The concept was a strange one. Basically, while trying to figure out how to subvert the Room Full Of Crazy trope, a scene from one of the B'rer Rabbit stories kept popping into my head. I don't know if you're familiar with these; they are Southern US folk stories. (Very racially charged, actually, but you don't pick up on that when you're 5 and hearing them for the first time.) Anyway, it's from the story about the Laughing Place, and in particular, the line where Br'er Rabbit, in response to Br'er Bear's protest that the place is full of bees and not funny at all, tells Br'er Bear 'I didn't say it was your laughing place. I said it was my laughing place!"
And of course, my brain switched out 'laughing place' with 'crazy room', and also inverted the pronouns, and suddenly Hikaru is creating this room full of obsession and insanity and weird truths that no one was ever meant to see, and becoming a Divine Fool type of character in the process, too naive to be endangered by the arcane, dangerous shit he's tapped into. And it's Akira, led by his concern for Hikaru and his inflexible nature, who becomes the victim of the place Hikaru has made.
Also, I play Go, and may be a little nuts as well. There is that. ;)
So- that's probably a longer answer than you really cared about, but there you go. I'm glad that you enjoyed the story. Hopefully, I'll have another one up as well sometime; there's a much longer piece I'm trying to wrestle into submission, but it's a cantankerous, tricksome beast, with a very odd structure. Been working on it for over a year now, but I sincerely hope to have it under control before too long. It's one of those weird monster children writers give birth to from time to time, but I love it all the same.
Thanks for reading! And I hope I didn't scare you off with all my silly blather! :D
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Date: 2013-03-19 05:43 pm (UTC)And of course, my brain switched out 'laughing place' with 'crazy room', and also inverted the pronouns, and suddenly Hikaru is creating this room full of obsession and insanity and weird truths that no one was ever meant to see, and becoming a Divine Fool type of character in the process, too naive to be endangered by the arcane, dangerous shit he's tapped into. And it's Akira, led by his concern for Hikaru and his inflexible nature, who becomes the victim of the place Hikaru has made.
Also, I play Go, and may be a little nuts as well. There is that. ;)
So- that's probably a longer answer than you really cared about, but there you go. I'm glad that you enjoyed the story. Hopefully, I'll have another one up as well sometime; there's a much longer piece I'm trying to wrestle into submission, but it's a cantankerous, tricksome beast, with a very odd structure. Been working on it for over a year now, but I sincerely hope to have it under control before too long. It's one of those weird monster children writers give birth to from time to time, but I love it all the same.
Thanks for reading! And I hope I didn't scare you off with all my silly blather! :D