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Totally relate! Thanks for the insight!
Posted By: MACK! In Response To: Re: he who dares
2 see (clay speris) : I wish Kabuki was free from all the violence...just the I totally relate to this. Those friend ship scenes are my favorite scenes in
the book as well. I love the scenes when characters are relating to each other,
teaching each other and helping each other evolve emotionally. THe
tigerlily/Scarab scenes. And especially the Kabuki/Akemi scenes. Akemi is the
first character to accept Kabuki unconditionally. SHe is the catalyst that helps
Kabuki evolve and grow and accept herself. She teaches Kabuki that the change in
her world, her identity, and her reality start from the inside. ANd then her
outward envirenment will reflect that change.
When I was doing these issues with Akemi and Kabuki I really felt like I was
reaching a great change in the character that would mark the direction of future
books. ANd I was getting a lot of mail from people who really were able to be
inspired from these issues and have it help thier own life and outlook. I really
appreciated that. I felt like the Kabuki issues were helping these many readers,
in the same way that Akemi's notes were helping Kabuki to actualize her self and
choose what kind of life and reality that she wanted, in order to transcend the
one that she had found herself in.
It was very rewarding to be in the part of the story that was inspiring and
uplifting so many people. In contrast, when I went back to read some of the
earlier books (Circle of Blood, Masks of the Noh) I was quite disturbed by some
of the early violent scenes. I realized that the Kabuki stories were reflecting
my own inner growth. Without too much self analysis, perhaps those earlier
tumutuous scenes in Circle of Blood were my way of dealing with situations in my
life at that time in my life. Circle of blood reflects a certain need to bring
out an internal order from an external chaos and stress. Parts of it are
difficult for me to look at now. The violent parts especially. I'm just not in
that place anymore. And I think that Kabuki would feel the same way.
In Metamorphosis (1-9) she makes an inner change. And her environment changed
as well. She left that violence behind. She left that life behind to grow the
person that Akemi helped her relize that she is. Akemi showed Kabuki (as hopefully these books show thier readers) that every
choice should be creative and constructive rather that destructive. THese books,
from Circle of Blood to Metamorposis document Kabuki's transition from a product
of her immediate environment to a self actualized adult. And I suppose they
document my maturation in that very same way.
So while those early violent scenes disturbe me probably even more than they
do you, I hope that in context of the entire story, they will point to the
contrast involved in this self actualized process of positive evolution.
Date: THU, 5/31/01, 5:59
p.m.
: stories in
scarab and skin deep where they're in the
: flat, sketching each other and
checking out each
: others comics...I like those bits best of all...
Hopefully in context, these
books show that it is not where you came from, not what you start with, but
where you decide to go, and what you decide to do with it.
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