Flutterings

Your comment has made me so happy. You're right about how this piece will never have a large audience (and, tiny as it is, I've gathered that FAKE fandom is infamous for eating its own), but it demanded to be written regardless - I happen to know enough about how college/pro hoops actually work to be cynical about Like, Like, Love's mention of B's career prospects, so that had been bugging me for a while, and I've found myself frequently not-agreeing with how Ryo's parenting style gets depicted in other writers' fics (said fics being quite enjoyable on their own terms, but there are definitely several fanon!parent!Ryo cliches that just don't line up with what I've seen of his & Bikky's interactions in canon).

Which is a long way of saying, I felt compelled to write this even though I knew the audience would be miniscule, so I'm thrilled that you enjoyed it so - all the more so with you not being a Bikky fan. (I might succumb to the urge to do a meta piece on the kid at some point - he's Matoh's favorite character, and I've glimpsed some frustration and fear from other fans over how the second series has been so much more about him and his friends than the adults, which might be worth analyzing in terms of the author's longtime vision (after all, there are illos of full-grown Bikky even in volume 1 of the series) vs. fan expectations, particularly given my fairly severe bitterness over how things turned out in HP (which I'd like to get over at some point, but damned if I've managed it yet).

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*hugs you back*