Comments | ff_exchange: - Phoenix Down: FFVII: Rufus, "Not my Father’s Son" for Tiny Baby Phoenix #6

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- Phoenix Down: FFVII: Rufus, "Not my Father’s Son" for Tiny Baby Phoenix #6

Aug 28, 2009 14:40

Title: Not my Father’s Son
For: Tiny Baby Phoenix 6
Medium: Word
Request(s): Final Fantasy VII (Before Crisis or original canon) Rufus -- angry/hurt --The one hand throws the whiskey/and the other throws the gun/As he cries out to the heavens/I am not my father's son
Fandom(s): Final Fantasy VII
Characters/Pairings: Rufus ShinRa , President ( Read more... )

ff07 [char] rufus, [medium] fic, ff07 [char] president shinra, ! [round 002], ! [round 002] extra: phoenix down, ff07 [all] final fantasy vii, [tag] gen

Comments 14

ffexchange_mod August 28 2009, 21:06:53 UTC

Thanks very much for posting this!

I went ahead and let it through the mod queue, but you have a little bit of broken markup at the bottom -- both your italics tags are closing tags, no opening tag. It wasn't worth holding you up in the mod queue, but thought I'd point it out =)

drakonlily August 28 2009, 21:09:25 UTC

OOPS! XD XD I was so excited I forgot. Thanks I'm fixing it now.

paperclipchains August 29 2009, 15:45:25 UTC

I really liked the opening, the descriptions of Midgar and Rufus' attachment to it, and the tension as you wrote it between Pops Shinra and Rufus.

Sorry if that's a lame comment, I never know what to say but I feel like I should show that I read it and liked it at least!

drakonlily August 29 2009, 17:01:25 UTC

Thank you very much for the comment, no comment is lame. We write because we like sharing, right? I'm happy you enjoyed it.

venefica_aura August 30 2009, 20:25:25 UTC

You inspire my Rufus! <3

eeee drakonlily September 1 2009, 01:59:17 UTC

thanks!

xerne September 1 2009, 06:57:30 UTC

Oh, that is some very nice characterization there of all three - Rufus, Amon and the city.

drakonlily September 1 2009, 23:46:59 UTC

Thanks for the comment and reading. :)

wei_jiangling September 6 2009, 07:06:47 UTC

IloveitIloveitIloveit. ♥ Prompter here, by the way. ^^ I love the dynamic between Rufus and the city as much as between him and his father. And the "It was attempted assassination, to be perfectly honest" made me cackle.

I do have to point out the irony in this--It was posted the 28th, which (I just checked) is the day I posted this to areyougame on IJ, in part regarding Rufus' views of Midgar and how they disagree with his father's-- Thinking about it, he was overcome with a determination to own this city in a way his father never had; were there indeed a Promised Land, it would not be the site of a new city that merely shared this one’s name. No, if there was in fact some endless wellspring of Mako energy, there would be a way to harvest it. Not to move there, but to bring it back here. To his city. ...etc, etc.

Just...great minds, apparently. XD

drakonlily September 7 2009, 22:43:47 UTC

Nice! Do you mind if I follow that on IJ?

You know, it's really refreshing to write Rufus again. I always got the feeling that he didn't REALLY want to find The Promised Land. He wanted to prove that fairy tales aren't real that that MIDGAR is, and therefore better. Rufus' complexes are there and the City is something he can elevate and is attainable, I suppose.

:) I'm really happy you liked it!