Shoujo Kakumei Utena Otakufic
Episode 6 - "Rio Grand!"
by Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: The next afternoon at Ohtori Academy. Scott, Samantha, Sarah, Jessica, Sean, Rio, and Josh are sitting upon one of Ohtori's *many* grassy knolls eating lunch.
Sarah: [sipping her green tea] So, who'd you guys get for roommates?
Rio: Well, I'm boarding with you Sarah. What about you, Sean?
Sean: [glaring] Let's just say I'm pretty sure God hates me.
Josh: You? What about me? I'm not exactly thrilled to have you as a roommate either.
Samantha: I'm sure it can't be that bad...
Scott: Yeah, even if it is, at least you're not stuck with the psychotic captain of the kendo club.
Samantha: [falls over laughing] I still can't believe you got Saionji! That's priceless, it truly is. So tell me, is the room plastered with pictures of Anshi?
Scott: [sarcastically] Gee, you're so sympathetic to my plight. Anyway, if Anshi is the chick with the purple hair and glasses, then yes.
Sarah: [stifles a laugh] The Dean works in mysterious ways, huh?
Rio: [evil grin] And you would know?
All: [sweatdrop]
Jessica: Well, my roommate seems pretty normal. Anybody know Shinohara Wakaba?
Samantha: [facefaults] That bouncing ball of glomping genki-ness? You've been here way too long, Jess.
Jessica: So? Who's your roommate, then?
Samantha: [thinks for a moment] Sore wa himitsu desu.
Sean: I don't care if we are in an anime, we can't understand you! Speak English!
Samantha: Oh all right, you spoilsport. [hesitantly] Tenjou Utena and Himemiya Anshi...
Sarah: Hah, you got the haunted dorm!
Samantha: [miserably] It isn't the dorm, baka...
Sarah: Then...[it dawns on her] Oh...my...God.
Rio: Why? Where are you staying?
Samantha: Y'know that big tower in the middle of the campus...? God, I really, really hope I don't walk in my sleep.
Sarah: [wonders aloud] I don't know if I should be angry or relieved.
Sean: You're staying in the Chairman's wing? Wish I were that lucky.
Scott: Oog, and I thought I had problems with Saionji. [to Sean] Trust me, she's the farthest thing from lucky.
Rio: Obviously I have no idea what you mean. What's wrong with staying in the Chairman's wing?
Sarah: Well, Ohtori-san is sorta like a politician, he just can't be trusted. He may promise to show you the "Ends of the World," but anything he says should be treated like a lie.
Josh: Has anyone else noticed anything strange around here? Just this morning I saw a herd of elephants chasing some blonde girl.
Samantha: Ah yes, Kiryuu Nanami, bane of the animal kingdom. Here in Ohtori, that's a normal occurrence.
Scott: Damn white leather elephants. * [just then, a guy clad in a black leather jacket goes running by with a large copper pot on his head while being chased by a group of hovering, persistent swords]
Everyone: [blinks]
Rio: There's something in the water, isn't there? How else could you rationally explain that?
Samantha: [coughs] Rule number 2 while stuck in "Utena" continuity: This is "Utena." It defies every law with its very existence.
Jessica: But...but come on! That guy didn't even look like an "Utena" character!
Samantha: True. I guess we're stuck in the screwed-up-author-continuity. According to my calculations, if you look up into the sky right about now, you should see some random person flying across it.
Everyone: [gazes up into the sky for a few minutes, but see nothing]
Sean: I still don't see any--[the shattering of glass and a scream is heard. Moments later, a figure is sent flying across the sky] Okay...never mind.
Samantha: [peers into binoculars pulled from binocular-space] Uh-oh...straightjacket, red hair...poor Becka. **
Sarah: Who?
Samantha: An "Utena" web page author. Apparently, her co-author, Ka-chan, was having a little too much fun with her mallet.
