Fragment: "the Bridge of Sighs" (6)
Fandom: Spiral (AU)
Genre: Spiral!Mystery-Drama and such
Rating: T
Why: For drama!tension
What's going on: AU Spiral setting--"What would happen if Kanone didn't leave the blade children? What if Eyes did?"--The teams line up on either side
Other notes: What I said last chapter still applies--that is, if Kousuke ends up kinda like Eyes' bodyguard, this will kill two stones with one bird. (What?)
Last chapter was odd. I've never written RyokuXKousuke awkwardness before. I kind of liked it...*evil grin* Probably because Ryoku's such a surface tough-girl and Kousuke takes abuse well while acting like he doesn't. It's an interesting chemistry mix.

I've started writing scenes ahead for this, and I kind of think I know where I want it to go. Now the trick is to just get it there. (And I'm trying to put together a puzzle of sorts for this.) Laugh all you want, but that does seem to take a trick for me. *sweatdrop* I'm not the type of person who thinks in terms of destinations. I tend to take scenic routes and meander pretty aimlessly, in real life as well as writing. "The Journey is its own Reward" and all that tripe, taken beyond all logic or good taste in other words.

Eyes Rutherford's brain is kind of creepy. It's all clock-worky and organized... (Kind of different from and at once similar to Kanone's... Kanone's all disorder and hanging by the skin of one's teeth to a sheer drop off a cliff while justifying himself as free. Eyes is more like, "I'll keep myself going. I'll really keep myself going. If I don't, I'll probably have a breakdown and be no better off than Kanone. People need me. I can't do that. It's better if I just keep going..." It's him walking off after he watches a kitty get hit by a car when Kanone would run out into the middle of the street and probably single-handedly try to stop the car or at least, dart through and rescue the cat using killer, inhuman reflexes, and then shout like an infant if he doesn't make it in time, and bury said stray with honors.) Eyes creeps me out personally, but he's sitll a magnificent specimin. He and Near need to have a silver-haired logician alliance across fandoms...

In other news. Aaah! I'm having Hiyono block! I actually like Hiyono, too! This is like when I was in Juvenile Orion and Kaname always gave me trouble in writing for some odd reason. I just couldn't seem to get his voice to sound right, and so I left him out of most of my stuff, even though I didn't have anything against him. Or...like when I was trying to write ZigfriedXMalik from Yu-Gi-Oh for Nyami-chan and I couldn't get Ziggy to sound natural either and had to give it up and come in with my head hanging to the ground... *bites off all her fingernails* ~Aaaaaagh! It's terrible. I've had to cut her role in the story so far because of that! Which...I can get away with and all, because it's an AU, but...Hauuuh. (Thought:...Maybe I can't seem to make her sound right just because I can't make her as screwed up as the others... o_o)
Come on, Hiyono! I believe in you!

Also, Ayumu shows up this chapter. The more I write Ayumu, the more I like him, I think.

Oh, and a note from last chapter--it always drives me nuts in fanfiction where it turns out EVERYONE'S gay. Or EVERYONE'S straight. Having One Main Character off, being isolated because he's one or the other is far mroe interesting and far more believable on population demographics.
That, and I like triangles.
I'm not trying to be mean, but gays still have a hard time in this universe, and things aren't much better in my AU. That and Eyes is so cotton-picking private to begin with, that things get pretty loopy.
Poor Eyes. Things are complicated for him. (And poor Rio, too.)

One last thing. this is the last of the fully-compelted chapters formt eh sumemr dump. Currently, I ahve two more chpaters out of order, and half of chapter seven in addition, but I'm taking it on as a full-status "epic" fic to work on.

This cut-text is also brought to you by sylvia plath.

