DEFAULT CHAPTER:
'WHERE LIGHT SHINES, DARKNESS FOLLOWS'
This fic is a corporation between two authors, who want to use the default chapter to
introduce themselves and to clear some points about this fic.
Of course, I am Mara! Hello everyone!
Here we have Morgane! *waves*
She has her own 'part' at the end of this chapter.
Morgane has posted three wonderful fics at fanfiction.net, which I recommend to read!
'Reflections on love', ´The First of Autumn´ and 'A man and woman in a rain of blood'.
And, of course, I highly recommend to read her latest story 'Wolf and Weasel'. =^^=
We are both German. The reason why we started to post our fics in English?
Rurouni Kenshin has just started to be published in Germany and this is why nobody knows
the characters well or is able to give a constructive critic.
Example: Morgane's fic 'Reflections on love'!
Review: Nice story. BTW who is Misao?
*COUGH* *COUGH* Mara falls dead of her chair. HEART-ATTACK!
We appreciate comments and critics!
Please be gentle and explain in easy words what is wrong. I am sensible AND stupid, but I
can live with critics. If I agree, I will take the hints and 'improve' the criticised
parts. I can't speak for Morgane here, but I hope, she agrees.
This fic is not completely different from my first fic. It is a Saitou Tokio story again,
but characters and development are different. It is the second idea I had for Tokio's
character. I'm awfully sorry, but someone already used one of my ideas himself as I
realised by now: a Shinsengumi spy. So there will be no fic about Tokio as a spy written
by me. This story alters history and Ruroken, I'd say it is 'a bit AU', I shamelessly
included the Aoiya and Aoshi/Misao here.
I recruited Morgane for this fic to help me along with English grammar, the dialogs, the
atmosphere and the characters, but there is still something I will do.
Maybe Morgane writes some scenes, we will mention it, better: you will realise it by
yourself, I'm sure.
Who is responsible for what?
Mara:
Story-line, most scenes are written by me
Japanese tradition and history (Flame ME, if you want, not Morgane!)
I will not use Japanese expressions, Mara is hopelessly stupid! Trying to learn this
language for *let me think* some years now. Of course, I learned something, but I want to
have this fic written correctly. I'm still smacked for the wrong use of haha/chichi-
okasan/otosan, arimasu/imasu and stuff like that, that are basics!
Morgane:
helping with dialogs/atmosphere
helping with characters
(means: SMACK! Mara, this scene is completely shit, OOC, rewrite it! SMACK! OUCH! OUCH!
Yes, Morgane, yes!)
THIS IS STILL A MARA-FIC!
Meaning: I made concessions to Japanese tradition and history. A common Japanese wife is
way too boring to write a fic about (I think)! But in the basis, she is 'typical'.
Meaning, *COUGH*, *COUGH*, you will see. She will come from Osaka again and she will have
an education!
You will have to read more than one chapter to judge the potential of the story, we won't
give the whole character with the first chapter. You have to learn how she REALLY is,
there will be flashbacks and things like this, please check my other fics to understand.
I think it is important to check 'Waiting' and 'Unrequited love' for the depth of
feelings, 'Saitou Tokio. A life' for an idea of my story-lines.
The characters will develop through the story! This story doesn't represent a already
established relationship between Saitou and his wife. They both have to learn about each
other, THIS TAKES TIME.
AND I'm still of the opinion, that Saitou is different at that time. He is younger and
there is a reason, why he doesn't smoke at the beginning!
Mara has an idea why he started smoking. There are turning points (!!), influencing the
characters (!!)! Please note that this is the plural!
This is FANFICTION and not a story for the Nobel-price in literature!
Mara loves wicked fics!
Mara likes violence and lemons! She is not a romantic personality!
Romance is freaking Mara out!
And Mara likes mystery! Don't expect this fic to be 100% realistic.
THIS IS FICTION!
But for solving this problems, I recruited Morgane :-).
I don't know yet, if Morgane smacks me for violence- and lemon-content.
As far as I can see, violence and sex belongs together in Japan.
Especially with Saitou ;-). Note that there will be turning points!
Depending on Morgane, you can read those scenes or not :-).
THIS IS FICTION! It might be NC-17 in the future, for lemon AND violence, I'm not sure
yet! AAAAA!!! HELP ME! MORGANE IS COMING!
It is Saitou we are talking about and not 'Mr. peace-loving, pacifistic Rurouni Kenshin'!
