FIC: True North (Nobuta wo Produce)

[calledinvain]

Title: True North (1/1)

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, NTV, the original author of the novel do, but this is based on the dorama.

Rating: G

Genre: Gen, and if you squint, you could certainly take away some 'shippiness from it.

Notes: This is more of a drabble, and in a fandom I've loved, but never written for.

Dedicated to

Comments

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[takenoko]

This was excellent! Thank you for writing a NWP fic just when I was starting to miss this fandom again <3

You have a wonderful way with the flow of a piece; this reads just like a poem, it's just so smooth.

Akira's characterization throughout the entire fic comes through so easily, the simple show-don't-tell philosophy works really well here: "You have to stay in the middle, so the waves don't get you," Akira intones. He sits up, and offers a hand to Nobuta. "It's safer in the middle."

♥ ♥ ♥ And all the characters, actually, are so real and true and right *there,* almost. I especially loved the way a tiny part of Mariko and Shuji's interaction was seen through Koji's eyes, because (aww, he's so adorable) aside, it really gives you a glimpse at how well he knows his brother. And the bit where they're all having dinner is just precious.

I noticed that Mariko alternates between referring to Nobuta as Nobuta and Nobuko. Is there a reason you chose to have her switch? Because at first I thought, oh, she calls her by her given name in the letters... but later as she is talking with Shuji in person, does she... get more comfortable? familiar?

There's so much I loved about this fic. I think my favorite line is this:

Akira then makes Nobuta talk on the phone, and her soft, "I think you would look nice in it," causes Shuji to reconsider."I'm not wearing the mad hatter hat," he warns her. She chuckles and says, "Akira's getting that one anyway."

Just because they. are. so *perfectly* portrayed. All three of them. Just, guh. *_*

Reading this made me feel all warm and content, too ^^ Even though I have the final-exam-from-hell coming up tomorrow. Thanks for the great read. Sorry for all the rambling ^^;

prose like poetry

[calledinvain]

is one of my biggest wishes for my writing - I took one poetry class in university, and it was so difficult in a different way than prose is difficult to write. So thank you for reading so closely, and commenting. Yes, the switch in name was deliberate, because Shuji gets the letters sort of out of order, so that it's an incomplete window of time that he's experiencing - by the time Mariko appears on his doorstep, she's made that transition to just wondering about Nobuko to being Nobuta's friend.

Ramble away! And good luck on your finals!