PoT: drabbles

[striking_sparks]

Drabbles for kessie. Pre-Tezuka/Ryoma, manga continuity, spoilers up to Genius 160/Hyoutei arc. All entirely worksafe.

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[kessie]

Okay. So. Am going to attempt actual coherency here. Go me!

First Drabble

Second person. Oh yes. ♥ I love this: Ryoma trying to convince himself that he has complete faith in Tezuka, even with tiny cracks appearing in this faith by the end of the drabble. I was all awwwing, while being to be sad because I knew what was going to happen. :( Wonderful beginning, even though I suspected you were going to break my heart along the way.

Second Drabble

There's a lovely sense of juztaposed opposites in this one, a definite sense of before and after. Ryoma having to watch the match helpless while remembering his own, and thinking Tezuka beautiful even while feeling sick. I felt like closing my eyes just to stop the ineveitable coming.

Third Drabble

And then you broke my heart. That's all I'm going to say. Why must you be so good at angst even when I hate it for this pairing? It makes me wibble and cry for this pairing. A definite contrast to my previous fandoms, where I used to throw everything angst and dark-ridden against the characters that I could manage. I want Tezuka and Ryoma to grow old together and have tennis. :( :(

Fourth Drabble

Thank God you ended with fluff. Oh God. *relief*

This is the TezuRyo I love. Where Ryoma has grown up, but he's still snarky and arrogant as always, and even though Tezuka recognises this he still can't help but notice that Ryoma is no longer twelve. It makes me grin like an idiot and fell all gleeful. It's the realisation that it's really just beginning for them now, and there's so much ahead of them. Thank you for ending on something hopeful, or else I might just have bawled like a lunatic.

Okay.

*gives up on coherency*

Thank you so, so much for writing these! Wow. I don't know what's better, you writing drabbles requests or just writing anyway. Both, I think. Um. Wah. ♥ I have to write something for you. Not sure what, but I'll probably pester Aja for ideas. :))

Thank you again, so much. :x

(I need a TezuRyo icon. Why do I not have one?)

[flyby]

♥

See, I'm not sure I actually see this as angst per se. It's more - it's in-canon, so the resolution is already there, if that makes sense. The happy ending is waiting down the line. I hate the kind of angsty ending where they don't end up together and happy, so I write it very very rarely. In fact I think once, and that universe has an unwritten ending in my head where they end up together again after all.

jdkslhfska fic for me? *bounces* Requests are still open, really, because I'm so not objecting to people throwing inspiration at me; I'm not writing much at the moment, and I need to get kickstarted somehow.

:)) and thank you for reminding me; I've had this icon sitting on my computer since I scanned the doujin.