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makeste ([personal profile] makeste) wrote2011-07-09 08:50 pm

I am so screwed for KHR Undercover.

SO SCREWED. I'm not sure whether to bow out entirely or just switch last-minute to a less ambitious fic, but as for the one I was working on? There is just no way in hell I will be able to finish it in time. Which is just as well, I suppose, since this way I don't have to worry about mixing up my writing style or trying to disguise it or whatever. It makes my life easier!

But probably you didn't come here to listen to me blather on about fic! You came because once again it is the weekend and time to sit around the campfire and tell scary stories to each other about Daemon Spade, the sinister man who comes in the night and stares at children with his hideous giant torso eyeballs, and who fills elevators with blood and stuff.


  • ...where did we leave off last chapter. I had such a distracting week (MY CAR'S TRANSMISSION BROKE DOWN SOB SOB THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS DOWN THE DRAIN, FINE, AAMCO, GO AHEAD AND TAKE YOUR BLOOD MONEY) that all I really recall is "GIOTTO WAS A DICK" and "TSUNA BLEW THINGS UP." I'm just going to trust my memory and assume that's all that was really important.
  • It is really fucking disturbing how he is just wearing those eyes on top of his head in the same manner that an innocent young child would wear Mickey Mouse ears at Disneyland.
  • And man, would you just look at that crazyface! It's just the craziest ever! I mean, this is some serious grade A crazyface right here. Premium organic. He feeds it beer and massages it daily to improve the crazy quality!
  • Oh, snap. "Your trump card is running away." Three thoughts on that:

    • EPIC BURN. High five, Tsuna, you deserve some open palm for that one!
    • That is actually the best trump card I have ever heard of. Seriously. Hooray for common sense trump cards!
    • ARE WE ABOUT TO LEARN AT LONG LAST HOW HE TELEPORTED FROM PRISON AND HOW THE VINDICE ARE CONSTANTLY JUST TELEPORTING WHEREVER THE FUCK THEY PLEASE AND HOW TELEPORTING SNUCK UP ON US ALL AND BECAME A KHR THING. Boy oh boy I hope so!

