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estirose.) I plan to do another one for "Furry Children" before I go to bed, after I get FAB done.
This is for "In This Insane World", which I didn't write too long ago. It's an "Apart from the Ocean"/"Boxed In" fic which features Shinoda Kiyoe.
You'd think that my characters would give me fics in chronological order, but they don't. Kiyoe "tells" me that this is a fic in a storyline where she decided to make it hard for the Fangaire to find, just in case the Fangaire recaptured Ramon. She assumed a new name and started working under that name. In this particular fic, members of the Merman species from another universe have decided to invade.
"Don't just stand there, Sayaoko-san," Kiyoe growled in frustration. "Do they *look* like they're friendly?" Once again, the bizarre world she'd found herself in was reminding her very unpleasantly that everybody there was insane.
Of course, Kiyoe is the only one that's sane in this universe. Everybody else is either native or given in. And she counts Aya among that number.
"What are they?" Sayoko-san asked. "And are you sure they're not friendly?" The wind whipped Kiyoe's hair around as she knocked the fishman into a nearby tree.
In case you're wondering, Sayoko (who was named after Tachibana's girlfriend from Kamen Rider Blade) is just standing there. She's never met a nonhuman that *wasn't* friendly.
"They're Merman," Kiyoe told her. "And no, they're not friendly! If they were friendly, they'd be negotiating with the Fangaire like *sane beings*, not invading!" She noted in satisfaction that one of them ran away. Hopefully back to the damned ocean.
That particular Merman will probably be showing up later on; he was actually listening to Kiyoe and wanted to get out of the way and share the news! Plus he can sense, like Aya can, that Kiyoe is not entirely human. Yes, he's reporting that too.
"I thought the Merman revival project was farther south," Sayoko-san said. She still wasn't helping Kiyoe fight. Kiyoe herself hefted her hoe menacingly.
"This has nothing to do with that and more to do with the fact that we've got a damned invasion force here, and nobody bothering to fight it! What are you all waiting for, to be killed?" These people were so domesticated, it wasn't funny.
Kiyoe's still annoyed at the people in her adopted universe. "Sheeple" is also a good term for the people of the Boxed In universe.
"Tanaka-san, may I ask a question?" Sayoko-san asked, still doing nothing but standing there. It took a second for Kiyoe to remember her assumed name.
As I mentioned earlier, Kiyoe's living under an assumed name because she doesn't want the Fangaire knocking on her door.
"Only if you do something to hold off our invaders. Grab that other hoe and prepare to hit *something* with it." At least the girl could look threatening, even if she wasn't.
Kiyoe's afraid that Sayoko is going to be raped. In front of her. Which, given that she is a rape survivor herself, would be a nightmare. She's also very scared that *she'll* be raped as well, and the last thing she wants is to repeat the experience she had with Ramon, twenty-something years before.
Sayoko-san scrambled to grab a hoe. "There's no hunter cells around here - so, well, are you part Wolfen?"
"*Wolfen*?" Kiyoe asked, astounded. And then she remembered what she'd heard, that the remnants of the Wolfen clan - the part-human descendants - didn't like Fangaire too much. "No. Why?"
"Because... well, I get the impression you don't like the Fangaire that much," Sayoko-san said, still holding the hoe at the ready. "And you ducked being tested."
The backstory on this is that Kiyoe got everybody suspicious because somebody associated with the Fangaire was doing genetic tests, and no way in hell was Kiyoe going to participate and risk the Fangaire finding her. Since the people who do that most often are either Wolfen descendants or rogue Fandiri (like Wataru), Sayoko and her family were planning on turning Kiyoe in.
Kiyoe sighed. "My ancestry is Merman, not Wolfen, and before you ask, I'm below the legal limits plus I'm near menopause. I just don't like dealing with Fangaire."
So, Kiyoe sets her straight.
"Um, Tanaka-san?" Sayoko-san's hoe wavered. "If you're part Merman, why are you fighting your own kin?"
The people of this world, at least in Japan, assume that people of a certain ancestry get along with members of the species they're descended from. So, Sayoko has no idea why Kiyoe, a partblood Merman, is fighting her Merman kin. And yes, that is how Sayoko's thinking of Kiyoe right now.
"I don't *like* them," Kiyoe said simply, as another appeared out of the woods. Kiyoe whacked it with her hoe, and then closed for combat. That one was soon down. "Look, I was born in an entirely different universe. The Fangaire and the other species were not nice beings in mine. And it doesn't look like these are nice ones either."
"It sounds like you could have used some counseling when you got here," Sayoko-chan said. "When we're done, could you look into it? I'm sure the Fangaire would be happy to help."
