Saiunkoku: The Age of Silver: The Wind Cries

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

The Wind Cries

Shouka and Seien talk, some secrets are revealed, and Seien gets a shock. Drama, I-4

Surely someone that deadly should show it, the way it showed in his brothers' eyes, or in Meishou's smile.

Comments

[majochan.livejournal.com]

As usual, much squee <3. Seiran/Seien getting some much deserved 'We love you!' (in his face, where he can't avoid it).

My favorite line is Shouka's bit about the shadows on Seien's path will be his....*awe*

Majo

[branchandroot]

Thank you! *grins* I got a big dose of Black Wolf visuals today, and am much in Shouka-love. I swear, all the men in this show are hot when they're pissed off and protective.

[majochan.livejournal.com]

I hope you saw the manga-visuals for Shouka-as-Black-Wolf as well, because while the anime was nice, the manga was .....*fans self* Um. Yeah. I hope you saw it too.

Fics for teh Win!

Majo

[branchandroot]

Yeah, it was the manga visuals I saw today. *sighs* Just scrumptious. *borrows your fan* I mean... wow. I am totally sold on collecting the manga.

[majochan.livejournal.com]

Absentminded cute librarian dads who can't make tea or do chores to save his life should not be so hot. It's illegal. *fans some more*

...But I'm glad he is, anyway.^^;

Look forward to more!

Majo

[mariasama16.livejournal.com]

Wait wait, manga visuals? From where? (if you don't mind my asking)

[majochan.livejournal.com]

grey_damaskena's been posting camera pics on the Saiunkoku comm. I'd go through the posts for the older ones (The manga's only up to ch. 7, and the scanlations are up to ch. 5)...
The specific one in question that I know of is in this post:
http://community.livejournal.com/saiunkoku/76241.html#cutid1

......So much pretty. <3

Majo

[branchandroot]

Right here. The most excellent Althea took a bunch of camera shots of a very tasty issue.

I was also directed to this thread, when I mourned the lack of tasty eye candy. The dear posters on there have scanned pretty much all the novel illustrations.

[staccatos.livejournal.com]

This is so true. xD

[written-in-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh, very nicely done, Shouka. *hearts him madly*

[branchandroot]

Isn't he the sweetest assassin-daddy ever? I couldn't resist giving him more play, once Seien decided to take life by the throat.

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

oh I win so much!!!

Sorry, continuation of the insane glee of having multiple Emperor Seien-AUs to read. Maybe the bizarre flu I'm suffering from now is some form of instant karma for having such an embarrassment of riches fall into my lap . . .

I very much like some of the imagery here. Seien's thought about his previous life's memories was something that particularly struck me, and the mention of Seien's brothers and Meishou. Overall this was very tightly written and quite smooth, an acheivement to be proud of.

I know you intended this story to be part of the AU you're working on, but I could just as easily see it fitting into the normal timeline as well. Since after all, we don't really know to what extent Seiran and Shouka are aware of each other's secret identities. So as far as that's concerned, just about anything goes.

Ah, thank you for two (three!) excellent fics in as few days! I heartily look forward to more.

[branchandroot]

Fandom is all about having riches!

And thank you so much. It took a while to find the right tactile words for the way Seien seems to feel and act, in the very few glimpses we get of him as a child. The contrast between that and his exile year... well that's going to keep coming up for him, that's for sure.

Have also been reading through Shadow's novel translations and feel that I really have to find a way to kill Meishou, at length, in this timeline. Really kill him a lot.

Seiran: *expression of alarming eagerness*

*nodnod* Since I decided to leave Seien with Shouka and family for so long, a lot of things are turning out to be very close, emotionally, to canon; it's very fun to play with, I must say. *grins* Now, there's the Shoukun story to write, and then on to the multi-parter and varying viewpoints. *rubs hands*

[chrysan.livejournal.com]

There're lots of wonderfully fun things in Saiunkoku and one of the best has to be how despite being the Black Wolf, Shouka has absolutely no survival skills - he'd soooo die of malnutrition or bad dietary habits if he didn't have Shuurei and Seiran looking after him.

XD ^^v

[branchandroot]

*dies laughing* It's so totally true. Occassionally I think Shoukun is faking being bad at stuff, but Shouka is just an adorably lost cause.

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

It's really a good thing they managed to find Seiran when they did, because without him I'm fairly certain the manor would have fallen apart for real, all the way. :-D Either that or blown up in a particularly cataclysmic attempt at cooking. No wonder he and Shuurei are so good at taking care of domestic chores. ;-)

[branchandroot]

*laughing* Oh man, I can just see it happening. You almost have to wonder whether the Kou clan sent Shouka to the capital just so he wouldn't be blowing up the clan main house!

[penguin-sensei.livejournal.com]

Shouka fic! Shouka fic!

YAY!

*bounces*

At some point, I did have something constructive to say. I swear

*bounces some more*

[branchandroot]

*grins* Shouka is made of Win, no question about it.

Glee is perfectly constructive. *firm nod*

[hidden-gems.livejournal.com]

*waves back rather frantically*

No mentions of Ryuuki in this one but *squeeeee*, Shouka-sama!!

*bounces all over her room*

[branchandroot]

*hearts* Shouka is love, oh yes.

More little!Ryuuki in the next one! He's so darn cute.

[hidden-gems.livejournal.com]

Whether he's Librarian!Shouka, Assassin!Shouka or Papa!Shouka, he's always love.

More Ryuuki in the next one? *starts waiting again* ^^