Clow's Presence - Writer's Commentary

Title: Clow's Presence
Author: rhap_chan
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Claim: What if Sakura had given up the Clow Cards; that is, what if Syaoran became the officical Cardcaptor?
Theme Set: D
Theme: 5. Standing my ground
Rating and Warnings: G
Summary and Notes: When a new kid transfers into Syaoran's class, he takes an interest in Syaoran that Syaoran doesn't appreciate.

Welcome to the Special Writer's Commentary version of "Cardcaptor Syaoran." This is kind of like watching a movie with the commentary turned on. It details the motivations and little details that went into writing this fic.

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Masterlist: 5_changes

Community: 5_changes
Completed: 10 Oct 06
Series: Cardcaptor Sakura
Claim: "What What if Sakura had given up the Clow Cards; that is, what if Syaoran became the officical Cardcaptor?"
Theme Set: D

Note: Should be read in order, to approximate random "episodes" from the Cardcaptor Syaoran series.

Title: Cardcaptor Syaoran [link]
Theme: 3. violet
Words: 947
Rating: G
Excerpt: That afternoon when I got home I opened the Book with caution and regarded the Cards the incompetent girl had already collected. There weren't many. I rubbed her name out and wrote my own, noting with satisfaction how their auras deepened to forest green.

Title: Sword [link]
Theme: 2. simple things
Words: 752
Rating: PG for bloodiness
Excerpt: Sasaki bought a broach. It was a small thing, a piece of jewelry, nothing. But it was that broach that made me wet my sword with her blood.

Title: Opening Night [link]
Theme: 4. luxury
Words: 1029
Rating: G
Excerpt: Kinomoto seemed to enjoy the fact that she was her own personal nightlight. She probably still had one at home. The kid wasn't very courageous.

Title: Judgment [link]
Theme: 1. lost cause
Words: 693
Rating: G
Excerpt: I would not lose simply because I was not chosen. Keroberos made his choice by accident, the girl told me.

Title: Clow's Presence [link]
Theme: 5. standing my ground
Words: 684
Rating: G
Excerpt: This English kid had nothing on me; we'd never met before. If he wanted to dislike me, that was his problem.
writer's commentary

Birthday Present - Writer's Commentary

Title: Birthday Present
Pairing: Eriol/Syaoran primarily; past Syaoran/Sakura, mentioned Tomoyo/Sakura
Theme: 5. chocolate
Words: 430
Rating: G, pre-yaoi
Disclaimer: Cardcaptor Sakura belongs to CLAMP. All fanfiction archived here is a derivative of canon material that is not my property. I do not profit from these writings. The opinions and actions expressed in these stories are not necessarily the views and beliefs of the original author or me.

Excerpt: Cautiously he opened the box-- couldn't be too careful, the magician was unpredictable-- but the only things in it were a box of chocolate and a small card.

Hello, and welcome to the Special Edition Writer's Commentary of "Birthday Present." This is kind of like watching a movie with the director's commentary turned on. This details the motivations and inspirations behind the fic, as well as some behind-the-scenes information.

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Masterlist: 5trueloves

Community: 5trueloves
Completed: 27 Dec 06
Series: Cardcaptor Sakura
Claim: Eriol

*Note: One is supposed to choose a random five out of the 30 themes, which is why these theme numbers are weird.

Title: Birthday Present [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Syaoran primarily; past Syaoran/Sakura, mentioned Tomoyo/Sakura
Theme: 5. chocolate
Words: 430
Rating: G, pre-yaoi
Excerpt: Cautiously he opened the box-- couldn't be too careful, the magician was unpredictable-- but the only things in it were a box of chocolate and a small card.
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Title: Afternoon Tea [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Meiling
Theme: 19. fate; destiny
Words: 843
Rating: G
Excerpt: He was a flirt and a charmer, Syaoran had said once. He'd never said how easily Eriol carried himself, or that he had confidence in his eyes, or that his glasses were so impossibly round.

Title: My Heart [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 23. heart
Words: 347
Rating: G
Excerpt: "It's very pink," she says doubtfully after a moment, running her finger along the edge of the construction paper heart, dislodging more glitter.

Title: Contrast [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo
Theme: 24. white; black; color
Words: 222
Rating: G
Excerpt: Eriol simply looked past the perfect girl to the real one, the girl who had tantrums when she was three and her mother wouldn't come home to play with her, the girl who watched her heart break because the love she carried was hopeless and wrong.

Title: Gone the Sun [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Sakura
Theme: 30. shadow; light
Words: 168
Rating: G
Excerpt: "Eriol, did you know that I would change the final Clow Cards in time? I just had this terrible dream that I didn't..." she said.

Safe Port in the Storm - Writer's Commentary

Title: Safe Port in the Storm
Series: Cardcaptor Sakura
Character/Pairing: Hiiragizawa Eriol gen
Set: #2
Theme: #7, black
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1493 words
Disclaimer: Cardcaptor Sakura belongs to CLAMP.

Summary: The only safe port in the storm for Tomoyo is Eriol and his music. Sometimes all you need is a friend you can be real with. Genfic.

