Prelude:
I recently finished the book and movie "Pride and Prejudice" and after reading it I said, "This would soooo fit Sora and Leon, I mean Mr. Darcy practically is Leon Oswald!" After I said it, my creative writing juices began to flow and I simply had to write this! I plan on this being very long, which means I'm going to have to pause on "A Kaleido Star Vacation!" and "Opposites Attract" for a while, sorry! I really wish I could write for all three at the same time, but studies await, and I have midterms and CMTS coming up so yeah, you catch my drift. (Main pairings: Sora/Leon, Sora/Leon/May, Layla/Yuri, Dio/Mia, Ken/Sora)
Disclaimer: I do not own Kaleido Star, Junichi-san and Hiraike-san do! I also do not own Jane Austen's characters, she does. I do own a few characters though!
Oh, yes! I nearly forgot! The characters that I list below all take after the original characters in "Pride and Prejudice," so I decided to make a list for you, so you can compare the characters.
Sora Naegino as Elizabeth "Lizzy" Bennet
Leon Oswald as Fitzwilliam Darcy
Midori Naegino (to those who don't know this, this is Sora's adoptive mother's name) as Mrs. Bennet
Tsuyoshi Naegino (Sora's adoptive father) as Mr. Bennet
Layla Hamilton as Jane Bennet
Mia Guillem as Lydia Bennet
Rosetta Passel as Catherine "Kitty" Bennet
Anna Heart as Mary Bennet (I had no better role for Anna…)
Ken Robbins as Mr. Collins
Yuri Killian as Mr. Bingley
Dio as Mr. Wickham
Sophie Oswald as Georgiana Darcy
May Wong as Anne de Bourgh
Manami as Charlotte Lucas
My Characters:
Lin Wong as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Ruth Killian as Miss Caroline Bingley
(I'll list more characters later.)
That's it for now, ja ne! -whispers- Damn, that was long…
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It is a fact universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of great wealth must be in want of a wife.
However little known the manner or opinions of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is deemed as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
"My dear, have you heard the news?"
The man in the chair did not reply, simply reading the newspaper and ignoring the voice. The woman stared at him before saying, "Shall I tell you of it then?" and grew impatient with his silence.
"I have no objection in what you have to say, my dear."
She smiled triumphantly.
"A man by the name of Killian, my dear, have you heard or seen of him?"
"No."
"They say he is a man of considerable wealth, and owns two large estates in Sacramento and Cape Mary. Rich, handsome, single!"
The last word, though punctuated and drawn out, gave no interest to Mr. Naegino. The woman sighed exasperatedly.
"I must say that he is an eligible bachelor, destined to marry one of our girls!"
Mr. Naegino stifled a laugh.
"One of our girls? I dare say, Midori, what is with you and marriage these days?"
"I think they are old enough to find a man, is all. What is wrong with that?"
Mr. Naegino shook his head.
"Go on then, dear."
"We must go up to the estate at once and introduce ourselves! I hear he is attending a dance that is coming up in the next two weeks."
"Well then, what do you supposed you do?"
"Must I repeat myself?! Why are you so tiresome, Tsuyoshi? I will bring the girls, and oh! You must come too! Killian would be delighted to be in the presence of his future wife's father! You have to--"
"Ah, ah, ah! Midori, I will stay here, if you don't mind. You might go, but I would certainly forbade it,"
Midori put her hands on her hips defiantly.
"And why is that?"
"for if you were to go, Killian might take an attraction to you. I say you are looking quite radiant today, darling."
Midori giggled and swatted affectionately at her husband.
"You flatter me so, but I must say that a woman of my age, having given birth to five darling girls, is not so beautiful anymore. I am not so vain to take up the spotlight once again, and must pass on word of my more beautiful daughters."
Tsuyoshi smiled.
"Now where was I dear? Oh yes, Sora!"
Tsuyoshi sighed.
"What of her?
"I must pass on a good word to Killian for her sake! She has to married too, of course. You mustn't play favorites, she must marry!"
Mr. Naegino's eyebrow twitched, showing is irritation at the subject of marrying off his favorite daughter.
"You already know how stubborn she is,"
"Of course, Tsuyoshi. She got it from you…"
She whispered the last part under her breath, but he still heard.
