36 Realms of Influence [set 4]

[ember_alda]

Here's the next set of stories for this week! I really tried to crank out these four but I was feeling so fic-lazy. Hopefully the level of writing is just as good as the previous weeks despite my failed inspiration this time.

Title: 36 Realms of Influence
Author: ember_alda
Rating: R
Characters: Yamamoto, Squalo, various other people form KHR as

Comments

[yamamotokun80]

hahaha... all the stories are great...really great...
and the last reminds me of Prince of Tennis...hehehe...

[ember_alda]

It is Prince of Tennis XD I don't know why but my mind wanted to cross over the two.

[azartti]

Oh this were great, I love them all. But the one of Squalo as a painter was magnificent.

[ember_alda]

It was the hair that got me thinking Squalo would be an awesome artist. He'd have huge bold paintings and wouldn't care what anyone else thought about him.

[azartti]

That is sooo true.

[caffeinexsugar]

Your canon (or nearly-canon) S80 stories are, like, my ideal S80 fanfic. Midnight Slayers of Good and Evil is a S80 fanfic that I always wanted to read. It really showed how and why Yamamoto and Squalo are special and irreplaceable to each other. This is exactly the kind of relationship I imagine they would have after ten or so years--Squalo being the only person who sees and understands the part of Yamamoto that nobody else can, and Yamamoto being the only person who brings out Squalo's caring side. You're really good at portraying Squalo's caring side--it's so IC.

Bohemian Men surprised me. Frankly, I thought a fic with Squalo as an artist would be a gag, but this... you made such a believable, attractive-in-a-Squalo-way artist of him! And the passing encounter with Yamamoto at the gallery was just wonderful.

I won't categorize Cops and Robbers as a S80 fic, but it's so interesting and HARD-BOILED and nothing like I've ever seen that I can't complain! Their conversation reminded me of Hong Kong noir.

THIS IS ABOUT TENNIS is so

[ember_alda]

The best things are long reviews, I squee when I get them!

Squalo is such a difficult person for me to write, I don't know why. In Midnight Slayers I tried hard on his POV because the fic really depended on how he would handle the situation. I'm so happy that his characterization was ok.

I love the idea of artist Squalo, I could see him being a Pollack type contemporary. His personality suits the free handed contemporary art.

Cops and Robber was really just an excuse for me to get Yama and Squalo to talk about their views on killing and what it means. I love police dramas so I had to fit it in.

For some reason KHR and PoT has a high rate of cross-over ability to me. I can still see how everyone in KHR would still be themselves even if they were just school kids XD

PS. I'm totally still open to suggestions. Suggest away!

[ojuzu]

KATEKYOU HITMAN TENIPURI. *_* Just the fact that it exists is fantastic. (Also the fact that they're all fairly happy and yet somehow no-one is dead. . . and the image of Xanxus as tennis captain. :D )

Bohemian Men was probably my favourite of this set, though. Artist!Squalo is somehow completely believable. I can't seem to put into words why I like it so much . . . And aaah now I want a sequel. ^ ^;;

[ember_alda]

Xanxus would be like...Sanada. Super Spartan except he'd lay around like Atobe doing nothing with drinks with umbrellas in his hand XD

Everyone seems to like artist Squalo a lot, he'd be the hardcore type that deliberately paints things to piss people off but they'd still buy his works for ridiculous money. Perhaps I'll write a short continuation someday...

[travellyr]

Squalo scowls as he looks the suit up and down, pretty sure that the business man didn’t know a Rothko from a Benjamin Moore paint sample.

*HOWLS LAUGHING* NEITHER DO MOST PRETENTIOUS ART HISTORIANS. *was and still is totally amused by art historians after having three years of the stuff herself*

I'm very impressed. The characters have an excellent grasp on art, which de facto means that you have one too! (Or at the very least, enough of one to pull off the illusion ♥)

I really love all of these, not just the ones that spur me to mention by name. ^^

....oh god, the tennis one. Yamamoto's a freaking spaniel and he wins through sheer passive-aggressive cussedness. X3

[ember_alda]

OH ROTHKO, HOW YOU DEFY ANY REASONABLE EXPLANATIONS. I seriously doubt anyone's ever going to cry when faced with one BUT MAYBE THERE'S HOPE.

I'm glad someone found that amusing, I put it in to amuse myself mostly XD I'm currently working through my art history courses.

And Yama's such an enthusiast, I can't see him not being good at anything he's really interested in through sheer will alone!