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Suffering a simultaneous attack of Silence and Futility- which generally happens when I'm avoiding translation- I'm musing instead on Goujun's manner of springing unsatisfactory underlings from jail. We go on a lot about Goujun's by the book upright tight-assed disapproving commanding officerness: but the man who tosses a set of keys to his manacled underling, betting on him being able to catch them with his /toes/, is none of those. In an odd way, if anything could convince me that Jiip really is Goujun, it'd be that. It's such an Ikkou thing to do: the ambivalent gesture, the double message, and the sheer jauntiness of it all. But if I had to name the other character who'd act like that in similar circumstances, it'd be Goujou/ Kenren more than Hakkai/ Tenpou, or even Sanzou. (Konzen of course isn't a possibility.) (Well actually, Kanzeon might be. But that's another field of speculation entirely.)
( Ijiwaru )