TITLE: Like Sunshine
AUTHOR: Tiffany Park
CATEGORY: Drama, Angst, follows "Embracing Destiny," "Choosing Priorities," and "Cooking Magic"
SERIES: The series is still untitled. The stories should be read in the following order: "Embracing Destiny," "Choosing Priorities," "Cooking Magic," "Like Sunshine." "The Siren Call and Many Complications of Chocolate Mousse Cake" and "The Further Complications of Chocolate Mousse Cake" can be viewed as side stories to this series. Fai is 10 years old in them, so they follow "Like Sunshine."
SPOILERS: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Chapitres 150 through 172.
RATING: PG
CONTENT WARNINGS: None.
SUMMARY: A title, an avalanche, and the inevitable course of destiny. Takes place about, oh, say, around a year and a half after the end of "Choosing Priorities." Fai is roughly nine years old.
STATUS: In Work
ARCHIVE: Please ask first
DISCLAIMER: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle and its characters belong to CLAMP, Del Rey Ballantine Books, Random House Inc., Kodansha Ltd., Funimation, and probably a whole bunch of other people and companies I know nothing about. This story is for entertainment purposes only and no money exchanged hands. No copyright infringement is intended. The original characters, situations, and story are the property of the author. This story may not be posted elsewhere without the consent of the author.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: This story came about because some people requested a bit of light at the end of the Tunnel of Unending Gloom that was "Choosing Priorities." While I rather liked the idea that all was gloom, doom, despair, and loss for Ashura and Seresu, I eventually came around (probably because I've got a new doggie and am in a good mood). Besides, as was pointed out to me, CLAMP themselves left open a tiny, ambiguous shred of hope. Might as well make use of it.
This story was originally intended to be just a short little ditty of a few scenes that could be read as a standalone, but naturally it grew a lot larger and became thoroughly tied in with the "Choosing Priorities" world. In fact, it refused to come together until I just went with it. So there are many references to things that happened in the previous stories (for example, the pretty world Ashura visits in his first dream and the location of Fai's investiture ceremony are taken from CP, and the full explanation of the royal "problem" and the origins of the D title come from ED). While I tried to explain some of them, there are a large number of these kinds of references and they probably won't make a whole lot of sense to anyone who hasn't read CP and ED.
If anyone is interested in the full background, the stories should be read in the following order: "Embracing Destiny," "Choosing Priorities," "Cooking Magic," "Like Sunshine."
As always, for consistency's sake I tried to stick with the official Del Rey translation for the dialogue and events that I used from the manga.
I have a lot going on in RL right now, so updates may be erratic. I always try to post status on my ffn profile if there's going to be a delay, so if you think it's been too long since there's been an update (say, a month or so), check there. There's probably a RL reason.