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“You will know… when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack… No, no, there is no why. Nothing more will I teach you today. Clear your mind of questions.”
~ Master Yoda, Star Wars Episode V.

Previously in Part 2 [Link]

• Mish [waves]: Hi Katt!
• Katt [waves back]: Hey Mish! Wow, I like the red!
• Mish [touches her hair]: Thanks. Just had it done. Hi Takeshi.
• Tack: Hey Michelle. Looks really good!
• Mish [smiles]: Thanks… So what’s so funny? I could hear u guys all the way from the library.
• K: Haha, it’s nothing. Just some stupid guy talk.
• Mish: U sure?
• K: Yeah, we’re sure.
• T: We’re stupid. Can’t u tell?
• Mish: U guys aren’t stupid. Just “otaku”.
• K [shocked]: Hey! When did u learn to use that word?
• Mish: What? Otaku? U guys taught me that just the other day!
• K and T [look at each other]: …
• T [turns to Mish]: Really?
• Mish: U forgot already?
• T: Ahhh, wait… Oh yeah! The mall!
• K: Hmmm, that’s right.
• Mish: Yeah! U know, sometimes I think u two are hopeless.
• K: Yeah.
• T: Well, u just missed Jimi. She practically yelled at us.
• Mish: Hehe, but Jimi’s too cute.
• K: If u say so.
• Mish: Anyway… I meant to ask u, since you’re the experts.
• K: Sure. Go ahead.
• Mish: Do u know where I can find some cute cat-ears?
• K and T [look at each other]: …
• K and T [together]: Hahaha!
• Mish [confused]: What? What’s so funny?

Part 3

• Tack [laughs]: Haha, so u haven’t seen Jimi yet?
• Mish: Ummm, nooo. Why? What? She isn’t wearing cat-ears around campus, is she?
• Katt [smiles]: Yup, u got it!
• Mish: Nooo wayyy! You’re joking, right?
• T: Would we joke?
• Mish [thinks]: But now that I think about it, it definitely fits her. Hopping down the hall. Skipping up the steps…
• T: Scratching our eyes out.
• K: Haha, no question. Unfortunately…
• Mish: Unfortunately?
• K [turns, winks at T]: You’re right. We were joking.
• Mish: What!?!
• T [nods at K, turns to Mish]: Haha, yeah, you’re such an easy target!
• Mish [smacks K’s shoulder]: I can’t believe u guys. Really, I can’t believe u.
• T [laughs]: What? Didn’t u just say we were hopeless?
• Mish: I was just being polite.
• K: Haha, polite? How is that being polite?
• T: Hahaha!
• Mish [looks down]: Forget it. I’ll ask somebody else.
• K: Hey wait, wait.
• T: Come on, Mish, we’re just teasing. So why do ya need cat-ears?
  

