Edit:Trouble (Part 1)

[warmskies]

listened to Trouble by Valerie Broussard, and it just gave me so much K-gang vibes that I had to do something with it. I initially tried to use actual text, typed out by me, but typography is still something I'm new to, and I ended up not liking the final result. So for now, you have this!

Comments

[slippy]

I was mostly thinking about the very beginning that he me absolutely losing my mind about Tsuna sitting up in a coffin, and then TYL Gokudera wandering over to sob at him, vs Ken and Chikusa coming out of the mists with pliers. But even that is still more about "conceptual" on one side and "visceral" on the other, and those same strands mostly running through the respective arcs.

Reborn's advice is a good way to sum it up! Kokuyo hit so hard not just because it was sudden and violent, but because they were also kids, threatening other kids, and who Tsuna could relate to as almost-peers.

[warmskies]

That's actually a really good and interesting point, how even the introductory scenes of each arc kind of set the tone.

Mhm, yeah! I've written Tsuna before (both in RP and in fic), and I think the K-gang were probably the most formative mafia experience for him. Not only were they the first really "serious" chain of events for him, but, yeah, they were also kids the same age as him but already so different because of their fucked up mafia circumstances. I think his experiences with them really helped set up his whole Vongola trial deal, because he was already leaning that way, I think. Any system that ends up grooming a child to tear out a man's throat with his teeth isn't a good one.