Shoujo Kakumei Utena Otakufic
Episode 9 - "So Alike, Yet So Different!"
bt Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: Kiryuu Nanami and Tsuwabuki Mitsuru are walking through the halls of Ohtori Academy. The latter is, as usual, carrying the belongings of the former and reading from a small scheduling book.
Nanami: Tsuwabuki, what classes do I have this morning?
Mitsuru: Well, let's see...[flips through a few pages] First period you have Music Appreciation where you'll be studying—
Random Man: [shouting] A runaway cow! A cow is on the loose!
Cow: [charges toward Nanami and Mitsuru]
Nanami: Aaahhh! [covers her eyes as the cow heads for her]
Scene: The beautiful open air cafeteria. Nanami, Miki, Utena, and Anshi are seated at one of the tables.
Miki: [thinking] I see...so Tsuwabuki-kun was injured while he protected you. Was he badly hurt? [clicks stopwatch]
Nanami: No, the doctor said it was only a minor concussion. He should be out of the hospital in a few days.
Utena: [sipping her tea] How brave he is for rescuing you.
Nanami: Bravery or not, I'm still out a scheduler.
Anshi: How do you plan to keep your appointments organized then?
Nanami: [smiling] Oh, not to worry, I've found someone new. [Sean is just passing by when Nanami snaps her fingers] Martinez!
**We will now pause for this momentary break while the author attempts to recover from her fit of laughter to crawl back up to the keyboard.**
Sean: [looks at her confused] Umm..what?
Nanami: Will I be needing my easel for Art today?
Sean: [flatly] How should I know? I'm not your manager. [starts to walk off]
Nanami: [offended] How dare you! The Seitokai will not take such insolence lightly! [storms off]
Sean: [glances around the table at Miki, Utena, and Anshi] Do *any* of you know what she's on?
Utena: We've been trying to figure that one out for quite a while now.
Miki: It seems to me that she's still upset over losing Tsuwabuki-kun's services. At this rate, she doesn't really care who assists her.
Sean: Terrific, another insane person to deal with. So what am I supposed to do, sick a pack a crazed elephants on her?
Utena: [laughs] The best thing to do is avoid her, but if that's not possible, try playing along with her, Sean-sempai. If nothing else, then at least you'll get a good laugh.
Scene: Sarah, Samantha, and Scott are aimlessly walking around the Ohtori campus.
Sarah: Say, why *are* we walking around aimlessly?
Samantha: [puzzled] Eh, nani?
Scott: [nods solemnly] Plot contrivance. [suddenly the ground begins to open up beneath the three and a large hole appears]
All: [blink]
Samantha: [annoyed] Nice one, baka, now the fourth wall has a hole in it! Congratu-frickin'-lations.
Sarah: So I guess this would be a...plot hole. I wonder what's on the other side.
Scott: Damn white leather plot holes.
Samantha: [tries to put her hand through it, but it's a flat surface] Huh, there's no depth to it.
Scene: *Another* random wall located somewhere on the Ohtori grounds. Shadow girls A-ko and B-ko are talking to each other.
A-ko: [as a damsel in distress] Eek, a dragon! Won't somebody save me?
B-ko: [as a prince] Fear not, my lady, I will rescue you! [slays the dragon and then falls to the ground]
A-ko: [as a damsel] Oh no, you've been injured! But that's okay, I'll just find another prince!
B-ko: Oh brave hero, though your actions may be valiant...
A-ko: ...in the end what will be *your* reward?
~*Commercal Break*~
Scene: Nanami is walking the halls with her entourage (gee, doesn't *this* sound familiar), Keiko, Aiko, and Yuuko, and Sean who pretends to read from her scheduling book. Sarah, Scott, Jessica, Samantha, and Josh are looking on in awe.
Nanami: ...right, Martinez?
Sean: [trying his hardest to keep a straight face] Yes, Nanami-sama...
Sarah: I don't believe it! Why is he putting up with this?
Scott: [shakes his head] Beats me—
Jessica: [whacks him upside the head]
Samantha: It's dead, Jim. You've killed the joke.
Scott and Jessica: [sweatdrop]
Sarah: I think I'll go have a talk with Kiryuu-san...[starts to leave]
Samantha: Oi oi, wait a minute. I'm sure he has a good reason for what he's doing. I mean, who in their right mind would work for Nanami-kun besides Tsuwabuki?
Tsuwabuki: [appears] Probably no one.
Jessica: [surprised] You're already out of the hospital?
Tsuwabuki: Well, no, but the doctors don't know that yet. I see Nanami-san's replaced me so soon. I suppose I have no choice but to put her in danger and rescue her again. [begins to walk off]
Scott: 'Kay...bye.
