This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
Utena in the Dune universe:
Utena: Atreides soldier, new recruit
Anthy: Bene Gesserit high level Reverend Mother, posing as a Corrino Princess (the Bene Gesserit are called "witches")
Seitokai:
Saionji: Imperial Sardaukar
Miki: Corrino Prince
Juri: Ginaz Swordmaster in Corrino service
Nanami: House Fenring (house in service to Padisha Emperor)
Touga: House Fenring
Ruka: Ginaz Swordmaster
Black Rose Circle:
Kanae: Corrino Princess
Kozue: House Ordos (defected to)
Shiori: House Corrino
Mitsuru: House Moritani (AKA the suckup house)
Wakaba: House Ecaz (plant world house)
Keiko: House Moritani
Mikage: Tleilaxu twisted Mentat
Mamiya: sickly Fremen child in life
Akio: failed attempt by House Harkonnen to engineer a Kwisatz Haderach, posing as the Padisha Emperor
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What Houses would the Utena characters be put in?
(Harry Potter Universe)
Gryffindor
Tenjou Utena
Kiryuu Touga
Tsuchiya Ruka
Tsuwabuki Mitsuru
Dios
Hufflepuff
Arisugawa Juri
Aiko
Keiko
Yuuko
Suzuki
Tanaka
Yamada
Ohtori Kanae
Ravenclaw
Shinohara Wakaba
Mikage Souji
Kaoru Miki
Saionji Kyouichi
Takatsuki Shiori
Slytherin
Himemiya Anthy
Ohtori Akio
Kaoru Kozue
Kiryuu Nanami
The ones I have inverted are ones I feel might belong in other house.
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Pretty good, I think I'm confident Touga belongs in Slytherin, though. Wakaba feels very Hufflepuff to me -- the Hufflepuffs always seemed to be defined by the fact that no matter how hard they tried, they weren't as good as Gryffindors.
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satyreyes wrote:
Pretty good, I think I'm confident Touga belongs in Slytherin, though. Wakaba feels very Hufflepuff to me -- the Hufflepuffs always seemed to be defined by the fact that no matter how hard they tried, they weren't as good as Gryffindors.
Shiori and Wakaba do feel they could belong in Hufflepuff but I wondered if their relationship with Juri and Utena defined their very being as Wakaba seemed to be quite popular with the general school population, Shiori was just a hunch.
Touga might have Slytherin traits but that wouldn't suit the image he likes to set for himself so like Harry Potter he would choose Gryffindor.
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Pfah, noone here's read <i>Dune</i>? I banish all to the sandy wastes of Arrakis!
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I've been meaning to get to it.
I totally have to give my take on the characters and their Houses now though:
Utena: Gryffindor
Anthy: Slytherin
Seitokai:
Saionji: Gryffindor
Miki: Ravenclaw
Juri: Gryffindor
Nanami: Slytherin
Touga: Slytherin
Ruka: Gryffindor
Black Rose Circle:
Kanae: Hufflepuff
Kozue: Ravenclaw
Shiori: Hufflepuff
Mitsuru: Slytherin
Wakaba: Hufflepuff
Keiko: Slytherin
Mikage: Ravenclaw
Mamiya: Slytherin
Akio: Slytherin
So yeah. Mostly Slytherins. But this is SKU, after all.
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Hedgehogey wrote:
Pfah, noone here's read <i>Dune</i>? I banish all to the sandy wastes of Arrakis!
Dude, I totally read it. And from what I remember, you're pretty much on the dot.
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...and now, for the Darkover revisioning.
Utena
* Age: 14
* Marital Status: Engaged to Anthy
* Occupation: Renunciate
* Former Occupations: None
* Residence: Thendara Renunciate's House
* Laran gift and laran training: none
* Politics: Uninterested
* Personality:
* Strengths: Passionate, determined, direct.
* Weaknesses: Naive, confusion about what she wants to be.
* Combat training: Competent
* Horseback riding: Competent
* Appearance:
* Pets: None
* Romantic relationships: None
* Friends: Most people she meets, though few are close. Wakaba is the exception.
