Queen Bitch

[louiselux]

Saiyuki Gunlock is still making me laugh and laugh. Here's a song that will definitely go on 'From Sanzo's ipod... ', whenever I get round to making it: Queen Bitch, by David Bowie

She's all swishy in her satin and tat
In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
Oh god I could do better than that (yousendit link)

... where the 'she' in question is the highly dubious, yet swishy, man of the cloth Hazel Gloss. Poor Sanzo.

Comments

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

E follows on from In my Father's House, doesn't it? I just wanted to say I read the latter this weekend and really enjoyed it-- the premise is wonderful and do I have a soft spot for Kougaiji, and him paired with Sanzo. I'm always surprised there isn't more Kougaiji fic. I think one of my favourire things about IMFH was the way Kougaiji and Sanzo came to know each other so intimately and the way in which you described the mental contact between them. It's a great, inventive, unsual story.

About Hazel-- he's just so dangerous, I think, because he messes with their senses of themselves. He's a perceptive fellow who's not above a bit of psychological torture (never calling the three by their names, for eg) and for me this creates an almost unbearable, and probably unsustainable in terms of plot, tension.

[karose.livejournal.com]

Meep-- *blush* Thank you for comments! I never know what to say when people do that. (It's like calculated warfare against me.)

I've had similar sentiment about Hazel, but tended to look at it in a bit of a plainer light. To me, Hazel's very nearly a caricature of Western culture. He comes off like a southern plantation owner crossbred with a TV evangelist. Racist, elitist, self-fashioned prophet/savior (his modesty Does Not Convince Me). He might not be blatant like most of the ikkou's enemies, but he's still being set up like a villain. And villain means death. You've been rationalizing it in a far better way, though.