Welcome to the Special Writer's Commentary version of "Safe Port in a Storm." This is kind of like watching a movie with the commentary turned on. It details the motivations and little details that went into writing this fic.

This fic almost didn't get written as an Eriol/Tomoyo friendship fic. It started as an Eriol/Sakura fic, actually. I got a few paragraphs in and then realized that this wasn't a Sakura thing at all. So I was going to write an Eriol/Tomoyo romance, but that died, because I got to the end and couldn't figure out how to make it into a romance. It's just a genfic, with tiny hints of Eriol/Tomoyo if you wear your OTP glasses.

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Masterlist: 10hugs

Community: 10hugs
Completed: 17 Aug 06
Series: Cardcaptor Sakura
Claim: Eriol, with at least 3 different pairings (as per rules)
Theme Set: #2

Title: Cherry Kiss [link]
Pairing: Tomoyo/Sakura, Meiling/Syaoran, implied Eriol/Sakura, past Syaoran/Sakura
Theme: 1. cherry
Words: 1662
Rating: PG, main character death
Excerpt: "They gave you a painkiller. I talked to Eriol, Tomoyo, and he's flying in to see you tomorrow. It sure has been a while, hasn't it?"

Title: Lovesick [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Sakura, past Syaoran/Sakura, past Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 2. ice
Words: 662
Rating: G, mention of character death
Excerpt: "I can't do without you," he said. "Marry me."
"You're delirious," she said, sounding sad and amused.

Title: Giving In [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo primarily, Syaoran/Sakura, Eriol/Kaho, Tomoyo/Sakura
Theme: 3. starlight
Words: 2082
Rating: PG
Excerpt: "You knew I didn't care, but you stayed. You stayed and I hate you for it, because before I knew it--" she began, and then looked mortified.

Title: Fate [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo primarily, Eriol/Kaho, implied Tomoyo/Sakura
Theme: 4. it shocked me
Words: 728
Rating: G
Excerpt: "My heart breaks because you seem so alone, and you have always been alone. It's very hard to be alone, Clow reincarnate or not," she said.

Title: Going Home [link]
Pairing: genfic, Eriol/Kaho implied
Theme: 5. mission accomplished
Words: 587
Rating: G
Excerpt: For a moment someone with the Sight would have seen another man overlaid on the boy's small form, a much older man with the same contented smile and long blue hair. But no one was there but Eriol.

Title: Let Go [link]
Pairing: Yue/Eriol, Eriol/Kaho, Syaoran/Sakura, Touya/Yukito, past Yue/Clow, implied Clow/Yuuko
Theme: 6. wings
Words: 1405
Rating: G, shounen ai
Excerpt: All the moon angel saw was that his beloved master had died and now he'd returned, and he didn't want Yue anymore.

Title: Safe Port in the Storm [link]
Pairing: genfic; Tomoyo/Sakura mentioned, Syaoran/Sakura and Eriol/Kaho implied
Theme: 7. black
Words: 1493
Rating: PG
Excerpt: "That's quite a storm," he said calmly. She couldn't help it; finally, she laughed and said, "Why didn't you take an umbrella?"
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Title: I Hate You [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Meiling primarily, Syaoran/Sakura, Meiling/Syaoran, Tomoyo/Sakura
Theme: 8. invitation
Words: 889
Rating: G
Excerpt: It started when Eriol got the invitation to Sakura and Syaoran's wedding. He saw her there for the first time in almost ten years. She was the last bridesmaid, and the saddest looking one.

Title: Growing Old [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 9. love
Words: 1291
Rating: G
Excerpt: ... A man who'd paused himself, as a musician pauses for drama in the midst of a heavy piece, in order to get close to that small girl so integral to his plan. And now that the task was done he'd started the overture, releasing the bonds he'd placed on his body, and began to grow again.

Title: At the Bottom [link]
Series: crossover with xxxHOLiC
Pairing: Eriol gen
Theme: 10. at the bottom of everything
Words: 401
Rating: PG for emotional distress
Excerpt: At the bottom of everything, Eriol was Clow. And so, underneath all of the tricks and lies and magic, he wasn't real. He wasn't anybody.

The Thunder Rolls - Writer's Commentary

Title: The Thunder Rolls
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo primarily; Tomoyo/Sakura, past Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 2. pick me up
Words: 954
Rating: PG for implied drunkenness
Excerpt: "He doesn't love her... like I do."
"No, he doesn't. But they are happy. Destiny has brought them together, and true love will keep them together."

Welcome to the Special Edition Writer's Commentary version of "The Thunder Rolls." This is kind of like watching a movie with the commentary track turned on. This commentary will detail the motivations and inspirations that went into writing this fic, as well as little behind-the-scenes notes.

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Masterlist: 15pairings

Community: 15pairings
Completed: 24 July 06
Claim: Cardcaptor Sakura
Theme Set: #1

Title: Blessed [link]
Pairing: Syaoran/Sakura
Theme: 1. something sweet
Words: 1320
Rating: G, songfic
Excerpt: Defeated, she opened her eyes. She couldn't hear Kero any more, but Sasha and Ying Fa were giggling. The radio was playing.

