PoT: Standalone: The Quality of Mercy

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

The Quality of Mercy

Yukimura's reaction to his team's behavior during his absence. Drama, I-3

"Too many of those games were sloppy, and too many were aimed at cheap victories that were unworthy of you. We are Rikkai. We are the best." His eyes narrowed. "We don't need to win by default. Ever."

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[written-in-blue.livejournal.com]

Words fail me. Utterly fail me.

♥

[featherypony.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you're still writing Rikkai. I love your Rikkai.

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

Rikkai? + Branch?
=
a very happy fangirl.
[purrs with contentment]

I just like the way your Yukimura handles everything. It's beautiful to observe. Not to leave out, everyone else's reactions... Actually, I just finished reading vol.28--I remembered hearing something about Tachibana's old play styles being similar to Kirihara's aggressiveness and was wondering why you hadn't already written something specifically about that comparrison. [laughs] I'll have to re-read Third Watch to see if I can pick any of it up in there, too...

[fromastudio]

*almost weeps in joy*

I'VE MISSED YOUR YUKIMURA SO MUCH. The lovely characterisation that characterises every single paragraph in this fic:

Akaya took off, still feeling the sting of Yukimura-buchou's censure, but also holding a new bit of hope. Which was fairly standard, after Yukimura-buchou was done with a person.

That was the compassion that turned the team's respect, which Yukimura's ruthlessness alone would have won, into devotion.

And ahh, the way Yukimura refuses to punish Sanada, oh just brilliant.

♥ ♥ &hearts !!!!

[lawnmower-elf.livejournal.com]

Your Sanada. My god. The way you so captured him, right there, on the receiving end of the rebuke...

The ebb and flow of emotions between the team members and their captain was also beautiful - all that in such a short scene, in just a short conversation.

**holds you in awe**

[love]

Having almost zero Yukimura to refer to (for a character apparently this important/influential, Konomi-sensei sure doesn't write about him at all), I have to rely on fandom Yukimura to draw my own conclusions. And I think your Yukimura (and assyrian's) form the basis of my own ideas about him!