Tamed
This is the result of trying to make sense of that crappy little book, "The Little Prince". This piece of writing here is my first attempt to write outside the Comedy/Idiocy genre. (Idiocy is a genre to me! Why, it's my genre!) Then again, this may fall under the idiocy genre, because it's probably as sucky as the text that inspired it. It also happens to be the first thing I'm putting out on that doesn't have a Ranma½ reference. So, though "The Little Prince" is an incredibly strange book, I have to give at least the fox thanks for inspiration….
And the lines near the beginning: I know they're not perfect, they're from memory, so please don't pull a copy of The Little Prince out on me and tell me the problems. He said something along the lines of what I'm saying, so… yeah.
Disclaimer: I don't own Konjiki no Gash Bell or the Little Prince.
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As a child, I read a book called The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In this book, a fox explains to the little prince many things about life, one of them being 'taming', a topic which I did not understand at the time.
"Taming, explained the fox, "means to establish ties. If you tame me, you shall be special to me, unlike a 100,000 other little boys, because of the fact that you have tamed me."
I, Sherry Belmond, had been tamed. I had fallen in love with a demon.
The process of 'taming' is a gradual one, and the way to tame someone is to spend time with them, something I had definitely been doing with Brago. It was beginning to seem that I was becoming more and more attached to the demon with each journey we took into the wilderness. The more time we spent together, it seemed that I noticed more and more about him, the more special he became to me.
At first, I hated all demons alike: I believed all of them to be heartless creatures that cared nothing for others. In the very beginning, Brago had been like this, and I despised him, as I despised all other demons. He was the only means through which I could achieve my goal (saving Koko), and I the only means through which he could achieve his (becoming King of his world).
I always felt Brago was not exactly like other demons, I could tell this from the first battle I fought alongside him, but at this point, my initial impression of him had not changed. I still hated all of his kind, himself most definitely included.
I now knew that Brago was like no other being I had ever encountered, and I doubted I would ever come across anyone just like him. He was different than all the others; he was my demon, like no other. Brago had tamed me.
However, the time we spent together had not only affected me, but Brago as well. He had slowly been changing for the better. Watching this change had served to make the ties that bound me to him far stronger, to make him more and more unlike others, and more and more special to me.
Brago, do you know what you have done to me? Do you know how special you are to me? Do you know how much and how badly I dread the day we part? Do you have any idea how much I love you? But I believe that there is a more important question to ask you, Brago: Have I tamed you?
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My first steps outside the comedy genre…. I hope I did okay! So… You! Review!