AS: River: Mercurial

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Mercurial

Mad Hatter has a few difficulties coping with how people have changed, post-canon. Drama With UST, I-3

"You are not fit to carry the weight of Pride," hir lord said, evenly. "You have none. Not really."

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[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

I realize I still have no fricking clue who these people are--my own fault, assuredly for not following the manga at all--but that it doesn't matter, because I loved reading this the second time as much as the first!

MMmm. Belial seems like a very interesting character indeed. I'm glad you decided to write this.

[cutter-tekka.livejournal.com]

Warning: this response has nothing to do with what you actually posted whatsoever. Sorry. ^_^;;;

I haven't read/seen AS, so even though I want to read it because it's your story, it doesn't seem a good idea until I actually know what's going on. However, the posting of a you story reminds me that I recently reread Fly from the Challenge arc.

I like the Challenge arc in general, but Fly struck me for a particular reason. I've still only seen some Tenipuri and therefore don't really have an "in" to write Tenipuri with, but even within that relatively small realm of experience I've still got ideas about what I would write if I wrote Tenipuri. (Do you do that as well?)

So Fly took me completely by surprise because I kept having this sense of recognition from it. All the major points in it were all the major points that I'd always thought should be in a TezuFuji fic if I were to write one. That's not often happened before. It was like suddenly seeing something you'd been longing for realized, and realized on a level that was better than you'd been imagining it to be. Like something you see and can immediately acknowledge as true.

So I read it and my response was "Oh, good. Now I don't ever have to write a TezuFuji fic." Because what I wanted from them is already in the world, so it's okay. The empty space has been filled.

This is not to say, "Oh, you're cool because you agree with me." That's not what I mean. I mean to say that without knowing or meaning to you did something for me, and I want to thank you for it.

It's like relief.

If that makes sense.

[written-in-blue.livejournal.com]

[curls up and purrs] Soverysatisfying. ^___^

I will now rescind my previous comments about UST and disgruntlement. For this pair, I'm not sure I can see a way to resolve the sexual tension without breaking one (or both) of them. And I'm rather fond of them being no more broken than they already are.

Isda poked her flour-powdered face over the edge of the stairs.

Having done a tiny bit of digging for names and meanings (no more than a quick Google, mind, so goodness knows how accurate what I've turned up is), this line made me cackle, you sly thing. [snuggles]

"I... have already begun, I think," se answered, softly.

Mmmmm, very important pronoun shift! ^__________^

Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. So very much to love! ^_______________________^

You said there may be more, for Lucifer's point of view? e_e