PoT: Mirror Writing: Clove Apple

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Fic post from my archive.

Clove Apple

The aftermath of Fuji's encounter with Mizuki, and explanations for Tachibana. Drama With Romance, I-4

Kippei smiled down at him when Shuusuke raised his head to give him an inquiring look. "All the people you're most drawn to are ones you can't control."

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General comment on the Mizuki-Fuji-Yuuta-Tachibana arcs here:

I love and worship you for what you've done with Mizuki. He really caught my interest when he first showed up in the anime, as a genuinely evil snake who was scary. Part of it was his ability to manipulate and his intelligence, and part of it was his voice (I'm deeply caught in the Saiyuki fandom, and Mizuki of PoT shares VA with Cho Hakkai, who is rather a lot like Fuji Syuuske. Or what Syuuske might become. >_>;;;), which was in Steely Evil Godmode. -And then they shafted him completely, turning him into a parody of an Unbergay Queen, for comic relief only. ;_;

But you, you have vindicated him in all sorts of wonderful ways! Thank you! :D The interaction with him and Yuuta, how Mizuki was carefully scouting and preparing his ground, how Yuuta caught on to it and dealt quite reasonably with the whole thing (not to mention the tantalising little glimpses you show of Yuuta's fundamental Fujiness), and and... Yes! The mindfuck encounter between Mizuki and Syuuske was very well executed; it's good you're not afraid to show the darkness in the elder Fuji brother.

Fuji and Tachibana are really, really good together. There just isn't enough Tachibana/Fudomine stories out there, so this one was extremely welcome. :) The way Kippei decides that Fuji needs a friend he won't have to compete with, and that this friend will be Kippei, is lovely. That he gets Tezuka to sign an agreement to this, as it were, even better. I see Kippei as one of three people grounded enough to be able to give Fuji some peace. (The other two being Kawamura and Ooishi.) I really enjoyed reading their story. :)

One quibble: It's really unfair of you to dangle teeny-weeny little flashes of Ann at us and not give her her own bit of screen time. She's a great character, and her potential as wielder of the Clue-by-four +5 of DOOM, matchmaker, gripemistress and instigator of mayhem is uncharted. ;D . o O ( With Kirihara and Kamio as captaions of their respective teams, I see potential for fun, though. Especially if Momoshiro captains Seigaku. ) *innocent* What? Hm? No attempted plotbunnying going on here, nope. Move along, citizen. The Computer is your friend.

...oh, heck. I'm adding general comments on the TezAto stuff too. They're good together; or rather, you make them good together. Atobe is such a cat! Eiji might be the one going nya-nya, but he's just a kitten compared to Atobe, the fully unleashed creature of luxury and World Domination. It's good Tezuka seems to have the necessary calmness to be a good cat-keeper. ^^ And the way Atobe deals with Fuji is just great! Pays off to be a champion annoyer, doesn't it? *grin* I almost, almost feel sorry for Tezuka who has to wrangle all these contrary people in his life, but really, he isn't that much better himself. Obsessive, stubborn, insular and overachievery to the bone. What's not to love? ^_^

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*flings arms around you* Yes! Mizuki was completely cool, and the ani-writers utterly shafted him! I was so upset. That was, in fact, part of why I wrote this arc. *pets Mizuki* I'm really very fond of the evil creature.

And Ishida Akira's voice helps very, very much. Oh, yes.

*laughs* Ann never did quite get around to having bunnies of her own. Sometimes I think she just likes to mess with other people's business too much. Or maybe she's just holding out for Lys to write her. She is one of my favorite characters.

*smiles fondly on Atobe* This whole enterprise really started with him. He complains a lot, these days, that I'm too easily distracted from his magnificence and don't give him enough love. Of course, I gave him Tezuka, and you'd think that would be enough love for anyone...

Fuji was the one that gave me the hardest time for the longest while. He's hard for me to write, which is why, I think, I wind up writing him through other eyes so often. That, and he's such a great catalyst to throw into a scene or situation. *wicked grin*

The tenipuri boys have so devoured my life.