New story: Aftermath

[owlmoose]

Title: Aftermath
Fandom: FFX-2
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: ~6400 (Chapter 1 of ?)
Characters: Beclem, Nooj
Pairings: n/a
Spoilers: For Beclem and Nooj backstories; nothing serious.
Notes: And KJ makes her glorious (?) return to FF.net with the first chapter of the fic that she never expected to write. This story has been a long time in the making; it was bunnied almost a year and a half ago, by a comment yuna_flowering left on an AGL review, asking about Beclem and what turned him so strongly against the past. I always meant just to write a short about that, but then Nooj showed up and... well. I've been working on this off and on since at least October and I figure I have enough to start posting. So here goes. Thanks to bottle_of_shine for a beta read.

Link to Chapter One

Comments

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I've been wondering if you would ever post this, you kept saying you were working on something... I feel so flattered that I managed to inspire somebody else, albeit unintentionally :) I'll leave you an actual review later, but on the first read-through it's great :)

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I always told you I would write it, and here it is! I know it's not *exactly* what you were hoping for in terms of Beclem backstory, but it's the story that decided it wanted to be written. Thanks for the bunny, and for waiting so long to see some action on it. :)

[bottle-of-shine.livejournal.com]

I am convinced me coming to comment on this story will totally guilt you into writing more! Soon!

My silly fangirl crush on Beclem probably biased me to this story from the beginning, but I really like him here. He and Nooj play off each other well (end of the story, last comments: lawl!) I think it was pretty neat how you showed Auron's words having such an impact on Beclem. It's a bit of a horrifying awakening for him in a lot of ways, and this comes across very well.

So now all you have to do is write more. *urges* >.>