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A story about monkey tribes
Dec. 25th, 2005 10:10 amJesus was a heretic. Think about it: Jesus came to replace the old covenant. The keepers of the old covenant, who did not want to change, obviously had to consider Jesus a heretic if they were to preserve their current position. They would have never guessed Jesus came to split the Veil that separated man from God.
In the anime Irresponsible Captain Tylor, the title character is a subject of great debate. People argue whether Justi Ueki Tylor ("Just Awake Tylor"), age twenty, was a complete fool or a complete genius. One thing you couldn't doubt about him was that he had the devil's luck when it came to his own survival. He joined the United Planets Space Force because it would provide free food and shelter plus it would allow him to see space (the series is set in the year 6998). He became captain, i.e. Tylor Kanchou, by accidentally saving a retired admiral. He is a complete idiot when it comes to realizing the ship wants to mutiny against his irresponsibility, as he always seems to be sleeping on the job.
And yet Tylor defeats an entire enemy fleet with his one destroyer. He is able to make friends with the opposing empress. He brings his destroyer out from demotion in the boonies to the front line battle. When he is made Fleet Admiral to take charge of the fleet in the last desperation attack, he figures out a way to to end the war without firing a single shot. It is in that last moment that his counterpart, Ru Baraba Dom of the Raalgon Empire, figures out who Tylor is.
Someone whose genius no capacity could contain.
Tylor has a strange smile, that smile of a predator who knows he has already caught his prey. Commander Yuriko Star, the love interest of Tylor, absolutely despises his irresponsible nature because she is a Type A, obsessive-compulsive by the book soldier. But she can't help but remember that for all of his erratic ways, Tylor always acted polite. "Could you..." and "Thank you" were always part of Tylor's vocabulary. He was honest, ogling at her pretty legs or saying how a strong person was a strong person, whether they were your friend or your enemy. And he had the uncanny ability of discernment, seeing the greatest strengths and weaknesses of people. However, Commander Star slapped him when he told her what she would be best suited to do.
Raising Tylor's kids.
The military brass in the UPSF despised Tylor. They considered him to be "the enemy within". The destroyer they assigned him to, the Soyokaze (Gentle Breeze), was known for mutinies. Most captains lasted three days, and half of those lost their life due to some sort of "mysterious incident". The Soyokaze contained all of the misfits and rebellious soldiers in the UPSF. Just put them together and let them fight amongst themselves. But the real guy in charge, Admiral Mifune, recognized who Tylor just might be. He explains in the last episode who Tylor is by telling a story about monkey tribes.
Do you know about monkey tribes? Monkey tribes are very organized, with a leader at the top. Now, once every few years without fail, a renegade monkey leaves his tribe and tries to join another one. The members of the new tribe greet the renegade monkey by beating it to a bloody pulp. And yet those renegade monkeys, those heretic monkeys if you will, are a providence from nature. Why? Because they keep the bloodlines from becoming too thick, from too much inbreeding within the tribe. So, you could say that those heretics are essential for survival. Heretics are essential for survival.
Heretics like the one in my icon.
Or me.
In the anime Irresponsible Captain Tylor, the title character is a subject of great debate. People argue whether Justi Ueki Tylor ("Just Awake Tylor"), age twenty, was a complete fool or a complete genius. One thing you couldn't doubt about him was that he had the devil's luck when it came to his own survival. He joined the United Planets Space Force because it would provide free food and shelter plus it would allow him to see space (the series is set in the year 6998). He became captain, i.e. Tylor Kanchou, by accidentally saving a retired admiral. He is a complete idiot when it comes to realizing the ship wants to mutiny against his irresponsibility, as he always seems to be sleeping on the job.
And yet Tylor defeats an entire enemy fleet with his one destroyer. He is able to make friends with the opposing empress. He brings his destroyer out from demotion in the boonies to the front line battle. When he is made Fleet Admiral to take charge of the fleet in the last desperation attack, he figures out a way to to end the war without firing a single shot. It is in that last moment that his counterpart, Ru Baraba Dom of the Raalgon Empire, figures out who Tylor is.
Someone whose genius no capacity could contain.
Tylor has a strange smile, that smile of a predator who knows he has already caught his prey. Commander Yuriko Star, the love interest of Tylor, absolutely despises his irresponsible nature because she is a Type A, obsessive-compulsive by the book soldier. But she can't help but remember that for all of his erratic ways, Tylor always acted polite. "Could you..." and "Thank you" were always part of Tylor's vocabulary. He was honest, ogling at her pretty legs or saying how a strong person was a strong person, whether they were your friend or your enemy. And he had the uncanny ability of discernment, seeing the greatest strengths and weaknesses of people. However, Commander Star slapped him when he told her what she would be best suited to do.
Raising Tylor's kids.
The military brass in the UPSF despised Tylor. They considered him to be "the enemy within". The destroyer they assigned him to, the Soyokaze (Gentle Breeze), was known for mutinies. Most captains lasted three days, and half of those lost their life due to some sort of "mysterious incident". The Soyokaze contained all of the misfits and rebellious soldiers in the UPSF. Just put them together and let them fight amongst themselves. But the real guy in charge, Admiral Mifune, recognized who Tylor just might be. He explains in the last episode who Tylor is by telling a story about monkey tribes.
Do you know about monkey tribes? Monkey tribes are very organized, with a leader at the top. Now, once every few years without fail, a renegade monkey leaves his tribe and tries to join another one. The members of the new tribe greet the renegade monkey by beating it to a bloody pulp. And yet those renegade monkeys, those heretic monkeys if you will, are a providence from nature. Why? Because they keep the bloodlines from becoming too thick, from too much inbreeding within the tribe. So, you could say that those heretics are essential for survival. Heretics are essential for survival.
Heretics like the one in my icon.
Or me.
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