Hi all,
I'm really surprised by the amount of responses I've received from "Boys Don't Cry," even more so that most of them were good. :) Heck...I don't even remember why I started it...I guess I wanted to take a swing at the old clichéd R season break-up genre. After starting "Scorpion," my FY story, a particularly persistent angst demon had taken residence in my brain, forcing me to write depressing stories. This one turned out better than I expected, even though not exactly as I had originally intended.
I was worried that the dialogue between Sean and Darien would seem a little too female...as my pen name implies, I'm not a guy, and I don't spend much time listening to them talk, and even less time actually UNDERSTANDING it. I have the tendency to turn guys into oversexed girls in my fanfics...I don't want to misrepresent the male population, especially if there are any guys out there that actually READ my fics. Heh.
I wrote all the poetry in "Boys Don't Cry". The story behind "Break
Up" begins with an assignment given in my Creative Writing class last
semester. I received a good grade on it, and I think that it really expresses
what Serena was feeling. Basically, the whole poem is a metaphor for its title
- breaking up. Part of the whole "breaking up" process is trying to forget
the person that you broke up with - like trying to wash the garlic smell out of
your hands after cooking some Italian. You take all of the bad memories and try
to flush them down the drain, leaving a clean slate.
The other poem, "Boys Don't Cry," is something I wrote especially for this story. The anime has its faults, like being famous for portraying Darien as an insensitive clod, for example. However, it managed to clue the viewer in to Darien's inner turmoil. Before he was with Serena, he laughed at her, teased her, but never showed his true feelings. When he lost Serena, he lost a part of himself. This is evidenced in the scene where he cried over her, where he's standing over the bridge and a single teardrop falls on his helmet. It must have taken a LOT of pain for him to show his emotions like that. I wanted to express what Darien might have been feeling; it's easy for the viewer to hate Darien for what he did to Serena by dumping her. Few people realize that it was killing him, too.
For those of you who actually *READ* my rambling author's note, kudos for
you! As for the rest of you...uses patented Heero Yuy Death Glare