Shoujo Kakumei Utena Otakufic
Episode 10: "Rose of the Fallen Prince"
by Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: The halls of Ohtori Academy. Scott, Samantha, and Sarah are walking around, though not aimlessly. They go back to the spot where the plot hole has developed. The surface is still flat, but a faint background noise can be heard emanating from it.
Scott: [gestures to the hole] See, I told you it was different.
Samantha: [listens intently] But...what's that sound? It sounds familiar, yet I can't quite place it.
Sarah: [looks up] You mean you can't tell? They're bowling pins being knocked over of course.
Samantha: Oh wow, you're right. Time seems to progress differently here. It's like the sound is completely alien to me.
Scott: [hears a ringing in the distance] Shimatta...there's the bell. Better get to class, so I'll see you guys later. [walks off]
Samantha: [to Sarah] Are you coming to dinner tonight?
Sarah: No, I'm afraid not. [sarcastically] Call me crazy, but I'm just not that big a fan of shaved ice. Anyway, I really ought to find the others and let them know about this.
Samantha: Good luck finding Rio. She hardly seems to be around...
Scene: The *cough* Chairman's wing. Utena, Samantha, and Akio are seated around a long rectangular dining table. Akio sits at the head of the table with Utena to his left and Samantha next to her. The elevator opens with an abrupt "ping."
Samantha: I'll get it. [stands up and answers the door] Hey, Scott, you're just in time.
Scott: [near whisper] So? Where is she?
Samantha: [blinks] Who?
Scott: Himemiya-san! Who else?
Samantha: Ohh...she's in the kitchen making dinner. [grins] Why don't you go help her?
Scott: Aren't you just hilarious... [they take their seats at the table]
Samantha: [to Scott, chuckling] I can't believe you came all the way here just to see Himemiya-san.
Scott: [flatly] I would hardly say that you of all people can talk...sempai no koibito...
Samantha: [sweatdrop] Urusai!
Anshi: [emerges from the kitchen carrying a tray laden with plates] All right, dinner's ready.
Utena: [takes a deep breath] Gee, Himemiya, it smells wonderful. What is it?
Anshi: [in a very perky voice] Curry! [she gives each person a plate and they sit down to dinner]
Scott: [semi-nervous voice] Well, I'm sure it'll be delicious. [eats a spoonful at about the same time Akio does. BOOM! The smoke from the explosion clears a moment later.]
Utena: Is everyone alright?
Samantha: [coughing] Peachy...
Anshi: I'm just fine, Utena-sama.
Scott: So am I. [grins] Say, Himemiya-san, would you mind showing the rose garden to me later...privately?
Utena and Samantha: [stare in what only can be described as utter and total horror. They tentatively look in Akio's direction.]
Akio: [clears his throat] That's my sister you're talking to there. Have some respect.
Scott: Oh, why? Did you want first dibs?
Utena and Samantha: [eyes go wide as Anshi looks on, slightly embarrassed]
Samantha: [annoyed] That's enough of that. Snap out of it, baka! [whacks him on the back of the head returning him to his normal self] **Of all the people to trade personalities with...**
Scott: [face turns red and he sweatdrops] Arigatou...
Utena: I think I'll help Himemiya clear the dishes...[the two go into the kitchen]
Samantha: [to Akio] Wait a minute, you don't seem to have changed. How's that?
Akio: [leans in her direction] You seem to forget that I've eaten quite a lot of Anshi's curry over the years. It usually wears off after the first few times.
Scene: Random wall in Ohtori. Shadow girls A-ko and B-ko...eh, you know the rest.
A-ko: I wonder, I wonder, do you know what I wonder?
B-ko: Did you know? Oh, brave hero, what you see as a threat may not really be a threat.
A-ko: But how can that be? If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...
B-ko: ...it isn't a duck!
Both: Do you know, do you know, do you really know?
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: The elevator leading up to the Seitokai balcony. Our favorite red-haired bishonen president stands alone inside at first.
Touga: If the egg's shell does not break, the chick will die without being born. [silhouettes of Miki and Juri appear] We are the chick; the egg is the world. [silhouettes of Scott and Saionji appear] If the world's shell does not break, the chick will die without being born. [silhouettes of Sarah and Samantha appear] Break the world's shell!
