Keieru (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} keieru) wrote,@ 2004-01-29 21:30:00 |
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ah, siblings
I must be getting old; this was the first winter feverchill that laid me low for more than a day or two.
Two weeks of sniffles and dizziness; the upside is that I got to spend more time with my little brother. He's adorable. He reads compulsively, plays chess, and babbles about string theory in his newly deepened voice. He does not belong to the anime club at school; he and his friends are too cool for that sort of thing. They watch digisubs. (I told him that when I was in high school, there hadn't even been an anime club. He was not impressed.)
He recognized Gravi on my bookshelf. Hey, says he, that's the one with the boy singer soap opera, right? I have a friend who likes that kind of anime.
Really, I said.
Yeah. She likes Gravitation, and Fake...
Wah. I considered. Does she like GetBackers?
No, she doesn't. She says the love isn't obvious enough.
I went O_o at him, which he found amusing.
I bet you like GetBackers, he said. You're the one who wants the love to be barely there.
How do you know that?
He shrugged. It figures, right? After all you're a big fan of Fitz and the Fool.
For someone who doesn't see me but once a month or so, my brother knows me frighteningly well.
The reason I bring up my brother is this: I tried to start watching HikaGo, but I felt that I was missing something by not knowing anything about the game. It didn't take much to convince my brother to play a couple rounds of Go. (Naturally he wiped the floor with me; he's a good strategist, and I'm terrible at board games. I become too emotionally invested to think clearly. It's the same with chess, in which I am irrationally fond of my pawns.) In return, solely to amuse him, I wrote a silly Discworld / HikaGo drabble.
The seconds ticked by, quite loud in the silence.
ER. Death scrutinized the board. LOVELY COLOR PATTERN, he offered. BLACK AND WHITE. CLASSIC.
"I suppose so," Hikaru said politely. "I never really looked at it that way before."
I LIKE THE CONTRAST. QUITE STRIKING.
"Yes."
A pause.
IT'S MY TURN, ISN'T IT.
Hikaru nodded.
CAN'T AVOID IT FOREVER, I SUPPOSE. Death looked sideways. WHAT IS IT ONE SAYS WHEN ONE WISHES TO RESIGN?
SQUEAK, replied the Death of Rats.
AH. THANK YOU. Death faced Hikaru again and lowered his skull. MAKEMASHITA.
Hikaru bowed in return. "Arigatou gozaimashita."
DON'T MENTION IT.
What can I say? It was a present. And it's got his favorite Discworld characters in.
I've actually done some pretty strange things to amuse my siblings. [cough]HP/GW bodyswitching crossover[cough]
...don't worry, I won't post that one. Yet.
I must be getting old; this was the first winter feverchill that laid me low for more than a day or two.
Two weeks of sniffles and dizziness; the upside is that I got to spend more time with my little brother. He's adorable. He reads compulsively, plays chess, and babbles about string theory in his newly deepened voice. He does not belong to the anime club at school; he and his friends are too cool for that sort of thing. They watch digisubs. (I told him that when I was in high school, there hadn't even been an anime club. He was not impressed.)
He recognized Gravi on my bookshelf. Hey, says he, that's the one with the boy singer soap opera, right? I have a friend who likes that kind of anime.
Really, I said.
Yeah. She likes Gravitation, and Fake...
Wah. I considered. Does she like GetBackers?
No, she doesn't. She says the love isn't obvious enough.
I went O_o at him, which he found amusing.
I bet you like GetBackers, he said. You're the one who wants the love to be barely there.
How do you know that?
He shrugged. It figures, right? After all you're a big fan of Fitz and the Fool.
For someone who doesn't see me but once a month or so, my brother knows me frighteningly well.
The reason I bring up my brother is this: I tried to start watching HikaGo, but I felt that I was missing something by not knowing anything about the game. It didn't take much to convince my brother to play a couple rounds of Go. (Naturally he wiped the floor with me; he's a good strategist, and I'm terrible at board games. I become too emotionally invested to think clearly. It's the same with chess, in which I am irrationally fond of my pawns.) In return, solely to amuse him, I wrote a silly Discworld / HikaGo drabble.
The seconds ticked by, quite loud in the silence.
ER. Death scrutinized the board. LOVELY COLOR PATTERN, he offered. BLACK AND WHITE. CLASSIC.
"I suppose so," Hikaru said politely. "I never really looked at it that way before."
I LIKE THE CONTRAST. QUITE STRIKING.
"Yes."
A pause.
IT'S MY TURN, ISN'T IT.
Hikaru nodded.
CAN'T AVOID IT FOREVER, I SUPPOSE. Death looked sideways. WHAT IS IT ONE SAYS WHEN ONE WISHES TO RESIGN?
SQUEAK, replied the Death of Rats.
AH. THANK YOU. Death faced Hikaru again and lowered his skull. MAKEMASHITA.
Hikaru bowed in return. "Arigatou gozaimashita."
DON'T MENTION IT.
What can I say? It was a present. And it's got his favorite Discworld characters in.
I've actually done some pretty strange things to amuse my siblings. [cough]HP/GW bodyswitching crossover[cough]
...don't worry, I won't post that one. Yet.
