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branchandroot) wrote2004-08-16 02:37 pm
branchandroot) wrote2004-08-16 02:37 pm
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PoT: Mirror Writing: Ripple
Fic post from my archive.
The day after the events of "Twist", Ryouma tries to sort out his thoughts.
Ryouma snorted a laugh. If he ever admitted to Momo that his protective streak made Ryouma feel better, he'd be doomed. Probably for life. Momo would never again believe Ryouma was serious when he grumbled or swatted Momo away.
There goes my good mad...
Hm. I wonder if Nanjiroh just doesn't know HOW to be a good dad. Like, you get scenes where he's watching Ryouma play and you can tell, when something interesting happens, that he's pleased with Ryouma, but he never really says, "Yo! Good job!" And when it comes to personal relationships, as with Ryouma and Sakuno, you know he... cares? is interested in? how Ryouma deals with girls, he just never expresses it unless it's in the form of teasing.
...Geez. Nanjiroh shows his affection for his son like a fourth grade boy with a crush on the prettiest girl in the class. You know, hair pulling and name calling and stupid faces. I find his interpretation of a parent amusing in a cartoon, but in real life, I'd probably want to kick a head or two in.
Re: There goes my good mad...
*ahem* Anyway. I do kind of wonder what sort of upbringing Nanjirou himself had. With that kind of wild talent, he couldn't have fit into his society very easily, and if his own parents had no real point of contact with their son's gift and obsession, that might explain a few things. He might be offering Ryouma what he thinks he would have liked himself. Kind of like my aunt, who was a really picky eater as a child, and has always more or less made three dinners (one for her and her husband, one for her son and one for her daughter) because she wishes her own mom had/could have done that for her.
But Nanjirou does strike me as someone who never quite matured, in a lot of ways. If tennis was his world and life, and no one ever gave him a decent run for his money, after he left Ryuuzaki-sensei, he probably never had to. So, yeah, he might not know how to express this gift he's trying to give the way an adult who's also Ryouma's caretaker should.