Bwa ha ha double post!

[cynchick]

Also stolen from everyone.

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

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Re: From Perception.

[cynchick.livejournal.com]

Another one of my favorite moments. I remember being quite sad as I wrote this part (and the entire chapter) but I intended Itachi and Sakura's relationship to be doomed from the start. Since this scene is their goodbye, I knew I had to make it as touching as possible, but in a very subtle way because in this story Itachi is still a semi-emotionless villain.

He gives her his necklace because he wants her to remember him - especially because she is the only one who will remember him as a person more than a monster. But he tells her not to cry or regret because he wants her to let go and move on. He wants her to remember, but at the same time, he wants her to forget. If that makes any sense? Lol.

A lot of people have sort of misinterpreted the nature of their relationship or wondered whether or not they were actually in love. The short answer is no. Not in the way most of us think of being in love. When Itachi says he would have given her more if he could, what he means is that he would have loved her if he was capable of really feeling romantic love. Sakura also doesn't love him in the classical sense, because as she explains to Sasuke in ch 18, love is about accepting all of a person, and there was too much about Itachi that she couldn't accept.

But that doesn't mean they don't care for each other, or can't have tender moments like this one. They came as close to love as they could get, given their circumstances and the amount of time they had. The underlying theme of Perception is that there is no black and white, and just as things are not always as simple as "black" and "white", its not always as simple as "love" and "not." There is a somewhere in-between, and that's where Itachi and Sakura fell.