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Mori Kaoru - Emma, vol. 05 (Eng. trans.)
Awwww! William's parents are so cute! Though I am sad by how things ended up. And I want to know: do they still love each other? Does he resent her for not being able to handle the stress, even if he knows it's not logical? Do they write to each other?
I very much like that Mori isn't providing a fairy-tale ending to the Jones' story. I like how quietly and slowly things fall apart, how love doesn't conquer all odds, how things like social expectations and whatnot have an effect, no matter how much people try to make them not matter. It's a nice contrast to the usual "Love conquers all!" schtick that annoys me.
But it also makes me afraid of what will happen with William and Emma. I do not know how it can possibly end well! And oh, they are so cute, and part of my love-triangle-hating heart is mollified by the fact that Eleanor isn't in this much.
(but i still want to whap william because dude! not nice!)
Also, I am a total sucker for letters in fiction.
I'm also glad that Mori isn't keeping Emma and William's relationship a secret; part of this is because I detest love stories that involve sneaking around. Another part is just because the schtick of "Oh no! Will they get caught!" gets really, really old.
In conclusion, Emma running toward William and flinging her arms around him is the cutest thing ever.
Unless the cutest thing ever is Mori Kaoru's author notes at the end ("Lace, lace, corsets, stairs, lace, aprons, aprons, glasses, glasses!").
I very much like that Mori isn't providing a fairy-tale ending to the Jones' story. I like how quietly and slowly things fall apart, how love doesn't conquer all odds, how things like social expectations and whatnot have an effect, no matter how much people try to make them not matter. It's a nice contrast to the usual "Love conquers all!" schtick that annoys me.
But it also makes me afraid of what will happen with William and Emma. I do not know how it can possibly end well! And oh, they are so cute, and part of my love-triangle-hating heart is mollified by the fact that Eleanor isn't in this much.
(but i still want to whap william because dude! not nice!)
Also, I am a total sucker for letters in fiction.
I'm also glad that Mori isn't keeping Emma and William's relationship a secret; part of this is because I detest love stories that involve sneaking around. Another part is just because the schtick of "Oh no! Will they get caught!" gets really, really old.
In conclusion, Emma running toward William and flinging her arms around him is the cutest thing ever.
Unless the cutest thing ever is Mori Kaoru's author notes at the end ("Lace, lace, corsets, stairs, lace, aprons, aprons, glasses, glasses!").
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I would totally read that.
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I have a feeling it's been written though. (Not that that would stop me from writing it.) It feels SO familiar to me. Though that could be because it happened to me one time. I was fourteen or fifteen and waiting in a fairly sleazy (though not scary) part of Sydney to meet my boyfriend. I was wearing a guy's coat and jeans---pretty much boy clothes---and the coat was big and made me look flat. This guy came up to me and asked me how much. I was shocked and spluttered. And then he looked shocked and spluttered, "Oh my God! I thought you were a boy!" He hurried away very quickly.
Most surreal.
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A year or so later the cross-dressing girl runs into the guy again with his wife and children (yes, he's married--he'd mentioned that to her when they were originally travelling together). It turns out he's told his family all about her--well, not quite all, since according to the sanitized version one of the kids repeats, the apparently bisexual (at least) medicine-peddler discovered that his "boy assistant" was actually a girl when he went to ask if he could borrow the "boy's" razor and caught "him" not quite dressed enough that it was apparent that the "boy" had breasts, or something to that effect. The cross-dressing girl is a bit disconcerted that he told them anything at all, but plays along with his version of the story.
The guy does seem to love his wife and children, so it's not clear whether he's basically gay but managing to get some kind of emotional fulfillment out of the heterosexual relationship despite its not suiting his sexual tastes (and therefore making passes at attractive young men when he's a safe distance from home), or just likes both genders, but only wants to play around with the one he isn't already married to (or something along those lines).
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