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xparrotOh bloody hell. Oda's made me cry again. ...not actual bawling, really I need the anime's voices and music to gut me like that, but...close enough. "It's me, I've gotten bigger, but don't you remember me?...you're really my mother, aren't you?"
Nami's story is heartbreaking, but this...and Olvia, we've only seen her for what, like 3 chapters, but you can so feel her pain as she's walking away, because it's all she can do...and then Robin shouts the one thing she shouldn't, the one thing those who love her would do anything to keep the world government from knowing, and you want to scream, even though you empathize with her so entirely that you know exactly why she says it, because she's just a child, after all, and you almost want her to say it, if only because her mother might turn around... That is just classic, classic Oda, one of those moments that is so perfectly constructed in its tragedy that it's breathtaking.
I hesitate to say Robin is my favorite female character of all time, but, damn...she might well be.
...Also, since everyone needs at least one impossible crossover crack from hell OTP - Robin x Kaiba, baby. Blue-eyed ice & fire - superintelligent, super-reserved orphans who went darkside to survive their brutal pasts, redeemed by their carefully hidden depths of love and loyalty.
...No, I have no idea how it would workbut man, would it be hot!
Nami's story is heartbreaking, but this...and Olvia, we've only seen her for what, like 3 chapters, but you can so feel her pain as she's walking away, because it's all she can do...and then Robin shouts the one thing she shouldn't, the one thing those who love her would do anything to keep the world government from knowing, and you want to scream, even though you empathize with her so entirely that you know exactly why she says it, because she's just a child, after all, and you almost want her to say it, if only because her mother might turn around... That is just classic, classic Oda, one of those moments that is so perfectly constructed in its tragedy that it's breathtaking.
I hesitate to say Robin is my favorite female character of all time, but, damn...she might well be.
...Also, since everyone needs at least one impossible crossover crack from hell OTP - Robin x Kaiba, baby. Blue-eyed ice & fire - superintelligent, super-reserved orphans who went darkside to survive their brutal pasts, redeemed by their carefully hidden depths of love and loyalty.
...No, I have no idea how it would work
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Date: 2006-01-09 08:02 am (UTC)Mmm. I'm not saying Bellemere was a better mother, just because her choice was to claim her children... that was the circumstances. It's possible that it is even harder to deny your child in the way Olvia did (she obviously loves Robin very much!) than to show your love to them the way Bellemere did. It's just that they are the two most "active" mothers we've sees, and that their fates were so similar in some ways, and so diametrically opposite in others. And I find it fascinating to find such women in a shounen! Especially one created by such a young man! I mean, he IS a genious, but that he's a genious in this particular way as well... damn, but I love him.
In the translation I read it said "late husband", but... I don't remember what the original said. I didn't react to it as if it said "late husband", though, but like I said - I am much with the missing things when it comes to Japanese. Robin says about her dad that "there isn't one", which sounds strange to say to me, if he really was dead. I think women probably inherit the D just fine, but if there isn't anyone around to bestow that name on them, then they don't get it. I don't think the possibility is SO great that she is in fact the daughter of Gol D Roger, but... even if she was, there are plenty of reasons why she wouldn't have the D.
The Ds in general seem to have very interesting naming traditions! From all we've seen, they're pretty unique. Vivi shared her father's name too, Nefertari, right? So it would seem that's the most common, but then there are people like the Ds, who do whatever they feel like, and to hell with conventions! Which might be the case for a lot of these naming things... it is confusing that Zoro has "Roronoa" when Usopp has nothing. And Chopper - well, he was given two names! Ow. My head, it hurts... ^^;;; Which is to say, I have no idea what Odacchi is up to when it comes to the names.