31_days, Fakir!Fic #3 -- Growing

[haleysings]

Title: Growing
Day/Theme: Apr. 11 - On usefulness and the passage of time.
Series: Princess Tutu
Character/Pairing: Fakir, Mytho
Rating: G
For: 31_days, Fakir challenge.

Comments

[sophiap]

This is gorgeous. I love how you handle the moment when Fakir realizes that he's grown and that he's only two years away from his destiny.

[haleysings]

Thank you! <3 I'm glad you liked that moment, I was really hoping that'd turn out well.

[she_who_is_soc]

I really enjoyed this too, not only for the moment of Fakir's realization but also for the running comparison between Mythos and Fakir. Good work!

[haleysings]

Contrast and comparison is always fun. ^_^ Mytho and Fakir seem sort of set up to be compared to each other, so...it's really fun to bounce them off each other, I think.

Thank you! <3

[blacksheep91]

Yea, you wrote another one ^-^

I like the explanation as to Fakir's decision to join the academy. (I'd wondered how he ended up there, truthfully. He never seemed the dancing type...)

[haleysings]

Well, I'm basically borrowing from the show itself--Charon accuses Fakir of running away from his problems, saying something like "knowing the Prince loved to dance, you enrolled him in the Academy to hide him away" or...something along those lines. (That being said, even if he's not exactly "the dancing type"...he sure rocks at it.)

[mangaka_chan]

Great story! It's nice to see background stories like this, because while we are told the general direction of how things came about in the show, there isn't enough time to actually explore the events themselves. And I love your characterization of Fakir. ;)

[haleysings]

Yeah, background stories are some of my favorites to write. ^^ I'm glad you like how I write him, since...well, he usually doesn't come easily to me at all. (This time around he did, oddly enough. Maybe I'm finally getting better at writing him.)