All: [the doors to the elevator open] For the sake of revolutionizing the world!
Scene: The Seitokai balcony. Small, square stereos sit scattered on the floor, the majority of which are playing music. Some music is soft instrumentals while others are actual dueling songs of earlier episodes.
Juri: Well, Saionji, it's a change to see you here.
Saionji: [offended] Why wouldn't I be? I'm just as concerned with the Rose Bride as any of you are.
Touga: Is that really all? Don't you have any in interest in the duel called "Revolution"? It is only two duels away.
Saionji: I believe I've already told you that I don't trust "Ends of the World." My only concern is Anshi now.
Miki: [changing the subject] So, who's up next to duel? [clicks his stopwatch]
Touga: Ah...that would be...Sarah-san.
Samantha: [raises her eyebrows and looks at Sarah] You? I didn't think that you had a motive.
Sarah: [nods] I do...
Scene: Sarah and Samantha walk across the Ohtori campus after the meeting.
Samantha: Well?
Sarah: Well what?
Samantha: You know, your motive for the duel? "Ends of the World" did name you as the next Duelist.
Sarah: Yeah, that's right. Okay, I've been keeping some data on that plot hole we ripped in the fourth wall and it seems to change after each duel. After Sean's we could hear the background noise where there was none previously.
Samantha: Do you think it could be our way out?
Sarah: [flips through her notebook] It's a definite possibility. If my calculations are correct, then we should be able to see through the hole following the next duel...which would be mine. It should open up completely if someone duels Utena after me.
Samantha: Are you going to throw the fight? If you manage to defeat her then you will be the one to bring the Revolution.
Sarah: [thinks for a minute] I don't know right now...at least I would obtain eternity.
Samantha: [panicky] You can't! You'll only be made a pawn of "Ends of the World" if you do!
Sarah: [takes a step toward her] How do you know so much about it? Maybe you're wrong about the duels. [leaves]
Scene: The Chairman's wing. Utena is the only person present when the doorbell rings rather suddenly.
Utena: [gets up to answer it] Hai! [opens the door to find Sean and Josh standing there]
Sean: [sighs] Singing telegram...God this so demeaning.
Josh: Just shut up and sing. We're getting paid good money for this.
Both: [singing] Tenjou Utena! To the One Engaged: I shall wait for you at the Arena this evening!
Utena: [sweatdrops] This is getting ridiculous...
Josh: [thwaps Sean with the telegram] You know, you were off-key.
Sean: Aren't you supposed to be dead or something? Oh yeah, that's right. [decapitates Josh with the razor sharp edge of the telegram envelope]
Scene: The gate to the Arena of Duels. Utena steps into the gondola and joins Anshi at the dueling platform. "Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku" plays in the background.
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 Sarah and Touga step from the vehicle.
Sarah: So we meet again, Utena-san. I trust you've improved.
Utena: We'll see, won't we?
Anshi: [chanting] O Roses of the noble heart, 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. Touga acts as Sarah's Rose Bride and withdraws her spirit sword]
No one has anything to tell
There is nothing to be told
Only in the sealed darkness known as yesterday
Only in the glint of a mere split-second known as now
Only in the darkness waiting for the light known as tomorrow, in the theater
I can become anyone
I can become anything
Only in the sealed darkness known as memory
Only in the glint of a mere split-second of creation
Only in the darkness waiting for the light known as tomorrow, in the theater
Ah, dance! Ancient continental theater of the actors who wore the mask of Time
Ah, dance! Admiration of you that come from the Milky Way railroad,
Three of the seven ancient wonders
Like a star
Like a firefly
Shining during birth, we'll shine and disappear
Shining during birth, we'll shine and disappear
All of us will be born, then disappear
Shining during birth, now shine and disappear
Be born and disappear! I, the jewel,
Shining during birth, I shone and disappeared
Born, then disappeared, the star that is me
The evening star, ego star
Shine and disappear, firefly star!
[Utena disables Sarah 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 Sarah's rose in a flurry of petals. Bells ring signaling the end of the duel. Sarah falls unconscious as several more lights on the castle burn out.]