• Mish [smiles]: Oh! My friend Viki was talking about it, how her boyfriend Jake seems to love them. So she was asking where she could find them.
• T: Ummm, I’m no expert, but I’m sure u could order those on the web somewhere.
• Mish: Nooo, it’ll be too late if she orders them. She wanted to get them by tomorrow to surprise him. So maybe an anime store nearby or something?
• K: Surprise him? What? Jake’s birthday?
• Mish: I guess so. I didn’t really ask her.
• K: Well, if it’s a surprise, there aren’t that many explanations. A birthday. An anniversary. Something like that?
• Mish [sighs]: I don’t know. I told u I didn’t ask.
• K: Okay-okay, just curious.
• Mish [sighs]: Anyway… Do u know any stores?
• K: Ehhh, not that I’m aware of.
• T: Me neither. Sorry.
• Mish: That’s okay. It was worth a shot… But I think I’m beginning to understand.
• K: Understand what?
• T: What’s that?
• Mish: Why Jimi would yell at u two. U ask too many questions.
• K and T [surprised]: …
• Mish: Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to sound mean. Did that sound mean?
• K: Nahhh, don’t worry about it.
• T: We get that all the time.
• K: Yeah.
• T [smiles]: Like u said, we’re hopeless.
• Mish: …
• Mish [to T]: Why did she yell at u?
• T: Who? Jimi?
• Mish: Yeah.
• K: Haha.
• T: Haha, she said we were insecure and pathetic…
• Mish: Seriously?
• T: Not just guys in general, but I think us two specifically!
• Mish [smiles]: …
• T: She even said this. She said that buying half-naked figures was the only way to make up for our lack of sex!
• Mish: …
• Mish: Is that true?
• T: I don’t know. I don’t think so.
• Mish [to K]: Katt, are these the same kinds of figures u showed me on that anime site?
• K: Yeah, a bit of DannyChoo.com. But mostly ToysLogic.com.
• Mish: Ohhh. They were PRETTY. And the ones with the school uniforms were so cute.
• T: So u agree with her?
• Mish: I didn’t say that. I mean, it’s not like u kept score, and bought a new figure for each time u didn’t get a date. Is it?
• T: Haha, no.
• K: Not that u looked for any dates.
• T [to K]: Screw u.
• Mish: But I can understand what she’s saying.
• K and T: …
• T: She was also talking about pain and trying to forget pain. And I guess anime is our way of dealing with pain.
• K: In other words, pain defines us.
• K and T: …
• Mish: I disagree.
• K and T: Huh?
• Mish: I said I disagree with Jimi. Pain doesn’t define us. Love does.
• K and T [look at each other]: …
• K: Love?
• T: Huh? Explanation please?
• Mish [laughs]: U guys are funny.
• T: I hope that’s good.
• Mish: It’s good.
• K: Hmmm. So how does “love” define us?
• Mish: First, let me ask u this. When Jimi talked about sex and pain, how did love fit into it?
• K: Hmmm.
• T: Ummm, u know… I don’t think she mentioned it at all. Did she?
• K: Nope. Just pain and power. Nothing about love.
• Mish: Yeah, I thought so.
• K and T: …
• Mish [moves closer]: I’m gonna let u guys in on a secret.
• T: Okay.
• K: Go ahead.
• Mish: There’s only one “original” emotion– love. What I mean by “original” is that it’s the only emotion which creates every other emotion. The love is what starts everything.
• K and T [look at each other]: …
• T [to K]: Uh-oh, Katt, I think it’s happening again.
• K [to T]: Yup, u might be right.
• T: Ummm, Mish, I think u lost us.
• Mish [straightens back]: Ohhh, I’m sorry. Did that sound weird?
• K: Well, could u rephrase it?
• T: Yeah, could u?
• Mish: Ohhh, sure!
• K: Like maybe a metaphor or something?
• Mish: Sure, I can try that. Actually, I already have one in mind.
• T: Cool.
• Mish: Let’s see… If u can imagine that love is like the sun, then every other emotion is a reflection of that sunlight. The love is the original color which creates all other colors.
• T [gasps]: Wow.
• K: Hmmm.
• Mish: Yeah. As I see it, u can only feel hate if u feel just as much love somewhere else. The hate is a reflection of that love. Same thing with envy and jealousy. U can only feel jealous if you’ve been affected by love. So hate and envy and jealousy are all reflections of the original love.
• K: So when u talk about pain…
• T: …
• Mish: Pain is also a reflection of love. The greater the love, the greater the pain.
• K and T: …
• K [to T]: Ahhh. So when Jimi was talking about Danny’s pain…
• T [to K]: Yeah. He must’ve felt just as much love somewhere else.
• K: Hmmm, I wonder if that’s what Jimi meant.
• T: About what?
• K: About resenting his dad. I don’t really remember the details. But if Danny as a kid loved his dad so much, and his dad suddenly left him behind to move to Britain, then– Damn, that would suck. Big time.
• T: Ahhh, that would explain his pain.
• K: Yeah. Definitely.
• Mish [curious]: Is this the same Danny as DannyChoo.com?
• K [to Mish]: Yeah. Same one.
• T: In that case, if all this is true, then Danny isn’t defined by his pain. Corny as it sounds, he’s defined by the love which CAUSED that pain.
• Mish and K [at the same time]: Exactly…
• K: …Very corny.
• T: Haha.
• Mish: What!?!
• K [laughs]: Don’t worry about it.
• Mish: …
• T [thinks]: So Jimi’s theory wasn’t entirely wrong. It was just incomplete.
• K: Yeah… Maybe.
• T: Maybe? Not convinced?
• K: Haha, you’re not gonna like this. But something’s beginning to bug me…
• T [sighs]: Oh no, not again!
• Mish [confused]: What? What’s wrong?
• T [laughs to Mish]: Katt’s going through one of his over-analyzing modes again!
• Mish [confused]: …
• K [thinks]: Well, I get what you’re saying about love triggering all other emotions. I get that. But…
• T: But what?
• K: But when we start talking about Danny’s love of anime and figures and stormtrooping… Don’t u think it’s a bit complicated to say that Danny’s love for his dad triggered his pain, then that pain triggered another love, in this case, his love of anime? It seems too convoluted, too many steps.
• T: Too many steps?
• K: Yeah. Don’t u think it would be a lot SIMPLER to say that he simply felt an original love of anime? Just one step?
• T [laughs]: Haha, yeah. I suppose it would… Wait!
• K: What?
• T: Original love? I thought u said it was an addiction!
• K: What are u talking about? I was talking about being addicted to popularity and success! That has nothing to do with his love of anime… Jeez, why don’t u listen for a change.
• T [laughs]: Hahaha, “Jeez”? Since when did u start saying “Jeez”?
• K: Huh?
• T: I think you’ve been hanging around Jimi too long!
• K: Screw u.
• K and T [look at Mish, then look at each other]: …
• Mish: …
• K and T [together]: Hahaha!

