Trabia Garden

Having read eleven volumes of DN Angel, I can say with absolute confidence that it is my favourite manga. I love the art and the characters and the humour and everything about it. It really makes me smile. You know, when Satoshi's not breaking my heart.

Daisuke: Satoshi! Stay the night! You can borrow my pyjamas!
Satoshi: One day I will destroy you because I destroy everything I love.

Oh, Satoshi. I'd like to write fanfiction in which he's happy, but I'm fairly certain that's impossible.

I've got a stupid idea for a DN Angel/Princess Tutu crossover floating around in my head, purely because two character have similar-sounding names. Daisuke, rather than transforming into Dark, transforms into Duck. I have no idea what this accomplishes; Duck is probably not much of an art thief. BUT ANYWAY, WHENEVER DAISUKE EXPERIENCES ROMANTIC FEELINGS, HE TURNS INTO DUCK. (Duck in her human form, I'm going to say, but maybe Duck can still turn into an actual duck, just to complicate things further.) When he's not transformed, of course, he still has Duck in his head. Daisuke and Duck would get along really well, I think.

Duck probably develops a doomed crush on Satoshi. MAYBE DAISUKE AND DUCK DEVELOP EVEN MORE DOOMED CRUSHES ON EACH OTHER.

Actually, this would be amazing. Somebody write it immediately. (I don't think I have anyone on my flist who's familiar with both DN Angel and Princess Tutu, but it's worth a shot, right?)

This, er, actually isn't the first ill-advised DN Angel/Princess Tutu crossover I've considered. I have a couple of snippets scribbled down in which Duck and Daisuke are attending Hope's Peak Academy, as a Super High-school Level Ballerina and Super High-school Level Art Thief respectively. Because obviously you want to invite people who are really good at stealing things to your exclusive school. Perhaps fortunately, that particular fic doesn't seem to be going anywhere. I'm not sure I really wanted to write a massive crossover in which I threw all my favourite teenage characters into Hope's Peak and made them kill each other.

(I'm about halfway through Princess Tutu and still loving it enormously. th_esaurus has seen none of it but has decided that it is far too silly, which I suppose is a fair enough conclusion, given that she's been exposed to it solely via my exclamations at the screen ('THAT ALLIGATOR HAS ATTENDED NONE OF THE PREVIOUS BALLET LESSONS, SHE IS A TERRIBLE STUDENT').)


For any Dangan Ronpa fans who don't know of this yet: someone has translated Dangan Ronpa IF, an official what-if story set parallel to the first Dangan Ronpa game! It's pretty great. I think I actually punched the air at one point whilst reading. It also goes into detail on a character whom I always wanted to know more about, as we never really had a chance to get to know them in the original game, and gave me a staggeringly doomed pairing to 'ship (yes, even more doomed than the average Dangan Ronpa pairing). If you were wondering why my massive Dangan Ronpa fic (relatively massive, at least; it's actually the longest thing I've ever completed) so heavily featured said character we barely met, this is half of the reason. (The other half of the reason is this excellent fic.)

It's the last ever episode of Merlin tonight! I'm simultaneously excited and a bit concerned; I'm worried that the writers haven't left themselves enough time to tie everything up in a satisfying way. Still, I'm prepared to give it a chance. If there isn't a good magic reveal, I may cry.


Everyone in Princess Tutu needs to make out. I'm just saying.

The main character of Princess Tutu is giving me a bit of trouble; I have no idea what to call her. Here is my dilemma:

- In the original Japanese she's called Ahiru, which is Japanese for 'duck'.
- One could call her 'Duck' in translation, but I find 'Duck' impossible to accept as a name. It's just ridiculous. YES, I FIND CALLING THIS GIRL 'DUCK' MORE BIZARRE THAN THE FACT THAT SHE IS ACTUALLY A MAGICAL BALLERINA DUCK.
- I jokingly said to futuresoon that I was going to bypass the Ahiru/Duck debate by calling her 'Ente', the German for 'duck'. The more I think about this, though, the more sense it makes. Princess Tutu seems to be set in a German-speaking country; when characters are seen reading or writing, it's in German. It's clear that Ahiru's name is the same as the word for 'duck' in whatever language is being spoken, because when people address her by her name she sometimes thinks they're calling her a duck. So presumably her name really is Ente. But it seems strange to refer to her by a name that's never actually used in any form of canon.

I think I'm going to stick to calling her Ahiru for now, with the occasional longing glance over at Ente. Ente makes so much sense!


Anyway! Name-related conflict aside: it's Christmas Eve, and tradition demands a stupid manip.




(The Mrs Claus outfit is an actual equippable item in The World Ends With You, incidentally.)

Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it, and an excellent Tuesday to all those who don't!