* Hobbies: Collecting teapots
Anthy
* Age:Unknown. Appears to be about 14
* Marital Status: Engaged to Utena
* Occupation: Laranis of Thendara Tower
* Former Occupations: Unknown
* Residence: Thendara Tower
* Laran gift and laran training: Hastur gift in full measure, corrupted Alton gift, Some Ridenow gift
* Politics: Unknown
* Personality:
* Strengths: Intelligent, gracious, very neat, cheerful
* Weaknesses: Passive-aggressive, purposely mysterious, crippling shyness, unusual looks
* Combat training: None
* Horseback riding: Competent
* Appearance:
* Pets: Chu-Chu (Pygmy marmoset)
* Romantic relationships: Unknown
* Friends: Utena and Chu-Chu
* Hobbies: Cooking, cleaning
* Other Information:
Saionji
* Age:16?
* Marital Status: Single
* Occupation: Swordsman of Hastur house
* Former Occupations: None
* Residence: Currently Thendara
* Laran gift and laran training: Unchanneled/untrained Alton
* Politics: basically few interest in politics, but has aspirations above his station.
* Personality:
* Strengths: Honorable, intense, very focused.
* Weaknesses: Misogynist, jealous nature, not very empathic.
* Combat training: Top-notch
* Horseback riding: excellent
* Appearance:
* Pets: None
* Romantic relationships: Anthy?
* Friends: Touga?
* Hobbies: Sword fighting
* Other Information:
Miki
* Age:13
* Marital Status: Single
* Occupation: Comyn Nobility, musician
* Former Occupations: None
* Residence: Thendara
* Laran gift and laran training: Ardais in full measure
* Politics: Uninterested
* Personality:
* Strengths: logical, romantic,passionate in his interests
* Weaknesses: Confusion about love, odd habits
* Combat training: Excellent
* Horseback riding: Competent
* Appearance:
* Pets: None
* Romantic relationships: Anthy?
* Friends: Juri, Touga, Nanami
* Hobbies: Music of all sorts
* Other Information:
Juri
* Age:17
* Marital Status: Single
* Occupation: Renunciate- Swordswoman
* Former Occupations: None
* Residence: Formerly Demora House
* Laran gift and laran training: Minor Hastur
* Politics: Uninterested
* Personality:
* Strengths: Loyal, tough, logical, a good teacher, unrelenting
* Weaknesses: Bears a grudge against normal women, logical to a fault, unrelenting
* Combat training: Excellent
* Horseback riding: excellent
* Appearance:
* Pets: None
* Romantic relationships: None
* Friends: Touga, Miki, Utena
* Hobbies: Unknown
* Other Information: Is in love with Shiori
Touga (Hastur)
* Age:16
* Marital Status: Single
* Occupation: Hastur Comyn
* Former Occupations: None
* Residence: Usually Hastur
* Laran gift and laran training: Hastur in full measure
* Politics: Only vaguely interested
* Personality:
* Strengths: Charming to a fault, people-pleaser, law-abiding, chivalrous (sort of)
* Weaknesses: Extremely traditional, man-whore
* Combat training: Excellent
* Horseback riding: excellent
* Appearance:
* Pets: unnamed Terran cat
* Romantic relationships: Many, none meaningful
* Friends: Juri, Miki, Utena
* Hobbies: Fencing, cats
* Other Information:
I think I will edit for the rest later....
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Darkover! Squee! for you!
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Hedgehogey wrote:
Pfah, noone here's read <i>Dune</i>? I banish all to the sandy wastes of Arrakis!
I've read it! And I agree fully Though I think you totally missed the Shadow Play Girls, who I think would be either part of the Spacing Guild or Bene Gesserit (and wouldn't THAT bring up a whole pile of musings about the links between Anthy and the girls?)
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Definently the Spacing Guild. Didn't Iku-sama say they were from Planet Kashira? Kch...
I wish I didn't have to leave my GURPS books in Tennessee... but that would be a looot of typing. I feel lazy today...
I wish there was a source book for BloodPlus.
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Shadowrun 4E anyone?
