Oh....my... GOD. Truly. You take my breath away. No words right now can describe the immensity of my feelings and just how utterly lovely this fic is.
I LOVE YOU.
Truly, I did not think anyone would take the prompt. I know just how hard it is to get the tone and feel of FFXII fics right. Even harder with this sort of kink. Gunsex is not usually widely written of. I believe I scared everyone away with my shriek when I realised that someone actually picked it up. And I had been wondering just how in the world would that person bring the story round so as to make the characters engage in it. And you know what? YOU TOTALLY BLEW ALL MY EXPECTATIONS OUT OF THE WATER.
The quote at the beginning? A lovely allusion. The second one reads it, you're already prepared for something pretty fantastic.
And then the story. The way it flows... I loved the fact that Vossler had seen flashes of a young Balthier from time to time. And then we see the both of them again in the future; Vossler a little bit older, a little bit colder and Balthier, no longer quite the child he was before.
I also loved the transition from the wide sweep of the open desert, to the cloistered intimate spaces of the rock cave, then back out again into the shifting dunes.
The scene in the cave itself. Well. No words for that. Turned me to mush.
And the ending. Sort of...wistful. Somewhat bitter in a way. Can't really find the right word.
But to sum everything up: This is a wonderful, sexy, orgasm-inducing literary piece of a fic. =)
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Date: 2008-06-02 09:54 am (UTC)I LOVE YOU.
Truly, I did not think anyone would take the prompt. I know just how hard it is to get the tone and feel of FFXII fics right. Even harder with this sort of kink. Gunsex is not usually widely written of. I believe I scared everyone away with my shriek when I realised that someone actually picked it up. And I had been wondering just how in the world would that person bring the story round so as to make the characters engage in it. And you know what? YOU TOTALLY BLEW ALL MY EXPECTATIONS OUT OF THE WATER.
The quote at the beginning? A lovely allusion. The second one reads it, you're already prepared for something pretty fantastic.
And then the story. The way it flows... I loved the fact that Vossler had seen flashes of a young Balthier from time to time. And then we see the both of them again in the future; Vossler a little bit older, a little bit colder and Balthier, no longer quite the child he was before.
I also loved the transition from the wide sweep of the open desert, to the cloistered intimate spaces of the rock cave, then back out again into the shifting dunes.
The scene in the cave itself. Well. No words for that. Turned me to mush.
And the ending. Sort of...wistful. Somewhat bitter in a way. Can't really find the right word.
But to sum everything up: This is a wonderful, sexy, orgasm-inducing literary piece of a fic. =)