Shoujo Kakumei Utena Otakufic
Episode 8 - "Mirror Image"
by Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: An afternoon at Ohtori Academy. The sky is littered with swelled gray storm clouds about to burst. An elevator can be seen rising to the top of a building with a certain red-haired bishonen inside.
Touga: If it cannot hatch from its shell, the chick will die without being born. [Juri appears] We are the chick, the world is our egg. [Miki appears] If we don't smash the world's shell, we will die without ever truly being born. [Samantha and Sarah appear] Smash the world's shell. [Rio and Scott appear]
Everyone: [doors open] For the sake of Revolutionizing the World!
Scott: Damn, it was crowded in there.
Scene: The balcony where the Student Council usually meets. Large drifts of snow cover the area and a small, man-made "lake" sits off to one side which acts like a miniature skating rink.
Touga: I assume that you've all received your letters from "Ends of the World."
Everyone: [nods heads in agreement]
Sarah: [busily sculpting a snow-Mamoru] The next duel is scheduled to take place tomorrow, but the challenger still remains unknown.
Juri: [skating perfect figure 8's in the ice] Yes, and the fact that it may be one of these new Duelists isn't exactly comforting, either.
Miki: But Juri-san, we don't know if their intentions are hostile or not. [clicks stopwatch]
Rio: [offended] I should say they're not! After all, I happen to be one of them.
Scott: So am I. Believe me, we have no ulterior motives to worry yourself about. At least I know I don't. [looks pointedly at Samantha]
Samantha: What are you glaring at me for? I've been a member longer than the two of you have and I haven't wreaked any major havoc.
Juri: Be that as it may, we still don't have any reason to trust you.
Miki: We're all on the same side, though, aren't we?
Rio: We might be. Maybe "Ends of the World" has gotten tired of your incompetence in failing to defeat Tenjou Utena.
Touga: That's an interesting theory considering everyone here has lost to her, including you.
Sarah: We'll just have to wait and see, won't we?
Scene: The Student Council meeting has ended, resolving nothing. As Sarah, Samantha, Rio, and Scott exit the elevator, Jessica meets up with them.
Jessica: Hey, guys. What were you all up to?
Rio: Just another Student Council meeting.
Jessica: Oh. What about?
Samantha: [quickly] Student Council stuff. Very hush hush.
Jessica: Sounds like fun, how do I join?
Scott: First of all, it's not fun--[Rio whacks him upside the head] Ow, how the hell do I keep getting hit around here?
Rio: [to Jessica] Don't listen to him, he's a baka. Anyway, of course it's fun. In fact, if I pulled a few strings, I bet I could get you on the Student Council, too.
Scott, Samantha, and Sarah: [facefault]
Sarah: [sarcastically] You've got to be kidding. Are your connections really that good?
Rio: Better than you'd think. [to Jessica] So, what do you say?
Jessica: Sure, why not? Beats waiting around here for you guys all the time. Well, see ya later! [runs off]
Rio: [grins] Looks like I'd best go looking for those "connections" of mine. [leaves]
Scott: [flatly] We are officially screwed.
Samantha: [just stands there as a crack of thunder ricochets across the sky and the downpour begins]
Sarah: [to Samantha] Y'know, you could have waited until we were actually under some shelter.
Samantha: Eh, bite me.
Scene: A random wall in Ohtori Academy. Shadow girls A-ko and B-ko are busy gossiping about whatever crosses their mind.
A-ko: [with an umbrella] How beautiful everything is after a summer shower!
B-ko: Yes, and if you look closely, you can see your reflection in the puddles of water!
A-ko: They say a mirror of any kind is a window to your true self!
B-ko: Even if the reflection is all distorted?
A-ko: Especially in that case!
B-ko: Oh brave hero, what will you find in your reflection?
Scene: The ruins of Nemuro Memorial Hall at night. Jessica and Wakaba are standing around waiting for someone.
Jessica: [looks up at the crumbling building] So, this is Nemuro Memorial Hall...looks like a piece of crap.
Wakaba: [laughs] Yeah, that's what I thought the first time I saw it, too. I wonder what happened to it.
