Gintama Fic: Everyone's got to write their own happy ending.

[xparrot]

Not quite sure what to say about this one, though I feel I should say something. First to warn that it is rather joke deficient and thus not in the proper Gintama spirit. Moreover it's quite uncanonical, as it's a few-years-in-the-future fic and it's an established part of Gintama canon that the chars don't age, being the stars of an episodic gag manga/anime. Various character interpretations and relationships are equally uncanonical. There's allusions to a few 'ships, while the story itself is kind of anti-ship, at least when it comes to Gintoki pairings. Not trying to diss on anyone's OTPs, and this isn't necessarily how I think the chars are; but it's how they look to me sometimes, in certain lights. I like that light, and this story is cotton candy fluff for me, but maybe it could be a little sad, especially if you find unrequited love painful.

Thanks to gnine and naye for reassuring me that it wasn't as pointless as all that. Any comments as always appreciated.

Gintama: Everyone's got to write their own happy ending. {~6,700 words}
PG, Futurefic
In which Shinpachi is married, Gintoki is not, Kagura is all grown up, and the Yorozuya will always be the Yorozuya.

Read it on AO3

Comments

OK not really a cmment on this story

[beautifuljoe.livejournal.com]

Is there a way you can do a story to fund raise for the damage in Japan -- I think many of us would like to be supportive of earthquake assistance efforts and your gintama fic would be a no-brainer connection?

Re: OK not really a cmment on this story

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I'm considering it - there's already a help_japan community up with such an auction. The main reason I hesitate is because I already owe two stories for a Haiti charity that I have thus far failed to deliver and are now over a year delayed. Really don't want to slight the incredibly generous people who made those donations, so...I'm trying to figure out what to do.