Sephiroth/Hotaru: Sacrifices

[usagivindaloo]

Title: Sacrifices
Fandom: Sailor Moon/Final Fantasy VII
Pairing/Character: Sephiroth/Sailor Saturn, references to past Tifa/Sephiroth/Sailor Saturn/Aeris
Rating: NC-17 for smut, non-idealized aftermath of an OT4
Summary: Hotaru is hurt and upset in the aftermath of a night with Tifa and Aeris; will Sephiroth be able to make up for his mistake? (

Comments

[vol_jin]

And, once again, you show me up good. I toss all the characters in bed together, you dig into their minds and show the consequences. I barely manage to keep everyone some semblance of IC, you take seemingly every detail of their personalities into account. I write pr0n, you write love.

DAMN AND BLESS YOU AT THE SAME TIME!

I love how I make these pathetic little pr0n ficlets, and you respond with character-developing, complex, insanely well-written fics. It's like I'm giving you fast food, and you respond with a full steak dinner. I feel like I'm kind of ripping you off.

That said, I've now been plotbunnied by you, so I don't think this particular fic saga is quite over yet (though regrettably, my bunny is pr0nless. Curses!) I'll make sure to let you see it when it's done, but here's a hint. Sephiroth's not the only one who owes Hotaru an apology after this whole incident.

[usagivindaloo]

*blush* Wow, that's one of the nicest things anyone has ever said about my writing. I was so worried that I didn't have them in character - that I made Hotaru too emotionally weak or Sephiroth too "fluffy" - but I'm so glad that you liked it.

And please don't think that your fics aren't as good or anything! For one thing, PWP is awesome, and I felt so bad that I took your lovely little smutty romp and turned it into SRZ BUSINESS. XD Secondly, I think you do do a good job of keeping everyone in character. You evoke their relationship really well. I LOVE the fic where you first had Sephiroth say he loved Hotaru; what was perfect. ^^

I am now really eager to see what sort of plotbunny you've been plotbunnied with! I was thinking a little meeting with Aeris would be interesting at this point in time, perhaps you had the same idea? I can't wait to see it. And thanks so much for your wonderful praise. ^^

[lady_pamina]

You have yet another convert on your hands here. I love this pairing! It's hard to find good Saturn fanfiction let alone het and smut and not to mention being well written. I never would have thought of it, but after reading your fics and the short pieces I'm fully convinced of the merit of this couple. You keep everyone in character so well, though Hotaru is a little angsty and too self-conscious in this fic and the Ugly Duckling one. Sometimes the moments between Sephiroth and Hotaru seem a little over the top--the tearing up and such--but I'm a hopeless romantic. A little sappyness never hurt anyone. Anyhoo, you make up for that in your extensive use of metaphors in the shorter pieces. You also have a vivid sense of detail. Oh, and did I mention the sex was hot? I would love to read more stories involving these two. I've also got some plotbunnies of my own going now, but they haven't taken over to the point where I have to write something yet. Keep up the awesome work! I want more ASAP! ;)

[usagivindaloo]

*blush* Wow, thank you! You have no idea how awesome it feels to convert a new person. ^_^ I keep going around and telling anyone who will listen to me for five seconds that Hotaru/Sephiroth is awesomesauce, but no one seems to want to hear it. ;-) But really, I'm just touched that you liked my work so much. And yay, the sex was hot! Mission accomplished! :D

[lady_pamina]

I would totally love to be friends with you; feel free to add me! I don't remember how I stumbled across this it was just random; possibly through late-night googling sailor saturn smut or somewhere in my journey wading across the vast number of lj smut communities. My love for smut is like a deep, dark secret; I get the "God, you're such a fangirl" from just about everyone I know, and I don't want to be lumped in with the crazy, rabid fangirls who love nothing but poorly written-slapped together in five minutes-hardcore slash. So, I quietly tiptoe around this section of fandom. I'm such an english major though, and anything I read, even smut, has to be quality--which yours is definitely! Haven't gotten into deconstructionism yet, I just got done with Althusser and Marxism. My brain is pretty shot after half a semester of critical theory

[usagivindaloo]

