Your fic is... amazing. I am sleeplogged and tired beyond belief, but this is going to stay in my brain for a long long time. I love your Fuji particularly well, because he retains that Fuji edge of being unpredictable (and that reference to Fujicest was funny in a long stretch of suppressed Tezuka).
Your Tezuka is hopeful, yay. I may be hallucinating, but throughout the fic you make these references to school/responsibility vs. tennis/Ryoma. Personally, I see Tezuka going for the former- which leads to the angst, but the way you wrote this convinced me that, okay, this works too. He's a bit more repressed and in denial than what I'm used to seeing, but it reminds me of the title. He's a normal teenager with tennis "genius" and needs reassurance, like any other person, that what he's doing is right. And he gets it from Fuji and his mother, of all people.
The moments of TezuRyo are precious and bittersweet until the end, [insert fangirling and wibbling] it's not like drabbles where things are just nice and sweet (TezuRyo's a really bad pairing for that, sometimes), you make the characters work for their happiness.
*breathes again, looks at what she's written*
I don't make sense.
I think this is the longest review I've ever given. *would like to tackleglomp you for wonderful divine work*
You do make sense. I think Tezuka usually will end up choosing his responsibilities too, but at the moment in his life his strongest responsibility is to his own future - he is no longer captain of the team, etc. So for the first time in his life he can kind of just choose what is right for him. Which seems to terrify him.
Fuji is a lot of fun to write, I had to throw away a lot of Fuji lines I would have loved to include just because they didn't fit the timing / mood of the rest of the fic.
Thankyou for the long review :) I really appreciate it. Especially because I'm so terrible at writing reviews myself, I know how long hard reviews can be :)).
Your Tezuka is hopeful, yay. I may be hallucinating, but throughout the fic you make these references to school/responsibility vs. tennis/Ryoma. Personally, I see Tezuka going for the former- which leads to the angst, but the way you wrote this convinced me that, okay, this works too. He's a bit more repressed and in denial than what I'm used to seeing, but it reminds me of the title. He's a normal teenager with tennis "genius" and needs reassurance, like any other person, that what he's doing is right. And he gets it from Fuji and his mother, of all people.
The moments of TezuRyo are precious and bittersweet until the end, [insert fangirling and wibbling] it's not like drabbles where things are just nice and sweet (TezuRyo's a really bad pairing for that, sometimes), you make the characters work for their happiness.
*breathes again, looks at what she's written*
I don't make sense.
I think this is the longest review I've ever given. *would like to tackleglomp you for wonderful divine work*
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Fuji is a lot of fun to write, I had to throw away a lot of Fuji lines I would have loved to include just because they didn't fit the timing / mood of the rest of the fic.
Thankyou for the long review :) I really appreciate it. Especially because I'm so terrible at writing reviews myself, I know how long hard reviews can be :)).
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