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chibirisuchan (chibirisuchan) wrote in no_true_pair,
@ 2008-07-06 21:33:00

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! june 2008, author: chibirisuchan, crossover: bleach/ff12, pairing: balthier/yoruichi

Bleach/FF12, Balthier and Yoruichi, Don't make me come over there

Title: Basic Instinct
Author: chibirisuchan
Fandom: FF12 and Bleach
Pairing/characters: Balthier and Yoruichi
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: a bit of language
Prompt/challenge you're answering: "Balthier and Yoruichi: Don't make me come over there."

He could feel the headache coming on already. The sound of steel crumpling on impact might well have had something to do with it.

"I understand that you're both working against instincts here," he called toward the crew quarters, though he suspected Fran was the only one who could have caught his words through the cat-maiden's aggrieved yowl. "And I consider it the height of bad manners to clap a guest in irons--"

crrrreeaaaakSNAPrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrr RRRRRRRRRRR--

"Don't make me come back there," he called, eyes closed. "Bulkheads don't grow on trees."

The fundamental problem was a difficult one; the cat-maiden was more fundamentally cat than Fran was rabbit. The young woman could transform herself, completely, and considered clothing a nuisance rather than an essential -- and he would ordinarily have been quite appreciative of her cultural views on the subject. Quite appreciative.

It was just that, being so fundamentally a cat, she also enjoyed opportunities to stalk things. Particularly when the things reminded her viscerally of prey creatures.

Fran, on the other hand -- despite the ears, Fran had no 'I am a vulnerable prey species that will freeze on cue and wait passively to be pounced upon' instincts whatsoever.

From the noises the cat-maiden was making, Balthier rather suspected that Fran had gotten her in some form of limb-lock and had used one of those stilletto heels to best advantage.

...Also, from the words that made themselves clear through the noise, he wondered if he ought to revise his mental appellation of 'maiden'.

CRUNCHfssssssssstRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOWL

Ah hells, Balthier thought, rubbing his temples, that sounds like a coolant line. "Just so you know," he announced to the uncaring world at large, "I am rapidly reconsidering my position on the irons."

"NO FUCKING LEASHES!"

...yes, definitely not a maiden.

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	stopthatgirl7 2008-07-07 04:00 am UTC (link)
	...oh dear god. dies Yoruichi is biting off more than she can chew, and Balthier is going to have no ship left at all at this rate. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	chibirisuchan 2008-07-07 04:08 am UTC (link)
	Yeeeeeah. I have mental images of him eyeballing what's left of Howl's castle towards the end of the movie and going "woman trouble, huh?" Howl: "Isn't it always?" Sophie: "I HEARD THAT!" omg now I want to write Howl and Balthier in the little Welsh pub I hung out in in Carmarthen, bonding over rugby, alcohol, and obscure language geekery. XD (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stopthatgirl7 2008-07-07 04:11 am UTC (link)
	...and you should refrain from writing this why? >XD (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chibirisuchan 2008-07-07 04:12 pm UTC (link)
	'cause I have no tiiiiiiiiime! ;_; sobs this is lunch hour, I should really be eating, but have got to catch up now if I intend to grab any writing time this evening before the deadline hits... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stopthatgirl7 2008-07-07 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, that whole "time" thing. You seem to have none of it, and that sucks for a myriad of reasons. And one day! One day there will be free time! There will! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chibirisuchan 2008-07-07 04:16 pm UTC (link)
	And hopefully it won't be because I've lost my job, which was the last time I had noticeable amounts of free time (and wrote an entire season's worth of a made-up anime as a joke just because I could). Still, I neeeeeed the paycheck now that I have a mortgage, and yeah... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stopthatgirl7 2008-07-07 04:19 pm UTC (link)
	Yeeeeeeah, that'd be a bad reason (that was how I ended up in Japan, BTW--the IT bubble burst and my job with it, and I couldn't find another job. I finally got desperate and searched for whatever, and found a teaching job in Japan. And the rest is history). The mortgage is a scary, scary thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

chibirisuchan
2008-07-08 03:25 am UTC (link)

man, it sounds like you and I lost our jobs at about the same time -- I thought about going to Japan to teach, but I hadn't had a single actual class at that point, and I just wasn't confident enough in my teaching-myself-a-foreign-language-I've-only-heard-and-haven't-spoken-to-a-native-ever skills or lack thereof. But man, if I'd had the opportunity to take Japanese in college, I wonder if I might've ended up over there too? What-ifs...