Everyone: [hears the shattering of glass once again, followed by a blood curdling scream from Becka. The sound comes from the direction of the tower]
Samantha: ...eep. Poor, poor Becka.
Everyone: [winces]
Rio: I'll see ya'll later, I've got an appointment. [stands to leave]
Jessica: Where're you going?
Scott: It isn't Nemuro Memorial Hall is it?
Rio: Nemu--what? No, I need to work out the kinks in my schedule is all. [leaves]
Scene: The Chairman's wing. After a rough day of classes, Samantha returns to her "dorm" of sorts exhausted. She crosses the planetarium, albeit very, very quickly, to the room she shares with Utena and Anshi.
Rio: Hey, Samantha-san.
Samantha: [looks up and notices Rio] Oh, hi Rio-san. What are you doing he--
Akio: [smiles pleasantly] Good afternoon.
Samantha: [notices Akio sitting on the white leather couch across from Rio] Ah, of course. Gee, seems I had a prior engagement...excuse me. **Why the hell do I bother asking questions I already know the answers to?** [starts to leave]
Akio: Something the matter? Jealous perhaps?
Samantha: [an anime-style chibi vein pops out on her forehead] Don't be conceited. [leaves]
Scene: The strange bird-cage shaped Rose Garden. Utena and Anshi are tending to the roses.
Samantha: [observing the roses when she notices an oddly colored one out of the corner of her eye] Ne, Himemiya-san? What did you use to get this rose to grow such a dark blue?
Anshi: That's rather odd, I wasn't aware that there were any such flowers.
Utena: Could be a bad omen. [touches the rose's petals and a card addressed to her falls from the branches below] What's this?
Card: [on the outside] Tenjou Utena [on the inside] To the One Engaged: I shall wait for you at the Duel Arena this evening.
Anshi: It appears you were right, Utena-sama.
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: A random wall in Ohtori Academy. Two shadow girls, A-ko and B-ko, are gossiping about Dios knows what.
A-ko: I wonder, I wonder, do you know what I wonder?
Scott: Aha! Caught you! Steal my Project Mirage manga ***, will you?! [shines a flashlight at the shadow girls, causing them to scream and melt away] [muttering] Damn white leather shadow girls...
C-ko: [pops out of nowhere] You know, you can't keep running away from your problems...or in this case, blinding them!
Scott: [Akito-like voice] Damn it!
Scene: The gate to the Arena of Duels. Utena steps into the gondola and joins Anthy at the dueling platform "Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku" plays in the background..
Song: The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
My own birth, Absolute birth, Apocalypse
A wet-nurse and a midwife in a dark desert
A gold-gilded Shangri-La
Day and night reversing
A time-gilded Lost Paradise
Darkness over Sodom
Darkness ever glowing
Darkness over yonder
Darkness never ending
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalyptic Darkness Apocalypse
mokushi kushimo
himoku kumoshi
moshiku shikumo
mokushi kushimo
shimoku kumoshi
moshiku shikumo
Scene: The dueling platform. Utena and Anshi (in full Rose Bride attire) appear in a whirlwind of rose petals. The inverted floating castle above them rotates contently. The entrance to the stairwell separates and instead of a waiting Akio-Car, the silhouette of a motorcycle is seen with two passengers. The headlight turns on suddenly.
Utena: [shielding her eyes] Dare?!
Rio: [clad in a white Duelist's uniform with dark blue and silver accents with a matching rose in her breast pocket. Her hair is a deep blue-black with thin strands of silver] For the sake of grasping eternity and bringing the Revolution, I swear I will defeat you, Tenjou Utena! Now, draw your sword! [the other passenger of the motorcycle, Akio, acts as Rio's Rose Bride and withdraws the spirit sword from her chest]
Anshi: [chanting] O Roses of noble memory, I implore you. Reveal thyselves...
