Exhibits Admitted Into Evidence [264]

[mirrorbrothers]

Title: Exhibits Admitted Into Evidence
Challenge: #264, playing detective
Rating: PG
Word Count: 513
Spoilers: for KH 2
Notes: In which one of Sora's friends turns out to be pretty smart after all.

Comments

[medomai]

Wait... What?

Please, do help me out. I love it, I just don't know exactly what's going on.

[mirrorbrothers]

Oh, geez. You're very kind, and I really appreciate it, and please don't feel bad for asking... but it's really awkward for me, because it's not any kind of good sign for a story if a reader has to ask that

[ceylmallyn]

...for what it's worth, to play devil's-advocate a bit, I actually did understand it? I wasn't certain either on my first read-through, but then I went back and read it from the start, at which point something clicked in my brain and went "OH!" fairly early on. So it was a little tricky, but not in a way that was excessive for me. (Though, it probably helps that your take on where Roxas ended up seems to be similar to mine.)

[mirrorbrothers]

Well, that's good to hear. At least I wasn't completely off base. Thanks!

[medomai]

It probably would've helped if I read it through more than once, but this was also my right-before-bedtime-fanfic-reading-time. I was totally thinking Sora-Roxas, I knew Tidus was talking about MPD, I just did NOT put it together. My take on Roxas is also quite different, so that likely didn't help.

Now that you spell it out, it's like, "oh, duh". All I really needed, I guess, was to know was the basic premise, that Tidus is trying to figure out what's going with Sora and Roxas post-KHII. I mean, I don't feel either it was too obscure or that I'm dumb, just that something got lost in translation.

[mirrorbrothers]

Well... the writer's not supposed to let anything get lost, but I'm glad it's not too egregious.

[medomai]

Don't worry. It's awesome.

[kaos_sparrow]

Seconded. It was a bit confusing on the first readthrough, but now that I've reread it the whole thing makes more sense.