Saiyuki thought

[louiselux]

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.



eta: a translation of the autumn 05 Ward by flemmings that's making me teary-eyed.

Comments

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

It's especially interesting, though, for the double layers of echo -- because that moment where Gojyo's down on one knee, fist on the floor, is the exact same pose that Kenren takes when he's trying to argue that his troops should go instead of Nataku's. Which ends up with him thrown in the dungeon of course, and it's not Tenpou who rescues him, but Goujun.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Oh, I must go back and look! I'd never noticed that before.

Never mind about the brain fuzziness.. mine's practically furry at this point