Collecting my thoughts

[murinae]

The thing about internet life that I like is that it does come with a pause button of sorts. Sometimes it's life making me push that pause button. Other times, it's the cable company, who still has yet to fully fix ongoing connection problems. (I'm thinking about switching back to DSL). And sometimes it's a combination of both. I'm behind on

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[murinae]

Well, literary children are easier to manage. You can turn off the computer and they go away. XD And they're someone else's headache. But I would DEFINITELY read a fic about Touya and Hikaru having kids who were perfectly normal and boring.

Actually, I was thinking about writing a Hikaru-paralleling-his-father fic with a child who is in something he can't understand. Igo is a game of understanding your opponent mentally, and I can imagine just how frustrating it must be for him if he couldn't connect with his kid through the game ... if his kid rejected it totally and chose something totally different ...

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Hikaru could understand the passion.

When asked how he felt about his son's talent, he would answer softly that he was proud. All the while he'd hold the image in his mind of how Jinei would sway silently on the piano bench even before he touched the keys, measuring out the music before he started playing.

He imagined his own face was the same right before he took a single stone out of a ke. The anticipation. The knowledge that this was what he was supposed to do, what he was born to do.

Genius, they called him. Rare -- not one in a million kids. When he played, critics described it as if being in the prescence of the spirits of Chopin. Lizt. Bach. Beethoven. And he was thirteen years old.

After reading the reviews, Hikaru had asked, once. He had felt rather silly, of course, but he couldn't help it -- the mention of spirits touched off that certain spot within him.

He never really got a straight answer, something vague about how Jinei being able to feel the music through his fingers, about hearing the universe in the chords. He didn't quite understand, though he could relate. And he did hope ...

As he came home to the darkened house, with his dinner cold on the table (the tournament had run late again, and then there were the after-tournament drinks and the rehash of old moves and old plays), it wasn't the goban he turned to first. He could see Jinei's schedule for the next three weeks -- a tour in Europe. He himself, was due in China. Mentally, he shifted through times and figures, one after another, sectioning them out logically like moves on the grid.

Perhaps Obon then -- they could definitely make the connection there and spend Obon together.

Or at the very least, he had to call the boy more. He was very proud. And he let Jinei know it when he could -- at least that much, he thought.

For he understood the passion well enough. He just wished he knew something about guidance.

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Um. er. Okay. Sudden drabble. I was going to say that I was thinking that maybe his son would be good in an area like music, but hey, the story came instead.

I told you those were bad this time of year lately. XD But something like that ... not quite like that ... I was hoping for something better but yeah. Um. I might rework that later, but hehehe. Dude. I just am being hypocritical tonight, I guess.

(embarrassed)

-muri

[issen4]

Good god. I'll forever be in awe of the way you can dash off fic like that, and make it so fantastic. That struck just the right note, of genius-meets-genius, but no mental connection. All they have is a familial tie, and that's pretty weak compared to the connection that Hikaru expects from someone who has the same intensity as him.

You, my dear, are a genius in your own right. Never worry about writing drabbles like that. I want to write drabbles like that!

Back to kidlet fics... well, I'm a fine one to talk, seeing that I also invented some kidlets for Hikaru once. :P

[murinae]

Back to kidlet fics... well, I'm a fine one to talk, seeing that I also invented some kidlets for Hikaru once. :P

*Smacks self in forehead* THAT IS THE OTHER ONE I WANTED TO REC as a Hikago kidlet fic done right! Unfolding Fan!

To be honest though, I don't consider Unfolding Fan to be a kidlet fic -- it has a plot that revolves more than just around the "WHOA! THEY HAVE KIDS!" sort of motif that I was ranting about here.

I actually think Kenji and Kenichi are well written and it's not like they're plopped straight into the fic without any warning. They're integrated wonderfully in the story and the story isn't about them totally (though they play a major part ... with the kidnapping and all ... T_T) and you write them believably and well. That's why I said I'd read it from you if you wrote a normal kidlet fic ... you handle it so well!

Sorry for the brainfart. XD I love Unfolding Fan and for some reason blanked out on it (I'm a greedy little monster like I said and I really loved Akira in that fic. And the boys felt so normal in the fic that it didn't come off as SOLELY A FIC ABOUT HIKARU'S CHILDREN which is what I was ranting about. Instead, it's true to the purpose ... showing Hikaru and Akira at a latter stage in their lives. And honestly, it was a natural way you should their relationships with one another ... not perfect, with flaws, but with a believable family dynamic.

*blush* Anyways, yeah, I don't consider Unfolding Fan to be a kidlet fic even if HIkaru has kids. IT just proves my point; when handled well, it's not annoying. Or something. *blush*

-muri

[murinae]

*tilts head* Am I not signed in?! Wha?! But it is really me, Murinae. Who else but I would go on and on and be so brain-farty?! XP

-muri

[issen4]

Yeah, it's not a kidlet fic in that it doesn't revolve around the kids--I sort of created them to be kidnapped... -_-() so they can't be super!geniuses and end up rescuing themselves or something, since I wanted Hikaru and Akira to do the heroics.

Maybe that's why they turned out normal. :P

[murinae]

XD Nah, I think it's because you're very good at managing your characters. And they felt like they needed to be in the fic, that's why it didn't stick out like a sore thumb like most kidlet fics. ^___^ But I would read a kidlet fic by you. honest.

-muri ^_____^