[Gundam 00] Hairline Cracks

[annwyd]

Title: Hairline Cracks
Fandom: Gundam 00
Characters: Setsuna, Lockon
Rating: PG for violence.
Wordcount: 3,381
Summary: As he wanders the world with Exia between seasons, Setsuna finds the unexpected happening: even as the past stays with him, he's growing up.

Comments

[ratiosu]

I enjoyed reading this a lot! I loved how you managed to link certain situations back to his interactions with Lockon, and not make it appear too shippy. The part with Marina made me smile too.

I'm so bad at leaving comments for fics D: But I thought it was very well-written. :D Added to Memories! ♥

[annwyd]

Thank you ♥

Haha, I can't really do shippy for Lockon and Setsuna anyway, so...not a worry. I can do gen or porn, but in between stuff fails me. XD

[naoekun]

I've been waiting for a fic that encompasses these themes for a while now, and I'm so glad I cam across this~! ♥ Setsuna's hesitation over growing older than Lockon, all the little scenes jumbled together and especially the "We will change the world, regardless of our hair," line. Just. ung. so well done. ♥

[annwyd]

Thank you! I've had this one brewing for a while now myself.

And it's lines like that that make me love writing Setsuna dialogue. It goes out the other side of terrible to weirdly adorable.

[furato]

Hair <3

Or for a more coherent comment:
I love how you frame the episodes in the fic using mundane aspects of life like shaving, grey hair, haircut. Normal things that always make good contrast with people with lives like Celestial Being. I also like the scarcity of dialogue combined with exposition paragraphs that make it sound so much like Setsuna's voice. I smiled at the second-to-last section, when Setsuna doesn't want to make metaphors but ended up being a metaphor anyway, which is a refreshing way to make a metaphor. (It's so metaphoric! :P) And although the fic is centered on Setsuna and Lockon, the inclusion of Marina, Tieria, Allelujah and Sumeragi are short but spot-on.

Whatever his hair looked like, he would keep moving forward with Gundam.
♥

[furato]

Also, I'm not sure if that's intended or not but it make me feel like shipping Lockon/Sumeragi a bit.

[annwyd]

Well, that was an accident. Lockon keeps making it difficult for me to ship him with anyone he hasn't had Significant Meaningful Interaction with in canon. But I kind of hope someone picks up Sumeragi where I RP Lockon so they can interact and I can start shipping it. XD

[annwyd]

The contrast of normal things with...people like Setsuna and the rest of Celestial Being is always fun to me. I actually got the idea for the fic a while ago when I ran across a comic of the Meisters going about their morning routines and was amused to note that the only one shaving was Lockon.

I've been writing Lockon, Tieria, and Setsuna in some capacity for a while now, but I'm glad to hear the others came across well too, since they're a little newer to me in fic.

[orly_addict]

I really enjoyed reading this!

The way you wrote Setsuna during those years thinking about how he is getting older and finding it odd, was done just so well. I like the flash back parts as well.

Though I really liked the last section of the story. How Setsuna was thinking about how they all were changing.

I added it to my memories as well xD

[annwyd]

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. :)

[elenatha]

You have such a wonderful and eloquent way with words. The way you wrote Lockon and Setsuna's interaction was just like I imagined it. Wonderful, it was very pleasant to read a very well-rounded and concrete fic that remains true to the characters while exploring unseen/fictional times.

I'm definitely reading your NeilxTieria, now~

[annwyd]

Thank you. :)