PoT: Translated: Tarnished

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Tarnished

Tezuka watches his newest warrior and wonders about him. Drama, I-3

Kaga would be a good place to see Echizen's real mettle. Kunimitsu's mouth tightened.

Echizen's form was beautiful. Deadly.

And wrong.

Comments

[hazuki-katako.livejournal.com]

Oh...you skipped over Kaidou and went straight over to Inui. But I guess Kaidou wouldn't challenge Echizen right away? Inui probably wants to get some data... Ii data
I wonder what Eiji would look like when he fights. It'd be pretty hard to do acrobatics in the samurai armour...but if he were a ninja then that's different... *suddenly imagines Eiji and Gakuto throwing shurinken and kunai at each other*
Okay...since Tezuka is Taisho...and Momo is Taii...I can imagine Fuji being Chusa. I think. With his skills and all. :x But it's your story do whatever you want! @_@;
Fudomine~ well they're Kaga now. Oh, I wonder how Tezuka will make Echizen really improve... :x

[branchandroot]

*nodnod* I'm not planning to hit every match. There are just too many. So it's basically the one's for the characters who speak to me most. Alas, Kaidou has never really been a strong muse for me. *sighs*

Ah! Do you have any citations for ranks besides bu/Taishou and Taii, in this period? I couldn't find any other ranks in actual, attested use. And I'm /really/ hesitant to fill in the blanks with the military ranks that developed later.

*wry* And, I have to say, Tezuka is kind of wondering what he'll do with Echizen, too.

[hazuki-katako.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember reading the notes before you mentioning that you'll only do the matches that you liked the best.

For the ranks I went to wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_officer_rank
I compared the Japanese Imperial Army ranks to the United States army ranks...

[branchandroot]

Ah. *nodnod* The thing is, the Imperial Army is a very specific historical body, late 19th and early 20th C. Some of its ranks come from way further back, but Taishou and Taii are the only ones I've actually been able to trace as far back as Sengoku. *is quite frustrated by this* Maybe the universities I have access to don't have enough military history journals. *a bit woeful* It would have been a whole lot easier finding background if I'd set this in Tokugawa. But Sengoku is just so much fun.