Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Anomaly

The thing is, I started typing this fic 9:00pm yesterday thinking I could finish it in three hours (for the August 11 31_days prompt I claim proud kinship with your race and blood). Unfortunately it is now 7:04 am August 12 (and really, I knew I wasn't going to make it when the first sentence in my notebook turned into four paragraphs on the computer). I dunno, maybe I'll post for man or astroman instead? Because hey, there's outer space! Close enough. We'll see how I feel about it when I haven't been up for 30 hours straight.

Title: Anomaly
Series: Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Genre: Bad science fiction with political overtones

LOGH fans, before/if you read this I must warn you: THERE ARE NO RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERS. ONLY ORIGINAL.

( Remember: I claim proud kinship with your race and blood. That part's important. )

In case anyone is wondering, here is the beginning of what I would have been using for man or astoman if I wasn't spending the rest of today (August 12) packing my stuff and cleaning out the appartment (AHHHHH).

Series: Hikago

***
Reiishi approaches him after the match with congratulations, and to ask how he developed his extrodinary presense of mind at such a young age.

"Playing you, I sensed an enormous mental pressure. It was as if I came against a crushing force, and I felt I'd be swept away -- literally flattened. I've experienced such things before, but never from anyone with less than ten years of professional experience."

"Really?" Hikaru said. "I didn't notice."
***

>_< the idea is that developing the ability to block out a voice in his own head has given Hikaru scary amounts of concentration, which fazes his oppenents in much the same way Touya's intensity fazed Hikaru at first. It's appropriate to the theme because astroman = space man = New Type = human with extrodinary mental powers. Man vs Astroman, yes? =_= or maybe I just need more sleep.

Last post in summer appartment.

• livejournal isn't recognizing tags with spaces in them. It's the first thing in the suggestions que and they say they're working on it, so no need to change all your spaces_into_underscores just yet.

• While I am on the subject of LOGH and original characters and sci-fi withdrawal and all that good shit, I have TWO PAGES OF SPECULATION on the discovery and scientific basis of ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY. Complete with plucky band of MULTIRACIAL SCIENTISTS who PREVENT THE LOCALIZED COLLAPSE OF SPACE when system is first developed (Galactic Union Era). Because this system goes on SPACESHIPS, and it POWERS THE SPACESHIPS (also other things) and that's why they never need to refuel -- perpetual energy machines! I love the future. But I was thinking, WOULDN'T THAT BE A BIT LIKE A NUCLEAR SUBMARINE? People are shooting at these ships and they are exploding in BALLS OF FIRE (in space! 0:), and meanwhile somewhere in the hold is a machine that produces and directs fundamental high-energy particles at a nearly continuous rate. This seems like a bad combination to me.

I'd fic it for real except this raises the fundamental question, "When is fic still fic? When it has absolutely no relation to the original series except common sci-fi elements and a timeline?"

• tarigwaemir tagged me for the top 20 OTPs meme. ( In two categories and the order they occured to me: )

tagging: pally_pally, pellaz, mistressrenet, darkeyedwolf, rondaview, v_voltaire, veradicere. I get that many because at least one of you has no doubt already done this meme, and at least one of you will no doubt refuse to.

• I'm leaving Saturday morning for a Canadian college-tour-cum-mini-vacation (Windsor! Toronto! Montreal! Quebec City! My little brother is growing up!). I'll be back, ummm, call it a week from today.