Sunday, February 3, 2013

Did an Exam, Go Me! Plus Batshit Insane Ideas

Whoo,   boy.


Well, this   weekend was  memorable -  I finally  had the exam for the masseuse course and did it -  now  I  gotta  study for the National  Job Qualifications, or NJQ, as this  practical exam was a required precursor   before we  could even attempt to do NJQ... and   I  have to  sniffle  around Anatomy ... again. /lowered puppy ears/.  Sometimes I think I  am a little bit masochistic in that regard -  first Math in my  studies, and then Anatomy  in masseuse course.   Yes, I am whining.   But I think  in each thing can be found something that can be hard to do,   just the  levels of  the  difficulties are different.

/Twitch, twitch./ Right now, got a crazy idea.   A Sekirei/Claymore crossover /shivers/ -   Sometimes, I am really  afraid of my mind, because... well. /Defeated shrug/.  It's a dangerous thing, what with all those  prompts, ideas and whatnot.

I've  read  manga Sekirei some  three or four years back, and  it's still not finished.   It's good if you like  harems,  one helpless guy with  adoring  masses of big-breasted  female aliens and  all around love-love  thing... and some other surprises.    Anyone interested, can  look it up on Mangahere or Mangafox  and  decide for yourself.

Lately, I riffled  throught the  Sekirei fandom, and  even if some stories are good, along with a couple or so  crossovers,  I still think Minato -  the protagonist guy -  could be  a little bit more and not  only helpless little Ashikabi he is  portrayed as such. Of course, there are stories were  Minato is a notable exception but still....

And then, Claymore.  This is presented  both as a manga or anime -   if your want manga, go  to Mangahere or Mangafox, and for the  anime,   browse on Youtube  to find your poison.   Although I  have to  caution -  the scenes can be pretty brutal  as far as violence and gore goes, so it's not really advisable for the little  munchkins.

Anyway, back to the  idea.   While I was  watching  Minato,  it occured to me  he could be practically  a  double of the  Isley of  the North; and with Isley being  as bad-ass as he  is,  it's really, really tempting  idea  to  merge the two 'verses, at least partially,  and making  Minato a littpe bit more badass in process.

So, the plot is following.  Through the childhood, Minato has dreams  about that Isley guy,  or  even better,  Isley  somehow mentoring him. However, Isley's time is  limited, so  the  two of them merge and thus causing  Minato to hit ... and miss his first  University entrance exams -  the entire thing  was  of course, painful.  Can you say ouch? 

Minato  has to get used to his newfound  powers and whatnot; also,  his  Awakened form  is  relatively slow in coming, because it  demands  concentration and energy.   Also, Minato is the dominant  persona in this relationship -  Isley  is  him before reincarnation, however something went wrong somehow, and  while most of  his memories was wiped out in the process of transition,   a small core part of  Isley  retained the memories,   personality and   most importantly,  powers.   However, through the time,  even this small part of  Isley  has to  reintegrate to the  bigger mass that is now Minato and thus  changing some of   Minato's  thoughts, reactions,  and overall,   making him less wimpy and  inclined to bend to Yukari and  his mother's  wishes.   Also... /devilish grin/ Can you say, hello, trouble with technology?  Isley  was strong, and  Minato  isn't  exactly  gentle with  phones and the likes if he isn't very, very careful.    He can   feel the Sekirei, because their powers are similar to youki, and that  simultaneously baffles and irritates him -   they are dangerous, but  they don't show inclination to  go on mass-murdering sprees in the least.  Well, except Karasuba, but  No.4 is  as always, exception for  herself.  /Sweatdrops/

 So you see, the newest Ashikabi  (ironically of the North, too, as  Isley also held the title  'Isley of the North,') would be  the force to be reckoned with, and  I am wondering just how would Miya deal with someone  who is   utterly  indifferent to her  Hannya mask.  /Evil  smirk/.

