I was going for an edge-of-your-seat sense of excitement/trepidation, sort of like you're in Kagome's shoes here. You may have managed a little TOO well here. :P Each time he spoke and NOT answered her questions I just noticed how much chapter was left and would he PLEASE just speak to her directly before the chapter was over??? Now I have to spend a day going through the what-ifs... ;)
First of all, while we readers have probably all correctly identified him now, the hospital staff still doesn't know. I wonder if his identity will be revealed by himself or an outside source.
Secondly, that parting sentence of his has SO MUCH potential. The chance that he landed himself in the ocean has just increased. Then again, torture could mean anything. He could have been drilled by family and/or teachers (especially on this piece), which drove him insane and he acted while not thinking clearly. That would work with the first chapter. He may have "woken up" when his strength left him. Same goes, if HE was the perfectionist driving himself insane. ;) He could have been held captive by a criminal (or group of them) who forced him to play this thing for whatever reason... Although, if crime was involved, it would make more sense if they played a recording to him to make him crack and do or say whatever they want him to. Maybe it WAS an incorrectly played version that made the perfectionist in him cringe. If that recording was the only thing he remembered after waking up in the hospital, it could have translated to "you have to play it perfectly" to his damaged mind. Or it could a combination of drill in his youth and a criminal making use of that fact. I do think it more likely by now that there's no crime involved, though. The explanations I came up with for a crime sound too farfetched to me. *shrug*
A few words on the Scherzo he played: Of the 3 identifiable parts I only liked the middle one. I prefer music with an actual melody over randomly arranged notes that are supposed to show off the player's virtuosity. I take harmony over mastery, no questions asked. If the two things meet, all the better. But if it's either or, I go for harmony. Meaning to say, if I was a musician and had to play a thing like THAT, I'd go insane, too. ;)
Looking forward to tomorrow, when my own torture finally ends. :D
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I was going for an edge-of-your-seat sense of excitement/trepidation, sort of like you're in Kagome's shoes here.
You may have managed a little TOO well here. :P
Each time he spoke and NOT answered her questions I just noticed how much chapter was left and would he PLEASE just speak to her directly before the chapter was over???
Now I have to spend a day going through the what-ifs... ;)
First of all, while we readers have probably all correctly identified him now, the hospital staff still doesn't know. I wonder if his identity will be revealed by himself or an outside source.
Secondly, that parting sentence of his has SO MUCH potential. The chance that he landed himself in the ocean has just increased.
Then again, torture could mean anything.
He could have been drilled by family and/or teachers (especially on this piece), which drove him insane and he acted while not thinking clearly. That would work with the first chapter. He may have "woken up" when his strength left him. Same goes, if HE was the perfectionist driving himself insane. ;)
He could have been held captive by a criminal (or group of them) who forced him to play this thing for whatever reason... Although, if crime was involved, it would make more sense if they played a recording to him to make him crack and do or say whatever they want him to. Maybe it WAS an incorrectly played version that made the perfectionist in him cringe. If that recording was the only thing he remembered after waking up in the hospital, it could have translated to "you have to play it perfectly" to his damaged mind.
Or it could a combination of drill in his youth and a criminal making use of that fact.
I do think it more likely by now that there's no crime involved, though. The explanations I came up with for a crime sound too farfetched to me. *shrug*
A few words on the Scherzo he played:
Of the 3 identifiable parts I only liked the middle one. I prefer music with an actual melody over randomly arranged notes that are supposed to show off the player's virtuosity. I take harmony over mastery, no questions asked. If the two things meet, all the better. But if it's either or, I go for harmony.
Meaning to say, if I was a musician and had to play a thing like THAT, I'd go insane, too. ;)
Looking forward to tomorrow, when my own torture finally ends. :D