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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 128
Message ID: 12
#12, RE: GG3/V: Nord par Nord-Est
Posted by Astynax on Jun-23-21 at 12:58 PM
In response to message #10
>"Go safely" is indeed in Stoker:
>Without it, "leave something of the happiness you bring" would be kind
>of a non sequitur.
>

I was thinking of the movie version of the greeting, which omits the 'go safely'. The joys of adaptations and imperfect memory.

>She's just being comically salacious. (Later on, she may realize how
>unintentionally right she was, which should be amusing. :)
>

Going by her reactions in other scenes, I expect she'll end up with cheeks matching Reimu's usual outfit at some point during the realization.

>Pondering the exact background behind the remark gives me the pleasant
>image of Reimu explaining why she can't go anywhere near Yokosuka, to
>the tune of the episode of WKRP in Cincinnati where the crew at
>the radio station are getting ready to go to Mexico for some urgent
>reason I've forgotten, and Dr. Johnny Fever reveals that he can't go
>with them because he's wanted there.
>
>"It was a minor misunderstanding one night with 145 Mexican cops. I
>thought they were soldiers..."
>

"It was a minor misunderstanding one night with 145 Tokkeitai. I thought they were youkai..."


-={(Astynax)}=-
"Sometimes fanfic is a love letter to canon, sometimes it's a polite disagreement, and sometimes it's 95 things canon did wrong nailed to a door."