As Kiyoe notes below, the people of this universe seem to think the Fangaire can fix everything. That being said, Kiyoe really needs counseling, and someday she does need to get it.
Again with the attitude that the Fangaire could fix everything. "They offered," Kiyoe said, watching for more Mermen. "I decided to take my own path." One that lead to a new name and a new home, one far away from the meddling Fangaire. They could hardly try to 'help' someone they couldn't find.
As I mentioned in the introduction, Kiyoe decided to lay low.
And she didn't want to be around when they found Aya's father either. He didn't seem the type to be quiet about Kiyoe's status in his tribe.
One of the first things that Ramon will do is claim Kiyoe as a member of his tribe, which throws her over the borderline between not breedable and breedable in the Fangaires' eyes. Of course, this will be complicated by the negotiations between the Fangaire and the Merman Invaders.
"Are all the people in your world like you, Tanaka-san?" Sayoko-san asked, clasping her hoe.
And Sayoko remembers her hoe! And I remember she's holding a hoe!
"No, most of them are more ignorant," Kiyoe said. "The only reason I know is something that nobody in this world wants to hear." She had a feeling that if she was found by the Fangaire, they'd remand her back to Kuramae-san, stick a counselor on her, and eventually, she'd be as brainwashed as the rest of the humans of the world.
The 'nobody in this world wants to hear' reference is about the rape. Because the Fangaire are very careful to seek consent, the people of Japan can't wrap their minds around a nonhuman with an unwilling partner. There's more to this issue, but I won't go into it here or I'll write an entire essay on it. I will say that becoming "domesticated" (as Kiyoe phrases it earlier) scares the heck out of Kiyoe.
"Oh," Sayoko-san said. But she probably didn't comprehend.
Nobody in the whole insane world did.
This inspired the title of the fic: to Kiyoe, the "Boxed In" world is insane and bizarre.
Kiyoe hefted her hoe again and prepared for the next invader.
-end
I really like this fic because it's Kiyoe, and she's kicking Merman rear end. And she is doing it because she's sane and nobody else is in the world, or at least that's what she believes. Since Kiyoe's first appearance in the whole storyline was Ramon knocking her out and her unable to fight back, the fact that she can and does here is wonderful.
estirose.) I plan to do another one for "Furry Children" before I go to bed, after I get FAB done.This is for "In This Insane World", which I didn't write too long ago. It's an "Apart from the Ocean"/"Boxed In" fic which features Shinoda Kiyoe.
You'd think that my characters would give me fics in chronological order, but they don't. Kiyoe "tells" me that this is a fic in a storyline where she decided to make it hard for the Fangaire to find, just in case the Fangaire recaptured Ramon. She assumed a new name and started working under that name. In this particular fic, members of the Merman species from another universe have decided to invade.
"Don't just stand there, Sayaoko-san," Kiyoe growled in frustration. "Do they *look* like they're friendly?" Once again, the bizarre world she'd found herself in was reminding her very unpleasantly that everybody there was insane.
Of course, Kiyoe is the only one that's sane in this universe. Everybody else is either native or given in. And she counts Aya among that number.
"What are they?" Sayoko-san asked. "And are you sure they're not friendly?" The wind whipped Kiyoe's hair around as she knocked the fishman into a nearby tree.
In case you're wondering, Sayoko (who was named after Tachibana's girlfriend from Kamen Rider Blade) is just standing there. She's never met a nonhuman that *wasn't* friendly.
"They're Merman," Kiyoe told her. "And no, they're not friendly! If they were friendly, they'd be negotiating with the Fangaire like *sane beings*, not invading!" She noted in satisfaction that one of them ran away. Hopefully back to the damned ocean.
That particular Merman will probably be showing up later on; he was actually listening to Kiyoe and wanted to get out of the way and share the news! Plus he can sense, like Aya can, that Kiyoe is not entirely human. Yes, he's reporting that too.
"I thought the Merman revival project was farther south," Sayoko-san said. She still wasn't helping Kiyoe fight. Kiyoe herself hefted her hoe menacingly.
"This has nothing to do with that and more to do with the fact that we've got a damned invasion force here, and nobody bothering to fight it! What are you all waiting for, to be killed?" These people were so domesticated, it wasn't funny.
Kiyoe's still annoyed at the people in her adopted universe. "Sheeple" is also a good term for the people of the Boxed In universe.
"Tanaka-san, may I ask a question?" Sayoko-san asked, still doing nothing but standing there. It took a second for Kiyoe to remember her assumed name.
