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

[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 for, and i know how health issues can get in the way of deadlines.

[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.