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amanuensis1I finished my second run through the anime series of Hikaru no Go the other day. Time for a drabble.
Title: Roland Emmerich Only Wishes...
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Summary: "The quake, centered in Tokyo..."
Word count: 205
A/N: Unabashed crack.
The apocalypse does indeed begin with a whimper, but progresses so quickly to a bang it hardly makes a difference.
The quake, centered in Tokyo, can't be measured by present technology--the degree of magnitude exceeds the machinery's capacity--and every facility that would even be equipped to try is demolished as the seismic waves move at astronomical speeds over and through the earth's surface.
The tsunamis create their share of the destruction. Indonesia, New Zealand, and two-thirds of Australia are drowned first; it takes a fraction longer for the rebound effects to engulf Madagascar, and then Great Britain. Any smaller islands cease to be within minutes of the first tremors.
The eyes of the world, barely having had time to look in horror towards Japan, turn back to their own borders as tectonic plates do not merely shift and drift but crumble, great chasms swallowing every bit of human creation and existence. The United States has time for a few Godzilla jokes before it falls.
Somewhere a ghost closes its metaphorical eyes, and departs all planes of existence, mingled ecstasy and grief its last thought as it goes.
As foretold by that ghost, Hikaru and Akira have played the Hand of God at last.
Title: Roland Emmerich Only Wishes...
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Summary: "The quake, centered in Tokyo..."
Word count: 205
A/N: Unabashed crack.
The apocalypse does indeed begin with a whimper, but progresses so quickly to a bang it hardly makes a difference.
The quake, centered in Tokyo, can't be measured by present technology--the degree of magnitude exceeds the machinery's capacity--and every facility that would even be equipped to try is demolished as the seismic waves move at astronomical speeds over and through the earth's surface.
The tsunamis create their share of the destruction. Indonesia, New Zealand, and two-thirds of Australia are drowned first; it takes a fraction longer for the rebound effects to engulf Madagascar, and then Great Britain. Any smaller islands cease to be within minutes of the first tremors.
The eyes of the world, barely having had time to look in horror towards Japan, turn back to their own borders as tectonic plates do not merely shift and drift but crumble, great chasms swallowing every bit of human creation and existence. The United States has time for a few Godzilla jokes before it falls.
Somewhere a ghost closes its metaphorical eyes, and departs all planes of existence, mingled ecstasy and grief its last thought as it goes.
As foretold by that ghost, Hikaru and Akira have played the Hand of God at last.
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Date: 2009-12-01 12:33 am (UTC)OMG OMG OMG
HI :DDDDD
i haven't even had a moment to respond to your lovely comment from--yesterday? 2 days ago? THAT ONE. BUT I SAW THIS AND CAME RUNNING, because obviously!!!!!
this is so fantastic. so epic and metaphorical and literal, the re-imagining of the cosmos and the creation of a whole new universe, only akira and hikaru are gods of light (of course), not death gods or shinigami, and Sai departs as air and drifts in the lacy jetstreams of infinity, found eternally under hikaru's bootsoles and in the snap of his fan.
This is what hikaru no go is. I love you, I love you, I love you.
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Date: 2009-12-01 01:06 am (UTC)I love you to pieces. I do. I love that you love Hikago the way it is meant to be loved, in heartbreaking hopefulness, if that makes any sense. The show is perfect--one supernatural element, and then NO RIDICULOUS SHIT. EVER. No contrived sitcom shit, even. No, "Oh, no! I'll be late for my train and WON'T MAKE MY MATCH, whatever shall I doooo?" shit. It's just about...kids. Obsessed kids. Broken-hearted, uplifted, faith-in-what-will-be kids.
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Date: 2009-12-01 03:26 am (UTC)I mean, I will never forget that my initial viewing of the first ten or so eps involved me laughing shrilly and shouting "IT'S. A. *BOARD GAME!!!*" at the screen. How this series just robs you of irony, how even when it is at its most TOWERINGLY RIDICULOUS that is also when it's at its most sublime. How it is exactly like this drabble, in essence, because, LOL THERE ARE ENTIRE WORLDS BEING LEVELLED, *yes*, there are *entire worlds* being levelled.
UE WO MEZASHITE, AMANUENSIS-KUN.
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Date: 2009-12-01 12:10 pm (UTC)I'm going to make a bunch of icons from the title sequences with some of the mstie lines we had. :D
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Date: 2009-12-01 01:47 am (UTC)Hikaru, Akira: THANKS A LOT, YOU TWO GO-OBSESSED BASTARDS. *~frowny face~*
. . . and o hai, two of my favourite authors in one place at (nearly) one time. I 'm
kind ofreally really wishing you'd co-write some Hikago fic withno subject
Date: 2009-12-01 01:52 am (UTC)I would totally brainstorm Hikago ideas with bookshop but, omigod, I would not be worthy to keep up with her in that fandom or probably any other. She's forgotten more about the canons than I'll ever remember!
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Date: 2009-12-01 03:18 am (UTC)SAYS THE PERSON ABOUT WHOSE FICS I WAS JUST GUSHING OVER *TODAY*.
Not to mention the fact that one of my Xmas gifts to myself is a subscription to your fiction website so I can read more about CONCUBINES AND MASTERS IN LOVE HOLY GOD.
In short, it will always be an honor to be mentioned in company with you, much less to collab with you, even if it just a collaboration of SQUEE :D
<3!
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Date: 2009-12-01 12:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-01 08:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-01 11:53 am (UTC)