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Pairing: Sesshoumaru + Kagome (platonic)
Rating: T
Inspiration: "Viva la Vida" (C) 2008 Coldplay
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ebony_silks's Week 81 | Ghost
This was a lot of fun; I've never really played with an alternate reality timeline before.
I was really glad to see this theme extended, as I've had an idea bouncing around the back of my brain for the better part of a week, ever since listening to "Best Imitation of Myself" by Ben Folds Five for the last chapter of Fleeting. I've also been itching to write something longer than 100 words all day, so I finally had my chance, LOL.
This really came from the lyrics of the inspiration song(s):
I used to rule the world / Seas would rise when I gave the word / Now in the morning I sleep alone / Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice / Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes / Listen as the crowd would sing / "Now the old king is dead / Long live the king!"
One minute I held the key / Next the walls were closed on me / And I discovered that my castles stand / upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
and, a little less obviously:
I feel like a quote out of context / witholding the rest / so I can be for you what you want to see
I've got the gesture and sound / got the timing down / yeah, it's uncanny / yeah you'd think it was me
I decided to make a riff on the ending. What if the well had closed, and Kagome hadn't been able to go back?
I took a fanon shortcut to these stories, by having Sesshoumaru the sole survivor of the era and the ensuing five hundred years, but I think I came up with an admirable explanation for the events in question. Sesshoumaru offers Kagome an explanation for why it took so long to contact her, as well as the fates of her group of friends - and a few of his, as well.
To me, this piece isn't really about trying to get the two of them together, as much as it was a chance for them to face their mutual past, as something unique only to them, and decide whether or not they wanted to keep said link alive, or let it be buried in the sands of time. I tried to give an insight into his feelings on the matter (as I was writing it from his POV) with the flashbacks/comparisons to his reunion with Rin. After all, she was the last human to have any sort of life-changing effect on him...
Kagome's reactions were more on the fly, and I like that she surprised him at the end, with her rejection of Tessaiga in favor of staying in touch with him. I had a hard time wording the ending to my satisfaction, but hopefully the implication is there. Inuyasha was exactly right; he knew she'd want a viable link to their short time together...and it was only Sesshoumaru's experiences with Rin that opened his heart to the possibility of honoring his brother's final wish.
Link to FF.net
Pairing: Sesshoumaru + Kagome (platonic)
Rating: T
Inspiration: "Viva la Vida" (C) 2008 Coldplay
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ebony_silks's Week 81 | GhostThis was a lot of fun; I've never really played with an alternate reality timeline before.
I was really glad to see this theme extended, as I've had an idea bouncing around the back of my brain for the better part of a week, ever since listening to "Best Imitation of Myself" by Ben Folds Five for the last chapter of Fleeting. I've also been itching to write something longer than 100 words all day, so I finally had my chance, LOL.
This really came from the lyrics of the inspiration song(s):
I used to roll the dice / Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes / Listen as the crowd would sing / "Now the old king is dead / Long live the king!"
One minute I held the key / Next the walls were closed on me / And I discovered that my castles stand / upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
and, a little less obviously:
I've got the gesture and sound / got the timing down / yeah, it's uncanny / yeah you'd think it was me
I decided to make a riff on the ending. What if the well had closed, and Kagome hadn't been able to go back?
I took a fanon shortcut to these stories, by having Sesshoumaru the sole survivor of the era and the ensuing five hundred years, but I think I came up with an admirable explanation for the events in question. Sesshoumaru offers Kagome an explanation for why it took so long to contact her, as well as the fates of her group of friends - and a few of his, as well.
To me, this piece isn't really about trying to get the two of them together, as much as it was a chance for them to face their mutual past, as something unique only to them, and decide whether or not they wanted to keep said link alive, or let it be buried in the sands of time. I tried to give an insight into his feelings on the matter (as I was writing it from his POV) with the flashbacks/comparisons to his reunion with Rin. After all, she was the last human to have any sort of life-changing effect on him...
