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

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Would they get a choice? I was hoping (and hoping, and hoping) that the end of Gaiden would have them all cast down into the mortal world without actually having to, y'know, die or anything. Wouldn't a next life in Heaven be similar? They'd die as their current incarnations, and be reborn as kami with no memory of their past lives? Or isn't that how it works? *knows next to nothing*

Mind you - I definitely agree that Gojyo wouldn't want to be a paper pusher in Heaven for anything!

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Weeeel it depends on how Minekura's Heaven's run, which has never been particularly clear to me. In the Journey they're cast down, but again, the method isn't clear-- they do all remember who they used to be, though. (Except Tripitaka, who is just Tripitaka.)

Hahah. No!