Comments | manonlechat: Fanfic: Divergences (Once Upon a Time), One-shot

manonlechat

Fanfic: Divergences (Once Upon a Time), One-shot

Jan 08, 2010 01:38

I am suffering from a lack of Bleach this week. There have been no spoilers since Christmas.

Written for bemoan1000 at the Thanksgiving fic exchange at ginran. Prompt: Gin and Ran as children: A bucket of water and someone or something gets wet.

Title: Divergences (Once Upon a Time)
Rating: PG
Words: 803

Thanks to paperclipchains and fenikkusuken for beta reading.

( When he first found her, she was skinny and timid and fearful. Gin asked most of the questions and did most of the talking. )

fandom: bleach, character: gin, character: rangiku, ship: ginran, my fanfic

Comments 9

kaibasgirl January 8 2010, 08:00:46 UTC

That was sweet, that was really, really sweet. I think what I liked most was Gin realizing how the other kids liked Rangiku more than him, despite the fact that she also had spiritual energy. I think that's one of the things that bothered him most as a kid.

Also, the description of Rangiku as a pampered cat fits her perfectly.

lilbrokendolly January 8 2010, 19:58:28 UTC

I really liked this.

The most clever part, I think, was in that little show of Gin's casual cruelty with the ducklings, and how Matsumoto was naturally unnerved by this.

Great work!

manonlechat January 9 2010, 02:58:32 UTC

Many thanks!

Everybody has a dark side and I wanted to hint at certain proclivities already present in Gin's character. Proclivities which I'm sure Aizen encouraged and nurtured.

manonlechat January 9 2010, 02:10:37 UTC

Thank you! My personal interpretation of Gin is that--despite his sadistic, manipulative, inconsistent nature--he does like to be liked (he also has this weird latent protective side that puzzles me).

I wish I could take credit for linking Rangiku with cats and feline personality traits but Kubo was there before me. :)

(Edited for teh typos.)

wintaerland January 8 2010, 20:23:37 UTC

This was great! Many things to compliment you on, but no time, so... very nice!

manonlechat January 9 2010, 02:45:01 UTC

Thank you. :) I appreciate the comment and I'm glad you liked it!

fenikkusuken January 8 2010, 22:03:18 UTC

Your icon made me spit coffee all over my keyboard, and firmly embedded the dreaded Seuss ear-worm in my brain for the day!

For that, you deserve to be bankai'd.

I see your bankai and raise you Naraku wee wee manonlechat January 9 2010, 02:23:32 UTC

I've received many compliments on that icon but I believe you are the first to catch the twisted Seuss reference. I LUV U. <3

Thanks again for your great corrections and suggestions. I keep playing with the ending sentence (you're right--it wasn't tight). Changed it twice today, will probably change again tomorrow.

lady_rhiyana January 9 2010, 04:31:40 UTC

Thank you for sharing this! Matsumoto and Gin have always puzzled me, but I did enjoy this take. I found Gin's behaviour with the ducklings slightly disturbing, but the ending was particularly sweet. :)