Truth be told, I think I'm feeling the beginnings of withdrawal mode. The thought strikes dread into mine heart. @.@ I really do tend to "go" things in phases, and mayhap the fan fiction-writing phase is ebbing a bit by now.
Or maybe I'm just waiting for new inspiration to bite me in the...
Yes, I hope it's just that.
Anyway, a proper epilogue is due and percolating in my brain as we speak. I don't know why I've taken such a liking to prologue/epilogue thingies these days with these latest multipart fics of mine--it seems a slightly heavyhanded way to approach style. I wonder now if it isn't my own way of "easing" myself into a whole new ambitious multipart project, and "easing" myself back out of it.
I'm resolved not to do another "wedding" epilogue--although I probably really shouldn't compare stories, I can't help feeling that I did that already with "Yoake Mae", and that if I did it again with MnM I would sort of cheapen the feel of both epilogues.
eriesalia's comment was right on the head though--everything does seem to be going back to Kanryuu, though I really didn't intend that as such. ^.^;
From what I remember of the planning stages, early on I got the idea that I wanted to get Megumi out of Aizu. To be honest, when I was surfing around for information I was disappointed to find that Aizu-Wakamatsu in these modern times is not quite at the forefront, shall we say, of scientific advancement. And I don't want my beloved kitsune-onna living out the rest of her career in a less than prominent city. Her talents would be used, let's say, to far smaller effect than they would were she to distinguish herself in the big city.
So I'm tearing her away from her beloved hometown and plunking her down in the heart of Tokyo. How cruel! ^.^;
Oh, and as e-alia so quickly picked up on too, I needed to orchestrate things so that they'd adapt to the Kaden state of affairs. I'm not that comfortable fooling around with canon.
So you can guess now how the epilogue will be set up... ^.~
In a review for ChiisaiLammy's "Water in a Glass House" (which you really should read! ^.^), I "warned" her that we were both turning out to be setting our Aoshi/Megumi epilogues in the Kaden story. Great minds...?
And yay, the RKDreams forum is finally back up!!! Jubilation!!! ^.^
I don't know why I didn't read it before, but I finallyfinally read anna-neko's "The Spy and the Hitokiri". Very strange that I didn't read it before, considering I devoured her other, straight-out comedy fics like a ravenous beast.
"The Spy and the Hitokiri" ended up costing me four hours of a night's sleep, but it was damn worth it. What a brilliant story. I rarely enjoy whodunnits--I don't have the intellectual patience for them I think ^.^;--but I totally loved this one. The gorgeous, gorgeous lemon chapter was just the icing on the cake. ^.^