Fifth Way to a Long Way
I'm still enjoying this Friday deadline thing. Gets me doing stuff.
Title: Long Way to Goodbye V
Rating: The much beloved T, where characters may swear and possess sexuality, but not so much that I will be banned for posting this.
Summary: Rukia and Ichigo disappeared and, although she tries, Karin has no idea what happened to them. Did Ichigo abandon ( Read more... )
Speaking of Renji, thank you for not writing out an accent for him. I'm serious. I see it a lot even in good fics, and YMMV, but I hate that. I'm not sure where that trend started from, but I'm glad I won't need a dictionary to understand what he's saying. &hearts
I think of all the secondary characters in this story, you've done the best job with Yuzu. I like this interpretation of her, where she stands up for herself and her friends and against Karin, who she thinks is just being mean for the sake of being mean. I think I said that before, but it can't be said enough. She's tougher than most in fandom give her credit for, IMO. She can't not be, with the family she was born into.
Finally: OMG RENJI AND KARIN!!!! This is one of my favorite crack pairings in the fandom, but I've seen exactly three fics with them in it (including a horrible M rated one with the worst character assassination for Isshin I've ever seen in a fic and way too much detail about Karin's anatomy for my taste) so I was happy to see them interact with each other here, despite the circumstances. Funny thing, though, the exchange where Karin says she can kick is ass and Renji laughing is something I actually did write in my own yet to be published fic with the two, so I was tickled to see it in someone else's story. &hearts
I think that's everything I wanted to cover. I can't wait until next week!
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I generally hate accents. Or written accents (everybody has an accent, technically). There's this popular Eva fic that I can't read because the author uses really heavy accents all the time and I couldn't stand it. In writing, I think it's better to use slang or make very slight alterations to speech.
I'm glad you still like Yuzu. I tried to write her as her own character, not as if she were a sidekick or pet to Karin. That was part of the reason the mini-feud happened; if she was to be her own person, she couldn't just do what Karin wanted all of the time.
And I'm fine if Renji and Karin excite you (personally, I really like Kenpachi x Unohana, as far as crack goes). There's no way the two are hooking up in this story, though (Karin's about four years too young for anything serious, at the very least). Anyways, her and Renji's interaction here was the hardest scene in this story to write up to this point. But I had to put it in.
And I think I've also had experiences were other people wrote similar things that I did by coincidence. If you ever get around to publishing that fic, I'll check it out. Thanks for dropping a line again!
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Oh, definitely. I was just happy to see these two interact at all, because their personalities would butt heads quite often, I'd imagine. But you gotta admit, it'd be fun to see Ichigo's head explode if any of his friends dated either of his sisters.Someone at badfic quotes wrote out how it would play out if that happened. ;)
Speaking of Renji, there was a line about him and Ichigo having similar builds. Is that to indicate he's lost a lot of weight over the years, because Ichigo and Renji look way, way different from each other (or maybe it's Renji's height that make him look bigger than he really is). *is unsure*
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And newest chapter will be up in a few hours, after I get off from work. Always need to do more last-minute revisions.
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