Pot: Standalone: Relational

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Relational

Twenty thoughts of Niou Masaharu. Character Sketch, I-2, manga continuity

To deceive is to control the perception of others.

Comments

[fromastudio]

*fascinated * ooh. This is delightful. I love the first set, Niou's thoughts of his team members. Yanagi vs Niou - I confess I'm still wondering as to which of the two is the more intuitive.

You know I love the Sanada one already, and the Yukimura one, about positive and negative solutions, is just genius. Ditto with Kirihara. (although you have me wondering about Kirihara now. parabolas? hyperbolas? logarithmic curves? combination of all three, with an exponential curve thrown in to boot?) And Marui of course. Marui and Niou. The festival mask is a really apt image.

Your thoughts as per the weight, weight weight are really interesting. I find Niou almost unreal, as in his ability to seperate himself from the world and observe - it's why I cast him as the Rikkai precognitive in Streets of Nippon. I like the thought that these things - darts, meat, tennis - are what ground him in the world.

The greens with sesame and the fresh air is just brilliant. Niou the rational, drawn to the irrational? And that segues so nicely into flaring, irrational Yagyuu. And the Niou and Kirihara thing just makes me laugh, because they would have such different reasons for telling the truth. (although has anyone in Ou-sama ever seriously asked Kirihara some penetrating question with regards to Sanada?)

*really wants to see Niou vs Atobe now*

*grin* And seriously? Niou-chan is one of the Rikkai characters who defeats me fic-wise, at least for now, so I'm so delighted that you've written this one and it's just fantastic. The voice you've used here strikes me very much as something Niou would use, in that far-off place where he is all thought and observation.

Your last line sums up things beautifully.

[written-in-blue.livejournal.com]

*sparkles, delighted* I like Niou's way of graphing his teammates. It's so very analytical and so very him. *purrs*

And wow, he is wound up in Yagyuu. *deeply amused*

[soloproject.livejournal.com]

Well I enjoyed that thoroughly! I been here and there with 20_facts but yours is one of the best ♥ But I didn't expect anything less. :3

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

....why is it I feel like I've just had fantastic sex whenever I read something of yours? All tingly and satisfied.... [feels like purring]

[love]

Oh so nice. :)

[alice-and-lain.livejournal.com]

This is really very fabulous. I like that you brought in Niou's mathematical ability and made him not manic. Excellent story!