Rio: [suddenly appears in the way anime characters do when they want to seem stealthy] Ages ago, Professor Nemuro set fire to it with all of his students trapped inside. They were researching a way to capture eternity.
Wakaba: Eternity?
Rio: Nemuro-san would have succeeded, but his heart was weak; he couldn't see his true reflection.
Jessica: Charming, but how does that little anecdote apply to us?
Rio: Oh, it doesn't apply to both of you...just you, Jessica-san. You too can capture eternity if you can see your reflection.
Jessica: What are you babbling about? [suspiciously] Are you high or something? 'Cause if you are, I want whatever it is that you're on!
Rio: [chuckles] No, I just have someone I want you to meet. He can show you your true self. [the low rumble of a car engine is heard in the distance] If your soul truly hasn't given up...then you should be able to hear this sound...running about the "Ends of the World."
Wakaba: [listening] W-What is that?! It's deafening!
Rio: [hair ruffles dramatically in the breeze] Then, come journey with us to the world which you desire! [Akio-Car pulls up]
Wakaba: Akio-san...[follows Jessica to the car]
Rio: [holds up her hand] Now wait a second, Shinohara-san...aren't you forgetting? A date is something that two people do by themselves. Weren't those your words?
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: The Akio-Car. Akio drives while Jessica sits in the backseat.
Jessica: ...Rio-san said something about "capturing eternity" back there. And that you could show me my reflection. [Akio remains silent] Why don't you say something?
Akio: I will show the "Ends of the World" to you, yes, even you. [Akio flips over the windshield and sits on the hood of the car. The Akio-Car drives itself and occupants to "The Ends of the World" presumably]
Scene: Utena, Anshi and Samantha's room in the Chairman's wing that same night. Utena examines a package sent to her from an unmarked address. She lifts the lid from the box only to discover it's filled with roses.
Samantha: [looks up from her book] Well, looks like someone's popular, ne?
Utena: [sifting through the roses, Utena finds a small mirror at the bottom] Haha, but why would there be a mirror in here? [pricks her finger on the sharp edge of a card] Oh no, not another one of these...
Card: [outside] Tenjou Utena [inside] To the One Engaged: I shall wait for you at the Duel Arena tomorrow night.
Utena: Sheesh, why can't they just leave Himemiya alone?
Samantha: [notices her absence] Speaking of which, where is Himemiya-san anyway?
Utena: I'm not sure. But then again she's usually late on the nights she sees her brother.
Samantha: [delicately} Uh...right...
Scene: The gate to the Arena of Duels. Utena steps into the gondola and joins Anshi at the dueling platform.
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 the usual Akio-Car silhouette is seen. The headlights turn on suddenly and Jessica and Wakaba step from the vehicle. Jessica is clad in Wakaba's old Black Rose Duelist uniform complete with Kurobara no Kokuin and Wakaba wears a pale yellow Rose Bride dress.
Utena: [disbelieving] Wakaba...what are you doing here?
Jessica: I swear by this Black Rose that I will win this duel and bring death to the Rose--[whacked upside the head by Wakaba]
Wakaba: Wrong speech, baka.
Jessica: [remembers] That's right! For the sake of grasping eternity and being able to kill Josh forever, I swear I will defeat you, Tenjou Utena! Now, draw your sword! [Wakaba acts as Jessica's Rose Bride and withdraws the spirit sword from her chest...except she kind of screws it up. Instead of a sword, a motorcycle, evidently belonging to Mr. Melsha, sans Mr. Melsha, comes out]
Wakaba: [confused] Nani? What in the world do you have a spirit motorcycle for? Okay, once more. [Wakaba discards the motorcycle, which "accidentally" lands on a nearby Josh, caving in his cranium. This time Wakaba gets it right and Jessica's spirit sword appears]
Utena: [sweatdrops]
Anshi: [chanting] O Roses of noble sentiment, I beseech thee: reveal to us now...
Utena and Anshi: [in unison] ...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 the Seitokai balcony. "Earth as a Character Gallery" plays in the background]
Twin relationships are the capricious, heartless lies of desires
Propagating endlessly in the interval between two mirrors.
