SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH

the ramifications of Maku’s defeat for Rio

…Shinichi = Rio? :O

This breakdancing fight scene gets me every time. It’s so beautiful~~~~

Ura – “I can’t connect to either Ryoutaro or Ryuuta…”
^connection

Man, I just love the little gags and stuff in this series. Ura going “Uso!” was particularly hilarious. Den-O may have been written very rushed and last-minute, but it was so awesome. I particularly love how the extra forms (Climax, Liner, Zero) were created out of necessity other then for the sake of defeating the enemy hur hur. Climax Form in particular wasn’t used much to actually defeat enemies, it was for plot and (more poignantly IMO) used in cases to show the connection between the Imagin (i.e they originally couldn’t do it because they squabbled so much, later they can do it on command with no problems) and Ryoutaro. Liner Form isn’t even powerful (except for the hisatsuwaza, where it’s implied that it contains the force of a moving train); they introduced that one because of a plot point.

You know, I’ve thought about this many times, but I’ve finally figured out why the age of Juken (4000 years) and the date of the Geki-Rin Uprising (500 years ago) has always bothered me. The Geki-Rin Uprising was initiated when the Kenma killed their Master, Brusa Ee. But Brusa Ee has been stated canonically to be the creator/founder of Juken. So wouldn’t that mean Brusa Ee is over 3500 years old at the time of his death? ._.

IT IS A MYSTERY.

Gou was only assumed dead; no one (except Rio) knew where he went. It is stated that Miki searched for Gou for a time. (implied that the Masters searched, too?)

However, it is known that Rio killed Dan. This is probably due to the body, and Shafu may have been able to read Rio’s ki off the body. Alternatively, Rio may have told them himself, but that is very much not likely, seeing as how he doesn’t view it as fulfillment of his wish to beat Dan. It was not until ep 40-something that the full story is revealed by Rio himself.

Also note that canonically/timeline-wise, Rio faced Gou before Dan.

Also, in the preview of ep 27, there’s a shot of Mele eating a manju, with a pile in front of her. (It was kinda hilarious. xD) It never made it to the actual episode. But depending on what the scene actually contained, my little “rinshis/Mele doesn’t actually have to eat” headcanon may or not be shot to pieces. ._.;;; But it’s never mentioned in the show itself, so it’s totally not contradicting canon! 8DDDDDDDD;;;;;;;

Juken = 4000 years old

Geki-Rin Uprising = 500(?) years ago

…I have a feeling I’ve written this down before. ~headtilt~

Looking at my screenshots of Gorie’s hold on Rio and Rio struggling in ep 26—it kinda made me wonder if it was something Gorie had used in Rio’s youth. ._. Not that I think Gorie would have grabbed a kid by the throat, but idk, I kept imagining Rio in his unarmored form, and I guess it made him (more) youthful to me. 8D;;

ETA: Also, Juken may be 4000 years old, but that doesn’t mean the Geki-Rin Rebellion was. =_=;; Because the Kensei only say that their ki matched Brusa Ii’s so they gathered under him, not that Brusa Ii created Juken. ô_ô That’s…really confusing, though. |||OTL

Er, no, wait. Ken just called Rhinoceros Fist “the original Juken style.” So this means Brusa Ii likely is the creator of Juken. I just find it really hard to swallow, though, that Mele and everyone is really from ~2000 BC. ._. Especially considering: what did Long do in that time?! And was he really concocting a Hakaishin that early in the game?!

from ep 5:

Senkenmanda (Sen Ken Man Da – Senken Manda?)

So I have this fic right. WHEN DOES JAC EVER NOT LOL And in it, the Rinshi have no taste buds (in my own little headcanon they don’t ♥), so the food is very well. bad. Naturally, Mele has to go kidnap a living cook, but uh, how? 8D;; And how does she keep him/her there? How does Mele keep the cook from poisoning the food? |||OTL

From episode 1:

“Ran and Retsu are kenshi that are learning the 4000-year old Geki Juken Beast Arts.”

Juken is 4000 years old, not 500. |||OTL

I knocked off a zero…ah, I hope the fandom-checkers for my RP app think of it as a minor mistake. ;;_;;

Also, from this we can assume that Rio hadn’t been rampaging in the intermediate years, if he’s just now commanding his Rinju Den to collect screams and despair. But doesn’t Mele, at the very least, know that Rin power comes from screams and despair? Rio himself should know, when Dan (at the very least) confronted him about it. ._. Maybe ordering them on a rampage was just a formality to appease the Kenma. I mean, I understand that this was neccessary, being the first episode, but still, retroactive consistencies! It appear that minor plot points don’t get as much consistency treatment. Understandable in a children’s show, really, so I guess I just think about these things too much. xD;;;

And hey, even with that, there’s a huge amount of stuff that IS retroactively consistent, so this is kind of nitpickery, especially when I know the reason, lol

From episode 2:

There are three entrances/exits from GekiHeadquarters: one (main) at the right of the SCRTC symbol, a side black one to the left, and one at the back, adjacent to the black one and out from the sunken training area. (diagram maybe to come later)

MOST EPIC BITCHSLAP. EVAR.

