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[telophase]

The protagonist of this story is a boy disguised as a girl who has a cloak. On the way to the story's conclusion the protagonist encounters a woman in men's clothing. This person has a black leather trenchcoat. Plot elements include zeppelins and a sense of humor, and at least one character is motivated because their country is not yet free.

I'm seeing some sort of alternate-universe steampunk WWI spy story here.

Comments

[chomiji]

Hmmm, yeah!

And my brain is insisting on parsing and re-parsing the first sentence ... a boy disguised as a girl, and that girl is a girl who has a cloak, or a boy disguised as a girl, and he happens to have a cloak ... ?

("This is your brain on Halloween candy and ibuprofen. Let this be a lesson to you!")

[melster.livejournal.com]

That's ok; the first time I read through it I tagged on "With genderfuckery! And grapefruit!" to the end of it. I'm still not quite sure why the grapefruit belongs there, but I feel like it fits somehow.

....Erm. Happy Halloween?

[chomiji]

XD

Yup! Happy Halloween!

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I would so read that. Are you going to write it? *eggs you on shamelessly*

Also! The possibilities for awesome cloak and dagger stuff!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It would be a while, if I got any spark of anything beyond that. XD I've got Yuletide, and the Thing Wot I Am Not Writing, and the doujinshi, and then Project Blue Rose. :D

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, but it would be SO COOOL ZOMG!!! I feel that the definitive answer to this problem is CLONING YOURSELF.

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

But isn't that the Fullmetal Alchemist anime? Somewhat?

[tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com]

haha i'd hit it

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Yeah, definitely something steampunk-y, with interesting gender things going on.

The Cool Bits Generator in Action

[chomiji]

You want an example of a fic actually inspired by it?

thewriter0 was asking for prompts for drabbles, and she writes nice Saiyuki fic, so I ran the generator and gave her the first half of one of prompts that came up (It was supposed to be a drabble, so there wasn't much point in giving her anything too long.)

I did assign my preferred characters to the roles that came up. The prompt that I gave her was:

Hakkai/Gojyo AU - in a bar in a city overseas, Gojyo's a roving gambler, Hakkai a local poor intellectual who's just come in soaked from the rain.

She found it too inspirational for a drabble, and the result is here (rated R, m/m not terribly explicit).

Re: The Cool Bits Generator in Action

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Cool! :D Thanks! :D