PSoH/PoT: Standalone: Wild

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Wild

Pet Shop of Horrors crossover. While visiting the US, some of the tennis boys come across an unusual pet shop. This evolves, as such things do, into some strange situations for a few of them. Drama, I-2, Future PoT anime continuity, middling PSoH manga continuity

If anyplace could hold the interest of his senpai when they were determined to play tourist, he'd figured Chinatown would be it. Something was always happening.

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[ii-hanashi.livejournal.com]

From a range that consists of land to one that consists of people. Oh. My. God. I think my brain just melted into piles of gibbering mush. Mush, I tell you. I've only ever seen one other PoT/PSoH crossover. I had given up on hoping that someone would ever write another one. And you do the characters such justice. I'm really happy that I saw this. Oishi was so cute and so very Oishi, Fuji-as-a-bird continuing to berate Tezuka was fabulous, and 'Ryoma and Fuji playing tag' ties 'Tezuka grooming Ryoma' as possibly the cutest image ever.

And the innuendo was just clever and perfect. It was in keeping with each of the characters, and subtly dispersed. It was a bit like a trainwreck. Because I really don't think I want to know what Kikumaru, Oshitari, and Gakuto are going to get up to and I rather pity Kaidoh but now my mind can't help but go in that direction. And the idea of Fuji and D being on the same continent, no, in the same hemisphere is so scary. I've always though that Fuji was very much like Count D, minus that special edge of viciousness that takes decades and beyond-normal abilities to hone. And I'm gushing because I'm so pleased. *sparkles*

I do have a tiny question. This line here: My family learned to take the mother's way, when we started to take humans as mates. I wasn't entirely sure which interpretation of 'mother' you were aiming for. Was the reader supposed to decide on their own? I freely admit to my laziness while sick.

You know, a story about Tezuka's adaption to human areas, his home life(and how do you tell a person you want to marry that you're a tiger?!?), or Tezuka's early time in Seigaku, would be very, very, interesting. *dangles carrot*

[branchandroot]

*beams* Thank you! I continue to hold that this story is all lysapadin's fault; she was the one who got me thinking about Fuji and D in the same context, and I'm sadly addicted to scary characters playing headgames with each other.

...and now you've got me thinking about a whole nother story set-up: what if Fuji is assumed to be psychic, how would he react to D then? *eyes new bunny*

Ah, about the mother thing. That was a reference to tiger family dynamics, that the daughters often establish territories alongside or even overlapping with their mother's. I did wonder if it needed to be more explicit. *makes revision notes*

Hmm. Now, there's a thought. Do you tell the person you want to marry? And how does one establish a proper territory when one isn't in a position of authority yet? ...all right, all right, I'll think about it. ^_-