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Title: Bittersweet Sweetness (Table of Contents)
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 38 chapters, ~65,000 words
Summary: Instead of receiving a brooch that dresses him in an assassin's clothes, Sun receives a trinket that switches his consciousness around with Judgment's. Now, Judgment must find out the mystery behind the Death Knight in Sun's stead. Problem is, imitating Sun's poor swordsmanship is no easy feat, and who knew what Sun was doing with Judgment's body in the meantime? Alternate telling of the end of volume 1 of the novels.
Notes: This fic was started on August 24, 2011 and finally finished in June 2014! It has taken far too long, but it is now finally complete. This is a table of contents for all of the chapters posted in this journal, as well as links to fanart down by readers. You can also download a PDF version of the story in this very post! The PDF is an updated version of the story with many of the mistakes fixed. I have not made most of the revisions in the online versions of the fic. The plot is unaffected in the revisions. Thank you so much for accompanying me on this long, long journey. More notes inside! Banner art and cover art by Kiyutsuna! There will also be a book version printed soon, an anthology with 14 other LSK fics! (because, three years of my life... haha XDD)
Archive: ffnet version | AO3 version | Spanish version | PDF

( table of contents and PDF )

( final author notes )

I knew it! darkicedragon was my writer. XD I kind of figured it out from our conversations, and then when fics went live, the writing (and the fandoms) convinced me even more. (Thank you once again for writing me so many fics. I adored all of them! The Double Arts one and the NG Life one were both so beautiful ♥ and the others so much fun.) Heh, I think we'll always have a huge chance of matching each other, though I did match with someone else for my recipient, which was very cool! I love having different recipients and writers each year, as well as matching on fandoms I've never written before. For me, Yuletide is always the time I branch out to fandoms I might not have written on my own either because I hadn't read the series closely enough, or I just don't have plotbunnies for fics for the series. I rely heavily on the optional details provided by my recipient because usually I don't have too many plotbunnies for the series myself... which made this year very hard because the optional details I received were broad and gave me too much free reign! (It led to me considering very strange ideas...I'm so sorry about this!)

I matched on Hunter x Hunter with justwolf. I was mostly offering fandoms I was currently into (like Legend of Sun Knight, Noblesse, 1/2 Prince, everything I had nominated) as well as fandoms with short canon I thought I could easily review again (like movies or short manga series). With HxH, I thought, "Hey, Hunter x Hunter, I'm getting into that again now that the hiatus is over and the new anime is showing!" So I added that in my list of offers. And matched on it. And went, "oh dear, there's 30 volumes of the manga out..." I don't feel I could characterize Gon or Killua very well without rereading the manga because it's been a long time since I've read the manga, and then it was on and off with all the hiatuses. I spent quite some time rereading. (and loved it)

( Hunter x Hunter reread. I cried )

( Fic commentary: The Shape of His Devotion (Hunter x Hunter) )

( Fic commentary: Sleeping Beauty, or the Unconscious Man on the Bed (Hunter x Hunter) )

( Fic commentary: The Names of His Comrades (Noblesse) )

Fic commentary for Second Entry in a Holy Knight's Journal: "To Save the Storm Knight's Eyesight, Steal His Women" for darkicedragon. This is chapter 2 of Entries in a Holy Knight's Journal.

If anyone wants to toss another fic of mine for me to blab about, feel free to do that here. :D

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