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aldersprigWritten to inventrix's prompt, although I didn't get to the catboy part yet! O-O
Using Cynara (Prof. Doomsday) and Leofric (Prof. Inazuma)'s son's icon, since I don't actually have an icon for either of them.
Set about 5 years into Doomsday.
Austin was going to be a samurai.
He had known since he was five years old and that wandering samurai had come through town, killing the monster and rescuing Austin and his little sister.
He had known despite his mother's insistence that one crazy man in funny armor did not mean that samurai really still existed. He had known even when his older brothers - 6 and 8 years older than him - told him that he couldn't be anything like that, that the best he could hope for was to be a farmer, like his (not their) father. He had known despite his father spending every day of every week teaching him how to be a proper farmer, how to be a land-lord in, his father said, the old sense.
He read books on samurai, first from the local library, then, when he was old enough, he convinced his parents to let him to go the next town over on a trade caravan. They had a bigger library, salvaged from the ruins of several towns.
His older brothers went to school, but he and his sister, their parents said, were going to stay at home, where it was safe, where they could learn how yo be proper farmers. Austin kept reading - now the scroungers knew to look out for books for him - and kept learning. He was going to be a samurai some day.
When the letter came from the Academy, Austin was unsure. He was going to be a samurai farmer - what did he need with school.
His mother and father were unsure - he was going to be a farmer. What did he need with school? Besides, his mother had gotten her fill of boarding schools. And Austin was barely ten years old.
And then Professors Inazuma and Doomsday walked into their town. Looking over the blonde professor - Inazuma - in his kimono, Austin knew he was going to Doomsday.
inventrix's prompt, although I didn't get to the catboy part yet! O-OUsing Cynara (Prof. Doomsday) and Leofric (Prof. Inazuma)'s son's icon, since I don't actually have an icon for either of them.
Set about 5 years into Doomsday.
Austin was going to be a samurai.
He had known since he was five years old and that wandering samurai had come through town, killing the monster and rescuing Austin and his little sister.
He had known despite his mother's insistence that one crazy man in funny armor did not mean that samurai really still existed. He had known even when his older brothers - 6 and 8 years older than him - told him that he couldn't be anything like that, that the best he could hope for was to be a farmer, like his (not their) father. He had known despite his father spending every day of every week teaching him how to be a proper farmer, how to be a land-lord in, his father said, the old sense.
He read books on samurai, first from the local library, then, when he was old enough, he convinced his parents to let him to go the next town over on a trade caravan. They had a bigger library, salvaged from the ruins of several towns.
His older brothers went to school, but he and his sister, their parents said, were going to stay at home, where it was safe, where they could learn how yo be proper farmers. Austin kept reading - now the scroungers knew to look out for books for him - and kept learning. He was going to be a samurai some day.
When the letter came from the Academy, Austin was unsure. He was going to be a samurai farmer - what did he need with school.
His mother and father were unsure - he was going to be a farmer. What did he need with school? Besides, his mother had gotten her fill of boarding schools. And Austin was barely ten years old.
And then Professors Inazuma and Doomsday walked into their town. Looking over the blonde professor - Inazuma - in his kimono, Austin knew he was going to Doomsday.
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Date: 2014-08-22 07:59 pm (UTC)No?
Well, we probably don't want to have the Schrödinger from Hellsing bite him, even if that Shrodi has the ability, "to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time." That boy's a bit too bratty.
Okay, several samurai cat novels, some anime dvds and manga, and a bucket of handwavium to dump on him once he's properly mentally primed. Heck if he's fae that might even trigger a Change.
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Date: 2014-08-22 08:05 pm (UTC)Or he might just Change.
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Date: 2014-08-23 05:45 pm (UTC)And there's interesting background there, with "the blonde professor - Inazuma - in his kimono". ^_^
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Date: 2014-08-23 11:58 pm (UTC)And yes, that's Trix's fault, since Inazuma is her OC.
(Original character)
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Date: 2014-08-22 06:21 pm (UTC)Welll. I'd need to bother you about the Professor a bit. ;-)
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Date: 2014-08-22 10:43 pm (UTC)Like, wouldn't it be cool if there are random people who were inspired by Leo showing up when they were kids going around as samurai in their adulthood. 8D 8D!!
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Date: 2014-08-25 12:38 am (UTC)I assume that you mean the fact that they're insane?
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Date: 2014-08-25 01:10 am (UTC)In my opinion, and it is just an opinion, unless someone is a criminal, mentally incompetent, or a danger to themselves or others due to clinical insanity I feel very strongly that everyone deserves their freedom. Anything that steals that freedom, even if it is done in the intent of helping them is wrong.
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Date: 2014-08-25 01:41 am (UTC)But hrrm. I know the serial killer story isn't ~quite~ informed consent, but it's closer to it than say, Pellinore.
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Date: 2014-08-25 01:57 am (UTC)Serial Killer story? I'm not sure I've read that one. Could you link me? I'll also add that in addition to informed consent there also needs to be a lack of coercion.
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Date: 2014-08-25 01:02 pm (UTC)And yeah, I don't specifically write a lot of informed-consent-lack-of-coercion stories, because then there's a lot less tension, unless you're writing bratty-sub stories, which, ah, been there done that.
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Date: 2014-08-25 06:48 pm (UTC)Informed-consent-lack-of-coercion can easily have tension, just as any story that focuses on the interpersonal relationships of people can. People aren't always going to get along. Dom/sub relationships aren't any different. The tension of the story doesn't even need to be between the 'master' and 'slave' either, it could just as easily be internal conflict that one has to help the other get over, or the two of them against some sort of other external threat. You ever read any of the Swarm Cycle stories? They're a pretty good example (at least some of them; open world and all). I suppose you could say there's some coercion in that anyone who doesn't agree is very likely to be killed in the coming alien invasion, but that's years away and there's always standing and fighting. (Fair warning if you haven't already encountered them and decide that the premise sounds interesting: they're mostly erotic fiction, so there's going to be a lot of focus on explicit sex. This isn't true for all of them, some of them don't focus on it at all, but most of them do.)
While I'm writing a post, the newer wiki for Addergoole seems to be broken.
One other thing: I don't see how you'd have had the time considering all the posting you're doing, but have you had a chance to look at and of the fics I've linked here recently?
Cheers,
Kuro_Neko
PS, that new fic, the one with the gladiator girl and the other guy, isn't that informed-consent-lack-of-coercion?
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Date: 2014-08-25 06:51 pm (UTC)I haven't read Swarm Cycle, no.
(And no, I haven't had a chance to read any of the fics yet. <.<)
((And... Yes. I stand corrected, you're right))
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Date: 2014-08-25 07:09 pm (UTC)That does make me feel somewhat better about her.
(And no, I haven't had a chance to read any of the fics yet. <.<)
No worries. As mentioned I hadn't really expected you had with all the posts you've been making.
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Date: 2014-08-25 07:11 pm (UTC)Typo spotted and some confusion
Date: 2014-08-26 03:55 am (UTC)That should probably be 'how to be'.
I am confused about this because Cynara is from Fae Apoc / Addergoole and now she is in something called Doomsday Academy and you talk about '5 years into doomsday' but, of course, a doomsday is only one day and is the Academy Edally? I told you I was confused…
Re: Typo spotted and some confusion
Date: 2014-08-26 10:37 am (UTC)Cya went to Addergoole (Which is in the Fae Apoc greater world), earned her Name (Red Doomsday) and then, some forty-ish years later, well after the apoc, started her own school, Doomsday Academy.
Totally separate from Edally Academy and I miiiiight backtrack & retcon that to be like Doomsday School or something.
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