NOTES FOR EPISODE VI of TOUCH AND GO:





	This was one hell of an episode, wasn't it? When James's life was at
risk, I was crying my eyes out... and I wrote it. Yipes, ne? 0_o (Then again,
I was listening to Komm süsser Tod, Junshin, and Thanatos while I was writing
it, and all three of those songs are REALLY depressing... well, Thanatos
isn't a song, per se, it's BGM, but there was a song written to the tune
of it which I was also listening to...) If I wasn't so damn fond of James and
if it wouldn't totally screw up the entire story, I might have let him die.
*Might* have. I was tempted to while I was writing because everything pointed
to that. But of course, it was not meant to be, because if I killed him off,
everything Starry and I have planned for the ensuing episodes would be
completely f***ed up. And besides, I'd miss the little bishounen.
	Anyway, onto the usual notes... just had to get that other stuff off
my chest...


 - Ayanami, Faris' Gengar, is named after Ayanami Rei (one of my favorite
characters) from Shinseiki Evangelion. Ayanami Rei, the First Children, is
very cold and very indifferent.

 - The whole WHUMPing of the tail is based off my best friend's younger
brother's cat, Calvin (named after Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes, because he
acts like him). Calvin the Cat is big, fluffy, adorable, intelligent, and
NASTY. He has a VERY bad temper, and if you even *touch* his irresistible
white tummy, he'll claw your hand off. Whenever he's pissed, he growls and
his tail goes WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP and you know someone's going to get bitten
or clawed if they get too close. Our nickname for him is Mewtwo.

 - "Saa, ikimashou ka?" is formal Japanese; it means something along the lines
of, "Now, shall we go?"

 - Iced lemonade is a double pun...Akio drinks lots of iced drinks, and "lemon"
is a quite apt description of his personality... >;ş

 - The passage James is reading is slightly based off the translation of one
of the duel songs from SKU (Chikyuu wa Jinbutsu Chinretsushitsu).

 - That's a really big "BITCH!", isn't it?

 - It's rather obvious, but Alisa and Shaun are based off Asuka and Shinji,
both from Evangelion. Cara's sort of based off of Rei, but not really. Just
partially. I guess you could say it's a combination of Ritsuko and Ayanami.

 - I wrote Yume Nashi no Yuumei. I love it, and if you don't, biiiiiiiida to
you. Sephiroth really is living up to his name, isn't he? ^o^;; I wrote this
part right after seeing Mewtwo Strikes Back! for the first time, so it's very
slightly affected by that. (No, there was not a drop of blood in MSB!, but
he *did* blow up the research facility he was created in. And his aura was
blue in the movie as well as in TaG.)

 - The person announcing stuff is Cara. I forgot to mention it in the episode
itself, but it's not that important a detail anyway, so I'm not going to
write it in.

 - When Faris screams "Iyaaaa", I had in mind the scream Eternal Sailormoon
made in the final episodes of Stars when Mars-tachi died. (That was really
sad ;_;)

 - The strange verse Sephiroth hears in his mind are lyrics from the song
Thanatos ~If I Can't Be Yours~ (I was listening to it at the time).

 - "Yappari" means "as I thought". "Gomen nasai" means "I'm very sorry". "Sou
(yo)" means "that's right"; "sou ka" means "is that right?"

 - The song Faris sings is another thing I wrote. It's the second ending
theme for Tur'ennyn; the title is "Mirai no Kibou ~REBIRTH~". Yes, it's
supposed to be sung in English.

 - The duel between Thom and Faris isn't written into the episode because I
didn't have time for it. It's instead going to be written into a special,
plus an extended end to episode 6.