Cutting It Closer

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Summary: Link believes that Allen needs a haircut. He believes it very strongly.
Disclaimer: The D. Gray-man series and characters don’t belong to me.
Notes: Thanks to personaru for beta-reading! Also, this story has been translated into Italian by terryh_nyan, who is still amazing. You can find it here.

Comments

[tossino]

*Cooes and flutters all over your writing* I love it so much! This was beautiful, very beautiful. And a bit sad. And funny. Allen has great sarcastic humour, doesn't he?

Great work~

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Oh, thank you! I'm glad you think so. :)

I'm sure hanging around Link 24/7 gets annoying, so Allen has to be sarcastic or tease Link in order to keep his sanity. Although he seems to appreciate Link's presence too. :3

[tossino]

You're welcome~

Yeah, I guess so. xD I do think he doesn't really mind very much. :D He seems to like Link, most of the time.

[symbolism_egg]

Yeah, he seems pretty fond of (and protective towards) Link. But of course they also get angry at each other, or annoyed. Link seems to stay quietly in the background most of the time, too, but spending every hour with someone would probably cause some sort of tension, no matter how well they get along overall. (Surprisingly well considering one's investigating the other for heresy.)

I like Allen's expression when he's comparing Link to furniture/air...

Although there's a fair amount of canon interaction between them already, I wish there were more to work with.

[tossino]

Yes, indeed~~ [/lack of response due to wearing self out with a massive Lenalee defence post]

I don't think you can find anyone who didn't like that moment. XDD

We haven't seen all that much yet, yeah, have we? But I'm sure it will come.

[symbolism_egg]

Defend Lenalee! Defeeend! *hates Lenalee-bashing*

Probably not. XD

Yeah. Link gets a lot of screentime compared other characters, but that doesn't stop me from wishing there were more. There are so many great moments already...The part where Link plants himself between Allen and the other Crows before pretty much anyone else reacts was my favorite thing ever. <333 Meanwhile, I'm happy that Bak's in the ongoing flashback. :D

[tossino]

Yesssss! *Hates it too, hates any kind of bashing really* I got a lot of praise for the post. XDDDD It needed two forum posts. It was over 12000 characters long.

:D

Yes, Link is really awesome sometimes~~ Yay, Bak~

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I hate character-bashing too...wow, that long? You have defended her well. XD It never makes sense to me how readers blame Linalee for getting injured (in a kickass battle, no less) and not being able to fight. Or crying. I'm pretty sure crying under stress is normal.

He is! Even if he was losing to an Akuma, he's still awesome. But Bak is more so...at least according to himself.

[tossino]

XDD Well, surprisingly, none of the posts I quoted when defending her said anything about that. It made me sort of happy, because I see that all too often, so at least it was nothing new. But one post also complained about how she came in to save the day during the HQ invasion with her "new sooper speshol Innocence", which quite ticked me off.

Meh, he's just human. xD Bak has a load of self-confidence, so of course he is according to himself.

[symbolism_egg]

Were they also complaining about how Allen gets a new special power every other volume and it's getting kind of ridiculous? I'm guessing they weren't. I did see the other Linalee complaints a lot, so at least those weren't dragged out again.

True. I like that Link's not an Exorcist. <3 Bak acts very insecure and very egotistical at the same time...XD

[tossino]

Nope, they weren't. Mhm.

Me too~~ Yes, yes he does. xD