PoT: Challenge: Circle

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Circle

The long awaited last match of Nationals. Drama, I-4

Seiichi's smile changed, undiluted pleasure added to the satisfaction. It was the last round of Nationals, and they were ready.

Comments

[solaas.livejournal.com]

Guh. I think I'm out of ways to express how much I'm enjoying your stories by now. Spending the weekend holed up in ze comfy chair with blanket and laptop, reading your PoT fics is most excellent. You're making me like Kirihara, too! :D (Not that that will stop me from (ab)using him in a Richard III parody one day, but hey.)

The grande finale of 'Challenge' is wonderful in how it climaxes the whole arc, and bring (most of) the plot threads to an end. (Fuji being the exception, since he just has too many too growly Issues(tm) still.:) Ending it without giving the result is--

--well, it's perfect. We don't need to know the result; it doesn't matter to this story. What's important is that the game is played the way they all hoped it would be. Both teams made it there intact and raring to go, and it's glorious and right. I'm so happy. :D

(Icon is in celebration of the cosmic unfairness of being done reading the Challenge ard. In a good way.)

[branchandroot]

Not that that will stop me from (ab)using him in a Richard III parody one day, but hey.

*snorts water out her nose* Oh... dear. That'll be something to see. *grins*

Glad you liked it, though! Especially the ending; I was surprised everyone seemed to approve of the ending so much. I was sure I'd be accused of a cop out. ^_^ But it's true--the boys care who wins, but playing a good game is just as important.

And I couldn't have chosen between Yukimura and Tezuka!

I still hope to get back to my Kirihara-centric arc, some day, the one that follows Challenge. But it got preempted by Angel Sanctuary. And then the utter crack-arc that crossed over PoT and AS. It wasn't my fault, really. Maybe when the crack is done Kiri-elf will get his turn again. ^_^;

[solaas.livejournal.com]

The thing about Tezuka and Yukimura here, is that they have already won just by making it to the court at this day. And that victory is both an individual one, in that they have battled and won against injury and illness, and a team effort where the teams have brought themselves and their captains all the way there. You show it so well when Yukimura senses how his men lift him up by the end, and there isn't a shred of doubt in my mind that the situation for Tezuka and his team is exactly the same. *wibbly beam*


But it got preempted by Angel Sanctuary. And then the utter crack-arc that crossed over PoT and AS.

Augh the temptation. I am so glad AS is on my to aquire and read list! On the other hand, it's not supposed to happen until I've caught up on Ororon and Demon Diaries! Funds aren't bottomless. *wibble* ._.

[branchandroot]

*innocent smile* Well, if you like, I can burn a copy my AS scanlations to disk, to tide you over.

I recruit for that series like mad. ^_^

[solaas.livejournal.com]

You ... you PIMP! *points*

Like I have any resistance against pimping done by people whose writing I fangirl. That's how I ended up stumbling into animanga fandom in the first place. ._.

<-- is weak and easily lead.

That is to say, holy jeebus, are you sure?! o.o I mean, that's incredibly nice of you! <:)

[branchandroot]

Bwahahaha! Yes, you will be assimilated! Resistance is futile!

*ahem*

Sure, no problem. *grins* Just drop me your address at ravenwood.1@osu.edu, and I'll send it off.