First of all, a thousand apologies for taking so very long to come back and reply to this fic. I wanted to make sure I could express myself clearly about it, and I wasn't even sure what I wanted to express because it took me quite a while to figure out my own thoughts about it. I didn't forget about it, in fact I've been thinking about it a lot since I first read it.
Yours is actually the first Nii/Kou fic I've read. Thinking about the pairing before reading this, I didn't think it could ever work. Kou hates Nii too much. But of course, strong emotions sometimes get confused and blur into other strong emotions, especially under extreme stress... (not that I go in much for "hate and love are two faces of the same feeling" either, though).
So, your fic was up against a lot of opposition before I even read it, and yet... it works. You handle that opposition and make it *part* of the story, and make the story all the more powerful and convincing for that. It's both hot *and* wrong, invitation and rejection and mocking, grey areas and paradoxes and so much frustration that needs an outlet, and yet is being toyed with, and yet that begins to push him into actually giving that frustration an outlet, if in a rather violent and self-destructive way so far.
I won't say you've won me over to the pairing in general, but you have won me over to this particular take on them, being a very powerful thing that leaves me with so much to think about and a curiousity about how it will develop from there.
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Date: 2005-06-07 04:30 am (UTC)Yours is actually the first Nii/Kou fic I've read. Thinking about the pairing before reading this, I didn't think it could ever work. Kou hates Nii too much. But of course, strong emotions sometimes get confused and blur into other strong emotions, especially under extreme stress... (not that I go in much for "hate and love are two faces of the same feeling" either, though).
So, your fic was up against a lot of opposition before I even read it, and yet... it works. You handle that opposition and make it *part* of the story, and make the story all the more powerful and convincing for that. It's both hot *and* wrong, invitation and rejection and mocking, grey areas and paradoxes and so much frustration that needs an outlet, and yet is being toyed with, and yet that begins to push him into actually giving that frustration an outlet, if in a rather violent and self-destructive way so far.
I won't say you've won me over to the pairing in general, but you have won me over to this particular take on them, being a very powerful thing that leaves me with so much to think about and a curiousity about how it will develop from there.