Scene: The Ohtori library. Scott, Samantha, and Sarah are seated around one of the tables in the back.
Samantha: It appears you did decide to lose on purpose.
Sarah: [laughs] Hardly. I was no match for Utena-san's skill even though I had nearly beaten her once before. I wonder how that can be.
Scott: She didn't have the Power of Dios on her side when you fought last. After all, there was no inverted floating castle in the auditorium of Roosevelt and I seriously doubt the spirit of Dios dwells within its lighting system.
Sarah: [takes some notes] One more duel...and we should be able to leave here.
Scott: I'll do it. I'm sure I'll defeat Utena this time and then I shall possess the Rose Bride! [cackles insanely while the other occupants of the library look at him strangely. He sits down quickly and sweatdrops]
Samantha: [blinks] Okay, 1: Stop hanging around Saionji, it's warping your mind. 2: I doubt that "Ends of the World" will allow you to duel Utena-san again so soon.
Sarah: Who might the next Duelist be then--[closes her binder to find three envelopes addressed to each of them and stamped with a rose seal] Why am I not surprised? [they open the letters and carefully read them]
Scott: I don't believe it...
Preview of Next Episode
Anshi: Do you feel it, Utena-sama?
Utena: Huh, feel what?
Anshi: The end of it all. As the Victor of the Duels, you have been chosen to bring the Revolution.
Utena: Yes, but one more challenge still awaits me.
Sarah: So this is what it all comes down to. We may finally able to return home.
Samantha: But at what price?
Utena: Next time on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "Roses of Revolution."
Anshi: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Scott, Jessica, Sean, and Rio: [flat, monotone voice] The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse.
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: Scott particularly enjoyed the curry scene, but only because he got to hit on Himemiya! ^^ As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are greatly appreciated!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com
Episode 10: "Rose of the Fallen Prince"
by Rose Priestess
Obligatory Disclaimer: The characters of "Shoujo Kakumei Utena" belong to Saito Chiho, Be-Pa-Pas, etc.
Opening Theme: Revolution
Scene: The halls of Ohtori Academy. Scott, Samantha, and Sarah are walking around, though not aimlessly. They go back to the spot where the plot hole has developed. The surface is still flat, but a faint background noise can be heard emanating from it.
Scott: [gestures to the hole] See, I told you it was different.
Samantha: [listens intently] But...what's that sound? It sounds familiar, yet I can't quite place it.
Sarah: [looks up] You mean you can't tell? They're bowling pins being knocked over of course.
Samantha: Oh wow, you're right. Time seems to progress differently here. It's like the sound is completely alien to me.
Scott: [hears a ringing in the distance] Shimatta...there's the bell. Better get to class, so I'll see you guys later. [walks off]
Samantha: [to Sarah] Are you coming to dinner tonight?
Sarah: No, I'm afraid not. [sarcastically] Call me crazy, but I'm just not that big a fan of shaved ice. Anyway, I really ought to find the others and let them know about this.
Samantha: Good luck finding Rio. She hardly seems to be around...
Scene: The *cough* Chairman's wing. Utena, Samantha, and Akio are seated around a long rectangular dining table. Akio sits at the head of the table with Utena to his left and Samantha next to her. The elevator opens with an abrupt "ping."
Samantha: I'll get it. [stands up and answers the door] Hey, Scott, you're just in time.
Scott: [near whisper] So? Where is she?
Samantha: [blinks] Who?
Scott: Himemiya-san! Who else?
Samantha: Ohh...she's in the kitchen making dinner. [grins] Why don't you go help her?
Scott: Aren't you just hilarious... [they take their seats at the table]
Samantha: [to Scott, chuckling] I can't believe you came all the way here just to see Himemiya-san.
Scott: [flatly] I would hardly say that you of all people can talk...sempai no koibito...
Samantha: [sweatdrop] Urusai!
Anshi: [emerges from the kitchen carrying a tray laden with plates] All right, dinner's ready.
Utena: [takes a deep breath] Gee, Himemiya, it smells wonderful. What is it?
