Kuroshitsuji Arcana - (0) The Fool by elvish impersonator (gen)

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As you can probably tell from the spam-like series of entries, this month got away from me in ways I wasn't expecting when I took the August time slot, and I'm making up for it as best I can in the few hours of August remaining to me. Alas, I am likely to run out of time before I run out of recs, and I can only apologize and hope the next driver to take on Kuroshitsuji will make up for the worst of my oversights and deficiencies. And with the apology out of the way, on to the next rec . . .

Fandom: KUROSHITSUJI 

Pairing: none
Length: 3150 words

Author on LJ: fireflyboys

Author Website: Odessa Castle

Why this must be read:

While this fic is the first of what was apparently intended to become a (sadly never continued) series, it stands on its own as an alternate ending or continuation for the first anime series. I love it for its imagery, and for the ways it plays with the essential elements of the controversial ending of the second anime series, keeping many of them while transmuting them into the pieces of an altogether different story.

I suspect this fic of having been underappreciated when it was first posted because of the lack of any central organization in the fandom, which can lead to a certain lack of visibility. I only found it by accident, and I'm glad I did; it's very much worth the finding.

Kuroshitsuji Arcana - (0) The Fool