PoT: Standalone: Irregular

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Irregular

Jackal and Marui on a hot afternoon, and Jackal's attempts to convince his partner to take it easy. Porn With Characterization, I-4, manga continuity

Bunta knew perfectly well what Jackal was doing, of course, but he rarely turned down the opening. It was one of the reasons Jackal found his partner endlessly entertaining; his dramatics were always perfectly sincere and entirely deliberate, at the same time.

Comments

[written-in-blue.livejournal.com]

Bunta, dear heart, I feel your linguistic pains.

(Interesting choice of verbs, by the way.)

[branchandroot]

I was tempted to let him vent about spelling versus pronunciation, but I imagine he would have had that rant already. Irregulars, however, are good for long term frustration. *nodnod*

*tips head* I suppose so. I chose them purely for their conjugations, but I suppose there are some interesting possible entendres to get out of those two in this fic.

[soloproject.livejournal.com]

OMG.

OMG!!!

Now this was...words cannot express how much I love you and this (and all your fic). Finally, a beautiful piece to immortalize D1 in. *worships* Your characterization is so believable...I'm very tempted to make this into a doujin to gift you back with. ^_____^

"I needed to wear you out if I want you to take a rest."

*shivers*

I just came from school, rather tired though I only had 2 one-hour classes...and now...I'm completely worn out but oh so happy. You have brought me the rest of the satisfied. ♥ x 1 000 000!!!

*sics JaBun icon on you to celebrate*

[branchandroot]

*kisskiss* Glad you liked it! I think it's mostly thanks to you that Jackal came out so, um, forceful in bed. ^_- Doujin would be delightful, if you feel so moved.

[soloproject.livejournal.com]

SEME!Jackal is such a dream come true. He is seme forever. *sparkles*

[avamaria.livejournal.com]

Managed to keep the brain under control while it screamed JABUN JABUN JABUN, and... LOVE. Love for the linguistics in the first part, and for Bunta showed all signs of skipping dinner and their evening practice, both, if Jackal didn't pull him back from the realm of linguistic discovery soon. And how Bunta notices how wonderful their contrast is, because it is, more than just visually. ♥

[branchandroot]

*huge grin* Their contrast, in all ways, does make them an excellent pair, and fun to write. Good to hear you liked it!

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

YEAH! my ficcie!!!! {settles down to read}

OOOH, *yes*! somebody who picked up on Bunta speaking French! Yeah! OH, and don't they speak Porteguese in Brazil? I could be wrong, but I think so; had a roommate for one semester in college from Brazil--was contantly getting trashed on for spouting the few spanish words I know every time I saw her...

{hoots and claps} the image of Jackal just bodily carrying Bunta away so he could attend to those "other" "little" things... {laughs} great! great!

{sighs blissfully} you *know* that man's got to have wonderful hands... {whimpers and pouts} I could use hands like that right about now to---{blinks.... grins} oooh, naughty thought. ^.^ tee hee hee!

this was great, my dear--as all your fics are, and has added a new bunny to the building Rikkai pile, so triple thanks!

[mica-chan.livejournal.com]

OOOH, *yes*! somebody who picked up on Bunta speaking French! Yeah! OH, and don't they speak Porteguese in Brazil? I could be wrong, but I think so; had a roommate for one semester in college from Brazil--was contantly getting trashed on for spouting the few spanish words I know every time I saw her...

Everybody confuses. It wasn't once or twice that I read messages in my LJ saying that they couldn't understand Spanish very well, and I had to explain that it wasn't Spanish, but Portuguese.
Really, I think Portuguese and Spanish so diferent...

Hey, that made me think...Jackal was born in Brazil, or just grow up here?

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression that Jackal was born and raised in Brazil to Japanese immigrants---

the Japanese government has a stipulation that Japanese immigrants may return to Japan as long as they can show proof of being Japanese within the last fifty-some-odd years. However, once in Japan, the jobs availble pretty much suck. Basically, all these immigrants can do is construction work/road work/ sanitary work, and other "crap" jobs.

[branchandroot]

More bunnies are a good thing. *grins* So are naughty thoughts. Glad you like your bribe!

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

{{GLOMPS}} Thank you!!!

