Oh oh oh. ;____; This is so very different from the other "living-Fay" AUs I've read! Most of the time it seems like they're used as an excuse for happy fluff, which is all well and good so far as it goes, but this. Oh, lords, I'm wincing and ♥ing and wibbling all at the same time, and it is glorious! These lines in particular:
He's not the sort to give up against impossible odds, as his father is fond of saying (as his uncle is fond of darkly muttering).
he fixes the smile onto his face -- the one he uses when at dinner with his uncle, the one that always makes the old man glower at him --
He smiles then, and Yuui's breath catches -- his brother doesn't smile very often, not like this, not meaning it --
just drive home the fact that, even if the royal family haven't all died or gone crazy, all is still not well with the twins in Valeria. It's twisted and yet very reasonable, and the same with all the references to fashion and coy flirting and court intrigue; he has Fay as a support, so Yuui doesn't seem to be as broken as the person we know in TRC, but it still feels like the two of them are trapped inside a choking, gilded cage. And then the parallels, with Yuui flirting and smiling and running away, just like in canon; and Kurogane, who seems to be a shock to the system no matter where he is, and who's still able to see through Yuui's masks and. Oh. You've managed to take the characters and their relationship and transplant them into a setting that's both new and very fitting.
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Re: by thorn uncut
Date: 2008-02-10 05:40 am (UTC)He's not the sort to give up against impossible odds, as his father is fond of saying (as his uncle is fond of darkly muttering).
he fixes the smile onto his face -- the one he uses when at dinner with his uncle, the one that always makes the old man glower at him --
He smiles then, and Yuui's breath catches -- his brother doesn't smile very often, not like this, not meaning it --
just drive home the fact that, even if the royal family haven't all died or gone crazy, all is still not well with the twins in Valeria. It's twisted and yet very reasonable, and the same with all the references to fashion and coy flirting and court intrigue; he has Fay as a support, so Yuui doesn't seem to be as broken as the person we know in TRC, but it still feels like the two of them are trapped inside a choking, gilded cage. And then the parallels, with Yuui flirting and smiling and running away, just like in canon; and Kurogane, who seems to be a shock to the system no matter where he is, and who's still able to see through Yuui's masks and. Oh. You've managed to take the characters and their relationship and transplant them into a setting that's both new and very fitting.
I. I think I love you. ♥ ♥ ♥
;_____;