[Guilty Gear fic] Garden of Eden

[rallamajoop]

The story so far: Back in April last year, I made a misguided attempt to rid myself of on of the more gratuitously clichéd fic ideas that had been nagging at me one and off by writing it up as a drabble in Normal Continuity Will Be Restored Shortly. I say misguided, because the plan backfired spectacularly when everyone (mostly velithya) easily spotted

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[velithya]

I REGRET NOTHING

[rallamajoop]

YOU NEVER DO

<3

[velithya]

♥♥♥♥

[celadonite]

Holy crap, you just gave birth to a monster. I can't stop staring at this.

[rallamajoop]

if so, velithya is so the Dad After the number of months and amount of effort it's taken to get this thing out the door, the 'giving birth' metaphor may be a little too appropriate. >.> And now I'm not sure whether I want to speculate about what that means for the rest of the writing process still to go. It's a good king of staring, right? Not just an 'in horror' kind of thing? ^^;

[velithya]

HEY!

[rallamajoop]

:P SEE TAGS.

[verstehen]

You may call it ridiculously cliched, but when I read the summary I went 'AWESOME.'

...and now to actually read the story.

[verstehen]

And as predicted, AWESOME. I love his... timelag and the disorientation especially.

[rallamajoop]

I have this thing with cliche-fic where my dirty secret is that I love them just as much as the rest of fandom, I just get terribly embarrassed about writing my own. ^^; (See also: the Gratiutous Vampire AU, the Ky birthday-ficlet, and the Cable&Deadpool High School AU). Fortunately, this one seems to be developing enough surrounding plot-crust to mask the cliches at the chewy caremel-filled centre.

Anyway, I am pleased to hear you found it as awesome as the summary promised. Ky's disorientation was the main part I got stuck on for so long, so it's really gratifying that you liked the final result. =D

[verstehen]

...wait have you posted parts of the C&D high school AU and I missed it? (Because that actually sounds like something they'd do in canon!)

Anyway, looking forward to reading more, as always, even if I don't comment enough. :D

[supplanter]

♥♥♥♥

That little drabble was just so lonely.... :3

[rallamajoop]

Heh, well now it has 8560 other words to keep it company. ;) And more to come!

I'm still kinda fond of the drabble as it is, but I rest assured that no-one will mind me expanding on it. *g*

[anonymous]

I'm not really in this fandom and yet I love it because you write fic for it and this is so cool.

Especially love that Frederick is so smart ( or just full of himself ) that he immediately assumes he knows exactly what happened, and Ky is just going along with it. I'm itching to know what he'll make of all the other little discrepancies he finds with Ky.

"Even knowing he was about ready to start seeing Axl in shop mannequins - if not cloud formations - "

Love that Ky is aware of how completely messed up he is, but it doesn't help orient him in the slightest because he's just that lost. And the way it takes him a while to recognize cars, and just how alien everything seems through his eyes.

Just wanted to say this was awesome.
[/delurk]

[rallamajoop]

I'm not really in this fandom and yet I love it because you write fic for it and this is so cool.

=D Wow, thanks that's seriously one huge compliment. :3

Especially love that Frederick is so smart ( or just full of himself ) that he immediately assumes he knows exactly what happened, and Ky is just going along with it.

One of the most awkward parts of writing this story was always going to be finding Ky an explanation for why he has no ID, no address, and doesn't know a single person in the city (or the world). I'm still mentally working out some of the kinks, but I am quite pleased that the explanation I have fell together as well as it did. So Frederick notices that this guy happens to have a European accent and doesn't seem to want to talk to the police for some reason, and being in research himself I'm sure Frederick has a lot of strong opinions about the haphazard way funding gets thrown around on some projects. And of course he just can't resist flexing his brain in front of an audience.

I'm itching to know what he'll make