(Naruto - Preludes)

[senri]

Genre: Gen. Angst. Smut.
Warnings: M - explicit smut
Characters: Kakuzu/Madara, Hashirama
Notes: Written for a kink meme prompt I found ages ago. The prompt was "Madara/Kakuzu, with the First Hokage dying nearby". I showed skycreature, and we started working together on filling it; this was what came out.

Comments

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Wow, I am extremely impressed!

Your prose is beautiful -- love the crow theme that permeates throughout, the juxtaposition of war and sex, and everything that comes in between. Your characterization of Kakuzu is extremely interesting and nuanced. I love the subtleties that you focus on-- such as the idea of how he holds himself together and puts himself into a shape of a human. Madara's obsession with Hashirama was heartbreaking in a sense, and how he kept going back to him to lie down side by side, heart to heart -- how even while he was performing oral sex on Kakuzu, his attention was riveted by Hashirama.

I really didn't know what I was expecting when I first stumbled across this fic, but I'm really glad I read it! You are a fantastic writer and you have a way with language!

Would love to see more. Am actually going to go check out more of your fics now. ^^

[senri]

Thanks so much for your kind words; I'm really glad you enjoyed this.

Kakuzu is one of skycreature's and my favorite characters, and it's depressing to both of us seeing him flatly characterized so often; I do think he has a lot more potential for complexity than fandom mostly gives him credit for, although there are a lot of Naruto characters in the same boat really, surprise surprise. |D But we enjoy writing him as smart and calculating and controlled and inhuman as we feel like he really could be. ♥

And this is truly such a heartbreaking part of the entire story enclosed in Naruto, for all that it seems to be forgotten sometimes. I'm very glad that you enjoyed this, and hope that you find other things that tickle your fancy in this fic journal too! :)

[sub_textual]

I think it's definitely rare to find writers who think of the characters in a way in which they aren't explored canonically. Very frequently in fandom, the dominant mode of approach to characters is to treat them as they appear canonically, without really delving into the makeup of how the character is constructed or designed. So it's really great that you put so much thought into Kakuzu -- I am seriously impressed. :D

As for your other fics, I was tickled to find that you wrote Iroh fic! IROH. I love Avatar so it was great to see that, though I didn't comment since I was reading at like, 6am or something ridiculous like that. I haven't had a chance to read very much else yet, but you have a lot of stuff here. :3

As an aside, I see that you're an RPer! Do you go all out in RP characterization like you do in fic, too?

/replies using rp account, olol

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He's probably become more of an original character now than anything else, really... but I hope he holds true to the spirit of Kakuzu, at least. Haha. Such a strange dark thing