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stopthatgirl7
2008-07-08 03:42 am UTC (link)

Right after 9/11--the city that got hit the worst economically was New York, and second worst was Atlanta (because Delta's hub is there), and yeah. In Atlanta, there were no jobs--I couldn't even get a job at a bookstore, things were so bad.

And when I came to Japan, I hadn't studied Japanese formally at all--I was self-taught up through JLPT2. I'd only taught myself for a year or so, and decided "Hey, I can only do so much on my own; if I really want to become fluent, might's well go to Japan. Not like I can find a job here."

Yeah, what-ifs. Although after a few years of English teaching, in general, all people want is OUT of teaching. It's kind of soul-killing--at least working for an eikaiwa was. I quit Aeon because I wanted my soul back and was tired of being the English-speaking dancing monkey. Working at a junior high was OK, but after a while, yeah. I am so glad not to be doing THAT any more.

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chibirisuchan
2008-07-08 04:07 am UTC (link)

yeah, I lost my tech sector job in July 2001 right when it was going kaboom. And then 9/11 happened, and around the country-panic the personal panic was going 'I'm so not going to be able to find actual work after this.' But mercifully I've found one! Now I plan to keep it if at all humanly possible...

...wow, you are SO much braver than I am! I'd been studying for about 6 years at that point, but I just didn't have the nerve (or the grasp of kanji; I could get by with sound for watching and listening to things, and I think in print -- literal print that's written in the Roman alphabet, so learning kanji is a bit like asking me to rewire my entire cognitive system). *cheers you on* Good for you! ^___^ Go go gaijin power! (or something like that...)

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stopthatgirl7
2008-07-08 04:18 am UTC (link)

No, more, I was desperate--no money coming in, no job prospects at all, and when I saw the ad, figured, "Well, there's nothing keeping me here at all. Might's well." And after six years, well, I just can't imagine going back to the US--almost all of my adult working life has been in Japan now.

And I'm lucky--if you can call it that--in that I had been diagnosed with a language learning disablity in college. Since I found that out, I realized I wasn't a language retard, I just learned languages funny. I actually do better with kanji than I do with speaking or listening and love writing systems in general--I taught myself to read when I was three, and nothing drives me more batshit than not being able to read. So I was the freak who knew more kanji than anyone in my class who wasn't Chinese or Taiwanese last year at language school. When your Chinese friend cheats off you during kanji tests, you know you've made it. >XD

And YAY to keeping a job. Steady employment is a WIN, even if sometimes it sure doesn't feel like it. It beats the alternative. HANDS DOWN.

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	myeerah 2008-07-07 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	...We're waiting. :D (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chibirisuchan 2008-07-07 04:13 pm UTC (link)
	given the amount of both housework and workwork I have to get done between now and students-returning time, it may be a while, so I advise no holding of breath. XD (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ellnyx 2008-07-07 06:36 am UTC (link)
	You utterly rule. :DDDDDDD (Reply to this) (Thread)

	chibirisuchan 2008-07-07 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	XD Thanks! I really wish I'd had time to write each one's point of view, buuuuut no time... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	karanguni 2008-07-07 06:48 am UTC (link)
	DIES LAUGHING Oh god. Your crossovers are always gold, but this one is more gold than the others. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	chibirisuchan 2008-07-07 04:15 pm UTC (link)
	^____~ thank you! Balthier's language (and the snark) is so much fun. I wish I'd had a chance to get him and Sydney in the same place at some point in the crossovers... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	wanderingscroll 2008-07-09 01:52 am UTC (link)
	falls over laughing I can so see this happening! goes off to fav (Reply to this) (Thread)

	chibirisuchan 2008-07-11 11:04 pm UTC (link)
	^___^ I can see it, but I can hear it even more (since it's clearly going to be very very VERY loud. XDDD) Thanks! (Reply to this) (Parent)