My sleeping pattern is kind of screwed up. I got home around 6.50pm today, body went "Initiating Shut down," almost immediately, and was pretty much unconscious to the world by 7pm. So, the question is; WHY AM I AWAKE NOW?! The simple reason would be my body hates me, however, I suspect it is because of my prolonged and painful coughing that woke me up. Hmm, on second thought: my body HATE me.

Rather than prepare for tomorrow's tutorial, I am, instead, searching for Orochimaru fics that does more than just provide him a personality of a gay-pedophile. I want depth, I want motives, and I want characterization! Hmm, I suspect I'll be severely disappointed.


I find Orochimaru to be the most fascinating character in Naruto. From the way that he present himself; cold, creepy, and so hungry (ok, we can argue for authorial intent here; snakes=creep/bad/etc., but I’m going to ignore K-sensei’s input for this study), to his mad ambition to know all, to learn all, to understand all. On a complete objective POV I can understand his drive, and his obsession to live. Knowledge is endless, and to have to die before learning everything must just kill the genius that is Orochimaru (say what you will of his actions but Orochimaru is a genius.)

You know, I keep on going back to the few flashback scenes of Orochimaru as a child, and I just can’t picture that little boy becoming what he is now. Orochimaru must have had innocence at one point, must have had compassion, and there must have been a point in his life when Orochimaru came to a decision. Compassion is nothing, protecting those precious to me is not enough. All there is is knowledge. I would love to read something like that.

And I’m so not awake enough to have this rant. Ok, going to attempt to go back to sleep again.


Actually, Orochimaru remind me of Marc Remillard of the Intervention series. Hunger for knowledge, genius, ruthless, and yet… yeah. Before I forget, read Julian May’s Intervention series. Marc is a damn fascinating character.