Count on Zoro to completely understand what Luffy is thinking, and Robin and Franky to do the mature, cautious and understanding thing.
Anyway, that fic. It's currently the one long work in progress she's got there—Absence (http://serrende.livejournal.com/30039.html)
Basic plot is the Straw Hats run into serious trouble on an island and one of the crew dies in the fight, suddenly and unexpectedly, with nothing anyone could do about it. Luffy goes on to "forget" this person ever existed (it's rather strange and interesting how he manages to translate mentions of said person by the rest of the crew into "gibberish," for example) and the rest of the Straw Hats are left to pull themselves (and Luffy) back together.
It's a really one of those fics I'd term "true angst," (another term being mentioned for it is "grief-fic.") I guess another, more traditional term could be "tragedy," but it's... not quite, I don't know, it's so much more than that, and tragedy implies that everything goes horribly wrong at the end of the story, and doesn't seem like it'll be like that. It's very depressing, true, but it she writes so well.... And frankly, I find it interesting to see how they all try to deal with it and what the consequences of this person dying are, beyond merely the sadness of it.
The one good thing about it is, to deal with the whole Ace thing, it's set in an AU where Ace didn't die; things were not so bad at Marineford. (Small comfort some may say that that it is when somebody else is dead instead. XD) Anyway, yeah... check it out if you like. You may want to bring tissues, tho. ^^;; And remember it's still unfinished, but it is being worked on and there's quite a bit there already.
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Count on Zoro to completely understand what Luffy is thinking, and Robin and Franky to do the mature, cautious and understanding thing.
Anyway, that fic.
It's currently the one long work in progress she's got there—Absence (http://serrende.livejournal.com/30039.html)
Basic plot is the Straw Hats run into serious trouble on an island and one of the crew dies in the fight, suddenly and unexpectedly, with nothing anyone could do about it. Luffy goes on to "forget" this person ever existed (it's rather strange and interesting how he manages to translate mentions of said person by the rest of the crew into "gibberish," for example) and the rest of the Straw Hats are left to pull themselves (and Luffy) back together.
It's a really one of those fics I'd term "true angst," (another term being mentioned for it is "grief-fic.") I guess another, more traditional term could be "tragedy," but it's... not quite, I don't know, it's so much more than that, and tragedy implies that everything goes horribly wrong at the end of the story, and doesn't seem like it'll be like that. It's very depressing, true, but it she writes so well.... And frankly, I find it interesting to see how they all try to deal with it and what the consequences of this person dying are, beyond merely the sadness of it.
The one good thing about it is, to deal with the whole Ace thing, it's set in an AU where Ace didn't die; things were not so bad at Marineford. (Small comfort some may say that that it is when somebody else is dead instead. XD) Anyway, yeah... check it out if you like. You may want to bring tissues, tho. ^^;; And remember it's still unfinished, but it is being worked on and there's quite a bit there already.