Utena and Anshi: [in unison] Grant me the Power to Revolutionize the World! [Anshi pulls the Sword of Dios from Utena's chest while Akio-Cars pop out from the floor of the Arena and one drives itself around the edge of the platform. A group of several people observe the duel from some random balcony. "The Angel Androgynous" plays in the background]
Pentagram shape
Pleasure
Mandala
Reproduction axis
Ideals and reality
Male and female
Dignity; chastity
A double submission of passion; lusterous waves
A prototype of antiquity connected with me
Seraphitus
A couple equipped with both sexes
Seraphita
Paradise mechanism
Model
Mosaic
A doubling dream
Odd numbers and even numbers
Light and darkness
Sean: Damn it, move over! I can't see a thing!
Josh: Then grow taller!
Sarah: Both of you be quiet before I knock yo' asses off the ledge!
Scott: [sweatdrops]
Samantha: Yare yare...
Individuals or multitudes?
Words or things?
Such doubt is beside symbol,
The Dioskuroi
All Creation, both sexes, chaos
Anima, animus
I hasten my spiritual completion
Namely, to rediscover the interior of my ego
Right and left, the two of me
Angels, all Creation, man and woman, both sexes
A pair of heads; a pair of bodies
An internal pair; an external pair
A pair of sexes; a private pair
A pair before; a pair behind
[Utena succeeds in disabling Rio of her sword. The headlights of all the many Akio-Cars flicker on and join to become one light, stretching up the castle. The spirit of Dios descends and lends his power to Utena who promptly slices off Rio's rose in a flurry of petals.]
In this world, I am a solitary duo
In this world, I am alone with myself
In this world, there are but two of me
Two of me
Of me, two
Me: two of
Two of me In this world, I am androgynous
Ahhh...
Ahhh...
Ahhh...
Ahhh...
Hermaphrodism!
[bells ring signaling the end of the duel. Rio collapses on the floor of the arena as several lights on the castle fizzle out.]
Jessica: [walks up with a bag of popcorn] Hey, did I miss anything?
Scott: [disbelieving] You went to get popcorn? In the middle of a duel? Are you nuts?
Jessica: Well, if you were listening, I said I went to get popcorn, not nuts.
Samantha: [confused] Um, never mind. Utena-san won, as usual.
Sean: Maybe if some people would actually stop crowding the balcony, then maybe I would know what happened!
Josh: [ignores him ] Too bad, so sad.
Sarah: [annoyed] All right, that's it...[goes to push them off the edge when the strange leather-jacket-clad man goes running by, still being chased by swords. In his panic (seeing as how he has no head gear to protect himself with) he unwittingly uses Josh as a shield, impaling him. The man dashes off to find something for self-defense]
Everyone: [blinks]
Scott: Oh my God, they killed Perry!
Samantha: ...and?
Scott: [shrugs]
Scene: Back at the dueling platform, Rio falls unconscious and several of the lights on the castle burn out. At another balcony, Touga and Akio sit discussing what happened.
Touga: Though she was strong, only a loved one could properly harness her spirit sword. It must not have been you.
Akio: [calmly] Patience, Seitokaichou, I've only just begun to move my pieces. [toys with a pawn on a chessboard]
Preview of Next Episode
Utena: After Akio-san's appearance at the duel, I wonder if he knows about everything including the Bara no Hanayome.
Samantha: Hmm, shouldn't you be concerned with the matters of these new Duelists?
Utena: Wha--oh, of course! I was just about to say that!
Samantha: Uh-huh, sure you were.
Utena: Next time, on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "Eternity's Mirage."
Anshi: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: * - This is just a weird inside joke of Scott's that came to be through his annoyance with Akio-Cars and their "damn white leather interior."
** - Becka and Ka-chan are the web page authors of "Blood Soaked and Honor Bound." The dude with the copper pot on his head is also one of the Utena obsessed.
*** - For a while, this *was* an original manga that Scott was drawing featuring an adolescent Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog crossed over with Gundam Wing.
By the way, domo arigatou to everyone who gave me such nice reviews! ^_^ I really appreciate all your kind words!