Yaay! I can always use more friends! *hugs* And I'm infinitely amused to discover that I've babbled on about this pairing long enough for it to come up on Google and random smut comms. I too love the smut, specifically the het smut, and living in the Final Fantasy VII and Kingdom Hearts fandoms is like some sort of Chinese water torture, only the droplets are crappy five minute slash fics. I've been known to occasionally run around yelling, "Look, can we please have some BOOBS for Sephiroth already?" but only after a few drinks. And ah, critical theory. I sort of turned my brain off for most of that, especially Lacan (I still have nightmares about the Other and the mirror phase to this day); I tend to be much more "touchy feely" in my literary analysis (my honours thesis was about love and sexuality in Othello where I basically argued passionately, in academic terms, that Othello/Desdemona = OTP4EVA and Iago is obsessed with filthy lust and the rest of Venice is way too sexually repressed and sex isn't dirty, kthnx) I am extremely

[lady_pamina]

P.S. I think you should elaborate further on the "lock" episode you used in the 1sentence challenge. Just a friendly suggestion. ;)

[lady_pamina]

O-M-G...OMG!!!! SQUEE!!! I'm absolutely glowing from your praise! I was lamenting a bit that you hadn't commented back soon after I posted, and was worried that I might have offended you by asking to borrow some of your ideas and already bombarding you with my own spin on them. I'm so happy that you are not and are willing to allow me to borrow your ideas. I am always one to point out credit when it is due, and you surely are due lots of it! I've been dead to the world of fanfiction and writing in general for a long time; I lost the heart to after an original fiction piece with a large portion of notes and scenes added on the computer version but not in the hard copy was lost due to a freak accident of my hard drive crashing. I admit you heavily inspired me and over the past couple of days, I've been using the prompts from 1sentence and centi_porn to write a few drabbles since most my midterms are over and fall break is approaching. You make my heart smile so much, and I absolutely worship your ideas; this is such a great pairing! I

[usagivindaloo]

Haha, no no, please don't ever take it amiss if I take a while I reply. I am the world's worst procrastinator; I get a comment and say, "hey, that's awesome, I'll reply to them tomorrow when I'm fresh," and then never get to it. XD

You'll be pleased to hear that the first two prompts (the second one specifically) have definitely lit a spark of inspiration, albeit for fluff more than porn. I've got an idea for something set in your verse, at a b-day party for Chibi Usa... I think it'll jive. ^_^ Not sure when it will get written exactly, but know that the spark has been lit. The third prompt... hmm, I might be able to come up with something. However, I got a burst of inspiration for some new Seph/Hotaru porn the other day, so that might get written first. We shall see! :-)

[vol_jin]

at a b-day party for Chibi-usa

Fandom has forever ruined that phrase for me.

CURSE YOU, ROBERT TSUNAI!

[usagivindaloo]

... I had tried to forget that fic. DX WRY DID U REMIND ME?!?!

Actually, I even MSTed it once (horrible MSTing, full of self insertions and random canon characters and Hotaru/Sephiroth being all indignant), and even in MSTed format, it was awful.

Though frankly, after having my brain broken with 10 years of fandom, it would probably seem tame by this point. I mean, yesterday I stumbled across a Tauren/Gnome smutfic. And rapefic at that. My brain made a quick escape from my body and ran fleeing into the Hinterlands, screaming all the way. After that, what's a little double fist, double foot between friends?

... no, no, that scene is still totally brainbreaking. DX

[lady_pamina]

After a really crappy day largely due to the evils of Brit Lit II, something good came out. I have the first full scene written of a nice Sephiroth/Saturn romance fic that sets background for future smut and satisfies my desire for nice, well-written romance with a touch of smut. I have lots of little paragraphs and the start of scenes but most of them end in "BLAH BLAH INSERT SOMETHING INTERESTING HERE." This excerpt is the first one I actually finished that can be seen as something coherent and stand alone. So yeah, if you don't mind....would you take a look at it and give me some input. It's not racy enough to post anywhere like spring_kink and far too long for anything like 1sentence and centi_porn not to mention only utilizes some of the themes provided. I'm a little shy about it still, so I decided right now the best place for it is my writing journal or pseudonym midnight_fae24. Check it out when you get the chance. I hope you like it. And I borrowed "Breathe" from your 1sentence challenge and made sure to credit you. ;)