Big Fat Saiyuki Meta Idea - Not!

[chomiji]

I thought I had glommed onto a really, really great idea! And then I thought of one really, really big problem with it. It had to do with Pippi the youkai girl ... .

- she's Nataku.

It was when I was looking at that weird up-from-below view of her and Goku on the back of the wagon full of explosives - the one where you can see right up their nostrils (p. 110, if I'm counting correctly - maybe about 2/5 of the way through that chapter). And she has these tendrils of hair curving up and back from her forehead, and I kept wondering who that reminded me of - she has 4 or 5, and Gojyo only has 2 (his "antennae").

And then it hit me! Nataku, and his tendrils! And she looks like him other ways, too - she has his hairline, and their eyes are similar except for her slit pupils, and the eyebrows are very close.

But ... then the other shoe dropped. Nataku's not dead.

Shoot.

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Edited to actually make sense this time

Ooh! But, but...have you read Angel Sanctuary by Kaori Yuki? Soulless (but somehow still living) bodies can remain in Heaven while the souls undergo reincarnation on Earth. It could work! :D

You're right, she does look like Nataku!

[chomiji]

I haven't, although I've read bits and pieces of other people's write-ups. I've bought the first few volumes of one of the other Kaori Yuki things (Godchild) and it wasn't quite working for me (my daughter rather liked it). Maybe I ought to try Angel Sanctuary?

She totally does ... ! Maybe if Nataku had been raised by a loving big brother, he'd be a bossy little thing, too!