Pecha (Orihara Izaya) (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
best_ended) wrote2011-07-18 04:05 am
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Entry tags:
Memory 4 & 5
Memory 4
Negative-Neutral
→ Shizu-chan at his Shinjuku apartment :/ #
Shizuo: [outside Izaya's Shinjuku apartment's building] "Iiiiizayyyaaaaa-kuuuuuun..." [walks in and to the door of the apartment, lifting a foot to kick in the door] "Leeeeeet's plaaaay--"
Izaya: [approaching Shizuo from behind and putting cold soda can on his face, making Shizuo spin around and the can of soda drop to the ground] "What is Shizu-chan doing here?"
Shizuo: "I came to punch you, of course."
[they now face each other, leaning toward each other]
Izaya: "Why do you want to punch me?"
Shizuo: "Because I'm pissed off."
Izaya: "Aren't you a bit old to be acting as the Doraemon bully, Shizu-chan?"
Shizuo: "Shut up! Bastard, how deep in this are you?"
Izaya: "What are you talking about?" [starts to walk off]
Shizuo: "That Slasher that's been causing trouble in my town."
Izaya: [at the entrance of the building] "That's a horrible accusation."
Shizuo: "Violent, screwed-up crap that doesn't make any sense is 99% likely to involve you!"
Izaya: "Think you could believe in the last 1%?" [drops his flickblade from his sleeve and flicks it open, raising it as if in a salute] "You couldn't, could you?"
[taking the fight out of doors, Izaya has his flickblade held out. Shizuo... heads to a road barrier and... rips it out off of the ground]
Izaya: "... seriously?"
[SHIZUO BEGINS TO SWING SAID BARRIER--
the black courier come driving her motorbike between the two of them, effectively putting an end to the fight]
Izaya: "... oya oya..."
Shizuo: "Celty? What is it?"
Celty: [shows Shizuo something on her PDA.]
Shizuo: [tosses the barrier away to peer at the PDA] "... the hell?" [looks to Izaya] "This part of your plan?"
Izaya: "If I could have planned for Celty randomly appearing here, I'd have dropped a meteor on your house ages ago."
Shizuo: [DISPLEASED but catches helmet, hops on bike with Celty and they both go off into Ikebukurou]
Izaya: [watches them go, SOUR-FACED] "... geez, how's an idiot like him that smart?" [... smiles a bit] "This is why I hate him."
Other details:
—Whatever was going on Izaya did have his hand in the mess. So why did someone as dimwitted as Shizu-chan figure out that he was involved? That's never been something he thought should be possible which is why he's so sour at the whole confrontation.
—Izaya lives in another town! So Shizuo personally sought him out to confront him about this. Wooow, such bullheaded determination.
—Celty! Shinra's something or other that he adores or something, since Harm seemed to be that way about her now that he's in the Pillar with her. She communicates via the PDA she was showing Shizu-chan.
—... apparently, Izaya calls Shizuo "Shizu-chan" for some reason.
—... that was an entire waste of a good can of soda.
—What a monster! Pulling up industrial-strength steel that was heavily bolted into place and meant to stop vehicles!
Memory 5
Negative-Neutral
→ Twin little sisters lolol they try too hard (pc/nov) *
For a better idea of how Izaya thinks of his sisters, here's this conversation in the first volume they're introduced in (it can also be found here, however, this is not the memory itself. more info on that below):
"Speaking of which - your sisters too are gonna be Raira students from now on."
"......You sure are very well-informed."
Izaya's expression verged on the uncomfortable.
"Just thought you should know that I've done my research on my head man as well."
"......How should I put it...well, I do that all the time to other people, but..."
It's a different thing altogether to have that done to myself - he laughed bitterly as if to say. Deciding to abandon the work at hand for the moment, he leaned into his chair and continued to talk as if to himself.
"I never knew how to deal with those two."
"Really? Are you saying there's something you don't know how to deal with apart from Heiwajima Shizuo?"
"Stop kidding. I'm human after all. Well, not completely, but still."
Sighing heavily, Izaya began to describe for Namie the environment he grew up in.
"My sisters...are called 'Kururi' and 'Mairu'. ...How should I put it...my parents are completely ordinary people. Except for when it comes to the taste in children's names, that is. Yet I grew up in that highly ordinary environment...to be what I am now."
"Alas, so you're aware that you are a hentai?"
