@vassekocho replied to your post “Straw to the Fire”:
JFC I cannot fully express how this made me feel, but it is amazing, start to finish, and this line in particular just... took me out: "This was what united the battlefield with the ramen shop, in truth, was her capacity to weep. Some people are born to their gifts. " Holy fuck, the impact. I am not nearly familiar enough with Shakespeare to fully appreciate it, but my god,
Thank you so much!! I actually was really shocked so many people liked this, you know what's weird is how easy it is to get your own head. *I* know how long this took to write and how many plays I had to practically re-read to do it, so I was like, "This is difficult and clunky and sucks and I can't write Michiru anymore" but...no one else sees how the work is done. I'm just being insane. So thank you so much! My hope was actually that it was a fun read even if you weren't picking out the lines!
Thank you! It reminded me of how much fun Michiru's voice can be, and why I enjoy writing her so much in the first place. I don't have very many characters in the dollhouse on which I can dump my annoying ass education, vocabulary, and capacity for snobbery. It's her! I have Roy, too, and, you know I am thankful every day for him dropping SUn Tzu in a fucking duel so I could run with it. But as I was telling jetty when I was writing this, Roy doesn't have the same insane voice, and Jetty added perfectly 'he doesn't have the money" and yes exactly! Anyway, she can be so fun and it was a blast to revisit and inspires me to write her more.
thank you both!! It was a real challenge to write so it feels great that it landed.
Thank you! I think Michiru is so fun because she is nearly always with a sense of poetry to her speech even if she doesn't mean to, and YES THIS IS ALL ABOUT HER
Thank you so much! In fairness with Michiru it's kind of easy to be like, 'Shakespeare or Michiru" ahahah. And I'm glafd the pace worked! I knew what she was doing and how this had to end but by the time I got there I was like, 'Uh...and then ....???"