Comments | sister_coyote: Fic: Anachronism (Vincent, PG)

sister_coyote

Fic: Anachronism (Vincent, PG)

Aug 29, 2006 00:33

Not quite sure where this came from, but it wanted to be written (in a hurry, too), so...

Title: Anachronism
Words: 500
Characters: Vincent, plus Tifa cameo
Rating: PG
Summary: It was the little things.
Spoilers: Well, for FFVII, but none other than that. Set between FFVII and Advent Children.
Warnings: None.

( It was never the big things that threw him off -- always and only the little ones. )

length: ficlet, genre: character piece, character: vincent valentine, fandom: final fantasy vii, rating: worksafe, genre: gen, [fic]

Comments 11

voodoobob August 29 2006, 08:31:28 UTC

Oh, this is really nice. It explores Vincent's thirty-year displacement in such a good, quiet way... there's still some of Vincent's gothy, morbid tone in it, but not at all to excess. There's some wonderful lines in here ("He felt sometimes that the world was a mausoleum for wonders he'd never known" especially grabbed me), and just... Yes. Oh. Vincent.

Love.

sister_coyote August 29 2006, 23:09:16 UTC

Thank you! The seed-idea for this one was pretty much entirely tone, so I'm glad it worked out okay.

I'm fascinated by displaced characters, particularly those who have a gap in their lives -- Sora and Riku's period of absense from the islands (particularly Sora's year asleep), Vincent's thirty-year stasis, and to a lesser extent Leon, Aerith and Yuffie's several-year exile from Hollow Bastion. There's just something poignant about it that appeals to me.

I didn't really think to hard about it until I realized that it'd be the equivalent of going to sleep in 1977 and waking up now. Which would be... difficult to get used to.

(I'm given to understand that, if I like displaced characters, I should play FFX. Well, I really should anyway. I'm sooooo behind on games.)

reversedhymnal August 29 2006, 09:49:49 UTC

Oh. Oh. I have melted. And it is good, ♥

sister_coyote August 29 2006, 23:10:17 UTC

Thank you! :D

liltigre August 29 2006, 21:14:32 UTC

Oh, wow, this is really nice! It says volumes about how displaced Vincent must feel in a few words, and the ending was so very perfect. Even things you once hated, you grow fond of when they're the last ties left to the past. (Personal note- Kinda sad when the popular stuff you hated as a young person becomes the next generation's classic oldies. XD )

sister_coyote August 29 2006, 23:12:03 UTC

Thank you! It'd be so difficult to get used to a world in which everything you knew was suddenly old -- especially if you still looked young, because no one would expect you to react that way.

(I keep hearing things I listened to in middle school played as quasi-oldies, and it makes me startle every time. I'm not that old. ;) )

theladygoddess August 30 2006, 03:53:42 UTC

You managed to give him that tinge of humanity we all know he has, without ruining that mysterious aura surrounding his character. What a gorgeous little peice. ♥

sister_coyote August 30 2006, 05:22:15 UTC

Thank you! Writing Vincent is quite the balancing act.

pyrasaur August 30 2006, 04:18:00 UTC

I can totally see Vincent noticing the little things like that. And I've often wondered if his cloak is the FF7 equivalent of disco gear, but that's not my point, my point is that this fic is pretty.

sister_coyote August 30 2006, 05:23:56 UTC

Thanks!

His clothes really are something. :D Since he must have noticed by now that long red cloaks aren't exactly your average daywear, I figure he must just like it. He certainly does enough posing and cloakswirling. ;)

pyrasaur August 30 2006, 05:30:22 UTC

He's, like, some kinda closet attention whore.