Empirically Speaking (An Akon short-fic)

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For the Bite Sized Fic challenge

I apologize if the ending sounds abrupt, I have never been particularly good with them. Hope you enjoy!

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Warning: Contains scientific snuff, pain and gore. Don't like? Don't read.

Comments

[gypsygrrl420]

Wow. Just...wow.
I love the detachment here, and the purely scientific language that totally captures the essence of distance between Akon and whoever he's working on. It's beautifully chilling (I'm hoping his specimens are just generalized and none of our beloved characters? Lol. Though that would be interesting as well). Beautifully written.

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No, they are definately generalized for that very reason. I can't kill any of them, despite my love of gore (though I have toyed with the idea of Ulquiorra gore, but decided against it, settling for some bloodplay instead).

[gypsygrrl420]

Lol. Well, that's cool. I was having horrible mental images that the traitor shinigami was Hisagi (not that he was actually a traitor, but we all know how narrow-minded SS is, right?) and then was thinking how terrible it would be to have Akon experimenting on him (I should probably say Shuuhei is one of my favorite characters, and one of my flist totally ships Akon/Shuu...so this made me think and shiver *grins*)

Really, really macabre, and therefore, brilliant. I truly can't wait to read more of your work.

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Glad you liked it. Actually the narrow-mindedness of Soul Society is part of the reason I favor Hueco Mundo more. Much simpler to live in a society with no rules and everything can and will try to kill you then live in a society that something completely unintentional can label you a traitor, despite the air of paradise.

[foxflare]

Ah, fantastic, it's up! :D I just wanna reiterate how much I enjoyed this, and upon a reread I like it even more. It wonderfully illustrates the remote/intimate, infinite/infinitesimal paradoxes of Akon's "clinical passion." Thank you again for the fill. :)

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Thanks. I am really glad that you liked the story, seeing as it was your idea, especially considering I was writing with someone I really didn't know very well. I think your information on Akon is what made this possible.

Also your icon. I loves it!!!!

[foxflare]

Nah, not my idea, but I get what you mean, and like I said, this is the direction I'd hoped someone would take the prompt, so that you did was a very happy surprise. :D I don't think anyone really knows Akon, that's what makes him so appealing, but I'm glad my skimming of his surface stats was helpful. :)

Hee, yeah, I do, too. Thumbs-up!Mayuri gets a lot of use. Icon credit goes to scientificons, if you want to nab. :)

[xglimpsex]

This was so gorgeously haunting. Akon is so methodical and yet so detached and-- ugh... it was a thrilling read.

Thank you for posting it.

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Thanks! Glad you liked it.

[blood_crow]

Oh I love Akon, and you really tapped into very interesting territory with him. I love the eeriness of his occupation, the detachment, his enjoyment of what he's doing when so many other people would probably be disturbed and disheartened by it.

Like xglimpsex said, this is very haunting. Gloriously so. I am mem'ing this ♥

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Mad scientists are kind of my thing, so I really couldn't resist.

I so want to read your Grimmy/Akon fic, but I am so far behind in the series trying to avoid spoilers its not even funny (I made a promise not to get ahead of the others at home though).

[blood_crow]

I like mad scientist too. Mayuri really tickles my fancy, though for some reason I haven't had the interest in doing a fic solely about him. Akon though, he's just... I don't know. Something about him gets me, maybe that he's such a side character and therefore kind of an enigma.

Wah! Now I'm bashful. I don't think there are any spoilers that would give things away... In the fic I don't really focus on what's happened in the manga, I kind of went in my own direction. I'm playing out a fantasy of what would happen if Aizen did lose and Grimmjow had survived and wound up in the 12th division. As of yet the war is undecided in the actual manga :)

I hope that I've done Akon some justice, if you ever do read it! He's so good hear that I'm just embarrassed, haha.

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I do also love the other scientists. Both Mayuri and Szayel though pretty much everything else I have done fanwise is Szayel because I cant really picture Mayuri in adult pictures (Im mostly a visual artist and I have a severe Ulquiorra addiction, so yeah... Im sure you might see the other stuff I did when I upload to the appropriate groups)

Re: YOU HAD ME AT 'SCALPEL' <3

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I really never expected this story to be so well received. It's kind of making me wish I hadn't neglected writing for so long. No, I would not have quit being friends with you just because you were dorky, My evil scientist owl (hence the default image for my journal) is Gorath (a contraction of gore and wrath) for that very reason

Re: YOU HAD ME AT 'SCALPEL' <3

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What gets me is that you end up dying and if you don't find a shinigami in time you get to be a hollow, plain and simple, no wandering the world as a spirit for untold ages. But eh, everyone has their own life after death theory, but seriously you'd expect paradise to be paradise, not more of the same thing you went through in life, and I never did understand how you could get sick in Soul Society.

I did get a chance to read Bloodcrow's fic. Absolutely lovely writing, and I can't even remember if he was mentioned at all.

Glad you love the name. It started as a misspelling of my chosen name, and I looked at it and reworked it to something that sounded cooler and more fitting for that owl.