Please read this! The story is written for fun – I do not intend to offend anyone. If it happens, I’m really sorry, I never meant that to happen.

 I’m still using the Japanese-version names.

Disclaimer: Ich besitze Beyblade und „Horrible Histories“ nicht. (Got bored with saying in English that I don’t own Beyblade or anything else that might pop up here)

 

The Grumbling Room: Chapter 14

 

-         Villains. I wonder, why most stories lack a villain? – sighed Yuri. – Wouldn’t it be fun, if there’d be more cool characters, like that Sephriot?

-         And we’d have to fight him. – muttered Kai. – Brilliant. Besides, you really think it’s easy to create a good villain? He has to be convincing in his evilness for example.

-         And if he’ll have reasons and we’ll know them, they’re likely to make him more likable than the good characters. – added Rei.

-         But is it really so hard to create a convincing bad guy? – wondered Takao.

-         Maybe... – shrugged Boris. – Creating characters is hard work. We are in a good position – we already have been created and by somebody, who had some experience in it. And the OC’s here are try-outs.

-         He is right. – nodded Kiki. – But we can expect that they’ll check, if those names are actually used in the country the character comes from.

-         And since it maybe hard, - chimed Ivan in.- here are some female names, which are commonly used in Europe: Mary (often as Maria), Catherine, Sophy (or Sophia), Margarett, Anne, Susan, Dorothy, Yvonne. And some names used in Russia: Tatiana,  Sonia or Natasha. And if you want your character to have a really eccentric name and she’s from Russia: Awdotia!

-         Lovely, eh? – snorted Yuri. – It’s rather old and people nowadays don’t use it, but if the character should come from a weird family...

-         You’d think, people from Japan should have Japanese names. – grumbled Kai. – But no! There are Heathers and Julias running around in half of the fanfics.

-         Yeah. – Takao nodded – And besides you don’t give a kid a name because it means something. So what the hell for do some OC’s have names with some special meaning?

-         My name doesn’t have to do anything with my bitbeasts element. – snorted the older Japanese. – It means sea, if somebody is interested.

-         And what about bitbeasts? – asked Boris. – People forget that the names of bitbeasts in one team are similar. So if they give us a new member the name should end –borg.

-         I wonder, if Balkov is a Trekkie? – mused Yuri. – There was a race called Borgs there.

-         And I have brilliant name for that new bitbeast – if it’ll be a tuna. – chimed Rei in. – Tuborg!

-         You’ve been spending to much time with Max. – said Kai wryly.

-         Loosen up, Mr. Sourpuss! – laughed Takao. The Japanese captain simply glared at him.

-         Ignore them. – advised the black-haired neko-jin. – And what about our surnames? Geez, you’d think finding a reasonable Chinese surname isn’t that difficult.

-         That’s because you are Chinese. – snorted Ivan. – Try thinking of some Russian.

-         Er... Putin... Brezniev... er... Kozakievich... – the golden-eyed boy bit his lip. – Romanov... uh... Dostoevski...

-         See. – sniggered the small Russian. – You don’t know much!

-         But why do Giancarlo and Olivier get such silly ones? – wondered the neko-jin.

-         Should I help you realizing you don’t really know much other European surnames? – asked the red-eyed Demolition Boy.

-         No. – growled the Chinese Bladbreaker.

-         And how about, when people invent all powerful bitbeasts, which can beat ours without any problems? – huffed Yuri. – It’s so damn annoying!

-         Well, excuse me! – piped Takao up, after deciding he had enough of the staring contest with Kai. – But Dragoon is very hard to beat!

-         Yeah, seeing he wins when you can’t come up with virtually any tactic. – muttered the tattooed Japanese.

-         You’re mean! – said the smaller boy and stuck his tongue out.

-         I’m just telling the truth. – shrugged the older Bladebreaker.

-         Anyway, - Boris interrupted – they wouldn’tt be able to beat me.

-         Of course they would. – muttered Kiki darkly. – It’s their story and they can do anything. We are only poor victims, who can only hope some will treat us fair.

-         Yeah... – agreed Ivan. – Besides what about our ‘twins’?

-         Sheesh! – Yuri shook his head. – This is so old and cliché!

-         And twins of the opposite gender aren’t usually as similar as the ones of the same. – added Rei. -  Basic knowledge about genes – and you can notice it in real life. 

-         And we’d know if anyone from my team – chimed Kai in. – had a twin.

-         Yep, twins are usually closer than normal siblings. – nodded Kiki. – So we’d meet him or her in the show.

-         And speaking of OC’s, why does every second one have dark, tragic, angsty past? – mused Boris. – It’s not if we didn’t have enough trouble.

-         And most of those tragic pasts are either abuse or rape, sometimes death of a sibling or parents. – snorted Kai. – Being ignored most of the time is as ‘pleasant’, but you hardly see that.

-         Well, they don’t think it’s tragic enough, I guess. – said Yuri, annoyedly.

-         They don’t think we’re tragic enough, too. – added Ivan. – Look at all those angsty stories around. Wasn’t there one where Boris killed puppies or something?

-         I expected him to pull out legs from insects – puppies are harder to get. – snorted Rei.

-         Ha, ha. – said the lavender-haired Russian impassively. – Very funny.

-         Hey, why don’t we talk about something else? – pleaded Kiki. – If you two go homicidal, I might get hurt.

-         Maybe the great fantasy mishaps? – suggested Kai. – Like the chain mail bikini?

-         What’s wrong with them? – asked the green-haired Chinese.

-         They’re a suicide for a warrior, that’s what. Those things don’t protect the vital organs! – Kai looked outraged.

-         Maybe those are used only for parades and posing to pictures? – suggested Rei.

-         They’d better be, if we don’t want busty warrior girls to die out. – grumbled Kai.

-         Say, aren’t the fantasy stories Middle Ages based? – mused Yuri.

-         Somewhat. – answered Ivan.

-         So, how come they don’t have teeth problems?

-         Maybe they know a teeth healing and cleaning spell? – suggested Boris.

 

 Meanwhile in the brothel the Big Bad Duo had its own conversation.

-         What do those children at history lessons?! – growled Kai’’s grandfather. – Sleep?! I really don’t understand how somebody can write a story without research on topics concerned!

-         Yessir... – Balkov had difficulties with staying awake, because his employer had been ranting on for a long time. The prostitute was playing on gameboy and seemed completely oblivious of what was going around her.

-         There are loads of history books around. – continued the old man. The prostitute jerked her head up.

-         For example ‘Horrible Histories’. – she said. – Those are funny and interesting.

-         Er... Yes, whatever. – the scientist and the old man said in unison.

-         And talking about history based fiction. – Balkov seemed awake as he said that. – Most fics are worse than a book written about 100 years ago and what’s more except for the discrepancies from that time, it was to keep a nation alive, so it was historical-fiction.

-         Whatever. – muttered Voltaire, sounding very much like his grandson.

 

 

Tuborg is a beer... ^_~

 

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