ext_9762 ([identity profile] 7veilsphaedra.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2008-05-11 09:52 am
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WRATH by rroselavy [PG13]

Fandom: Saiyuki
Title: Wrath
Pairing: [Burial Arc] implied Ukoku/Koumyou
Author: [livejournal.com profile] rroselavy
Website: none.
Rating: PG 13, reference to violence and sexual relationship.

Why this fic must be read:

Although Ukoku's culpability is never implicitly stated in Minekura's original manga, there are certainly enough hints that some, if not most, involvement in Koumyou's death can be inferred. Author, [livejournal.com profile] rroselavy interweaves these hints with how Ukoku couches his rashest emotional reactions in cold Darwinian reduction, to draw this cameo of him as someone not only destined for wrath in its meaning as divine chastisement, but now in the full experience of it. With strong, spare keystrokes, she also reveals how Ukoku's objectified consciousness, so dissociative as opposed to unifying and which, as he starts crumbling and withdrawing into his persona as Dr. Nii, is of emptiness seemingly without end, even places the means to his own redemption at a distance in space too far for him to grasp, the reality of what it means to win at all cost.

The sun referred to in this story is Kouryuu, Koumyou Sanzo's ward, later to become Genjyo Sanzo.