#playing tricks

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Day 30: Trick

During their time together on this adventure, Wind had managed to play a trick on almost everyone.

Nothing that would harm any of his fellow heroes—he wasn’t trying to be mean. A few pinecones in a boot, switching tunics from their bags, hanging a cloak from a tree so it looked like a ghost. The other heroes took it all in good fun, which he was grateful for. Sometimes these guys needed to lighten up!

But the one he hadn’t done anything to yet was the Captain. Wind had been wracking his brain trying to think of a good trick to play on him. Meanwhile it was luring Warriors into a false sense of security, he’d actually commented that he must be Wind’s favourite and that’s why he’d been spared.

Oh, was he in for a surprise.

After a long day’s walk, the heroes had finally stopped for the night. The sun was setting, but it wasn’t fully dark yet as the heroes gathered around the campfire to wait for Wild to finish making dinner. Wind made his way over, holding his spyglass and fiddling with it as he settled in on the log next to Warriors.

Wind was extending and compacting the spyglass over and over—a common thing for him to do when idle.

He extended it and then held it up just in front of his eye, peering through at Hyrule and Legend across the fire. “Huh, it’s not working.”

“What do you mean, sailor?” Warriors asked.

“I look through and I can’t see anything,” Wind said before sighing dramatically. “I hope it’s not broken.”

“Here, let me take a look,” Warriors took it and held it right up against his eye. “I can see just fine through it, Wind.”

“Oh that’s weird,” Wind said, barely holding in his laughter.

Warriors pulled the spyglass away only to reveal a big black ring around his eye. He nearly jumped at the sound of Legend bursting into cackles.

“Oh Wind, I knew you wouldn’t let us down,” Legend roared as he fell to his knees. By then the others had noticed and laughter rang throughout the camp.

Warriors was utterly confused until he got up and went to their collection of stuff and looked into the veteran’s mirror shield.

“Oh you little blige rat!” He shouted with a hint of laughter in his voice. He wiped off the grease with a rag before heading back to the fire and grabbing Wind and pulling him into a headlock and ruffling his hair. “And here I thought you liked me best!”

I’m coming down from some weird high brought on by cramming three Junji Ito books into my head over the span of roughly five days.

And soon after my previous (really long) post about Tanaka and what he might know about Sebastian, Vincent, etc. last night? I started to think about Tanaka differently. Ito-sama likes to trick the reader… and so does Yana-san.

You know how Undertaker says our earl is different from his predecessors, and he makes note of it when our earl is trying to protect a fellow classmate from a bizarre doll?

Instead of Vincent’s evil streak being brought to the forefront by Tanaka… what if Vincent was extremely evil, and Tanaka was a force of good around him? What if Tanaka acted to make Vincent nicer to others?

I mean, Tanaka is always shown being good to our earl and real Ciel when they were younger. He’s tried to lessen the hurt they feel, particularly our earl when he feels left out. Offering to play chess and supply him with chocolate cake. We’ve never seen Tanaka doing anything to make our earl feel worse — or more importantly — act worse. Have we? Not even once he returned to the manor and resumed his post as House Steward.

He’s basically “Sure, use my tea set and tea! Yay dessert! Yay paper cranes and paper planes! Yay yaki mochi for New Year’s! Ho! Ho! Ho!”

He only acts (and looks) serious once things get serious, so besides his parallel to Leder in Mother3 theory, he’s also basically a joy… when there’s joy to be had.

Who knows, Tanaka might have been selected by Cloudia/Claudia because young Vincent needed a good influence in his life… and that couldn’t just be left up to his sister, since she’s also a Phantomhive. They needed an external good influence.

Seriously, idk… but it’s interesting to think about. We could have had Vincent and Tanaka (personality-wise) switched around this whole time… simply because of a teaser in an old tweet. She doesn’t say what Tanaka is really like; he could have a heart of gold.

28th of Heartfire

After just narrowly making our way through the Forelhost Crypts, we emerged into Skyrim wilderness once more. As we descended through the brush, I made a careless comment about how bandits were desperate people who would attack no matter what the odds.

We spent the next hour sneaking up on an empty canyon because my statement left Illarina paranoid.

I received a stern look for my “deceit,” for which I had no excuse.