Walking on Hell (Fanfic rant)

[setra]

I didn't go to sleep... and I still won't be for a while...
Because I let myself check my flist and now I have to rant about Walking on Hell. (cut for the sake of those who wish to dodge comments on yaoi or Weiss Kreuz or both).


Walking on Hell is everything I ever wanted in a Weiss fanfic. It has covered the entire storyline of Weiss, and has managed to fill in what the series never showed with beautiful, painful, character development and romance.
scribblemoose found every piece of subtext I saw in the show and ova and confirmed it. She added thoughts and motivations behind some of the most meaningful scenes in the show and Gluhen... and kept it all together with strong characterization and beautiful writing.
This story is what Weiss could have been as a yaoi anime with better production values and without Koyasu poking about in the background making things strange. (As much as I love the man at times, there are still things I want to kick him for.)

The last two chapters have been posted in the past two days, and both have brought me near to tears.
Meditation 4 managed to explain the thing that bothers me most about Side B: Aya and Ken. Not only that, but it almost made me approve of the pairing, and gave me a reason to believe that it could happen. It was both bittersweetly romantic and excruciatingly sad at the same time...
Counterpoint 3, though shorter, and theoretically covering Yohji's "happy" new life without all his angst memories of Weiss, was almost more painful in the long run.
The practicality of his romance with Asuka (the /lack/ of romance), was strikingly sad to me. As was this paragraph:
He missed the sword. It had given their little apartment a sense of danger, an exotic link to a different, dangerous world. The place seemed tame without it.
Yohji knows innately that something is missing, without having the slightest idea /what/... and that he misses the sword, even without really remembering what the sword symbolizes... it's that that brings me to tears.
Ok, so Yohji /is/ my favorite character in all of Weiss, and I hate to see him in pain (which he /always/ is)... but rarely am I brought to actual tears over his pain. And it hurts so much more knowing where Aya is, and that his only consolation is that perhaps Yohji is happy now... when really, he isn't.

Gah! I need more of this story... and so I wait for the next chapter... at least I can be fairly sure it will be posted tomorrow.

Current Bishounen: Yohji (silly angst-bunny that he is... and with one of my new icons!)