[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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[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.