Love Lies Bleeding (Final Fantasy II, Leon/Hilda, PG-13)

[ceylmallyn]

Title: Love Lies Bleeding
Author/Artist: ceylmallynRating: PG-13 for creepy maybe-brainwashed maybe-not Leon

Comments

[anonymous]

Viagraは使わない。

[ceylmallyn]

Er? Sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand. I don't know much Japanese-- Google says it means "Do not use Viagra." Is that some kind of esoteric comment on the fic? Or is this a random spam or something?

[fenikkusuken]

I know nothing about this fandom, but the tour de force of your characterizations was absolutely outstanding! Bravo!

[ceylmallyn]

Oh, wow. Thank you very much-- personally as a writer, I've always felt that one of the best forms of compliment for a fanfic is when someone totally unfamiliar with the source material can get into it and enjoy it. So hearing someone say that means a lot.

[syvia]

XD *so much love~~~*

He is intriguing, and I love how you've built motive, personality and a thought process out of his in-game situation and the VERY FEW words of dialogue he's given. Wonderful take on him, his captivity and how he survived to become what he is now.

There's a terrible lack of FFII fic, but at least what we do have is delicious. X3

*begins stalking you, hopes you don't mind*

[ceylmallyn]

Thanks very much. :) I have kind of an odd reaction to plots or characters without much backstory, versus those with a lot of backstory: when there's little information given, my brain starts wanting to fill in all the gaps. When a game (or whatever the source is) gives you a lot of information, I have to kind of prod myself into filling in the gaps. In some ways, I enjoy writing fanfic more when there's plenty of empty space to fill in.
(And... yeah, Leon's so under-explained in the game that it was hard to resist wanting to fill in the spaces.)

And stalking? Er, sure, I guess! I don't post anything but drafts in my journal currently, though I should probably change that eventually...

[crimsoncookie]

familiar requester is familiar? ^^;

....eieee. i'm not even sure where to begin-- as in your last ffii story, the level of detail and complexity is utterly amazing and vividly brings the world to life--

-- but for me, seeing everything through leon's pov is the most amazing part. ♥ his worldview and obsessions and the patterns of his thinking, and how what she says and does affects them - i love how that forms the shape of the story while giving so much insight to his character; you are very good at taking the small bits that we're given in game and evolving them into so much more. ♥

and just... how you show the way that it can be so comforting to let yourself go and fall into the way that someone else sees the world, even if just for a little while, and how that's true for both hilda and leon -- it's unsettling and enveloping and wonderfully written, and so, so very much exactly what i wanted with this prompt. ♥ thank you very much.

& don't worry at all about being late-- this is long and amazing and completely worth waiting

[ceylmallyn]

Thank you-- I'm always glad when someone likes one of my fics, but it does mean something particularly if the person who requested a fic likes what I did with it. :) And that a lot of what I wanted to convey did come through in the prose. I was unsure about writing from Leon's POV at first, but he did emerge with a very distinct voice eventually.

The FFII world seems to be an interesting (if often oddly depressing) sandbox for me to play around in, fanfic-wise, in general. I guess it's because there's a lot of potential depth hinted at, but which couldn't be shown as much as it would be in a modern game, just due to technology limitations. Writing fic set in very extensively developed worlds can sometimes actually intimidate me a bit, whereas if there are broad gaps to fill in, I feel a lot more free to imagine whatever I want into them.

[thenicochan]

Like the fic before this I am completely in love