Hello. I just spent the past couple of hours under the spell of your writing skills, and I don't know where to start. This was overwhelming.
FIRST OFF, CAN I JUST SAY THAT I'M SO HAPPY THAT YOU LATCHED ON TO MY PACIFIC RIM AU? I've been jonesing for one forever and god, this one more than hits the spot. I know it's Nino Exchange for a reason, but I think that even outside of it, Nino and Jun would have been the most interesting to write about as partners. I know I was all just Nino! Jun! Kaiju! in my prompt, but man. You took that and spun it into this amazing piece of apocalyptic Japan, framed in Nino's perspective. I got my awesome monsters (and they sound awesome--I love the descriptions!), but I also got my emotional Nino. IDK. You got me.
Oh, first off: Nino and Riisa as twins, and their imperfect, but tender relationship. God. You have my heart. It was cruel that Nino had to lose her the way he did, but you portrayed it with so much sensitivity and awareness on Nino's part. Completely using this as a messy segue to how you write Nino! Oh my gosh. Sometimes it scares me just how much writers get into the skin of Nino, because I don't find him easy to write. But then I read this Nino, your Nino, and everything flows, everything makes me feel and understand Nino, makes me go, yes, Nino would say that, or do that. I know our knowledge of the boys is arbitrary and shallow at best, but I'm always amazed at writers who are able to portray them so realistically, to the point that I can don't doubt any of their actions. In short, you got Nino down. You are amazing.
Jun too, Jun most especially. He's damaged just like Nino, but at the heart of it all is guilt and an endless capacity for love. Kind, marshmallow-y Jun who is nevertheless so prickly and serious--my favorite kind of Jun. Sigh! PLUS, you write their complicated relationship with such deft hands that I was just completely absorbed. I loved your Jun, loved your Nino, loved that it wasn't all rainbow and sunshine when it came to the two of them, that in order for them to grow and live (literally live and survive in their world) they had to learn their way around each other. The process to their healing is painful and patchy, for sure, but it couldn't have happened any other way. Everything about the build-up, the way they get to know each other, all of that in the context of a Pacific Rim AU-ish reality--I am just wowed by what you have managed to accomplish here. Be proud, because this. is. amazing!
All the other characters were perfection: serious, formidable Ohno who is leader even in this world! Brainy, bad-ass, uptight Sho! Flighty but warm and capable Aiba! All the drift partners!!! Toma and Oguri oh gosh. AND KOYASHIGE. KOYASHIGE, WHO ARE KIND OF MAJOR SISSIES IRL, BUT SO BELIEVABLY AWESOME IN THIS FIC. I am the biggest sucker for KoyaShige, they're my favorite NEWS members, and having them in my fic without me even requesting it is magic. Are you also a brain scanner like Sho? D:
Just...you write with so much feelings yet use such simple, affecting language, that I can't help but admire you and kind of want to find out who you are already so I can shower you with love! <333 Seriously, all my love to you, for writing me this kaiju of a fic--I honestly can't ask for anything better. I can only hope that you also enjoyed the process of writing it. Amazing job, anon. :)
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FIRST OFF, CAN I JUST SAY THAT I'M SO HAPPY THAT YOU LATCHED ON TO MY PACIFIC RIM AU? I've been jonesing for one forever and god, this one more than hits the spot. I know it's Nino Exchange for a reason, but I think that even outside of it, Nino and Jun would have been the most interesting to write about as partners. I know I was all just Nino! Jun! Kaiju! in my prompt, but man. You took that and spun it into this amazing piece of apocalyptic Japan, framed in Nino's perspective. I got my awesome monsters (and they sound awesome--I love the descriptions!), but I also got my emotional Nino. IDK. You got me.
Oh, first off: Nino and Riisa as twins, and their imperfect, but tender relationship. God. You have my heart. It was cruel that Nino had to lose her the way he did, but you portrayed it with so much sensitivity and awareness on Nino's part. Completely using this as a messy segue to how you write Nino! Oh my gosh. Sometimes it scares me just how much writers get into the skin of Nino, because I don't find him easy to write. But then I read this Nino, your Nino, and everything flows, everything makes me feel and understand Nino, makes me go, yes, Nino would say that, or do that. I know our knowledge of the boys is arbitrary and shallow at best, but I'm always amazed at writers who are able to portray them so realistically, to the point that I can don't doubt any of their actions. In short, you got Nino down. You are amazing.
Jun too, Jun most especially. He's damaged just like Nino, but at the heart of it all is guilt and an endless capacity for love. Kind, marshmallow-y Jun who is nevertheless so prickly and serious--my favorite kind of Jun. Sigh! PLUS, you write their complicated relationship with such deft hands that I was just completely absorbed. I loved your Jun, loved your Nino, loved that it wasn't all rainbow and sunshine when it came to the two of them, that in order for them to grow and live (literally live and survive in their world) they had to learn their way around each other. The process to their healing is painful and patchy, for sure, but it couldn't have happened any other way. Everything about the build-up, the way they get to know each other, all of that in the context of a Pacific Rim AU-ish reality--I am just wowed by what you have managed to accomplish here. Be proud, because this. is. amazing!
All the other characters were perfection: serious, formidable Ohno who is leader even in this world! Brainy, bad-ass, uptight Sho! Flighty but warm and capable Aiba! All the drift partners!!! Toma and Oguri oh gosh. AND KOYASHIGE. KOYASHIGE, WHO ARE KIND OF MAJOR SISSIES IRL, BUT SO BELIEVABLY AWESOME IN THIS FIC. I am the biggest sucker for KoyaShige, they're my favorite NEWS members, and having them in my fic without me even requesting it is magic. Are you also a brain scanner like Sho? D:
Just...you write with so much feelings yet use such simple, affecting language, that I can't help but admire you and kind of want to find out who you are already so I can shower you with love! <333 Seriously, all my love to you, for writing me this kaiju of a fic--I honestly can't ask for anything better. I can only hope that you also enjoyed the process of writing it. Amazing job, anon. :)
I'll be pimping this out, foreals, jsyk. :DDD <3