Fic: Retrograde, Rei/Minako, PG (1/1)

[diana_lucifera]

Title: Retrograde -1/1
Pairing: Rei/Minako
Rating: PG
Summary: Minako struggles with the realities of her resurrection.
Warning(s): Spoilers through the end of the series
Disclaimer: This story was written purely for personal enjoyment and generates no profit. Don’t sue me, please. That would be mean.
Notes: Did I seriously just write PGSM angst?

Comments

[catchingspirit]

Mm. Except all the girls have died, twice; even if remembering it is to varying degrees, I don't think they'd single Minako out. They all either remember what it was like to die, or don't.

Also, Minako came back for this resurrection as the much more confident and without that hopelessness, or she could never have become more of a risk-taker as we see in the special act. Telling Artemis she has no hope defeats the point of her resurrection, which gave her hope, as she's now seen the restored worlds and her own revival.

Plus, it's arguable she was never frightened of death anyway; never did she seem to fear it, she only went ahead and made her plans so that things would OK once it happened. She looked it straight in the eye, said "Ok, then I have to do this to get ready" and that was the end. That's what makes her so special.

It's sort of debatable how much either the too-focused-on-the-past canon Minako or the freed-from-it-finally revived Minako would lie to the others, though. She kept things from them, but never

[diana_lucifera]

Thanks for reading! It's been over a year since I wrote this and I'm a little loopy on cough medicine right now, but I'll attempt to answer your questions to the best of my ability

[catchingspirit]

I'm always about discussion! I've had to get incredibly into character study, as I've been writing some past-life ficcage lately, which obviously doesn't give us much canon to work with.

I can definitely see why you're saying Minako is 'different'; I don't think I'd have said anything at all about that aspect (and I did understand roughly what you were getting at) if it had been fleshed out just a bit more, so maybe consider working that theme in a bit more overtly. (Not that subtlety isn't appreciated, too.)

You could probably convince me about "afraid to die and just didn't show it" if you tried hard enough. Got some good quotes/scenes pointing to it? Typically, you'd expect her to be pretty open with Artemis; I may be overlooking comments she made to him.

[diana_lucifera]

I usually write character studies, or just generally weird things dealing in characterization, so I definitely get that. Also, ooh, past life fic! Love it, but don't know if I could write it. I think it's beyond my skill level, honestly.

Yes, I can see where my attempts at keeping in subtle may have muddled that point somewhat. If I were going to rewrite this fic, that's totally what I would be concentrating on. In the future, I'll have to keep it in mind.

I would totally be willing to have that discussion, but it's one a.m. over here and I've been sick, so I'm going to have to continue this tomorrow, when I have the energy to go clip hunting, okay? :)

[akayalovesyaoi]

Oh I like it. I was being sceptical at first for Minako being so naive with the whole concept, but when I read more and more of the story I really got into it. I liked the different ways girls approached her, and also how the questions sounded on their lips, and I loved the.:'it may be love' line put there and there, as if to remind the reader about what's the deal here.

I love the deep and emotional feelings put into here, and the easy way to solve Minako's problem, because it's like in real life, it's sometimes easier to get over something than dwell on it.

Very nice story! I really enjoyed reading it <3

[diana_lucifera]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[diana_lucifera]

Hi! I'm glad you enjoyed the story, and I also thank you for taking the time to write out this lovely and well-thought out response to it. Okay, I hope this makes since, because I am medicated right now. :)

It's interesting for me that there are so many people who saw Minako's death differently from the way I did, but I can't say I'm really surprised. I went into writing this knowing that that would probably be the case, because I think it is a different way of looking at that particular subplot. I think that the text of PGSM definitely would agree with you and your interpretation, white light, happy ending, etc. But the issues I brought up here were, in a lot of ways, my own, and the fic ended up acting as a way of helping me resolve issues I had with that particular plotline. So, yes, if you aren't thinking about it in the same way I was, I think it would be hard for you to accept as a base premise, and I totally get that. But for me, it had to be done, so I'm just glad that you could enjoy it in spite of your reservations

[diana_lucifera]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it! :)

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[anonymous]

Thank you so much for writing this piece; I don't even know if you'll see this comment, as it's over a decade old! But I very much enjoyed it, and I appreciate the sensitivity with which you approached the characterization of all the characters. All of it read very believably!