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hey i have a question. in the show it riki says to katze that he was like him now? does that mean he got fixed? and since furniture get fixed doesnt that mean they still can have sex? just not babys? *crys* IM SO CONFUSED!PLEASE HELP ME WITH THESE QUESTIONS!

Answer from Lena:
No, it means that Riki was castrated. Sorry I didn't put the answer into the article, but I think about *this* everyone knows.
And if furniture could get fixed, how they were castrated and what were their sexual abilities nothing is said (except for two places where Katze says about an 'illusion of a hard on' and calls himself 'useless as a man', both suggesting that he could not get hard). And yes, these are good questions to speculate.

I'm a huge fan of canon AnK and Taming Riki. So, I very much appreciate this article.

I first 'met' Ank through Kira T - and she was the one who got me hooked.

BTW - when are you going to update your fiction? I feel like I've been waiting for ages!

Thanks for making ANK clear to me... ^ __ ^

Would you believe it, my friends came up with all the questons for you. The theme was really 'Amoi history.'
Why does the Mongrol class exsist?
Do we ever find out what the secret of Tanagura is? Is there as a legend of the human arrival on Amoi?
What position does Earths exsistance have Amoi? Is it only a myth to them? Are there any other planets in the Amoi solar system? Is the rest of Amoi inhabited?
See ya again
Cheers

Ah, you make some good points. I keep meaning to have something like this on my own site, because Taming Riki (my own AnK-inspired fic) is definitely very different than AnK canon and is pretty BDSM-heavy, too (which means you probably wouldn't like it, based on one of your points). But I never seem to have time to write something like this.

Thank you for understanding, Kira, and for saying this. If you want something like this on your site, you can take this article. That will solve your problem with the lack of time.
And to clear one thing up. People might think that I hate BDSM. That's not true. Sometimes I even like it -- and not necessarily its lightest version. I read Enslaving Heero with almost sick fascination. I also read Taming Riki (both to a certain point). This article was not meant against your series and it was not your series that made me write it -- at least not only and not directly. My direct stimulus was utterly different. Notice that there's only one point about BDSM, the rest is about other equally important issues.
I also never claimed that you didn't tell people that your series was AU, because you did. But there was so much of TR around and so few of other fics that at some point people started to behave as if TR reality was the only correct AnK reality. And that did bug me. It was very important for me to sort out this confusion, as much as to sort out other confusions (the issue with hair color of elites and mongrels being the best example).
I'm glad that we understand each other now.

Oh, I would love to use your article on my site, or at least portions of it (I just skimmed through it again and I might personally opt to remove the part about where you're sick of all the stories with BDSM. LOL.) I have an area for AnK where it would be perfect. Then we can include a link to your site if you have any more information there.

I just realized something. You're the same person who wrote the On Hire fic. I just read that and really liked it, wow, I'm amazed that English isn't your native language. I imagine your fics in Polish must be even better. By the way if you want to post a fic in Polish in my archives, I've just started an international area since I get a lot of readers from other countries. If you're interested, you can send me the file(s) and I'll put them up. Anyway, it's nice to meet someone who's actually read AnK the novel! Actually I have another friend in Poland who said she read the book as well. I wonder why it was translated into Polish? I mean, of all the languages in the world, I wonder why they picked that one. Boy, with your English as good as it is, you could really do a service to the AnK fanworld if you'd take on the project of translating AnK into English. Let me know if you're interested in doing that, dear, I could pay you!

Hey, Lena

I actually read this a very long time ago. I must say you really did a great job. It was extremely helpful in clearing up some of my confusion about ANK.
But hey, what do I see! It seems you really stepped on Kira's toes with this article. The way she reacted - reposting her fics and refreshing like crazy to boost up her frequency and lower your rating is simply unfair. And not only to you, but also to the other authors as she in fact made their stories disappear behind a few pages of her own fiction (and again!).
Well, I guess that only proves that you have a point. Thanks for the courage. I wish you all the best.

Wow! That really clears up a lot of questions. But really when you have only seen the anime which is focused highly on Iason and Rikis sexual relationship, it's hard not to think of the other elite as highly sexual beings, considering they have pets that are ment to be used sexually, traditionally.
I mean, what was the point of Jupiter building these people with the ability to have hard on's if they are ment to be above fucking?
Do the elite ever have their pets to service them? Or the elite are not to participate sexually at all?
What is the point of Pet copulation as entertainment?
There is a point of view that Iason was an android, is this true? I don't remember seeing bio-wiring when his legs were ripped off.
(I'm nieve; please bare with me) I'm sure I'll come back to you if I have more questions.