Lost without my linguistics

[branchandroot]

*snaps fingers* That's it! *hearts Athena for making her think*

What I really don't like about so much fic-Yukimura characterization. It's that, in absence of hard information, the vast majority of fandom writes Yukimura like they write Fuji.

And that's totally off.

Fuji is one of the single most elusive characters in tenipuri. I'd put him and Tezuka in the top two slots, though for rather opposite reasons. Tezuka is elusive because he shows so little of himself. Fuji is elusive because he shows so much that's misleading. Fuji always keeps an ace in reserve, or tries to. Fuji stays out of arm's reach, perceptually speaking.

Yukimura never hides what he is.

And where part of Fuji's character development has been for him to become engaged, to learn how to feel involved and act on his own and his team's ambitions, Yukimura has never been un-engaged.

Disengaged, perhaps, but most certainly not by his own will or desire, and he takes a significant personal risk to return to tennis and his team as soon as humanly possible.

To write Yukimura as hidden, in the way that Fuji typically hides himself, really seems to miss a core aspect of his character.

*amused* This started with the thought that Yukimura uses ore, while Fuji uses boku, and why the difference exists.

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[written-in-blue.livejournal.com]

Given the current state of Yukimura and Fuji affairs, this amuses me to no end.

Fuji: *mutters dire things under his breath*

Yagyuu: What was that?

Fuji: ...nothing. *leaves. hastily.*

[ver2frog.livejournal.com]

This started with the thought that Yukimura uses ore, while Fuji uses boku, and why the difference exists.
do you mind if I ask for more on this? Sounds interesting.
:D

[fromastudio]

...to be honest, I wanted to reply to this earlier, but was too worried to, because people have accused me of writing a Fujiesque Yukimura. And while the two feel very different to me in my head, I do riff on a lot of the whole Fuji-Yukimura thing that has been ongoing. But it borrows from 'fanon' Fuji - that assorted mix of manipulativeness and smile - rather than the way I actually write Fuji (which I'd like to think is closer to canon).

That's why I don't tend to object to a Fujiesque Yukimura, per se. Which is not to mean that I'm fond of much of the SanaYuki fic crossing fandom at the moment; I've been repeatedly telling myself that abusing newbie fic is graceless and adolescent.

how can people write perfectly good, excellent fic in other fandoms and then come over to Tenipuri and show no sign of actually understanding the characters

(and dude, if that post in any way encompassed my Yukimura, please, tell me. It's not as if this particular muse isn't already embedded so deeply in my skull that he'll come out that easily. But it's when they're stuck in your head that you stop seeing their flaws.)