Durarara!! fic: Lead Balloons

[lifelink]

Title: Lead Balloons
Authour: Miles/lifelink 
Fandom: Durarara!!
Paring/Characters: Kida, Mikado
Word count: 840
Summary: Steampunk!AU, The future is no place to place your better days.
Notes: So, this was totally supposed to be steampunk, but it ended up being more cyberpunk, being more vaguely weird alternate universe-esk. Sorry! Excuse the epic fail of me

Comments

[hollyrose_hime]

First off, sorry for being so late on reading/commenting on this! (I'll skip the excuses about exams and get to the commenting ^^' )

Oh WOW~! This was absolutely amazing! I've only been introduced to the idea of steampunk recently, so getting to read a cyberpunk (which I haven't read any of at all) was great =D

I love the style of writing and how everything feels a little world weary, and how you've still integrated dollars and the yellow turbans into this AU. Also, I thought the way that you kept them both incharacter (even with the different sides of Mikado) was also brilliant. ^-^

I think my favourite part of it would have to be:
Mikado's smiles. “It's all quite noble, really.”

It is then that Kida breaks and breaks from his stupor, because to hear his plan as a set of deadpan nullifications makes it seem like a child's fantasy play, a medieval journey for dragons, princess dolls, and darkness through which to escape the world.

“What would you know? It was all for you, so you wouldn't get dragged into this mess!”

Once again, it was brilliant; Thank you for filling the request! =D

[lifelink]

Ah, no need to appologize, and the exam excuse is still just fine in my book. (Just a few more days and all my exams will be over! I just need to survive three more...)

(*cough* the integration of the gangs was a bit of a cop-out on my part, as I just based their personalities and descriptions on their respective colours.) I'm still happy you thought I was able to keep them in character, however. Kida is hard to write...

The cyberpunk genre is awesome though, I fully reccomend checking out the (sad few) books and fanfics written in this type of universe.

Thank you for your praise, I'm glad you liked this. Thanks also for the awesome prompt~<3