Tsuwabuki: Um, you're not going to stop me?
Samantha: [chuckles] Are you kidding? There's nothing we like more than carnage unfolding right before our eyes!
Tsuwabuki: [slowly backs away] Righhhht... [exits]
Josh: Do you really think that was such a good—[is interrupted by a shouting from nearby]
Random Man: [shouting] Runaway bull! A bull's gotten loose! [the bull stampedes through the hall and into Josh's path. He is gored quickly, yet not too cleanly, on its horns. It races on and Tsuwabuki pushes Nanami out of the way and getting into her good graces again. Sean picks up something Nanami dropped, her Rose Signet.]
Scott: Damn, Tsuwabuki works quick.
Jessica: [nods] That's definitely a record. Killed before he even finished his first line. [a hooded specter appears in front of them and the Josh-Corpse]
Matt: Alright, where's the deceased? I need his soul.
Sarah: And you would be...Death?
Matt: Yeah, or call me Cloud, Cloud Strife. Whichever. Now where's this guy's soul? He is dead, right?
Samantha: Well, that's pretty obvious, but...he's kinda been killed multiple times before this. Say, where were you then?
Matt: What do you want? I'm Death. I've got other appointments, y'know. No soul then, huh? Screw this! [disappears in a puff of smoke]
Samantha: [shakes her head] Okay, now this is way too messed up, even for "Utena." See ya'll later.
Sarah: Where are you going?
Samantha: Oh, nowhere...[leaves]
Scene: A *different* hallway in Ohtori, but there are so many God damned hallways they all begin to look alike after awhile. Utena is at her locker.
Utnea: [opens the door to her locker. A *giant* card falls out and bonks her on the head] Ow, damn it, that hurt!
Card: [outside] Tenjou Utena [inside] To the One Engaged: I shall wait for you at the Duel Arena after classes.
Utena: [rubbing her head] I guess the concept of subtlety is beyond these people.
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 Sean steps from the vehicle clad in a dark green Duelist's uniform. Sarah, in a silver Rose Bride dress, acts as his (duh) Rose Bride.
Utena: So, now it's come to you, too, Sean-sempai.
Sean: [in a voice eerily like Nanami's] For the sake of grasping eternity and keeping you away from my Onii-sama, I will defeat you, Tenjou Utena! Now draw your sword!
Samantha: [almost falls from the balcony when she hears "Onii-sama"] The hell? "Onii-sama"?
Scott: [comes to a realization] Oh crap...look at his ring. That's gotta be Nanami's Rose Signet! He must have taken on her personality when he put it on.
Anshi: [chanting] O Roses of noble memory, I beseech thee: appear before me.
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]
Beginning of the earth
Stage props
The Laplace nebula
Spectatorism
Unchanging illusion
Mystery solving clock
Baby carriage of the edge of immortality.
My eternal self and the eternal stranger
Two relations; two births
Scales of mystery; human constellation
Ahhh
Ahhh
Time is hypothetical, an illusional prop of the beginnings of birth.
Destiny, choice, goodbye-ism
You and I are the Milky Way
Having no past, only the present, having no future,
A single person in the Theatre Cosmic.
That's me! Wait! My last evolution, revolution, everlution [Utena disables Sean of his 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 Sean's rose in a flurry of petals. Bells ring signaling the end of the duel. Sean falls unconscious as several more lights on the castle burn out.]
Scene: The balcony where Scott, Samantha, and Jessica have been watching the duel.
Jessica: Utena remains victorious...no surprise there.
Scott: No kidding. Well, at least Sean'll be back to his old self now.
Samantha: [nods and peers out her binoculars] Yes, good thing, too--hey!
Jessica: What is it?
Samantha: Well, I found out where Rio's been today. No wonder we couldn't find her.
Scott: Oh? Where?
Samantha: At this point, do you really have to ask? Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to have a talk with someone...[glares straight ahead and leaves]
Scott and Jessica: [sweatdrop]
Preview of Next Episode [offscreen, a very ticked off Samantha is apparently yelling at someone]
Jessica: Isn't it odd how it seems to be getting progressively darker in the Arena?
Utena: I agree, but I don't have time to worry about such things now.
Scott: Why?
Utena: Because, Sarah-san now wants to challenge me.
Anshi: Oh my!
Utena: Next time on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "Rose of the Fallen Prince."
Anshi: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Scott and Jesssica: [hold up a large banner that reads "The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse"]
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: One of my better episodes, I'll give it that. It's not quite as monotonous as "Mirror Image" was. As for "Death," that's Matt, who eventually showed up in episode 13...still not sure if I should bother posting that. He's like a chibi clone of Cloud Strife, hence the FF7 reference. As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are greatly appreciated!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com
Episode 9 - "So Alike, Yet So Different!"
bt Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: Kiryuu Nanami and Tsuwabuki Mitsuru are walking through the halls of Ohtori Academy. The latter is, as usual, carrying the belongings of the former and reading from a small scheduling book.
