Gou All Out Week: Prompts - Future Fish AU (Day 1) + Flowers (Day 4) || [Fanfic] Hanakotoba
Finally, the last one… Sincerely, I have to ask you to be lenient with this story, since it’s unfinished. I told you yesterday in my post, it was becoming a little monster, and as soon as you see the word count, you’ll see it is. However, in order to post it on time, I had to eliminate half-written scenes and leave a lot of ideas out of it. Also, it’s mainly written in Makoto’s POV, since Gou has been a bit difficult to develop for me in this one and I could not complete all her solo appearances. That’s why the second part (you’ll notice when you get to it) it’s choppy in some parts :(
I’m really sorry this happened, but not even I could imagine that this would become a novella rather than a one shot. I’ll continue writing it after the event and I’ll post it again once I’m satisfied with it.
Also, I wanted to thank all the people who read my stories during this week, I felt really happy knowing that people liked my work ^^ I’m comfortable and I’m having a lot of fun in this fandom, so I feel that I’ll be staying around for a while :)
And thank you to gouallout for organising this. It’s been great to participate, and I hope to do it next year as well. Gou deserves all the love ^^
Characters: Tachibana Makoto/Matsuoka Gou, Matsuoka Rin, Yamazaki Sousuke, Nanase Haruka and Shigino Kisumi (mainly). Guest appearances: Hazuki Nagisa, Ryuugazaki Rei, Makoto’s mum among others.
Notes: The title, Hanakotoba means The Language of Flowers in Japanese. It’s been quite difficult to be accurate, since there’s not much info about it, and the charts always list more or less the same flowers. Moreover, as you know, Japan was very influenced by Western culture in the Meiji era, and it seems that the meanings of the flowers were not an exception either. However, some of them, thankfully, retained their original meaning, very different from their Victorian counterpart. So, in the end, I had to mix both, Japanese and Western, since, for some scenes, I knew what I wanted to convey, but there was no flower in the lists for that…
Also, I want to apologise to all the florists who read this, because I’ve probably messed some things. I’ve tried to research before writing, but the time was limited. Please, feel free to send me your comments if you feel some actions or descriptions are wrong ^^ Also, tomorrow I finish all the notes related to the flowers used in this story. I’ve pulled an almost all-nighter, and my eyes can’t bear being in front of the computer much longer.
