screw those guys in tvtropes
they just sound like a bunch of people who'd complain just about anything of everything
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Well, -ko is the feminine suffix of japanese names; as -bou is the masculine, but its usage has declined in modern times. The japanese use Haru-hiko, which is really neither here nor there.
Eh, i dunno. From what i can tell from the earlier consensus: the internets n stuff was invented on this side of the ocean, so they should be following our lead.
Also, a lot of us here has got a hardon for school rumble.
Actually, if it weren't for me being interrupted yesterday by real life, this post would have part one of my version, and the following wouldn't even be here:
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BTW.. what is the male version of Kimidori Emiri's name?
"Emori" until we come up with something better. And I better not see anyone suggesting Emirio again, as there really is no basis for it when you consider the fact that "Emiri" is written using kanji rather than katakana.
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Well, in the two hours since my last post here, I managed to finish part one of four. Unlike with Boredom, I actually planned this one out so the parts would be more or less equal in length. So, without further ado, here's Part One of Mysterique Sign, Shirogane version!
Spoiler for Mysterique Sign, pt1:
Unsurprisingly, Haruki had recovered from his melancholic state during the end-of-term exams, and was once again acting however he pleased. However, it seems as though the blue-colored baton of depression had been handed off to me. Every exam paper that was distributed made me feel worse and worse. I'm sure Taniguchi probably feels the same way. During the midterm exams, we were like comrades flying side by side right on the edge of the low altitude line, even when we were firmly caught in the radar of the red mark of failure. Humans are animals that want someone who is at least as stupid as themselves around. You can feel at ease when someone like that is around. On the other hand, this is absolutely not the case when you see someone else relaxing.
Taking his test in the seat behind me was Haruki, who somehow always had time to spare. Around thirty minutes before the allotted time was over, he'd usually be asleep on his desk.
How annoying.
All club activities are suspended during exams, but since the SOS Brigade isn't an official club, reopening for business on a day like this is normal, even though no one asked us to. School-enforced policies do not apply to us, but I suppose that's only natural. Since this enigma of a brigade wasn't even a club, it didn't matter. That is Haruki's policy.
Like the other day. {Note: Not really a sentence.} Although I had just managed to raise my will to study to the limit, Haruki dragged me by my sleeve at that moment and brought me with him to the clubroom.
"Look at this for a sec."
Haruki said, pointing to the display of the computer that was plundered from another club some time ago.
I looked, as there was no avoiding it. The graphics-editing software was showing an incomprehensible scrawl. It looked like a drunken tapeworm rolling around in its drink in the middle of a circle; I had no idea what kind of drawing it was supposed to be. I didn't know what else to think, other than it was something a kindergartener would draw.
"What is it?"
I said frankly.
Immediately, Haruki responded with his mouth looking like a duck's,
"Can't you tell?"
"I can't. I don't get it at all. Today's Modern Japanese exam was easier to understand than this."
"What are you talking about? That test was so simple even your little brother could've gotten a perfect score."
His words were really starting to annoy me,
"This is my SOS Brigade emblem! This emblem is an emblem that will pierce the heavens!"
He answered with his face glowing with pride as if he had just accomplished some wonderful thing.
"Emblem?" I said.
"Yes. Emblem."
"This? Nobody but a permanent candidate for chief clerk, who pulls all-nighters through holidays for two straight months and retraces his footsteps while taking the hair of the dog, could possibly see that."
"Look closely. See, it says 'SOS Brigade' in the middle, right?"
Now that you mention it, it's not that I don't feel like it seems like it looks like it, but I would hesistate to say out loud that it's not that I can't see it. And how many negatives did I string together? I don't feel like doing it myself, so if somebody's free, tally it up for me.
{Note: Four. Five if you count the "don't" in the last sentence.}
"You're the one with the most free time! And it's not like you'll be doing any cramming, anyway."
Actually, I was brimming with eagerness until just a moment ago. But now that I think about it, you're absolutely correct.
"I'm thinking about putting this on the SOS Brigade's main index."
Speaking of which, we do have a website. But it's a rather miserable one that lacks any content other than the index.
"We're not getting any more visitors. How disgraceful! And we haven't received any mysterious e-mail at all. It's all because of your meddling, Kyon! I thought we could've used those erotic pictures of Mitsuuru and yourself to pull in customers."
First of all, you were trying to trap people by listing Asahina-sempai as a girl. Second, you didn't ask either of us for permission to put those pictures up, it was a violation of privacy!
"You may have made this site, but it's reeeaaaally boring, don't you agree? There's nothing here to liven it up with, so I thought, 'How about putting up something like a symbol for the SOS Brigade?'"
Just hurry up and remove it from the net already. I feel bad for anyone visiting this stupid homepage by mistake. Since there was no content, there's nothing to update. All it has is an image saying "Welcome to the SOS Brigade Website!", an e-mail address, and an access counter. That counter hasn't even reached three digits, and ninety percent of those hits are Haruki checking to see if we've had any new visitors.