The fic will be long, the development of characters needs some time, they have to grow on
you.
AND: Note that Mara hates Kyoto! They won't stay there! This follows Japanese history, the
date of their meeting and Tokio's background doesn't follow history!
Here we have Morgane.
Her statement (she has not the chance of saying much, with me around, sorry):
Not the chance of saying much?! Mara has a nice way of understating things, hasn´t she? My
oh my...
To be quite honest, I don´t think that our dear one really needs help to write her stories
since she does a fine job on her own, but if she wants to be criticized so badly...^_^
Anyway, I think it´s a good idea to join our ´writing skills´ since we are both very
different kinds of authors. I mean I am a hopelessly romantic person who can´t go to the
cinema without at least five handkerchiefs and I simply adore the novel ´Gone with the
wind`, a book, which Mara hates from the bottom of her heart (but I like her anyway!).
This attitude of mine virtually mirrors itself in my over-melodramatic fics where lemon
scenes are so full of metaphors and images that nobody understands that I am writing about
sex. In addition to that I couldn´t care less about correct historical background so that
my Japanese characters tend to read Platon...
Mara on the opposite is quite the contrary. In my eyes, she has a excitingly fresh and
wonderfully direct way to express things. In spite of this I am very convinced that we two
really could learn from each other and therefore it seems to be a quite good idea to write
this fic together in order to get a pink palace at the beach (you don´t have to understand
this, it´s just insanity speaking out of me)!!
WE WILL BE LIKE SCHILLER AND GOETHE (I know that you hate these two, Mara, but I just
don´t understand why! I just adore Faust! Mephistopheles reminds me a bit of Saitou!)
Anyway, read the fic and give us many, many reviews. I promise that I can stand critics
just the way Mara does! Cross my heart! And of course I will not say a single word against
lemon or violent scenes (like Mara says, we are not talking about Mr. To-kill-is-so-wrong-
and-I-am-wrong-as-well Himura - not that I don´t like him but his pacifism sometimes
really sickensme...)
Mara again:
I'm out of words! Now you know why I asked her!
I don't want to comment on 'Faust' here, my interpretation would be a book on its own.
Please note that my writing style is adopted to write scientific publications.
I consider it quite brilliant by now trying to combine these two styles.
'WHERE LIGHT SHINES, DARKNESS FOLLOWS'
This fic is a corporation between two authors, who want to use the default chapter to
introduce themselves and to clear some points about this fic.
Of course, I am Mara! Hello everyone!
Here we have Morgane! *waves*
She has her own 'part' at the end of this chapter.
Morgane has posted three wonderful fics at fanfiction.net, which I recommend to read!
'Reflections on love', ´The First of Autumn´ and 'A man and woman in a rain of blood'.
And, of course, I highly recommend to read her latest story 'Wolf and Weasel'. =^^=
We are both German. The reason why we started to post our fics in English?
Rurouni Kenshin has just started to be published in Germany and this is why nobody knows
the characters well or is able to give a constructive critic.
Example: Morgane's fic 'Reflections on love'!
Review: Nice story. BTW who is Misao?
*COUGH* *COUGH* Mara falls dead of her chair. HEART-ATTACK!
We appreciate comments and critics!
Please be gentle and explain in easy words what is wrong. I am sensible AND stupid, but I
can live with critics. If I agree, I will take the hints and 'improve' the criticised
parts. I can't speak for Morgane here, but I hope, she agrees.
This fic is not completely different from my first fic. It is a Saitou Tokio story again,
but characters and development are different. It is the second idea I had for Tokio's
character. I'm awfully sorry, but someone already used one of my ideas himself as I
realised by now: a Shinsengumi spy. So there will be no fic about Tokio as a spy written
by me. This story alters history and Ruroken, I'd say it is 'a bit AU', I shamelessly
included the Aoiya and Aoshi/Misao here.
I recruited Morgane for this fic to help me along with English grammar, the dialogs, the
atmosphere and the characters, but there is still something I will do.
Maybe Morgane writes some scenes, we will mention it, better: you will realise it by
yourself, I'm sure.
Who is responsible for what?
Mara:
Story-line, most scenes are written by me
Japanese tradition and history (Flame ME, if you want, not Morgane!)
I will not use Japanese expressions, Mara is hopelessly stupid! Trying to learn this
language for *let me think* some years now. Of course, I learned something, but I want to
have this fic written correctly. I'm still smacked for the wrong use of haha/chichi-
okasan/otosan, arimasu/imasu and stuff like that, that are basics!
