[Fic] Falling Away With You

[charlzway]

Title: Falling Away With You
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Greece/fem!Japan, Netherlands/fem!Japan (kinda sorta), America, fem!Turkey, Egypt, fem!South Italy, Osaka. Mentions of fem!Germany and fem!France.
Rating/Genre: PG-13, Slice-of-life/Romance/Fluff
Warnings: Gakuen-AU, Gender-bends, language, booze&smokes, slight-angst. Oh and Heracles' failed

Comments

[kiku]

oh my god

oh my god

i just

i cant

i need to come back in the morning with a proper review yes

[charlzway]

lol, I presume that means you like the fic? :D

Thank you for taking the time to read, and to comment! <3

[kiku]

GOSH YOU WON'T BELIEVE HOW MUCH

I NEED TO PULL MYSELF TOGETHER BEFORE I CAN SAY EVERYTHING I NEED TO

[charlzway]

xD Ah okay. Either way, your first two comments have already made me happy :')

[starrdust411]

This was just adorable! I loved it from beginning to end, especially fem!Japan. There just isn't enough fem!Japan fics out there :D

[charlzway]

I'm really glad you like my fem!Japan, and that you enjoyed it all. And you're right, there isn't a lot of fem!Japan fics there, or at least not enough good ones. Personally, I prefer normal!Kiku more but now that I've written his genderbent counterpart... I might be inspired to write more? She's starting to grow on me a little xD

Thanks for commenting :')

[cattiechaos]

“Yes!” Alfred exclaimed. “I need help in… in fucking everything!”

This. This is me in AP Economics.

Poor Alfred, Chemistry can be quite challenging ; ^; But I think they purposefully make those flasks so flimsy and easy to break.

That picture of Willem van Nassau. Oh my God

B-But as for the actual fic ~ it was quite adorable c: The kiss-on-the-hand was a really sweet touch, and believable as well. I'm a big fan of Gakuen, so I was really excited to read this, and it didn't disappoint. Good job! c:

[charlzway]

XD I am obviously drawing some inspiration from my own college days and also from incidents that occur at my workplace now hurrhurr. Ah yes, chemistry can be tough. Not as bad as physics tho, physics is TEH EVIL >:T

IKR? Himaruya's been doing his homework by surfing Wikipedia maybe? lol

Aahh thank you! I thought that Kiku being Kiku (female or male) would probably never agree to kiss anyone for the first time directly. But Kiku also being Kiku, isn't likely to break a "promise" either, so a compromise then in her/his adorkable way. oh Nihon, always so evasive <3

And I'm glad you enjoyed it. I quite like Gakuen-verses too, although it was a little tricky trying to remember what it was like being back in my college days ^^;

Thank you for your lovely comment <3

[cattiechaos]

Ah, I loved Physics! Quantum mechanics was my favorite, but I had a great teacher, so he helped a lot :3

Not a bad place to start, trololo.

The fic I'm working on right now features Japan for the first time evar, so I hope I can finally put my finger down on him before he evades me with his shadow lurker skills.

You're quite welcome!

[charlzway]

O-ohh... so I'm one of the few people who detests physics? B-but chemistry is easier! D; FOREVER ARONE CHEMIST. Good teachers do help a lot though. I guess I just had the misfortune of having bad physics teachers :/

Not a bad place at all, lol.

Aah okay, that's cool! Is it the history-based fic you mentioned before? imma stalk you now, you know that right? :P I think with Japan, it may seem a bit hard initially, but it gets easier when you write more of him. Good luck with the writing :)

Also also, your icoonnnnnnnn ! Chibi-Americaaaaa <3

[rose_fortress]

For your first time writing fem!Japan, I thought you wrote her well. She was a bit of a wallflower, but not too much of a wallflower and I liked how she put that clever little twist on her first kiss with Heracles and was the instigator of their second kiss. I did think her angst was a little melodramatic, but hey, she's a teenager and what teenager hasn't temporarily lost their mind over things related to love?

[charlzway]

Haa thank you, writing her is proving to be as tricky as writing normal!Japan sometimes. I thought she'd be more of a not-too-flashy kind of girl (like her male counterpart) hence the "wallflower" description but she has her quirks. Kinda sorta. And yes the kiss idea was my favourite part of the whole fic too.

She's actually not a teenager in this fic (None of them are, actually. They are all in their twenties or so D:) I would put her to be about 21-22ish? Melodramatic? Hmm, I guess so, though the "melodrama" was more towards her thinking she had a one-night-stand kind moment with Heracles, hence her near-freaking out. I wasn't too sure about the angst bit, and her reactions to being in love, but I guess I was basically just trying to show her denial of what she truly felt, and her "overthinking/melodrama" was to show how bothered she was about it (which may or may not show how much she actually cares about Heracles). Also because of a backstory idea I had in mind about her relationship with Willem before this. But yeah, I'm not

[isakana]

I really enjoyed this, and I think you managed to make this pairing work, too - it's one of those pairing where I wonder how they ever get together in some fics, but you pulled it off, and it was heart-warming to read. You got Japan perfectly - shy but not too much, and restraining her actions but not so she never does anything. I like how you hinted at 'fangirl' things she does, like knowing the location of anime shops but didn't overstate it.

It was beautiful, and it's nice to see some story around the main prompt, making it feel more realistic. ^ ^

[charlzway]

^^ Thank you. Yeah, I really wanted to make it more realistic, rather than just the generic "girl meets boy" kinda of fluff or they just "magically" fall in love. I also wanted the little details of the characters to show how they're like too (I didn't get to do that with Greece so much tho ^^;), so I'm really happy you noticed all those quirky little things about fem!Japan.

I'm glad you enjoyed it so much, I did have fun constructing this verse, so perhaps I'll revisit and write more of it someday.

Thank you so much for commenting! :')