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thuviaptarth) wrote2004-09-12 09:42 pm
thuviaptarth) wrote2004-09-12 09:42 pm
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Yami no Matsuei: Rewritten on the Body
Title: Rewritten on the Body
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: So pretty I think about stealing them all the time. But no, not mine.
Summary: No challenge, and yet a drabble.
He keeps trying to copy it to paper: the curse written on his body, the red ribbons that bind pain to skin and soul to soul. Lines twist away from him; pens blot, brushes smear, pencil points break. It would be sensible to let someone else try, but facing the mirror is hard enough.
In the dark, Tsuzuki's gentle fingers trace new ideograms on his skin, rewriting curses into blessings. Fuda for protection, fuda for transformation, fuda for bringing the weary peace and the lost home. Hisoka never knew, never knew before, how much the paper must love the pen.
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: So pretty I think about stealing them all the time. But no, not mine.
Summary: No challenge, and yet a drabble.
He keeps trying to copy it to paper: the curse written on his body, the red ribbons that bind pain to skin and soul to soul. Lines twist away from him; pens blot, brushes smear, pencil points break. It would be sensible to let someone else try, but facing the mirror is hard enough.
In the dark, Tsuzuki's gentle fingers trace new ideograms on his skin, rewriting curses into blessings. Fuda for protection, fuda for transformation, fuda for bringing the weary peace and the lost home. Hisoka never knew, never knew before, how much the paper must love the pen.
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They do bring out my inner sap.
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Rewriting curses into blessings--neat.
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Thank you -- and yes, it is something like those images, which is one reason I like it so much. I do always like images of words on skin.
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You realize, this is the basis of the epic Hisoka/Oriya I'm working on right now, and. Well. I realized it couldn't possibly be a theme I was the only one to see. But.
::cries::
It's even titled Written on the Body.
That said, this is utterly gorgeous.
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I look forward to all the hate mail that will accuse me of shamelessly stealing idea and title from you. I am pondering dignified silence vs. "No, really we both stole it from Jeanette Winterson."
Hua already did something like it in that lovely Tat/His Yuletide story, I think, but--it's such an evocative image, with so many implications, I think we could all play with it and there would still be new things to discover. I was toying with the idea of expanding this, because I had to leave some things out.
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Actually, I suspect I'll be the one accused, since my story won't be coming out for at least a few weeks (I'm still writing it). And while I didn't get the title from JW, that's certainly where I grabbed the title. *G*
Hua already did something like it in that lovely Tat/His Yuletide story, I think, but--it's such an evocative image, with so many implications, I think we could all play with it and there would still be new things to discover. I was toying with the idea of expanding this, because I had to leave some things out.
I'd love to see the expansion, to be honest. I've read the Tat/His, and it didn't throw me in the same way, I think because the execution was sufficiently different. That and the title wasn't at all similar. I think it was just the combination of the two that startled me. And you're right, it is such and evocative image and idea. I was very surprised not to run across at least a dozen stories on the theme when I first got into YnM.
Maybe it's just an idea whose time has come.
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Yami no Matsuei is an anime series released in the US as Descendants of Darkness;
I plan on writing up my impressions of the series at some point, but I think it might especially appeal to you because of the characters who are afraid of the monstrous in themselves, or define themselves as monstrous, and are brought to believe in their own humanity when they're offered emotional connections, forgiveness, and love--and when they learn to offer these things to others. The characters do not remind me of Jossverse characters, but the some of the themes are similar.
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Tatsumi has his Anya moments, but they're not really cognates.
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Yeah. Tatsumi and Anya are alike in many respects, but worlds apart in others. It's a pity Caritas blew up though, I'd love to see the Yami crew breeze in there one night..."Okay, first? You're all complete wrecks."
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Hisoka is Scully. No pumps, but his version of neat office attire. Also reserved; passionate; distrustful; prone to being underestimated because of height, youth, and prettiness; with a history of sexual abuse; and devoted beyond reason to a partner whose reckless pursuit of a mission can be more self-destructive than helpful at times.
Tsuzuki's resemblance to Mulder is less pronounced, but there's height, guilt, and trenchcoats.
Boni thinks I put way too much thought into this.
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I suspect Hisoka doesn't sing.
Not in front of people, anyway. But it's canon the rest of them do...
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(Thank you so very much.)
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It's all in this, for me, really "how much the paper must love the pen" -- makes me want to curl up with a cup of hot chocolate and hear the rain splatter against the window.
Can't explain better, but I love the image of Tsu writing fudas on Soka's curses. Just *dies*.
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Thank you.
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