• Mish [smiles, gets up]: …
• Tack [to Mish]: What? Leaving already?
• Mish: Yeah. I should get going.
• T: Really?
• Mish: Yeah, I should. Thanks. I really had fun.
• T: Haha, thanks for staying.
• Katt [smiles]: Too bad we couldn’t help.
• Mish: That’s okay… But I still think u two are hopeless.
• K: Yeah.
• T: We know.
• Mish [looks up behind K and T, points in shock]: …
• T: What is it?
• K: Hmmm? What’s going on?
• Mish [still points]: Oh my god! She is TOO cute!
• K and T [turn around]: Who is?

• Jimi [at the top of her lungs, screams in their faces]: BOOO!!!
• Katt [totally surprised]: Jesus Christ! What the fuck!?!
• Tack [gasps]: Holy crap!
• Jimi [laughs]: Hehehe! Not only are u guys pathetic, but you’re gullible too!
• K: Shit. Whatever.
• T: Crap, Jimi. I thought u left.
• K: Yeah, don’t u have a class or something?
• Jimi [sits]: It got cancelled… Which sucks because that was the whole point of this outfit!
• K and T [confused]: Huh?
• Mish [to Jimi]: What’s his name?
• Jimi [suspicious]: …
• K and T [look at each other]: …
• Mish: Who’s the guy you’re trying to impress?
• Jimi: …
• Jimi [to Mish]: Just some guy… Do I know u?
• Mish: Oh, I’m sorry. I’m Michelle, one of Katt’s friends.
• T: But everyone calls her Mish.
• Mish: Hehe, not everyone. Just Katt.
• T: Huh, really? I didn’t know that!
• Jimi [to Mish]: Ahhh, I see. That’s cool. Yeah, I think Katt’s mentioned u a few times. Anyway… Why do u wanna know the guy’s name?
• Mish: Just curious.
• Jimi [still suspicious]: …
• Mish: Actually, those cat-ears are too cute on u.
• Jimi: Hehe, thanks.
• Mish: I think I can understand why my friend wants to buy one… Her boyfriend’s name is Jake.
• Jimi [stunned]: …What?
• K and T [turn to Jimi]: …
• Jimi: Jake? U don’t mean Viki’s Jake? Is your friend Viki?
• K and T [turn to Mish]: …
• Mish: Yes. She is.
• Jimi [looks away]: …
• T [looks at Jimi and Mish]: Ummm, Katt, this doesn’t look too good.
• K [shakes head, whispers]: Holy fuck.

End of Trilogy.

The views of Tack, Katt, Jimi and Mish don’t necessarily reflect the views of xJAYMANx, Danny Choo, or any specific otaku. But I’m sure some of them are out there, lol.

P.S. Thanx everyone for reading! So whattaya think? Should I continue the deconstructive saga? Or end it while I still have my sanity? Should I post any of these at DannyChoo.com? Or should I (in the words of Gurren Lagann) “kick reason to the curb” and post one anyway? If so, which one? LOL >_<