[mica-chan.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm still reading the story. Actually, I'm at the beginning, but I had to say something.
Jackal is from Brazil, right? (half Brazilian, half Japanese, right? Or am I wrong???) Well, and here, in Brazil (yeah, I'm Brazilian) we speak Portuguese, not Spanish.
And, I have to say, even thought I like the idea of Jackal being half Brazilian, had lived in Rio de Janeiro etc, I totally disliked the way they put our contry as if we lived in a jungle, where everyone is black etc. Geeez! Of course we have one of the biggest forest in the world (Amazonia) but it's just a small part of our contry...that has a lot of cities as all other countries in the world. Specially Rio de Janeiro, that is a very big citty, with I don't know how many million of inhabitants.
And of course we have a lot of black people in our country too, but Brazil isn't like some countries where black and white have diferent groups. We have a lot of races (africans, germans, italian, japanese, chinese, etc) in our land so...it's very improbable that in a team (as Jacks Brazilian team that was showed in PoT 118, I think) we would had just black people, specially tennis, that is a sport with great majority white.

Oh, I'm sorry, but your frase made me remember my revolt when I watched the episode, so I had to put it out to someone listen. I'm sorry you was the chosen one to listen my rage with the show (it's not with your fic, ok? But I think you noticed that, ne?).

Well, let me come back to your fic, that I need to read it, that I stopped at the beginning to do just a small comment about Brazilian language, and wrote to much about other things. I'm sorry again.

[branchandroot]

*covered in embarassment for such a silly mistake* I do know my world history better than that, really I do...

Oh, don't worry, you can go ahead and vent! That particular bit of cliche did strike me as rather odd, really, since I recall reading somewhere that Brazilian-Japanese is one of the largest and most stable cross-nationality populations in Japan. You'd think there would be a little more accuracy.

[mica-chan.livejournal.com]

Now I finished to read the story and even though I liked (because It's impossible not like, as you are always great when you are writing), I have to say I don't like the pair Jackal/Marui.
It's not a total disgust as I feel with MomoRyo, but I simply can't see those guys together. It's much easier to me to see Jackal with Kirihara than with Marui.
I don't know why, so I really can't explain my reasons, I just...can't see them together in my mind. I've always seen Jackal and Bunta as great friend, but definitly not lovers. It just not fit, you know?
Of course it can be something of my twisted mind, but...that's how I see them, and I really think difficult to change this image.

But I enjoyed your fic, and the way you put things between them. So, I'm still here, waiting for more (not with them, of course, but...well, you understood, right?).

[branchandroot]

I know what you mean. That's part of why I couldn't give this story all that much context. Marui and Jackal are such a separate-spheres sort of pair, when they play, that there aren't that many suggestive moments to work with.

So, back to the suggestive players!

[mica-chan.livejournal.com]

So, back to the suggestive players!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!!! I agree with that!

[dimmie.livejournal.com]

I haven't finished readin it yet, but I just want to point out one thing: Brazilians don't speak Spanish. We speak Portuguese.

[dimmie.livejournal.com]

And of course, someone had already pointed it out and I didn't see it either. Ops. >_>;;

[branchandroot]

Not to worry, I'm always glad when someone catches something like that. Then I can go fix it and spare myself further embarassment!

[lechaco.livejournal.com]

I love this. JaBun is so rare in English fandom for some reason. T_T;

I absolutely adored the French irregular thing. XD XD It's something that I can relate to but alas I don't have the same frustrations as Bunta since I know there are many more complicated languages (like English >_> talk about irregular).

Characterization is once again well done. :D I like how you played out their dynamics off court.

[branchandroot]

Ah, yes, English: the guerilla language. *looks again at adjective* Er, case in point.

Thank you!

[naanima.livejournal.com]

Darling, I love how you go and write about PoT pairings (and characters) that most of the English fandom seem to ignore (or completely mess up). Jackal/Bunta are just adorable. Sure, they may not be as psychologically scarring as Yagyuu/Niou, but they are damn cute and interesting in their own rights.

Beside, Bunta have fangirls boys.

But back to the fic. Hot, and I am puddle on the floor. I SQUEEE!

[branchandroot]

*snugs* Infinitely cute. I do think Jackal would be terribly entertained by Jirou's fanboying over Bunta.

^___^