 

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Fragment: "the Bridge of Sighs" (5)
Fandom: Spiral (AU)
Genre: Spiral!Mystery-Drama and such
Rating: T
Why: Because Airports have weird connotations in Spiral..., and for Eyes' reeking charisma. Also for Kousuke and Ryoku blunt!banter on sexual topics.
What's going on: AU Spiral setting--"What would happen if Kanone didn't leave the blade children? What if Eyes did?"--The mystery coalesces just a little more
Other notes: So I left you with a terrible cliffhanger if you stopped to really think about it and pick up on how odd Eyes' dialogue is. Skunky is mean to her readers. You can never expect me to give away the plot in the voice of another character--I always leave a chance they might be lying for their own inscrutiable purposes.
Oh, Skunky is mean...
And so, poor Kanone's losing his mind a little (more than usual), Rio's trying to take care of him and refused to join Eyes because of Kanone (And Heavens, that's hard for her because she has that THING for Eyes...), and now Eyes Rutherford in his haze of mystery and rose-petal pianist-ness is zooming off to Japan, where he intends to meet hapless Kousuke and who knows what he's up to!

As a side note: This fic has gone past the thirty-page mark as of last chapter. Quite the plotroach infestation, this.
(...What have you people done to me?)

Ryoku and Kousuke are surprisingly fun to write together. I worry a little that Ryoku channelled a little too much of me, though. (Though I'm not much of a jock.) The kind of surface brashness and bluntness, and even the physical abuse covering up awkwardness and deep-down niceness are sort of like me. (Though I never hit people like Ryoku does, or anywhere near as frequently...well...maybe one of my brothers, but that goes back and forth and unlike her, I don't have things for my siblings...)

There's some implied one-sided RioXEyes, awkward, fumbling "we don't want to be requited" KousukeXRyoku, and *GASP* surprises of all sorts. Also, anyone who secretly enjoys the idea of KousukeXEyes is probably loving Kousuke's head!commentary, and how uncomfortable he is. (It really WAS fun to write.)

I just had a thought, too. This chapter might end up beating out two challenges at once if I take it the right direction. Hm. Convenient.

Of course, everyone knows Edgar Allen Poe. Nevermore and all that. But how manyof you know his poem Tamerlane? Well...You know the first line now. It's the cut-text for this chapter.
 

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

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( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

( Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme-- )

Fragment: "the Bridge of Sighs" (4)
Fandom: Spiral (AU)
Genre: Angst/Drama with a touch of amazing Spiral!Mystery
Rating: T
Why: Because someone got stabbed through the eye last chapter, and there's some stuff on it, and ew. Also, consideration of watching porn or masturbating, and more thought-murder. Also, Kanone is unbelievably nostalgially wistful!unhappy-depressing.
What's going on: AU Spiral setting--"What would happen if Kanone didn't leave the blade children? What if Eyes did?"--And the coalescence begins...
Other notes: Okay, so the POV for this one is all screwy. You'll see what I mean. It's been kind of swapping off. Last chapter was kind of Rio's turn in the sisterly spotlight, and before that, we had two chapters of Kousuke. Now you get a chunk of Kanone in all his screwy goodness, and...some random.
Oh Kanone... He's pretty screwy in this fic. (Though I like him all the better for it, I guess, because I'm strange, and the characters I like best, I seem to torment the most...)
I'm starting to warm to this, strangely enough. It's turning out wonderfully. Aza-pon-pon, wherever you are in your long absence, I really love what you've done to me this time by infecting my brain. (Plaaaaage! Plaaaaaaague!)
Surely the Spiral cast wouldn't thank you, but I do.

Sylvia Plath is responsible for cut-text this chapter. She's highly manic-depressive-suicidal and all, but she was an excellent poet. I secretly suspect Hizumi has read and likes The Bell Jar.

