Hi! Sorry for the late reply, getting back into the swing of things is taking even longer than I thought.
I really liked the first snippet. There’s something appealing about seeing Kaiba through a sort of objective point of view. I like how despite his youth, the cop really sees the things that make him dangerous, and somewhat unknowable. It really paints a picture of him right before Death-T. (One nit-pick – it’s a beat cop, not a beat down cop.)
I liked the one from a fan point of view – because you always see screaming fans with Kaiba and they’re not all holograms. And I can see him looking like the epitome of cool to his fans. I’d always prefer robbers or generic bad guys to terrorists, just because terrorists always jerk me out of a story, make it waaaaaaay too real and much less fun, although this could be because I’m a NYer. It’s funny if I was from almost anywhere else, I’d probably just see them as more fantasy characters.
I was really impressed with the two short ones on HP Seto and Yugi/Yami seen by the reporter, because in each you packed a lot of description and characterization into such a short space.
The last one really does seem like it could be part of a longer story. I liked the idea that Bakura’s survival was due to an act of mercy… and an act of mercy that Bakura has so thoroughly forgotten. And I liked that the guard means nothing to him, that he killed him without ever recognizing him, as well as the sense that even if he HAD recognized him it might not have changed his actions.
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Date: 2008-02-09 03:54 pm (UTC)I really liked the first snippet. There’s something appealing about seeing Kaiba through a sort of objective point of view. I like how despite his youth, the cop really sees the things that make him dangerous, and somewhat unknowable. It really paints a picture of him right before Death-T. (One nit-pick – it’s a beat cop, not a beat down cop.)
I liked the one from a fan point of view – because you always see screaming fans with Kaiba and they’re not all holograms. And I can see him looking like the epitome of cool to his fans. I’d always prefer robbers or generic bad guys to terrorists, just because terrorists always jerk me out of a story, make it waaaaaaay too real and much less fun, although this could be because I’m a NYer. It’s funny if I was from almost anywhere else, I’d probably just see them as more fantasy characters.
I was really impressed with the two short ones on HP Seto and Yugi/Yami seen by the reporter, because in each you packed a lot of description and characterization into such a short space.
The last one really does seem like it could be part of a longer story. I liked the idea that Bakura’s survival was due to an act of mercy… and an act of mercy that Bakura has so thoroughly forgotten. And I liked that the guard means nothing to him, that he killed him without ever recognizing him, as well as the sense that even if he HAD recognized him it might not have changed his actions.