Dammit.

[chibi_trillian]

Snaaaaaaaap. My dearest darling little sister turns twenty-one on Tuesday and I can't afford a gift. She'll have to settle for a card with an IOU in.


It's funny. We lived in the same damn room from the day she was born until the day I moved out. We fucking hated each other ninety percent of the time. We used to tear the crap out of each other's arms with our fingernails because my mother forbade us from actually punching each other. She usually won. We had the room divided a bit unfairly--everything from the doorknobs UP was mine. Everything was a competition, especially school, and my sister doesn't have the same issues with math and writing that I do so I had to work twice as hard to set a high mark that she'd breeze past effortlessly. Oh well, I still beat her on the SATs. Only by twenty points and she beat me on the Math section, but I still won.

We looked like identical twins growing up, but we we so friggin' different. She'd build planes, I'd play with stuffed animals. She made functional circuit boards when I was outside catching bugs. I'd wear dresses, she never would. She learned to play an instrument, I never did. I graduated from college in four years in the same major I started with; she began college as an Eastern Languages major and then switched to Veterinary Science in her second year and will be graduating late as a result.

We get along a lot better now that we don't have to put up with each other all the time. We don't look much alike anymore--she's taller than I am and wears contacts and I'm a hell of a lot girlier (which is saying something). I worry about her sometimes, but I don't call as often as I should.

Finally, she's actually the person who introduced me to One Piece. I wouldn't have given it a second glance if she hadn't shoved it up my nose during Christmas 2004, and I wouldn't have gotten into it to the degree that I am now if she hadn't sent me scanslations of manga volumes seven to forty-three for my birthday last year. This Christmas I missed spending with the family, so she sent me plushies and I sent her Portgas D. Ace in 1/8 scale.

So yes, it's my sister's fault that I'm in the One Piece fandom at all. Thank her for it.

Waiting out this headache and medicating it don't seem to help. Let's see if hot water manages to get it down to the point that I can sleep.

Comments

[ocean-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Yup...little sisters usually win the clawing contests. I should know...mwaah haa haa haa!

I think a similar thing happened with me, though I didn't share a room at any point with my sister. Though neither of us turned out girly, and certainly neither of us are willing to wear skirts or dresses. I'm still the shy one, though.

[kikkuma.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Wow. Talk about coincidences. I just got a call from my older brother saying the exact same thing. xD 'Cept, sans the IOU. God knows, I'll probably be the one taking HIM out to lunch soon. *snerks*

That's pretty cool that she's the one who got you into the One Piece fandom though. x3 It must be nice to have that shared interest. -^_^-

[chibi-trillian.livejournal.com]

Heh, it helped that I was nailbiter when I was younger--she had a massively unfair advantage.

Lucky you. Our bedroom was tiny--about eight by nine--and we shared it the entire time I was growing up. Then I moved out and she turned the top bunk where I used to sleep into a computer nest a la Lain. No seventeen-year-old should EVER have three networked computers within five feet of each other. Then again, my sister is also the one who managed to get herself flagged for bandwidth overuse in high school. XD

She's usually the more social one, though that may have changed since she moved and I acquired a large group of friends to annoy. Neither of us likes phones, though--which explains why we don't talk very often!

[chibi-trillian.livejournal.com]

After getting pimpin' coolness from her for Christmas and my birthday, I'd be a piss-poor older sister if I didn't get her something eventually.

We've got a lot of shared interests, actually--we've got fairly similar tastes in anime and manga, though she's not really a yaoi fan (gasp!). It gives us something to talk about.

[creamy-twilight.livejournal.com]

Me and my sister were just like you two. We didn't fight as much or compete as much, but we were so different (I'm more bubbely than her). She's always looked older for her age, but people in elementary school always thought that we were twins and one time when I was at the mall with her someone thought she was my mom o.O

My sister introduced me to some anime, but I'm the one that tapes the episodes for her and keep her updated with the anime world (I'm more a fan than her).

Poor head, is it one of those that throbs whenever you move? Those are super bad.

[creamy-twilight.livejournal.com]

Yep *smiles proudly* When I was little (like 4. My sister was 5 at the time) I bit my sister on the back and didn't let go ^o^ I never had to share a room with mine though (I slept on a couch bed in the living room).

[chibi-trillian.livejournal.com]

The main problem growing up was that my sister and I were so close in age that we could compete over everything. It also helped that she looked old for her age and I looked young for mine.

It's my wisdom teeth harassing me again, I think. Evil enamel-demons.

[kasra-c.livejournal.com]

Sisters are strange like that, you know? Though to be honest, my sister and I had very little in common while growing up, and at one point she even tried to bash my head in with a baseball bat. (There was a dent in my door for years to attest to it.) But not long after I moved to California, our relationship improved by drastic degrees. I don't know if it was the distance that helped, the fact that we no longer had to compete with each other (I always won, which I'm sure pissed her off), or both of us finally growing past it, but I like it a lot better this way. It does make me wonder how things will be different when we're back in the same city in another couple of months, though.

You should write your sister some special One Piece pr0n for her birthday. If you're really good and have extra-tiny handwriting, you can write the whole thing in her birthday card. ^_^

[chibi-trillian.livejournal.com]

My mother said the same thing happened with her and my aunt. Maybe it's one of those universal things--distance making the heart grow fonder and all that.

I have huge handwriting, and it's sloppy as hell. I'm the only dyslexic in the universe who's retarded enough to like writing in pen. XD So no OP fic for mein sibling.