Namie's sarcasm didn't seem to bother Izaya as he put his hands together, rubbed his thumbs and continued.
"I didn't turn out like this because of the environment I grew up in...but my sisters, I think, turned out abnormal because of my influence. That I do feel guilty about."
"Abnormal? In what ways?"
- What kind of children could make even a hentai like him call them abnormal?
Namie, now looking intrigued, paused the work at hand and poured herself a cup of tea from the kettle in the kitchen.
She was really listening now despite the fact that she just stood there in an aloof fashion. Izaya simply looked at Namie with weary eyes.
"Their goal is - to be 'human'."
"........Excuse me?"
"They want to become sort of a 'humankind in a nutshell' combination...and of all humankind especially the Japanese."
"I still don't follow."
Izaya smiled bitterly at a perplexed Namie.
"I know it's hard to understand. They simply thought that being twins automatically meant that they were supposed to be the same person."
"......Ahh, that kind of makes sense. A single twin does strike as an incomplete human being if not in a set with the other...or at least that's how we feel. But wouldn't it be odd for the twins themselves to feel the same way?"
"Normally, yes. But like I said...my sisters aren't normal."
Shutting down his laptop, Izaya rose slowly from his chair.
Parting the blinds with his fingers, he narrowed his eyes in the sunshine that poured through.
"You know how games always come with preset parameters? Like some characters would have high magical power but very low fighting ability, or excellent fighting ability but no brains. In an RPG game you would have to form a balanced team to make up for each other's weaknesses."
"Well, that's what we do in reality as well. Using your personnel according to their strengths and weaknesses is the first step towards rational management."
"If only it were anything close to rational management..."
Izaya put his hand on the desk as the image of his sisters came back to his mind.
"What they did was that they formed an RPG team, just the two of them. One would be the martial artist, and the other would be the sorcerer, something like that."
"......I have no idea what you're trying to say."
"It's simple. They consciously formed two completely contrasting human stereotypes. They became totally different despite being twins - on purpose! Thinking they would be something more than all other humans by combining their forces like that...just another way to convince themselves that they're capable of anything, I'd say."
As if observing something truly nonsensical, the stray smile around the corner of Izaya's mouth never reached his eyes.
"Their respective appearances and personalities - those were settled by a flip of the coin back when they were still elementary school kids. They weren't aware that there is a thing called congruency. So Kururi - the older one - is silent and melancholic but wears a gymnastic suit. The younger one, Mairu, looks like a liberal arts girl but talks and behaves like there's no tomorrow."
"But...that would just be odd, right? There's no point in divorcing the appearance from the personality."
Izaya nodded slowly at Namie's bewildered reaction.
"Sure, there is no point. But for those two, there isn't any point in synchronizing the appearance with the personality either. They end up being the 'same person' anyway. As long as they think they have all the 'parts', they don't care. They like to think they're special because of that - what a pair of intolerable eighth-grade-disease patients."
"What's eighth-grade disease?"
"Google that up yourself. Whatever...it's at least better than thinking you're an esper or the reincarnation of a warrior of light or something. But anyway those two stand out too much...whatever kind of crowd they're in."
"Ah, I see. So as someone who wants to remain the evil mastermind in the dark it's only natural that you don't wish to be seen with them."
Namie nonchalantly interpreted Izaya's own thoughts for him.
Izaya looked away as if that analysis hit something right on the mark, and replied.
"True. It embarrasses me when I see those two or hear them talk...you'll see what I mean when you meet them. Keep in mind that even I can't stand them. If I can't stand them, there is probably no way anyone else can..."
"If you're so aware that you are just as intolerable yourself, why not behave a little bit for a change?"
"I don't wanna be told by someone who forced an illegal plastic surgery on a girl for the sake of her brother."
Namie merely smiled at Izaya's pungent riposte.
"Ahh. I have no intention to behave whatsoever when it comes to Seiji."
"......"
"True love needs no brake nor accelerator. When you think about it, it will get you there by itself."
Namie's cheeks turned rosy as she muttered such completely irrelevant sentences that didn't even sound like an answer.
If this were the only side people ever see of Namie, they'd probably think she's some kind of overgrown adolescent girl.
- If only her brother weren't the one she was lusting over.
Izaya sat back in his chair without another word. Namie's expression returned to normal as she asked the next question.
"But are you sure they're going to be alright? If they stand out so much, wouldn't it make them easy targets for all those bullies out there? I heard they are getting pretty nasty these days?"