Anshi: [in a very perky voice] Curry! [she gives each person a plate and they sit down to dinner]
Scott: [semi-nervous voice] Well, I'm sure it'll be delicious. [eats a spoonful at about the same time Akio does. BOOM! The smoke from the explosion clears a moment later.]
Utena: Is everyone alright?
Samantha: [coughing] Peachy...
Anshi: I'm just fine, Utena-sama.
Scott: So am I. [grins] Say, Himemiya-san, would you mind showing the rose garden to me later...privately?
Utena and Samantha: [stare in what only can be described as utter and total horror. They tentatively look in Akio's direction.]
Akio: [clears his throat] That's my sister you're talking to there. Have some respect.
Scott: Oh, why? Did you want first dibs?
Utena and Samantha: [eyes go wide as Anshi looks on, slightly embarrassed]
Samantha: [annoyed] That's enough of that. Snap out of it, baka! [whacks him on the back of the head returning him to his normal self] **Of all the people to trade personalities with...**
Scott: [face turns red and he sweatdrops] Arigatou...
Utena: I think I'll help Himemiya clear the dishes...[the two go into the kitchen]
Samantha: [to Akio] Wait a minute, you don't seem to have changed. How's that?
Akio: [leans in her direction] You seem to forget that I've eaten quite a lot of Anshi's curry over the years. It usually wears off after the first few times.
Scene: Random wall in Ohtori. Shadow girls A-ko and B-ko...eh, you know the rest.
A-ko: I wonder, I wonder, do you know what I wonder?
B-ko: Did you know? Oh, brave hero, what you see as a threat may not really be a threat.
A-ko: But how can that be? If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...
B-ko: ...it isn't a duck!
Both: Do you know, do you know, do you really know?
~*Commercial Break*~
Scene: The elevator leading up to the Seitokai balcony. Our favorite red-haired bishonen president stands alone inside at first.
Touga: If the egg's shell does not break, the chick will die without being born. [silhouettes of Miki and Juri appear] We are the chick; the egg is the world. [silhouettes of Scott and Saionji appear] If the world's shell does not break, the chick will die without being born. [silhouettes of Sarah and Samantha appear] Break the world's shell!
All: [the doors to the elevator open] For the sake of revolutionizing the world!
Scene: The Seitokai balcony. Small, square stereos sit scattered on the floor, the majority of which are playing music. Some music is soft instrumentals while others are actual dueling songs of earlier episodes.
Juri: Well, Saionji, it's a change to see you here.
Saionji: [offended] Why wouldn't I be? I'm just as concerned with the Rose Bride as any of you are.
Touga: Is that really all? Don't you have any in interest in the duel called "Revolution"? It is only two duels away.
Saionji: I believe I've already told you that I don't trust "Ends of the World." My only concern is Anshi now.
Miki: [changing the subject] So, who's up next to duel? [clicks his stopwatch]
Touga: Ah...that would be...Sarah-san.
Samantha: [raises her eyebrows and looks at Sarah] You? I didn't think that you had a motive.
Sarah: [nods] I do...
Scene: Sarah and Samantha walk across the Ohtori campus after the meeting.
Samantha: Well?
Sarah: Well what?
Samantha: You know, your motive for the duel? "Ends of the World" did name you as the next Duelist.
Sarah: Yeah, that's right. Okay, I've been keeping some data on that plot hole we ripped in the fourth wall and it seems to change after each duel. After Sean's we could hear the background noise where there was none previously.
Samantha: Do you think it could be our way out?
Sarah: [flips through her notebook] It's a definite possibility. If my calculations are correct, then we should be able to see through the hole following the next duel...which would be mine. It should open up completely if someone duels Utena after me.
Samantha: Are you going to throw the fight? If you manage to defeat her then you will be the one to bring the Revolution.
Sarah: [thinks for a minute] I don't know right now...at least I would obtain eternity.
Samantha: [panicky] You can't! You'll only be made a pawn of "Ends of the World" if you do!
Sarah: [takes a step toward her] How do you know so much about it? Maybe you're wrong about the duels. [leaves]
Scene: The Chairman's wing. Utena is the only person present when the doorbell rings rather suddenly.
