this warped fairytale [kh - Larxene/Axel/Marluxia]

[fading_echoes]

Title: This Warped Fairytale
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Pairing: some strange mix of Larxene/Axel/Marluxia
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1200
Summary: Larxene enjoys her games.
Notes: Happy Birthday, tunasaladsonnet! <3 This is (or started as) me playing with Disney stereotypes, because in my head, Larxene (or her Other, rather) is the Disney Princess who realizes that

Comments

[tunasaladsonnet]

in my head, Larxene (or her Other, rather) is the Disney Princess who realizes that she's living in a gender normative world and isn't happy about it. At all.

YESSSS. You read my miiiind.

Aughgaga this was so gorgeousssss. I am so jealous, I swear. Larxene's descriptions of the two men in her life and how opposite they are and guh. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Thank you so mucccch. *___*

[rhaella]

You too? :D Awesome.

Yeah, it really defines her relationship with Marluxia for me (because my god, that one seems like twisted chivalry to me, Japanese cherry blossoms and all, and yes, I am channelling anime now.) Axel's a bit more difficult, of course.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

[lostscore]

Oh, what a neat idea. I'm kind of excited to know that I'm not the first person to place Axel and Larxene (and in your case Marluxia) into a Medieval-hero fantasy sort of situation.

What I like about this piece is how closely it follows certain aspects of Medieval Patience lit or some of the proper rhetorical conventions. You're not part of the Medieval lit community are you? (And if not you could think about it.)

In my continumn Larxene was kind of the Hans Christian Andersen or Grimm Fairytale Fairy - kind of the Anti-Disney, but I really love this take on it too.

Not to toot my own horn, but I have my own take on this sort of a concept over here. Check it out if you have a spare moment.

[rhaella]

Actually no, the only time I came close to Medieval lit was a French class in college that delved into the period a bit (though the only thing I still remember is Tristan et Iseut). I'm somewhat more of a Classicist, so any rhetorical conventions are most likely coincidence. Or Shakespearean, perhaps. Or even a throwback to my Arthurian obsession from about seven years ago, hahaha.

Thank you for the comments, as well as the link. I love your storyteller themed introduction/conclusion.

[rhaella]

Larxene makes me much too happy; I'm glad you enjoyed her. :D

It's not the princess part so much as the "angry at gender norms" part that's my theory, but when you're in a Disney story, apparently only princesses matter. Well, usually. See, I was wondering why she was the only female member of the Organization, which implies that she's the only one strong enough to have retained her sense of self. Which has really bad implications, but then this is at least in part a Disney worldview, which would explain a lot.