Roaring Snow as Sand

[ainbthech]

Title: Roaring Snow as Sand
Author: ainbthech
Rating: PG-13
Verse: Gen IV, both DPP and HG/SS
Characters: Kotone/Silver, implied Silver/Green, Cynthia, Dawn, Volkner
Notes: A remix of kitsuneasika 's Moments Through An Hourglass
Summary: Kotone travels across the regions and then some, trying to work out her wanderlust, keeping up a long-distance relationship with Silver

Comments

[ainbthech]

I failed to cite them directly --- how do you do that in fiction? --- but two of the letters (the first one and the Cynthia-went-to-Hoenn one) have direct text from the original story's letters, though I added to them, and the dialogue in the last little scenelet is adapted from the last scenes in the original story. Just to make sure that kitsuneasika gets full credit! <3

[ainbthech]

Oh and on the off chance anyone cares I have a crazy amount of metacommentary here because I am avoiding real work. :) Thanks for reading!

[bitter_crimson]

Professor Elm saying something about “ethical participant-observer relationships”

Heeheehee

I didn't get some of the more Pokemon-intensive details, but I liked all the relationship-y bits. It made me smile. :)

[ainbthech]

I am glad you liked it! Smiling is good. We like smiling. :)

[lark]

This was an interesting departure from the original story. Lyra interacting with all the Sinnoh folk was pretty fascinating! Silver had such a tiny part in this story that I forgot about him completely at times; Lyra stole all the spotlight, which was interesting. I'm not entirely sure what the whole Arceus subplot was, and are you saying that the Hiker at the end was a Team Galactic person?, but Lyra's character was fun to watch develop and you certainly seemed like you had a lot of fun writing this.

One night Dawn suggests that maybe all three of them could pile into the same bed, and Kotone swears that if it hasn’t stopped snowing the next morning she’s going to go out anyway, because she’s tired of cards and she’s tired of lesbians and she wants to fix this whole Arceus mess and go home.
I think this is my favorite line because it rings so true emotionally.

Nice work!

[ainbthech]

Yeah I think my reach exceeded my grasp on the whole Arceus subplot. ;) Maybe next time. I'm happy that Lyra stole a bunch of spotlight; when I sent my original prompt to kitsuneasika I had imagined Silver being the one to travel, but I really like how this worked out instead.

I was aiming for the Hiker to be Tvbinaav, fvapr ur'f gur nagntbavfg gung ab bar ryfr va gur ebbz unf zrg (rot13!), but I don't think I dropped the right hints.

Thanks for reading and commenting! I appreciate it a lot. :)

[kitsuneasika]

Eek! Sorry about not commenting on this earlier, I wasn't on LJ for a few weeks. But! This is just so lovely and I fangirled so hard when reading this. I do admit that I'm a little bit confused about the bit at the end, with the Hiker and Arceus, but other than that, so much squee. Just. Gah, I love this.

[ainbthech]

I'm so glad that you love this! It's all your fault, really. :P Thank you again for the inspiration. <3

[masu_trout]

Oh, wow, I really liked this. It was both sweet and plotty, which is always nice, and had a lot of interaction between characters I don't usually get to see interact. Some of the Arceus plot confused me a little, but that's hardly a big gripe. I think my favorite line had to be:

“Good,” says Kotone. “Then get in the you-damned ball.”

Witty.

[ainbthech]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked the plottiness --- it was really hard to try to get all of the plot and all of the feelings out of my head and into the story at the same time.