voluntary chains [drabble, hibari, dino]

[fromastudio]

voluntary chains
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Summary: 182 words of meta-introspection. I kid you not, it is the return of the dread meta-as-fic. Also, I know it does not sound like Dino much. THAT IS WHY IT IS WRITTEN IN SECOND PERSON POV.
Notes: Dear Liz, this is my failed attempt to write a fic with Dino and Hibari. *tosses you the baton* Your turn; please do a better job than me! I shall have a go again later, with a more humble attitude and a determination to Figure Out Dino if it Kills Me.





Years pass, then; and school vests and prefect badges give way to finely tailored black suits, one veneer of civilisation for another. You'd call it camouflage, except that he has never treated it as such; indeed he barely understands what it means to hide, let alone pretend. You've wondered too, whether it might not be self-imposed discipline after all; an intentional caging, a voluntary embrace of societal restrictions. Yet he defies that too, making conformity into idiosyncracy; rules look like rebellion; committees the ultimate autonomy.

In the end he is constrained by nothing but his own desires.

You've bound him before, with chain-links fragile as spun silk; baiting and blandishment and cunning straightforwardness. Ineffectual spells, if you are honest. When the cards fall, when all is said and done, the ties that bind you separately to the sky are stronger, deeper, than the ones holding you to each other.

All he would have to do to break free of you is breathe. Exhale; snap your threads easily as a cat clawing through cobweb.

And yet--

--for now, he stays. And you neither know why he accepts you, nor why you are grateful.

Comments

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Well, I rather like this, I gotta say! *grin*

Also I tried to write them last night but it turned out I was way too ill. And then I was too stoned on assorted medication. But yeah, I will try again now.

[fromastudio]

....XD You know I'll never stop hounding you until I get my fix of Hibari-fic. Preferable a lifetime supply.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

And when I finally finish this Thing I'm trying to find an actual point for you will probably change your mind. :D ARGH HIBARI I HATE YOU. AND DINO TOO.

[avenue.livejournal.com]

Oooh~ this is really pretty. 8o
Good job!

[fromastudio]

XD thank you! I did have fun writing this.

[strawberrydrunk.livejournal.com]

I-I loved it. ;A; Great job on this! /applauds 8Db

[fromastudio]

Thanks! The more I see of KHR the more fascinated I am with Dino and Hibari; I can feel the signs of impending addiction.

[theprerogative.livejournal.com]

If this is what your addiction results in, I approve >D Keep it up. I liked it.

[fromastudio]

*wry* I'm trying to play tag-team with Liz, through as many crazy possible combinations of Reborn characters as possible. (Granted, given our interests this is probably going to consist of Hibari, Dino, Mukuro, Yamamoto...and more Hibari. I'm slowly converting to Xanxus, though!)

I'm a bit envious of how Liz is getting over New Fandom Syndrome so quickly, though! *takes a long time to get used to new fandom*

[theprerogative.livejournal.com]

LOL I understand your fascination with Hibari. He was one of the 1st few that got me too. Granted I think loyalty is sexy so 59 caught me 1st.

I'm envious of both of you, churning things out like these and claiming to be new at fandom. WHAT. Put me to shame.

[evocates.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm yes. Yes. I especially like the spun silk analogy, and how Hibari follows nothing but his own desires and make everything around him the same. Mmmmr, yes.

♥♥ Very good.

[fromastudio]

Thanks! <3 I did labour desperately on the metaphors for this piece, although I can't seem to get my prose to flow decently atm. *kicks own brain*

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

The spun silk/cobweb imagery was wonderful~

♥

[fromastudio]

*eyes you and grins* XD Seriously, was that drabble comprehensible at all in the absence of canon knowledge?

♥!

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

WELL. I've read enough KHR fic by now to know most of the plot! :3

[fromastudio]

That i-is. Impressive. 0_0

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

I didn't start watching tenipuri until I'd been reading fic for several months. *g*

[fromastudio]

XD I used to do this in high school to! Only for Gundam Wing and Weiss Kreuz and Tokyo Babylon/X and Yu Yu Hakusho and Fushigi Yuugi. Some of these series I still haven't seen the canon.

I did start reading Tenipuri fic before I discovered the manga, actually. I think it was rageprufrock's fics.

[lucathia]

Making rules look like rebellion. That's my favorite part. <3

[fromastudio]

*curious* You read KHR? *did not know this* 0_0


ETA: IGNORE ME MY BRAIN IS DEAD. *totally forgot that you were in the fandom as well*

[lucathia]

Not particularly in the fandom, since all I do is read the manga. I haven't read any fic except this. And that previous drabble of yours. Yes for more Dino~. I wouldn't be able to write him at all.

[fromastudio]

Yeah. *considers* Well, I'm doing quite a bit of fic-hunting atm, so if I find any good Dino fic I'll send it your way. I have to say that Gokudera and Squalo seem like the best-written characters overall, though.

[morphaileffect.livejournal.com]

*_* short, but very lovely. d18 is such a fascinating pair, and i do believe you've captured one big facet of exactly WHY.

[fromastudio]

XD thank you. *rueful* I think I might end up in the Dino/Hibari camp after all. Yamamoto is still so shiny though! And as you said in the other comment, Gokudera is fascinating; it'd be great to try and discover in fic the parts of him that I kinda feel disappointed by canon on.

[branchandroot]

Ah, lovely. I, too, think Dino is probably both fascinated and rather mystified by Hibari.

[fromastudio]

Yeah. *considers* For some reason I really like the thought of Hibari being wrapped around Dino's little finger, but am pretty clueless about how to pull it off fictionally. It's quite interesting because the only way to manipulate Hibari really is to appeal directly to one of his overriding priorities like Dino does, and that sort of makes it not-manipulation, really.

[annotated_em]

Mmm, lovely.

It seems to me that Dino might hold the some of the same qualities that Yamamoto does; he certainly seems to have the same kind of layers. That quality of being able to switch from light-hearted and vaguely goofy to diamond-hard focus seems like something that Hibari doesn't grok so much. Hence the fascination.

My two cents, for whatever it's worth.

[fromastudio]

*thoughtful* Yeah, I would definitely agree with that. And it's interesting how in the 10YL version Hibari seems to have built up a lot more in terms of layers - a actual sense of humor, for instance, quiet as it is; plus the way he carefully controls his killing rage. The inner fangirl in me wants to believe that Dino taught it to him. XD

/wry/ So far my Dino seems to want to be Yukimura. What this says about my Yukimura and how fanon he has gotten I do not want to know.

Incidentally, I've really loved Liz's takes on Dino/Hibari so far.