And Then, Fanfic!
The genderswap edition! I should totally be either 1) asleep or 2) trying to come up with an essay proposal for my Children's Lit class, but...eh, I'm waiting for the sleeping meds to kick in so I can not stay up all night worrying about the shit I have to do. So while I wait, I will post two bits from the WIP files for your entertainment.
Rufus genderswap - I don't remember the exact logic behind starting this, although it was probably![[dreamwidth.org profile]](https://www.momiji.dreamwidth.dev/img/silk/identity/user.png)
whiskeynshinra's fault somehow. I don't think I'll write any more of this, because there's a lot of messy issues around forcing someone to grow up as a gender they're not, and I would want to do that justice, and I don't think I could without a ton of research that I'm not sure I'm up to doing.
( Rufus )
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Ukitake genderswap. Born out of seeing a genderswap!Ukitake fic on FF.net which I thought had an interesting premise but kind of awful execution (Ukitake is secretly a girl, you've already established this, reinforcing how delicate and feminine and fragile she is every other sentence is annoying). So I sort of set out to do it right, sort of as a way of building up backstory for a possible AU journal for the Bleach DR. There will be more of this if I don't get lazy - I have a bunch of other scenes half-planned in my head already. This one is fairly early on - there is an Epic! Fight! Scene! before it that I haven't written yet and which will probably be very Exalted when I do. Basically, nasty Hollow attack, parents take most of them out but die in the process. The commotion wakes up the children, who come to investigate. Jyuushiko realizes that if someone doesn't do something, they're all dead, and she's the oldest and the biggest. Cue moment of epic Exalted badassery followed promptly by passing out, because that tends to happen when you get tossed around by a Hollow some and then use up all of your spirit energy in one blow.
( Ukitake )
Rufus genderswap - I don't remember the exact logic behind starting this, although it was probably
whiskeynshinra's fault somehow. I don't think I'll write any more of this, because there's a lot of messy issues around forcing someone to grow up as a gender they're not, and I would want to do that justice, and I don't think I could without a ton of research that I'm not sure I'm up to doing.( Rufus )
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Ukitake genderswap. Born out of seeing a genderswap!Ukitake fic on FF.net which I thought had an interesting premise but kind of awful execution (Ukitake is secretly a girl, you've already established this, reinforcing how delicate and feminine and fragile she is every other sentence is annoying). So I sort of set out to do it right, sort of as a way of building up backstory for a possible AU journal for the Bleach DR. There will be more of this if I don't get lazy - I have a bunch of other scenes half-planned in my head already. This one is fairly early on - there is an Epic! Fight! Scene! before it that I haven't written yet and which will probably be very Exalted when I do. Basically, nasty Hollow attack, parents take most of them out but die in the process. The commotion wakes up the children, who come to investigate. Jyuushiko realizes that if someone doesn't do something, they're all dead, and she's the oldest and the biggest. Cue moment of epic Exalted badassery followed promptly by passing out, because that tends to happen when you get tossed around by a Hollow some and then use up all of your spirit energy in one blow.
( Ukitake )