Who exactly is Meinrad, again?
Well, I'm finally getting off my lazy ass to start posting the next AIM log, which is a little daunting. Log 1 thus far has been our longest, clocking 6 posts and 18 pages. Log 7, the next one, clocked at 27 pages, and the recently completed Log 8? 74. Yes, 74 pages. It took a week and a half.
But anyway, before that can happen, I need to fill the people who are actually interested in this crap we're doing in on the changes the next log will exhibit - instead of taking alternate versions of the Island!Souji and Wolfram, we're breaking into true AU, where we picked Souji Okita up from Peacemaker and dropped him into Kyou Kara Maou under the name Meinrad Hochfeld, and rewrote all his backstory. So, what if Meinrad befriended Wolfram before Yuuri came around to slap Wolfram and make him silly and irrational? Apparently lots of smut and tooth-rotting sap. Go figure.
So in order to fill in all the details, I IMed Kira a few nights ago and we had the following conversation. Please forgive our tangents within - we have a tendency to break into roleplaying hypothetical situations and somehow we got on the topic of marriage. Because somehow Meinrad ended up proposing about 5/6 into Log 8.;;
Also as a side note, though we're using Meinrad and not Souji from now on, we didn't switch to actually calling him "Meinrad" in the logs until Log 9, but yeah. The change of setting is awfully obvious.;;
And due to the retarded nature of my Word program on my computer, which makes html tags ridiculously complicated and LONG, this has to ALSO be broken into multiple parts. T_T;;
Okada Norokasu: ...so i'm proofreading log 7 for posting, and I think we should first have a quotable chat about everything we've come up with about Meinrad so far.
Okada Norokasu: So I don't have to explain it all and get things mixed up.;;
thaliykeene: I have to agree with that one. ^^
thaliykeene: so
thaliykeene: ...he's about 120 years old
thaliykeene: he's a minor noble from a town near the border of Shin Makoku
Okada Norokasu: Last name Hochfeld
thaliykeene: Two older sisters, the oldest of which is married
thaliykeene: middle sister, I think, not married.
Okada Norokasu: Still has something like the oni-side thing going on.
thaliykeene: Yeah.
thaliykeene: ...Which I think really might just be lingering war trauma, there.
Okada Norokasu: It's kind of funny how well all of this translates...
thaliykeene: Though I think he did also have an experience like Souji's early in life -- having to kill an attacker or bandit as a young child, probably being scarred thereby.
thaliykeene: ...and yeah, it all translates over perfectly. It's rather odd. XD;
Okada Norokasu: Border towns do have problems with humans from bordering countries.
Okada Norokasu: Ala episode 3?
thaliykeene: *nod* Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if he were attacked by humans from a nearby country and had to kill one of them to protect himself and - er - omanIcan'tremembertheHijikatafigure'sname
Okada Norokasu: ....
Okada Norokasu: K-k-k-kreigermann
Okada Norokasu: *snicker don't hurt me please*
thaliykeene: *snicker* Right.
Okada Norokasu: The one who writes bad sonnets.
thaliykeene: Yeah. To protect himself and Kreigermann. XD;;
Okada Norokasu: <<
thaliykeene: Seriously, I think that particular transfer is about a billion times funnier than Souji to Meinrad
Okada Norokasu: Oh, definitely
thaliykeene: Anyway. XD;
thaliykeene: Started officially training with a sword at... oh, about the age of 40 or 45?
Okada Norokasu: That works. <3
thaliykeene: Right after killing for the first time. >>;
thaliykeene: Had a group of close friends a lot like the PMK Shieikan-trainees, the vast majority of whom died in the war
thaliykeene: ...sort of shut down emotionally after the war and his promotion/transfer to the capital.
thaliykeene: Hung around for a decade and a half or so without managing to make any friends, then became curious about Wolfram and started trying to get him to talk...
Okada Norokasu: Aaaaand then we have to log that.
thaliykeene: ...we really do, I'm very curious.
thaliykeene: But yeah. Meinrad's history is almost identically a match for Souji's.
thaliykeene: Which is a bit startling, but it does seem to transfer easily.
Okada Norokasu: Mm. And the only noticeable personality difference is that he's much more independant.