Utena: Sprawl-girl adept
Anthy: Elven joygirl with some kind of spirit pact with Dios, maybe
Juri: Orc gillette, maxed out on 'ware
Shiori: Shady fixer, higher Notoriety than is probably good (Enjoy your setup)
Touga: Mr. Johnson by trade, represents Akio and others
Saionji: Troll sprawl ganger
Nanami: Nightclub-frequenting socialite
Akio: Very old elven Triad Shan Chu
Mikage: Master mage
Ruka: Juri's old orc gang leader, fresh out of jail
Kozue: Chiphead skank
Miki: Dwarf hacker, hardware specialty, makes sure Kozue doesn't DL anything that fries her permanently
Wakaba: Utena's friend, does legwork for jobs, searches t3h Internets.
Tsuwabuki: Hacking prodigy
Mamiya: Simsense/VR program
Black Rose Sword Summoning: Since they get the skills of the people they take em from, maybe there's some kind of skillwire thing going on?
This was all impromptu, anyone got better ideas for any of these? Anyways, I think it'd be pretty fun to have Utena running around trying to bring Revolution to 2070 Seattle, or Kozue looking for her next BTL fix, or Juri practicing her skill with a blade by skirmishing with the Ancients in the Redmond Barrens. What do you guys think?
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And I can't believe I forgot this! For a while, before my laziness and lack of literary talent got the better of me, I was going to write a crossover (more of a blending, actually) called "Revolutionary Girl Ivanova". Here's a synopsis of one included scene. The whole sequence in B5 with Morden asking Londo, "What do you want?" Let's put that in Mikage's elevator. "I want the Narn to go away!" "Deeper...go deeper..." "I want the Centauri to be powerful again! Etc Etc!" "The path you must take has been prepared for you..." attaches Shadow/Drakh mind control Black Rose.
Susan Ivanova as Utena, Talia Winters as the Rose Bride. Marcus Cole is Marcus Kaoru, and his relationship with his sister Kozue just hasn't been the same since the colony he came from was destroyed. Bester is on the Council. Nanami's still around, a junior Psi Cop raised by the Corps with Bester, still vying for his attention. G'Kar wants the Rose Bride for revenge. Lennier wants to revolutionize the world in order to win Juri/Delenn's love (was going to blend the characters some, just didn't know which name I'd go with). Remember the Nightwatch skank in B5 that tried to seduce Sheridan to the Dark Side? Yeah, she's replaced by Shiori, and targets Ivanova instead. Akio and Dios are basically the Shadows and Vorlons, respectively, and Ivanova must reject both their ideologies in order to revolutionize the galaxy.
Ohtori Station: a dangerous place, but our last best hope for the Revolution of the Galaxy!
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I'm not familiar with Shadowrun 4E but I do know a little bit of 2E and 3E. From what I know of those two... yeah, you're pretty spot on. Yay for Shadowrun.
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RGU characters as...Magic: The Gathering cards?
Akio, Master Manipulator
type: Creature-Demon Prince
cost: 3BBB (3 colorless mana, 3 black mana)
Power/Toughness:3/3
Abilities:
BB, Tap, force another creature to attack, block an attack or use one of its abilities. Target must not be tapped. If the ability costs mana, you must pay for it with your own mana. This action may not directly cause that creature's controller to lose life or discard a card, or any of his/her permanents to be sacrificed, removed from the game, take damage, or recieve a negative power/toughness change
tap: target human female's (determined by the artwork) power and toughness are now 0/1
Foolish lifeform...there never was such a thing as a prince in the first place!
Juri Arisugawa:
type: creature-Human Duellist
cost: 2W
Power/Toughness:4/2
Abilities: First Strike
When Juri Arisugawa comes into play, destroy target enchantment
I don't believe in miracles.
Proffesor Nemuro:
type: Creature-Human
cost: 2BR
Power/Toughness: 1/1
Abilities: When Proffesore Nemuro recieves lethal damage, flip him. You may search your library for an enchantment, instant or sorcery. if you do, shuffle your library
[flipped]
Mikage, Academy's Ghost:
type: Creature-Duellist Ghost
Power/Toughness: 2/1
Abilities: tap, put a 1/1 black duellist creature token into play
sacrifice a duellist: target creature has the power and toughness of another creature it has previously been the target of, recieved damage from or done damage to, until the end of turn
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An original setting!
