This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
After watching a marathon of gory serial killer movies last night and this morning, I got to thinking... If Utena and company suddenly found themselves in a survival horror movie, who would die how? What kind of sickly gruesome fate would each of them meet? And what sort of plots to do you think would fit best? Innocent vacation gone wrong? Summer camp turned bloody? Get stranded in a town of crazed hillbillies? Or is Death simply out to get them?
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Hmm...either Kozue or Anthy would have to die first, because sluts/minorities have a bad track record in slasher fics.
I think it would be the sort of movie where everyone goes on a trip together for *bonding* and they get stranded in the middle of no where, as a mystery killer starts picking them off one by one. Everyone starts going slowly crazy with fear, and in the end only Miki, Nanami (and maybe Juri, not sure) survive because everyone knows only pure virgins escape slasher movies alive. They're just scarred for life.
Oh and in the end, it turns out the killer was Wakaba gone psycho!
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Oh, we'd have to go with spam in a cabin. The Student Council's car would break down on the way to the beach and they'd find crazy old man Mikage in his house a few miles back for help. Mikage would be the sole survivor of a serial killer's massacre that happened ten years ago and warn them he was coming back, but they wouldn't listen.
Kozue would be stabbed after she and Touga had sex on Mikage's back porch. Nanami would be the dumb bitch who gets strangled after calling out "Hello?" in the shower. Saionji would be the hotheaded guy who tries to steal somebody's girl although he'd redeem himself when he died trying to confront the killer head on. Poor Miki would probably fall behind and get stabbed. Only Anthy, Utena, and Touga would escape after trapping the killer inside the cabin and burning it.
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Adding onto Riri-kins point, Anthy would first turn into Mamiya, invite Mikage over for sex, and then burn it while Utena and Touga scavenge for wood and then persist to high-five each other and live happily ever after.
Of course in my version, Anthy would be the killer out for revenge after her girlfriend, Utena, gets stolen and starts going out with Akio and Anthy proceeds to murder everyone who has flirted with Utena or who has caused herself misery in some way. Of course, Anthy somehow finds a way to frame Nanami and make her death appear to be a suicide. Anthy gets the girl back and Utena never knows what happened...
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Riri-kins wrote:
Saionji would be the hotheaded guy who tries to steal somebody's girl although he'd redeem himself when he died trying to confront the killer head on.
I agree with that. Sounds so fitting of Saionji. Being the hothead that no one really likes and then try and take the killer on, creating an opening for the others to try and get away.
Another good one for him would be that, after several murders, he gets really uneasy from paranoia and ends up killing one of the others out of suspicion, only to be killed himself later on by the actual murderer after a bit of a scuffle.
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Riri-kins wrote:
Nanami would be the dumb bitch who gets strangled after calling out "Hello?" in the shower.
Or, if it's a slasher movie Pablo Fransisco style, she'd be the dumb bitch who gets strangled to death with a cordless phone.
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How about some unnecessarily gory deaths?
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Tatsuya. Blunt force trauma. Gallons of red paint.
...maybe some brain chunkies too.
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Keh, I see Saionji as being the belligerent, bull-headed jock who doesn't buy any of this 'spooky serial killer' non-sense and tries to either confront the dude head on with his intimidating biceps or storms off into the woods on his own away from all those stupid fraidy-cats so he can get back to his car and SLICESTABBITYSLICE.
Touga is similarly over-confidant and prone to underestimating the situation he's in. Though, unlike Saionji, he'll stay to 'protect' the girls from the big bad wolf in a shared bedspace, once in a awhile purposely scaring them and then mocking their weak and helpless girl ways, only to cry wolf one last time as the killer guts him and his bedmate calls exasperatedly out to him when she realizes he's been gone a bit too long. "Touga.....Touga? You're just kidding, right?"
The shower has Kozue's name all over it. Or perhaps she gets mauled after a unnecessarily long scene of her dressing/undressing, seen through the killer's eyes as he waits patiently in the closet or behind the window. Then a scene of her running, half-naked, through the woods and it's done.
Wakaba doesn't die with the rest of the cast; she is the first victim and only used an interesting opening sequence or catalyst. Her death involves a cell phone.
Miki (and I can't believe I'm saying Miki instead of Saionji, but I digress) gets murdered in the middle of masturbating or playing peeping tom, because he is the teenage virgin slightly nerdy boy. Perhaps he is eaten by his own bed.
