Comments | runaway_tales: There's a Great Black Wave In the Middle of the Sea

darkfaerieclaw in runaway_tales

There's a Great Black Wave In the Middle of the Sea

Sep 03, 2010 23:39

Title: There's a Great Black Wave In the Middle of the Sea (For Me)
Series: Battle For the Sun (new main canon story, new chapter)
Flavors: Blackberry 6: set the record straight, Rhubarb 22: long time, no see, Gingerbread 4: fairy godmother (kind of loose)
Topping: Cherry (differently serious, nu!semi-nuts!Cygnelius, written with a deadline), Malt ( ( Read more... )

[challenge] gingerbread, [challenge] blackberry, [extra] malt, [inactive-author] dark faerie claw, [challenge] rhubarb, [topping] cherry

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darkfaerieclaw September 4 2010, 06:33:19 UTC

Thank you! I'm glad you think it turned out well. <3

(I will totally read David Mitchell sometime before the end of the month.)

bookblather September 5 2010, 07:25:36 UTC

I love Cyprian so much, and I agree, this throws such a different light on the deathfic bit. Poor guy, dying in water. He'd hate it, so of course the universe would make it happen somewhere. It does so love to torture him. As usual, excellent job throwing a lot of humor into something that's really very dark when you look at it without making it seem out of place. <33

darkfaerieclaw September 5 2010, 07:39:53 UTC

Thank you very much - I'm glad this was enjoyable. <3

smoothiegarten September 6 2010, 20:09:22 UTC

The levity here is just blowing my mind. Cyprian's described such horrible things that I'm going "HOW CAN YOU BE SO CALM AND EVEN FUNNY ABOUT THIS" but I guess that's better than letting the memories destroy him for the rest of his life. *remembers All Quiet on the Western Front*

Also, Jaida is awesome.

darkfaerieclaw September 6 2010, 21:46:05 UTC

Thank you very much - I'm happy Jaida is awesome to read, because she's a blast to write. <3

Yeah, Cyprian is definitely of the Il Pagliacci school of coping. By which I mean "cries on the inside and laughs on the outside (or at least until apparently he ends up shanking his slutbag wife mid-performance upon discovering she's been cheating on him with someone who wears less makeup than her, because classical opera is secretly just as WTF melodramatic as rock opera)." But as to why he's calm - this is written as Cyprian's memoirs, so he's had time to either gain perspective or collect his thoughts properly between freak-outs.