Melancholy

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Summary: The Noah Clan has mostly recovered from the battles on the Ark. However, Tiki's new habit of drinking alone at midnight is only one of the things worrying Devit.
Prompt: 012. Melancholy
Disclaimer: The D. Gray-man series and characters don't belong to me.
Notes: Thanks to cattheterrible for beta reading.

Comments

[formative]

Ooh very nice. I like the atmosphere and the interaction between the two Noahs. Tyki promising not to let the same happen to the twins was very touching.

Beautiful story!

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Thank you! I'm glad you liked those elements.

I think that losing one's Noah self would be pretty traumatizing. Tiki was lucky. (Perfect icon there...)

[candelaria]

Aww Tyki~ Devit~ D: This is good, I like middle-ground, because srsly we have no idea what happened in between the Ark incident and Tyki suddenly showing up again at that ball, so I really enjoyed this. Also the fact that they're genuinely scared to lose their Noah? A half-death? I don't know, that's just awesome. Family bonding and all that I guess. XD Nice to see Devit's gruff sort-of caring side though...can't have Tyki sulking around being all emo over what could have been but never happened.

Love this! <3

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Thanks for the comment and thoughts!! There are a lot of gaps in our knowledge of what the Noahs are doing at a given time, what their pasts were like, who half of them are...

Losing one's Noah-ness might be like Allen losing his Innocence. (I liked the nice little parallel of Allen (almost) doing to Tiki what Tiki (almost) did to him when he supposedly destroyed Allen's arm.) I imagine it would be even more extreme for the Noahs, since it's a part of who they are, not something they have. It's hard to tell, since Tiki wasn't conscious after Allen's sword attack. Tiki might be relatively okay, since he likes being a hobo, but I bet it would be traumatic on some level. And it would downright SUCK for any other Noah who got de-Noahed. XD

It was great fun writing the character interaction here. :3

I'm glad you like it!

[candelaria]

haha you're welcome. Noah fic isn't something I come by very often and yours is always good. X) I only hope the remaining half are as cool as the ones already there.

Huh. I never thought of it that way, that's a good theory. :O I guess for the Noah its an actual, physical thing...possibly genetic? I wonder...does it just HAPPEN and the power is so amazing they just accept it?

I think Tyki probably just had shock trauma, like 'oh man that was a close call' sort of trauma. And yes, haha he loves the hobo life...wonder what the upper class ladies he's supposed to be impressing suddenly come across him eating their expensive, imported koi right out of their fishponds? XDDD What happens if they DO get fully de-Noahed though...terrible as it sounds I kind of want it to happen to SOMEONE so I can see how they handle it.

Character interaction is always the best part of any story, so you're very welcome. <3

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Thanks! There needs to be more Noah fic--especially fic about Jasdevi. (But I have a couple fic recs! I recently discovered two fics concerning Tiki's recovery from his fully-awakened monster self: yang/yin by empath_eia and Without You by nagaina_ryuuoh. I read them and was very impressed. The second one is particularly moving. You should check them out if you haven't already--and the writers' other fics, at least some of which also feature Tiki and/or Rhode