[ SECRET POST #417 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #417 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

1.


__________________________________________________



2.


__________________________________________________



3.


__________________________________________________



4.


__________________________________________________



5.


__________________________________________________



6.


__________________________________________________



7.


__________________________________________________



8.


__________________________________________________



9.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.


__________________________________________________



13.


__________________________________________________



14.


__________________________________________________



15.


__________________________________________________



16.


__________________________________________________



17.


__________________________________________________



18.


__________________________________________________



19.


__________________________________________________



20.


__________________________________________________



21.


__________________________________________________



22.


__________________________________________________



23.


__________________________________________________



24.


__________________________________________________



25.


__________________________________________________



26.


__________________________________________________



27.


__________________________________________________



28.


__________________________________________________



29.


__________________________________________________



30.


__________________________________________________



31.


__________________________________________________



32.


__________________________________________________



33.


__________________________________________________



34.


__________________________________________________



35.


__________________________________________________



36.


__________________________________________________



37.


__________________________________________________



38.


__________________________________________________



39.


__________________________________________________



40.


__________________________________________________



41.


__________________________________________________



42.


__________________________________________________



43.


__________________________________________________



44.


__________________________________________________



45.


__________________________________________________



46.


__________________________________________________



47.


__________________________________________________



48.


__________________________________________________



49.


__________________________________________________



50.


__________________________________________________



51.


__________________________________________________



52.


__________________________________________________



53.


__________________________________________________



54.


__________________________________________________



55.


__________________________________________________



56.


__________________________________________________



57.


__________________________________________________



58.


__________________________________________________



59.


__________________________________________________



60.


__________________________________________________



61.


__________________________________________________



62.


__________________________________________________



63.


__________________________________________________



64.


__________________________________________________



65.


__________________________________________________



66.


__________________________________________________



67.


__________________________________________________



68.


__________________________________________________



69.


__________________________________________________



70.


__________________________________________________



71.


__________________________________________________



72.


__________________________________________________



73.


__________________________________________________



74.


__________________________________________________



75.


__________________________________________________



76.



Notes:

If you resubmit secrets, please mark them as resubmissions. Like add "this was too big last time" or something, or it might get shoved into the repeats. Kind of can't really remember 600+ unique secrets a week gdhtkjdfhf

Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 250 secrets from Secret Submission Post #060.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 ] not!secrets, [ 1 2 3 4 ] not!fandom, [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ] too big, [ 1 2 3 ] repeat, [ 1 ] posted twice, [ 1 ] etc, [ 1 ] ok take it to comments, [ 1 ] wtf.
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

40 OP

[(Anonymous)]

Because the original pics don't reflect how dark and angsty the AU!versions are!

They need something that shows how CCS's Syaoran became a murderer and Sakura got horribly depressed and tricked by her friends and family to not be able to help Syaoran!

Re: 40 OP

[svati-arcturus.livejournal.com]

...What.

What RP is this? I want to see how horrifying their threads are?

...Why must they darken the most adorable and sweet of all CLAMP's series? (I mean, use X or something!)

*says the person who only has Holic and TRC icons. But they are cute ones~!*

40 OP

[(Anonymous)]

They're in Econtra RPG.

I don't know. They're far angstier than the TRC versions, and that's saying something. And it just reeks of bad!fic. Poor Sakura, tricked into losing her soulmate! Syaoran is TRC!Syaoran! He keeps his eyepatch and his tattoos for no reason! They have dark magic and dark dreams and dark personalities and dark icons and dark everything! They have new "cool" names for each other despite Sakura's name being significant to her because of Nadeshiko, and Syaoran being the same as "Xiao Lang"!

Re: 40 OP

[svati-arcturus.livejournal.com]

小狼...ah yes that name *loves knowing Chinese* If they really wanted to be all COOL DARK AND ANGSTY they could call him 'Little Wolf' and he'd have some weird wolf totem and and and maybe he'd turn into a wolf when he was angry...


But then again, they don't actually know the LANGUAGE or anything, so it wouldn't really make sense for some little whiny emokids who are soooo dark and soooo cool but are really just poseurs.

