Gabriel freaking Merethi
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foolish_m0rtalAhh, just finished writing more of Gabriel's academic/book geek background in Whittling Wood. Mizunagi is SUCH a creeper. T_T He and Gabriel are part of this Dead Languages society that has town chapters. They basically meet in bars every week and speak in whatever dead language the society is specialising in. And drink. (Gabriel gets coffee, the lightweight) This particular one specialises in an archaeic language that was spoken in the area about a hundred years ago: Mynic. (MIN-nic)
This kind of deus ex machinas my conflict with issues such as time travel. I can be out of a country for five years and come back to find the vernacular completely different. How do people from different times communicate? I can barely understand the slang from the twenties. A hundred years- it's like talking with someone from 1909. How the hell does THAT work?
Then I realised hey, Gabriel's a geek. If I learned random ancient germanic script in my spare time during algebra class, he probably did too. I find it interesting because I kind of figured he would have the school language part down, so he would know all the vocabulary and right verbs and everything, but only be able to read and write it. He has perfect reading and writing skills, but is an absolute zero in the speaking department. (Hey, doesn't that sound familiar?) But at least in terms of Mynic he's taken interest in learning how to speak it. (GEEEK) Now only if we could get him to talk in the common tongue to people around him on a daily basis. Heck, on a bi-weekly basis.
But he seems comfortable enough with the local Mynic chapter, probably because there's only five of them. And Mizunagi is one of them. And MAN is HE a creepy sonovabitch. Reminds me of that four-panel comic Gokurakuin-sensei did with Kaname and Itsuki being such good friends.
Mizunagi: Hey, Gabriel! Hey, I'm Mizunagi. Hey, you live near me? Let's take the bus back together. Hey, the bus won't be leaving for my town for an hour- let's go check out your house. Hey, you've done research in my town? Look me up sometime if you come back. Hey, is that where you work? I'll come by and see you!
Gabriel: O_O U-um....uhh....
I feel I'm relieving Tracer of his creeper obligations for a little while. I know he'll be disappointed...
Well, Nakaura's a novelist in this universe, so maybe Tracer's hanging out there, somewhere, squandering his brilliant talents on trashy female novels to drive Nakaura crazy.
Tracer: Hey-y, Tomonori, how many synonyms can I use for-
Nakaura: NOT! LISTENING!!
Though apparently Tokiko's kicking their asses and has more publishings than they do. Guess who brings home the bacon, Issin-kun?
Issin: I...I fry the bacon! In a manly way!
This kind of deus ex machinas my conflict with issues such as time travel. I can be out of a country for five years and come back to find the vernacular completely different. How do people from different times communicate? I can barely understand the slang from the twenties. A hundred years- it's like talking with someone from 1909. How the hell does THAT work?
Then I realised hey, Gabriel's a geek. If I learned random ancient germanic script in my spare time during algebra class, he probably did too. I find it interesting because I kind of figured he would have the school language part down, so he would know all the vocabulary and right verbs and everything, but only be able to read and write it. He has perfect reading and writing skills, but is an absolute zero in the speaking department. (Hey, doesn't that sound familiar?) But at least in terms of Mynic he's taken interest in learning how to speak it. (GEEEK) Now only if we could get him to talk in the common tongue to people around him on a daily basis. Heck, on a bi-weekly basis.
But he seems comfortable enough with the local Mynic chapter, probably because there's only five of them. And Mizunagi is one of them. And MAN is HE a creepy sonovabitch. Reminds me of that four-panel comic Gokurakuin-sensei did with Kaname and Itsuki being such good friends.
Mizunagi: Hey, Gabriel! Hey, I'm Mizunagi. Hey, you live near me? Let's take the bus back together. Hey, the bus won't be leaving for my town for an hour- let's go check out your house. Hey, you've done research in my town? Look me up sometime if you come back. Hey, is that where you work? I'll come by and see you!
Gabriel: O_O U-um....uhh....
I feel I'm relieving Tracer of his creeper obligations for a little while. I know he'll be disappointed...
Well, Nakaura's a novelist in this universe, so maybe Tracer's hanging out there, somewhere, squandering his brilliant talents on trashy female novels to drive Nakaura crazy.
Tracer: Hey-y, Tomonori, how many synonyms can I use for-
Nakaura: NOT! LISTENING!!
Though apparently Tokiko's kicking their asses and has more publishings than they do. Guess who brings home the bacon, Issin-kun?
Issin: I...I fry the bacon! In a manly way!
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And this is why we're the G.E.E.K. faction.
Date: 2009-10-12 03:17 pm (UTC)(And DON'T give me any more suggestions for my Tracer RP! He'd enjoy writing trashy romance novels if he were actually more than semi-literate! To-To gets messed up enough as it is!)
Gabriel...you geek, you. So awesome...*dies happily*
Mizunagi is being so creepy it's hysterical.
And henceforth, there was a new pairing on Skunky's list...Re: And this is why we're the G.E.E.K. faction.
Date: 2009-10-12 06:53 pm (UTC)Do you think the Mynic chapter is a good way for me to deus ex machina myself out of my personal language scruples? I also didn't feel Gabriel was just this boring guy who mopes in the bookshop and then goes home to mope some more. He's got chutzpah, dammit!
Gabriel: O_O ....I-I've got what?!
Augh, Mizunagi came out of nowhere. I thought I already had all the interactions I wanted for Gabriel. He kind of blends into the background and no one really pays him any mind.
And now I've got Mizunagi driving around town with a bumper sticker that says, "I Brake For Erasers... then Wheel Down the Window and Ask Them To Dinner."
Go away, Mizunagi! You're not wanted!
And henceforth, FM added a new Mizunagi pairing on Skunky's list with her side character interactionRe: And this is why we're the G.E.E.K. faction.
Date: 2009-10-12 09:42 pm (UTC)I want to live in your ideal universe!The non chutzpah person sounds liek me, actually...Hooray for a gabriel with spunk! Even if he can't say two words that aren't in an old language with scruples!Mizunagi with an Itsuki-esque personality frightens me unspeakably, in a laughing sort of way. (That is, when YOU write it, it somehow becomes liquid win, just like TracerXNatsumi.) You make crack enjoyable.
I want a Mizunagi with a bumper sticker on his bicycle. Usually when I write him he's token creepy, intelligent, and straight.
(And he and gabriel totally don't get along,t hen sort of come to an understanding in Gracious Wings...)
Re: And this is why we're the G.E.E.K. faction.
Date: 2009-10-13 04:13 am (UTC)oh, no. Whittling's Mizunagi has got the "I'm a smooth bastard" from Itsuki without the disreputable side. (Which is, of course, the very thing I like about Itsuki)
When you're with Mizunagi, you can be sure you will be hit on in the most elegant way possible. Which probably makes it even creepier. Mizunagi doesn't discriminate based on your gender- if he thinks you are awesome, then you, my friend, are AWESOME. Why? Because freaking Mizunagi says so!
(I love how we barely have background on any of these characters but still invent all these different personalities and fan clubs for them. This might be one of the things I like/cry about the most about the Juvenile Orion fandom, actually)
Hey, TracerxNatsumi could totally work!
Fanon
Date: 2009-10-13 06:03 am (UTC)OH MY GOD, speaking of universes, the BEST alternate universe I have EVER read is flakedice's lord & prince series (it's xxxHolic). It is seriously epic, and I would never in a thousand years be able to compete. *bows down*