As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are welcome!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com
Episode 6 - "Rio Grand!"
by Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: The next afternoon at Ohtori Academy. Scott, Samantha, Sarah, Jessica, Sean, Rio, and Josh are sitting upon one of Ohtori's *many* grassy knolls eating lunch.
Sarah: [sipping her green tea] So, who'd you guys get for roommates?
Rio: Well, I'm boarding with you Sarah. What about you, Sean?
Sean: [glaring] Let's just say I'm pretty sure God hates me.
Josh: You? What about me? I'm not exactly thrilled to have you as a roommate either.
Samantha: I'm sure it can't be that bad...
Scott: Yeah, even if it is, at least you're not stuck with the psychotic captain of the kendo club.
Samantha: [falls over laughing] I still can't believe you got Saionji! That's priceless, it truly is. So tell me, is the room plastered with pictures of Anshi?
Scott: [sarcastically] Gee, you're so sympathetic to my plight. Anyway, if Anshi is the chick with the purple hair and glasses, then yes.
Sarah: [stifles a laugh] The Dean works in mysterious ways, huh?
Rio: [evil grin] And you would know?
All: [sweatdrop]
Jessica: Well, my roommate seems pretty normal. Anybody know Shinohara Wakaba?
Samantha: [facefaults] That bouncing ball of glomping genki-ness? You've been here way too long, Jess.
Jessica: So? Who's your roommate, then?
Samantha: [thinks for a moment] Sore wa himitsu desu.
Sean: I don't care if we are in an anime, we can't understand you! Speak English!
Samantha: Oh all right, you spoilsport. [hesitantly] Tenjou Utena and Himemiya Anshi...
Sarah: Hah, you got the haunted dorm!
Samantha: [miserably] It isn't the dorm, baka...
Sarah: Then...[it dawns on her] Oh...my...God.
Rio: Why? Where are you staying?
Samantha: Y'know that big tower in the middle of the campus...? God, I really, really hope I don't walk in my sleep.
Sarah: [wonders aloud] I don't know if I should be angry or relieved.
Sean: You're staying in the Chairman's wing? Wish I were that lucky.
Scott: Oog, and I thought I had problems with Saionji. [to Sean] Trust me, she's the farthest thing from lucky.
Rio: Obviously I have no idea what you mean. What's wrong with staying in the Chairman's wing?
Sarah: Well, Ohtori-san is sorta like a politician, he just can't be trusted. He may promise to show you the "Ends of the World," but anything he says should be treated like a lie.
Josh: Has anyone else noticed anything strange around here? Just this morning I saw a herd of elephants chasing some blonde girl.
Samantha: Ah yes, Kiryuu Nanami, bane of the animal kingdom. Here in Ohtori, that's a normal occurrence.
Scott: Damn white leather elephants. * [just then, a guy clad in a black leather jacket goes running by with a large copper pot on his head while being chased by a group of hovering, persistent swords]
Everyone: [blinks]
Rio: There's something in the water, isn't there? How else could you rationally explain that?
Samantha: [coughs] Rule number 2 while stuck in "Utena" continuity: This is "Utena." It defies every law with its very existence.
Jessica: But...but come on! That guy didn't even look like an "Utena" character!
Samantha: True. I guess we're stuck in the screwed-up-author-continuity. According to my calculations, if you look up into the sky right about now, you should see some random person flying across it.
Everyone: [gazes up into the sky for a few minutes, but see nothing]
Sean: I still don't see any--[the shattering of glass and a scream is heard. Moments later, a figure is sent flying across the sky] Okay...never mind.
Samantha: [peers into binoculars pulled from binocular-space] Uh-oh...straightjacket, red hair...poor Becka. **
Sarah: Who?
Samantha: An "Utena" web page author. Apparently, her co-author, Ka-chan, was having a little too much fun with her mallet.
Everyone: [hears the shattering of glass once again, followed by a blood curdling scream from Becka. The sound comes from the direction of the tower]
Samantha: ...eep. Poor, poor Becka.
