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dear_mun2014-02-09 05:38 am
restlesswings) wrote in dear_mun2014-02-09 05:38 am
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[Perpetually homeless/on the issue of gender]
As I said, I really don't care which you call me.
But, you know, the problem you're having now is the same one the publishers faced in adapting the novels. That's why the order of stories changed, so they won't have several chapters where they can only refer to me as Kino.
... I guess if you really wanted to, you could switch between "he" and "she" for the confusion.
[The Brough Superior beside Kino starts up.] Sounds fun! Is Kino a boy, is Kino a girl? It's like Russian brûlée! There's even the same probability someone will get shot.
... Russian roulette, Hermes.
That's what I said!
Somehow, I'm starting to feel more like Schrödinger's cat.
But, you know, the problem you're having now is the same one the publishers faced in adapting the novels. That's why the order of stories changed, so they won't have several chapters where they can only refer to me as Kino.
... I guess if you really wanted to, you could switch between "he" and "she" for the confusion.
[The Brough Superior beside Kino starts up.] Sounds fun! Is Kino a boy, is Kino a girl? It's like Russian brûlée! There's even the same probability someone will get shot.
... Russian roulette, Hermes.
That's what I said!
Somehow, I'm starting to feel more like Schrödinger's cat.
Yay Kino! (I hear you on the gender issues!)
'Scuse me - do you happen to know where this is?
[ if Donna noticed Kino talking to the motorbike she doesn't mention it. She's used to people talking to machines!]
[I'm amazed someone else knows Kino's Journey!]
Kino offers a polite smile.] Of course. This place right here?
Have you ever walked through a revolving door, Miss? Or stood at a crossroads?
I'm led to believe this place is a crossroads between worlds.
[Mouthy motorbike noisily interrupting again:] Everybody we've met here comes from different places! But the crazy thing is, every person we've met so far, has never seen a Motorrad before! That's a gravy injustice, isn't it?
Kino is my absolute favorite!
Gravy? Well yes, we have motorcycles where I'm from - loads! Just not talking ones!
I'm glad! It's been a while since I've played with a Doctor Who character.
Ah, I see.
[Hermes makes a sound like a disappointed sigh through a tin can, but Kino smiles amiably.]
My name is Kino. This is Hermes. What's your name?
[As foretold in the Book of Keita...]
...oh yeah, introduction. [Medium bowing.] I'm Néo, from Hataka-mura. Abarai-kun told Kuchiki-san about you having a journal now, and when heibon-kun saw that you had an actual post up, he just had to throw me at you and your motorbike.
:D
[She chuckles, giving the disappointed Hermes a pat.]
Sorry, mate. Though I do know a time-traveling phone box which definitely has a mind of her own! Maybe you'd get along!
[ Because the Doctor is very insistent that the TARDIS is a 'she'. Trust Donna to play a little bit of matchmaker! Then she sighs in frustration.]
Of course, I would have to find them first!
[1/2; ^^]
[Matchmaker, huh? Hermes likes to play that too, adding slyly:] Maybe we'll get along as well as Kino and Shizu do—
[Kino gives Hermes a small, but effective kick to silence him.]
[2/2]
... that's the first time I've heard of something like that. I'll have to admit, you've got me curious.
Can you tell me more about this Doctor?
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Oh you know, skinny bloke, hair like he's never touched a brush in his life, about so tall - Probably going on about how clever he is, unless he's too busy running from aliens. Again. Lord, is there a lot of running.
[ At this, she winces, and then kicks off to heels she's been wearing. They'd seemed ike such a good idea this morning, before the Doctor had made all those penguins angry!]
[A Naked Land --Birthright--]
[If this place imposes on them a shared language or a sort of automatic translation, Kino would favour masculine words in her speech, like "boku." She's largely clueless about Japanese language on her own, although she's familiar with a few words from her Master.]
But, I'm really not sure what "schizomorphic gender binaries" means.
Binary is two! So two genders... aaaaaaaand I have no idea what that other word means.
[Of course, being raised by Master also taught her to return a bow, which she does with ease.]
It's a pleasure to meet you, Néo-san.
... ah, Mundane says she was counting on it. Your heibon-kun is always quite prompt. I must admit I don't know the others that well... I've been travelling here for quite some time.
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Kino quells it quickly, but wasn't even entirely sure why it was so funny: the impracticality of it all or the most remote possibility that she could have grown up wearing such things.]
S-sorry, sorry— but that sounds like quite the ordeal! Maybe more comfortable shoes would be a better option on days like that...
Aliens, though?
[「裸の国」works for me.]
"Schizomorphic" is a word heibon-kun picked up from one of the less mainstream fandoms he's stumbled across; they use it to mean species of people that have two opposite genders, masculine and feminine, instead of having two complementary "intemorphic" genders like they have in their own world. Hataka-mura has males and females, so we're not exactly intemorphs, but all three of our genders are feminine, so we're not really schizomorphs either.
It's a pleasure to meet you as well, Kino-san. And you, motorbike-san. [Shi bows to Hermes.]
Yeah, "prompt" is a good word for it. "Impulsive" is another. The main thing that delayed my tagging you was him checking to make sure you were the Kino that Abarai-kun mentioned, so he didn't embarrass himself by inflicting me on someone who wasn't as prepared.
I'm sure you'll get along with them all right, sooner or later; I do all right with most of heibon-kun's other residents. Even the little pro-wrestle man doesn't mind being around me, when I remember to wear clothing.
[キノのテーマはちょっと違うでもだいじょぶう！ I was trying to have it be lik
What a unique word... I like it.
Hermes! I'd bow, but I'm a Motorrad and I'd fall over, so I'll pass!
Could you tell me more about your world? If I'm asking about something I shouldn't, you can tell me and I'll stop.
They might be nice enough, but I'd rather not get too attached.
Little pro-wrestle man? What're the chances of my mundane knowing him?
[You did fine, and thanks!]
Hermes. How's a Motorrad different from other motorbikes? Is it just that you can talk?
My "canon" doesn't say a lot about my world, but heibon-kun considers that it's ordinary enough as worlds go. Except for having hermaphrodites; there's my home village of Hataka, in the Japanese countryside, and enough herms outside the village that canon shows at least one visitor asking for directions. His "head-canon" has at least two other major hermaphrodite settlements: one in Sweden that's the inspiration for (and may actually be named some form of) Shakebao, and one in California called Las Carmenitas (and we're not even going to link to the stories that comes from).
That depends. How familiar is she with a website called Homestar Runner? Because that's where he's from. In fact, even the title character says he's the real star.
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That's it. Trainers from now on! If I ever do get married, I'll have 'em on under my dress! Oh! And pockets!
Right, though - aliens! And robots! Alien robots, even! Though it's funny... The more I see, the more I just think of most of 'em as 'people.'
[1/2; sorry for the delay, the approaching finals have stolen me away!]
[She glances at the spot she's rubbing, before turning to her heavily-loaded companion to dig out a makeshift medical kit.] I just restocked a few days ago, so I guess it can't hurt to share while I'm still here.
... if he decides to go for a run mid-ceremony, then, I guess you'll be able to catch him that way.
[2/2]
They just stared and stared, all through dinner. Then dumped out the food!
... but, what exactly do you mean by aliens?