Unicorn Records - an exercise in suikocrack

[mithrigil]

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So one day, Puel and I were tossing headcanon around, you know, like we do, and I made a comment about how Luca Blight probably has a fine-looking pair of hands. Like, classical-guitarist level of fine-looking hands, long fingers, strong fingernails. Puel misheard the "classical" part of classical guitarist and envisaged Luca Blight holding an

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[lindenleaves]

Wow, look what the Suikoden tumblr tag turned up! Not remotely active on LJ, but I never 1) stop Suikoden stanning or 2) pass up an opportunity to encourage fun ideas.

So. Um. Hypothetically. In Georg Prime's checkered past, there was totally that time when he was part of Dawn Records, the haphazardly-formed answer to family-owned label Sun Records' nasty corporate buyout, right? And he was possibly instrumental (oh crap, what a terrible pun) in the rise of folk talent Frey Falenas, whose relentlessly-earnest, proud-feminist, say-no-to-drugs, all-for-my-family, forever-devoted-to-one-woman good-boy image was everything that shouldn't have taken off, and yet? And Sialeeds was an unrepentant hard-partying FASHION diva who COULD NOT BE TAMED, and Lucretia Merces seduced Marscal Godwin's new intern, and Lyon Mismar was OBVIOUSLY a stage name? (Raja needs no last name, for she is Legend.)

Wading into slightly less tangential waters, Luca Blight is possessed of a Twitter feed in which he routinely runs out of space while bludgeoning grammar and punctuation to death, right? And Handler #213,908 is all, "Er, yes, Luca, I understand your, ah, frustration, but 140 characters might feel less restrictive if you didn't devote 43 of them to exclamation poi--oh no, you're making the crazy face again, aren't you."

[mithrigil]

OH MY GOD YOU EXIST. I'm so glad to hear from you again! Hi! How are things?

You're so totally right about Frey and how that entire indie folk legend works, and how Gizel used to be Sialeeds' songwriter and now he totally sold out to pop, and Georg's shredding and the controversy surrounding him saved Dawn Records from dying before it began...

And I have to inform you that, because Puel is awesome, LucaBlightOfficial is going to be a thing!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOO HOO HAHAHAHA.

[puella_nerdii]

(LucaBlightOfficial has too many characters. Not that it matters if I'm making fake screencaps, really, but enh.

Dude definitely makes Kanye's tweets look restrained, though.)

[lindenleaves]

That is the greatest, greatest, greatest icon. And I was actually going to say, I'm sure Luca's fans defend his Twitter to the "this actually seems like the ramblings of a violent psychopath" skeptics with, "Dude, no, it's just like Kanye! Except, you know, with more 'KILL!!!!!' and 'BURN!!!!!' and 'DIE!!!!!' and 'PIG!!!!!' and stuff!"

[lindenleaves]

Things are and have been mostly swell! And I hope the same can be said for you. I'm so excited you're apparently back into Suikoden again! I must confess I browsed through some of the new stuff, and "A Matter of Translation" is, it must be said, the best fic I have read since I don't know when. I'd been hoping for such a long time that someone would do Lucretia-in-Agate-Prison justice, and though many people seem to attempt it, for whatever reason, I never found a version I was in love with. But your emphasis on the ideological in "ideological seduction" was, I think, the key to it; as soon as "So I caught you staring at my books" becomes NOT actually a euphemism, you get to what's so correct and unique and specific to these particular people, and what I had always been missing. ...And, for the Victory+, you gave me something I didn't even know I wanted, which was Sialeeds descending from the heavens to bestow the most magnificent hatefuck of our time. So yes, I am so very glad to see you in this fandom.

Also, selling out to pop is so exactly what Gizel would do that I'm grinning just thinking about it. I will try to think of questions/prompts that are not all about how V is my favorite and my precious baby, I swear. I am glad Annabelle gets to not be literally dead in this, apparently! I always liked her quite a bit and was sad she got to play such a minor role. And I would love to hear about how Jillia fits in--Jowy wouldn't really have a strategic reason to marry her in this universe, would he? Or would he?

[mithrigil]

So about that Jowy thing. No, he doesn't have to marry Jillia -- but he does end up putting the moves on her, and bringing her in to the White Wolves to get a kind of Nightwish-y sound and shake things up. Luca finds it hilarious (and so do his fans, especially the crusaders against song lyrics about sex, because Luca staunchly refuses to sing about sex or love and putting his sister in the band cements said abhorrence). And then, when Jowy finally manages to get Luca arrested, Jillia takes over as lead singer, Yuber takes Jowy's position at the bass (oh shit), and Jowy goes back to lead guitar where he belongs (because he learned to mimic Luca's style really well and it makes him SO FUCKING UNCOMFORTABLE but someone's got to do it...)

[Also I am extremely flattered and thrilled that you enjoyed that fic so much! I was just so glad to get back into things and have an excuse to write that, which had been poking around for a while.]

[lindenleaves]

Wow, Jowy/Jillia/Yuber in a band does sound rather incredibly terrifying. Poor, poor Jillia. Poor, poor, poor Jillia. Is she as aware of Jowy's motives as she was in the original?

Also, erm, if Nash and Sierra have... dealings of any sort in this version, I would love to hear about them.

[Great to have more stuff of yours to read! I will certainly keep checking back, if more will be forthcoming.]

[puella_nerdii]

Oh, Jillia knows what's going on. She and Jowy hooked up just as the White Wolves started cutting their newest album and needed a press boost to counteract Luca, well, being Luca. At first, she goes along with it partially because she could use the work and the exposure and partially because she thinks Jowy's vision for the White Wolves is actually sound, but I'm pretty sure she ends up falling for him somewhere along the line. And yeah, she totally knows those feelings aren't reciprocated -- but she knew they probably wouldn't be from the start, and she agreed anyway, so she can't (and won't) fault him for what he did.

(I kind of love Jillia whether or not you think she grows up to be Queen.)

Sierra remains, as ever, a cougar. :D I'm pretty sure Nash decides he ultimately doesn't give a damn about how old she is, although it doesn't stop him from teasing her about her age. Because Nash.

[And there is SO MUCH MORE forthcoming -- this, and our areyougame claims, and all the ficthings that aren't AYG claims, and a story that promises to be damn long and involved...]

[lindenleaves]

Oh, fantastic! I will look forward to much more, then.