"and you heard her thoughts on marriage? She said that she will not marry unless it be for love."
"Well that may be, but it is preposterous! What is a marriage with just love and no money? A fool's marriage! Why, she'd have to find work to support them. Perhaps the man she loves is worthless!"
"Even so, I will not get in Sora's way."
Midori huffed and walked across the room to the door. She turned slightly before gripping the knob.
"Well if you won't, I will!"
She huffed again and left the room. Tsuyoshi shrugged and went back to the paper.
"Troublesome woman…"
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"If I can see one of my daughters happily settled at Anaheim with Killian," Midori said to her husband, "and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing more to wish for."
Tsuyoshi did the usual and made no comment. Only a few days into hearing about Mr. Killian and Tsuyoshi had made it so Killian would come to his estate for a chat. Simply that, a chat amongst men. The girls were delighted but soon found that Mr. Killian would not meet them nor see them at all and the color drained from their faces.
"But father, I wish to see him too!"
Rosetta spoke up from amongst them. Layla looked at her younger sister and smiled.
"So would I, father. He seems like an interesting young man."
But Tsuyoshi would not allow it.
"I told him that I had five daughters, but would not be at the house at the time he would be visiting."
"And why is that?!"
Midori raised her voice a little. Mr. Naegino winced.
"I wanted to simply talk with him, man to man. Nothing less. The girls shall not see him yet. In any case, it will lead them all to be more interested in him."
Midori sighed and left the room, the girls following behind her. Sora stayed behind a little and looked at her father. Tsuyoshi, noticing her stare, looked up and smiled softly.
"Sora, you mustn't worry yourself with such things. You will see him at the dance."
Sora smiled and curtsied, then scurried out of the room.
The next day, Killian arrived at the estate. The women rushed to the window to catch a glimpse of their could-be future husband, but being at a disadvantage (due to the height they were at) they couldn't get a good look at his face (only a good look at his car, which was a red Mercedes Benz).
"Anna, get a pair of binoculars! Hurry!"
"Y-Yes mother!"
Anna ran and dumped out a drawer and found a set of mini binoculars, then handed one to her mother. Midori pushed Sora and shoved her face against the glass.
"Dear god, you were too slow Anna! He's already went in!"
She scolded her daughter for her lack of speed before silencing the giddy girls.
"Hush now. I will go downstairs."
Sora piped up.
"But father told Mr. Killian that we were not here!"
"Aye, his daughters aren't here. But he never said anything of his wife!"
They laughed and Midori left the room, smoothing her hair and last-minute primping herself, and walked down the stairs into the lobby.
The girls opened the door and peered to the staircase, trying to catch a glimpse of the man again. To their luck, they could see that he wore a white suit, had blonde hair, and looked very neat. Though their view was only from behind. Sora decided that this was enough, that the girls will see his face at the ball, and pulled all the girls back into the room. Layla though, stayed behind for a little bit, captivated by him.
"Layla! Layla!"
Sora whispered harshly under her breath. Layla finally heard her sister's calls and backed up.
"Forgive me, I was lost in thought."
"Always a daydreamer, you'll never change."
The two eldest daughters grinned at each other.
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The night the dance was to take place finally came. Midori had heard from her short conversation with Killian that he would be bringing a few guests, though few was an understatement. He was to bring twelve ladies and seven gentlemen. The girls wanted to faint at the sound of twelve women, all being their competition, but soon found that the numbers had lessened to six women, 5 sisters and a cousin. But when they arrived at the party, they had only found that their had been five altogether, Killian, two of his sisters, the husband of the eldest, and one young man.
Yuri Killian was attractive and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. His sisters were fine women, with a good fashion sense. His brother in-law, Mr. Hurst, merely played the part of a gentleman; but his friend Mr. Oswald, had suddenly drawn all the attention in the room. He was a tall, fine-looking noble man- and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance of his having around $600,000 a year. The gentlemen articulate him as a fine figure of man, the ladies confirmed he was much handsomer that Killian, (AN: Hell yeah!) and he was looked at with high regard for about half the evening, till his actions gave great loathing which turned the tide in his popularity; for he was discovered to be pompous, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Los Angeles could then save him from not having a most inhospitable, distasteful countenance, and being unworthy to be compared to his companion.
