Satisfaction IS

Taking all the coursepacks, the notes, the notebooks, the handouts, the EVERYTHING for those classes that drove you crazy and gave you white hairs (I have at least seven or eight that are really stark against the rest of my hair right now >_>) and just.

Picking them up.

Crumbling them up.

AND THEN THROWING THEM AWAY.

Or recycling them! Either way, out, out! Damned -- grades!

tactics historical connections

I'm kind of spamming today, aren't I? I do apologize~

So, from what we know of tactics canon, Haruka's original master was a woman named Fuji (kanji: wysteria) who may or may not have been dangerously obsessive; the most we really see of her is her telling Haruka she loves him, that he's hers, and that she'll never give him to anyone else. Sugino really disliked this woman, to the point where he actually admits that he prefers Kantarou over her. The ONE TIME we see her, it's a lower-face shot as she lifts a bamboo hat up from over her eyes. (I don't know if there's a proper name for it, but it's the straw/bamboo hat that wandering monks and miko are often shown wearing.) There's another shot that might be of her, where we see a woman crying as flower petals -- wysteria petals? -- float around her, and she mentions that she's been having the same sad dream for years.

And we know that Raikou owns this little black cat named Fuji, who is very obviously more than just a normal cat. After Haruka attacks Ayame (in the manga Raikou's sister -- no connection is ever mentioned in the anime -- who looks exactly like Fuij-the-woman) in the garden and Ayame pushes him away, the cat attacks her, pissed off for some reason.

And THEN, harukami was websurfing tonight and found some interesting things:

1. Fuji-musume, the Wysteria Maiden -- about a painting of the wysteria maiden coming to life for the obsessive love of a man, wearing a black bamboo hat and carrying a branch of wysteria. And another image of the Wysteria Maiden.

2. The story of Fuji-no-kata -- a court woman with connections (via her handmaiden) to the Genji [Minamoto] clan. Another brief article here.

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As Haru said, if you take the TONE of the first and add the historical facts of the second ... And then there's the fact that SOMEONE of the historical Minamoto family (I usually hear it's Yoshitsune, descending of Minamoto-no-Yorimitsu, whose name can also be read "Minamoto Raikou") was trained by tengu in the arts of war ...

You know, sometimes, I really do think my fandom is pretty damn cool. XD