Against Zack's sense of justice and that grin? Not a chance.
Of course, I'd imagine he's happier with the outcome he got than he would have been if he'd ended up having to succumb to gossip and try to replace Zack in the minds of a bunch of enthusiastic kids who adore him and Cloud and chocobos in equal measure...
... I've read all three of your fanfics-for-fanfics as they came out, and... wow. You're really good at imitating style. If these had been posted on ciceqi's journal, I'm not sure I would have noticed any difference. Anyway, they were all fun, though my favorite was the anthro-verse one. Zack as a character is so perfect I find him a little dull, but how other characters react to him is always fun to read about. Poor Reeve. Poor anthro-verse!waitress too, for that matter.
One question, though; in ciceqi's Hillbillyverse, Hojo was a drifter, but here he's back to playing scientist. I was wondering if this was just a discrepancy, or you decided that at this point, several months after ciceqi's fic took place, Hojo would have established himself already doing what he does best.
Though I did love the idea of baby Sephiroth. Funny how much that would mess up the Zack/Cloud/Sephiroth dynamic in this universe with Sephiroth being a different generation entirely.
about Hojo, I... totally missed that part. D'oh! @_@ *need a facepalm icon!* Sorry about that -- I've got the greasy-guy-in-a-white-coat-mucking-with-unpleasantness so fixed in my head with him, I missed the drifter part entirely. Whoooops! ^^;;;
And yeah, it really really does mess with the dynamics, doesn't it. Now I'm imagining the theosophical terror that would be Seph a half dozen years later, in Zack's Sunday School class. Poor, pooooor Pastor Reeve... ^___~
Coyo's brain comes up with the most amazing places to go, doesn't it? ^___^ I'm not sure I could even guess where she got this one from, but "cracktastic" is SUCH a good word for it.
(nodnodnod) I don't know which American folklore bit I'm trying to think of (it's waaaay too late on the day after massive work trauma of dead computerness), but something about Coyo's Hillbillyverse seems to make everyone want to gravitate to an archetype, and Zack seemed to be getting tugged in the clever-brer-rabbit direction in this one, talking his way out of a snare...
*coughs* Hello, I'm a new person just here to stalk your journal, and I really love your fics. ^_^
And...uhm...well, this particular 'verse makes me wish I had access to a microphone, because I've literally gone and read both of these fics aloud to myself in a Southern accent and it works so well. *purrs*
About the voices -- heeee. ♥ Coyo says she came from the South originally, and while I'm from only a couple hundred miles south of Chicago, most of my great-aunts and uncles moved here from Kentucky, and so I picked up enough of the "this is how the great-aunts talk when they're sitting around gossiping" to be able to imitate Coyo's voice on it.
cheater's note: also I love writing dialogue and am not much good at exposition, so the more you have the excuse to make the exposition sound and work like dialogue, the easier it gets to handle the exposition... :3
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Of course, I'd imagine he's happier with the outcome he got than he would have been if he'd ended up having to succumb to gossip and try to replace Zack in the minds of a bunch of enthusiastic kids who adore him and Cloud and chocobos in equal measure...
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One question, though; in ciceqi's Hillbillyverse, Hojo was a drifter, but here he's back to playing scientist. I was wondering if this was just a discrepancy, or you decided that at this point, several months after ciceqi's fic took place, Hojo would have established himself already doing what he does best.
Though I did love the idea of baby Sephiroth. Funny how much that would mess up the Zack/Cloud/Sephiroth dynamic in this universe with Sephiroth being a different generation entirely.
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And yeah, it really really does mess with the dynamics, doesn't it. Now I'm imagining the theosophical terror that would be Seph a half dozen years later, in Zack's Sunday School class. Poor, pooooor Pastor Reeve... ^___~
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And...uhm...well, this particular 'verse makes me wish I had access to a microphone, because I've literally gone and read both of these fics aloud to myself in a Southern accent and it works so well. *purrs*
Wonderful story!
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About the voices -- heeee. ♥ Coyo says she came from the South originally, and while I'm from only a couple hundred miles south of Chicago, most of my great-aunts and uncles moved here from Kentucky, and so I picked up enough of the "this is how the great-aunts talk when they're sitting around gossiping" to be able to imitate Coyo's voice on it.
cheater's note: also I love writing dialogue and am not much good at exposition, so the more you have the excuse to make the exposition sound and work like dialogue, the easier it gets to handle the exposition... :3
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