Writing and Saiyuki poll

[louiselux]

I realised I haven't posted any stories since Christmas and something should be done about this. I have a list of part finished things, all Saiyuki, so clearly the next logical step is to finish them. I've begin my Sweet Charity fic though. It may involve experiments gone wrong, gloomy stone houses in the fog (with vampires) and Things in Jars. It doesn't involve psychic investigators though. YET. This might change.

I had an moment of clarity recently about my writing, and it was possibly brought about by writing Cupidity. It's that I'm not interested (at the moment) in writing anything that doesn't involve a) people with strange and special powers or b) magic of some kind and possibly c) saving the world. Maybe this's always been the case and I've just never realised it on a properly concious level. It matches with the fandoms I've been drawn to: X Files, Harry Potter, Good Omens and Saiyuki.

There's another story I'm writing (that I began when emungere demanded that I write random 585 phone sex and is now raging completely out of control and this is partly why I fail at finishing things (and as she pointed out, I will clarify that it is the story that is raging out of control, not emungere)), where it struck me today that it would make so much more sense if it had psychic investigators in it. SO much more sense, and that got me helplessly pondering.

If Sanzo, Goku, Hakkai and Gojyo were, say reincarnated or in an episode of Weiss Kreuz and they were each going to have spooky extra-sensory powers, what would they be? Ones I can think of are: telepathy, psychokinesis, divination, communicating with spirits and... surely there must be many more? You could argue that Sanzo has some sort of esp power already, I suppose. It's a smooshy line.

[Poll #1147041]

Comments

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting. Hakkai as wood is good and makes sense, representing the green and healing and spiritual side of nature.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I found the descriptions here (http://www.thespiritualfengshui.com/cycles-of-elements.php). Some of the bits & pieces are pretty interesting when applied to this theory.

Also, even though light & dark aren't included, Koumyou & Ukoku fit those perfectly :) Now to work out who'd be metal...

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Hakuryuu fits metal! Well, at least in his jeep form. In terms of the colours they're represented by most often, Sanzo fits metal too.

Hakkai's abundance of vines could signify his powerful virile yang energy.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Gosh, it's easy to force connections! In the destructive cycle, he comes between wood and fire... *And* his associated direction is West :)

Well, Hakkai *is* associated with the columnar shape ;) Wood is associated with the liver, and nails & eyes, too. Oooooo...

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Mmm, columnar shapes.

Nails and eyes! Oh, wait! Livers are also what kappas traditionally eat, so you could say Gojyo was wood.

Snerk.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of his scar.

Right. Must Work!

[lauand.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... wood is associated with the liver and livers are what kappas traditionally eat.

Therefore, Hakkai is Wood!

Besides, I can relate Hakkai to eyes (and his annoying tendency to pluck them out) and nails (in his youkai form).

But I still think the ultimate argument is the liver. I've heard that kappas are supposed to suck them though the asshole of their victims. That sure has a trascendental meaning.