Nanami: Tsuwabuki, what classes do I have this morning?
Mitsuru: Well, let's see...[flips through a few pages] First period you have Music Appreciation where you'll be studying—
Random Man: [shouting] A runaway cow! A cow is on the loose!
Cow: [charges toward Nanami and Mitsuru]
Nanami: Aaahhh! [covers her eyes as the cow heads for her]
Scene: The beautiful open air cafeteria. Nanami, Miki, Utena, and Anshi are seated at one of the tables.
Miki: [thinking] I see...so Tsuwabuki-kun was injured while he protected you. Was he badly hurt? [clicks stopwatch]
Nanami: No, the doctor said it was only a minor concussion. He should be out of the hospital in a few days.
Utena: [sipping her tea] How brave he is for rescuing you.
Nanami: Bravery or not, I'm still out a scheduler.
Anshi: How do you plan to keep your appointments organized then?
Nanami: [smiling] Oh, not to worry, I've found someone new. [Sean is just passing by when Nanami snaps her fingers] Martinez!
**We will now pause for this momentary break while the author attempts to recover from her fit of laughter to crawl back up to the keyboard.**
Sean: [looks at her confused] Umm..what?
Nanami: Will I be needing my easel for Art today?
Sean: [flatly] How should I know? I'm not your manager. [starts to walk off]
Nanami: [offended] How dare you! The Seitokai will not take such insolence lightly! [storms off]
Sean: [glances around the table at Miki, Utena, and Anshi] Do *any* of you know what she's on?
Utena: We've been trying to figure that one out for quite a while now.
Miki: It seems to me that she's still upset over losing Tsuwabuki-kun's services. At this rate, she doesn't really care who assists her.
Sean: Terrific, another insane person to deal with. So what am I supposed to do, sick a pack a crazed elephants on her?
Utena: [laughs] The best thing to do is avoid her, but if that's not possible, try playing along with her, Sean-sempai. If nothing else, then at least you'll get a good laugh.
Scene: Sarah, Samantha, and Scott are aimlessly walking around the Ohtori campus.
Sarah: Say, why *are* we walking around aimlessly?
Samantha: [puzzled] Eh, nani?
Scott: [nods solemnly] Plot contrivance. [suddenly the ground begins to open up beneath the three and a large hole appears]
All: [blink]
Samantha: [annoyed] Nice one, baka, now the fourth wall has a hole in it! Congratu-frickin'-lations.
Sarah: So I guess this would be a...plot hole. I wonder what's on the other side.
Scott: Damn white leather plot holes.
Samantha: [tries to put her hand through it, but it's a flat surface] Huh, there's no depth to it.
Scene: *Another* random wall located somewhere on the Ohtori grounds. Shadow girls A-ko and B-ko are talking to each other.
A-ko: [as a damsel in distress] Eek, a dragon! Won't somebody save me?
B-ko: [as a prince] Fear not, my lady, I will rescue you! [slays the dragon and then falls to the ground]
A-ko: [as a damsel] Oh no, you've been injured! But that's okay, I'll just find another prince!
B-ko: Oh brave hero, though your actions may be valiant...
A-ko: ...in the end what will be *your* reward?
~*Commercal Break*~
Scene: Nanami is walking the halls with her entourage (gee, doesn't *this* sound familiar), Keiko, Aiko, and Yuuko, and Sean who pretends to read from her scheduling book. Sarah, Scott, Jessica, Samantha, and Josh are looking on in awe.
Nanami: ...right, Martinez?
Sean: [trying his hardest to keep a straight face] Yes, Nanami-sama...
Sarah: I don't believe it! Why is he putting up with this?
Scott: [shakes his head] Beats me—
Jessica: [whacks him upside the head]
Samantha: It's dead, Jim. You've killed the joke.
Scott and Jessica: [sweatdrop]
Sarah: I think I'll go have a talk with Kiryuu-san...[starts to leave]
Samantha: Oi oi, wait a minute. I'm sure he has a good reason for what he's doing. I mean, who in their right mind would work for Nanami-kun besides Tsuwabuki?
Tsuwabuki: [appears] Probably no one.
Jessica: [surprised] You're already out of the hospital?
Tsuwabuki: Well, no, but the doctors don't know that yet. I see Nanami-san's replaced me so soon. I suppose I have no choice but to put her in danger and rescue her again. [begins to walk off]
Scott: 'Kay...bye.
