[Uraboku] Bruises and Bitemarks (3/?)

[rooftop_sakura]

Title: Bruises and Bitemarks
Author: masanami
Character(s): Hotsuma/Shusei, mentions of Senshirou/Kuroto, Takashiro, Tachibana, and others
Word Count: 6,200
Rating: R
Warnings: Host AU. Suggestive material.
Summary: Shusei's the perfect host and Hotsuma's the perfect person to ruin everything for him.
Author's Note: Sorry for the delay in getting this out

Comments

[ravanna]

Oooh, I was so waiting for an update, as you know, and here we are, here it is, and my darling, this was such a beautiful read again

[masanami]

Oh Ravanna, darling, you know your opinion means the world to me. When I read your comments I always see how much thought and love you put into your words--how you love reading just as much as you love writing--and I SO appreciate that. I really, truly, do

[ravanna]

And I am more than happy that my words mean so much to you, too, kinda influencing you

[masanami]

For the same reasons you pointed out that this IS Shusei's world and his values and morals that are moving the timeflow and story--it's so different from the Shusei we know in canon who cannot make those moves (and maybe I am pointing out my own flaws, maybe not, since we present these same personalities in a different light and a different background, not tied together by a past and destiny that has bound them together)--but still. It is this Shusei and his speed and his knowledge that drives his actions. ahhh but I do SO love discussing and thinking about it--maybe breaking it apart and seeing its flaws but still loving it on a whole.

♥ ♥ ♥

[ravanna]

I think that's why I included "Name" in the OST as well - somehow it so shows the certain emptiness in Shusei's world, though it holds exactly the amount of "things" one needs to actually "live", but I do see Shusei's form of "living" more than the one of simply "existing". Now he's found something of True value and wants to keep it, but - how, if you never really learned how to cling to something when all you ever wanted to have actually came back to YOU?
And aaah, breaking, yes. Haha, I know about THAT, seeing how I destroyed and disrupted and tore my own characters apart in TS ^__~

(and hon, you got any idea how long B&B as going to be? Because I do wonder; there's still so much room yet I think it's also a difficult development still coming for them, and SO many possibilities to end it. Gaah!!)

♥ I so love all these discussions with you, too. One should never stop doing so.

[masanami]

That's so true. Shusei's eyes have been sorta dead to the world--everything has a veil around it that can't quite touch him even though he lives and breathes in it--until Hotsuma comes along and he's suddenly thrust into this abyss that he cannot understand because it does not conform to what he knows and perhaps that is what confuses him the most--that and the fact that he cares and does so deeply want concern to show but at the same time he has no way of expressing it in any terms but the ones he knows

[ravanna]

I also think that accepting this sort of new world MUST be hard, and difficult, and I love his way of dealing with it - on the one hand absolutely being overwhelmed, not knowing what to do and which behaviour is the right one, on the other throwing himself completely into Hotsuma's arms - like he so wants this change as much as he fears it. Loved the iomage of a shell being cracked, and you just pierce into it with your fingers and get it bursting. It fits so well here

[masanami]

I think of a lot of their relationship will be defined by characters we have only just begun to see :) Hopefully the other characters' involvement will be as enjoyable and meaningful as the rest...for they all will certainly impact Hotsuma and Shusei in some way or another...in ways that may or may not be noticeable quite yet^^

Senshirou and Kuroto most definitely have a backstory that's already been developed in my head, one very relevant, in some ways, to Shusei. Hopefully I'll be able to incorporate that story in with this one ♥