PoT: Challenge: Credit

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Credit

This story takes place in a quantum bubble of the Challengeverse (maybe it happened, maybe it didn't), immediately following "The Continuation of War". Tezuka offers Oishi some support after his very bad day. Porn with Characterization, I-3

It had not been a relaxing day for Oishi Shuichirou.

Comments

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

{blinksblinks}

Omake... means... parody, ne?

Don't get me wrong... it was--is--a good story... but... but... {spurtters} It's OISHI! and TEZUKA! WTF!!! {wails and pulls at hair}

My brain... can't... compute....

Other than that minor user-problem...

Really did like way you described the relationship between captain and vice captain... and between these two friends. How they can support each other with Oishi's openness and Tezuka's seemingly unending strength...

(and then my brain fried when they started kissing >.< )

[branchandroot]

Well, it used to. Best I can tell, omake is one of those words like otaku or yaoi that has altered significantly since the US fanbase got ahold of it. The, er, consensus definition seems to be something like "extra" or "spinoff", though it is still used in its traditional sense by those who can actually pull it off. /linguistics lecture

*bounces* Lookee, I fried her brain! Go me!

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

really? I mean, I first learned of 'omake' through the fanbase, that it should be like a mockery of certain scenes... like the screen caps after the credits of the show--the chibi caps? an omake...

{waves hand} I'll ask my boss at class tonight.

And it's not nice to fry your readers brains!!!! How I'm a supposed to WRITE when my brain is *fried*???? HUH????

[branchfic.livejournal.com]

*stares into space*

I am taken with a sudden vision of this story taking place during the closing credits of Continuation, in chibi form.

*falls out of chair laughing*

OMG. Ok, excuse me, but I am inspired, and must go change the title, right now. Oh, it's perfect.

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

huh? what?

{blinks}

{thinks}|

{re-reads}

@.@ Ooooooh...

{falls out of chair laughing}

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

huh? what?

{blinks}

{thinks}|

{re-reads}

@.@ Ooooooh...

{falls out of chair laughing}

[branchandroot]

*snickering* Ah, thank you for inspiring a real title for this one, dear.

You've probably been in the fanbase long enough to have learned the term before the meaning really started to slip. It never fails to astonish me how fast it can happen, I mean, a matter of a year or two in online-based communities.

This does not stop me from railing against fate when it's an annoying shift. For instance, all the signs here in Ohio that say "Stop here to actuate signal." Yes, help that traffic light be all it can be! *facepalm*

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, jeesh... I've only been in the fanbase for... for... {blinks} well, damn... five? six years? shit... That's not *that* long, really...

{pouting} glad I could help inspire... even if it's *still* an Oishi & Tezuka fic....

Hey! I thought there was supposed to be Fuji & Tezu action!!!!

Okay... gotta ask... "Stop here to actuate signal"??? Huh???

[branchandroot]

Well, they mean "activate signal", but someone in the State Department of Signs messed up, lo these many years ago, and all the signs at traffic lights that tell you where the weight-plates are say "actuate" instead. *shakes head*

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

yes. in case you were wondering, I *did* notice how you avoiding the other comments....

[branchandroot]

*sighs* Darn. The thing is I never intended this to go TezuFujiwards. *pauses* Of course, I never actually intended it to go TezuOishiwards, either...

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

{sniffles} {pouts} well, okay.... as long as the characters are surprising *you*, too... {grins}

{wonders what *other* surprises are in store...}

[anruik]

"Omake" is generally the same as "Extra". Kind of like an added little thing just because the author/mangaka feels like adding it in. It's just that omake usually ends up being comedic, though not always.

Ex: Ever read some of the Gundam manga? Those little chibi comic strips at the end of the books? Like how to draw Trowa, or Heero using Duo's braid for a brush? That sort of thing? Those are omake.

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah! yeah! I guess because they always seem comedic I just associated them with 'parody'.


(and yes, although it's been a while, I do remember the 'braid for a paint brush' incident' ^__^)

[anruik]

It's hard to forget that braid for a brush incident. XD

[mica-chan.livejournal.com]

I really had to laught with your reaction because....I've always been so in love with Tezuka/Oishi pair. To me (even though I love a lot of pairs in PoT) they are one of the best couple in this anime.
I never could understang why people couldn't see how well they are together...

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! I can completely read any pairing. Usually. And normally I don't have a problem (well, there was this one fic, but I've erased it from my memory), but...

but... but... This story had all the setting ups for a Fuji-Tez relationship... and my mind had fitted itself for that schema... and then...

WHAM!!! I literally... could not... compute... my brain actually stopped reading and understanding what was going on right after Tezuka kissed Oishi.

I swear... it's the weirdest thing... I don't think it's ever happened to me before.... >.< '''

[mica-chan.livejournal.com]

Heheheheh...I think I can understand you. Unfortunatly (or fortunatly) I don't share the same destiny, because even if I could see the hints to a TezuFuji story, I also could see the base to a wonderful TezukaOishi. But this, probably is because I love this pair and can't imagine one without other (I really never was a Golden Pair fan or a TezukaFuji fan).

Sometimes I envy who can read all kind of pairs...I'm not like this. When I dislike something (like MomoRyo, for example...or Golden Pair) I can't force myself into it (with rare, rare exceptions).

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

There were no *hints* for Fuji-Tez, it was darn right *blatant*... Even Yukimura said so. {nods}

Still, I'll admit to there not being enough good Tezu-Oishi fics out there.

See, in my mind, the characters naturally pair off--funnily enough, into all the Seigaku pairings you don't like. ^.^--but if the story is well written and the characterization done right, it's easy to see how any pairing might couple. It's the same with the boys being straight. I can see them all being hetero without stretching my mind to the limits, but if I'm going to read it in a story (even mine) I want it to be darn right believable.

You know what I'm saying?

We've got ourselves a great author here, though, so I'm sure now that I've given my mind a chance to adjust to the shock of it all, there won't be any problem.

In fact (after being *forced* {grins teasingly} to like Tez/Atobe), I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out... She has her work cut out for her, though, doesn't?