Message-ID: <3703318B.BEEB4554@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 08:42:51 +0000 From: Kathleen Faulconer To: tenchi@ml.usagi.org Subject: Re: Sasami again?! Ye Gods! (Was Re: TenchiMP...your wish has come Reply-To: tenchi@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk K`thardin wrote: > Ranma3434@aol.com wrote: > > > You know Sasami isn't some 6yrs old. I believe she knows all about the birds > > and the bees, and that she does understand when Ayeka is looking for Ryoko and > > Tenchi and saying that Ryoko could have carried Tenchi off some where > > to...take advantage of him. As in Tenchi OAV #2 i believe that bath house > > one. When Tenchi forms a nose bleed , Sasami says "hehe..Tenchi your a bad > > boy aren't you?" And Tenchi nods his head yes. You all do know that nose > > bleeds in anime suggest.... shall we say "adult thoughts". > > Oh I agree...she probably knows about the birds and the bees given the apparent age of > around 12 or 13 she appears to be at in MNE. Hmmm....I didn't really think she seemed much older. But, your point is still the same valid one. Yes, she knows the rudimentery information, even at 8-10 years old. But that doesn't mean that she is thinking about details, not at all. > But it's just the idea...she didn't really > give a damn about the fact in order to have the child Mayuka...she would have had to have > been with Tenchi in the future (going by the theories they were throwing out at the time). Exactly. Little girls (having been one and raised one) do want to know where babies come from.......just not EXACTLY how it happens! There is a point where they say something like a typical Jerry Springer guest "Don't even go there!" and just want the details glossed over or omited. Now when it comes to having a baby, the dream and wish is almost always there...but everything leading up to the point of holding that baby in their arms is too much to think about. I see Sasami at this level. I can easily see her saying "Ewww GROSS! Don't talk about that!" if the subject of sex was brought up. Much like her "Ewww! It smells like sake!" comment. Having a baby is one thing, having a sexual relationship is miles apart, to a child. There is an old joke about how a little kid asks her parents where their new baby cousin came from. The parents, progressive thinking and figuring that "this is it"...launched into a detailed description of the basic anatomical procedures involved. After hearing it all, the child whose eyes had grown huge, backs away pale and stunned.....mumbling "Gee, I thought maybe she came from Ohio, like me." Sasami knows enough to be able to say "You're a naughty boy" when he sees breasts and gets a nosebleed, but she isn't thinking about having sex with Tenchi or anyone else! > > It was more like Brazil said...she just liked the thought of having a child all her own. Yes, very much so. Sasami will be a wonderful mother one day. One far off day. :-) Kathleen