ext_1065 ([identity profile] p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2008-12-31 08:28 pm

Requiem in Flame by Cloudednine (PG)

Fandom: YAMI NO MATSUEI
Pairing: n/a
Length: 1273 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] cloudednine
Author Website: Fanfiction.net - Angranse

Why this must be read:

Tsuzuki's power, and his emotional instability, hover as a shadowy menace through all of YnM: rarely in the foreground, but never entirely absent. For all his kindness, and his rigid self-control, he is more than capable of bringing ruin to all around him, and although we never see it in the course of the series, it often feels as though that ruin is as inevitable as Ragnarok.

"Requiem in Flame" gives us a look at one all-too-believable scenario for that apocalypse, and a gorgeous and heartbreaking portrait of Tsuzuki pushed one step too far, and of the shikigami who even at the end will not desert him.

Requiem in Flame