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I was just re-reading the Mukuro arc, and . . . damn. I didn't notice it before, but Tsuna-tachi are actually really strong. It somehow doesn't feel like the typical shounen thing of new-powers-as-the-plot-demands, I think partly because it doesn't do the thing where Ichigo gets near-killed by Byakuya, trains for like a week, and then beats him -- we get sixty chapters of training disguised as light-hearted comedy, and then our main cast (some of whom were already really strong before canon started, like Hibari and Gokudera) goes up against a dangerous criminal escaped from the highest-security prison in the world. Who proceeds to make comments like "This is a first. No human has ever been able to sense, with one look, when I am possessing another," and "What a frightening man, Hibari Kyouya . . ."

IDK, it just never occurred to me before that Tsuna & co. go into their first serious fight already trained and strong, rather than kind of useless like most shounen heroes. I think I like KHR a lot more now.

Also, belated Yuletide reveal! I wrote Content for the Chrestomanci fandom. I'm kind of sad I only managed to write one thing, but considering my usual glacial pace it's not too bad. I'll probably try to write more next year.

The giftfic I got was super awesome, too! \o/ Explosions is a lovely fic about Conrad's time at Chrestomanci Castle, with lots of cameos by all the castle staff. READ IT. :D


BTW, writing for KHR is hard. I'm used to fandoms with lots of convenient, well-trod AU-diverging points and fic challenges (*cough* Severitus *cough*), and Reborn! really just doesn't have those, or at least not so many as I'm used to. Then again, this is probably just my usual inability to think of actual plot. Seriously, I start off with an idea like 'female!Tsuna/female!Gokudera yes do want' without actually thinking of anything more first and I end up just kind of rewriting canon with more boobies and UST. X.x Oh well, I'll think of something good eventually . . .