Gintama Fic: Pandemonium 1/?

[xparrot]

So! I have - not quite finished it, but am on the epilogue, which is close enough to begin posting. Consider this a sort-of WiP; the first draft is pretty much done, but I take long enough to edit that I'll be posting in parts. It's somewhat over 60K words in total - the longest fic I've completed in a couple of years! \o/

This is completely indulgent; I wrote it so that later I would have the Gintama fic I wanted to read. Big thanks to naye, gnine, and snarkydame, for encouraging me to go through with it anyway.

Warning: I love the cracktastic humor of the series; I love the moments of epic drama as well. So this starts out silly, but that is not the tone maintained throughout the story entire. Also watch out for random Japanese jokes and references - I'll annotate the major ones; I can try to explain the others (though some might only make sense in my head anyway.)

As always, any and all comments appreciated more than I can say.

Gintama: Pandemonium, 1/? {4,448 words}
gen; PG-13; Yorozuya (the Shinsengumi, Zura, and most of the rest of the cast show up eventually)
Today's lessons for the Yorozuya trio: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, don't count your chickens before they're hatched, and be careful when life seems too good to be true, because it might be a sign that everything is soon going to go very, very badly.

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Comments

[ah-chan.livejournal.com]

EEEEE, having been a fan of your Saiyuki fic on ff.net back in the day, I cheered like mad when I saw fanfic with your name on it on the Gintama com! And the high quality of your writing is as I remember, :D and your grip on canon as masterful as ever - the timing and the set ups are all so very Gintama! The old lady and the rosebush! Gin-chan ditching them only to come back for the reward! The paralysis from the venom giving Shinpachi an Osakan accent- I could hear the voice actors in my head, it was that spot on.

Thank you thank you thank you for writing delicious gen!!! I am reallylooking forward to seeing what you'll do with the rest of the cast, having done the Yorozuya trio so very well.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Heee, thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying it so far! I could hear all the seiyuu in my head as I wrote it - they've all got such distinctive voices - so I'm very pleased to know that came across.

Hope you continue to like it, as it goes along and other chars show up! (The Yorozuya are the main focus for the first half; the Shinsengumi get a few early scenes, but their major role is in the second half. By which to say they charged in and kind of took over a lot ^^;;;)

[ah-chan.livejournal.com]

Ha! It's what the Shinsengumi do, after all XD.