Fragment: "the Bridge of Sighs" (3)
Fandom: Spiral (AU)
Genre: Angst/Drama with the angst shifting headlong into Spiral-esque mysteries
Rating: Likely T
Why: Mostly for occasional language because Kanone is depressing and prickly. Rio is also wonderfully faithful, and Kousuke is doubtful. Also, guns, pillowfights, wiatresses, and italian food. (And a reference to lolita complexes and messing with the minds of gay people, which firmly puts this in the "T" range. But Rio is "the exploding lolita" and Kanone's...well...Kanone.)
What's going on: AU Spiral setting--"What would happen if Kanone didn't leave the blade children? What if Eyes did?"--And the mystery thickens...
Other notes: This is the way we stop people from studying and doing other creative things with their time--we begin to speak in stilted melodramatic prose write more and MORE stuff for other people to sneak-peek.
This should get a good bit less depressing and angsty for a while at least. People are starting to cope.
...Or so we think. (Or are they really coping after all and I just like to sow meaningless suspense like spangles and sequins into a person's clothing?) Aha!

Also: Rio is so very awesome... I love Rio. If she were real and not totally two-dimensional, I'd want to be internet pen-pals with her, and introduce her to my pyromaniac male nerd friends.
 
KanoneXRio never seems to ever happen, you know? Good Heavens, is THAT what's happening here? Woah.

Implied, presumably one-sided RioXEyes, because it's canon. (Also known as "Because it's not Kanon") Same goes for implied KousukeXRyoku. That's way canon.

Also possible RioXKanone as I said before, or maybe one-sided KanoneXRio because it's weird. Depends on what you want to see. (I'm on a roll for triangles lately... XOMG. HET.)

Possibly even KanoneXEyes. (Maybe one-sided--though on which side is the real question.) They're so close in the canon that that particular interpretation of them is almost canon, itself. It's only here if you squint and pan for it, though. I'm trying to cool it on that. (Poor Moe-chan doesn't like KanoneXEyes, and I think her stuff's interesting, and so, she inspires me to experiment. I aim to please, Moe-chan!) Since these chapters are usually told with the viewpoint of Kousuke or Rio or such, they see the Kanone and Eyes relationship as very close familial ties. (Ie: Brothers. Or at the least, best friends.) But Eyes is so very "I must not show emotion *dead face*" and Kanone is so socially manipulative that it's pretty hard to tell how the chemistry with those two works...

For the record, Azalee is officially the only person who can make Rio frighteningly sexy. (Enough to make me scared when my birthday comes up.) All I can manage is to do on the other hand, is make Rio "normal" and occasionally cute, and trying to keep everything and everyone together. I don't do her justice. (Or if I do, I only do her justice, and other people manage to make her more than just justice and more like LXLight justice!slash. ...Uh.)

Gag. Angst!floof onna riot poof.
And short chapters, hey, hey.
I say. I must be doing better--I keep dividing these up into things I don't have to shorten or chop up for LJ. NICE.

One last thing--people always look at me funny when I make Kanone "charming." I've finally found my defense, though. Remember that scene in the manga where he's looking up at the sky all gloomily thinking it's a nice day and willing Eyes Rutherford to drop dead because of the pretty sky and all? (Chapter 34, I think.) If you look at the background pictures, Kanone's with a group of girls. Not one, not two, but FIVE giggling girls in school uniforms. When Ayumu says later (after Eyes wakes up) that Kanone's still at the school, and getting along well with all the girls, clearly he means it.
I rest my case.
The man's the Light Yagami of Spiral. (Except he's trying to kick it to the god of the new world, in a manner of speaking...) So don't give me funny looks for how he behaves. Kanone uses his draw on people even in the canon. (HA. I wasn't imagining it! Yes! *punches the air in triumph*) This makes it pretty ironic that he feels all bent out of shape over the idea that Kiyotaka might be a manipulator, too. But it DOES explain how he recognizes it in the first place.

That said, if you pay attention to the little background-sequencer scenes, whenever Eyes goes out walking, girls stop and stare at him. Even when he's "in disguise." Clearly the manga-ka has a sense of humor about the "pretty" blade children. (Both Eyes and Kanone are what we RPG people would call a high charisma roll...)

