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Chapter 124
quimmy:
I saw this theory on another TRC board and I thought I'd share. x)
"After reading the latest xxxHolic and Tsubasa chapters I have come up with a theory about the water Yuuko had Watanuki go get. Remember when Doumeki and Watanuki were going through the different books at Doumeki's trying to figure out how to restore Watanuki's eyesight? They came upon a text written by Doumeki's grandfater about restoring eyesight, and it mentioned washing the empty eye in some kind of water. I've been thinking that perhaps the water Yuuko had Watanuki get is going to be used to help save Fai. Just a theory, let me know what you think."
Still doesn't give us any clue on what the price might be though. *shakes fist*
Becster:
--- Quote from: Quimmy on August 05 2006, 09:10 pm ---I saw this theory on another TRC board and I thought I'd share. x)
"After reading the latest xxxHolic and Tsubasa chapters I have come up with a theory about the water Yuuko had Watanuki go get. Remember when Doumeki and Watanuki were going through the different books at Doumeki's trying to figure out how to restore Watanuki's eyesight? They came upon a text written by Doumeki's grandfater about restoring eyesight, and it mentioned washing the empty eye in some kind of water. I've been thinking that perhaps the water Yuuko had Watanuki get is going to be used to help save Fai. Just a theory, let me know what you think."
Still doesn't give us any clue on what the price might be though. *shakes fist*
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It's possible that Yuuko did get the water because she knew what would happen to Fai, but in Volume 9 Ashura says something about her not being able to interfere until someone requests it. It's also possible she prepared because she knew Kuro would pay the price to save Fai. She also knew that they'd fall in love over the jounrey; she probably fangirls them as well as Doumeki and Watanuki. WAHAHA...
Still...I don't think we'll know anything about the price until the chapter is released...or if those spoilers leak out again. I mean, I'm dubious of spoilers as they've been wrong before...but...the spoilers for chapter 124 hit the nail on the head. o_o
(BTW, Quimmy? URHARA FTW XDDDD)
Ando:
Hm, isn't anyone but me annoyed with the clone being able to develop a heart of his own? I take it that it's doubtless that he eventually will, and then he and Sakura will live happily ever after, and Real Syaoran will... go and do something else.
I mean, sure, it's not like we haven't known the whole time that the two of them would end up together, but when we first learned about Syaoran being a clone I thought: "yay, maybe the happy ending wasn't so given after all! Now it will be something bittersweet, like the clone being destroyed and Sakura going back home with the 'wrong' Syaoran, always knowing he isn't really her dear childhood friend"... but no. -_-
--- Quote from: Kjesta on August 05 2006, 07:37 pm ---Syaoran? Who the f*ck is Syaoran? That guy in the background there?
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Heh, well said. But what do you expect, CLAMP, presenting us with a dying Fai, and an angsty Sakura and injured/soulless Syaoran. Of course Fai is prior one!
As for what price Kuro will have to pay... I still think there is a possibility that he won't have to make a wish. The series has yet some way to go, and I think it's a bit too early for the "OMG! now it's definetly, absolutely, beyond all doubt-ly canon!" scene, aka "the scene where Fai finds out what high a price Kurogane had to pay to save him, and the conversation that follows".
selenityshiroi:
--- Quote from: nefadol on August 05 2006, 07:26 pm ---Fai's wish was to never return to the world that he is from. As what Yuuko said to Doumeki, "When wishes create opposing effects, the one that was first asked of me will be given priority". So it's highly unlikely that she would send him there.
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That was what he asked for but Yuuko doesn't grant wishes but gives people the means to grant their wishes themselves.
For example (I'll go into spoiler tags cause I'm going to talk about Holic for a bit) Show contentthe woman addicted to the computer-Yuuko didn't cure her, she just took away the temptation for a bit to give the woman a chance to cure herself. The woman who lied and was starting to paralyse herself, Yuuko gave her a chance to come clean rather than tell her what she was doing wrong. Most of the wishes asked of her have been 'granted' by the one asking-Yuuko has just given them hints/set up situations/given them items that allow them to do so.
Therefore, when Syaoran, Fay and Kurogane asked for their wishes she didn't grant them. She just gave them the means to do so themselves. She even TELLS Syaoran that he has to save Sakura himself, that he has to find the feathers on his own. She is just giving him the opertunity to travel to lots of worlds. The same goes to the other two. She tells Fay and Kurogane that she has no idea what worlds they will land in (and therefore whether they will ever land in Kurogane's world OR Fay's) but she is giving them the CHANCE to fulfill their wishes.
She never states that Kurogane will go home or that Fay will never go back to Celes. She never states that they will save Sakura. All she says is that Mokona will grant them the ability to take them to lots of different worlds and the price they paid was for MOKONA. They haven't paid for anything else (except the magic 'slime ball' they used in Kouryo) including their actual wishes.
I hope that makes sense outside of my head because it's really clear to me but I don't know how well I'm explaining it.
nefadol:
--- Quote ---That was what he asked for but Yuuko doesn't grant wishes but gives people the means to grant their wishes themselves.
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That is the case for the most part, but not always. Sometimes she does outright grant a a wish, Show contenttake Watanuki's wish for Doumeki's eye.
Their traveling is the means to grant the wish, but traveling wasn't his wish, just a method to grant it. I'm just saying that Fai's wish was to never go home, and in granting a wish that is for someone else which would cancel out his wish, would go against Yuuko's principles.
On the water theory...some XXXHOLiC spoilers, though nothing major.
Show contentYeah, I think the water is for Fai. Isn't asking of the water from Nekomusume for the price of a hat a bit odd? She said that she is an information broker, so it's more like she's taking advantage of her knowledge of where to find that water.
Yuuko: I want water from a certain well. Water that has been there for a long time and that hasn't been mixed with tap water yet. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.
Nekomusume: I do. Do you mind if it's not clean?
Yuuko: Not at all.
The water is also strangely heavy, so much so that Watanuki can only carry one of the 13 containers at a time, which are only the size of a basket ball. If you think about it, they'd fit through Mokona's mouth quite well. ^_^
XXXHOLiC is a bit behind Tsubasa, so by the time Yuuko is talking to the Tsubasa gang, all of the water should have been collected.
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