As for his Sekirei,   I don't really know -  they  can be   the same as in canon, or some new ones -   for example,  Akitsu, Karasuba or even Miya  herself.   Also,  Minato  can  only partially transform  himself at the beginning,   and his  Awakened form is  at most  three meters tall and not ten -  as Minato is a  reincarnation,  there was a decrease in the original  power, but he  still can kick  butt,  however the drawback is, the form is hard to  hold up as it  demands  massive amounts  of energy, so the partial transformation is more  viable, and  Minato's  speed and  strength are nothing to sneeze at either.

Hmm... Well, if I am, here, let's  find out  just how would that  kind of... something go.


Prologue

Brown eyes with a subtle gray highlights, narrowed as  their owner  looked over the  table with the   entrance exam results,  as their owner  searched, and failed to  find his own  number.

'So... I failed  this  year too.'  The  tall youth's eyebrow twitched with irritation.    He knew that he shouldn't have expected  so much  from himself,   but as they  say, hope dies last.

He snorted as he fished for a phone in his pocket.  He knew he should have just skipped the exam that  fine morning last  week,  but stubborn ass as he was,  he ignored  his body's demands for  rest and dragged his miserable carcass to the  exam  room and proceeded to apparently royally bungle up the  thing.  What?  Was it his fault that he  alternatively saw  kanji and  some strange signs he could have sworn  they were some kind of a really weird language intermixing together?    The  mix-ups  came and went   all through the exam time when he  was  writing,  and really, he was lucky he didn't begin to blabber in some strange language -  because if he  would have  done that, he  would have  been carted off to  loony bin before  he could say youki.

Finally.   His fingers  clutched  around the rectangular thing  called phone and pulled it out of the pocked,  carefully dialing the  number.

"Mother? I failed again."


After that... awkward call,  Minato was free to do  with his time as he wished to, and  first thing to do was to find a job.   Not that he minded, in fact, he preferred to do something constructive than to  sit in a small room and trying to cram his brain with signs and formulas that made absolutely no sense.

He twitched minutely as something   brushed against his senses again.  Those little... somethings were  irritating him, because they were like  youki, and at the same time, unlike any youki he had ever felt.   it made his  hands itch for  a sword and to find that something which dared to rub his proverbial fur so crassly.  They were like those pests... Feeders something and he really, really hated those.  He shivered in revulsion at the half-buried memory.

Quickly dismissing the  thought,  Minato Sahashi stepped off the train, intending to head off to  the building site -   he had seen the advertisement they needed more workers, and  he needed  money to pay the rent and food.


At a  cursory glance,   the  two-time repeater  wasn't any different  from any other bystanders -   slender,  clothed in warm brown jacket and  blue jeans trousers with  scuffed  trainers on his  feet, along with  black and gray turtleneck under the half-opened jacket.  His brown hair was   a little shaggy and  shoulder-length, with some  small streaks of silver mixed in, making him more sophisticated  and a little rebellious looking at he same time.   His face was ordinary looking at a first glance, but if  someone would look at him  longer and closer,  they would have  been surprised  by the delicate lines that meshed into  the whole that was  his face.  He was kind of a...handsome, not exquisitely male, but  in  a more  deep and different way.  The tilt of his eyes, which  had only last week expressed a guileless  innocence, was now  subtly different -  not much,  but  just  to show that this person was not one to be trifled with.  Somehow more...serious.  Like he had seen some of the worst thing imaginable and yet...


His eyebrow twitched again.   That feeling again!

"Right.  Next paycheck, I will get a sword and murder someone."  he muttered to himself, still bristling at the feeling of those not-youki signatures brushing against his mind.  He got some weirded out glances  for it, but mostly because he spoke in completely different language.

His eyes widened with shock as his  body involuntarily stiffened.


"KYAA!  PLEASE GET OUT OF MY WAY!"   A  feminine voice shouted a warning -

Too late.

CRASH-BANG!



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