Return drabble for incandescens

[flemmings]

Which actually occurred to me at the time

Title: Forbidden Degrees
Series: 100 Demons
Pairing: Not

       "Ahh, beautiful wine!" Oguro apostrophizes in drunken rapture.

      "Ahh, delightful wine!" Ojiro echoes soddenly, emptying another cup.

      "More," Tsukasa says, shoving her glass over to them. I'm not sure who she thinks she's talking to at these times but I'm not asking.

      "Such wine we shall serve when the Princess weds the Young Master--" Oguro fantasizes.

      "Hunh?! I'm not marrying *him*!! He's my -hic- cousin!!"

      I agree. Tsukasa's like my sister- my older sister. Absolutely no way.

      Aoarashi snickers.

      "I can't wait. Two of Kagyuu's grandchildren marrying. Your offspring will be... most interesting."
      That's the other reason why not.

Comments

[incandescens]

Oh, that's brilliant. Thank you for a lovely end to the day. :)

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Ha! I don't know the canon but that snippet was funny on its own.
^_^

[mauvecloud.livejournal.com]

Yay! Oguro/Ojiro alcohol binge! <3

Nitpicky (I must!): The Westermack ickiness Tsukasa feels about Ritsu is more due to growing up together thing rather than the fact that they *are* cousins. Cousin incest taboo is a sort-of American thing. (People married aunts in Genji? So did the Habsburgs.)

(So, Tsukasa: 'Eeek! Not my *little* cousin!'
And that's one reason why not.)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

(scratches head) It never occurred to me that anyone would read that as American incest squick, partly because cousin 'incest' is a foreign and bizarre notion here in Brit-related Canada, and partly because the Japanese manga is quite clear about why Ritsu and Tsukasa don't see each other as romantic partners. She's older and he's younger, 'we're just cousins'. Even though I'm convinced they /will/ marry eventually and their grandfather knew it all along.

(Had two uncle-niece marriages among my ancestors. Needed episcopal permission, but permission was given.)

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

*glee* - Oh hee! ^___^

Oh lovely!

*claps*

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

Ahaha that recalls the manga wonderfully.

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

It was lovely,,, You are the greatest! did not know hyakkiyakou was called "hundred demons" in English.
>Your offspring will be... most interesting
for sure!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Nice to see you around here.

Hyakki yakoushou's not called anything in English that I know of, since it's yet to be translated. The French translation is called Cortege des cent demons- which doesn't mean exactly what the English cognates would suggest, but close. Thus for convenience, and because half my friends who've read it did so in French, we call it 100 Demons.

(Hyakki yakou's a really unwieldy phrase to put into any western language, especially the yakou part, which may be why the French translators left it out. I tried to once when doing a translation of one of Yumemakura Baku's Seimei stories, and nothing sounded exactly right.)

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

yeah..."hundreds of demons walking in the night" is the direct translation but it looses the flavor. Did you know there is a TV series drama now? It's finally out on DVD. It was not that bad. I especially liked the guy who played Aoarashi (the father not the Aoarashi of your icon) Ojiro and Oguro were cute. Riku was done by a bishonen that I never heard of.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Some kind Singaporean uploaded Chinese fansubs of the first nine eps (http://flemmings.livejournal.com/138101.html#cutid1) and I watched them (http://flemmings.livejournal.com/138601.html#cutid1). The quality is as you'd expect, though somehow the washed-outness adds to the atmosphere. But now I'd like to get the DVD set for those extra episodes, only I don't have a player I can watch them on. Such sadness.

I really liked the father (http://flemmings.livejournal.com/140356.html#cutid1) too, but the birds- err, no. Really no. They looked too much like Sesame Street's Big Bird, just for starts.