While I watched the handmade website appear in the browser window Haruki launched, I asked,
"Why not write a journal or something? Isn't it the chief's job to put up some sort of task log? Even the captain of a spaceship has his own captain's log."
"No way, what a pain!"
It'd be a pain for me, too. To describe a day here, the only things you could really write about would be stuff like Nagato's reading material, Itsuko winning at Gomoku Narabe, Asahina-sempai's general cuteness, or Haruki sitting quietly with his mouth closed. I couldn't see how reading about such unexciting things would be any more fun than writing about them. Therefore, I won't do something that would be far from entertaining anyone.
{Note: No, I did not change the part about Koizumi actually winning at something.}
"Okay, Kyon. Make this symbol show at the top of the site."
"Do it yourself."
"I don't know how!"
"Look it up, then. You'll never learn if you keep depending on others."
"I'm the chief! My job is to direct everyone else. Besides, if I do everything, you guys wouldn't have any work to do, now would you? You should use your head a little. You won't become a better person if you only do as you're told."
Are you telling me to do it or not? Which is it? Speak proper Japanese!
"Just do it, already! You can't trick me with that sort of wordplay. You should be thankful that you have as much free time as the Greeks did Before Common Era. Come on, hurry up!"
The longer I had to listen to his voice, which was like a crow singing noisily at the break of dawn, the more my ears would hurt. So I reluctantly opened the HTML editor, took Master Artist Haruki's tapeworm --which looked like a bored child drew it-- reduced it to the proper size, pasted it into the file, and uploaded it without changing anything else.
{Note: Ugh... I hate it when an entire paragraph like that is written as one exceedingly long sentence.
I clicked reload on the browser to verify the change. It seemed like the unnecessary SOS Brigade emblem had left its footprint on the internet world properly. I took a quick look at the access counter, and as expected, the number was still at two digits. It'd be fine if no one but Haruki would ever see the site. I really don't want to be known as the one who made such an awful website.
By the end of the day, as the first term somehow comes to a close, so do the days that have drawn out my melancholy, coming to a momentary rest that will begin tomorrow. That rest's name is called the exam break. This preparatory period will last until summer vacation, and is the time when the teachers will be busy marking my test papers wrong.
Damn, that's annoying.
Feeling both depressed and annoyed, my feet took me to the Literature-Club-Room-Turned-SOS-Brigade-Hideout. At least I could watch Asahina-sempai to achieve some peace of mind.
Nagato silently reading a book, Itsuko smiling while solving a Shogi problem by herself, Asahina-sempai waiting on us in his butler costume, Haruki saying, chattering, screaming or shouting something incomprehensible, and me having to listen to those tedious words; this has been the pattern these days.
Nothing has really happened recently, but I've felt like this since the beginning.
With a sinking feeling, I knocked on the door. Hoping to hear a "Yes~?" in Asahina-sempai's lilting voice, what came out instead was,
"Come in!"
It was Haruki's careless voice, and when I entered, Haruki was the only one I saw. With his elbows on the chief's desk, he was doing something on the PC that he had forcefully acquired from the Computer Studies group.
"Oh, it's just you?"
"Yuuki's here, too, you know."
Certainly, Nagato was in the corner of the table with an open book, seeming like he had become a figurine as he usually did. He's more like an attachment to the room, so there's hardly any reason to include him in the count. He hasn't even committed to entering the SOS Brigade, and is officially a member of the Literature Club. But, I guess I probably should still correct myself.
"Oh, it's just you and Nagato?"
"Do you have any complaints about it? If you do, I'd like to hear them. I'm the chief here, after all."
If I were to list my complaints about you, I'd completely fill up an A4 note, front and back.
"I'm the one who should be disappointed. Because you knocked like that, I thought a client must have certainly come. Don't confuse me by acting like one, okay?"
I'm taking care so I don't accidentally witness Asahina-sempai changing his clothes live. That charmingly careless person hasn't quite figured out that he should lock the door.
And what was that about clients? Tell me, what kind of customer would visit this room?
After that, Haruki looked at me with disdain on his face.
"You don't remember?"
A thought startled me. He couldn't be referring to what happened after Tanabata three years ago, could he?
"You're the one who did it! And without getting my permission."
Whatever could that be...?
"You put up that poster on the clubroom building's bulletin board."
Oh, that. I let out a sigh of relief.
To get the student council to somehow approve the SOS Brigade, I made up some fictitious activity plans. After concluding that a gang of Scoobies mystery-hunting brigade wouldn't even make it to discussions, we could appeal to the student council to let the SOS Brigade continue by acting as a consultation office for miscellaneous problems. If I had said such a stupid thing to the executive board, we would have been shut down in an instant.
