220: A Thousand Years ~ killqueen04
I'll admit it, I am getting distracted by the Olympics. Since I'm likely not posting a second entry on the twenty-eighth like I wanted I will try to do one tomorrow. If not, I just won't worry about it.
Title: A Thousand Years
Name: Oriihime, Ichigo, Masaki
Suethor: killqueen04
Pairings: Ichigo/Orihime
Stats: 6,646 words, 10 reviews, 8 favorites and 2 follows
Rating: Kenpachi
Appearance: See sample please, it is purple prose to the extreme...
Background: Orihime, Ichigo and Masaki replace the roles of the myth.
Sue Qualifications: They are god and goddeses
Annoying Attributes: One of the first things I noticed when I opened up this fanfic I found out that this fanfic is the winner of a fanfic contest. If I was the person in charge of this contest I would have disqualified this fanfic and not for just one reason. First, the writer admits that the characters are OoC, so this isn't fanfic but original work disguised as fanfic. Second, I wouldn't call the writers fic “inspired by the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros”. This is the myth put into the writers own words rather then her coming up with her own original story.
Sample:
Once upon a time there was a king with his queen that lived in a very beautiful kingdom. They have one daughter named Orihime. The princess was the most beautiful and lovely girl that you may know. She had a long and shinny orange hair, big and bright eyes and a very beautiful body. But she was not only beautiful in the outside, but also was pretty in the inside. The princess was friendly, intelligent, adorable, kind, shy, innocent and very clumsy, but she was a little curious for her own good. And that, my dear friend, was one of the factors that made her life at the end very complicated.
The beautiful girl had too many virtues and her beauty was too much for a simple human. That is why people from remote villages went to admire from outside the palace the young princess. Suddenly, people began to compare her beauty with the goddess Masaki and began to stop worshiping the goddess of love and beauty. That act of stop worshiping a goddess as important as Masaki was a serious offense and unfortunately who would pay the offense would be the poor princess.
The goddess of love and beauty was angry at the offense made by the people because of the princess. Masaki was not a vengeful goddess, she was actually friendly, kind and a someone who cared for her people, but her pride had been wounded and she decided to take a few measures. She couldn't do anything against Orihime, nor kill or destroy her beauty because she wasn't her nature. Masaki was a kind and loving goddess, the death of the humans was not in her mind so that idea was discarded.
She decided the best option would be to use her son Ichigo, the young god in charge of making people fall in love. Her young son didn't like his job, because he found it boring and pathetic, but it was not his decision to have that kind of power, it was the fault of genetic. Having a mother goddess of love and beauty and a father who was the god of joy and life didn't left many options for his role as a god. His power was a rare combination of his mother and father powers. Isshin, the god of joy and life, one day explained to his son that his power was special. He had the power to make people fall in love and gave the human a meaning for their lives, because without love the life had no purpose.