On the sixth day of Christmas

[versipellis]

my true love sent to me

six open books

[Title] Exposed
[Fandom] Malory Towers
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] What Sally really hates is how everyone can tell that she's miserable. Prompted by sabethea, who wanted angsty Sally fic.

Comments

[sabethea]

Oh, Sally. Sally Sally Sally. I'm feeling like I'm not enough at the moment, and that I'm not hiding my real self enough for anyone to like me, so that's just hit something I wasn't necessarily admitting was there.

I also love all of the BR ones. So much. I'm struggling today with cope and words and pretty much everything, actually, so I'm not sure how good my commenting is. But the girls together thing just so very works.

And the four parter? With each of them with their different hang ups - and they do have such DIFFERENT hang ups coming out of BR, which is perfect. And the way they're all seeing each other, and then you see how they're feeling themselves and how that isn't anything like the way the others see them... That.

[versipellis]

*hugs* I am glad the fic reverberated emotionally and felt real, though sorry you are going through the same stuff!

It is lovely to hear you love the fic especially as it is not your fandom ^^ I am v fond of the four-parter - it started off I was going to write something for Kayoko as a flood of tears, then I figured I could have Hiroki being equally sad and do open books, and then I was like "WELL, WHY NOT HAVE SHUUYA AND NORIKO TOO". I really wanted to get across the way they all think the other ones are doing fine. ... um, yes, I'm really glad you liked ^^

[thesoulofchaos]

Oh, sad face...first year Sally is perfect for writing angst, she is just so very unhappy and this feels very in-character.

And sad Battle Royale people! I would be sad too if I was in a contest consisting entirely of death and murder and such misery (that is what Battle Royale is right?). The individual struggling and the desperation to just get by in America is so good, and so different for each of the four characters.

[versipellis]

*hugs Sally* I'm glad it worked for you!

(That is indeed what Battle Royale is. You have to kill all your friends or you die. Very few people enjoy it.) And thank you - I was super-pleased with this one and really enjoyed it, so I'm glad you liked!

[thesoulofchaos]

That seems a rather unpleasant choice to have to make and yet as a fictional piece a fascinating opportunity to explore how such from demands would impact upon different human psyches. Kind of like Zimbardo's prison experiment but with murder.

*tries to keep the Battle Royale rambling to a minimum*

[versipellis]

>:) so the premise is, each year in this dystopian version of Japan, a random class of fifteen-year-olds are chosen to fight to the death in a remote location until only one is left. (Yes, it is similar to the Hunger Games, however they take very different approaches and explore the concept in very different ways and I like both equally. Complaints about one being a rip-off of the other tend to provoke ranting in me >_>) I read the first volume of the manga, which is the goriest of the incarnations of the story, and was like "... SO TRAUMATISED AND YET SO INTRIGUED BY THIS HORRIBLE HORRIBLE IDEA". Along the way I became The Person Who's Really Into Death Games in most of my social circle ;)

[la_localfreak]

ooh a really interesting set of fics. Sally's is really interesting- makes me want to re-read the series!

[versipellis]

Thank you! I really like Sally and I find her situation in the first book so thought-provoking!