xxxHOLiC other roads (or an alternative possible end)
You know, what we fans of HOLiC hate about the end is the vision of Watanuki alone in the shop forever young and waiting for someone who will never return, while all of his human friends have passed away long ago. It is depressive, and it really make you think about what was the point of teaching Watanuki to be alive if he would have ended anyway stuck away in the shop.
But I have just realised, while reading a fic or two... Isn’t Watanuki a mage or wizard or whatever Yuuko and Clow also are? Not an onmyouji not a medium not a dreamseer but a type of person who casts spells and has been demonstrated throughout CLAMP’s manga as considerably more long-lived and powerful than a lot of creatures around there. This all means- wouldn’t Watanuki have outlived all of his human friends anyway? And though if for a miracle he hadn’t get aisled in the shop I believe he would have become its master no matter what. The existence of the shop was to grant Clow’s, but Yuuko seemed to have been teaching Watanuki to make the deals too and the shop of wishes itself seems have become very important in the multiverse of TRC and xxxHOLiC over time. I bet that if the shop were to cease existing without preparing for it it would have serious consequences. So being no scaping of taking charge of the shop... Being the shopkeeper also would mean that his powers would have expanded and so his life expectancy too... Thus he most likely will have been left alone again.
(my douwata feelings. why why CLAMP? Also Watanuki doesn’t have the most aproachable of personalities. I think he could have made some other friends too along the way but... It appears his character is a tragic one for me since that end. THANKS CLAMP!! ;_;)
Because while I’m pretty sure Sakura (CCS) is the most powerful in her world... Syaoran (CCS) has powers as well and they will be long-lived together. In Tsubasa Fai and Kurogane are linked through the vampire vincule, and although it is stated that vampires can live hundreds and maybe a thousand or so years when Fai becomes way Yuuko states that he is going to live only a little more than what he would have before. And Watanuki may not be the most powerful but I think it has been hinted that he is Yuuko successor the same way Sakura is Clow’s.
Although Kaho and Eriol... I don’t know, Eriol stopped aging at will (again what Watanuki became able to do in the moment he decides to take charge as if it were instinctive... so much foreshadowing with Clow there too) and then he said he was able to get older again. Because he wanted to be with Kaho. Just that. Even when he lost half his powers it was just a thing he was able to do just because. >.<’ Maybe Wata could do that? Or maybe not hum.. It is frustrating the little worldbuilding we have for magic in CLAMP works. I mean, I understand that their works are more about character relationships than anything else, but there are so much things left hanging with that approach. In moments like this it is very pitiful.
Well, this is all. Food for thought ;) What do you think of this? I believe this would make a hell of a fic too...