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Golden Child
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Pairing: Sesshoumaru + Rin (platonic)
Rating: K+
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iyfic_contest Week 172 | Baggage
Based upon: "Father of Mine" (C) 1997 Everclear
This piece was inspired by a single song lyric, which seemed to fit Sesshoumaru so succinctly:
Now I am a grown man / with a child of my own / and I swear I'm not going to let her know / all the pain I have known
I actually had completely different plans for this prompt, attempting another Mir/San piece, but alas...it seems my Mir/San muse is incredibly hard to satisfy. It still has no good read on either character, so *sigh* I feared I would have to give up for another week...
And then, on sheer luck, I was surfing for nostalgic music and wham! The ideas, they were a-flowing once again :)
I've been bouncing around ideas for the requests from my drabble meme as well, so I've been thinking about Sesshoumaru, his mother, and his relationship with Rin. This song, inspired by lead singer Art Alexakis's own relationship with his father, was pretty good at describing the hurt and pain I imagine Sesshoumaru must've felt when he learned of his father's betrayal.
I've played around a bit with Sess's history, teasing out different explanations for his behavior, his attitude towards Inuyasha in the earlier and later chapters of the manga, his interaction with all of the other characters. I think no matter how you slice it, his relationship with his parents has greatly influenced him as a character, especially treatment from his father. I generally tend towards the notion that his father was either a complete hardass who rode little Sesshoumaru relentlessly into the ground, or was loving but distant and didn't care how much his infidelity hurt his 'real' family.
Lots of potential interesting emotional dynamics :)
So, this piece is set shortly after the manga ends (or between 557 and 558), during one of Sesshoumaru's visits with Rin. He's given her a gift, and he reflects on how his traveling visits with her, now that she's in the human village and he's off doing whatever (I gave him a purpose, whereas RT, not so much LOL) are similar and yet different from his childhood, when his father had the same pattern.
So he's following in his father's footsteps, but not really: he is determined to shield Rin from the pain of betrayal that he knew as a child, to go one better than his father in that respect, because she is his golden child and always will be.
I liked the theme of 'golden child' passing from Sesshoumaru to baby Inuyasha to young Rin, and hopefully it's clear to follow in the story :) One of the lines from the inspiration song is actually:
Father of mine / take me back to the day / when I was still your golden boy / back before you went away
Other than that, I tried to follow a few themes from the manga - Sesshoumaru always returning for Rin, no matter where he leaves her, Jaken's general nervousness around/dislike of humans, and of course the gift-giving theme we see in Chapter 558.
Link to FF.net
Pairing: Sesshoumaru + Rin (platonic)
Rating: K+
Inspiration:
iyfic_contest Week 172 | BaggageBased upon: "Father of Mine" (C) 1997 Everclear
This piece was inspired by a single song lyric, which seemed to fit Sesshoumaru so succinctly:
I actually had completely different plans for this prompt, attempting another Mir/San piece, but alas...it seems my Mir/San muse is incredibly hard to satisfy. It still has no good read on either character, so *sigh* I feared I would have to give up for another week...
And then, on sheer luck, I was surfing for nostalgic music and wham! The ideas, they were a-flowing once again :)
I've been bouncing around ideas for the requests from my drabble meme as well, so I've been thinking about Sesshoumaru, his mother, and his relationship with Rin. This song, inspired by lead singer Art Alexakis's own relationship with his father, was pretty good at describing the hurt and pain I imagine Sesshoumaru must've felt when he learned of his father's betrayal.
I've played around a bit with Sess's history, teasing out different explanations for his behavior, his attitude towards Inuyasha in the earlier and later chapters of the manga, his interaction with all of the other characters. I think no matter how you slice it, his relationship with his parents has greatly influenced him as a character, especially treatment from his father. I generally tend towards the notion that his father was either a complete hardass who rode little Sesshoumaru relentlessly into the ground, or was loving but distant and didn't care how much his infidelity hurt his 'real' family.
Lots of potential interesting emotional dynamics :)
So, this piece is set shortly after the manga ends (or between 557 and 558), during one of Sesshoumaru's visits with Rin. He's given her a gift, and he reflects on how his traveling visits with her, now that she's in the human village and he's off doing whatever (I gave him a purpose, whereas RT, not so much LOL) are similar and yet different from his childhood, when his father had the same pattern.
So he's following in his father's footsteps, but not really: he is determined to shield Rin from the pain of betrayal that he knew as a child, to go one better than his father in that respect, because she is his golden child and always will be.
I liked the theme of 'golden child' passing from Sesshoumaru to baby Inuyasha to young Rin, and hopefully it's clear to follow in the story :) One of the lines from the inspiration song is actually:
Other than that, I tried to follow a few themes from the manga - Sesshoumaru always returning for Rin, no matter where he leaves her, Jaken's general nervousness around/dislike of humans, and of course the gift-giving theme we see in Chapter 558.