Though her words looked like they were filled with concern for Izaya's family, there was not a trace of emotion in the way Namie uttered them; it was obvious that she actually couldn't care less.
Izaya looked as if he took on the same attitude as he pondered his sisters' situation.
"You have a point. Hopefully no bullies are gonna pick on them...but it's not like we can avoid it."
Still sighing, the information dealer's face eventually broke into a sarcastic grin.
"Poor things."
The Actual Memory:
This is basically an info-dump memory, so the memory does not have a scene such as this one I've shown (it's mostly there for canon evidence of how Izaya views his sisters). Instead, it consists of general knowledge of events and impressions of his siblings! Which are as followed:
—Izaya has twin younger sisters (about 8 years younger if you consider that he is around 23-24 when they enter high school, which the average age is about 15)--Mairu and Kururi.
—The three of them were born to normal parents into a normal childhood with suspiciously abnormal names. From Izaya's point of view, there was nothing unnatural or usual about their lives at the beginning--except himself.
—At some point during their childhood, Mairu and Kururi badly wanted Izaya's attention. Only, Izaya told them flat-out that he loved them like he loved all humans. I.e. they were normal people and thus not people worth the attention they wanted because Izaya loves all humans. Because of this, Mairu and Kururi decided to split human attributes between themselves to make the sum of the human race between the two of them.
—Eventually, Mairu and Kururi stopped trying to win over their elder brother's affections but had adapted to their new way of living. Instead, they grew to appear to be rather uncaring toward their brother and often would attempt to drop-kick him and tell him he should die.
—Izaya is generally annoyed by their antics and by their failed attempts to be "one person" that encompasses the whole of the human race. He does not really find them interesting at all, and often would prefer they stay quiet and out of the way. Of course, this is never the case. They even offer to deliver him to Shizuo, all the more easy for Shizuo to kill him, once later on in the novels...
What this means:
... Izaya will be SOOOOOOOOOOOOO grumpy.
Not only is he getting a memory involving the ONE PERSON HE HATES ABOVE ALL OTHERS, but he's also getting back a memory that informs him that he has twin sisters that he just generally does not like very much. And the feeling appears to be mutual.
So yes. Very grumpy and likely not to be pleasant if people poke him wrong.
Negative-Neutral
→ Shizu-chan at his Shinjuku apartment :/ #
Shizuo: [outside Izaya's Shinjuku apartment's building] "Iiiiizayyyaaaaa-kuuuuuun..." [walks in and to the door of the apartment, lifting a foot to kick in the door] "Leeeeeet's plaaaay--"
Izaya: [approaching Shizuo from behind and putting cold soda can on his face, making Shizuo spin around and the can of soda drop to the ground] "What is Shizu-chan doing here?"
Shizuo: "I came to punch you, of course."
[they now face each other, leaning toward each other]
Izaya: "Why do you want to punch me?"
Shizuo: "Because I'm pissed off."
Izaya: "Aren't you a bit old to be acting as the Doraemon bully, Shizu-chan?"
Shizuo: "Shut up! Bastard, how deep in this are you?"
Izaya: "What are you talking about?" [starts to walk off]
Shizuo: "That Slasher that's been causing trouble in my town."
Izaya: [at the entrance of the building] "That's a horrible accusation."
Shizuo: "Violent, screwed-up crap that doesn't make any sense is 99% likely to involve you!"
Izaya: "Think you could believe in the last 1%?" [drops his flickblade from his sleeve and flicks it open, raising it as if in a salute] "You couldn't, could you?"
[taking the fight out of doors, Izaya has his flickblade held out. Shizuo... heads to a road barrier and... rips it out off of the ground]
Izaya: "... seriously?"
[SHIZUO BEGINS TO SWING SAID BARRIER--
the black courier come driving her motorbike between the two of them, effectively putting an end to the fight]
Izaya: "... oya oya..."
Shizuo: "Celty? What is it?"
Celty: [shows Shizuo something on her PDA.]
Shizuo: [tosses the barrier away to peer at the PDA] "... the hell?" [looks to Izaya] "This part of your plan?"
Izaya: "If I could have planned for Celty randomly appearing here, I'd have dropped a meteor on your house ages ago."
Shizuo: [DISPLEASED but catches helmet, hops on bike with Celty and they both go off into Ikebukurou]
Izaya: [watches them go, SOUR-FACED] "... geez, how's an idiot like him that smart?" [... smiles a bit] "This is why I hate him."
