[fic] "Everything Changes"

[thenakedcat]

Well, since Admin kiyala wanted me to be a moderator on this community, and since she's practically begging people for IsshiKen submissions, and since I wanted to do a perspective on this pairing that I don't think has really been explored yet

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[laurabryannan]

This wasn't “fucking”, or “having sex”, or “making love”...it was silent screaming. It was sobbing without tears. It was trying to remember what it was like to be anything besides alone and scared.

Wah! So sweet and poignant. This was my favorite line in this story. I love the idea of the two of them finding comfort in each other. Very nicely done.

[thenakedcat]

Thank you for the R&R! (I didn't even know you were interested in this pairing!)

I'm glad you liked that line because it was hard to find the words to say that it wasn't love or sex bringing them together, it was needing to be needed again.

[laurabryannan]

Oh, I definately buy this pairing. I like to think of them possibly together while they were students.

Needed to be needed is a wonderful way to put it. It seems very IC for them to turn to each other--they have so much in common.

[thenakedcat]

I have hard time buying them together as students, since Isshin seems to have taken up human life in the first place to be with Masaki. (And because I suspect Ryuuken's upbringing would not have been particularly friendly to homosexual relationships.)

But...as tired, lonely widowers, I can see them together. Guess I'm just anti-romantic that way ^^;

[laurabryannan]

Two lonely widowers works for me too. That's really the most plausible, I agree.

But honestly...how many bi and queer folk had upbringings friendly to homosexual relationships?

[thenakedcat]

That's certainly very true, but I suspect that Ryuuken had additional pressure on him as "last of his line". At any rate, it's certainly something that might be overcome with time and sufficient attraction.