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Joz-yyh In reply to Cirque-du-Insanity [2009-12-15 11:39:22 +0000 UTC]

Hey, I said no looking! I am not happy with this at all! I only put it up so could see it. I didn't think anyone else would find it cute.

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Cirque-du-Insanity In reply to Joz-yyh [2009-12-15 17:10:35 +0000 UTC]

But... but... I love it. Please?

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Joz-yyh In reply to Cirque-du-Insanity [2009-12-17 16:54:26 +0000 UTC]

...okay, but only because Altair says so!

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Cirque-du-Insanity In reply to Joz-yyh [2009-12-18 23:08:49 +0000 UTC]

Yay!

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Joz-yyh In reply to Hiita-hime [2009-12-15 12:50:35 +0000 UTC]

Oh, how you spoil me! It's really nothing spectacular honey. I am overjoyed to hear you like it so much ! I wanted to do more with it, really I did (like add grains of rice and other onlookers). But the more I looked at it, the more the imperfection jumped at me and I wanted it to be done and over with! Lately, all I can think about/draw is AltMal thanks to you. But by no means is that a complaint!

I've been reading fanficition for a few years now (ever since Yu Yu Hakusho was on Cartoon Network), and it usual takes me months to find something that I will truly love to read countless times the FULL. WAY. THROUGH. And I still gain the full experience of emotions I had while reading it the first time. More often than not I just skip ahead to the "good" parts in a fanfiction, but you have a gift. The way you write demands my attention. I don't want to miss the slightest detail in fear that I might regret it later on. I am really hard to please and I also write fanfiction myself (I am working on an AltMal one right now ...) so to find someone who can create a fantasy I want to submerse myself in again and again is truly a blessing.

Your characterization of Altair and Malik is just perfect. And who cares if there ages aren't exact with the game? Don't people see that Malik rendered as a young assassin brings more to the story? He might be younger than Altair, but he's doing all he can to catch up. He's already surpassed his superior with intellect by drowning himself in books; though, admittedly, he does enjoy knowledge and reading, but Altair gives him that extra push to go farther than he needs to. As well, combat skill is the only way for Altair to prove he's still superior to his friend in something. Not to mention, their rivalry is the only way Malik can snatch Altair's attention away from his work and female conquests. It's so blatant that Malik loves him, but the assassin training makes him hold back from admitting it (Malik is an open book type of person lol). Malik also has that cling of adolencence to him that so there are leaks of affection through an insult or a slight brushing of hands. And let us not forget they have been together since childhood and have both build each other up throughout their training, so this is a firm constitution for a strong relationship. This whole scenario is absolutely adorable and the circumstances you put them in is always addictively tense.

Each of your stories I can see Malik's yearning and Altair's uncertainty. I cried at the end of "Flowers." It shows that before Altair and Robert knew who they were or what they were to become, they were both good men trying to brighten a dark world. I can't tell you how surprised and moved I was with those last lines. I wasn't suspecting it to be Robert at all! Other writers make it so easy to perdict what's going to happen, but you fooled me to the very end! It created such a beautiful picture in my mind I had to sit for a long moment and let it all in.

And dare not let me forget "The Affliction of Narcissus." To see Altair, the best in his profession, defeated in the worst way possible was almost too much for me. Of course I pressed on reading, and my heart grew wings when Sa’id asked what was the last thing Altair wanted to see and "'Altair's hand uncurled and pointed with unwavering uncertainty at where he could hear Malik. “Him,” he mumbled through clenched teeth. “I want to see Malik.”' This scene is the epitome of what romance should be. Very few writers/mangakas have divine visions like these. You don't even have to be writing about sex and the emotions between the characters will be just as strong as if they were. There's so much more I want to say Hiita, but I'll save it for another time. I'ts 6 am and my eyes are failing. But before I go, your latest story did good in it's job to make me laugh. I can't wait for your next one!

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Hiita-hime In reply to Joz-yyh [2009-12-18 23:51:15 +0000 UTC]

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I've been pacing up and down in my room, rubbing my chin and reading this comment over and over again, absolutely gobsmacked by it and not knowing how to appropriately reply. Do I send a long essay back, full to bursting with effusions and thank yous? Or do I send back a witty one liner with idiosyncratic British charm? Choices, choices.

At last, I've decided. I shall burst into joyful tears and hug your ankles and say how amazing you are.

But, seriously, all gratuitous humour aside, thank you so much for your wonderful comment. It made my bad day absolutely tremendous and I haven't stopped smiling since I read it. Thank you so very much.

It's incredibly nice people like you who encourage me to keep on writing and make it all worthwhile.

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