  • Spatial void...? Oh fuck, is there going to be science involved here? And this arc was doing so well on ignoring (and/or MOCKING) any and all things science, too. Unlike the last arc, which was all PHYSICS TIME TRAVEL PHYSICS OTHER DIMENSIONS PHYSICS.
  • THERE IS AN EIGHTH ATTRIBUTE FLAME AND THE VINDICE ARE ALL "NO DON'T TELL THEM!!!" ABOUT IT? HOLY SHIT, IF I HAD A PUPPY DOG TAIL IT WOULD BE WAGGING SO FURIOUSLY RIGHT NOW!
  • Dude, Daemon, clearly you're not ashamed of ANYTHING, so what the fuck ever, man.
  • Whoa, is this page a cheat sheet to which Vongola bosses died horrible untimely deaths and which didn't? Because I expect fandom to go wild with this if so.
  • AND ARE THOSE HIS OTHER HOSTS? What an interesting and dastardly life you've led, D!
  • Owlkuro, I'm pretty sure we ALL figured that one out already.
  • And, um. ...ARE THEY JUST LETTING HIM GET AWAY??!?!
  • Oh, good, they are not! Heh, I get such a fucking kick out of seeing Tsuna use his godmode combo flame, it is ridiculous. DO THE I'LL HOLD HIM AND YOU PUNCH THING AGAIN, TSUNA. |D
  • OH MY GOD TSUNA
    ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS
    YOU WERE DOING SO WELL PLEASE STOP AND THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A SECOND BEFORE YOU GO AND ACT LIKE A FUCKING IDIOT X( X( X(
  • Seriously, what? What? Does this guy seem even REMOTELY redeemable to you, Tsuna? Like, Byakuran gets incinerated with no second thoughts but Daemon "I am singlehandedly responsible for the corruption of the Vongola and the deaths of countless innocent people including the beloved younger sister of your husband Enma" Spade gets a slap on the wrist and fucking community service??
  • AND NOW WHAT IS HE DOING. "HE SURROUNDED HIS BODY IN ENERGY TO ESCAPE" WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN.
  • Sob. Well, it's good that Tsuna's apparently gotten over that temporary lapse of sanity and is getting down to business again, but all I can think is, '...does this mean YOU WERE HOLDING BACK BEFORE?' Oh my God if he was, he is getting the silent treatment from me for like A MONTH.
  • "HERE I COOOOOOOME"
  • "DIEEEEE"
  • *SHOUNEN WHOOSHING PANELS!!!!*
  • "NUHA!!"
  • "FINE THEN YOU CAN HAVE MUKURO'S BODY BACK! *HUFF*" Wow. I half expected him to add "I NEVER WANTED IT ANYWAY AND IT SMELLS FUNNY, SO THERE!"
  • "OH CRAP!" Oh my god this chapter, I am LAUGHING TEARS and CRYING LAUGHTER. ;_____;
  • BERMUDA SAVES THE DAY?! :O But before he was all like, "waaah no you guys do it!" Whatever!
  • SHOOT HIM, TSUNA! SHOOT THE GHOST! NOW THAT MUKURO'S BODY IS INEXPLICABLY OUT OF THE FRAY SOMEHOW!
  • I do believe this is the second "DON'T SHOOT" we've heard from Spade in this fight, and it is every bit as hilarious and ineffective as the first time.
  • HAHA, ZIPPO DEE FREAKING DOO DAH. \o\ \o/ /o/ EXCUSE ME, EVERYONE, THERE IS JUST ONE MORE THING I NEED TO DO BEFORE I FINISH THIS CHAPTER.


  • By the way, I would just like to state that for the record, no amount of girlfriend-related tragedy will ever inspire me to feel the slightest bit of sympathy for Daemon (she said confidently in full knowledge of Amano's almighty backstory powers... but the hell with it! DO YOUR WORST, AMANO. DO YOUR WORST). That said, that picture of the guardians is totes fucking adorable, and I love how it totally mirrors that one picture of Tsuna and his guardians too. And that Yamamoto and Knuckle are once again indistinguishable. And that Lampo is all, "DERP!" And that Giotto is totally the shortest kid at the mafia party and must have never ever gotten to ride the roller coasters ever.
  • And that not a single one of the other five guardians or Giotto has a female friend in sight, so there you have it! It is officially KHR canon that in the mafia, rather than having a one in ten chance of being gay, you have only a one in seven chance of being straight. Daemon's Girlfriend, you are officially the Hana of the Primo Generation! Congratulations, yours is a rare role indeed! Also, sorry that your boyfriend turned out to be six kinds of insane.


  • Sooooo, that's that, I guess! Next week we'll have our last Primo flashbacks (and I swear to God, if Spade somehow comes out the end of this arc looking like a more sympathetic character than Giotto currently does, I'll... I don't even know. Just... lol, I guess), and then some reunions with our beloved imprisoned Ryoheis and Adelheids, and then presumably we will have Tsuna and Enma's official wedding chapter... and then on to the next arc? CAN WE DO THAT? It seems so sudden. OUR LITTLE INHERITANCE ARC IS ALL GROWN UP AND OFF TO COLLEGE ALREADY? Time to grab the old photo albums and get all misty-eyed, I guess.


    P.S. I am going to finish that meme! (No, really! There is a reason I didn't just jump straight to the Homestuck prompt. I AM LEAVING IT THERE AS INCENTIVE.) I just need to figure out wtf to do about fics first because orz.

[identity profile] elanor-pam.livejournal.com 2011-07-10 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, I'm gonna give IEM a bajillion kudos right now, because mangahelper's translation was completely fucking awful. Things make so much more sense!

