PoT: Standalone: Fortune

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Fortune

Atobe encounters Yukimura at the museum, they fall to chatting, and events take a rather sharp left turn. Drama With Romance and Porn, I-4, continuity uncertain--possibly hybrid

Yukimura rested his chin on one hand, and lifted his brows. He was, Keigo decided, perfectly well aware of what Keigo wanted to ask and was going to sit there with that attentive expression and watch Keigo squirm while he tried to come up with a courteous way to do it.

Comments

[branchandroot]

*crooked grin* Chaco tempted me into this one. It was her comment about the art of it. It was fun, looking up artists to use.

Do you mean it sounds strange to you for Yukimura to call him that, or for the narrative itself to call him that? Because it's actually one of my own personal irritants when a story is told from inside the head of some character who always seems to be thinking of himself by his family name rather than his given name. So, whenever I write in intimate third person, which is pretty much all the time, I use the given name; it does give a story a very different flavor than the source text, though. I think it's one of the knottier problems of writing a story in words that's based on a story in images.

[mica-chan.livejournal.com]

I understand you and your point of view. Actually, it's obvious that you prefer to call them by their first name when you are writing a story because of the reasons you said (in all the stories you do that and usually I don't mind), but...I had a problem when I read the narrator calling the characters by their given names, specially when I prefer the family name, as Atobe case.