Other details:
—Whatever was going on Izaya did have his hand in the mess. So why did someone as dimwitted as Shizu-chan figure out that he was involved? That's never been something he thought should be possible which is why he's so sour at the whole confrontation.
—Izaya lives in another town! So Shizuo personally sought him out to confront him about this. Wooow, such bullheaded determination.
—Celty! Shinra's something or other that he adores or something, since Harm seemed to be that way about her now that he's in the Pillar with her. She communicates via the PDA she was showing Shizu-chan.
—... apparently, Izaya calls Shizuo "Shizu-chan" for some reason.
—... that was an entire waste of a good can of soda.
—What a monster! Pulling up industrial-strength steel that was heavily bolted into place and meant to stop vehicles!
Memory 5
Negative-Neutral
→ Twin little sisters lolol they try too hard (pc/nov) *
For a better idea of how Izaya thinks of his sisters, here's this conversation in the first volume they're introduced in (it can also be found here, however, this is not the memory itself. more info on that below):
"Speaking of which - your sisters too are gonna be Raira students from now on."
"......You sure are very well-informed."
Izaya's expression verged on the uncomfortable.
"Just thought you should know that I've done my research on my head man as well."
"......How should I put it...well, I do that all the time to other people, but..."
It's a different thing altogether to have that done to myself - he laughed bitterly as if to say. Deciding to abandon the work at hand for the moment, he leaned into his chair and continued to talk as if to himself.
"I never knew how to deal with those two."
"Really? Are you saying there's something you don't know how to deal with apart from Heiwajima Shizuo?"
"Stop kidding. I'm human after all. Well, not completely, but still."
Sighing heavily, Izaya began to describe for Namie the environment he grew up in.
"My sisters...are called 'Kururi' and 'Mairu'. ...How should I put it...my parents are completely ordinary people. Except for when it comes to the taste in children's names, that is. Yet I grew up in that highly ordinary environment...to be what I am now."
"Alas, so you're aware that you are a hentai?"
Namie's sarcasm didn't seem to bother Izaya as he put his hands together, rubbed his thumbs and continued.
"I didn't turn out like this because of the environment I grew up in...but my sisters, I think, turned out abnormal because of my influence. That I do feel guilty about."
"Abnormal? In what ways?"
- What kind of children could make even a hentai like him call them abnormal?
Namie, now looking intrigued, paused the work at hand and poured herself a cup of tea from the kettle in the kitchen.
She was really listening now despite the fact that she just stood there in an aloof fashion. Izaya simply looked at Namie with weary eyes.
"Their goal is - to be 'human'."
"........Excuse me?"
"They want to become sort of a 'humankind in a nutshell' combination...and of all humankind especially the Japanese."
"I still don't follow."
Izaya smiled bitterly at a perplexed Namie.
"I know it's hard to understand. They simply thought that being twins automatically meant that they were supposed to be the same person."
"......Ahh, that kind of makes sense. A single twin does strike as an incomplete human being if not in a set with the other...or at least that's how we feel. But wouldn't it be odd for the twins themselves to feel the same way?"
"Normally, yes. But like I said...my sisters aren't normal."
Shutting down his laptop, Izaya rose slowly from his chair.
Parting the blinds with his fingers, he narrowed his eyes in the sunshine that poured through.
"You know how games always come with preset parameters? Like some characters would have high magical power but very low fighting ability, or excellent fighting ability but no brains. In an RPG game you would have to form a balanced team to make up for each other's weaknesses."
"Well, that's what we do in reality as well. Using your personnel according to their strengths and weaknesses is the first step towards rational management."
"If only it were anything close to rational management..."
Izaya put his hand on the desk as the image of his sisters came back to his mind.
"What they did was that they formed an RPG team, just the two of them. One would be the martial artist, and the other would be the sorcerer, something like that."
"......I have no idea what you're trying to say."
"It's simple. They consciously formed two completely contrasting human stereotypes. They became totally different despite being twins - on purpose! Thinking they would be something more than all other humans by combining their forces like that...just another way to convince themselves that they're capable of anything, I'd say."
As if observing something truly nonsensical, the stray smile around the corner of Izaya's mouth never reached his eyes.