Everyone: [winces]
Rio: I'll see ya'll later, I've got an appointment. [stands to leave]
Jessica: Where're you going?
Scott: It isn't Nemuro Memorial Hall is it?
Rio: Nemu--what? No, I need to work out the kinks in my schedule is all. [leaves]
Scene: The Chairman's wing. After a rough day of classes, Samantha returns to her "dorm" of sorts exhausted. She crosses the planetarium, albeit very, very quickly, to the room she shares with Utena and Anshi.
Rio: Hey, Samantha-san.
Samantha: [looks up and notices Rio] Oh, hi Rio-san. What are you doing he--
Akio: [smiles pleasantly] Good afternoon.
Samantha: [notices Akio sitting on the white leather couch across from Rio] Ah, of course. Gee, seems I had a prior engagement...excuse me. **Why the hell do I bother asking questions I already know the answers to?** [starts to leave]
Akio: Something the matter? Jealous perhaps?
Samantha: [an anime-style chibi vein pops out on her forehead] Don't be conceited. [leaves]
Scene: The strange bird-cage shaped Rose Garden. Utena and Anshi are tending to the roses.
Samantha: [observing the roses when she notices an oddly colored one out of the corner of her eye] Ne, Himemiya-san? What did you use to get this rose to grow such a dark blue?
Anshi: That's rather odd, I wasn't aware that there were any such flowers.
Utena: Could be a bad omen. [touches the rose's petals and a card addressed to her falls from the branches below] What's this?
Card: [on the outside] Tenjou Utena [on the inside] To the One Engaged: I shall wait for you at the Duel Arena this evening.
Anshi: It appears you were right, Utena-sama.
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: A random wall in Ohtori Academy. Two shadow girls, A-ko and B-ko, are gossiping about Dios knows what.
A-ko: I wonder, I wonder, do you know what I wonder?
Scott: Aha! Caught you! Steal my Project Mirage manga ***, will you?! [shines a flashlight at the shadow girls, causing them to scream and melt away] [muttering] Damn white leather shadow girls...
C-ko: [pops out of nowhere] You know, you can't keep running away from your problems...or in this case, blinding them!
Scott: [Akito-like voice] Damn it!
Scene: The gate to the Arena of Duels. Utena steps into the gondola and joins Anthy at the dueling platform "Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku" plays in the background..
Song: The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
My own birth, Absolute birth, Apocalypse
A wet-nurse and a midwife in a dark desert
A gold-gilded Shangri-La
Day and night reversing
A time-gilded Lost Paradise
Darkness over Sodom
Darkness ever glowing
Darkness over yonder
Darkness never ending
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse
The Absolute Destiny: Apocalyptic Darkness Apocalypse
mokushi kushimo
himoku kumoshi
moshiku shikumo
mokushi kushimo
shimoku kumoshi
moshiku shikumo
Scene: The dueling platform. Utena and Anshi (in full Rose Bride attire) appear in a whirlwind of rose petals. The inverted floating castle above them rotates contently. The entrance to the stairwell separates and instead of a waiting Akio-Car, the silhouette of a motorcycle is seen with two passengers. The headlight turns on suddenly.
Utena: [shielding her eyes] Dare?!
Rio: [clad in a white Duelist's uniform with dark blue and silver accents with a matching rose in her breast pocket. Her hair is a deep blue-black with thin strands of silver] For the sake of grasping eternity and bringing the Revolution, I swear I will defeat you, Tenjou Utena! Now, draw your sword! [the other passenger of the motorcycle, Akio, acts as Rio's Rose Bride and withdraws the spirit sword from her chest]
Anshi: [chanting] O Roses of noble memory, I implore you. Reveal thyselves...
