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

[nijibug.livejournal.com]

The prospect of youkai!Gin is exciting and something I would really love to see Sorachi play with! On the other hand, I'm almost afraid that would change the tone/mood of Gintama's story. Then again, it is Gintama and it always does the unexpected, so if it had to be anybody writing that, Sorachi could pull it off best.

...I've considered writing up an ace!Gintoki manifesto, can you tell? ^^;

Same here. XD
(And for that I blame you.)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeah, I have the same thought about youkai!Gintoki; it'd be intriguing and would explain some things, but I don't if I'd like how it might change the series. Only if Sorachi did decide to do it...it would turn out really really dumb, I'm sure! :P

Same here. XD
(And for that I blame you.)

*laughs* Well, if you want to do it, I'd love to read it~! Otherwise I might just go ahead and do it myself...(I think of it like the way I slash chars, knowing that it's counter to canon but it's fun to reinterpret things...)