crack_van | FLIPSIDE by pixxers [PG13]

Fandom: PRINCE OF TENNIS
Title: Flipside
Characters: Mizuki Hajime [post-St. Rudolph] + Kite Eishirou and the Higa Team
Rating: PG.
Author on LJ: "She Who Walks Between the Rows"

pixxers
Author Website: Variable X Y

Why this fic must be read:

Pixxers' characters can dance on the heads of pins. None of this cardboard stuff for her! She can take the crackiest pairing, the most cartoon bully and the unlikeliest set of circumstances (Takeshi Konomi's stock in trade), and make them breathe. Readers do some deep breathing right along with them, except for when she wants to make a point about something unpleasant or creepy, and she can flip a story so fast, it would make Henry Miller choke. This woman's writing has serious muscles, and they flex and ripple all through Flipside.

Mizuki Hajime has progressed to Hyotei for his senior high school years, but he hasn't left his junior high school ego behind. Everyone has outgrown him, and he can't see it. To him it seems that the whole world is conspiring against him. It takes Kite Eishirou, the captain of the infamous Higa Chuu tennis team to knock some realization into him, but not in the way a Prince of Tennis fan, weaned on the pablum of school-aged shmoop and overstrung drama, would expect. I haven't read a story by

pixxers that I didn't appreciate. This one is particularly fine, and says a lot about the PoT fandom itself in an inimitably sly manner.

Flipside:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Enjoy!