I want to know how I feel about this piece, but I think I'm just having an emotional disconnect between how I like to idealize Isumi, and how you portray him which I can see as a perfectly valid option. The writing is nice, there are some great bits of description in it, and it nice nice sometimes to read some het in a sometimes too-slashy fandom. Thanks!
Please don't read this as ganging up! I just had to agree with Patra here. Definitely a fan of the het, though, and it's nice to see this isn't Isumi/Waya (for once)!
Actually, I think exactly the opposite. In a fandom that all too often idolizes Isumi, it's nice to see a fic where he is so real. This meshes well with the way the series portrays Isumi in that he did always seem a little distant, and all too often a little uncertain. Beautifully done.
I was trying to extrapolate from canon!Isumi into facets of his life we haven't really seen much of outside of Go, so I'm really thrilled to hear you think it meshes well with what canon gave us. I suspected it could be disconcerting from typical fandom portrayas, but I am sadly not as familiar with fandom as I'd like to be, so that may have helped a bit. Thank you so much!
Noo, not at all, I really appreciate your thoughts. And, trust me, I was tempted to make it Isumi/Waya but decided against it in the end. The story I was trying to tell was more about Isumi alone rather than any specific pairing. Thank you for the comment!
I definitely know where you're coming from - I was deliberately trying to explore Isumi a little more from what we're given in canon and fitting that with my belief that there are so many sides to people we often don't get to see, particularly if we're only accustomed to seeing in them in certain circumstances/arenas. Thank you for your honest opinion though!
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