So, yes, Kanone is...well...Kanone.

(Feel free to argue with me, but I tend to win these things.)

And usually I make him bi, but this time he wants to be straight. Makes it more interesting.

Dylan Thomas takes the credit for the cut text this chapter. Cheers to the poet with the wonderful voice, who was the master of drinking himself under the table. Permanantly.
 

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Fragment: "the Bridge of Sighs" (2)
Fandom: Spiral (AU)
Genre: Angst/Drama, definitely. Still chock full of moar delicious angst. Come on and read, my bloodless, tearless demons...
Rating: T
Why: Rotting animals and general sobbing, and Kanone being really angry. Some language and breaking of stuff... Also, Kousuke gets abused by his siblings, but really, what else is new there? (You're allowed one use of a particular word under a teen setting.)
What's going on: AU Spiral setting--"What would happen if Kanone didn't leave the blade children? What if Eyes did?"--The ripples rebound just a little more...
Other notes: I still haven't fogiven you, Aza-pon-pon... (I need to make you a cake for being awesome.)
So...yeah...I'm still working on this. (You can only be so depressing at a time...) And this is pretty much the other half of the scene from last section. Continuation. From here, I think it starts to take a few jumps... And MOAR ECKSIHSTENSHULISM. (Or something...)
I think we all know what swans oh-so-obviously symbolize in the Spiral fandom... I love playing with the Spiral symbolisms. Muahahaaa. Mad english major... (Symbolism is my daily bread...)
Uh...anyway...this is putting along nicely.
Also:
Kiyotaka.
(...And with that, Mushy-sama goes into a swoon of delight in the background and fanboys fit to inspire the rest of us by his devoted example...)
Cue admiring fangirls NOW...

Cut text is thanks to Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1800's minister extraordinaire. That guy can turn a phrase, and write a sermon. Whew.

 

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The Bridge of Sighs (AU Spiral fic--1) Azalee's challenge

Mood: Depressing
Song: Imogen Heap--Speeding Cars

Fragment: "the Bridge of Sighs" (1)
Fandom: Spiral (AU)
Genre: Angst/Drama, probably. Lots of angst here at least.
Rating: Mostly K, but possibly T
Why: just because there's a bit of violence, and a touch of swearing. It's mostly safe, it's just depressing. (Rated for dead animals, and decking of halls...and Kousuke's mouth.)
What's going on: AU Spiral setting--"What would happen if Kanone didn't leave the blade children? What if Eyes did?"--The news reaches the dearly gathered...

Other notes: Azalee-san got me going on this thanks to the "plotbunny adoption" thread on gunwithwings.proboards.com. (Which is a marvelous little forum for anyone who's into Spiral, by the way. *shameless plug*) I wasn't actually depressed enough to really have good inspiration until the load of shit dropped on my plate. That is, 5-11-09 and the days thereafter--for those who don't know, I was academically dismissed from my university. (Because when you take all senior level classes in your sophomore year due to exceptionally poor student advising, and self-idiocy, there's bound to be a re-hash somewhere. Public transit also doesn't help in this regard.)
Thanks to all that, anyway, I think I wanted characters to suffer just a bit more than usual. (Poor Blade Children. As though life wasn't rough enoguh for them as it is...) But even though life's been looking up since, the fic's been going, like good fics are wont to do, and because it's starting to turn pretty fic-worthy, this has been put into fanfiction format rather than raws--meaning it has chapter dividers, and quote-headers. It's slightly more formal and oh-so-symbolic than my idea-testers, that is, and much more likely of going places aside from this journal. So this is probably a rawer version of what might eventually go elsewhere. (Ie: This kind of stuff is the reason this journal is here...)
Scratch that. You're the priveleged ones who get to see the raws of what's going up on ff.net for sure.