Ah, man does not exist.
Ah, within the darkness.
Ah, the sound of the waves.
Even light casts shadows, making a pair out of me and me
Isolation outbreak that's the reason
Making a pair out of me and me
Twins
Twins-in-law
Scheming twins
Absent twins
Since we see the invisible
The contrived world rises to the surface
Amusement apparatus and optical illusions
The contrived world rises to the surface
Earth is a contrivance of personalities
Earth is a toy box of personalities
Earth is a department store of personalities
Earth is an exhibition of personalities
Earth is a museum of personalities
Earth is a curio box of personalities
Earth is...
Sean: Damn it, someone already killed him!
Scott: That was quick.
Sarah: Nah, he had it coming.
[Utena disables Jessica 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 Jessica's rose in a flurry of petals. Bells ring signaling the end of the duel. Jessica falls unconscious as several more lights on the castle burn out.]
Scene: The Akio-Car. Akio drives while Samantha sits in the passenger seat.
Samantha: Seems to me that you're regressing back into the Black Rose plot again. Even I was startled to see that Kurobara no Kokuin.
Akio: Well, that's it. It just seems that way to you. It isn't really that way.
Samantha: But then nothing is what it seems here.
Akio: You're right. Are you disappointed?
Samantha: Not at all.
Preview of Next Episode
Utena: Poor Tsuwabuki-kun! He's been so depressed since Nanami-kun "dumped" him.
Anshi: Who will schedule her appointments for her now?
Samantha: [coughs] Well, she's found someone new, but only time will tell how long he puts up with her crap.
Utena: Next time on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "So Alike, Yet So Different!"
Anshi: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Samantha: [holds up a little sign that reads "The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse."]
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: Okay, I'm sure lots of people are wondering who the hell Mr. Melsha is, ne? To put it simply, he's one of the math teachers at our high school and...well...most of the female population of Roosevelt (keep in ind I am *not* part of this demographic) wants to jump his bones. ^^ Gomen, I know that's kind of crude, but frankly that's the best way I could put it! As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are greatly appreciated!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com
Episode 8 - "Mirror Image"
by Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: An afternoon at Ohtori Academy. The sky is littered with swelled gray storm clouds about to burst. An elevator can be seen rising to the top of a building with a certain red-haired bishonen inside.
Touga: If it cannot hatch from its shell, the chick will die without being born. [Juri appears] We are the chick, the world is our egg. [Miki appears] If we don't smash the world's shell, we will die without ever truly being born. [Samantha and Sarah appear] Smash the world's shell. [Rio and Scott appear]
Everyone: [doors open] For the sake of Revolutionizing the World!
Scott: Damn, it was crowded in there.
Scene: The balcony where the Student Council usually meets. Large drifts of snow cover the area and a small, man-made "lake" sits off to one side which acts like a miniature skating rink.
Touga: I assume that you've all received your letters from "Ends of the World."
Everyone: [nods heads in agreement]
Sarah: [busily sculpting a snow-Mamoru] The next duel is scheduled to take place tomorrow, but the challenger still remains unknown.
Juri: [skating perfect figure 8's in the ice] Yes, and the fact that it may be one of these new Duelists isn't exactly comforting, either.
Miki: But Juri-san, we don't know if their intentions are hostile or not. [clicks stopwatch]
Rio: [offended] I should say they're not! After all, I happen to be one of them.
Scott: So am I. Believe me, we have no ulterior motives to worry yourself about. At least I know I don't. [looks pointedly at Samantha]
Samantha: What are you glaring at me for? I've been a member longer than the two of you have and I haven't wreaked any major havoc.
Juri: Be that as it may, we still don't have any reason to trust you.
Miki: We're all on the same side, though, aren't we?
Rio: We might be. Maybe "Ends of the World" has gotten tired of your incompetence in failing to defeat Tenjou Utena.
Touga: That's an interesting theory considering everyone here has lost to her, including you.
Sarah: We'll just have to wait and see, won't we?
Scene: The Student Council meeting has ended, resolving nothing. As Sarah, Samantha, Rio, and Scott exit the elevator, Jessica meets up with them.
