Seriously. You wrote asexual/aromantic Gintoki, and I never quite realize just how much I miss seeing asexuality as valid until I run into something like this, and it makes happy way out of proportion. ^____^
—you love all of us, all your friends; we're all precious to you, aren't we? We're all part of your family. You just don't fall in love to do it; you get there by other ways.
THIS.
And then you make my heart melt, because it's okay for him to be the way he is, and he'll always have his family even though he's not going to do a Shinpachi and settle down with wife and kids. They won't stop being family because someone did some growing-up-into-a-responsible-adult (and Shinpachi would do that, if any of the Gintama characters would). So much love, and the kind of love that does things to my heart in a way that pairings really can't. ♥
And oh, Kagura. Gintoki would be one to say something like that, that would hurt her and you never quite know if he was did it out of laziness or because he knew that it would be best for her, because Gintoki is tricky like that. Aww.
And she's coming back! No splitting the Yorozuya family! ♥♥♥
(BTW, did you just make a sneak mention of 悪魔の実? *laughs*)
Like you, I know this isn't necessarily how the characters and relationships are in canon, but it works, and it feels IC for everyone involved, and I'm so glad you wrote it.
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Date: 2011-03-11 01:10 pm (UTC)Seriously. You wrote asexual/aromantic Gintoki, and I never quite realize just how much I miss seeing asexuality as valid until I run into something like this, and it makes happy way out of proportion. ^____^
—you love all of us, all your friends; we're all precious to you, aren't we? We're all part of your family. You just don't fall in love to do it; you get there by other ways.
THIS.
And then you make my heart melt, because it's okay for him to be the way he is, and he'll always have his family even though he's not going to do a Shinpachi and settle down with wife and kids. They won't stop being family because someone did some growing-up-into-a-responsible-adult (and Shinpachi would do that, if any of the Gintama characters would). So much love, and the kind of love that does things to my heart in a way that pairings really can't. ♥
And oh, Kagura. Gintoki would be one to say something like that, that would hurt her and you never quite know if he was did it out of laziness or because he knew that it would be best for her, because Gintoki is tricky like that. Aww.
And she's coming back! No splitting the Yorozuya family! ♥♥♥
(BTW, did you just make a sneak mention of 悪魔の実? *laughs*)
Like you, I know this isn't necessarily how the characters and relationships are in canon, but it works, and it feels IC for everyone involved, and I'm so glad you wrote it.