"Double Luck" for slidellra

[china_shop]

For: slidellra
Title: Double Luck
Fandom: Double Happiness
Author: china_shop
Rating: G-rated
Length: 1900 words
Beta thanks: Many many thanks to stickmarionette and isiscolo for beta.
Summary: Set post-movie. Jade tries to make sense of her place in the world. I was a small cloud in the vastness of the sky - I could evaporate any time or dissolve into rain, and no one would notice.

Comments

[brigantine]

YAY, Double Happiness fic! So good, with Jade struggling to reach but not surrender to her dad, and Pearl - the bit with Pearl is great, Jade's caution, knowing Pearl might feel kind of abandoned, a little resentful that her big sister who she clearly adores has gone off on her own.

And then Mark, being his lovable dork self, and Pearl make friends - and terrible pun-jokes. Hee!

We might as well have all been ghosts or clouds.

I really like this bit - instead of "I" it's now "we." She might be a ghost or a cloud, but at least she's not alone being a ghost. Her new world is solidifying. :)

[china_shop]

Oh, yay! Thanks!! And yes, it was all about her creating her new world and realising she doesn't have to be alone despite being cut adrift, so I'm very glad that came across. :-D

[mergatrude]

This is so very lovely. Light as air and so very real, that sense of lostness. I love how she is trying to anchor herself, not use someone else. And the gentle humour is wonderful. &hearts

[china_shop]

Thanks, you! *smish* (You should watch the film sometime -- it's really good!)

[mergatrude]

(I have downloaded it. It's on the List. /o\)

*squishes*

[clionaeilis]

This was beautiful, truly lovely. You didn't just get the character's voices right, but you managed to capture the film's tone and even its cinematic themes - and managed all of that with an elegant minimalist touch. Wow, it makes me want to see the film again.

[china_shop]

Oh, thank you so much. *beams delightedly*

[julia_here]

This is really evocative of the pace and language of the film, which I'd seen and loved back before I knew who any of the stars were, and then got for Christmas last year because I needed to watch it again and see Sandra Oh and CKR when they were reputation-free. This story gets the falling-through-space feeling of Jade's life on the nose.

Julia, dandy, in other words.

[china_shop]

Oh yay! Thanks so much! :-D

(And, eeeee! You have the perfect icon!)

[meresy]

This is awesome. ♥ *hugs Jade* (I think you got her voice DEAD ON. I think I was actually hearing Sandra Oh read this.)

[china_shop]

Oh, awesome! Thanks! :-D