Juri is the tough, smart-mouthed chick, and she'll last close to the end, body full of fatal, bloody wounds, in a particularly violent manner (ripped apart, axe to the head, screaming and or cussing) -- the film only has room for one male and one female survivor (and maybe a younger sibling) and I'm afraid that the female slot has already been filled by Utena. Plus, Juri is a lesbian, which will be all the characterization the movie will care about, and so, unjustly filtered down and portrayed as a stereotype, she is doomed to die.
Utena lives because she is A) the main character and B)Painfully naive and hopeful, with a touch of boyish charm and a good conscience. Though she does suffer some head trauma after the ordeal, and cannot remember any of it. Her part in the movie will end with her inner monologue as she rides in the passenger seat of a car, her expression both jaded and solemn.
(Nanami is eaten alive)
Anthy and Akio? They are the killers. With SKU, I think the movie would have to be supernatural -ghosts or demons. The character's trapped in a strange, isolated place, turned against eachother, tricked by illusions and trapts, distracted and manipulated by sex. A group of students on a cross country trip to a big concert, who take a shortcut off the main road, ending up at an abandoned ....school?...Ohtori, of course. The place looks neat, and it's late, so they decide to stay for the night. Then the weird dreams start.... and one by one they discover that they are not alone.
/////is very late.
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Shiori would find herself choked to death when Juri uses her locket like a garrote wire out of sheer sexual frustration.
Kozue becoming a sexual black widow who kills whomever she is 'mating' with when she gets older by slipping a nailfile hard into the back of her victim's necks.
Nanami finds herself with a broken neck in a slaughterhouse when she is transformed into a cow again.
Akio discovers to his horror that Kanae can do a surprisingly accurate rendition of the Million Swords of Human Hatred when she finally snaps and stabs him multiple times with a butchers knife.
Chu-Chu becomes an unwitting star of Blendtec's 'Will it Blend'
when he is fed curare and mailed there. (YES he blends, just don't breath in that smoke.)
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Tamago wrote:
Shiori would find herself choked to death when Juri uses her locket like a garrote wire out of sheer sexual frustration.
Kozue becoming a sexual black widow who kills whomever she is 'mating' with when she gets older by slipping a nailfile hard into the back of her victim's necks.
Nanami finds herself with a broken neck in a slaughterhouse when she is transformed into a cow again.
Akio discovers to his horror that Kanae can do a surprisingly accurate rendition of the Million Swords of Human Hatred when she finally snaps and stabs him multiple times with a butchers knife.
Chu-Chu becomes an unwitting star of Blendtec's 'Will it Blend'
when he is fed curare and mailed there. (YES he blends, just don't breath in that smoke.)
jajaja
Keiko dies from lack of air in the trunk of Touga's car after he stuffs her there because NAnami's on her way over...
of course Touga's been dead the entire time -___-
Everyone assumes Anthy is the killer, and attack her, leaving her mutilated body to rot in the river. It turns out however, that Madam Lamer is the psycho killer. She has a deadly fetish involving teens and riding crops....
--and now Anthy's ghost is out for revenge-- (SEQUEL!!!)
Juri would die in a freak accident, not connected with the killer story plot at all. She'd have a random death reminescent of Final Destination's train scene... or something along the lines of her doing something extremely safe, or pleasurable, than dying of her own hand.... maybe some strangulation while masturbating to a creepy recording of Shiori's voice... I like that one
Tsuwabuki is killed by Madam Lamer in the library with a candlestick....
It turns out Wakaba is a drug addict and her dealer supplys her with some 'new' drug that contains arsenic...
Shiori- three words DEATH BY BUTTERFLYS
The spirits of those Nemuro boys haunt Mikage until he contemplates suicide, while he's thinking the deed over he forgets his poptarts in the toaster...again.... and he dies in a fire....
Nemuro Boy #76 looks strangely like Saionji... the plot thickens!
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OnlyInThisLight wrote:
Anthy and Akio? They are the killers.
And in fact, Anthy is just Akio in drag. (The height difference is hand-waved away). He killed the real Anthy years ago in a really sexualized way, and her body now rots under the floorboards of the VERY SAME CABIN where everyone was sleeping !
Except that's just the end-of-act II twist.
The real twist comes when Juri pwns Akio with a meat cleaver, only to be garroted from behind by an insanely grinning Anthy, with her glasses set to Maximum Shininess, and her feet floating 12 inches from the ground.
Utena & Touga battle the Anthy-ghost to no avail. Touga takes a shot to the head intended for Utena, and is out of the game. Utena finally defeats Anthy-ghost by stabbing the real Anthy's heart, which is not in her corpse, Akio had kept it hidden in a box in the cabin's secret cellar. Touga is OK, but the head trauma knocks the playboy right out of him, and now he only has eyes for Utena.
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