^_____________^ *hearts on madly* I love comments that quote the bits you like, because then I know where to aim next time! ♥♥♥
Sephiroth needs more cookies in his life, imo. I'm with you on that one! (It's been too long since I was in college, I actually had to go looking for some of the literary-pretentiousness-words wrapped around existentialism and deconstructionism because it'd been too long since I'd had to actually use them with a semi-straight face. On the other hand, I DO think there's something awfully Waiting for Godot about a mouthless Hello Kitty painted on a lunchbox she'll never eat the contents of. I just let Sephiroth put the darkest imaginable spin on that, and, well. XD)
And yeah, Tohru completely doesn't pull her punches! (No wonder Phil and Hades are going to end up terrified of her. :3)
In the first draft, I had Tohru making that comment about Mother in the same 'breath' as 'nobody wanted me unless I was useful,' and I looked at that, and I looked at that, and I went 'holy shit she's actually right, there really are fundamental structural parallels between the life stories of a high school shoujo romantic-comedy heroine and a genocidal megalomaniac bent on world destructions, and I'm not just making this up on crack, and THAT IS TOO DISTURBING FOR WORDS.' So I split it up to tone down the gut-punch just a little bit... I'm still massively creeped out by it, though. (And I haven't entirely decided whether Sephiroth yet realizes that there's a difference between his Mother and her Mother.)
*huggins on* thanks for commenting! ^__^ *goes to fall on face now* *whyyyyy does work start again tomorrow? why can't I have as much time off as the students do? They've got 2 whole weeks left, sigh...*