Tachibana Makoto Birthday Fanworks Exchange

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.

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August 10, 2014

Your Body is a Map of Sin (And I, Your Cartographer) – by Gestahlt (Makoto/Rin)

The sun is hot above them. The unforgiving summer heat has forced Makoto to discard his shirt, and even if Rin has seen that broad back a thousand times, the sight of it slick with sweat instead of chlorinated water sends a rush of heat curling in his belly, fire singing in his veins.

Quietly, he approaches, eyes drawn to the muscles of Makoto’s back, watching the way they shift beneath the tan skin, noting the places where dark scratches and finger-shaped bruises used to be, phantom marks that only Rin will remember.

Rin’s eyes slant lower. Makoto is wearing very worn-in jeans, threadbare in many places: along the lines of his calves, across his right knee cap, on the diagonal expanse of his left thigh. When he bends down to return the pruning shears to the tool box, the material stretches indecently along the curve of his ass, looking like it’s about to give way any minute now, and Rin wonders if this is an issue of the jeans’ integrity or if Makoto is doing this on purpose.

Makoto stands up and wipes his brow with the back of his other hand, his sandy brown hair glinting gold beneath the afternoon sun. A bead of sweat travels along the line of his spine, briefly resting on the small of his back before slipping into the band of his jeans.

Rin’s mouth runs dry, and without meaning to, his hand is up, and he presses the camera button on his phone, capturing the moment.

The shot is perfect. The sun has wrapped around Makoto like a full-body halo that makes Rin think of marble statues of Western deities and battle-hardened warriors. He thinks of the many nights he’ll be touching himself to this image, imagining Makoto’s body moving on top of him, his large hands gripping Rin’s hips, long fingers spreading him apart. Everything about Makoto seems large, but not too large—enough to wrap around Rin, but not to smother him.

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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.

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July 6, 2014

One Thousand and One – by Risotto (Makoto/Rin)

Except things have changed in his absence.

It’s his father who updates him on the changes. The good and the bad. Everything. Why the Hazuki sisters have gone. Why the bazaar, once lively and bustling, has dwindled to small sullen crowds and hushed curses. Why Ran is unable to sleep just days before she is of age to marry.

The Sultan has been executing his consorts. Rumors as to why float like smoke over the towns and villages under his rule. Some say it's because his heart was broken, others say he's simply gone mad. Or both. It's difficult to say, as no one's lived to tell the tale and the guards have been sworn to secrecy under pain of death.

The only certainty in this mass of confusion and despair is that the grand vizier picks, at random or with prior notice, a consort of marriageable age and stature and summons them to the Sultan's chambers. Come dawn, the consorts are never heard from again.

“Father, I have a request to ask of you,” Makoto says one day in the courtyard of their home after a long day of peddling wares to morose faces and thinking, maybe, he ought to do something of it. “Will you grant it to me?”

“Yes, of course.”

“Allow me to marry the Sultan.”

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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
April 27, 2014

Kalverliefde – by Ashleen (Makoto/Haru)

“You don’t know that.” Haruka interrupted, his calm facade finally slipping as he gave Makoto a look of despair that made Makoto’s heart clenched at the site, “You don’t know if we will keep in contact.”

“I will try my hardest to do it.” Makoto insisted as his voice raised in levels to get the point across, “I promise I will write to you and–”

“I’ll go to the same college as you.” Haruka said. It wasn’t a terrible idea, but Makoto felt that it will be his fault if Haruka does not enjoy his college experience. Makoto did not want that to happen, but he also didn’t want to be selfish. That serious look in Haruka’s eye made Makoto’s heart sweep up with pride and thankfulness to have such a friend.

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

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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

2 Spooky – by Njk (Makoto, Nagisa)

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And Dance With Me to Neverland – by isumiilde (Makoto/Rin)

“Eh?” Makoto blinks. Well, that comes as a surprise. Makoto’s pretty good in the water, but he’s pretty sure he’d make a spectacle of himself if he tries to get on ice. He is physically huge, and nothing about him is graceful. Not even his swimming. “Uh, I’m—Rin, I’m not sure it’s a good idea—“

The heat spreads on Makoto’s face so fast, he isn’t sure if it’s from embarrassment or disapproval. His tone turns defensive. “Well, I don’t do it a lot. None of my family like it, and the last time I went was back in grade school…”

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