Laptop and creepy Hakkai

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Bumholes! The precious new laptop needs mending already. Nothing ever works, as M tells me, solemnly. A person is coming to take it away it on Wednesday and they have a 5-10 day turnaround. That means I won't have it for displaying my lovely barcharts at the meeting of doom on Monday. It means I can do less work on the train too, which is very shit.

In other news, Hakkai and Gojyo apparently have the most appallingly creepy conversation in the latest chapter, via radiofreebanri. wildelamassu has a review in far greater detail and depth here

Aarrrgh. Hakkai is clearly more on the edge than I previously thought, with his crazed babble about wanting an undead wife and kids, and then his collapse into a depairing pose afterwards. Hakkai's ideal woman is a zombie! That puts him safely out of the marriage market. Although this is Saiyuki, so you never know. I'm still wondering if Kanan is going to show up again at some point, reanimated-- or never dead? Nii seems to know in detail about all of them, so he'd certainly know what could push Hakkai over the edge, or make him abandon the journey. Zombie!Kanan. Please, no.

He also jokes that if he had a daughter he'd be worried about Uncle Gojyo molesting her, and Uncle Gojyo just leers. There is a bonus flashback showing Kanan's childbearing hips, but of course that was Not To Be. I think this is Hakkai's way of saying; Gojyo, I'm nuts, the only person who could ever tolerate me is you so PLEASE let's just drop the happy subject of who I'd like to bring back from the dead, you know, if I could, before I have to kill you.

But, yes, he's a youkai on the edge. Gojyo doesn't seem massively bothered by the end, although appears disturbed by the undead wife talk. Unsurprisingly. Maybe Hakkai's like that all the time when they're alone - quite open about displaying how fucked up he is. They do have those odd, quite sweet conversations when they're alone. Hakkai says something needy, like 'why did you rescue me', or, 'I'm as bad as Hazel.' And Gojyo usually says the right thing.

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I bet everyone he knows feels the same way. Poor man.