Utena: [gets up to answer it] Hai! [opens the door to find Sean and Josh standing there]
Sean: [sighs] Singing telegram...God this so demeaning.
Josh: Just shut up and sing. We're getting paid good money for this.
Both: [singing] Tenjou Utena! To the One Engaged: I shall wait for you at the Arena this evening!
Utena: [sweatdrops] This is getting ridiculous...
Josh: [thwaps Sean with the telegram] You know, you were off-key.
Sean: Aren't you supposed to be dead or something? Oh yeah, that's right. [decapitates Josh with the razor sharp edge of the telegram envelope]
Scene: The gate to the Arena of Duels. Utena steps into the gondola and joins Anshi at the dueling platform. "Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku" plays in the background.
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 Sarah and Touga step from the vehicle.
Sarah: So we meet again, Utena-san. I trust you've improved.
Utena: We'll see, won't we?
Anshi: [chanting] O Roses of the noble heart, 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. Touga acts as Sarah's Rose Bride and withdraws her spirit sword]
No one has anything to tell
There is nothing to be told
Only in the sealed darkness known as yesterday
Only in the glint of a mere split-second known as now
Only in the darkness waiting for the light known as tomorrow, in the theater
I can become anyone
I can become anything
Only in the sealed darkness known as memory
Only in the glint of a mere split-second of creation
Only in the darkness waiting for the light known as tomorrow, in the theater
Ah, dance! Ancient continental theater of the actors who wore the mask of Time
Ah, dance! Admiration of you that come from the Milky Way railroad,
Three of the seven ancient wonders
Like a star
Like a firefly
Shining during birth, we'll shine and disappear
Shining during birth, we'll shine and disappear
All of us will be born, then disappear
Shining during birth, now shine and disappear
Be born and disappear! I, the jewel,
Shining during birth, I shone and disappeared
Born, then disappeared, the star that is me
The evening star, ego star
Shine and disappear, firefly star!
[Utena disables Sarah 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 Sarah's rose in a flurry of petals. Bells ring signaling the end of the duel. Sarah falls unconscious as several more lights on the castle burn out.]
Scene: The Ohtori library. Scott, Samantha, and Sarah are seated around one of the tables in the back.
Samantha: It appears you did decide to lose on purpose.
Sarah: [laughs] Hardly. I was no match for Utena-san's skill even though I had nearly beaten her once before. I wonder how that can be.
Scott: She didn't have the Power of Dios on her side when you fought last. After all, there was no inverted floating castle in the auditorium of Roosevelt and I seriously doubt the spirit of Dios dwells within its lighting system.
Sarah: [takes some notes] One more duel...and we should be able to leave here.
Scott: I'll do it. I'm sure I'll defeat Utena this time and then I shall possess the Rose Bride! [cackles insanely while the other occupants of the library look at him strangely. He sits down quickly and sweatdrops]
Samantha: [blinks] Okay, 1: Stop hanging around Saionji, it's warping your mind. 2: I doubt that "Ends of the World" will allow you to duel Utena-san again so soon.
Sarah: Who might the next Duelist be then--[closes her binder to find three envelopes addressed to each of them and stamped with a rose seal] Why am I not surprised? [they open the letters and carefully read them]
Scott: I don't believe it...
Preview of Next Episode
Anshi: Do you feel it, Utena-sama?
Utena: Huh, feel what?
Anshi: The end of it all. As the Victor of the Duels, you have been chosen to bring the Revolution.
Utena: Yes, but one more challenge still awaits me.
Sarah: So this is what it all comes down to. We may finally able to return home.
Samantha: But at what price?
Utena: Next time on Shoujo Kakumei Utena: "Roses of Revolution."
Anshi: Zettai Unmei: Mokushiroku.
Scott, Jessica, Sean, and Rio: [flat, monotone voice] The Absolute Destiny: Apocalypse.
Closing Theme: Virtual Star Embryology
Author Notes: Scott particularly enjoyed the curry scene, but only because he got to hit on Himemiya! ^^ As always, reviews, flames, and MSTs are greatly appreciated!
e-mail: bara_no_miko@ohtoriacademy.com