Elaby's LiveJournal - 57 Academics

Written to go with caitirin's submissions to 200for50.

Part I and Part II

After about fifteen minutes of waiting, the supply clerks brought out several bags containing the standard mission kit and the other items Mei and Cai had requested. One of the clerks pressed down on two folded down-stuffed coats to compress them and then piled a bag on top. He handed Mei a plastic card.

"Now, I would never want to say anything about your partner," he began, giving his coworker a look that said ‘because she’d shoot me,’ ( read on! )

All the cool kids are doing it! dakegra says I have to! I don't want to be the only one on the bus LJ with no Prompt Gathering Post! We could call them PGPs or something.

So, in the words of Its Creator:

"Here we come to the crux of the matter, dear reader. If you would be so kind as to furnish me with a first line, I will write a short snipettette for you."

This one's for Mei. If you've forgotten who Mei is, here's my tag list for her: Mei things

You can use Cai or Pele with Mei, if you want, says caitirin. Mei has various stages which it might be useful to compile here:

( Very short timeline )

Take it away!

About three pages of it.

Mei's gonna keeeeeeeell me.

But
I don't care, because she needed to be picked at. She used to be too
new to know anything about, and she wouldn't let me poke at her brains,
but now... bwaaahahaha!

This is kind of... a companion piece to
the bit caitirin wrote about how Cai's developing a crush on Mei. I'd been
thinking, after she said that, that I needed to write some stuff about
Mei to get her a little bit more straightened out in my own head, but I
couldn't think of a format to do it in. It didn't occur to me that I
could just write about it, here, instead of having to make up some
situation in-character. I've been reading some of the chat logs that RC
and I've done with Mei and Cai, and it just keeps getting clearer.


( Mei introspection )

This page is SO bloody useful.

I definitely just found Mei's family crest.

Shibata is down there on the second row.

I've
got all these samurai running about in my head because of my history
class, and the most interesting idea that during the Warring States
period (which ended in about 1600 with the unification of the country
by Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu) the daimyo
and other high-ranking lords had very close emotional relationships
with their retainers. According to my class, this changed during the
Tokugawa period because the lords now concerned themselves with
learning and cultural things, as opposed to warfare, and didn't spend
time with their vassals nearly as much since all the daimyo had to be
going back and forth to Edo for that alternate attendance thing. So,
lengthy explanation equals samurai in my head.

There's two, the retainer-type younger one, Honda Masahiko (See
the Honda family crest, third line down) and his lord, who has yet to
receive a name and a concrete rank. He can't be an actual daimyo
because there were records of all of them -_-;; And I've been looking
up names all day. I've found a few that I like, but none of those are
actually families on this page, and I want to have family crests and
kanji and things. This page also has the kanji writings for various
samurai names, although both the computers I've been on today don't
have the capacity to view kanji.