[oneshot] la petite mort

[thesecretdoor]

Title: La Petite Mort
Pairing: Taiga x Shirota Yu
Rating/Warnings: NC-17
Summary: Taiga has a hard time getting over Rudolph, Shirota comes to the rescue.
Word Count: 2264
Warnings: drug use
Author's Note: I started writing this months ago and I don't know if Taiga being recast in Elisabeth makes it more or less relevant. Either way, here it is!

Comments

[jolly_roger_77]

I'm a huge Rudolph/Death shipper so, hey, I just couldn't resist when I saw this. And I don't regret reading it, not at all. There are so few (or none ?) Taiga/Shirota fics so I just thought that I'd be glad with anything, but...

Your fic is better than any of my expectations. I mean it's dark, but it's also gentle, just blurred enough to be good and the characters are exactly how they need to be. It's quite an efficient fic, deep and very well-written. In particular, I like the way you described the huge desire Rudolph-Taiga feels towards Death, the way he feels more and more inclined to embrace It (or, well, to be embraced by It) as well as Rudolph-Taiga's feelings in general. I kind of wish I could say the same about Shirota but I guess the whole point is that Death is always unreadable and unpredictable (-> does that word even exist? I suddenly can't remember and my phone auto-correct doesn't know more than I do...).

And the title is just per-fect. I've always loved this expression, so I may be a little biased, but it just fits the story perfectly.

Thanks for writing !

[thesecretdoor]

I can't help shipping Rudolph/Death or Taiga/Shirota, there's just something about them >_< And I've been waiting for so long, hoping somebody would write something about them but aside from one drabble, everything has been in another language!!

I'm flattered by your comment ♥ I'm really happy that you felt like it had a good balance and that the weird half transitioning feelings Taiga is having weren't off-putting! I actually wanted to have more of Death/Shirota's feelings in there, but Death at least is a very complicated and yet vague character...hmmm...maybe that's something to think about >_<

I've always loved that expression too and as a title it is pretty fitting...the only thing that bugs me about it is that it's French and it would have been more perfect if there were a similar name for it in German or Hungarian (so it would tie in with the play) but from my research I couldn't find one! I think it works well enough as it is at least >_<

Thank you for reading and commenting!