For: alcyonev

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Author: octavius_x
For: alcyonev
Title: Monster
Rating: R
Summary: Sasuke attempts Izanagi.
Warnings: Sexuality and mature themes
A/N: I hope this is what you were looking for alcyonev! I enjoyed writing it.
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[octavius_x]

I'm so glad I can respond to this comment now! It's been killing me waiting for the reveals to come out.

First, let me say Your Welcome. I really enjoyed writing this, it ended up going in a completely different direction than what I'd initially plotted out. I was a bit afraid that the tenses and excerpts would be gimmicky and that no one would understand what the hell was going on, so I'm sooooo happy that you enjoyed it.

The movie theatre scene is def. my favorite as well. It just struck me the way Sasuke uses all these mythical figures etc. and kind of the theatricality of itachi and sasuke's jutsu...so it grew from there. Madara...is another interesting one. I was afraid he would come out kind of like Orochimaru, but I wanted the flavor of each villain to be different, Madara's story is sad and convoluted and kishimoto plays a lot with the generational parallels of team 7 so tried to work that in. Anyway babbling, am so so happy that you liked it!

[bellicosus]

Oh man oh man oh man. AMAZING EVERY TIME I READ IT.

That scene in the theater still takes my breath away. I want to print this out and fill my bathtub with it so that I may PHYSICALLY BATHE IN ITS BEAUTY AND AWESOMENESS.

[octavius_x]

<3 YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[amused4ever]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. MADARA YOU TRICKY BASTARD.

The tone you used for this was so lovely--I always love me some good ol' tortured nostalgia, you know? :D

[octavius_x]

I always love me some good ol' tortured nostalgia, you know?

HAHA my thoughts exactly while writing it. Thanks for commenting!

[prettypriestess]

Oh~! The tone here is so great, and I... actually kind of sympathized with Madara at "Oh" there is a soft breath behind his ear and Madara is there leaning over the back of his seat. The Naruto from his memory is still sitting beside him yelling and Sasuke watches as Madara steals a piece of popcorn from Naruto chewing on it thoughtfully, “didn't you know, once someone loved me like that too.” this part, but he still maintained his squicky villainy Madaraness. Which takes, oh my god, so much skill. <3

I think I saw a few lines, mostly near the beginning that seemed to be missing a word? But maybe I just read too fast, because guh, so good. The slow descent to madness, and the horror as Sasuke realizes what was going on (and the theaters, and the flashes back to the theater scenes and--I don't think I've seen a single normal, civilian activity so well integrated into the canonverse before).

Definitely bookmarking this. <3

[octavius_x]

Oh there is so much to respond to in this comment so bear with me.

I was afraid initially that the way I write Madara and Orochimaru would overlap, but it didn't end up being a problem when I actually got down to looking at Madara's characterization 1) he's way more subtle than orochimaru and 2) very skewed ideas about reality. Kishimoto kind of deliberately overlaps sasuke and madara so I wanted to play with sasuke realizing he's going to grow up to be a shell like this etc.

There are 2 lines missing a word (SHAME)I think in my haste to edit they got left out. Thanks for letting me know though, and thanks for reading!!!

[rosalui]

Oh

My

Freaking

God.

This was hard to read - just, Sasuke's frame of mind and the inevitability of the ending.

Just wow.

Killerbee - OUCH. And the bit about his memories at the end what was really got me.

...chapped lips and bruised knuckles. Sandals a little too small. The cheap detergent all the kids in the apartment building used to do their laundry. The deep ache in his own body where Haku's acupuncture needles had hit, and Naruto's voice cracking when he asked “Why?” He remembers the ANBU who were standing in for the Uchiha police after the massacre, watched their hands as they finished drawing the chalk outline of his parent's bodies, connecting the circumnavigation. The shape this time is different.

OUCH. ;_;

Amazing fic! I might know who you are but I'm not sure

[octavius_x]

Your initial guess was wrong but your second guess right :S

I like killerbee and I didn't want him to just roll over and die like the other jinchuuriki; plus he's like the verbal avenger, every writer's dream character. In the series we get a lot on the murder itself but you have to wonder a lot about Sasuke in the aftermath. THANK YOU so much for your comment!

[rosalui]

This fic killed me. ;__; ILU.