louiselux | Dressing up and Ukoku's brain

puddingcat came to Reading yesterday to get fitted for her coat of many buttons, so in the afternoon I met up with her and her dressmaker friend Claire and landlady Laura. We hit up the John Lewis haberdashery and Fabricland and a couple of shoe shops and now I feel so enthused about dresses and fabric and shoes. I can't wait to see

puddingcat's coat - she showed me the pattern and it's a sort of pirate frock coat with panels and huge cuffs.

I'm thinking of commissioning a dress from Claire too. I just have to decide on what I want: either something 60s style in a simple A-line/shift dress style, or a full skirted 50s style dress.

Also, when we were randomly chatting about stuff,

puddingcat made a really interesting point about Nii - he's a sanzo monk, so can he really be so evil? Is he really going to suck Sanzo into his black hole of doom and destroy him, or is he just teaching Sanzo something, but doing it in a particularly nasty way? Maybe he is working to the greater good. Innnnnteresting.

puddingcat compared him to Kanzeon Bosatsu, who isn't exactly pleasant in the way she goes about things. She didn't have to let Goku be imprisoned in a cave for 500 years after all.

I like this idea, because it balances Ukoku's character somewhat. Also, I don't know if Koumyou was actually such a nice person. Discuss.

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Heeee! I don't think you have to recant - I think it's a possible interpretation of what Ukoku is doing, even if he is heretical and chakra-less, and it's really interesting - I mean, look at the amount of long comments the idea provoked.

It could be that Ukoku doesn't actually know what will happen when he pits his sutra against Sanzo's? For him it might be pure discovery. I do think he was jealous to some extent, but I don't think it's enough for him to be driven to play this long game with Koumyou. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me like Ukoku's lust for something new, new knowledge or experiences or magic, will drive him to do anything.

I definitely think Kanzeon enjoys the popcorn value of the whole thing. Also, they're learning useful lessons! It's a bonus.

I shall put it all down to wishful thinking :) I may well end up doing an Uncle Mary and singing "LALALA" with my fingers in my ears, mind you...

Dressing up and Ukoku's brain

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