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...and Reno. Yes, THAT Reno.
May. 15th, 2007 10:53 amSo aside from loving Gackt, Anne Stuart is a big FF7 fan. =D I'm pretty sure it's from Advent Children, not the video game, but she obviously loved Reno enough (almost as much as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ponderosa121 and blue_soaring?) to basically write him into her latest book. Fanfiction from a published author with 20 years under her belt can be sooo~ amusing. (I wonder if anyone's told her about that Gackt video game Bujingai, or Dirge of Cerberus...)
It's really funny because at the first mention of the hero's cousin Reno, I paused, and wondered. But toward the end when he is actually introduced, and described... the long spiky & long unnaturally red hair, green eyes, black leather jacket, red tear tattoos near his eyes. Did I mention his father is a big Yakuza boss? And that he oversees the gambling and sex trade?
When the main characters are at his apartment, the heroine looks around and notices his piles of manga, other books, porn magazines ("bondage and butt-sex...and improbably-endowed Asian girls"). Later the hero describes Reno's bedroom; anime posters, an original Someone-or-other woodblock print, and a poster of the character from whom he took his name. LOLOL! Then at the end, after the big fight-to-save-the-world, during which Reno was injured in a scuffle with a big German guy, he comes into a garden, where the hero and the heroine are blubbering over each other, with a bandage wrapped around his head!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~~!
She also set it up so that Reno and the heroine's younger sister shared a LOOK. So maybe he'll be the main character of the next in this series? Who knows? DundunDUN!
It all makes me wonder if she's into yaoi (because how can you be into FF7 fandom without being into yaoi?). And normally I'd think not likely, but one of the amazon.com reviews for one of the previous books in this series refers to how the hero uses his wiles toward women and men, and how some readers will be put off by that, but that some will like it. =D
It's kind of exciting to see what used to be fandom-only squeeage cross into the world of mainstream/officially-published, even if he remains only a secondary character.
This makes me want to write to the author and tell her how much I appreciate her writing in a bit of my own "underground" pop culture.
ponderosa121 and blue_soaring?) to basically write him into her latest book. Fanfiction from a published author with 20 years under her belt can be sooo~ amusing. (I wonder if anyone's told her about that Gackt video game Bujingai, or Dirge of Cerberus...)It's really funny because at the first mention of the hero's cousin Reno, I paused, and wondered. But toward the end when he is actually introduced, and described... the long spiky & long unnaturally red hair, green eyes, black leather jacket, red tear tattoos near his eyes. Did I mention his father is a big Yakuza boss? And that he oversees the gambling and sex trade?
When the main characters are at his apartment, the heroine looks around and notices his piles of manga, other books, porn magazines ("bondage and butt-sex...and improbably-endowed Asian girls"). Later the hero describes Reno's bedroom; anime posters, an original Someone-or-other woodblock print, and a poster of the character from whom he took his name. LOLOL! Then at the end, after the big fight-to-save-the-world, during which Reno was injured in a scuffle with a big German guy, he comes into a garden, where the hero and the heroine are blubbering over each other, with a bandage wrapped around his head!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~~!
She also set it up so that Reno and the heroine's younger sister shared a LOOK. So maybe he'll be the main character of the next in this series? Who knows? DundunDUN!
It all makes me wonder if she's into yaoi (because how can you be into FF7 fandom without being into yaoi?). And normally I'd think not likely, but one of the amazon.com reviews for one of the previous books in this series refers to how the hero uses his wiles toward women and men, and how some readers will be put off by that, but that some will like it. =D
It's kind of exciting to see what used to be fandom-only squeeage cross into the world of mainstream/officially-published, even if he remains only a secondary character.
This makes me want to write to the author and tell her how much I appreciate her writing in a bit of my own "underground" pop culture.
