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ODILE
Odile was planning to buck the FI trend and refer to herself in the first person, but the collective unconscious managed to repress her unsuitable urges. She is not a very prolific writer, but spends her every free moment playing analyst to all the fictional characters she's taken under her wing. Occasionally this causes her to set down in writing their real and true very gay adventures. Realife wise, she is studying Communication Design, and will be a freelance illustrator by this time next year. She draws a lot of fanart with incestuous overtones. Or featuring people with green skin. So far the latter hasn't effected her fanfiction, but it's probably only a matter of time. Odile would like to take this opportunity to point out that Juice Newton's cover of Angel of the Morning is in all ways the best rendition of that song.
Warnings
As The term fanfic might suggest, Odile has no legal or commercial connection to the creators of any of these wonderful worlds. Sometimes she thinks that she might handle them with a deal more sensitivity, but that's probably just her entitlement-whore/slash-fan side running away with her mouth again.
Unlike many of her fellow writers on this site, Odile does not often include adult material in her stories- she's much more interested in talking heads. Nevertheless, it would bohoove you to check all ratings and summaries and read at your own discretion. Odile is no less sick a puppy than anyone else when the mood takes her.
Clover
... I'm waxing far to ecstatic, considering that I've only one double drabble for the series.
Clover is, in my opinion, the single most beautiful manga super-team CLAMP has ever created. The artwork is technomancy given form, the layouts are starkly complete, and the story... is left mostly to the imagination, in many ways. It's the emotions of a lifetime packed into a couple of days. Characters fall together and apart, and we are left to imagine the buildup and breakdown for ourselves.
DN Angel
I have an odd relationship with DN Angel. Much as I hate to admit that I'm biased, I tend to squeeze myself in somewhere between the candyfloss cuteness of the Harada twins and the bishounen badassery of Dark and Krad and go digging for my one true interest good old fashioned Satoshi and Daisuke interaction.
Good Omens
Not so long after I read this amazing, hilarious, Apocalypse, Wow! book, my then-girlfriend saw that look in my eye and asked, with some trepidation, if I intended to write fic for it. I said no- Pterry and Gneil were too witty for anything I did to measure up. I lied, but only on the first count.
Harry Potter
Not so long ago I could've given you the rehearsed spiel on my feelings concerning the Harry Potter series, it's fandom, and where I fell in regards to characterization and pairings of choice. Then Book 6 blindsided me and ran of cackling into the night. ...I'm pretty sure my inner Harry/Draco fangirl is recovering from a four-year spiritual drought.
Five years ago I wrote innumerable fics for this series, but only one of them has withstood the test of time.
Pokemon
Prince of Tennis
Wolf's Rain
Yami no Matsuei
The following works are not set on a single storyline, as should be obvious when you read them. However, I have tried to arrange them roughly chronologically in terms of where Tsuzuki and Hisoka would be emotionally if such a story was to be part of their history. Oh, and I'm a Tsusoka fanatic, could you tell?
Ah, my first fandom! Sometimes I still feel the bruise. We were young, we were a thousand strong, and good lord but we were a bunch of close-minded, opinionated little brats. There was an occasional diamond in the rough... but I really wasn't one of them. And yet, this series still hold a special place in my heart for being just that much fun. Bless Team Rocket, right down to their coal-black, crossdressing little hearts.
Once upon a time, my roommate and I didn't get it. 'Hey, I hear that everybody in Japan is going crazy over this new Tennis anime...' 'What, you're not buying Tennis Prince today? Go great with your Kizuna.' 'LOLZTENNIS.' Then someone gave le roomie the first five episodes free of charge, and wham, bam, thank you ma’am. Almost half a year before the Prince of Tennis craze really whipped itself into a frenzy, we were popping episodes back like candy. Yes, it's cracktastic. It's also very easy to get emotionally invested in these characters... stop laughing!
I was probably the only person in the world more interested in the dynamics of the wolf>human 'cloaking' than the leather and the licking. ...okay, I lie. I liked the licking too. Actually, I liked Wolf's Rain very much in general. The concepts that fueled the the action were usually just vague enough to be interestingly open-ended. I should've written more.
I haven't seen this series in over a year. I own a web domain devoted to it-- that hasn't been updated in almost the same span of time. And yet, I would still name this as my favorite anime in all the world. That has to say something. It's not that Matsushita is an utterly brilliant manga-ka by any stretch of the imagination, nor that her story was so miraculously improved by the translation into a (very pretty) animated series. It's just that these characters have a life of their own, and personalities that far outstrip what their creator gave them, or any plans she may have had for them, plot wise.
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