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"Baby Series 3"Written By: Karina Rating: PG Spoilers: None Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine. Pairing: Duo + Wu Fei Notes: Challenge 109. Baby Series 3 #97. Takes
place a few minutes after The Fool. Many thanks to ShenLong for her work betaing
this fic.
Traits Of The Fool "See these? Like a set of some sort." Duo moved two smaller frames from the stack and placed them carefully against a sideboard, shining the light as best he could on them. "What do you think they are?" Wu Fei knelt in front of the paintings and admired the craftsmanship of the artist. Though each was different he could see the common theme of the set and it intrigued him. It was certainly not what he would have thought to find in the attic of the Sanc palace, but then this huge space had already proven to be full of surprises. "Well?" "The Fool," Wu Fei murmured. "Representations of The Fool." "Eh?" Duo peered closer at the paintings. "Not a jester in sight." "Not that sort of fool. This," Wu Fei indicated the first painting. "is the classic Rider-Waite tarot representation of the card The Fool. A young man in gorgeous vestments, I believe the definition I studied began, pausing at the brink of a precipice among the great heights of the world… or something like that. He does not look down, but up at the sky and… yes, there is the dog running at his feet." Duo stared for a long moment and a slow grin spread. "You follow the Tarot?" "I `know' of the Tarot because I was training to be a scholar; there is much in my education that would surprise you. No one really knows the origins of the Tarot, but some of the oldest decks come from Italy and France, though Persians were known to be using them." "Okay, so what's it mean?" "Pardon?" "The Fool, what does it mean?" "Many things, that is the problem with the Tarot and fortune telling. As I recall, the card can be roughly generalized as meaning a beginning where it is impossible to predict exactly what will happen. It can represent a desire for rebirth, starting a new life, but one in which the new path is not mapped out. It can mean nothing and everything. It can be associated with fertility and spring, birth, rebirth and transformation. It can mean treading an uncommon path, shocking concepts, belief and even crazy wisdom." "Damn, you are a font of wisdom, Fei. What about this one? It's nothing like the other, but the frames are identical so they must be a set." "The Fool as represented in the Book of Thoth deck." "It looks sort of… occultist." "The Book of Thoth deck is dedicated to explanations of readings associated in spiritualism. It gives mundane definitions as well. Essentially what you get out of a Tarot decision is what you wish to. It is querent driven." "Querent?" "The inquirer." "Ah." "There are many interpretations of the tarot. Rider-Waite, Thoth, Golden Dawn, Mathers, Etteilla, Thierens and Ouspensky are the most common seven interpretations used, though perhaps Rider-Waite is the most common. Some decks have 72 cards, others have 78." "So," Duo grinned. "Have you ever used them?" "No." ~ * ~ |