"The bridge of sighs" is a 'Homeworld' OST track a reference to the il ponte dei sospiri of Venice, which is a bridge stretching between the Doges' Palace to the lead dungeons, (i piombi), crossed by condemned men. Søren Kierkegaard wrote in one of his moments of existential griping, "The path we all must take--across the Bridge of Sighs into eternity." and really, the fact I'm reading the journals of the father of Existential thought at a time like this, should probably impact everyone on a deep and somehow depressing level.(Somehow...)

...Microsoft Works dictionary definition of the Existentialist Movement: "philosophical movement centered on individual existence: a 20th-century philosophical movement that denies that the universe has any intrinsic meaning or purpose and requires individuals to take responsibility for their own actions and shape their own destinies." Notably, Kafka's Metamorphosis is an example of "pessimistic existentialism", which basically teaches that the world's a much better place without you around. Cheery thoughts. (Also: cockroaches.)

Kierkegaard's a little better than some, at least. I'm reading his diary again. If nothing else, Kierkegaard is irrevokable proof that sarcasm was alive and well in Denmark in the 1850's. I'll probably end up quoting him somewhere sometime soon... (Either him or Plath. I have The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath that I'm going through too. She's sort of "honorary Existentialist" all on her own...)

Ray Bradbury's short story collection I sing the body electric! is another reading of mine this week. (Back in May, people.) The title story "I sing the body electric!" Is a story about a grieving family who commission for an electric grandmother to take care of them... And that short description does it no justice at all. Ray Bradbury is a master of fiction in all sorts and fiddles. It has a strange electric-fairytale feel to it which is marvelous. I highly recommend Bradbury's short stories to anyone who had to read his depressing stuff. *cough cough Farenheit 451 cough*
Still...the story is a little creepy to put in context with the loss of Eyes from the Blade Children. I doubt it's fathomable in its entirity if you haven't read the short story, (Just as the Carson McCullins reference of a few stories back probably makes little sense unless you actually know the surrounding impressions of "the Ballad of the Sad Cafe") but my quotes often aren't all that fathomable anyway. It's hard to get "calm before the storm" out of the McCullins just as it's hard to get "leaving and the hope of return" from this, and even then, it doesn't really speak out the feeling...that's for the fic itself to do...and aah, I'm rambling and recursing...
The cut-text is from the same story. Bradbury is far more masterful a writer than I, and he makes fun turns of phrase that I envy tremendously. (I tend to get my cut-texts from all over, but in this case, I'll say none of the cut-texts for the Bridge of Sighs will ever be original. Some others might be, but these won't be. So this one is also a quote from Grandmother in that same story.)

Duuuuude...on a non existentialist-note, I realized in this, I have things that can be taken as RioXEyes, KanoneXEyes, or KousukeXRio. That should basically cover anything, right? Fans should be slavering at my FEET...
And Aza-pon and Mushy-sama are going to be groaning, because when I get to putting this up, I took a look at the amount of text I have to put up (NOT counting the Spiral octagonal crap) and I have a megabyte of text. Hoo.
Skunky is loquacious.
Yes, yes. (But in my defense, I LIKE this fic. And when I like a fic, it's usually granted as "good" in the eyes of others, so, so, so...I should be off the hook. LOGIC!POWER)

I especially like the trialogue anecdotes in this chapter. It's proof that even when I angst, I can't help dropping humor. It's also proof that I like to give myself challenges--nothing helps you get character voice down like not letting yourself give any detail but the voice itself. Please tell me if that section's confusing--I might still have some kinks to work out. (Well...yes...alright, I KNOW I have some kinks to work out, but I mean in the non-personality, non-hairstyle sense. Relevent to the story-style, yes?)

Pon-pon, you're rediculous, but I love you for messing with my head like this. You at least need to take this "punishment" like a m-...er...well...read this. Because it's your fault. I may well be checking up on you. (School? Homework? BAH. We don't need grades! We have fanfiction!)

 

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