Okada Norokasu: But this is also a predictable response to most of his close friends kicking the bucket. >>
thaliykeene: Yeah, it's true.
thaliykeene: And spending over a decade without any friends as a result, which fosters independence if you survive it. >>;
thaliykeene: I suspect he did a lot of unburdening of private thoughts to his pet pig.
Okada Norokasu: I wouldn't be surprised.
thaliykeene: Um, what else. >>;
Okada Norokasu: ...ooh, i just thought of that.
thaliykeene: ...He has way, way worse abandonment issues than Souji
thaliykeene: --what?
Okada Norokasu: Meinrad lives ages slower than Souji, yes?
Okada Norokasu: s-so poor saizo @_@
Okada Norokasu: or whatever his name is
thaliykeene: yeah >>;
thaliykeene: Meinrad's probably gone through a few generations of pet pigs.
thaliykeene: They live... what, twenty years? About?
Okada Norokasu: If that?
Okada Norokasu: I'm not sure.
thaliykeene: yeah. I don't know either - well, call it 15-20 as a general rule
thaliykeene: So yeah
thaliykeene: At least two generations of pet pigs.
Okada Norokasu: Awww piggies.
thaliykeene: :<
Okada Norokasu: And aww abandonment issues.
thaliykeene: It's kind of sad, but hey, at least they got long and happy lives >>;
Okada Norokasu: Yep.
thaliykeene: and Meinrad has shown a marked tendency to get outright hysterical at me at the idea of losing Wolfram, so. Yeah.
thaliykeene: Much stronger abandonment issues. >>;
Okada Norokasu: ...Good thing they're the same in that regard.;;
thaliykeene: ....yeah
thaliykeene: Hah, at least Meinrad's less prone to showing his emotions. >>;;
Okada Norokasu: AndwethoughtSoujiwasfuckedupandrepressive.
thaliykeene: I imagine Wolfram would react just as badly if not worse if the situation were reversed and Meinrad got himself maybe-sorta-temporarily-dead at Shinou's hands. >>;;
thaliykeene: (Souji IS fucked up and repressed. But Meinrad's all of that plus having also lost all his best friends. >>; )
Okada Norokasu: (Yes, yes that's what I mean. XD)
Okada Norokasu: ...And really, they give off a total "you and me against the world" thing.
thaliykeene: They really, really do.
thaliykeene: ...Which is why anyone who threatens either of them is going to be simultaneously barbecued and spitted.
thaliykeene: ...meebo just gave me another error
thaliykeene: did you get the "barbecued and spitted" comment?
Okada Norokasu: Yep.
thaliykeene: All right. ^^
thaliykeene: ...At least it's cute. In its own intensely codependent way.
Okada Norokasu: @_@ Yes. Yes it is.
Okada Norokasu: (And I find it funny that although Meinrad shows his real feelings less he shows more with Wolfram.)
thaliykeene: ...yeah.
thaliykeene: I think it's a combination, there -- Meinrad does not have anyone else to talk to
thaliykeene: and also he trusts Wolfram and considers him an equal
thaliykeene: between the two, Wolfram gets EVERYTHING that Meinrad wants to talk about ever.
Okada Norokasu: ...<3
thaliykeene: ...It really is all that devotion that Souji divides up between his friends, concentrated on one person.
thaliykeene: >>
Okada Norokasu: Which would be unhealthy if Wolfram didn't act the way he does.
thaliykeene: Yeah, it's true.
thaliykeene: Wolfram actually likes and encourages it
thaliykeene: ...and kind of seems to blossom when he has that kind of security.
thaliykeene: >>
Okada Norokasu: ....Did you just use the word "blossom" in association with Wolfram?
thaliykeene: Yes. Yes I did.
thaliykeene: <3
Okada Norokasu: ...
Okada Norokasu: *snicker*
Okada Norokasu: *mutters some tasteless joke about "deflowering", which is getting me quite violently kicked*
thaliykeene: ...........(COUGH) my brain is going bad places with vegetative analogies.
thaliykeene: moving along.
Okada Norokasu: ...
Okada Norokasu: No, no, lemme hear yours.
thaliykeene: Well. It went "*snigger* first get him to blossom and then deflower him" and then trailed off into a meditiation on phallic flowers >>
thaliykeene: And then I stopped it before Souji's happy smile turned into happy smile and killing me.
