[ficlet] Only Human

[transient_words]

Since no one was willing to torture me, I decided to write something that positively tortured me. Writing anything related to Guts/Casca and post- Eclipse tears me up D: I'm not expecting comments for this really because ._. I really just wanted to write something for Berserk.

Disclaimer: I don't own a thing.

Word Count: 273

Warning(s): Angst,

Comments

[parttime_job]

Yeeeah, I never saw that torture me meme.

I absolutely do not know why, but this fic made my eyes water. It looks so, you know, simple, but then it's just... moving.

Also, "And, of course, he'd branded" feels like it's missing something. But pay no attention to this.

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I'm not blaming you!

It's not like everyone is on Eljay 24 hours a day.

(Unless you are um, me).

I think there's a real difference when you write a fic with emotion or not?

I was tearing up myself.

But Guts is /branded/? I could replace it with "marked" - if you think that makes a difference? But I already used that word in another Berserk fic and I don't like repetitions ...

[parttime_job]

Ahahaha. Knowing myself, if I was on LJ everyday, I'd be bored with it and never ever come back.

(... I do not even know what you do with twenty-four hours here.)

Well, yeah. You'd probably get more readers experiencing the same thing you did when you wrote it. Man, it's like from touching hearts you go to prodding and squeezing them. If that makes any sense.

It's just that I thought, if you expanded it, it'd go "And, of course, he had branded" and it gives off the same feeling as "And of course, Guts had branded." After thinking about it for a bit, I thought that maybe what you were going for was "And of course, he had been branded"?

... But then, this is an entirely different thing if Guts was the one who branded himself. Also, I have not read a single chapter of Berserk so I wouldn't know. @_@

icon is very appropriate

[transient_words]

How come I'm never bored then? But, then again, I'm so amazingly amazing that nothing bores me *BOB*

(Actually, I mostly just spend time ... doing questionable things? LOL)

I find the imagery you mentioned here very interesting - "prodding and squeezing hearts" <333 But yes, you have a point!

LOL LOL LOL. My poor Boke-chan. ._.

Yes, I was going for that. He had been branded - and nothing else. I was just so tired that I didn't get your point at once 8D

EDIT: "How come I'm never BORN"? WTF, self. Stop replying to comments when YOUR brain is not present D:

*cries*

[istne_pieklo]

I can't help it, but the name Casca makes me snicker every time I see it))) It means "safety helmet" in Russian)))
The ficlet is very touching. <3

[transient_words]

For some reason, I find this amusing as well XD. But I'm currently hyper D:

Thank you <3

[istne_pieklo]

Hyper is fun! XDDD

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Hyper = my perpetual state when I haven't had enough sleep.

8D

You don't even need me to be drunk because I act drunk when I'm hyper.

(So does this make me a cheerful person then? O_O I'm asking you because you know how angsty and jaded I can get)

[ronsard]

Ouch, ouch, ouch ;___; Ngl, these two are like the alpha and omega of het pairings for me. They just... have to be together, I don't care what else happens in the series. Thanks for writing, this was lovely. A nice affirmation of Guts' feelings.

Oh fine. Since you're apparently hellbent on being tortured, howsabout some ridiculously fluffy sweet Seishirou/Subaru? Going back to the classics and all :D

PS: I'm not masochistic enough to repost the meme on my journal, but you can get back at me if you want. I'm not sure what constitutes a true DNW for me, but there must be something.

[transient_words]

Gosh, I'm days late with the reply D:

I've been rather ill as of late again - maybe because uni is starting next week.

I think ;_________; was pretty much what I felt while writing this - and I very rarely get so emotionally invested in what I write. But Guts and Casca - just like you said - just have to be together. I think I'll cry my heart out if the series doesn't end with them together.

Thank you for commenting! I'm glad that at least someone on my f-list appreciates Berserk. I sometimes feel lonely being a Berserk fan :/

XDD. That's probably the most evil thing you could ask of me - considering how they end up 8D But fluffy, sweet TB SeiSub is intriguing even if it'll be horrible, horrible to write ;_;

PS: From what I gather, you don't seem so fond of smut. But I won't be so evil and ask you to write some. I could request SeiSub in return, but I'm not so evil either XD.

But you know, Berserk fic would be nice. Especially from you.