Officially, they work for the “Special Development Department.”

Theory: Gou had such a delayed reaction to Rio because, until seeing Suugu, Gou didn’t realize he wasn’t the only casualty?

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“WTH? Mele has Super Beast On!?”

xDDDDDDDDD Oh, Jan. ilu. ♥

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“[The lanslide that wiped out Dan's village] happened soon after Dan was killed by Rio”

My timeline IS right! OTL

Misc

Gou has been :| from ep 41. It started when Rio revealed Genju Ou. Gou’s words were, more or less “For making everyone–Dan, Jan suffer…Rio!” Then he got super gure gure, yelling at Jan and fighting with Ken. He got really angry when Ken said “Just because [Rio] didn’t pick you.” He said he believed in Jan when they were stuck in the gourds, and when Jan arrived, Gou was all :DDDDDDD But when Jan was being all happy happy and showing everyone the locket, Gou went back to :|

When Long said “Mele! You’ve obtained a Phoenix’s power,” he used ‘huou’. I felt like going, ‘except in this case it would be suzaku because Mele is in fact a woman.’ 8DDDD
…Shuddap.

In the JP-language version, when Lulu says “don’t cry [next time]“, Yuna does a sort of half-sigh, half-sob. This is what Lulu meant in the JP version, right? Yuna is leaning against Lulu, Lulu is holding her. This is when Yuna cries. (Before watching this JP-language clip, I always thought it meant that Yuna had been crying during the Sending itself. Which, if you watch the Sending FMV, doesn’t look like she is physically crying. [She was probably crying inside the entire time]).

On a non-fanfic note note, in the Kilika jungle after Wakka says Tidus is a total newbie, when you go into battle and Tidus comes into the party where Wakka is, Tidus will go, “Newbie here!” and Wakka will go, “So~rry!” xDDD So cute. Although mostly I was running around Kilika jungle trying to trigger the in-battle conversation where Tidus asks Yuna if she’s all right. ;_; Yuna has to be hit (at critical?) when Tidus is in the party with her, and when I was playing this playthrough, Yuna never got hit that seriously so I couldn’t trigger it. I was also curious as to what other conversation are available, but I didn’t trigger anything else (that was new. As FFX players know, your party members comment quite often). =^=  Also I was levelling up. Went and fought the Ochu just for kicks, hee. ♥

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http://deep-mirrors.org/yuna/yuna_yunalesca.php

Yes, but I also think that she does not want the dream to end. Zanarkand’s residents, led by Yevon, created a Dream Zanarkand. Yunalesca lived there, too. And, being an unsent, I think her views on the world are also somewhat skewed.

Also, when we compare the two unsent, Yunalesca and Auron, Auron dies violently and in despair. That depth of emotion is what keeps him unsent. In many ways, he clings to it, in order to prevent crossing over (like refusing to go into the Farplane). But we can view Yunalesca’s death two ways: one, she did not know she would die; both her death and Zaon’s was as abrupt as Auron’s and she remains unsent as a sort of vengeance. The second is that she knew she would die, she knew Zaon would die. She had accepted her death and that of Zaon’s but knew she had to it. ‘A little hope is better than no hope at all.’ She remains unsent out of duty, and since unsent remain by clinging to emotions, this sense of duty binds her, disallowing her from seeing another way. Killing Yunalesca really was a huge gamble, what would Yuna and her party have done if they hadn’t succeeded? Jecht and the Fayth—did they know that by sending Tidus there, that this would be the outcome? Did the fayth have a contingency plan? Bahamut repeatedly hints at what Yuna and her party could do to break the dream, but would Yunalesca have known? Or was the Aeons’ plan only a result of years and years of half-sentience and being forced to witness countless deaths? Does Yunalesca, in her chamber, sense the death of so many through the years, or does Yunalesca only manifest whenever pilgrams approach her temple, oblivious?

ETA: fanfic note: Faith. Best site evar. Srsly.

http://deep-mirrors.org/yuna/yuna_sequel.php

Exactly. I’ve often said that I prefer the X-2 Yuna because she smiles more. ^^d

TMI FANFIC NOTE TO SELF

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