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Comments

[reka]

Since Gokaiger-Earth is basically All Sentai Canon Exists Here, I presume it has continuously been in danger of being destroyed for large portions or all of everyone's lives. So Gai's enthusiasm might be a little weird. Like being a die-hard fan of freedom fighter groups. It's normal to support and cheer for them, but it'd be weird to know them all by name and appearance and bloodtype or whatever. I'm not sure if I'm making much sense.

Sending him to a therapist too, maybe? That could be pretty hilarious.

[estirose]

Gai's enthusiasm is weird. And a therapist is a good idea. If only to convince him it's not good for him to be on an evil team.

Of course, then he could be a pirate wanted by the Empire and trying to convince everybody that he needs to get back to his team. (He's half-convinced they'll find him, because that's what sentais do, but he doesn't think they can find him without his Cellular.)

[reka]

I can kind of see Gai assuming that there's some sort of sentai magic for those sorts of things. He's the kind of guy who'd think things just fall into place like that.

But then again, I have a habit of making characters self-deluded. You might have noticed that.

[estirose]

I figure he's torn between hoping for it and thinking it does happen.

Something among these lines:

Gai rattled his handcuffs in frustration. He would have never guessed that he'd end up falling asleep at his Aunt's house, waking up like this with his Aunt telling him that she'd left his Cellular somewhere and told one of his crewmates where to find it.

Without his Cellular or key, he bet they couldn't find him, though Don-san was capable of some amazing things; maybe he could. Probably his aunt would figure that the crew couldn't find him either. All he knew was that she thought he was crazy for joining Marvelous' crew. Maybe he was, but they mostly weren't bad folks, and the Empire did have to be overthrown. Besides, he'd made that choice, offered, and Marvelous had accepted him as crew. That made him a pirate, didn't it? A pirate on the side of good.

Besides, it was a little too late. The Empire already had an arrest warrant for him, one that would end in his execution if they found him. It was something that would horrify his aunt... if she would listen.

Eventually exhausted, he fell back asleep, the sounds of gunfire punctuating his dream.

[reka]

I really love that somehow Gai's mind leapt (why does Firefox consider that a typo?) from "saving the Earth from Zangyack" to "destroying the entire empire." Like it was a perfectly natural logical connection to make.

Wait, his aunt had handcuffs? Maybe overdoing it runs in the family.

[estirose]

I think Gai is a bit overenthusiastic. And I have no clue why his aunt has handcuffs. She must have an interesting life. All I know is that she thinks that Gai needs them until he calms down and accepts that he is not a pirate or a sentai member anymore.

(Poor Marvelous. His crew needs to stop getting kidnapped/captured.)

[reka]

Gai, calm down? When he finally got to be a hero? Never.

I'm not sure whether Marvelous would be amused or angry if Gai's aunt was holding him captive in her house. He might be amused about the handcuffs, at least.

[estirose]

At the very least, it's going to be a long time. I don't think she'd be able to get him to give up. He'd want his Cellular back. Or just say so to stall for time so that he can be found. I think he wants to break the headboard that he's attached to. And he would try to explain that it's too late, that he's already a criminal in the eyes of the galactic empire that he's trying to overthrow.

Marvelous might be amused, after he figures out that it is Gai's aunt's house. He doesn't know who the woman is, all he knows is that someone told him that Gai isn't going to be a pirate anymore.

[reka]

And that he chose to be a wanted pirate with full knowledge of the consequences. Possibly a bit too quickly and enthusiastically, but he did think about it. I think.

[estirose]

Yes. He knew what he was doing. He knows what danger he's gotten himself into. And he needs to rejoin his ship, thanks.

(And maybe he can talk his way out of this without needing to be rescued by his Captain.)

[reka]

I suppose it depends on how tolerant of her nephew's eccentricities she is? And how used to them. She might react differently if she's dealt with him rushing into danger rashly before.
The getting hit by a truck thing was probably just the one that got him particularly hurt.

[estirose]

I see him getting into his share of scrapes, and eyerollingly so because he seems to have never grown up and realized that heroing is dangerous. She's scared that he will get himself killed trying to reform his 'team', or something else.

Oddly enough, she might cling tighter given that he has gotten himself into this situation with the Empire. He's on Earth. He's safe as long as he doesn't have his Cellular and isn't running towards danger.

(And if she's not careful, she'll have a pirate captain kicking her door down if Gai doesn't convince her to let him go.)

