2009-08-25, 22:48 | Link #19002 | |
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There's an idea! Have Itsuko throw out some "Treknobabble" and see how it turns out! |
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2009-08-25, 23:34 | Link #19004 |
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There's also a component of how comfortable two people are with each other. It's one thing to have known someone for awhile, it's another thing to be good friends. I've never gotten the feeling that Kyon and Kunikida are more then friends in a relatively vague sense (more then just acquaintances, but less then someone you might go out of your way to spend time with). And Taniguchi is just... Taniguchi.
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2009-08-25, 23:41 | Link #19005 | |
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Also, still don't make sense why she wouldn't call her old best friend by the given name. She was never as close to Sasaki as she is to Haruki, but was probably closer to him then to Itsuko. Again, a particuarily of Kyon is he calls everyone by it family name. Exept Haruhi (and those who haven't even a name, like his sister and the CCP). |
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2009-08-25, 23:57 | Link #19008 | |
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Perhaps it is the amount of emotional intimacy that determines whether Kyonko calls people by first name? Kunikida, she's known for a long time, but thinks of as a somewhat foolish classmate. Sasaki was someone she was sort of close to, someone who at least intrigued her. Haruki is the big whirlwind that blew through her life and let in mad fun. Itsuko is a fellow girl with whom she's gone through the mad fun spawned by Haruki. She may squee over Mitsuuru, but she knows on a very concrete level that they're not meant for each other, no matter how much she enjoys his company, so she keeps a certain proper distance in her form of address. We know she likes Nagato, but his general presence does not provoke her to use his first name, unlike whirlwind Haruki? Just some thoughts ... |
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2009-08-26, 00:02 | Link #19009 |
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Live A Live has Kunikida referring to Taniguchi by name a few times, and I think Taniguchi said Kunikida's name at least once there, as well.
While that would normally be a "Bridge. Cross. Later." thing, it does cause a bit of problems.
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2009-08-26, 00:12 | Link #19010 | ||
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On more thing, I always took Kyon calling Haruhi for her first name as a sig of proximity, given how he fall everyone else by it last name. This feeling is destroyed by having other person being called by the first name And I never hear about girls being more open to friends, actually. In hight school, the bigger groups of friends are all male. (but, well, here everybody just call everyone by it given name, so I am not sure how it works in other contries) PP: Quote:
I was look Live A Live again. It seen japaneses has at standard callingpeople by it last name, even if it is a close school mate right? |
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2009-08-26, 00:14 | Link #19011 |
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Get someone to edit in a scene where Itsuko specifically requests that Kyonko uses her first name in the novel rewrites, and voila! Problem solved.
You can just say that Kyonko never calls anyone else by first name simply because she was never asked to. It's not like it wouldn't be in Itsuko's character to do that... similar to regularly invading Kyonko's personal space @Aebliss CLIMAX OF STORY, I NEEEEED IT. Btw, I actually don't mind Mitsuuru in your story. He's still a meh character overall (not your fault in any way, so was Mikuru), but I like seeing him with a spine. Mikuru -never- got angry about anything as far as I know. Nice job. |
2009-08-26, 00:21 | Link #19012 | |
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2009-08-26, 00:26 | Link #19013 | ||
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Well, thank you very much for that. ^^ But if it were, I couldn't ... um ... Why don't I keep my future intentions to myself for now? Yeah. But thanks a lot!
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2009-08-26, 00:38 | Link #19014 | |
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2009-08-26, 01:18 | Link #19016 | ||
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I'll be the first to admit that this is applied somewhat unevenly: the above mentioned stories make it out to be vastly important, while the more shonen/actiony stories tend to have everyone calling everyone else by their personal name (except in cases of power differences... but we already know how those work somewhat well, having hashed it out with Mitsuuru much earlier on). EDIT: Well, it is a confusing topic.
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2009-08-26, 01:42 | Link #19018 | ||
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