[Fic] "The Transient and the Eternal: Snowfall" -- Angel Sanctuary

[edenfalling]

I'm doing thirtyforthree again, this time for Kira Sakuya/Mudo Setsuna/Mudo Sara from Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary. There will be spoilers in nearly every theme -- given the characters, it's nearly impossible to avoid them! -- and a lot of potentially objectionable content. This is because the source manga has a lot of potentially objectionable content. If

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[askerian]

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I love all the brand new emotional issues you can play with when reincarnation is part of game. Ohohoho. And i'm really liking Jibril as an intelligence master, and the idea of Sara using her powers without meaning to.

[edenfalling]

Reincarnation (especially the muddle Kaori Yuki makes of it) is fascinating to play around with. :-) I am having a lot of fun creating Jibril out of the few hints we get in canon, speculation about what characteristics she'd need to survive high-level politics in heaven for several millennia, and extrapolation from Sara's personality

[lanoyee]

I think I will henceforth never get over the awesome of Sara telling THE DEVIL that he's being such a JERK.

This is great. I've told you time and again that I love your worldbuilding for this series, I think, and I love, love, love what you do with Sara here. The way you write her is such a joy to read; opinionated and strongheaded and with issues, but not afraid to face them, like in canon. I also really appreciate that the focus here is on her reincarnation and how she deals with it, which is kind of a blank that was never filled in canon.

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[edenfalling]

Thank you! I have a great love for Sara telling Lucifer off. She does it in at least two other fics in this series. :-)

I have always been impressed by Sara's strength of will. She's the one who realized how selfish she and Setsuna were being, and that they needed to think of the consequences of their actions, which is why she wouldn't let him rescue her at Lil's expense. And later, she overcomes Sandalphon's brainwashing by sheer force of will and determination not to keep living in the past. I think that is awesome.

I am actually grateful that Kaori Yuki largely ignored Sara's relationship to Jibril in canon, because I think, from her author's notes, that she was intending to have Jibril "wake up" once Sara's soul left her body, and thus make them be two separate people instead of two incarnations of the same person. That would have been yet another form of reincarnation that I'd need to reconcile with the others, and it's already difficult to make sense of the things people say about reincarnation in the manga. So as I

[lanoyee]

Hmm, I think I vaguely remember! She can keep doing that. :)

I wholeheartedly agree. She really impressed me when she went back to Lil instead of just running away. Now that you mention it, yes, living in the past and ceasing to do so was definitely a major theme for her, toward the end. In a way, that reflects the general events that went down at the time: they were basically killing God and thus creating a whole new world-order.

I see! In that way, it is convenient.