[KH2] - Blood, Sugar (Xaldin/Xigbar, Cloud, Leon) (Part II)

[quakewithfear]

Title:  Blood, Sugar  (Part I)
Author:  Xanthos Samurai
Fandom:  Kingdom Hearts II
Pairing/Characters:  Xaldin/Xigbar, Cloud, Leon, Larxene.
Rating:  Hard R
Length:  2,171 words (4,692 total)
Warnings:  Yaoi, extreme violence, gore, mutilation, disturbing themes, foul language, implied cannibalism. 
Disclaimer:  I do not own nor claim to own anything

Comments

[pervertparadox]

I wonder what other kind of cannibal there is?

I was entertained and reduced to the giggling loon I am, but I think at some point I started imagining Dilan with a southern accent and then weird mental images happened.

[quakewithfear]

Eh, maybe it was a little OOC but... my Dilan has such a pronounced sweet tooth that I kind of wanted to accentuate it. ^^;; Or something like that.

Thanks for reading!

[pervertparadox]

I know *is either very obsessive stalker or alternate account of a long time reader*

Technically I would just pin it on my weird-arse perceptions.

Something I kinda want to say in response to some of the sane vs insane comments; I come from the school of 'everyone's insane no exceptions'.

[lostscore]

I think what really stood out to me about this story was the fact that Dilan didn't believe he was insane for doing what he did. It was so nicely set up to have him absolute bloodfest massacre and justify it to himself with the idea that he did it for a good reason - ie: he was cheated on

[quakewithfear]

The fun part about Dilan is that he really ISN'T crazy. Or rather, he does insane things in the most sane way possible. I'm not sure if there's a term for that, but there you go. Come to think of it, he's the exact opposite of Braig, who tends to do sane things in the most insane way possible. What a pair

[keyblade277]

I like it! I think, though, that lostscore was right - not showing the monster at the end would have been more scary than laying it out bare. You're very good at visceral discriptions, but your reader's imagination can't be underestimated when it comes to horror. (Also, I want to draw the puppet-thing now! I don't think it would be as scary as I imagined, though.)

Oh, also, I think the line about Leon's homosexuality was a bit unneeded? It doesn't really come up in the rest of the story, and seemed a bit like obligatory gay!Squall. Sorry, that's probably more nitpicky than you wanted...

Hands down, favorite bit was Dilan's calm insistance to himself that he was a rational man. I know you said he wsn't insane, but... come on! No-one who is insane knows they're insane, y'know? Actually, all the parts with his "calm within the storm" vs. the fucked-up stuff he's doing were great. The contrast makes it that much scarier! The idea of Larxene rolling around a corpse like a dog was funny too.

[quakewithfear]

Yeah... I really don't like the ending of this at all, but it was one of those things where it would either rot on my hardrive or I could just put it up here for you guys to read. ^^;; Next time I'll try to be a bit more vague and leave more up to you guys.

The deal with Leon's homosexuality... In my personal characterization of Leon, he's gay. Even normal slash aside, Kingdom Hearts Leon has always been gay to me. So I don't really mean for him to come off as "obligatorily gay" or anything... but he's gay to me. It didn't really need to be stated in the fic, though, so I suppose you're right about that.

Dilan's scarier than Braig is, at least the way I write them. The point of the story was to really illustrate the fact that of the two of them, Dilan is definitely the one not to cross. I'm glad I at least did that well. ^^;;

Thanks for reading

[marchwarden23]

Oh man. So glad I finally got to read this. I totally echo the sentiments above...especially the sane v. insane aspect. It is entirely possible to sanely justify actions that are commonly accepted as the act of the insane. To approach something with the calm rationale of one with a mission and purpose, even if the purpose involves death, mutilation and resurrection (of a sort), is not the act of a person who has completely lost their mind. There is reason and justification, emotionally based, but reason still.

And Braig probably enjoyed every last minute. XD

[quakewithfear]

Awww thank you... I'm glad that I got something in this stupid fic right. Even if nothing else came out very well, I really just wanted Dilan to be a scary motherfucker and it sounds like I accomplished that at the very least.

...And yes. He probably did. *Grin*

[freed_wings]

Oh no. Or yes. Or no. I really don't know why I enjoy reading something this repulsive, other than that it's... absolutely brilliantly sickening.

[quakewithfear]

*grin* Thank you! Thank you very much!