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makobdayexchange
Makoto's birthday inspired so much great fanart and fanfic throughout the free!dom, it was hard to keep up with it all! If you missed any of the seriously excellent fanworks created as part of the 2013 Makoto Birthday Exchange, fear not: we'll be highlighting two works every week until each piece of art, comic, and fic has been in the spotlight.
FEATURED THIS WEEK
January 12, 2014
Amusement Park – by Mari (Makoto/Gou)
[view the full piece here]
Different but the Same – by Cyn (Makoto/Rin - His Dark Materials AU)
He'd come back after five years in Australia not sure of what to expect from seeing his old friends. He hadn't been prepared to find himself replaced with an idiot of a fool (with a matching butterfly dæmon). Not even Haruka whom he'd always been able to provoke into competitiveness had seemed to care much. Nagisa was so taken with The Fool that he'd only spared a cursory 'Welcome back, RinRin!' But worst of all, was Makoto—Makoto with his stupid smile and caring air had had the audacity to blast Rin full one with the accursed Smile, Head Tilt of Gentleness combo.
At first, he'd thought that it would be easy enough to assimilate into the group—he had the advantage of knowing them since they were young; unlike The Fool. But nevertheless, five years away was a long time—especially for youths—and in the time he'd been away, different inside jokes had been created and he felt himself left out. He found himself taking the role of the metaphorical third (or in this case, fifth) wheel of the group.
(Their dæmons had changed over the years too, it seemed. Whilst they were at the age (or in Nagisa and The Fool's case, nearing) for their dæmons to have settled—Haru's fittingly a Japanese Crane and Rin himself with a grey fox—Makoto's dæmon was still fluctuating between different forms as though unsure of what animal could do the boy justice).
[read the full piece here]
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