Fic: "What it Means to Be" (Kuroshitsuji, Will/Grell, Grell/Madam Red, R18)

[12gatsunohime]

Title: What It Means To Be
Series: Kuroshitsuji
Pairing/Characters: Grell/William, Grell/Madam Red
Rating: R18
Warnings: Surgery, transgender!Grell, sex, spoilers for the end of season 2, I guess.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters or story elements contained within. I am making no money from this. 
Notes: This takes place in a more modern-day

Comments

[neocloud9]

OH MY GOD.

I... I just want to give you the biggest motherfucking high five that's humanly possible to give, babe. THAT. WAS. PERFECT. You hit on everything. Everything that needed to be hit on AND THEN SOME.

Just... Holy shit, dude. YOU ARE MY HERO, YOU KNOW THAT?

That was so amazingly beautiful and romantic and perfect and HNNNG~

[12gatsunohime]

Can I, like, hug you forever? Because seriously, I would've given up on this like a week ago if you hadn't kept pushing me to do it (and giving me plenty of inspiration, dear lord).

Thank you. Just...thank you so much. I got so frustrated with this, and knowing you enjoyed it as much as you did brings me indescribable joy. ^_^

[neocloud9]

There were at least five different moments where I just wanted to stop reading, pick up the phone and just ASDFJKLASDFJKL in your ear out of pure unadulterated joy. Y-you catered to my needs so well... ;o;

AND IF LINKING YOU TO THAT UEHARA VIDEO LAST NIGHT IS WHAT PROMPTED YOU TO INCLUDE GRELL'S NÉGLIGÉE, THEN IT WAS ALL WORTH IT.

[12gatsunohime]

You're welcome to, really. I have an hour until work and nothing much else to do. I'm so glad I could make you so happy~ ;w;

...MAYBE. /might or might not have had that song stuck in her head for the better part of the last twenty-four hours

[hanakotoba_fic]

I SECOND THE HERO BIT.

...and I don't even usually like Grell as a character, but I love her in this. <3

[12gatsunohime]

Oh, thank you. ^^;; I'm very glad you enjoyed it!

[12gatsunohime]

Thank you so much! I do love Ron, and I'm glad you liked him here. I like to see him as a bit of a middle ground between William and Grell - quirky and fun-loving, but knows when to get serious. His methods are a little weird, but he means well.

[crescent_moony]

One small correction: she bough a clock with metal bells on top <-- Needs a t. :3

Ah, this fic! :'D I remember you guys talking about it on Skype, so many months ago~ I'm so happy to see it's finally here! And wow, was it worth waiting for! I don't usually care all that much about the reapers, but this was perfect and beautiful. Your writing was fabulous, the details were perfect, the flow was wonderful... you even managed to incorperate Hannah's fic, which I thought was an adorable shout out.♥

Will was IC and great, Grell was IC and great, Ronald was IC and great (I loved him in this, OMG), and Madam Red! Yea~ \o/

Excellent job, love! Simply excellent.

[12gatsunohime]

Thank you, I could spend decades looking for typos my 3AM writing leaves me with and never find them.

Yeah, the worst part is something like eighty percent of it was written in the last 24 hours. XD I'm so glad you liked it! (I was honestly wondering if you'd read this, given how the reapers aren't usually your thing. But I'm very glad you did!)

^///^ ♥~

[crescent_moony]

Dude, I'm just impressed that was the only one I found. XD; Even my heavily edited stuff at NOT 3 AM never slip by with just ONE typo. XD

I also forgot to mention how wonderfully sympathetic this was to transgender people. It reminded me-- just the other day at school (and I have no idea why she was wearing this, if it was a special LGBTetc day, or something) but a girl (in a boy's body) was wearing a sign that read "I was born in the wrong body." I saw it while we were both grabbing silverwear in the caf, and I wasn't quite sure what to say ("I'm sorry" leapt immedietly to mind, though that probably wouldn't have been appreciated) but in the end she walked away before I had a chance to form a coherent thought.

On a happier note, I loved the proposal-thing. WEDDINGS~♥

(Of course I did! I told you then, too, didn't I? If you wrote it, I'd read it. I hope you get a chance to read my newer fics soon, too!)

[12gatsunohime]

That's definitely the one thing I was trying to do with this. (That's fascinating and somewhat sad...I wouldn't have known what to say, either.) Initially, this whole thing was from Grell's perspective, so from the beginning I was headed in that direction.

You know, I kind of felt like a total hack writing the wedding, because Hannah wrote it before I did, and she did a better job. XD;;

(I must have forgotten. ^^;;;;;;;;; my memory is a failure I just finished your newest one and nearly died laughing; I think I might take some of the other ones I missed to work with me today. :D)

[mukku_fan]

"*A*" is all I can think to say right now. Because that was amazing and heart-breaking and utterly beautiful piece of work. I can't tell you how glad I am that I found the post Hannah made about his fic. It was well worth not going to bed to read it.

[neocloud9]

I'm a baaad influence. :B

[mukku_fan]

On a normal day, I would agree. ;)

But today? No. You are a VERY GOOD INFLUENCE. And only partly because I remembered while reading this that I still need to write your Will/Grell fic. TT_TT

[neocloud9]

Pfft, normal.

Oh my goodness, thank you! I'd forgotten too. How y'all spoil me... ;w;