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9. "RE: A thought to wake Utena up"
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   LAST EDITED ON Oct-17-20 AT 07:13 PM (EDT)
 
>>"Utena! Marry us!"
>>"I'm a little busy at the moment!"
>
>Ooh - yes, that's a good point of reference there. I can see this.

In the course of picking my way gingerly through the horrendously stressful and yet occasionally very rewarding combination nuclear waste dump and gold mine that is the continuum of Touhou dōjinshi, I ran across one in which a couple of characters* were getting married, and their mothers freaked out about the whole "yuri wedding" thing and tried to stop them. Via 2v2 wizard duel, of course, because Touhou.

The fun twist on it was that, instead of fighting off the interlopers and then doing the thing, the brides in question went through with the various steps of the ceremony while having the fight, such that they finished off the opposition and concluded the ritual with the same action. And then everyone's smiling in the wedding photo together, because in Gensōkyō, if you lose a wizard duel over a difference of opinion, you cheerfully accept the new status quo. That's the rule, except when it isn't. :)

So even though I haven't seen the movie referenced above (I've only seen the first Pirates film and about half of the second), I still get a nice visual out of this, and it's of the three of them trying to get the damn ceremony done and fight off the bad guys at the same time.

It takes a special kind of officiant to deliver the entire "to have and to hold, etc." riff—twice—while simultaneously swashing bucklers, and never mind expecting the bride and groom to remember all of their lines.

"With this ring,** I thee wed—"

"RAAAAARRRGGHH!!"

"Not you!" (WHACK) "You have issues, where was I?"

--G.
* Marisa and Alice, if you're into that sort of thing
** they're going to run out of fingers at this rate; a consequence of plural marriage nobody ever thinks about

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   RE: A thought to wake Utena up Gryphonadmin Oct-12-20 1
      RE: A thought to wake Utena up BobSchroeck Oct-14-20 2
          RE: A thought to wake Utena up Croaker Oct-15-20 3
              RE: A thought to wake Utena up MuninsFire Oct-15-20 4
                  RE: A thought to wake Utena up BobSchroeck Oct-17-20 5
                      RE: A thought to wake Utena up BlackAeronaut Oct-17-20 6
                  RE: A thought to wake Utena up Meridias Oct-17-20 7
                      RE: A thought to wake Utena up MuninsFire Oct-17-20 8
                         RE: A thought to wake Utena up Gryphonadmin Oct-17-20 9
                              RE: A thought to wake Utena up Meridias Oct-17-20 10
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