Also, it seems there is a memory left to watch? I can't believe I was right! :D

And I'm going to cut Tsuna a check on asking Daemon the "standard question" - the whole "I'll spare you if you say you're sorry" is mandatory super hero procedure and we all have to admit Tsuna could keep Superman pretty entertained by this point. Back against Byakuran he may have been caught up in the heat of the moment, and he also had Giotto's full approval, but since this time he'd just proved to Enma he was NOT evil... maybe he was putting an effort into acting more his part?

And let's not forget that "I'll spare you if you apologize" is just one step removed from "I'll spare you if you grovel", either of which could come out of a true Mafia Boss.

Also: Odds 100 to 1 that the woman Daemon went crazy for, probably in an attempt to resurrect or avenge, would NOT appreciate his actions. I won't feel sorry for him, but I WILL feel sorry for her. Crazy BFs are always bad news.

[identity profile] doomcake.livejournal.com 2011-07-10 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
SCREAMS UNDERCOVER!!!

It's due in like a week, isn't it??? OH MY GOD HAHA if you think you're screwed, I'm even worse off--I haven't even STARTED writing, much less brainstorming!! Ohhhh man. I hope you can manage to get somewhere with yours, though! \o/

[identity profile] chuuni.livejournal.com 2011-07-10 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
LMAO. So it seems that I am stuck in a kind of bind here. Because as much as I adore my Tsuna and Enma and Cozzato Giotto bromance and I am all for this backstory for Daemon Spade as well and I am shipping Daemon and this mystery woman like mad at the moment. I guess it's two separate issues, whether to forgive Daemon or to understand his motives. And it's definitely no to the first but yes to the second for me.

Amano has shown how love and friendship can trump all difficulties (like with Enma and Tsuna har har har har har ok I shut up) but if mystery woman really is the cause of all of Daemon's batshit, then I guess we're shown how love can destroy a person as well. I find it tragic that Spade continued surviving for over 100 years and being fucking insane because he lost something he loved. Because I do think he was a decent human being before he lost himself (or else why would Giotto recruit him?). It's not exactly sympathy, but more like...I wish it could have happened another way.

Also people calling the new girl a mary sue already LOLOLOLOL (the original author writing a mary sue, OKAY) seriously, what kind of girl would want her position right now? To have been part of the cause for the craziest axe murderer in the history of KHR? I feel sorry for HER.

[identity profile] aoiaoidesu.livejournal.com 2011-07-10 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure I'll never forgive D. Spade. EVER. When I read the next chapter, I'll be chanting "He fucking killed Enma's whole family, do not go soft on him" repeatedly inside my head.

But I'll probably like the girl. >///< Who is now related to Giotto in my head-canon. Sister or something. She died because of another family and Giotto could have prevented it so D wants revenge. Heh, and all that jazz.

What happened to Mukuro's long hair... Anyway, just glad D's dead already~ I'm patiently waiting for the Wedding chapter :p

[identity profile] storm-obsession.livejournal.com 2011-07-10 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
But all of the guardians must have had kids...otherwise how did the tenth generation get their genes? (assuming that they really did get their genes and it isn't one big ridiculous COINCIDENCE that they act alike, look alike, and can pretty much be paired alike...)
Hoping that that's Daemon's...uh, sister. Then we can have some sad family mush about "Oh I totally understand your pain Enma BECAUSE MY OWN SISTER DIED BECUZ OF THE MAFIA BOOHOO". The romance thing hasn't been a big theme in Reborn! so far anyway...

[identity profile] ojuzu.livejournal.com 2011-07-10 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Daemon said a while back that the tenth gen were reincarnations of the first generation. We don't know if he's right, of course, but I would be glad just for an explanation that didn't rely on people looking exactly like their great-grandparents.

*also hoping for sister*

[identity profile] elanor-pam.livejournal.com 2011-07-11 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
naw, that was a mistranslation. What he said was closer to "second coming" or second version.