Okada Norokasu: ....>>
Okada Norokasu: H-haha.
Okada Norokasu: Oh man.
thaliykeene: At least my muse keeps me honest.
thaliykeene: ...sometimes
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.
But anyway, before that can happen, I need to fill the people who are actually interested in this crap we're doing in on the changes the next log will exhibit - instead of taking alternate versions of the Island!Souji and Wolfram, we're breaking into true AU, where we picked Souji Okita up from Peacemaker and dropped him into Kyou Kara Maou under the name Meinrad Hochfeld, and rewrote all his backstory. So, what if Meinrad befriended Wolfram before Yuuri came around to slap Wolfram and make him silly and irrational? Apparently lots of smut and tooth-rotting sap. Go figure.
So in order to fill in all the details, I IMed Kira a few nights ago and we had the following conversation. Please forgive our tangents within - we have a tendency to break into roleplaying hypothetical situations and somehow we got on the topic of marriage. Because somehow Meinrad ended up proposing about 5/6 into Log 8.;;
Also as a side note, though we're using Meinrad and not Souji from now on, we didn't switch to actually calling him "Meinrad" in the logs until Log 9, but yeah. The change of setting is awfully obvious.;;
And due to the retarded nature of my Word program on my computer, which makes html tags ridiculously complicated and LONG, this has to ALSO be broken into multiple parts. T_T;;
Okada Norokasu: ...so i'm proofreading log 7 for posting, and I think we should first have a quotable chat about everything we've come up with about Meinrad so far.
Okada Norokasu: So I don't have to explain it all and get things mixed up.;;
thaliykeene: I have to agree with that one. ^^
thaliykeene: so
thaliykeene: ...he's about 120 years old
thaliykeene: he's a minor noble from a town near the border of Shin Makoku
Okada Norokasu: Last name Hochfeld
thaliykeene: Two older sisters, the oldest of which is married
thaliykeene: middle sister, I think, not married.
Okada Norokasu: Still has something like the oni-side thing going on.
thaliykeene: Yeah.
thaliykeene: ...Which I think really might just be lingering war trauma, there.
Okada Norokasu: It's kind of funny how well all of this translates...
thaliykeene: Though I think he did also have an experience like Souji's early in life -- having to kill an attacker or bandit as a young child, probably being scarred thereby.
thaliykeene: ...and yeah, it all translates over perfectly. It's rather odd. XD;
Okada Norokasu: Border towns do have problems with humans from bordering countries.
Okada Norokasu: Ala episode 3?
thaliykeene: *nod* Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if he were attacked by humans from a nearby country and had to kill one of them to protect himself and - er - omanIcan'tremembertheHijikatafigure'sname
Okada Norokasu: ....
Okada Norokasu: K-k-k-kreigermann
Okada Norokasu: *snicker don't hurt me please*
thaliykeene: *snicker* Right.
Okada Norokasu: The one who writes bad sonnets.
thaliykeene: Yeah. To protect himself and Kreigermann. XD;;
Okada Norokasu: <<
thaliykeene: Seriously, I think that particular transfer is about a billion times funnier than Souji to Meinrad
Okada Norokasu: Oh, definitely
thaliykeene: Anyway. XD;
thaliykeene: Started officially training with a sword at... oh, about the age of 40 or 45?
Okada Norokasu: That works. <3
thaliykeene: Right after killing for the first time. >>;
thaliykeene: Had a group of close friends a lot like the PMK Shieikan-trainees, the vast majority of whom died in the war
thaliykeene: ...sort of shut down emotionally after the war and his promotion/transfer to the capital.
thaliykeene: Hung around for a decade and a half or so without managing to make any friends, then became curious about Wolfram and started trying to get him to talk...
Okada Norokasu: Aaaaand then we have to log that.
thaliykeene: ...we really do, I'm very curious.
thaliykeene: But yeah. Meinrad's history is almost identically a match for Souji's.
thaliykeene: Which is a bit startling, but it does seem to transfer easily.
Okada Norokasu: Mm. And the only noticeable personality difference is that he's much more independant.
Okada Norokasu: But this is also a predictable response to most of his close friends kicking the bucket. >>
thaliykeene: Yeah, it's true.
thaliykeene: And spending over a decade without any friends as a result, which fosters independence if you survive it. >>;
thaliykeene: I suspect he did a lot of unburdening of private thoughts to his pet pig.
