[fic] The Great Pantomime
I was trying to figure out what Shisui could have been doing for Madara in The Burning of Paper Instead of Children. Anyway, this story isn’t it, but it was way more fun to write. It should either make you laugh or creep you out - if it does both, I'd be very chuffed.
Title: The Great Pantomime
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Madara/Shisui
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Title: The Great Pantomime
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Madara/Shisui
Summary: A ( Read more... )
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I liked this more than Ascetic because of the density of the prose and the focus on the person in front of him rather than his general environment. There's a quote by some sci-fi writer, "A hero must have a feel for the myth he is in," and that was what I thought of; that that was almost inverted here to tell the story of the villain--the villain knows the tropes that make heroes, that inspire them, and that break them, and one of the best things about Madara is that he understands the psychology of the hero so well without wanting to emulate it himself. Also, beautifully imagined Kirigakure, which I've found myself more and more interested in lately--I was so excited to encounter the snippets of Mei and Yagura. ANBU Mei? I would go for that ( ... )
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This was probably not how you would have liked to see these two featured together in a story >.> You're on the money, though: this is basically a story about Madara being extremely genre-savvy. But the entire idea of Shisui the Hero in this story is a construct that he made up to begin with. Shisui was just a cute lonely kid, after the mission was over he would have gone home, and who knew if he'd have amounted to anything. But instead Madara took him in and pretty much wrote his story for him from start to finish. On the one hand, he drew out his potential and made him into someone who could change a nation; on the other, he broke him. Take the clan's brightest gem, make it really shine, and then use it to crush them. Seems to me like something Madara would do. And he did it all by making Shisui think it was his own idea. D:Uh, you're right. I don't know why I said that, because it's totally not true. I had ( ... )
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Quite simply, because it jibes best with what we know in canon. And because he seemed more like an older brother figure in that, someone to admire and emulate and obsess over in both healthy and unhealthy ways for Itachi. That characterization hits the idea of the apex above the apex, which was the thing that really sold me on the Shisui/Itachi pairing--a genius like Itachi, especially, would have wanted to see one person in his life who was just unconditionally better than him, and beyond his understanding. This was really only true in that fic before he became the manic-depressive we all know and love, though ( ... )
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AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE PLZ. He can run roughshod all over the fic -- and by extension, Itachi and Deidara -- just as long as it's funny. In a horrible way. But that's a given with the dude.
KAME'S HAIR LOOKS SO DISGUSTING WITHOUT PRODUCT. You guys are crazy, I just do not see the appeal.
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PS. How did I miss your amazing Splash fic. Am at work and kind of wooshed through it but oh my god I am dying DID YOU JUST WRITE UCHIHA ITACHI AS A GO GO BOY, WHY IS IT SO GOOD
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Yes. Yes, I did. And I am GLAD that you read it at work, because the rush prevented you from noticing in full how awful that fic is. Don't ever go back, for your own sake.
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Madara= master of the mind fuck.
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I actually really liked the short scenes--it made it seem like you could only see little bits of what was happening. Which actually made it even more creepy...
♥!! I think I need to find some kitty pictures now
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I liked those too because... they were easy to write :P They mostly served to flesh out the plot instead of move it along. Latter = me bad at.
here! no kitties, but close!
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