Kagome's reactions were more on the fly, and I like that she surprised him at the end, with her rejection of Tessaiga in favor of staying in touch with him. I had a hard time wording the ending to my satisfaction, but hopefully the implication is there. Inuyasha was exactly right; he knew she'd want a viable link to their short time together...and it was only Sesshoumaru's experiences with Rin that opened his heart to the possibility of honoring his brother's final wish.
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Plus, Kagome's reaction was really in-character.
Great writing!
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What am I supposed to expect - that you'd find it touching, or that you liked the comparisons back to Rin? As to the former - I'm surprised, actually; I'm not sure what I was shooting for here, other than decidedly non-romantic. It was hard, having two songs intertwine themselves so tightly, along with this idea of Sesshoumaru being the one to tell Kagome what happened after she left.
As to the latter - yay! I'm glad the implicit meanings were there. I'm never too sure when I'm still writing this late at night if I'm being clear or not, LOL :P
I need to boost my Inu/Kag writing again so I can get back to Nihon Idol; mostly there I'm dreading the secondary storyline that's introduced in Chapter 3. But I really like writing about their devotion to each other, even outside of pairing-centric fics, because its something so obvious that it can't be ignored in canon.
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THIS is why you're, like, the only Sess/Kag author I can read without a hefty dose of brain bleach and occasionally painfully pointy objects to throw.
I actually stumbled across a fic the other day that had an A/N discussing how "Rumiko Takahashi makes it obvious that InuYasha will never get over Kikyou, and Kagome is really in love with Sesshoumaru, who definitely loves her back. It's like love at first sight, really." (or something like that. Sorry, but you couldn't pay me enough to hunt back down the fic and quote it word for word.)
I'm like, AUs? Or like what you're doing with Fleeting? That makes sense to me, so I can read easily.
this idea of Sesshoumaru being the one to tell Kagome what happened after she left
I actually really like this. This, to me, would even eventually be a nice beginning to something longer. It makes so much more sense to me than "I've loved you for 500 years and now we can finally be together!" that we sometimes see. There's a very logical, clear basis for everything in this fic.
EDIT: And AGAIN I break the HTML. AGAIN.
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LOL, it probably helps that I'm an Inu/Kag fan as well, and canon-centric to the core :) Honestly, I don't know why most Sess/Kag fans can't stand the predominant canon ship; it makes *no* sense to me.
I actually stumbled across a fic the other day that had an A/N discussing how "Rumiko Takahashi makes it obvious that InuYasha will never get over Kikyou, and Kagome is really in love with Sesshoumaru, who definitely loves her back. It's like love at first sight, really."
o.O Um, what anime were they watching? What manga were they reading? For a good 85% of the time, Sesshoumaru and Kagome aren't even in each others presence, and when they are, one of them is usually trying to kill the other.
Honestly, besides liking the dynamic these two could produce together, half the fun is trying to overcome the challenge of the canon. To deny Inuyasha and Kagome's relationship is to deny practically the entire reason the whole thing happened in the first place.
(Admittedly, RT did throw the Sess/Kag shippers a tiny, toe-sized bone at the end, considering they interacted for a good five pages or so when trying to find Inuyasha in the morass of Naraku's body and take Tessaiga back to him...but yeah, their focus was on Inuyasha, not each other :P)
It makes so much more sense to me than "I've loved you for 500 years and now we can finally be together!" that we sometimes see.
I don't even understand the "I've loved you forever and waited 500 years for you so we can be together!!" dynamic for Inu/Kag fics. I'd think, after being separated for even that length of time (no matter how long it was on Kagome's end), things would be awkward. After all, the waiting party has had 500 years to mull over this decision! ... Yeah.
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I have to agree with Psyco, yours is one of the few Sess/Kags writers I can read without the taste of vomit in my mouth.
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Even though they were seperated Inuyasha still was looking out for her.
Of course he was. Considering how much she changed him while they were on their quest, how could he not? In this little divergence, he found her in the meidou and returned her to her own time, but the well was sealed forever after that, so I'm not sure whether or not he actually told her he loved her. Actions always speak louder than words, though, so now she should have no doubt about how he felt towards her :)