<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">((BigBuckBob, remember that you need to add a little note about your character's name and current status at the top of your post. ^^; ))</span><br/><br/><br/><strong>Kunoichi - Skipping Ahead</strong><br/><br/>Apologizing to James hadn't taken the young assistant too long, fortunately.  Cleaning up the mess that had been made of the couch, carpet, and herself?  That took a bit longer, and involved taking a shower.  Fortunately, the next movie that came along was one of those bad old B-movies that didn't even possess the same campy charm as the one preceding it, and so she was free to take a nice, long shower for a good hour or so, without having to worry about missing anything important.  It was an all-day science fiction movie marathon that she had lucked out on, it taking place on the same day as her day off, and so she had been hoping to just sit around with some snacks and drink and enjoy it in her flannel pajamas all day...  But, in lieu of watching tales of forbidden love between human women and various robots and aliens, she certainly wouldn't mind fantasizing about it in the shower for a little while.<br/><br/>Of course, the one thing that tended to bother her about those movies was that the women always took such submissive roles.  These were directors who had made their names in breaking new ground artistically, who had become known for willing to use the camera's lens to capture new concepts and new ideas and who had even managed to engage in some striking social commentary, in spite of the low budgets and black-and-white film of their times...  Yet, even when compared to the black-and-white portraits and other pieces hanging downstairs, they seemed to show little in the way of gender equality.  Compared to actually being on the set for one of Miss Myobi's photo shoots, or any of the other talented photographers the Waxing Rhapsodic Photo Studios employed...<br/><br/>Well, perhaps that was what her imagination was good for?  Filling in the blanks, letting her dream of, say, turning things around in that film<em>In Alien Bondage</em>, imagining that the housewife kept the alien hostage from the government, until Stockholm's syndrome set in...  Wait, no, that still left plot holes.  That movie had been an exciting psychological thriller about government conspiracies and the effects of prolonged imprisonment on the human psyche.  The sex scenes, stimulating though they were, were actually full of quite a bit of important symbolism...  And turning things around would take a lot more work than that to still stay true to the film.<br/><br/>Alas, it seemed her artistic sensibilities were stronger than her libido...  But then, perhaps that was why Miss Myobi had hired her?  It was comforting to think about, anyway.<br/><br/><em>The Woman who Loved a Robot</em>, which had just been going off when James first snuck up on Kuno, was easier to turn around, though.  Just having robots, emotionless and logical beings that they were, simply go mad never really sat well with her in the first place.  Having the far-more-volatile-by-comparison human mind become madly in-love with the robot was considerably easier, and instead of taking the remote control out of the picture early on, it could be used for so many interesting things, so much control, and in such a symbolic way...