Title: The Thunder Rolls [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Tomoyo primarily; Tomoyo/Sakura, past Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 2. pick me up
Words: 954
Rating: PG for implied drunkenness
Excerpt: "He doesn't love her... like I do."
"No, he doesn't. But they are happy. Destiny has brought them together, and true love will keep them together."
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Title: Thrill of the Chase [link]
Pairing: Nakuru/Touya, Nakuru/???
Theme: 3. only playing/pretending
Words: 533
Rating: G
Excerpt: So that was my first goal, to sneak up on him. My second goal was to take that delicious magic away from him to snack on. I didn't technically need it, since Eriol-sama had more than enough strength to substain me, but sometimes you wanted to taste something different, ne?

Title: Her Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Meiling primarily, Meiling/Syaoran, Syaoran/Sakura, past Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 4. look who's on top!
Words: 1547
Rating: PG for implied naughtiness
Excerpt: She swore in Chinese and then said, "Hiiragizawa, you need to act like a real person. Like a normal person, I mean. This Victorian gentleman crap--no one does it anymore."

Title: Say It With Flowers [ch1 ch2 ch3]
Pairing: Eriol/Sakura primarily; Meiling/Syaoran, past Syaoran/Sakura, past Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 5. flower(s)
Words: 6106 (total)
Rating: PG13
Excerpt: A week after she got back from the wedding, she got the first bouquet-- jonquils for sympathy, pot marigolds for grief, white poppies for consolation, and a blue iris in the middle of the orangey golds for hope.

Title: Prove that You Love Me [link]
Pairing: Meiling/Syaoran primarily, Syaoran/Sakura
Theme: 6. elope
Words: 871
Rating: G
Excerpt: "Prove that you love me," Meiling said petulantly. He sighed and rolled his eyes.

Title: Cherry Kiss [link]
Pairing: Tomoyo/Sakura, Meiling/Syaoran, implied Eriol/Sakura, past Syaoran/Sakura
Theme: 7. cherry flavor medicine
Words: 1662
Rating: PG for main character death
Excerpt: "They gave you a painkiller. I talked to Eriol, Tomoyo, and he's flying in to see you tomorrow. It sure has been a while, hasn't it?"

Title: All I Want For Christmas [link]
Pairing: Touya/Yukito
Theme: 8. "Yes! Yes! Yes!"
Words: 2057
Rating: G
Excerpt: "Sometimes I wish I were a woman," Kinomoto Touya said to himself. The jewelry spread artfully across the velvet in front of him twinkled.

Title: Kaho-neko [link]
Pairing: Touya/Kaho
Theme: 9. meow~
Words: 731
Rating: G
Excerpt: He thought it was a day like any other day, except that his girlfriend was dressed like a cat. She waved merrily at him as he approached and he looked around in case she was waving at some small child who would appreciate the ridiculousness of the situation. She was not.

Title: Indecent Exposure [link]
Pairing: Yamazaki/Chiharu
Theme: 10. indecent exposure
Words: 815
Rating: PG for implied naughtiness
Excerpt: "Did you know that in ancient island civilizations such as Japan, women with large breasts were considered very important, for in a flood they would float better than small-breasted--"

Title: Sweeping Up the Heart [link]
Pairing: Eriol/Kaho
Theme: 11. pain
Words: 1220
Rating: PG, main character death
Excerpt: Nakuru climbed into his lap as though she were small and he was the comforter, which he usually was, but she hugged him and he didn't mind the weight.

Title: Between the Sheets [link]
Pairing: Fujitaka/Nadeshiko
Theme: 12. between the sheets
Words: 458
Rating: G, discussion of character death
Excerpt: "Fujitaka, if I should die soon..." Nadeshiko said softly. She was tired, but she wasn't going to let that get in the way of saying what needed to be said.

Title: What a Waste [link]
Pairing: Meiling/Tomoyo primarily; Meiling/Syaoran, Tomoyo/Sakura, Syaoran/Sakura
Theme: 13. "What a waste."
Words: 991
Rating: PG13 for sexual references
Excerpt: Meiling came up where Tomoyo was sitting at the reception and said, "What a waste." Her hair was beginning to fall from its elaborately pinned style and she held a glass of alcohol in her hand.

Title: First Come, First Serve [link]
Pairing: Sakura/Yukito primarily, Touya/Yukito
Theme: 14. First come, first serve!
Words: 378
Rating: G
Excerpt: Yuki and Li-kun both have hazel eyes, but there is more fire burning in Li-kun's. His love is more passionate than comfortable. It burns in him and it burns him, I think, to be unable to tell of his love. But I'm sure he'll be okay.

Title: You're Still the One [link]
Pairing: Terada/Rika
Theme: 15. consummation
Words: 460
Rating: G
Excerpt: He'd always been the tall one, ever since they'd met, when she was just his roommate's little sister and he was an obnoxious college student. A relationship made in heaven, somehow.