[identity profile] nadramon.livejournal.com 2011-07-10 08:21 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe Spade became this crazy because all his mafia family was laughing behind his back about him being straight? OH THE DRAMA! D8 Why do even the psychopaths need to be sympathetic anyway? They never gave a Freudian excuse to Byakuran... but somehow he became good... Nevermind.

Since Daemon won't need it anymore, can I have that picture?

Also, I really wonder what will happen to Tsuna's not-relationship with Kyoko from now on... Because seriously? How is she going to pass as a love interest after Enma? I'm honestly being curious here. Also, Enma will have to check for dynamites under his bed from now on. Oh, speaking of which, how do Gokudera, Lambo, Yamamoto and Hibari get out of Wonderland?

And after this battle is over and everyone is out of prison... poor Tsuna will have to go back to the interrupted ceremony! Run Tsuna, run!

[identity profile] bearit.livejournal.com 2011-07-10 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
PFFFT, I hear you on khr-undercover. I just asked for an extension, myself. I mean, I'm sure I can finish writing it by the deadline... but it wouldn't be beta-ed if I did because I think I'll be writing it up TO the deadline, lol.

And I didn't see it that way at all, that since Daemon's the only one with a girl he's the only straight one! I laugh, because 1) Daemon is the most ~fabulous~ of the Primo Generation, how'd he end up THE straight one and 2) well. Yeah. Proof, man. I mean, Giotto's wife isn't in the picture because she's most likely Japanese and in Japan and hasn't met him yet, but other than that? I FREAKIN' KNEW IT. XDDD (Besides, the argument that all of the Tenth Generation are direct descendants of the Primos is moot once you take into consideration Knuckle: vows of celibacy. Not allowed to get married, not allowed to have sex, not allowed any sort of romantic relationship really. But then again, I'm the biggest perpetrator of making him break those vows, so... XD)

And I'm so proud of Tsuna for not letting Daemon get away with his whole, BWAHAHAHA I'M GOING TO GO POWER UP AND DESTROY YOU! HAVE FUN WITH ANOTHER TRAINING ARC~ Tsuna's OH HELL NO made me giggle with pride. Of course, like you said, he had to go and ruin the moment with his whole REDEEM YOURSELF thing. Tsuna, did you really think Daemon was going to do that? REALLY?

Well, if we don't get more Primo memories next chapter, I must demand the release of Ryohei and have him back already.
Edited 2011-07-10 12:00 (UTC)

[identity profile] ojuzu.livejournal.com 2011-07-10 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
That is actually the best trump card I have ever heard of. Seriously. Hooray for common sense trump cards!

It's like that thing from Ranma 1/2, where the Saotome school's ultimate finishing move is bowing and apologizing. THOSE ARE THE BEST TRUMP CARDS.

(And as an added bonus, I first read that speech balloon expecting Daemon to go "oh crap, now I have to go catch it.")

I love Tsuna's kind of skeptical/interested face on page three. "Yeah, eighth attribute. Suuuure. Just keep talking. . . ."

Okay, who is that hot lady in the background? Is it Daniella? Is it someone we get to find out about later?

ALSO. Damon Spade, what the FUCK is happening to your hair? Is it just fluffing up like some kind of angry cat? And if so, why is that zigzag bit in the middle just staying an unfluffy blob?

I kind of like that Tsuna offered not to shoot him, actually. Because I think it's a coping mechanism—if they say "Okay, I was wrong, please just send me to a therapist so this doesn't happen again," he can just do that. But since they never say that, he doesn't have to feel guilty about just straight-up killing them.

I'm really looking forward to hearing about Daemon's girlfriend or sister or whatever! We need whatever ladies we can get. And maybe this will confirm my crackpot headcanon that Mukuro is the reincarnation of Spade's sister. If she 'made' him go evil or whatever, though, I do hope Amano goes out of her way to show that his actions were his own responsibility.