Quote:Maybe when she comes in she actually latches around Mai's waist, and glares at Tate from under one of her arms?
Mikoto didn't seem quite ... tactile ... enough in this scene. She should have said that bit about not letting N!Tate take Mai from her while glomped onto Mai.
Hmm. I'll note that on my mental list for the revision.
Despite how much of a time bomb that conversation could have been, things actually went pretty well until just before we got to the restaurant, which ironically hadn't been one of the points where I had reckoned things would have a chance to go wrong. After all, I'd made the reservation well ahead of time and run the selection past not only Akane, but Nao and Shizuru also - I figured that between the three of them they'd not only cover most of the range of possible objections (ie, if none of them had a problem with it, Mai likely wouldn't either) but also know just about every possible alternative to be found on Fuuka.
So I was as confident about the meal as I ever got about anything... but I hadn't reckoned on the Press.
Well, okay, sure, a lot of that disaster was my fault. Given how much of my borderline obsession with self-control is actually a result of how, ah, energetically I end up losing my temper and my own desire to avoid same, I might or might not've expected myself to react that way... Honestly, though, the part that bothers me isn't that I overreacted to the situation or even that I embarrassed the hell out of myself - despite that being a particular horror of mine - so much as the fact that Mai was and is quite capable of taking care of her own honor, and hardly needs me butting it and getting all puffed up on testosterone about the matter.
Acting like that never solves anything, really, at least until it gets somebody killed.
But really - if this asshole of a camera guy is going to insist on trying to make Mai into some kind of public display, the fucking least he could do is have decency to focus on her face.
Yes, I know that makes me a bit of a hypocrite. Why do you think I was so upset?
Not much today, at least partly 'cause I want to get some feedback on how Mai reacts to this development.
Quote:This is what they call a win-win situation, no?
I was shanghai-ed by Split Daybreak bunnies prodding me to do research, hence the cliffie.
And, for future reference, Griever, cliffhangers make excellent motivation.
Ja, -n
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