Voi kuule, fikeissä on just se hienous, että voi kirjoittaa ja lukea just sellaista settiä kuin haluaa. Usko tai älä, kyllä näistäkin muruista löytyy hellää fluffia, tässä muutama Armand/Daniel-suursuosikkini:
a haunting just for company, K-18, kirjoittajalta valkyrisms
"I know what a breakup looks like," Daniel says. "The better question is, why are you coming to me about it? I'm the one who broke up your little sham."
"This is what humans do, don't they?" Armand asks, letting his voice drop. "Crashing on their friends' couches when there's a blip in their romances?"
"Except we're not friends. We're actually very much not friends." Daniel shrugs, as if it's all the same to him. "And I can't imagine the great vampire Armand deigning himself to sleep on my fucked-up sofa. That thing's been here since the nineties."
"Well," Armand only says. "I saw you have a guest bedroom."Tää on tarinankaareltaankin perinteinen romanssikertomus, sopivan hitaasti etenevä ja erittäin lempeä ja silti mielestäni oikein uskottava. Aivan ihana. Ei suotta fandomin kudostetuin fikki ao3:ssa. Suuri suruni on, että kirjoittaja ei ole julkaissut muita Veren vangit -fikkejä kuin tämän.
Sitten toinen suosikkifikkaajani on onneksi ollut tosi tuottoisa (ja hän kirjoittaa Armandista ja Danielista mielestäni suloisen pehmeästi!), voisin suositella häneltä vaikka ja mitä, mutta aloitetaan vaikka näistä:
It's a human perspective of time, K-18, kirjoittajalta hummingbeeoOo
"Happy birthday!" Daniel croons, his grin hooking his mouth wide, eyes bright and glowing with pleasure between dark eyelashes.
He holds out a small packet, haphazardly wrapped in colourful paper; a hint of pink dusts his cheeks, his heartbeat quickened with excitement and nerves; he smells sweet with it.
Slowly, Armand takes the packet from him; it's light, and when he turns it over in his hands, it emits a quiet, gentle rattle.
"Okay, birthday tutorial: at this point, we usually say 'thank you'."
Or: Daniel Molloy and the many birthdays of the vampire Armand, across decades.Tässä on välissä vähän angstiakin, mutta viimeinen luku korjaa kaiken ja on TÄYDELLINEN!
Ja sit vielä tämä, tää on IHANA:
Exfoliation, K-11, kirjoittajalta hummingbeeoOo
Daniel stutters and stumbles, flails for a moment, his own fang floating around in his mouth; his gag reflex makes the first appearance since it went dormant all the way back during the Nixon administration.
“Daniel?” Armand is on him in a second, eyes wide and alert. “Daniel, what’s wrong?”
People slow down and stare, concerned about the senior citizen possibly having a medical episode in the middle of the sidewalk; Armand pulls him aside; Daniel finally manages to spit the damn fang out into his hand.
“What the fuck?”
Armand coos, a happy beam on his face. “Oh, look, beloved, you’ve exfoliated! Congratulations!”
“What the fuck?!”
Or: Daniel finds out fledglings get "baby fangs" and lose the first set; Armand is a proud maker, totally normal and reasonable about his fledgling.