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.

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[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I wonder if all sanzos end up playing this game with each other... It'd be funny, considering how technically they're not supposed to hang around together unless the sutras explode.

I agree, I don't see how some random youkai could kill Koumyou, unless he wanted to let it happen. So it was definitely a sacrifice. It's funny, both Koumyou and Ukoku baffle me - it's so hard to see their motivations.

Maybe Ukoku resents Koouryuu for being the person that Koumyou would die for - there does seem to be a strong hint of sibling rivalry in the things Ukoku says, like stressing that Koumyou was his father.

It strikes me that Sanzo is also not functioning on full power - he never is, and never will be until he has Seiten sutra, and that was taken away at the moment he received it. Maybe that was partly Ukoku's purpose too, in having a hand in taking them, to make sure Sanzo would actually be reduced significantly in power. I am just going off at tangents now, sorry.

Thanks for your interesting take on this.