[reka]

Except for the fact Zangyack wants to conquer Earth and he has not been shy about showing his face. And mentioning his name.

Yes, and Marvelous is likely to have no qualms about wrecking her door.

[estirose]

Yes. He's kind of gone past the point of no return. But she's in denial; she figures everything will be all right if she keeps him safe. And once he realizes it's not meant to be, it'll be easier. And if he's right about the pirates being/becoming good guys, then they can damn well save the world, and without him.

And she hasn't quite realized that Rangers protect their own, and that Gai's teammates once walked into a warehouse with guns blazing and swords out to rescue a teammate. Oops. She'll be lucky if her door is the only thing she'll have to replace.

[reka]

Maybe they'll just really wreck her door. And everything else that's keeping Gai from leaving. And her handcuffs, of course.

In what kind of place does she live? Because I'm really amused by imagining the crew storming a small apartment.

[estirose]

Five pirates storming a small apartment would be rather funny. I see her having a very small house, and, being more like her nephew than she thinks, running towards her living room when Marvelous destroys her front door. He's not amused.

Gai figures it's a rescue, but was rather hoping he didn't need one.

[estirose]

She was feeding her nephew Gai dinner when there was a boom. He suddenly grinned, and she hoped this didn't make him think he was going anywhere. He was still stubbornly insisting that he had a team, but she knew that, given time, he'd understand. Understand that he was more valuable than anything else, that he couldn't keep trying to get himself killed by running into the face of traffic and battling intergalactic bad guys.

Besides, there was no way that they could have found him without that device, and that device had been left in a flowerbed with instruction on where it was. If they were as good as Gai said they were, they would leave him alone and find another to risk his life. Just as long as it wasn't Gai.

"Stay here," she said, realizing that he wasn't going anywhere after a second's thought.She rushed towards her front door to find that she had no front door anymore, at least not a whole one. There was a young man in a red longcoat, four others behind him, two wielding swords and the other two guns. Hanako found her eyes drawn towards the young woman in the frilly white-and-pink dress holding a gun as if it fitted naturally in her hand and realized that this group of strangers had to be the pirates that her nephew had associated himself with. Gai had shown her the pictures, after all, even before he'd gotten the crazy idea to join them.

"Where's Gai?" the young man in the longcoat asked, demanded, and she drew herself up. She would protect her nephew even from his own so-called team.

She looked at him, straight in the eyes. "You can't have him." She didn't know how they'd found this place, but she wasn't going to give him up to that life.

"Up here, Marvelous-san!" her nephew called. Obviously she should have gagged him, but she hadn't anticipated this.

"Listen," she said, aware that there were guns pointed at her, and people with sharp swords backing them up. "Gai doesn't belong with you and your life. He's an ordinary boy." As long as she stood between them and Gai, her nephew was safe.

[reka]

Auntmuse is a bit more like Gai than she realizes, although her drive is much more protective than heroic. Do you know how she's related to him?

How familiar is Gai with the layout of the house?

[estirose]

(sadly, or maybe not so sadly, I seem to be developing a fic)

Auntmuse is his mother's sister. I know that she's been involved in stuff that's not really official, and that she's seen death.

Gai knows the house decently, though perhaps not every single nook and cranny. He can easily figure out, for example, of where he is in the house and where his Captain is, relatively speaking.

[reka]

What kind of thing do you mean by "not official?" Armed civilian group or something? And does Gai know about it?

Well, a fic would be interesting for me to read, but I hope you aren't bothered by it.

[estirose]

I haven't gotten all of the details, but I think she was involved in some undercover jobs for a while, in support. She's not a fighter, but she's been on the front line far more than she wanted to be. (This is possibly why she owns handcuffs and things like that.)

Gai doesn't know about this, of course. She might drop some hints, but I don't think he can imagine some of the stuff she went through.

[reka]

He's distracted by heroes, anyway. Flashy color-coded posing heroes. Why would he notice these things?

And thought that she should've gagged her nephew. She's done something like this before.

[estirose]

She's kidnapped one or two people. Or helped hold them. She's decent at that, but there's no way she's taking on five armed space pirates.

Of course, this is something that she wouldn't really spill, just warn him about being over-enthusiastic and over-heroic.

[reka]

Does she say anything that would reveal that she's his aunt, or would that be up to Gai?

[estirose]

She might mention it, but it's Gai that'll probably keep her from dying by furious pirate captain.

If she had her way, she'd grab Gai and run, but she realizes that it's not going to work. If they found Gai once, they'd find him again.