*ItaSasu: I still have a headcanon for them, I just can't DO anything with it aaaaargh.
Anyway -- since the nicetachi reveal, it's become much closer to sasuita in my head. He wouldn't pursue it himself, but in my mind how it happens is after their battle, sasuke figures out madara kept itachi's corpse/comatose body around for sharingan removal purposes and manages to save him and go on the run while dragging along a weakened/mostly blind liability -- and the whole last three years make sasuke pretty damn desperate and in a very dark place mentally speaking, and, well, a little twisted by all the shit that piled up on him recently. So Itachi would be more sane about it than Sasuke would, and he would know incest is wrong and Sasuke should grow up to marry a charming young woman and be a very normal clan head and father instead of locking himself up in that dark and taboo thing blahdiblah. But when Sasuke clings to him and shudders and starts kissing him so desperately, Itachi just can't say no.
Itachi knows there's no future in it and is a little fatalistic about it. Sasuke just doesn't care and doesn't want to hear it. They'll just have a present that lasts forever. he'll make it happen. So slowly he starts making Itachi want to live once again, because he's been surviving for Sasuke's sake for so long, he was hoping he could finally *rest* but now all his great plans are fucked up beyond repair and it really looks like sasuke will never go home, so he has to learn to let go of everything and take things as they come.
They go undercover as a pair of samurai. ... or sometimes one of them henges into a chick and they go as husband and wife. XD And they travel very far and if it was all up to sasuke they'd never come back since he's still so ANGRY over being betrayed (itachi is more understanding about why it all had to happen), so it's likely they'll stay gone for at least five years or more before itachi finds a way to make sasuke want to go home and they agree on a plan that wouldn't get them both killed. Perhaps they'll ditch their pasts and never come back, I don't know.
* Ohh. The one in the attic? Hmmmm.
I was thinking Sephiroth really... understood the Wutaian way of thinking, the honor and the respect they have for warriors, the emotional restrain and how everything is understated so you don't have to shout out your feelings for people to assume you have any, and that maybe despite seeing their faults as well he sort of wistfully wished he had been born there; he's always been practical and ruthless and Wutaians can be VERY ruthless, but nature VS nurture, he thinks maybe he would have liked the faults being from Wutai would have given him instead, and he thinks he could have dealt with the killer politics fine if he had to, if he had learned the complicated codes from childhood instead of coming in as a conqueror. Also he liked how they as a society valued liege lord/vassal bonds and how maybe he would have felt less like an organic weapon and a little more respected growing up. Because his SOLDIERs and the public respected and admired him, but with the way Hojo and the Shinra executives looked at him, he always knew the public rep was nothing but a sham.
(... and now i want to write a fic where he switches sides. Oh MAN. that might be epic...!)
I was also thinking it's really fun to write with an unreliable narrator. XD
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Anyway -- since the nicetachi reveal, it's become much closer to sasuita in my head. He wouldn't pursue it himself, but in my mind how it happens is after their battle, sasuke figures out madara kept itachi's corpse/comatose body around for sharingan removal purposes and manages to save him and go on the run while dragging along a weakened/mostly blind liability -- and the whole last three years make sasuke pretty damn desperate and in a very dark place mentally speaking, and, well, a little twisted by all the shit that piled up on him recently. So Itachi would be more sane about it than Sasuke would, and he would know incest is wrong and Sasuke should grow up to marry a charming young woman and be a very normal clan head and father instead of locking himself up in that dark and taboo thing blahdiblah. But when Sasuke clings to him and shudders and starts kissing him so desperately, Itachi just can't say no.
Itachi knows there's no future in it and is a little fatalistic about it. Sasuke just doesn't care and doesn't want to hear it. They'll just have a present that lasts forever. he'll make it happen. So slowly he starts making Itachi want to live once again, because he's been surviving for Sasuke's sake for so long, he was hoping he could finally *rest* but now all his great plans are fucked up beyond repair and it really looks like sasuke will never go home, so he has to learn to let go of everything and take things as they come.
They go undercover as a pair of samurai. ... or sometimes one of them henges into a chick and they go as husband and wife. XD And they travel very far and if it was all up to sasuke they'd never come back since he's still so ANGRY over being betrayed (itachi is more understanding about why it all had to happen), so it's likely they'll stay gone for at least five years or more before itachi finds a way to make sasuke want to go home and they agree on a plan that wouldn't get them both killed. Perhaps they'll ditch their pasts and never come back, I don't know.
* Ohh. The one in the attic? Hmmmm.
I was thinking Sephiroth really... understood the Wutaian way of thinking, the honor and the respect they have for warriors, the emotional restrain and how everything is understated so you don't have to shout out your feelings for people to assume you have any, and that maybe despite seeing their faults as well he sort of wistfully wished he had been born there; he's always been practical and ruthless and Wutaians can be VERY ruthless, but nature VS nurture, he thinks maybe he would have liked the faults being from Wutai would have given him instead, and he thinks he could have dealt with the killer politics fine if he had to, if he had learned the complicated codes from childhood instead of coming in as a conqueror. Also he liked how they as a society valued liege lord/vassal bonds and how maybe he would have felt less like an organic weapon and a little more respected growing up. Because his SOLDIERs and the public respected and admired him, but with the way Hojo and the Shinra executives looked at him, he always knew the public rep was nothing but a sham.
(... and now i want to write a fic where he switches sides. Oh MAN. that might be epic...!)
I was also thinking it's really fun to write with an unreliable narrator. XD