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Saiyuki thought
I should be working (just because I've had 3 weeks to do it, doesn't mean I can't finish it off on Sunday night!), but a fragment of fannish thought interrupted me, as they so often do.
Someone on my flist recently (very recently I think, and I'm sorry I can't remember who it was) mentioned that the whole Gojyo being kidnapped by youkai plot is an exact parallel to what happened with Kanan, and here Hakkai is, in the same situation again, the poor sap.
I'd never thought of that parallel consciously before, or had forgotten about it if I had. The cosmic irony of it all and Hakkai's line, 'It's harder to not kill,' actually struck me as being very funny, in that very dark way that Minekura does so well.
I wonder how Hakkai feels afterwards, when he puts his limiters back on? There's a case for saying that the killing is a release for him. I don't think I mean to say that he enjoys it, although... maybe he does.
I love that 'you're really not cut out to be a villain' line to Gojyo at the end. I like to think Gojyo stops pretending to be Mr Tough Guy after that, at least to Hakkai.
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flemmings that's making me teary-eyed.
Someone on my flist recently (very recently I think, and I'm sorry I can't remember who it was) mentioned that the whole Gojyo being kidnapped by youkai plot is an exact parallel to what happened with Kanan, and here Hakkai is, in the same situation again, the poor sap.
I'd never thought of that parallel consciously before, or had forgotten about it if I had. The cosmic irony of it all and Hakkai's line, 'It's harder to not kill,' actually struck me as being very funny, in that very dark way that Minekura does so well.
I wonder how Hakkai feels afterwards, when he puts his limiters back on? There's a case for saying that the killing is a release for him. I don't think I mean to say that he enjoys it, although... maybe he does.
I love that 'you're really not cut out to be a villain' line to Gojyo at the end. I like to think Gojyo stops pretending to be Mr Tough Guy after that, at least to Hakkai.
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flemmings that's making me teary-eyed.
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... and yet he does. That's it in a nutshell for me. Thinking about the inside of Hakkai's head really messes with my mind, sometimes.
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Hakkai: "You told the Sanbutsushin you would become my supervisor."
Sanzo: "That's because I thought it wouldn't be harmful if I let you loose."
Hakkai: "Oh? That's not always so."
Sanzo: "...There's no avoiding it if you say it yourself. Did something happen?"
Hakkai: [smile] "No, not really."
or... or, uh...
Hakkai: [kind of reluctant smile] "Please ... don't try to get me angry."
Gojyo: "Eh? What the hell are you guys doing?"
Hakkai: [bright] "Oh, nothing at all."
and of course the "You know, it's actually harder not to kill..."
I mean, like. This is an early!Hakkai, just after becoming youkai, who seems to me totally aware of his desire to harm people, and like, three years later? He's in tune with that, I think. He's not fighting it anymore. Which is... kinda scary.
Hakkai's mind is such a weird place to be. Ahahaha. Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.