Morgane:
helping with dialogs/atmosphere
helping with characters
(means: SMACK! Mara, this scene is completely shit, OOC, rewrite it! SMACK! OUCH! OUCH!
Yes, Morgane, yes!)
THIS IS STILL A MARA-FIC!
Meaning: I made concessions to Japanese tradition and history. A common Japanese wife is
way too boring to write a fic about (I think)! But in the basis, she is 'typical'.
Meaning, *COUGH*, *COUGH*, you will see. She will come from Osaka again and she will have
an education!
You will have to read more than one chapter to judge the potential of the story, we won't
give the whole character with the first chapter. You have to learn how she REALLY is,
there will be flashbacks and things like this, please check my other fics to understand.
I think it is important to check 'Waiting' and 'Unrequited love' for the depth of
feelings, 'Saitou Tokio. A life' for an idea of my story-lines.
The characters will develop through the story! This story doesn't represent a already
established relationship between Saitou and his wife. They both have to learn about each
other, THIS TAKES TIME.
AND I'm still of the opinion, that Saitou is different at that time. He is younger and
there is a reason, why he doesn't smoke at the beginning!
Mara has an idea why he started smoking. There are turning points (!!), influencing the
characters (!!)! Please note that this is the plural!
This is FANFICTION and not a story for the Nobel-price in literature!
Mara loves wicked fics!
Mara likes violence and lemons! She is not a romantic personality!
Romance is freaking Mara out!
And Mara likes mystery! Don't expect this fic to be 100% realistic.
THIS IS FICTION!
But for solving this problems, I recruited Morgane :-).
I don't know yet, if Morgane smacks me for violence- and lemon-content.
As far as I can see, violence and sex belongs together in Japan.
Especially with Saitou ;-). Note that there will be turning points!
Depending on Morgane, you can read those scenes or not :-).
THIS IS FICTION! It might be NC-17 in the future, for lemon AND violence, I'm not sure
yet! AAAAA!!! HELP ME! MORGANE IS COMING!
It is Saitou we are talking about and not 'Mr. peace-loving, pacifistic Rurouni Kenshin'!
The fic will be long, the development of characters needs some time, they have to grow on
you.
AND: Note that Mara hates Kyoto! They won't stay there! This follows Japanese history, the
date of their meeting and Tokio's background doesn't follow history!
Here we have Morgane.
Her statement (she has not the chance of saying much, with me around, sorry):
Not the chance of saying much?! Mara has a nice way of understating things, hasn´t she? My
oh my...
To be quite honest, I don´t think that our dear one really needs help to write her stories
since she does a fine job on her own, but if she wants to be criticized so badly...^_^
Anyway, I think it´s a good idea to join our ´writing skills´ since we are both very
different kinds of authors. I mean I am a hopelessly romantic person who can´t go to the
cinema without at least five handkerchiefs and I simply adore the novel ´Gone with the
wind`, a book, which Mara hates from the bottom of her heart (but I like her anyway!).
This attitude of mine virtually mirrors itself in my over-melodramatic fics where lemon
scenes are so full of metaphors and images that nobody understands that I am writing about
sex. In addition to that I couldn´t care less about correct historical background so that
my Japanese characters tend to read Platon...
Mara on the opposite is quite the contrary. In my eyes, she has a excitingly fresh and
wonderfully direct way to express things. In spite of this I am very convinced that we two
really could learn from each other and therefore it seems to be a quite good idea to write
this fic together in order to get a pink palace at the beach (you don´t have to understand
this, it´s just insanity speaking out of me)!!
WE WILL BE LIKE SCHILLER AND GOETHE (I know that you hate these two, Mara, but I just
don´t understand why! I just adore Faust! Mephistopheles reminds me a bit of Saitou!)
Anyway, read the fic and give us many, many reviews. I promise that I can stand critics
just the way Mara does! Cross my heart! And of course I will not say a single word against
lemon or violent scenes (like Mara says, we are not talking about Mr. To-kill-is-so-wrong-
and-I-am-wrong-as-well Himura - not that I don´t like him but his pacifism sometimes
really sickensme...)
Mara again:
I'm out of words! Now you know why I asked her!
I don't want to comment on 'Faust' here, my interpretation would be a book on its own.
Please note that my writing style is adopted to write scientific publications.
I consider it quite brilliant by now trying to combine these two styles.