As I mentioned earlier, Kiyoe's living under an assumed name because she doesn't want the Fangaire knocking on her door.
"Only if you do something to hold off our invaders. Grab that other hoe and prepare to hit *something* with it." At least the girl could look threatening, even if she wasn't.
Kiyoe's afraid that Sayoko is going to be raped. In front of her. Which, given that she is a rape survivor herself, would be a nightmare. She's also very scared that *she'll* be raped as well, and the last thing she wants is to repeat the experience she had with Ramon, twenty-something years before.
Sayoko-san scrambled to grab a hoe. "There's no hunter cells around here - so, well, are you part Wolfen?"
"*Wolfen*?" Kiyoe asked, astounded. And then she remembered what she'd heard, that the remnants of the Wolfen clan - the part-human descendants - didn't like Fangaire too much. "No. Why?"
"Because... well, I get the impression you don't like the Fangaire that much," Sayoko-san said, still holding the hoe at the ready. "And you ducked being tested."
The backstory on this is that Kiyoe got everybody suspicious because somebody associated with the Fangaire was doing genetic tests, and no way in hell was Kiyoe going to participate and risk the Fangaire finding her. Since the people who do that most often are either Wolfen descendants or rogue Fandiri (like Wataru), Sayoko and her family were planning on turning Kiyoe in.
Kiyoe sighed. "My ancestry is Merman, not Wolfen, and before you ask, I'm below the legal limits plus I'm near menopause. I just don't like dealing with Fangaire."
So, Kiyoe sets her straight.
"Um, Tanaka-san?" Sayoko-san's hoe wavered. "If you're part Merman, why are you fighting your own kin?"
The people of this world, at least in Japan, assume that people of a certain ancestry get along with members of the species they're descended from. So, Sayoko has no idea why Kiyoe, a partblood Merman, is fighting her Merman kin. And yes, that is how Sayoko's thinking of Kiyoe right now.
"I don't *like* them," Kiyoe said simply, as another appeared out of the woods. Kiyoe whacked it with her hoe, and then closed for combat. That one was soon down. "Look, I was born in an entirely different universe. The Fangaire and the other species were not nice beings in mine. And it doesn't look like these are nice ones either."
"It sounds like you could have used some counseling when you got here," Sayoko-chan said. "When we're done, could you look into it? I'm sure the Fangaire would be happy to help."
As Kiyoe notes below, the people of this universe seem to think the Fangaire can fix everything. That being said, Kiyoe really needs counseling, and someday she does need to get it.
Again with the attitude that the Fangaire could fix everything. "They offered," Kiyoe said, watching for more Mermen. "I decided to take my own path." One that lead to a new name and a new home, one far away from the meddling Fangaire. They could hardly try to 'help' someone they couldn't find.
As I mentioned in the introduction, Kiyoe decided to lay low.
And she didn't want to be around when they found Aya's father either. He didn't seem the type to be quiet about Kiyoe's status in his tribe.
One of the first things that Ramon will do is claim Kiyoe as a member of his tribe, which throws her over the borderline between not breedable and breedable in the Fangaires' eyes. Of course, this will be complicated by the negotiations between the Fangaire and the Merman Invaders.
"Are all the people in your world like you, Tanaka-san?" Sayoko-san asked, clasping her hoe.
And Sayoko remembers her hoe! And I remember she's holding a hoe!
"No, most of them are more ignorant," Kiyoe said. "The only reason I know is something that nobody in this world wants to hear." She had a feeling that if she was found by the Fangaire, they'd remand her back to Kuramae-san, stick a counselor on her, and eventually, she'd be as brainwashed as the rest of the humans of the world.
The 'nobody in this world wants to hear' reference is about the rape. Because the Fangaire are very careful to seek consent, the people of Japan can't wrap their minds around a nonhuman with an unwilling partner. There's more to this issue, but I won't go into it here or I'll write an entire essay on it. I will say that becoming "domesticated" (as Kiyoe phrases it earlier) scares the heck out of Kiyoe.
"Oh," Sayoko-san said. But she probably didn't comprehend.
Nobody in the whole insane world did.
This inspired the title of the fic: to Kiyoe, the "Boxed In" world is insane and bizarre.
Kiyoe hefted her hoe again and prepared for the next invader.
-end
I really like this fic because it's Kiyoe, and she's kicking Merman rear end. And she is doing it because she's sane and nobody else is in the world, or at least that's what she believes. Since Kiyoe's first appearance in the whole storyline was Ramon knocking her out and her unable to fight back, the fact that she can and does here is wonderful.
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