Name: Tenjou Utena
Element: Fire/Light
Class: Flare Guardian
Magics: Form minor armor/weapons, create/control fire, communicate with Fire/light Elementals
Name: Himemiya Anthy
Element: Earth/Shadow
Class: Wild Dreamer
Magics: Mesmer, illusion, steal lifeforce, alteration (major), communicate with Earth/Dark elementals, animal empathy.
Name: Kiryuu Touga
Element: Water/Mind
Class: Mirror Mage
Magics: Control water, heal (minor), kinetic force, insinuate, communicate with Water Elementals
Name: Saionji Kyouichi
Element: Stone/Fire
Class: Red Gaian
Magics: Communicate with stone elementals, manipulate stone, control fire
Name: Arisugawa Juri
Element: Fire/Darkness
Class: War Wizard
Magics: Create/control fire, heal (moderate), illusion, mesmer, create weapon/armor, inspire fear
Name: Kaoru Miki
Element: Unformed
Class: Wild Spark (None)
Magics: Raise energy, heal
Name: Kiryuu Nanami
Element: Unformed
Class: Wild Spark
Magics: Raise Energy, focus
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God Damnit!
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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!
Utena Danny Phantom Style! (kill me now)
Utena Tenjou
Special: Any and all illusions are able to be destroyed as if real.
Status: Empowered human
Anthy Himemiya
Special: Create soul sword, create illusion, control swords.
Status: Halfa
Touga Kiryuu
Special: Love Glamours
Status: Ghost
Kyoichi Saionji
Special: Excellent swordsmanship
Status: Normal human
Miki Kaoru
Special: Affect moods through music
Status: Ghost
Nanami Kiryuu
Special: None
Status: Ghost
Akio Ohtori
Special: Unknown.
Status: Halfa
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Maybe this is where it goes. I'm not sure. But it helps to have read the webcomic "8-bit Theater" and have played Final Fantasy 1 (the NES original incarnation) to know why I put everyone into these situations. Better yet, just Google it and visit Wikipedia's page on the Light Warriors and supporting cast of 8-bit Theater!
Utena -- White Mage
Touga -- Black Mage
Akio -- Black Mage's Atrociously Evil Side
Miki -- Red Mage
Juri -- Black Belt
Nanami -- Fighter
Anthy -- Sarda, the Wizard Who Did It
Mikage -- Bahamut
Mamiya -- Onion Kid
Shiori -- Thief
Wakaba -- Garland (don't ask why)
Keiko -- Vilbert von Vampire
Mitsuru -- Dr. Swordopolis
Kozue -- Megahedron
Kanae, Tatsuya, Mari and C-Ko -- The Real Light Warriors
Yuuko and Aiko -- Akbar and Jeff (I leave it to you to figure out who is who!)
Everyone Else -- Black Mage's various victims
Last edited by BioKraze (03-19-2009 06:50:05 PM)
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ShatteredMirror wrote:
A bit silly and utterly delightful, Stormcrow. And inspired by Razara's comment over on the "Reasons for being happy" thread, the Harry Potter houses.
Utena: Gryffindor
Anthy: Nobody really knows.
Seitokai:
Saionji: Gryffindor
Miki: Ravenclaw
Juri: Ravenclaw
Nanami: Slytherin
Touga: Slytherin
Ruka: Gryffindor
Black Rose Circle:
Kanae: Hufflepuff
Kozue: Slytherin
Shiori: Slytherin
Mitsuru: Gryffindor
Wakaba: Hufflepuff
Keiko: Slytherin
Mikage: Ravenclaw
Mamiya: Ghost
Akio: Headmaster!
I was contemplating this after my friends and I had our annual Harry Potter marathon. Actually, I think Saionji would be a Hufflepuff. Deep down he misses that friendship with Touga and Hufflepuffs are known for loyalty.
I don't see Juri as a Ravenclaw, though. She's not the academic type. If anything she'd be a Gryffindor. Courageous and a bit of a fool? That's just like her. You don't usually associate Juri with foolishness, but what do you call ripping the rose off of your chest?
