Yes, that's just what I was thinking... The relationship between Gonou and Kanan is shown as the perfect idyll, a frosted pink backdrop for the horrors to come. It's never seemed quite real to me; I see it as Hakkai's idealized memory. Both Hakkai and Kanan clearly had far darker sides to them, merely waiting for their moment to break through - and even if the ultimate canon tragedy of Kanan's suicide had been avoided, I doubt very much that the outcome would have been idyllic. They'd have tried for it, certainly, with amazing stubbornness. But with those two, the inevitable failure would probably have been spectacularly horrible.
Anyway. *g* I'm very glad my alternate version worked for you!
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Date: 2005-01-18 12:16 am (UTC)You have no idea how happy I am about that. :-)
Yes, that's just what I was thinking... The relationship between Gonou and Kanan is shown as the perfect idyll, a frosted pink backdrop for the horrors to come. It's never seemed quite real to me; I see it as Hakkai's idealized memory. Both Hakkai and Kanan clearly had far darker sides to them, merely waiting for their moment to break through - and even if the ultimate canon tragedy of Kanan's suicide had been avoided, I doubt very much that the outcome would have been idyllic. They'd have tried for it, certainly, with amazing stubbornness. But with those two, the inevitable failure would probably have been spectacularly horrible.
Anyway. *g* I'm very glad my alternate version worked for you!