Tsuwabuki: Um, you're not going to stop me?
Samantha: [chuckles] Are you kidding? There's nothing we like more than carnage unfolding right before our eyes!
Tsuwabuki: [slowly backs away] Righhhht... [exits]
Josh: Do you really think that was such a good—[is interrupted by a shouting from nearby]
Random Man: [shouting] Runaway bull! A bull's gotten loose! [the bull stampedes through the hall and into Josh's path. He is gored quickly, yet not too cleanly, on its horns. It races on and Tsuwabuki pushes Nanami out of the way and getting into her good graces again. Sean picks up something Nanami dropped, her Rose Signet.]
Scott: Damn, Tsuwabuki works quick.
Jessica: [nods] That's definitely a record. Killed before he even finished his first line. [a hooded specter appears in front of them and the Josh-Corpse]
Matt: Alright, where's the deceased? I need his soul.
Sarah: And you would be...Death?
Matt: Yeah, or call me Cloud, Cloud Strife. Whichever. Now where's this guy's soul? He is dead, right?
Samantha: Well, that's pretty obvious, but...he's kinda been killed multiple times before this. Say, where were you then?
Matt: What do you want? I'm Death. I've got other appointments, y'know. No soul then, huh? Screw this! [disappears in a puff of smoke]
Samantha: [shakes her head] Okay, now this is way too messed up, even for "Utena." See ya'll later.
Sarah: Where are you going?
Samantha: Oh, nowhere...[leaves]
Scene: A *different* hallway in Ohtori, but there are so many God damned hallways they all begin to look alike after awhile. Utena is at her locker.
Utnea: [opens the door to her locker. A *giant* card falls out and bonks her on the head] Ow, damn it, that hurt!
Card: [outside] Tenjou Utena [inside] To the One Engaged: I shall wait for you at the Duel Arena after classes.
Utena: [rubbing her head] I guess the concept of subtlety is beyond these people.
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 Sean steps from the vehicle clad in a dark green Duelist's uniform. Sarah, in a silver Rose Bride dress, acts as his (duh) Rose Bride.
Utena: So, now it's come to you, too, Sean-sempai.
Sean: [in a voice eerily like Nanami's] For the sake of grasping eternity and keeping you away from my Onii-sama, I will defeat you, Tenjou Utena! Now draw your sword!
Samantha: [almost falls from the balcony when she hears "Onii-sama"] The hell? "Onii-sama"?
Scott: [comes to a realization] Oh crap...look at his ring. That's gotta be Nanami's Rose Signet! He must have taken on her personality when he put it on.
Anshi: [chanting] O Roses of noble memory, I beseech thee: appear before me.
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]
Beginning of the earth
Stage props
The Laplace nebula
Spectatorism
Unchanging illusion
Mystery solving clock
Baby carriage of the edge of immortality.
My eternal self and the eternal stranger
Two relations; two births
Scales of mystery; human constellation
Ahhh
Ahhh
Time is hypothetical, an illusional prop of the beginnings of birth.
Destiny, choice, goodbye-ism
You and I are the Milky Way
Having no past, only the present, having no future,
A single person in the Theatre Cosmic.
That's me! Wait! My last evolution, revolution, everlution [Utena disables Sean of his 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 Sean's rose in a flurry of petals. Bells ring signaling the end of the duel. Sean falls unconscious as several more lights on the castle burn out.]
Scene: The balcony where Scott, Samantha, and Jessica have been watching the duel.
Jessica: Utena remains victorious...no surprise there.
Scott: No kidding. Well, at least Sean'll be back to his old self now.
Samantha: [nods and peers out her binoculars] Yes, good thing, too--hey!
Jessica: What is it?
Samantha: Well, I found out where Rio's been today. No wonder we couldn't find her.
Scott: Oh? Where?
Samantha: At this point, do you really have to ask? Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to have a talk with someone...[glares straight ahead and leaves]
Scott and Jessica: [sweatdrop]
Preview of Next Episode [offscreen, a very ticked off Samantha is apparently yelling at someone]
Jessica: Isn't it odd how it seems to be getting progressively darker in the Arena?
Utena: I agree, but I don't have time to worry about such things now.
Scott: Why?
Utena: Because, Sarah-san now wants to challenge me.
Anshi: Oh my!
Utena: Next time on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "Rose of the Fallen Prince."
Anshi: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Scott and Jesssica: [hold up a large banner that reads "The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse"]
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: One of my better episodes, I'll give it that. It's not quite as monotonous as "Mirror Image" was. As for "Death," that's Matt, who eventually showed up in episode 13...still not sure if I should bother posting that. He's like a chibi clone of Cloud Strife, hence the FF7 reference. As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are greatly appreciated!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com