Mitsuru would be a Slytherin because of his aspiration to grow up so quickly. The kid has a dark side. He's not above using dirty tricks to make himself look like Nanami's hero and in my opinion his Black Rose duel shows that, aside from Kanae, he is the biggest ticking time bomb.
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Akio: Headmaster!
I was going to say something about questionable qualifications and supposing one should at least appear to follow rules if they're supposed to enforce them...then I remember Dumbledore pretty much lolz his way around rules whenever it suits him, and pretty constantly totally overrides the points system to his favor.
Touga's still sleeping with him though. I just hope he didn't have to climb over Snape to get there.
(OR DO I HOPE???)
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ShatteredMirror wrote:
Akio: Headmaster!
Suddenly imagining Dumbledore taking advantage of his students in disturbing ways... and then realizing there's probably fanfiction like that already.
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My thing about sorting SKU characters into HP houses is that we have to remember that one gets sorted based on one of the following:
a) some dormant personality trait that needs to be brought out or put to the test
b) qualities you value the most
c) where you actually want to go, provided you can argue the Hat into submission
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Riri-kins wrote:
ShatteredMirror wrote:
A bit silly and utterly delightful, Stormcrow. And inspired by Razara's comment over on the "Reasons for being happy" thread, the Harry Potter houses.
Utena: Gryffindor
Anthy: Nobody really knows.
Seitokai:
Saionji: Gryffindor
Miki: Ravenclaw
Juri: Ravenclaw
Nanami: Slytherin
Touga: Slytherin
Ruka: Gryffindor
Black Rose Circle:
Kanae: Hufflepuff
Kozue: Slytherin
Shiori: Slytherin
Mitsuru: Gryffindor
Wakaba: Hufflepuff
Keiko: Slytherin
Mikage: Ravenclaw
Mamiya: Ghost
Akio: Headmaster!I was contemplating this after my friends and I had our annual Harry Potter marathon. Actually, I think Saionji would be a Hufflepuff. Deep down he misses that friendship with Touga and Hufflepuffs are known for loyalty.
I don't see Juri as a Ravenclaw, though. She's not the academic type. If anything she'd be a Gryffindor. Courageous and a bit of a fool? That's just like her. You don't usually associate Juri with foolishness, but what do you call ripping the rose off of your chest?
Mitsuru would be a Slytherin because of his aspiration to grow up so quickly. The kid has a dark side. He's not above using dirty tricks to make himself look like Nanami's hero and in my opinion his Black Rose duel shows that, aside from Kanae, he is the biggest ticking time bomb.
And I have a difficult time imagining Ruka as Gryffindor. He's too manipulative, too calculating. I hate to add someone else to Slytherin, but the qualities he exhibits and the manner in which he treats really aren't Gryffindor material. I mean, I know we could make the same argument for a young James Potter and young Sirius Black, but Ruka's behavior strikes me as more indicative of who he really is as opposed to something he might have eventually grown out of.
Just to add fuel to the debate:
Utena - I think a very strong argument can be made for her to be Hufflepuff instead of Gryffindor.
Saionji - I think Riri is correct. Hufflepuff suits him more. Especially given who he was at a younger age.
Miki - Likely Ravenclaw.
Juri - I think Riri makes a compelling argument for her to be in Gryffindor. I think she could also be in Ravenclaw. She's intelligent, fairly studious, and even Ravenclaw needs good athletes for Quidditch. I personally think this one would have come down to what she desired when first sorted, and I don't know enough about her at that age to make a good guess what First Year Juri would have wanted. My gut agrees with Riri and says Gryffindor, but I think Shattered could be right.
Nanami - Given her infatuation with her brother even at a very young age, I'm fairly certain she would have convinced the Hat to put her wherever Touga was. That probably means Slytherin, even if her tendencies may have put her in Slytherin anyway.
Touga - Manipulative and ambitious. Syltherin does seem the best fit, even though I'm hesitant to place him there. Like Juri, older Touga is what we are judging him primarily on, and I'm willing to bet younger Touga may have had a much different experience with the Hat.
Ruka - Slytherin, as I mentioned earlier. Or, he's a Hufflepuff on a very dark path. It fits how I imagine a younger, less desperate Ruka would have been sorted.
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