Jessica: Hey, guys. What were you all up to?
Rio: Just another Student Council meeting.
Jessica: Oh. What about?
Samantha: [quickly] Student Council stuff. Very hush hush.
Jessica: Sounds like fun, how do I join?
Scott: First of all, it's not fun--[Rio whacks him upside the head] Ow, how the hell do I keep getting hit around here?
Rio: [to Jessica] Don't listen to him, he's a baka. Anyway, of course it's fun. In fact, if I pulled a few strings, I bet I could get you on the Student Council, too.
Scott, Samantha, and Sarah: [facefault]
Sarah: [sarcastically] You've got to be kidding. Are your connections really that good?
Rio: Better than you'd think. [to Jessica] So, what do you say?
Jessica: Sure, why not? Beats waiting around here for you guys all the time. Well, see ya later! [runs off]
Rio: [grins] Looks like I'd best go looking for those "connections" of mine. [leaves]
Scott: [flatly] We are officially screwed.
Samantha: [just stands there as a crack of thunder ricochets across the sky and the downpour begins]
Sarah: [to Samantha] Y'know, you could have waited until we were actually under some shelter.
Samantha: Eh, bite me.
Scene: A random wall in Ohtori Academy. Shadow girls A-ko and B-ko are busy gossiping about whatever crosses their mind.
A-ko: [with an umbrella] How beautiful everything is after a summer shower!
B-ko: Yes, and if you look closely, you can see your reflection in the puddles of water!
A-ko: They say a mirror of any kind is a window to your true self!
B-ko: Even if the reflection is all distorted?
A-ko: Especially in that case!
B-ko: Oh brave hero, what will you find in your reflection?
Scene: The ruins of Nemuro Memorial Hall at night. Jessica and Wakaba are standing around waiting for someone.
Jessica: [looks up at the crumbling building] So, this is Nemuro Memorial Hall...looks like a piece of crap.
Wakaba: [laughs] Yeah, that's what I thought the first time I saw it, too. I wonder what happened to it.
Rio: [suddenly appears in the way anime characters do when they want to seem stealthy] Ages ago, Professor Nemuro set fire to it with all of his students trapped inside. They were researching a way to capture eternity.
Wakaba: Eternity?
Rio: Nemuro-san would have succeeded, but his heart was weak; he couldn't see his true reflection.
Jessica: Charming, but how does that little anecdote apply to us?
Rio: Oh, it doesn't apply to both of you...just you, Jessica-san. You too can capture eternity if you can see your reflection.
Jessica: What are you babbling about? [suspiciously] Are you high or something? 'Cause if you are, I want whatever it is that you're on!
Rio: [chuckles] No, I just have someone I want you to meet. He can show you your true self. [the low rumble of a car engine is heard in the distance] If your soul truly hasn't given up...then you should be able to hear this sound...running about the "Ends of the World."
Wakaba: [listening] W-What is that?! It's deafening!
Rio: [hair ruffles dramatically in the breeze] Then, come journey with us to the world which you desire! [Akio-Car pulls up]
Wakaba: Akio-san...[follows Jessica to the car]
Rio: [holds up her hand] Now wait a second, Shinohara-san...aren't you forgetting? A date is something that two people do by themselves. Weren't those your words?
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: The Akio-Car. Akio drives while Jessica sits in the backseat.
Jessica: ...Rio-san said something about "capturing eternity" back there. And that you could show me my reflection. [Akio remains silent] Why don't you say something?
Akio: I will show the "Ends of the World" to you, yes, even you. [Akio flips over the windshield and sits on the hood of the car. The Akio-Car drives itself and occupants to "The Ends of the World" presumably]
Scene: Utena, Anshi and Samantha's room in the Chairman's wing that same night. Utena examines a package sent to her from an unmarked address. She lifts the lid from the box only to discover it's filled with roses.
Samantha: [looks up from her book] Well, looks like someone's popular, ne?
Utena: [sifting through the roses, Utena finds a small mirror at the bottom] Haha, but why would there be a mirror in here? [pricks her finger on the sharp edge of a card] Oh no, not another one of these...
