Dressing up and Ukoku's brain

[louiselux]

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.

Comments

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

O. I love your thoughts on this, so much. I'm just going to sit over here and ponder on it...

Ukoku asked 'who'll be the one to swallow the other?' The sun annihilates the night completely, but the moon can still be seen if you look carefully. So Sanzo is almost like a gift to Ukoku, someone powerful enough and also willing to kill him? Innnteresting.

Sanzo's never been at full fighting power because he's never had the seiten sutra. Maybe he needs it to finally balance out Ukoku's black hole of doom. Or maybe the combined powers of the rest of the ikkou are enough. They should turn up about now, I hope.

[andmydog.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I would call Sanzo a gift for Ukoku, since Koumyou isn't really the giving type... but I'd call him a potential gift. Nobody else is able to kill Ukoku, and here Koumyou has this kid who probably could, when he gets older, so...

The sun annihilates the night completely, but the moon can still be seen if you look carefully.

Yes, exactly!