Utena and Anshi: [in unison] Grant me the Power to Revolutionize the World! [Anshi pulls the Sword of Dios from Utena's chest while Akio-Cars pop out from the floor of the Arena and one drives itself around the edge of the platform. A group of several people observe the duel from some random balcony. "The Angel Androgynous" plays in the background]
Pentagram shape
Pleasure
Mandala
Reproduction axis
Ideals and reality
Male and female
Dignity; chastity
A double submission of passion; lusterous waves
A prototype of antiquity connected with me
Seraphitus
A couple equipped with both sexes
Seraphita
Paradise mechanism
Model
Mosaic
A doubling dream
Odd numbers and even numbers
Light and darkness
Sean: Damn it, move over! I can't see a thing!
Josh: Then grow taller!
Sarah: Both of you be quiet before I knock yo' asses off the ledge!
Scott: [sweatdrops]
Samantha: Yare yare...
Individuals or multitudes?
Words or things?
Such doubt is beside symbol,
The Dioskuroi
All Creation, both sexes, chaos
Anima, animus
I hasten my spiritual completion
Namely, to rediscover the interior of my ego
Right and left, the two of me
Angels, all Creation, man and woman, both sexes
A pair of heads; a pair of bodies
An internal pair; an external pair
A pair of sexes; a private pair
A pair before; a pair behind
[Utena succeeds in disabling Rio of her sword. The headlights of all the many Akio-Cars flicker on and join to become one light, stretching up the castle. The spirit of Dios descends and lends his power to Utena who promptly slices off Rio's rose in a flurry of petals.]
In this world, I am a solitary duo
In this world, I am alone with myself
In this world, there are but two of me
Two of me
Of me, two
Me: two of
Two of me In this world, I am androgynous
Ahhh...
Ahhh...
Ahhh...
Ahhh...
Hermaphrodism!
[bells ring signaling the end of the duel. Rio collapses on the floor of the arena as several lights on the castle fizzle out.]
Jessica: [walks up with a bag of popcorn] Hey, did I miss anything?
Scott: [disbelieving] You went to get popcorn? In the middle of a duel? Are you nuts?
Jessica: Well, if you were listening, I said I went to get popcorn, not nuts.
Samantha: [confused] Um, never mind. Utena-san won, as usual.
Sean: Maybe if some people would actually stop crowding the balcony, then maybe I would know what happened!
Josh: [ignores him ] Too bad, so sad.
Sarah: [annoyed] All right, that's it...[goes to push them off the edge when the strange leather-jacket-clad man goes running by, still being chased by swords. In his panic (seeing as how he has no head gear to protect himself with) he unwittingly uses Josh as a shield, impaling him. The man dashes off to find something for self-defense]
Everyone: [blinks]
Scott: Oh my God, they killed Perry!
Samantha: ...and?
Scott: [shrugs]
Scene: Back at the dueling platform, Rio falls unconscious and several of the lights on the castle burn out. At another balcony, Touga and Akio sit discussing what happened.
Touga: Though she was strong, only a loved one could properly harness her spirit sword. It must not have been you.
Akio: [calmly] Patience, Seitokaichou, I've only just begun to move my pieces. [toys with a pawn on a chessboard]
Preview of Next Episode
Utena: After Akio-san's appearance at the duel, I wonder if he knows about everything including the Bara no Hanayome.
Samantha: Hmm, shouldn't you be concerned with the matters of these new Duelists?
Utena: Wha--oh, of course! I was just about to say that!
Samantha: Uh-huh, sure you were.
Utena: Next time, on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "Eternity's Mirage."
Anshi: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: * - This is just a weird inside joke of Scott's that came to be through his annoyance with Akio-Cars and their "damn white leather interior."
** - Becka and Ka-chan are the web page authors of "Blood Soaked and Honor Bound." The dude with the copper pot on his head is also one of the Utena obsessed.
*** - For a while, this *was* an original manga that Scott was drawing featuring an adolescent Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog crossed over with Gundam Wing.
By the way, domo arigatou to everyone who gave me such nice reviews! ^_^ I really appreciate all your kind words!
As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are welcome!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com