Yuri had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal people in the room; he was lively and unreserved, danced every dance, and was angry that the ball closed so early, and talked about keeping a ball himself at his abode in Anaheim. Such amiable qualities must speak for themselves. Such a contrast between Yuri and Leon! Leon had danced only twice, once with Mrs. Hurst, and one with Miss Ruth Killian. He then proceeded to spend the rest of the dance roaming the room and stopped very few times to talk with someone from his group. His personality was then decided. He was the most arrogant, most disagreeable man in the world, and everyone hoped he would never attend another ball with them again. Mrs. Naegino was displeased with Mr. Oswald's cold behavior, and eagerly dismissed any thoughts of her daughters falling for the likes of him. Sora hadn't dance at all, and had stayed in her seat the whole time next to Anna. Close by to her was the main men of the night, Yuri and Leon. Yuri had walked up to Leon, trying to get him to dance with other women, and Sora was close enough to overhear their conversation, though she hated being nosy.
"Come, Leon," said he, "I hate to see you standing here in such an idle manner. You had better come dance!"
Leon looked up at his friend, eyebrows furrowed.
"You know I simply detest it, unless I am acquainted with my dance partner. At such an assembly it would be insufferable. Your sisters are engaged, and there is not another woman in the room whom it would not be a punishment to me to stand up with."
"I am not so fastidious as you, Oswald! Upon my honor, I have never met with so many pleasurable women in my life as I have this evening, and there are several of them that are so uncommonly pretty."
"You are dancing with the only beautiful woman here," said Leon, gesturing towards the eldest Naegino sister, Layla. Yuri colored.
"She is the most gorgeous being I have ever laid eyes on as of yet. But there is one more sister seated right behind you, who is striking might I add, and very agreeable. Might I introduce you to her?"
"Which do you mean?" Leon look over his shoulder and saw Sora, catching her eye, then coldly looked away from her and back to Yuri.
"She is tolerable, but not nearly appealing enough to tempt me; and you had better get back to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you a certainly wasting you efforts on me."
Yuri did as he said and left him standing there. Leon then walked away, leaving Sora in a look of awe.
'Little mean man say what? How dare he?!'
Sora had her own impression of him now. She then however, told her friends the story with great spirit; for she had a playful, lively disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.
The evening went on from there delightfully for the whole family. Midori was overjoyed to see her eldest daughter being the object of Mr. Killian's dance the whole night. The Killian family had enjoyed Layla's presence immensely. Sora felt Layla's pleasures. Anna had mentioned herself to Ruth Killian as the most accomplished girl in the neighborhood; and Rosetta and Mia had been fortunate enough to not be without partners all night.
The women all returned home, speaking and giggling loudly so Mr. Naegino knew they had all arrived. Tsuyoshi was up, reading a book no less. The wife walked into the study and spoke of the events that took place. She spoke of Killian with such respect, but the subject of him was quickly dismissed and instead a conversation based solely on Mr. Oswald took place.
"But I can assure you," she added, "that Sora does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is the most unpleasant, impertinent man, not at all worthy of pleasing. So high and might that there was no tolerating him! He walked here and there, fancying himself above anything and everything! Not handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been there, my dear, to give him a good talking to. I quite detest the man."
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That's it for now. I think that this might be a quite confusing read, seeing as the vocabulary may be quite intense. I took and paraphrased directly from the book, and took out most of the Brit-speak, so it should be easier to read. Please tell me if anything confuses you! Leon is such a cold bastard but you have to love him. He and Fitzwilliam Darcy are quite alike, and so is Sora and Elizabeth Bennet. You should really look into the original character's personality and find comparisons. Well, I recommend reading the 334 page book, (unless you are reading one of the original copies, it might be longer. I'm reading a soft cover, recently issued version) not only so you can understand my story but enjoy to joys of reading the most superb comedy/romance book of British history! Ja ne!
Oh, and I'm taking a Japanese class! I'm so happy! Go to my page and see the quiz for something fun (I thought that if you got bored and wanted to pass time, you should take it!