Re: 40 OP

[(Anonymous)]

'Scuse me, pardon me, butting in! ^^- Don't worry, I'm not one of the two muns come to bite your head off. I am in Econtra though. The point is not to be "COOL DARK AND ANGSTY". Their past is complicated, and quite well thought out. Even the muns themselves joke about how out-of-hand angsty it's gotten, and are working to give the two muses a break. Neither of the muns are "little whiny emokids who are soooo dark and soooo cool but are really just poseurs", either. They're quite reasonable and down-to-earth people.

Also. Knowing more than one language is great, but not knowing a certain language shouldn't be basis for ridicule. I'm willing to wager that most Americans into anime don't know Japanese. Yet they use Japanese names and sometimes little phrases.

Not trying to start a wank war here folks. But please don't badmouth others when you don't know them, or even anything about them other than second-hand trash talking.

40 OP

[(Anonymous)]

If you think "horribly OOC and badfic!like" = "well thought out", then good for you!

I'm sure the muns are nice people. That doesn't mean I don't think that their AU!versions of Sakura and Syaoran fail horribly.

Not knowing a certain language can be a basis for ridicule if you're using it to be cool and give your characters "new names". They don't make sense, and for the record, I don't know Chinese either. I just know enough Japanese to know that Syaoran = Xiao Lang. And I've read the manga, so I know that the name "Sakura" is important because it's connected to Nadeshiko. I'm pretty sure Sakura wouldn't want to have a different name.

Re: 40 OP

[(Anonymous)]

No need to get snippish. I never said that. My opinion is that their backstories are well thought out, yours is that they're "horribly ooc and badfic!like". The reason they gave the characters new names is because of the connection between them. It's a token of their deep bond and the love they have for each other.

I've read the manga too. Sakura was a very important name--to Nadeshiko. Not that Sakura doesn't love her mother despite having only known her for the first three years of her life, and not that Fujitaka likely hasn't expressed how important the name is. Ying Fa and Xiao Lang are names Sakura and Syaoran started calling each other, privately. But in Econtra, Sakura decided to use Ying Fa as her name.

40 OP

[(Anonymous)]

But that's exactly what I said! If you like them, then good for you.

The new names don't make sense. It's not Fujitaka that says the name is important. It's Sonomi. To Sakura. Volume 3? When she opens the box that Shield was guarding, and she sees the bouquet that Nadeshiko had in her wedding. Sonomi explains that Nadeshiko loved sakuras, and that she'd name her daughter after them. And that Sakura is "that Sakura".

But well, I guess that one's more subjective.

Syaoran being called Xiao Lang, though? Isn't. For Sakura, "Syaoran" is the way to say "Xiao Lang". It's Japanese phonetics. Syaoran calls himself "Syaoran" in the manga. There's no difference for a Japanese person. Therefore, the name change is ridiculous.

Re: 40 OP

[(Anonymous)]

All right, all right, yish.

Sonomi told her then, all right. I remember that.

And while you certainly have a point, Ying Fa/AU!Sakura/whatever is learning/has learned a considerable amount of Chinese, thus justifying her calling Syaoran "Xiao Lang", no?

40 OP

[(Anonymous)]

It has nothing to do with whether she's learned Chinese or not. It's the same name.

"Syaoran" is the way it's written phonetically in Japanese, but it's written in katakana. Meaning they say it as a foreign word.

Er, it's like the difference between "Raito" and "Light". Only that the difference is clearer for someone who isn't Japanese. For Sakura, "Syaoran" and "Xiao Lang" are the exact same thing.

Re: 40 OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yet Raito is pronounced differently from Light.

All my point is, is that AU Sakura has learned to pronounce Syaoran's name as a Chinese person would pronounce it. *shrug*

Re: 40 OP

[svati-arcturus.livejournal.com]

Hey guyz, no need to get all wanky in my thread >o

Re: 40 OP

[(Anonymous)]

The reason they didn't let Sakura go after him is because they didn't want her to die because it was clearly a trap for her to go after Syaoran.

And considering Syaoran only killed the evil villain and his evil minions, I don't think that's too uncalled for. After all, it's a common thing to happen in any stories with evil bad guy and minions involved.

40 OP

[(Anonymous)]

Right. Only that Sakura is the most powerful magician in the CLAMP-verse. Even if it was a trap, she'd be able to defeat Fei Wang Reed. And her friends wouldn't conspire against her going to rescue Syaoran. They'd be all trying to help her.