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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 01:47 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
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Date: 2009-12-01 08:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
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