Better as Blond 1/1
anonymous
March 27 2010, 02:21:22 UTC
Though Shizuo probably didn't remember it, the first day of high school was actually not the first time he and Izaya had met.
It wasn't surprising that Shizuo had forgotten. Not just because the brute was stupid and probably couldn't remember all that much to begin with, but because there was almost nothing to remember about it.
The meeting itself, that is. The aftermath was quite memorable, although Izaya doubted that Shizuo ever realized that they were connected.
Some time, late in their second year of middle school, Shinra had shown him a photo of Shizuo that he took during the Golden Week of the same year -- a silly attempt to show that the superhuman boy that he regularly rambled on about (almost as much as he gushed about that house-guest-slash-"future bride" of his, even) actually existed. It was an image of a lanky brunet with some stop sign that he had supposedly uprooted. Only there was something wrong with the film or the lighting, so he was more of a lanky blond.
Some time later, Izaya happened to cross paths with the lanky and unexpectedly brunet boy in the photo while he was killing time in one of Ikebukuro's arcades. This was their conversation in its entirety:
"Hey, are you Heiwajima Shizuo?"
"...Why do you care?"
"Heard about you from a friend. Thought you were blond, though."
"Well, I'm not."
"Too bad. You would look better as a blond. It would go with your complexion more. My uncle's a television makeup artist, so I know this sort of thing."
"You're pissin' me off. Go away."
And so he did.
Though Izaya usually made a point of lying whenever he could, he didn't during that conversation. Mostly. The thing about his uncle was complete bullshit, but he really did think that Shizuo would be more handsome as a blond. That's why he broke into his house two weeks later and replaced his shampoo with a powerful bleaching agent.
Well, it was part of the reason. You couldn't expect a proper dye-job from just shampooing hydrogen peroxide for five minutes, after all (Shizuo's hair turned out more orange than anything). Really, he just wanted to see the reaction. He was definitely not disappointed.
Though that shower stall landed a bit too close to his hiding spot for him to follow up on that particular social experiment of his. It looked like Shinra wasn't lying after all. He owed him an apology -- one that he'd never deliver, of course.
It wasn't until another year and a half that Izaya got to see the results properly, when Shinra formally introduced him to the monster on their first day of high school. Shizuo didn't keep Izaya's impromptu bleach job. He improved on it with a rather professional-looking one. He even managed to remember the eyebrows. Izaya spent a good half minute admiring the unexpected fruits of his trolling before Shizuo punched the bleachers out from under him.
Izaya never brought up the subject, then or in any of their subsequent scuffles, but Shizuo really did make for a handsome blond.
(And thus oneshot!anon delivers her not-quite-adhering-to-the-prompt fill. I regret only managing to work in orange-haired Shizu-chan and not rainbow-clown-wig Shizu-chan. Seriously though, that deserves an artfill, if I can get a hold of a scanner. Also, one of these days I'll figure out why there's a gender differentiation between blonde/brunette and blond/brunet.)
Re: Better as Blond 1/1
anonymous
March 27 2010, 02:29:36 UTC
Awesome fill, anon! xD
(Also, I'm not a native speaker and I wondered about the blond/blonde thing too when I wrote a fill where I needed it. But when I looked it up on the internet it said that blonde can be used for both genders, same thing with blond! I always thought adding the e was more like a french thing, anyway... o,o)
THAT WAS AWESOME! XD Oh thank you magical writer!anon; you've made my night :D :D :D I almost chocked on spaghetti while reading the part about orange/bleach shampoo thing XD When all know that orange is just as cool as rainbow!
Speaking of artfill... I'm an artist... (not really professional yet since I'm still in school but I can make an living from it) so I can fill my own prompt, but that's kind of weird? ^^;
It wasn't surprising that Shizuo had forgotten. Not just because the brute was stupid and probably couldn't remember all that much to begin with, but because there was almost nothing to remember about it.
The meeting itself, that is. The aftermath was quite memorable, although Izaya doubted that Shizuo ever realized that they were connected.
Some time, late in their second year of middle school, Shinra had shown him a photo of Shizuo that he took during the Golden Week of the same year -- a silly attempt to show that the superhuman boy that he regularly rambled on about (almost as much as he gushed about that house-guest-slash-"future bride" of his, even) actually existed. It was an image of a lanky brunet with some stop sign that he had supposedly uprooted. Only there was something wrong with the film or the lighting, so he was more of a lanky blond.
Some time later, Izaya happened to cross paths with the lanky and unexpectedly brunet boy in the photo while he was killing time in one of Ikebukuro's arcades. This was their conversation in its entirety:
"Hey, are you Heiwajima Shizuo?"
"...Why do you care?"
"Heard about you from a friend. Thought you were blond, though."
"Well, I'm not."
"Too bad. You would look better as a blond. It would go with your complexion more. My uncle's a television makeup artist, so I know this sort of thing."
"You're pissin' me off. Go away."
And so he did.
Though Izaya usually made a point of lying whenever he could, he didn't during that conversation. Mostly. The thing about his uncle was complete bullshit, but he really did think that Shizuo would be more handsome as a blond. That's why he broke into his house two weeks later and replaced his shampoo with a powerful bleaching agent.
Well, it was part of the reason. You couldn't expect a proper dye-job from just shampooing hydrogen peroxide for five minutes, after all (Shizuo's hair turned out more orange than anything). Really, he just wanted to see the reaction. He was definitely not disappointed.
Though that shower stall landed a bit too close to his hiding spot for him to follow up on that particular social experiment of his. It looked like Shinra wasn't lying after all. He owed him an apology -- one that he'd never deliver, of course.
It wasn't until another year and a half that Izaya got to see the results properly, when Shinra formally introduced him to the monster on their first day of high school. Shizuo didn't keep Izaya's impromptu bleach job. He improved on it with a rather professional-looking one. He even managed to remember the eyebrows. Izaya spent a good half minute admiring the unexpected fruits of his trolling before Shizuo punched the bleachers out from under him.
Izaya never brought up the subject, then or in any of their subsequent scuffles, but Shizuo really did make for a handsome blond.
(And thus oneshot!anon delivers her not-quite-adhering-to-the-prompt fill. I regret only managing to work in orange-haired Shizu-chan and not rainbow-clown-wig Shizu-chan. Seriously though, that deserves an artfill, if I can get a hold of a scanner. Also, one of these days I'll figure out why there's a gender differentiation between blonde/brunette and blond/brunet.)
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(Also, I'm not a native speaker and I wondered about the blond/blonde thing too when I wrote a fill where I needed it. But when I looked it up on the internet it said that blonde can be used for both genders, same thing with blond! I always thought adding the e was more like a french thing, anyway... o,o)
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Speaking of artfill... I'm an artist... (not really professional yet since I'm still in school but I can make an living from it) so I can fill my own prompt, but that's kind of weird? ^^;
I'm the same anon who posted this prompt that had a drawing http://drrrkink.livejournal.com/377.html?thread=1134457#t1134457
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