I wish . . . I had that power," it declared. "All I can do is stay with you . . . until they come home." He longed for the power to protect people that Alister loved and that he himself loved and to bring them safely home, but it was not until many years later, when Dartz was dying, that he realized just how much he longed for it.
Alister snuggled, more tears falling from his eyes. "You never said what you are," he said after a moment, his voice muffled as he buried his face against the entity's shirt. "Mommy said that angels don't really have wings."
The creature looked surprised. "Angel?" he murmured. "No . . . I'm not an angel."
Alister looked up at it again. "But . . . you're too nice to be a demon," he exclaimed. "Mommy says demons are bad."
"I . . . I'm not a demon, either," it said softly, enjoying holding the child close. "I'm a . . . I'm a doppelganger. Your doppelganger, Alister. All yours." He smiled in bliss. "You can call me Alexander." He did not know how he knew that this was his name, but somehow he always had. It sounded so right.
"Doppel . . . ganger?" Alister repeated, stumbling over the unfamiliar word. He frowned in confusion. "What's that?"
Alexander stroked gently at Alister's hair again. "It means I belong to you," he whispered. As in the future, his actions were completely innocent. He genuinely adored Alister and was devoted to making him happy. In his childlike mind, that was all that mattered.
Alister thought about this for a moment and then snuggled some more. "So . . . you'll always be here?" he asked.
"I always have been," Alexander answered.
And Alexander physically remained with Alister until his grandparents were returned the next morning, relatively unharmed. Alister never did understand why they had been taken away, and as he grew up and was faced with the war, he eventually forgot about that strange night in Sweden. He also lost all memory of his experience with the odd creature, but then, so did Alexander himself. The next time he emerged from Alister's heart, he believed it to be the first time. But as before, he also believed that it was his destiny to make Alister happy---even if he had to kill him in order to do so.
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Date: 2005-09-08 11:16 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-09-09 12:21 am (UTC)Battle City and Pharaoh's Memories are really watch I love about the manga. >3 It's so much more . . . violent. That's not completely it, but the fact that they can't help too much that it was done for an older audience is a perk.
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Date: 2005-09-08 03:15 pm (UTC)And that was a really sweet story thingie! *squee* And how you descrobed Alexander was so well done!
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Date: 2005-09-09 12:00 am (UTC)**pets blurb.** ^^
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Date: 2005-09-09 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-08 03:54 pm (UTC)No Hellsing manga? @@ ... T__T Blah, when I go out to the mall this weekend, I'll try to remember to look. I'm guessing this is for that little fiasco you started writing? LOL
I'll certainly have to look at that latest YGO volume as well. I've been wanting to read them, but they've been kinda low priority. **was pining over Yami no Matsuei volume eight that was at Suncoast last weekend** There are certainly parts I'll be interested to see, and I definitely want the Battle City manga, but remember, the couple volumes with DDM comes first. Our first look at Duke! And Bakura also makes a little cameo in there and I've never quite understood it. As for the whole manga versus anime thing in the long run, I don't think my sickly ridden brain could handle it right now. XD;; It gets worse the more awake I become.
Gooooore. X3 ... <.<;; ... ;;>.> Nah. Really, gore doesn't start bothering me till it's . . . hmmm . . . **tries to think how to put it** Or rather, I don't care for slice and dice films. **scribbles out gore above and inserts "Blood".** Maybe I truly am a vampire. XP
This blurb was almost dejavu. @@ I mean, I remember the stuff from the RP . . . but it was very much what I expected. LOL. Though cute, nevertheless. It's interesting to Alister being accepting and trusting in comparison to how he is now. And Alexander being the more grown up of the two. **nods** Though . . . Where would Miruko be at this point? Surely they weren't four years apart were they? **muses over it**
**trying to work up enough to write some Bean and Brey stuff** Though I don't wanna give it all away! **thinks her blurb in mind would do a pretty good job of that**
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Date: 2005-09-08 11:57 pm (UTC)Muwahaha, yes, it's for the disaster fic. Mayberry won't know what hit them!
Yep, I know DDM comes first. ^^ But it's two volumes, you say? Hmm. I thought it would only be one.
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Date: 2005-09-09 12:24 am (UTC)How far apart do you suppose Mokuba and Seto are, I figured it out at one point, but my brain is on safe mode and I can only access constantly used information. ~.~;;;
I could've sworn there were two volumes, I dunno . . .
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Date: 2005-09-09 01:06 am (UTC)I have an age conflict with the Von Schraiders. XD; I want Siegfried to be around 22, but he's probably only a couple of years older than Seto, if that. And if Siegfried was 22, then Leonhard would probably be 15, going by my timeline, and I just don't he's 15. I think I dropped Siegfried's age to 20. I saw on a website where they listed him as 17, but that just doesn't sound right. And anime-only characters rarely ever are given ages. Rebecca is an exception.
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Date: 2005-09-09 01:22 am (UTC)... Okay, so it might be, I just can never pass up using that line.
True . . . **ponders** Though is this an absolute need you have for them to be six or seven years apart? XP LOL **has noticed a pattern** . . . Sorry, you know I can't help but harrass when I get the opportunity. Not being at school takes that opportunity away from me. XD;; Though yes, that is a nice age difference really, mostly parenting wise.
But I dunno . . . **muses** I really don't see Siegfried being any younger than twenty. Twenty-two really does sound rather ideal for him for some reason. Though you're right, Leonhard is not fifteen. He looks . . . twelve or something.
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Date: 2005-09-09 01:53 am (UTC)Now, with Siegfried probably being older than Seto, and no more than, say, three years (two going by my calculations), he would need to take control of his company by age sixteen. Didn't Seto get KaibaCorp when he was fourteen? I think Gozaburo adopted him and Mokuba when Seto was twelve, though I could be wrong. I've always been confused on Seto's ages during those times. XD **ponders.**
I'd really like for Leonhard to be around the same age as Mokuba, but that would be impossible if I want Siegfried to be older than Seto, but for him and Leonhard to have the same age gap between them. Oh well, not everyone looks their age. Let's see. . . . If I tried to place Siegfried at 22 now, when a couple of years have probably passed by since the end of YGO, that would probably make sense. If I tried to do it during the show's timeline, though, and had Leonhard be around the age he should be (no older than 13) than that would disrupt the timeline and not allow them sufficient time together before he started his training. Of course that also depends on how old he was when he started his training. . . . I said he was thirteen, which would have given him and Leonhard about six years together. Of course, he could have been younger when they started training him, or even if I really wanted, I could say that he and Leonhard have nine years between them to make Siegfried 22 and Leonhard 13, but that seems like too much of a gap. They don't look nine years apart.
As you can see, I've been thinking a lot about this. XD And you're right, 20 is the lowest that I could drop his age. I just don't see him as being a teenager at all.
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Date: 2005-09-09 02:24 am (UTC)Yah, I think Seto was twelve and all that jazz.
... Siegfried as a teenager . . . I see very scary things. **brain explodes**