But Then I Shall Know Even As Also I Am Known (Baccano!/Sandman, Vino/Corinthian)

[puella_nerdii]

This piece is subtitled "Fuck You Creative Writing Seminar," as I think I've broken pretty much all of the unofficial rules for that class here. So I don't want to write mainstream fiction. So take it up with the Corinthian and Vino.

Title: But Then I Shall Know Even As Also I Am Known
Author: puella_nerdii
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence. I am not kidding here

Comments

[semiramis]

Love love love love love. Yes. So very, very yes. This amazingly awesome and true to both canons and. and. And there need to be more Sandman/Baccano! crossovers, don't there? I felt like something of American Gods was creeping in on the edges of this, too, which. Well, you take Neil Gaiman and cross it with Baccano and it makes sense that that could be one of the flavors that might emerge in the end, I think, especially with the angle you took with it. Which was awesome. It felt true to both canons, like I said, but it also brought something new to the table--created a new perspective (ahahaha perspective) on both--which is the ideal point of a crossover, I think.

Also, I saw all of Baccano! for the first time a couple of weeks back, and then I reread Doll's House a few days ago, and I was struck with a sudden gleeful desire to see someone turn the Corinthian loose in Baccanoverse. This has hit the spot perfectly :3 although when I started to consider it seriously the first Baccano! character my mind gravitated towards, given the Corinthian and his hobbies, was Czes, but I suspect that's mostly because I'm a terrible person.

[puella_nerdii]

Thanks so much! And yes, there really should be more crossovers; I'd love to hear what all the respective immortals have to say to one another. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find American Gods creeping in with this, considering the subject matter, how a lot of this is about the American character and what remains constant and what doesn't. So glad you felt it was true to both canons -- and yes, crossovers should shed new light on both canons and recontextualize them, and I'm glad you think this succeeds in that.

HA no, Czes and the Corinthian really would be fascinating to see together, though if Czes thought Claire was bad...cue evil laughter, is all I'm saying.

[semiramis]

On recontextualizing--particularly, this makes me wonder more about Claire--I don't know if you meant lines like the "American Dream" bit to imply anything strange, but it's got me picturing him pulling a Spider on someone in order to pull off the lucky-orphan-adopted-by-the-mafia thing xD

And, on the other side of the Corinthian--it also makes me wonder exactly what was happening with Gideon in this era. The images of the dust bowl put me in mind of the wasteland we see in The Wake where Fiddler's Green used to be...

hahaha w-well actually um. Haha.

[puella_nerdii]

Heh. You know, I can see Claire doing that! And now you've got me wondering, too -- you're right, the images are similar, and we know he was wandering around for part of this period, and I think the Dust Bowl might physically pain him but that would be so interesting...

*sporfle* CZES IS GOING TO HAVE NIGHTMARES FOR ALL ETERNITY.