Rating: M

Genre: Drama

Summary: Embark on a small journey into the fragile lives of those believed to have it all. Behind the cameras, monsters on the inside. But you might know them better as celebrities. AU, KaiTal, ReiBry, BrookBry, TyHil, anti-ReiMar.

Warnings: violence, drug use, sex, rape, mature themes, character death.

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade, nor do I own any of the recognisable characters featured in this story.


Author's Note


This was a story where every character posed as a protagonist, and every character as an antagonist. And all were catalysts in somebody else's plotline.

In the editing of this story, minor characters became major, and major minor, but that only served to improve the storyline and achieve better results.

Each character had their own past and quite a full character development. I'm dying to know what you think of the characters, at the end of all of this.

When I first wrote this story, I had an idea of a main character, almost a hero, and a struggle to later conclude in a happy ending. I suppose I did achieve that one. But I then decided to give readers a hatred for every character, and so I took my original victims and gave them a selfish edge. That was before I realised it would never work; how could anybody hate the hero with a struggle? It couldn't be done. So by the end of it, they all became victims, one way or another. The ones who came out strong were our hero with the struggle and the original antagonist, who saved our opinions of him after chapter 3. Kai and Tala turned out alright in the end. The original victim, Rei, given an edge hinted a few times, had a small ray of hope but still remains victimised. Ming-Ming, designed to be a victim. Max, his good intentions lost him a lot, but perhaps this justifies the edge I gave him too. Brooklyn, he had reason to become the oppressor. Mariah, hated victim, lost to the oppressor for victimising someone innocent. Lin, tragically victimised by matters she could not control. And Bryan, innocent, and locked away.

The two more prominent plotlines ran parallel to eachother, never interlocking until the fifth chapter, where everything suddenly switched. The protagonist of one, and antagonist of the other, Tala and Mariah are exact opposites. When he is alone, she has a family; when he is distraught, she is glamorous; when he gains fame, she loses it; and when she is taken, he is saved. And both of their fates lie in the hands of their other, who collided on the road with other people on their minds, and flipped it all around.

Tyson and Hilary mirror the lifestyle Rei and Mariah should have had, and the love that Kai and Tala share. They represent one couple's loss and another's love. Which is basically the two elements of this story. That, and their life being a template for the celebrities of the world. That's the way they should have all been living. And according to some ill-informed, as proven in the final chapter, nothing was ever wrong with them all in the first place.

Now if you've read and enjoyed, take a look at this enquiry I've made, and then go vote on my poll.


POLL: I've drawn up a rough plan for a sequel to Love on the Catwalk, which will be set ten years later. It will consist of some of the original characters, and a few new ones, and the story will be far from the same (but not so different it makes no sense), probably focus more on crime than fame and drama. Though I think the story's interesting, I'm really unsure about it. What say you? –Go vote!