fic: go directly to Hell, do not pass go do not collect $200

[xparrot]

I said it before, that I fell for Kaiba because he reminds me of Lex. Brilliant and deeply disturbed, casualties of their sadistic fathers' damage and their own ambitions. Kaiba is the more culpable of the two, having chosen his path rather than being born into it; ironic that he's the one to eventually rise above his darkness, while Lex is ultimately damned. Maybe it's because Lex is destiny's puppet victim, while Kaiba has always forged his own. Or maybe Lex just needs someone to shatter his heart.

Anyway. They're obviously a match made in some dark and deliciously twisted place.

I might've futzed with the YGO timeline; the story is set in the spring of '95, with Lex at 15 and Kaiba at 14 (for anyone flummoxed by imaging the real with the animated, please follow praiseofshadows's lead and picture Kaiba as played by Gackt). The idea is that Gozaburo sent Seto to an American boarding school for a semester to practice his English; Seto took the opportunity to learn some other valuable life skills from the school's expert. I'm not confident of the characterizations of either one of them, but hell, they're just kids here. Seriously fucked up kids.

Exchange Student {9,795 words}
NC-17 (Warnings for underaged sex and references to child abuse), Lex Luthor/Seto Kaiba
Sometimes broken edges can almost fit together. Lex meets a boy one semester at Excelsior.

Read it on AO3

Comments

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was awesome! XD The amusing part is, I actually have an AU RP going on with a friend of mine over MSN where the pairing is Ryuuji/Lex and secondary pairings of Ryuuji/Seto and Clark/Lex, so when I saw something with Seto/Lex, I had to click.

No way could I have not when there's actually someone else out there cracky enough to combine the two!

Nice merging of their worlds, that was a very tidy way to do it. You kept them IC and I could completely believe that was them as kids. I have no idea whether to add this to my del.icio.us, my memories, or my bookmarks but I know it's going somewhere that I can share it easily. XD

(And if you're curious about how we set up the worlds up, we used the fact that in the manga, Ryuuji's a magic-trained assassin with a psycho father and the Shadow Realm is a different dimension to say that Ryuuji was being sent off to different planets when he was a kid so that he could learn how to adapt there. Which resulted in -- you guessed it -- Ryuuji and Lex in boarding school together, Ryuuji getting picked on for being so girly-looking, and Lex taking an interest because Ryuuji's all mysterious.)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! Yep, definitely much crack involved ^^; just, once I thought of it, I couldn't get the idea out of my head, they are way too much alike. Fortunately their worlds aren't too terribly different (at least not when they're younger...)

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

I recced it in my journal as well. XD And sent the link to the girl that RPs Lex so that she could take a look (though she's not all that fond of Seto, so not sure if she'll like it as much), so yeah, definitely enjoyed it enough to want other people to take a look.