#69: A Million Miles (http://archiveofourown.org/works/349011). Rather tame for the number, I'm afraid. ;)
1. So, this is an oooold fic. I think I wrote it in 2007/8? It's Count D/Leon from Petshop of Horrors, which was my first ever OTP. A morally ambiguous, possibly immortal, supernatural being, who follows his filial duty regardless of the human cost until he gets to know a grouchy, burger-munching detective with dead mommy issues and a younger brother who he parents. Plus ca change, eh? ;)
2. This is a fairly happy fix-it, and PSoH is one of the few canons I've ever felt compelled to write those for. I guess because the ending (of the original run, anyway) was so frustratingly ambiguous. I stopped reading the follow-up series after a few volumes because it just didn't have the charm of the original (for me, anyway), but the idea that Leon's still fruitlessly chasing D around the world makes me very sad.
3. I'm never quite sure how I feel about the last line of this. Part of me feels like it doesn't really serve the uncertainty I was going for in the rest of the piece. On the other hand, part of me likes the idea of Leon being the one to just decide, 'I don't care if I'm human and you're some immortal nature spirit, we're gonna make this work' while D is still demurring. So yeah, I don't know. ;)
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Date: 2015-08-27 03:41 pm (UTC)1. So, this is an oooold fic. I think I wrote it in 2007/8? It's Count D/Leon from Petshop of Horrors, which was my first ever OTP. A morally ambiguous, possibly immortal, supernatural being, who follows his filial duty regardless of the human cost until he gets to know a grouchy, burger-munching detective with dead mommy issues and a younger brother who he parents. Plus ca change, eh? ;)
2. This is a fairly happy fix-it, and PSoH is one of the few canons I've ever felt compelled to write those for. I guess because the ending (of the original run, anyway) was so frustratingly ambiguous. I stopped reading the follow-up series after a few volumes because it just didn't have the charm of the original (for me, anyway), but the idea that Leon's still fruitlessly chasing D around the world makes me very sad.
3. I'm never quite sure how I feel about the last line of this. Part of me feels like it doesn't really serve the uncertainty I was going for in the rest of the piece. On the other hand, part of me likes the idea of Leon being the one to just decide, 'I don't care if I'm human and you're some immortal nature spirit, we're gonna make this work' while D is still demurring. So yeah, I don't know. ;)