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Fruits Basekt chapter 101

OMG OMG OMG!

Before he was banished to his own house Shigure slept with Rin to get back at Akito for sleeping with Kureno?!?!

Dude, Akito and Rin must have been young at the time. ::smacks Shigure and Kureno:: That's just not right.

But... OMG OMG OMG!

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OMG MY ICON IS CANON.

There are just not enough "OMG"s to cover this chapter.

EDIT: So it was Ren, not Rin. ::shrug:: Misread due to enthusiasm. BUT ALL THE OMGs STILL APPLY FOR AKITO/SHIGURE! OMG! And Ren... that's just wrong. wrongwrongwrong. Apparently sleeping with people several years younger than you isn't a personality trait restricted to the male side of the Sohma family, either.

Does this mean that my theory of Shigure having slept with Akito was true then? Or was Shigure just promising her but not actually sleeping with her, and Akito got impatient and lost her virginity to Kureno?

"I do love Akito. Back then, and now, I love... I love her too much to the point that I wanted to spoil her."

Like, love love? Like the love Yuki feels for Tohru or the love that Kyo feels for Tohru?

Wow, I hadn't expected Shigure to have been in an actual relationship with Akito. Wow.

"Even though you hadn't realized it, I was waiting for that day." -- Wait, I'm confused? Shigure really was waiting for her to be old enough to love? Then why is there the image of him looking down at her naked in bed? If they'd slept together, what were they waiting for?

And damn, if that was the case then I kind of feel sorry for Shigure. Not totally, because he obviously misjudged Akito if he thought she'd wait too... but then, no, I do feel sorry for him.

So. Now we know why he's so cold. Because as a young man he fancied Akito as his true love and she burned him? And so he made himself just like her-- picking the cruelest person with which to exact his revenge. Ouch.

Now I need to listen to that Garbage song "Sex Is Not the Enemy" a few dozen times.

EDIT: Waahhhh. I just realized my mp3s of the Bleed Like Me album are all gone from my last computer crash. ::sob::

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chapter 102

::reading::

Yuki/girl-whose-name-I-can't-remember are so cute. And the best-friend=whose-name-I-can't-remember is adorable too.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Okay. I get it. I kept reading incorrectly. And the names sound so familiar. And they all kinda look alike. -_-

Akito slept with Kureno.
In revenge, Shigure slept with Akito's mother.
In revenge, Akito threw Shigure out of Sohma House.
Isuzu slept with Haru.
In revenge, Akito threw Isuzu out a window.
In revenge, Haru...well, we'll see.

Aah. I get it. That point by point explanation helped. Okay, that's even worse. Not Rin's crazy mother (she has a crazy mother too, right? Or am I misremembering that as well), but Akito's crazy mother who made her into a boy. Got it.

He's playing everybody, including himself. And it's not like Akito was being particularly sensitive of his feelings even though she knew he loved her when she slept with Kureno--she sees her Jyuunishi as possessions, not people.

This is why I want to feel sorry for Shigure, but at the same time I can't. I can't feel sorry for Akito either. I just step back and watch with wide eyes at the unfolding history of catastrophy and bad judgement.

It's kind of like watching Nip/Tuck.

this is octopedingenue, too lazy to log out of RP account again

[sheep-gotohell.livejournal.com]

Rin's crazy mother (she has a crazy mother too, right? Or am I misremembering that as well)

Both of Rin's parents are...bastards who pretended to love her until she asked one day why they were so happy all the time, at which point they snapped and told her they'd never loved her and physically abused her until she wound up in the hospital, where they abandoned her. She's bounced around from home to home since then, staying with Kagura's family and with Kazuma and Kyou for a while. Did I mention her parents are bastards?


And they all kinda look alike.

They do, unfortunately. I'd put it down to 1/3 artist style, 1/3 thematic reasons (like Rin looking like Ren so that Akito will hate Rin more), and 1/3 the Sohma family members actually look more like each other than like other characters to whom they are not genetically related (it's true! they do! and I think it's a nice touch, if a frustrating one when they're all in groups angsting and you can't tell who's who except possibly from their hair).


This is why I want to feel sorry for Shigure, but at the same time I can't. I can't feel sorry for Akito either. I just step back and watch with wide eyes at the unfolding history of catastrophy and bad judgement.

I have so much affection for Shigure still from the anime, even though manga!Shigure and anime!Shigure are almost different people at this point. I hope against hope that his ultimate purposes will turn out to be, if not particularly benevolent, at least forgivable. (I suspect that even though Shigure is using Tohru for his own purposes, she's had more of a positive effect on him than he realizes, among other things.)

Re: this is octopedingenue, too lazy to log out of RP account again

[octopedingenue]

And while I feel sorry for Akito and think that she's a fascinating and complex character, I feel little compassion for her in light of the endless cruelty she's wreaked among the Jyuunishi. If her happiness has to be sacrificed for the happiness of the other Sohma, so be it.