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

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I think Ukoku was afraid of him. I think he's afraid, at least a little, of Genjo, or he wouldn't be thinking 'I should have killed Goku' in the latest chapters.

[andmydog.livejournal.com]

Either that, or he's disappointed in how easy Genjo was to drop, and he's thinking that, if he had killed the monkey, Genjo's rage would be mighty like a mighty thing, and he'd be all Hulk Smash on Ukoku.

...But he's probably afraid. Even when all you want is to die, after, what, ten years? It's easy to get attached to this whole living thing.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I don't think so, because Sanzo's clearly pulling on the "Sanzo-ikkou" thing.

And I think he likes winning.

[andmydog.livejournal.com]

Knowing that there's a bunch of guys who would be highly disappointed in you if you gave up is such an awesome boot-to-the-ass motivator. Every little bit helps!

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Hell yes!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yeah, that would be so embarrassing, to get his ass kicked and have to be rescued, oh no! That alone will probably make him get his arse in gear.