Hi again! I just found the thread again! (Of course this might or might not be a good thing depending on your tolerance for Kaiba and Aoshi comparisons....) At least I found my way back in time to hear myself complimented is a total compliment whore
I thought it was a great point that Kaiba and Saitou are alike in terms of seeing things in black and white while living their lives in shades of gray (did you say that or AmunRa -- wqho btw should have the nexy chapter of Intruders out soon...) Anyway, and I agree in terms of snarky attitude they are such a match especially as it relates to how they act around Jounouchi/Sanosuke (and those two really are identical!)
I agree on seeing Kaiba as a fusion of Aoshi and Saito. It's striking that Kaiba and Aoshi are both loners who's stongest character trait is their dsevotion to others, but it's mainly their journeys that strike me as similar. Aoshi needs time in the temple to piece his life back together, which strikes me as similar to Kaiba having his heart shattered. They both (hopefully) transfer from needing an opponent to measure their life against to needing a mission to fulfill, bioth find themselves through reaffirming their connection (without ever mentioning anything like an emotion) to the person most in their lives.
Then I had a totally eccentric random thought (surprise, surprise) -- they are also similar in how they use their soul card/weapon of choice. The weaposn the characters choose in RK is very revealing, especially in the case of Aoshi and Kenshin (which I suppose is appropriate given the whole 'the sword of the samurai is the soul of the samurai mystique), the same way each character in YGO's soul card is equally revealling (I would argue it is the entire deck that's revealing, but that's another rant.)
Anyway, (yes there IS a point!) Kaiba's card is the BEWD. Aoshi's original weapon of choice is a kodachi -- which is a single weapon. When both lose their intial fights using their signature card/weapon and then they both choose to augment that weapon, to sort of intensify it's effect in a way that no one had considered or thought possible -- Kaiba by creating the Ultimate BEWD and Aoshi by adoptina a dual kodachi.
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Re: I also got a name!
Date: 2006-05-13 03:35 pm (UTC)is a total compliment whoreI thought it was a great point that Kaiba and Saitou are alike in terms of seeing things in black and white while living their lives in shades of gray (did you say that or AmunRa -- wqho btw should have the nexy chapter of Intruders out soon...) Anyway, and I agree in terms of snarky attitude they are such a match especially as it relates to how they act around Jounouchi/Sanosuke (and those two really are identical!)
I agree on seeing Kaiba as a fusion of Aoshi and Saito. It's striking that Kaiba and Aoshi are both loners who's stongest character trait is their dsevotion to others, but it's mainly their journeys that strike me as similar. Aoshi needs time in the temple to piece his life back together, which strikes me as similar to Kaiba having his heart shattered. They both (hopefully) transfer from needing an opponent to measure their life against to needing a mission to fulfill, bioth find themselves through reaffirming their connection (without ever mentioning anything like an emotion) to the person most in their lives.
Then I had a totally eccentric random thought (surprise, surprise) -- they are also similar in how they use their soul card/weapon of choice. The weaposn the characters choose in RK is very revealing, especially in the case of Aoshi and Kenshin (which I suppose is appropriate given the whole 'the sword of the samurai is the soul of the samurai mystique), the same way each character in YGO's soul card is equally revealling (I would argue it is the entire deck that's revealing, but that's another rant.)
Anyway, (yes there IS a point!) Kaiba's card is the BEWD. Aoshi's original weapon of choice is a kodachi -- which is a single weapon. When both lose their intial fights using their signature card/weapon and then they both choose to augment that weapon, to sort of intensify it's effect in a way that no one had considered or thought possible -- Kaiba by creating the Ultimate BEWD and Aoshi by adoptina a dual kodachi.
Talk to you later...