Card: [outside] Tenjou Utena [inside] To the One Engaged: I shall wait for you at the Duel Arena tomorrow night.
Utena: Sheesh, why can't they just leave Himemiya alone?
Samantha: [notices her absence] Speaking of which, where is Himemiya-san anyway?
Utena: I'm not sure. But then again she's usually late on the nights she sees her brother.
Samantha: [delicately} Uh...right...
Scene: The gate to the Arena of Duels. Utena steps into the gondola and joins Anshi at the dueling platform.
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 the usual Akio-Car silhouette is seen. The headlights turn on suddenly and Jessica and Wakaba step from the vehicle. Jessica is clad in Wakaba's old Black Rose Duelist uniform complete with Kurobara no Kokuin and Wakaba wears a pale yellow Rose Bride dress.
Utena: [disbelieving] Wakaba...what are you doing here?
Jessica: I swear by this Black Rose that I will win this duel and bring death to the Rose--[whacked upside the head by Wakaba]
Wakaba: Wrong speech, baka.
Jessica: [remembers] That's right! For the sake of grasping eternity and being able to kill Josh forever, I swear I will defeat you, Tenjou Utena! Now, draw your sword! [Wakaba acts as Jessica's Rose Bride and withdraws the spirit sword from her chest...except she kind of screws it up. Instead of a sword, a motorcycle, evidently belonging to Mr. Melsha, sans Mr. Melsha, comes out]
Wakaba: [confused] Nani? What in the world do you have a spirit motorcycle for? Okay, once more. [Wakaba discards the motorcycle, which "accidentally" lands on a nearby Josh, caving in his cranium. This time Wakaba gets it right and Jessica's spirit sword appears]
Utena: [sweatdrops]
Anshi: [chanting] O Roses of noble sentiment, I beseech thee: reveal to us now...
Utena and Anshi: [in unison] ...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 the Seitokai balcony. "Earth as a Character Gallery" plays in the background]
Twin relationships are the capricious, heartless lies of desires
Propagating endlessly in the interval between two mirrors.
Ah, man does not exist.
Ah, within the darkness.
Ah, the sound of the waves.
Even light casts shadows, making a pair out of me and me
Isolation outbreak that's the reason
Making a pair out of me and me
Twins
Twins-in-law
Scheming twins
Absent twins
Since we see the invisible
The contrived world rises to the surface
Amusement apparatus and optical illusions
The contrived world rises to the surface
Earth is a contrivance of personalities
Earth is a toy box of personalities
Earth is a department store of personalities
Earth is an exhibition of personalities
Earth is a museum of personalities
Earth is a curio box of personalities
Earth is...
Sean: Damn it, someone already killed him!
Scott: That was quick.
Sarah: Nah, he had it coming.
[Utena disables Jessica 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 Jessica's rose in a flurry of petals. Bells ring signaling the end of the duel. Jessica falls unconscious as several more lights on the castle burn out.]
Scene: The Akio-Car. Akio drives while Samantha sits in the passenger seat.
Samantha: Seems to me that you're regressing back into the Black Rose plot again. Even I was startled to see that Kurobara no Kokuin.
Akio: Well, that's it. It just seems that way to you. It isn't really that way.
Samantha: But then nothing is what it seems here.
Akio: You're right. Are you disappointed?
Samantha: Not at all.
Preview of Next Episode
Utena: Poor Tsuwabuki-kun! He's been so depressed since Nanami-kun "dumped" him.
Anshi: Who will schedule her appointments for her now?
Samantha: [coughs] Well, she's found someone new, but only time will tell how long he puts up with her crap.
Utena: Next time on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "So Alike, Yet So Different!"
Anshi: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Samantha: [holds up a little sign that reads "The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse."]
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: Okay, I'm sure lots of people are wondering who the hell Mr. Melsha is, ne? To put it simply, he's one of the math teachers at our high school and...well...most of the female population of Roosevelt (keep in ind I am *not* part of this demographic) wants to jump his bones. ^^ Gomen, I know that's kind of crude, but frankly that's the best way I could put it! As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are greatly appreciated!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com