"Their respective appearances and personalities - those were settled by a flip of the coin back when they were still elementary school kids. They weren't aware that there is a thing called congruency. So Kururi - the older one - is silent and melancholic but wears a gymnastic suit. The younger one, Mairu, looks like a liberal arts girl but talks and behaves like there's no tomorrow."
"But...that would just be odd, right? There's no point in divorcing the appearance from the personality."
Izaya nodded slowly at Namie's bewildered reaction.
"Sure, there is no point. But for those two, there isn't any point in synchronizing the appearance with the personality either. They end up being the 'same person' anyway. As long as they think they have all the 'parts', they don't care. They like to think they're special because of that - what a pair of intolerable eighth-grade-disease patients."
"What's eighth-grade disease?"
"Google that up yourself. Whatever...it's at least better than thinking you're an esper or the reincarnation of a warrior of light or something. But anyway those two stand out too much...whatever kind of crowd they're in."
"Ah, I see. So as someone who wants to remain the evil mastermind in the dark it's only natural that you don't wish to be seen with them."
Namie nonchalantly interpreted Izaya's own thoughts for him.
Izaya looked away as if that analysis hit something right on the mark, and replied.
"True. It embarrasses me when I see those two or hear them talk...you'll see what I mean when you meet them. Keep in mind that even I can't stand them. If I can't stand them, there is probably no way anyone else can..."
"If you're so aware that you are just as intolerable yourself, why not behave a little bit for a change?"
"I don't wanna be told by someone who forced an illegal plastic surgery on a girl for the sake of her brother."
Namie merely smiled at Izaya's pungent riposte.
"Ahh. I have no intention to behave whatsoever when it comes to Seiji."
"......"
"True love needs no brake nor accelerator. When you think about it, it will get you there by itself."
Namie's cheeks turned rosy as she muttered such completely irrelevant sentences that didn't even sound like an answer.
If this were the only side people ever see of Namie, they'd probably think she's some kind of overgrown adolescent girl.
- If only her brother weren't the one she was lusting over.
Izaya sat back in his chair without another word. Namie's expression returned to normal as she asked the next question.
"But are you sure they're going to be alright? If they stand out so much, wouldn't it make them easy targets for all those bullies out there? I heard they are getting pretty nasty these days?"
Though her words looked like they were filled with concern for Izaya's family, there was not a trace of emotion in the way Namie uttered them; it was obvious that she actually couldn't care less.
Izaya looked as if he took on the same attitude as he pondered his sisters' situation.
"You have a point. Hopefully no bullies are gonna pick on them...but it's not like we can avoid it."
Still sighing, the information dealer's face eventually broke into a sarcastic grin.
"Poor things."
The Actual Memory:
This is basically an info-dump memory, so the memory does not have a scene such as this one I've shown (it's mostly there for canon evidence of how Izaya views his sisters). Instead, it consists of general knowledge of events and impressions of his siblings! Which are as followed:
—Izaya has twin younger sisters (about 8 years younger if you consider that he is around 23-24 when they enter high school, which the average age is about 15)--Mairu and Kururi.
—The three of them were born to normal parents into a normal childhood with suspiciously abnormal names. From Izaya's point of view, there was nothing unnatural or usual about their lives at the beginning--except himself.
—At some point during their childhood, Mairu and Kururi badly wanted Izaya's attention. Only, Izaya told them flat-out that he loved them like he loved all humans. I.e. they were normal people and thus not people worth the attention they wanted because Izaya loves all humans. Because of this, Mairu and Kururi decided to split human attributes between themselves to make the sum of the human race between the two of them.
—Eventually, Mairu and Kururi stopped trying to win over their elder brother's affections but had adapted to their new way of living. Instead, they grew to appear to be rather uncaring toward their brother and often would attempt to drop-kick him and tell him he should die.
—Izaya is generally annoyed by their antics and by their failed attempts to be "one person" that encompasses the whole of the human race. He does not really find them interesting at all, and often would prefer they stay quiet and out of the way. Of course, this is never the case. They even offer to deliver him to Shizuo, all the more easy for Shizuo to kill him, once later on in the novels...
What this means:
... Izaya will be SOOOOOOOOOOOOO grumpy.
Not only is he getting a memory involving the ONE PERSON HE HATES ABOVE ALL OTHERS, but he's also getting back a memory that informs him that he has twin sisters that he just generally does not like very much. And the feeling appears to be mutual.
So yes. Very grumpy and likely not to be pleasant if people poke him wrong.
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