Doesn't Sound Too Bad To Bet My Life On That.

[rionaleonhart]

The Keiji/Sara ship for Your Turn to Die is serving me so well. All the fanfiction is weird and dark and tense and 'shit, I don't know if I can trust this guy, maybe I should have thought about that before I let him put his fingers in me.' I love it.

I've come across exactly one fic for it that was fluffy to any extent, and it went like this:

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[futuresoon]

Keiji/Sara appeals to me in so many awful, awful ways and I'm delighted that you're still thinking about it.

'shit, I don't know if I can trust this guy, maybe I should have thought about that before I let him put his fingers in me.'

I snorted at this. I thought you should know.

I like that fic idea! One of the things that helps me with when I get stuck on a plot that can't happen because of X is asking "well, does X even have to be there?", so if you're having trouble writing Keiji's motivations, maybe he doesn't have to share them in the fic either? People can be secretive outside of death games. Unless that's not the problem you're having and I've misinterpreted. Regardless, I support you in any fic-writing efforts and am available for brainstorming if you need it, since that worked out so well last time.

[rionaleonhart]

IT'S SO AWFUL AND SO GREAT.

I suppose, in that hypothetical fic, it's hard to work out how to portray the Keiji-and-Sara dynamic because the power balance would be shifted. In the game, there's the constant sense that Keiji has the upper hand; he seems to know things Sara doesn't. In the situation where Sara tracks Keiji down and goes 'hey, you don't know me, but I know some really sensitive stuff about you!' she's got a lot more power over him, and it's hard to picture how they'd interact. It could be interesting, I suppose, but I'd have to find a way to make it work!

(My other issue with writing the fic is that Sara would not go straight to tracking down Keiji; she'd track down Kai first (after speaking to Joe), because that would clearly be easier, and I don't feel particularly up to writing Kai (or Sara's father) but also feel I probably wouldn't get away with glossing over it completely. 'Sara stayed home from school so she could talk to Kai, who didn't seem to know anything about a death game, and then she set out to find the

[futuresoon]

Hmm, that is tricky. Maybe she runs into Keiji while she's looking for Kai? And has to take the opportunity to talk to him, since she doesn't know if she'll be able to easily find him again. You could throw in some guilt over her realizing she's more relieved to see Keiji than she is at the idea of finding Kai, too. As for the shift in the power dynamic, I think it'd be really interesting; maybe she wonders if this is how Keiji felt in the death game and is intensely uncomfortable at the thought. Why yes, my primary suggestions are "make Sara feel guilty and uncomfortable". Possibly that went without saying.

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, maybe I could do an in medias res thing! If I start with Keiji opening his door to Sara, I can totally gloss over her past interactions with Kai. And that also lets us get straight to making Sara guilty and uncomfortable, which I agree is extremely good.