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.

Comments

[ladycrysiana.livejournal.com]

Now I have the mental image of Tezuka telling Ryoma that no, swans are not for hunting.

Perhaps I'm being dense, which is possible, since it's after one am, but what did this line mean? "At least his mother would probably be happy."

I loved the fic in general, by the way. It's also very like Fuji to notice that Something is going on. I can never tell, in series, if Fuji is supposed to be just perceptive and cheerfully manipulative, or if Fuji is really psychic. Of course, then one has to decide the dividing line between psychic and extremely perceptive.

[branchandroot]

Tezuka telling Ryoma that no, swans are not for hunting

*laughs* Or only figuratively, anyway! Actually, I can just imagine Ryouma getting his muzzle whacked with a wing the first time he tried it and having to go rethink his approach. *snickers*

Ah, that line was in reference to his mother's preferance for Western style breakfasts. I'll make that more clear in next revisions. *makes note*

One does kind of wonder about Fuji. Especially with his sister and her tarot cards. In this case, I went with very perceptive. He was actually remarkably resistant to the idea that he might enter into any of the magic himself, for this story. I think it did work better, in the end, to give Tezuka and Ryouma both a normal human who still accepts all the weirdness without blinking.

[ladycrysiana.livejournal.com]

I think it did work better, in the end, to give Tezuka and Ryouma both a normal human who still accepts all the weirdness without blinking.

I definitely agree that in this case, Fuji as a normal human was the best option to go with, for the reason that you say.