For a piece that went from sketch to completely colored in only about twenty hours (less time for sleeping and eating), this is pretty remarkable. This will only make sense for anyone who has seen Revolutionary Girl Utena. It happens fairly often that whatever I'm watching before I sleep will leak into my dreams, and this is one of those times. If I were an animator, I probably would have ended up slaving for ages over a recreation of what I actually dreamed - just be glad I didn't. (Also, at this point if you haven't seen the series and don't want even the tiniest possibility of a spoiler, stop reading.)

After the sword of Dios fails, Anthy takes the Rose of Nobility sword from Utena so that the duels can continue. The same thing happens with the other Rose Brides - taking the swords from their duelists... Only in the dream, during the sequence where the sword is drawn out, both Raziel and I were active. He withdrew a sword from me, but instead of a sword from him, I laid my hand on his chest and a shield emerged. He fought with both sword and shield, but talk about definite dream symbolism... or maybe not.