[Hikaru no Go] Fic: Hikaru's Game

[flonnebonne]

Title: Hikaru's Game
Fandom: Hikaru no Go/Ender's Game crossoverCharacters: Hikaru, Touya, Sai, Waya, Isumi

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Here via issen4's rec. This might be my favorite HnG crossover ever, it's going straight into memories. Dialogue was perfectly clipped, just like the book's! And Hikaru's Go philosophy really fits.

In the beginning I thought Sai was still there; I was surprised when Hikaru told Touya he'd left. So Sai's itlaics were projection? As in, Hikaru was just imagining them? I totally couldn't tell.

I love the way you mapped some of the characters to Ender's Game characters and didn't map others, especially the way you used to BattleStation setup to reverse Hikaru and Touya's roles. Neat. In the book Ender was distinguished from the others by his age when he entered, and now he is still distinguished by his age, but from the opposite direction. I thought that was cool, especially with the constant cultural references no one else got.

It makes sense for the oldest entrant to have the greatest perspective. The weird perpetual childhood in Ender's Game was I think the reason I always liked the sequels better.

In my happy ideal world, Hikaru and Touya go on to be co-"saviours". Heh. In conclusion, this is really nice!

[flonnebonne]

Hurrah! Thank you for your kind words...especially about getting the clipped dialogue right! Ender's Game and Card's other novels are such a big influence on me, I feel like I'm always imitating his style without meaning to...just not very well. At least I got it right here!

I've left the whole Sai situation kind of vague so that the reader can decide themselves what is going on...so Sai's voice might be Hikaru's memories, or his imagination, or maybe Sai speaks to Hikaru from beyond the grave. It's up to you. :)

Eh heh, the whole thing with Hikaru starting out when he was older than anyone else was stolen straight out of Hikaru no Go. It did work out really nicely as an opposite situation to Ender's Game.

You're the only person I've known who liked the sequels to Ender's Game better than the original novel. :) For me, the weird perpetual childhood is one of the things I love about Ender's Game--but then, I'm obsessed with questions about what constitutes childhood. It's one of the reasons I liked Hikaru no Go so much too.

You read my mind about Hikaru and Touya being co-saviours of the world...I was seriously thinking of writing an epilogue in which they were on the starship that fired the shot that ended the war. But it wouldn't make sense in the Ender's Game timeline, so I junked it...but I still feel like they saved the world in spirit, if not in fact.