I am weak

[xparrot]

I'm confessing here so certain people can holler at me, as I well know you will, though I swear it's not my fault, I didn't want to do it, I can't help that Kaiba is such a compelling SOB.

...which is to say, yeah. I wrote Yu-Gi-Oh fic. Moreover, I didn't even write good YGO fic. No, instead I had to retell the same damn flashback story I'm sure has been done a thousand times before on ff.net. Only with overextended metaphors and in second person, just to be contrary. And while I drew a little on the anime filler, most of it is based on what we've thus far seen of Kaiba's backstory in the manga. So it was essentially inspired by all of three pages of manga.

What can I say. They're a really interesting three pages.

Deconstruction

Now, leave me to my shame. And my incredibly cute if stupid filler arc.

Comments

[innueneko.livejournal.com]

Oh hush, I used to like Kaiba/Yami-Yuugi. ^__^ ...stop looking at me funny.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

*squints at you*
...I don't suppose you have any good fic/art recs lying around...?

[innueneko.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, it's SUPER hard to find good Kaiba/Yami fic. There's just SO MUCH of it, and some most of it is really awful, some of it is so-so, and a super small percentage is really good.

Of course, most of the time I find a lot of Kaiba/Tristen (forgot his japanese name), and God forbid, Kaiba/Mokuba. I don't like either of them. XP

I'm sure there are some fic recs on fanfiction.net (each fandom has one), and most of the fics I read were on ff.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

...I've still have more luck finding good Kaiba/Yami than Kaiba/Jounouchi, which is the most popular pairing it seems, and yet every single one seems to have "...Kaiba confesses his love" which makes my brain a'splode. Kaiba-kun doesn't confess. Anything. Ever. If for some reason he suddenly decided his lust for Jounouchi (!...?) was too distracting he'd just grab him by the belt and say, "You. Wall. Turn around."

...not that I've been trawling the depths of ff.net. Or anything.

Kaiba/Mokuba!...sigh. My trouble is that Seto & Mokuba is pretty much my favorite relationship in the series. But as platonic adorable brothers. Which makes the finding of fic very difficult. Ah, the curse of being a gen fic'er!

[innueneko.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's true, I found this fic that was actually pretty promising until Yami and Kaiba started crying like girls ALL the time because their love was ohsodooooommeeed. ^_^;; Kaiba may be bitchy, but he isn't pms'ing. Okay maybe he is, but no tears! XP

[immicolia.livejournal.com]

If I may: Oh gaaaaaawd.

I love overblown metaphors. And I love tiny!Kaibas (even the mere thought of tiny!Kaibas) And I must say the ending destroyed me.... although how much of that has to do with me always squeeing over Seto putting himself back together is questionable.

.......they really really are a great three pages. Aren't they?

(and man, now I'm thinking that I have to try and finish at least one of the multiple things about Kaiba that I have tried to write but never seem to be able to follow through on. God knows I can write crackheaded AUs, and reams of stuff involving Yugi being an angsty little bitch. But I try to write about the original Angst in the Shape of a Man and I fall short.)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

thank you! and yeah, whole fic was mostly written trying to capture that happy little-boy smile as he fits those two pieces together. Picture worth a couple thousand words, etc.

Stupid manga. If it were all duels it would be so easy to ignore. But then the stuff crammed between the duels is just too fascinating to pass up.

The thing about chibi-Kaiba is that then you can dig into all his angst and OMG trauma. Present day Kaiba still has it, but it's buried under thick layers of snark and psychopathy and general bastardness.

Have you seen MadamHydra's Kaiba past-fic? just found it last night and quietly died of joy. The two that killed were "Moving Forward," which covers an accomplishment of his I hadn't considered before; and especially "Mighty Wings" - I'm very partial to the outsider's perspective, and finally having someone take note that yeah, super megalomaniacal CEO or not, he is just sixteen. And the lovely little glimpse of Death-T-building psycho!Kaiba. Plus the tidbit of caretaking!Mokuba is death by adorable, God knows his nii-sama needs a keeper.

Hewwo..

[zimarra.livejournal.com]

Hi. It's the crazy shi-chan girl. Just saying hi.
Hee.
Huzzah for three pages.

Re: Hewwo..

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

hii~ and welcome to this silliness that is my lj. will haveta go look up 'lena! ^^

Re: Hewwo..

[zimarra.livejournal.com]

her lj is: [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]

[tinypinkmouse]

Hi, I hope it's okay that I made a podfic of this. Which is here: http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/962164.html

I love second person stories and couldn't help myself. And Kaiba is always fun.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Eee, thank you so much! Never expected to get podfic for my anime fic, this is awesome! ^_^

(sorry for the delayed response, was away from internet for a while and missed the message!)

[cybel]

http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/deconstruction

:-)