Also, in response to a couple of random things that have been said:
-Clara can also end up on the bottom of the Queen's pecking order, *if* she has the cojones to try and take over the court for herself. It is explicitly suggested.
-Armster's work is indeed religious in bent, at least in a sense. One of the reasons I wrote the part for Ada was that she understood how old-school alchemy worked; for all the playing with crucibles and such, there was a lot of writing very long treatises on the Nature of Providence or the Transmutation of the Human Soul Into Angelic Substance or similar awesome nonsense.
-Duke Kieron is totally sweet. (In Utena terms, I can totally see Touga and Juri and Miki and even Nanami graduating and ultimately finding their Happily Ever Afters...and Saionji, bitter and puzzled, eventually turning into an Akio figure and starting the whole thing over.) My very favorite image from the second run, as I've mentioned elsewhere, was Kieron crumpled in the Duke's chair as the Duke was up dancing and having the time of his life.
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Date: 2006-05-16 05:52 am (UTC)-Clara can also end up on the bottom of the Queen's pecking order, *if* she has the cojones to try and take over the court for herself. It is explicitly suggested.
-Armster's work is indeed religious in bent, at least in a sense. One of the reasons I wrote the part for Ada was that she understood how old-school alchemy worked; for all the playing with crucibles and such, there was a lot of writing very long treatises on the Nature of Providence or the Transmutation of the Human Soul Into Angelic Substance or similar awesome nonsense.
-Duke Kieron is totally sweet. (In Utena terms, I can totally see Touga and Juri and Miki and even Nanami graduating and ultimately finding their Happily Ever Afters...and Saionji, bitter and puzzled, eventually turning into an Akio figure and starting the whole thing over.)
My very favorite image from the second run, as I've mentioned elsewhere, was Kieron crumpled in the Duke's chair as the Duke was up dancing and having the time of his life.