@docholligay replied to your post “Part six of HaruMichi Beauty and the Beast! See the Masterpost for…”
Also Michiru, I love her, fuck me up, YES
I LOVE HER SO MUCH, she’s honestly probably my favorite character to write, in this and in general, I love how hard I have to dig to get into the heart of the matter with her.
docholligay
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Also haruka’s EARNESTNESS kills me here, she knows how to fix things, THAT CAN’T BE THAT HARD
One of my favorite things about this AU is I’ve put Haruka in a place where she can be confident in herself and her skills, because she’s well out of her teen years and has had Mina’s support for a long time
One of my other favorite things about this AU is that Haruka’s expectations and confidence often work against her (that’s a thing I love everywhere, and writing it is the most fun)
docholligay
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Also that shit with the mirror I’m dead
Michiru pining for Haruka and feeling she must sacrifice her own happiness for her is MY SHIT, it should be its own genre tbh
docholligay
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The word choice and flow in this AU has been SO GOOD, it just keeps sounding fairytale-like, and I adore it.
also ‘curses are women’s work’ is a great damn line
Ahhhhhhh thank you, language is such a fun thing to play with in this for me, I worried a lot about the tones of the three viewpoints being too dissonant.
And boy do I have feelings that drove that line, it essentially came from me trying to force the backstory into something that didn’t feel right, and when I realized why it was just right there.
docholligay
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I love that scene in the garden so much sam–I should be writing with my spare time BUT HERE I AM REREADING THIS CHAPTER
THIS MADE ME SO HAPPY YOU WOULD NOT EVEN BELIEVE, I WATCHED THIS COME IN AT WORK YESTERDAY AND NEARLY CRIED THAAAANK YOU
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