Dark fics and other rambles

Just submitted the 3rd chapter for Always you. This chapter took a darker turn than I expected it would. With Until You I found that I actually like writing dark material. At least what's considered dark in fanfiction. Personally I feel things could go a lot darker, but whatever.

I think I like writing it because it's closer to real life. I empathize with it more as opposed to the comparably sunny material in Bonded and New Bonds. I disgust myself sometimes with Sasuke and Naruto's devotion to each other, it's just so sickeningly sentimental. Then I get over it because I'm such a NaruSasu fan.

I actually did stop myself from writing Itachi's sex scene with the girls in the way it originally played out in my mind. He was supposed to fuck a single three year old instead of all the girls he did. I could have made the original way poignant, but this way felt truer to my interpretation of his character in Always You.

Ah, Itachi. in this fic I hate and love him at the same time. He's different from Sasuke. Sasuke was someone who was originally good and was then corrupted by outside influences (his brother) and circumstances beyond his control (abandonment in the village). Itachi is another matter. I've decided that for this fic, he isn't a product of society, rather he just is the way he is. I'm toying with the idea of having Sasuke, flawed as he is, be the intrument of Itachi's salvation, but what form the salvation will take remains to be seen.

Well, no, I already know how it's going to be but that might change. Stories, especially characters in the stories, seem to have a life of their own. They do weird shit like take the plot in directions other than the one I was going in.

Now that I've gotten 3 chapters for Always out of the way, I'll be working on New Bonds. Fun, fun, fun! I left Sasuke and Naruto in a state. I fully expect wackiness to ensue, but I'm not sure how much comedy will be in the chapter. I generally don't put humor in my stories intentionally. Some things strike me as funny and I'll put it in, but not with the intention of depicting humor. I do it because I feel it rounds out the characters and feeds the story. Plus, funny shit just tends to happen in real life and it's usually stuff that was never intended to be funny.

There's potential for some profound moments to come up in ch. 16 of New Bonds, what with the body switch and the Bleach crossover. I'll do my best.

I just want to add here that the names of stories in the sidebar will be linked to pages that tell specifically about them. So far I've only linked Bonded, but I'll try and get to the rest later today, once I'm finished writing.

Till next time...

Adios!