Okada Norokasu: I wouldn't be surprised.
thaliykeene: Um, what else. >>;
Okada Norokasu: ...ooh, i just thought of that.
thaliykeene: ...He has way, way worse abandonment issues than Souji
thaliykeene: --what?
Okada Norokasu: Meinrad lives ages slower than Souji, yes?
Okada Norokasu: s-so poor saizo @_@
Okada Norokasu: or whatever his name is
thaliykeene: yeah >>;
thaliykeene: Meinrad's probably gone through a few generations of pet pigs.
thaliykeene: They live... what, twenty years? About?
Okada Norokasu: If that?
Okada Norokasu: I'm not sure.
thaliykeene: yeah. I don't know either - well, call it 15-20 as a general rule
thaliykeene: So yeah
thaliykeene: At least two generations of pet pigs.
Okada Norokasu: Awww piggies.
thaliykeene: :<
Okada Norokasu: And aww abandonment issues.
thaliykeene: It's kind of sad, but hey, at least they got long and happy lives >>;
Okada Norokasu: Yep.
thaliykeene: and Meinrad has shown a marked tendency to get outright hysterical at me at the idea of losing Wolfram, so. Yeah.
thaliykeene: Much stronger abandonment issues. >>;
Okada Norokasu: ...Good thing they're the same in that regard.;;
thaliykeene: ....yeah
thaliykeene: Hah, at least Meinrad's less prone to showing his emotions. >>;;
Okada Norokasu: AndwethoughtSoujiwasfuckedupandrepressive.
thaliykeene: I imagine Wolfram would react just as badly if not worse if the situation were reversed and Meinrad got himself maybe-sorta-temporarily-dead at Shinou's hands. >>;;
thaliykeene: (Souji IS fucked up and repressed. But Meinrad's all of that plus having also lost all his best friends. >>; )
Okada Norokasu: (Yes, yes that's what I mean. XD)
Okada Norokasu: ...And really, they give off a total "you and me against the world" thing.
thaliykeene: They really, really do.
thaliykeene: ...Which is why anyone who threatens either of them is going to be simultaneously barbecued and spitted.
thaliykeene: ...meebo just gave me another error
thaliykeene: did you get the "barbecued and spitted" comment?
Okada Norokasu: Yep.
thaliykeene: All right. ^^
thaliykeene: ...At least it's cute. In its own intensely codependent way.
Okada Norokasu: @_@ Yes. Yes it is.
Okada Norokasu: (And I find it funny that although Meinrad shows his real feelings less he shows more with Wolfram.)
thaliykeene: ...yeah.
thaliykeene: I think it's a combination, there -- Meinrad does not have anyone else to talk to
thaliykeene: and also he trusts Wolfram and considers him an equal
thaliykeene: between the two, Wolfram gets EVERYTHING that Meinrad wants to talk about ever.
Okada Norokasu: ...<3
thaliykeene: ...It really is all that devotion that Souji divides up between his friends, concentrated on one person.
thaliykeene: >>
Okada Norokasu: Which would be unhealthy if Wolfram didn't act the way he does.
thaliykeene: Yeah, it's true.
thaliykeene: Wolfram actually likes and encourages it
thaliykeene: ...and kind of seems to blossom when he has that kind of security.
thaliykeene: >>
Okada Norokasu: ....Did you just use the word "blossom" in association with Wolfram?
thaliykeene: Yes. Yes I did.
thaliykeene: <3
Okada Norokasu: ...
Okada Norokasu: *snicker*
Okada Norokasu: *mutters some tasteless joke about "deflowering", which is getting me quite violently kicked*
thaliykeene: ...........(COUGH) my brain is going bad places with vegetative analogies.
thaliykeene: moving along.
Okada Norokasu: ...
Okada Norokasu: No, no, lemme hear yours.
thaliykeene: Well. It went "*snigger* first get him to blossom and then deflower him" and then trailed off into a meditiation on phallic flowers >>
thaliykeene: And then I stopped it before Souji's happy smile turned into happy smile and killing me.
Okada Norokasu: ....>>
Okada Norokasu: H-haha.
Okada Norokasu: Oh man.
thaliykeene: At least my muse keeps me honest.
thaliykeene: ...sometimes
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.