However, I had already gone so far as making a poster by hand. I don't really remember what I wrote, but I think it had something like, "We accept all consultations." Since I'd gone to the trouble, I stuck it on a bulletin board I happened to see. Even if someone did see it, I presumed that there wouldn't be anyone deranged enough to come to the SOS Brigade for advice about their problems. This seems to be correct, as we presently have no clients, which suits me just fine.
Still, as Haruki had remembered such a thing, was he actually waiting for clients to come? It was time to go home for the day, but perhaps it was better to get myself unstuck from here. If a student with a truly strange problem came, things would get complicated.
I was deciding in a corner of my mind, and while Haruki was moving the mouse around, he said,
"Anyway, look at this. Something's strange. I wonder if the PC's broken."
I looked through the side of Haruki's hair. What the display was unwillingly projecting was our SOS Brigade homepage. However, it was subtly different from what I had made. The emblem that had been clumsily scribbled by Haruki was distorted, and the counter and title logo had just been blown off. I tried reloading, but it didn't change. It was like abnormal data completely covered it like a mosaic.
"It's not the PC. It looks like the file on the server is corrupt."
I don't understand the internet very well, but I know that much. By chance, I had thought of keeping a local copy of the site to view in the browser, so we could still make it display properly.
"Since when has it been like this?"
"Who knows? I've only been checking the mail these past few days, so I haven't seen the site. It was like this when I looked at it today. Where should I file a complaint?"
There's no need to file a complaint. The fix is simple. I snatched the mouse away from Haruki, and sent the stored index page files to the server, overwriting the data with the same name. I tried redisplaying.
"Hmm?"
The site remained crashed. I repeated it many times, but the result was the same. It seemed like I had somehow contracted a can't-control-the-computer disorder.
{Note: Reminds me of what everyone else in my family seems to suffer from...}
"Isn't this strange? Maybe it's that thing, those rumors about hackers or crackers that people talk about?"
"Can't be." I denied. It's hard to think that there are people with so much free time that they would go cracking a site that wasn't linked to from anywhere and that nobody looks at. It's probably some kind of error.
"How irritating! Maybe someone's committing cyber-terrorism on the SOS Brigade! Who could it be? If I find that person, I'll delete his net-navi sentence him to thirty days of community service without having a trial!"
Taking my eyes off of the steaming Haruki, I turned to look at Nagato, who seemed to be wearing opacity optical camouflage. {Note: Try saying that five times fast.} Couldn't this person have done it somehow? I thought. Although I could internally form an image of him arbitrarily having detailed knowledge of computers, I have never seen Nagato doing anything with the PC. To be more precise, I should say that there's hardly any scene other than him reading a book.
There was the sound of knocking.
"Come in!"
The door opened during Haruki's reply; it was Itsuko with her usually, excessivly fresh smile,
"My, how unusual. Asahina-san hasn't arrived yet?"
"The second years have more exams, don't they?"
It was the last day of the term for us first years, and we only had three periods. It should've been okay if we had quickly gone home, so why were we all gathering in such a place? Did I really have so few friends? And Haruki, why didn't you do a counter tsukkomi on Itsuko for knocking?
Itsuko left her bag lying on the table, brought out a Diamond Game board from the cupboard and turned to me with inviting eyes. I shook my head; Itsuko shrugged and started a single player diamond. I really couldn't wait for Asahina-sempai's tea.
Unless I end up chasing something shiny, I should have this whole thing done by the end of the week.
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... so you think you're a king now...
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If you've got something to say, please say it. Unlike Boredom, I'm actually trying to take this one somewhat seriously. Obviously not entirely seriously, or I wouldn't be throwing in random references to Scooby-Doo or Rockman.EXE.
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about saimoe...
maybe next year kyonko will be able to join as KYONKO not ponytailed girl..
i mean.. kyoani lurks 2ch, right? that's why we got shiraishi on Lucky Star... (dawn that forgotten item)
since kyonko started from 2ch... hopefully they'll put in a kyonko cameo...
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I am never gonna say good bye,
never run around is my body, never desert you is my blood
unknown to telling lies, nor known to hurting you
have rolled the rick over nine thousand times
yet never gonna give you up
so as I sing, UNLIMITED RICKROLL WORKS
and everyone here will have their field day i bet...
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I am never gonna say good bye,
never run around is my body, never desert you is my blood
unknown to telling lies, nor known to hurting you
have rolled the rick over nine thousand times
yet never gonna give you up
so as I sing, UNLIMITED RICKROLL WORKS
Just an update: "Something shiny" has come along to distract me... can't really give a good estimate as to when I'll have pt2 up...
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None that I am aware of. Though I believe there is a day or two now of open nominations (the Saimoe thread says up to 8 different votes per person for today). So if you can, or know how to vote, you can vote her in I suppose. Based on her one possible cameo.
None that I am aware of. Though I believe there is a day or two now of open nominations (the Saimoe thread says up to 8 different votes per person for today). So if you can, or know how to vote, you can vote her in I suppose. Based on her one possible cameo.
C'mon peeps. Let's get more support for Kyonko goin'.