Sephiroth/Hotaru: Carry on Dancing

[usagivindaloo]

Title: Carry on Dancing
Fandom: Sailor Moon/Final Fantasy VII
Pairing/Character: Sephiroth/Sailor Saturn
Rating: PG for pure fluff
Summary: At the birthday celebrations for Neo-Queen Serenity and her daughter, Sephiroth and Hotaru find themselves dancing around each other in more ways than one... (Pamina-verse)
Dedication: lady_pamina, for being the new

Comments

[lady_pamina]

Ahhhhh!!!! Squee!!!! You are absolutely divine!!! This is by far more enjoyable than Derrida--who I have to read by Monday--:P. Beautifully written and everyone very much in character. So much damn sexual tension!!! You know there's going to be a very smutty aftermath to be written in the very near future! Actually, I think it fits perfectly well with the situation and the characters. As you said, Sephiroth is sort of asexual before meeting. Hotaru, let's face it, she's never had much of love life due to you know being awakened as the Messiah of Silence, being reincarnated as a baby, then reawakened to help fight the youma of the week, help defeat Nehelenia and Galaxia etc etc. Neither really knows how to interact around the other outside a battle field. Social situations, especially large, formal gatherings, can be painfully awkward.

The humor is so delightful. I giggled when Sephiroth is forcefully coerced into formal wear and at the thought of him having to submit to a fitting by a fussy, little tailor. I love how King Endymion has a closet full of tuxedos. I also found it funny when Sephiroth hears someone ask Hotaru dance, but doesn't connect that he's the one asking until he's done so. Oh, the 8th grade dance scene, it made me rather nostalgic and giggly; I think it fit okay though.

Your sense of description is FANTASTIC! You paint the Hotaru's entrance scene so vividly with words. You're very detailed in describing the way she looks but the description isn't so minuscule that it becomes tedious. It's all the choice of words and the pacing. The moment where their eyes meet is so intense and charged up with unspoken words and sexual tension.

I think you and I are on some psychic fanfic writing link here because we almost always manage to see eye to eye on the characters. You capture all the little moments that reveal their love for one another perfectly. There's such a wonderful balance of humor, romance, and solemnity. Furthermore, you incorporate all the elements any hopeless romantic Saturn/Sephiroth shipper like me could ever want--a ball, unacknowledged romance between an awesome couple, and an f'ing dance under the stars on the balcony with a kiss that ALMOST happens--OMG! ^_^

I'll have to try extra hard write you something delightful and smutty now. And I'll post it somewhere other than my writing journal, putting more smutty fanfic out there for other Sephiroth/Saturn shippers and maybe make a few more converts. Much love to you!

[usagivindaloo]

*blushes* Wow, you really like it that much? I mean, I know I'm better than Derrida - then again, an unanethsetized root canal is better than Derrida - but I had no idea you would find so much to like with it. ^^ I'm so glad you enjoyed the little details like King Endymion's closet... a lot of those little things end up getting written on the fly for me, so I always imagine them kind of sucking. XD

Haha, the 8th grade dance... well, to be honest, it was supposed to START that awkward, but then get very... comfortable as they got into it (hence the problem ;-)). Originally I was also going to have Hotaru rest her head on his chest, but I think that would have been going a bit too far for both of them. Again, the main problem was trying to push them to the edge where they're feeling attraction for each other but don't KNOW it's attraction yet. I also didn't want them to kiss because of the plot you've got set up for it (in my head, I was thinking that Hotaru didn't actually realize Sephiroth was moving in to kiss her; if she did, that might confuse that awesome scene of yours later, and I wouldn't want that!) Funnily enough, I almost ended the entire fic after the part where Sephiroth first asks her to dance, but I'm glad you liked the rest of it. ^^

I find it awesome that everyone that writes for this pairing seems to be on the same wavelength; I found vol_jin and belladonna12 also picked up on similar aspects of the relationship, albeit in different ways. To me, that just illustrates how GOOD the pairing itself is, that everyone can basically look at it and pull the same things away from it (although there are plenty of different interpretations too... I've sometimes been tempted to do a oneshot smutfic that examines Sephiroth tempting Hotaru into evil by preying on her loneliness and her need for love). It's great having a psychic fanfic link! ^_^

I can't wait to see what you come up with next! In the meantime, I actually think I'm going to start writing the next fic tonight instead of WoW (shock and horrors!) Of course, don't know when it will be FINISHED. ;-) The new fic idea isn't set in your world specifically, it could really be set in any of the "verses" that we've all set up... take that as you will. ;-) Oh, and it will be smutty. Very very smutty. ^_^