{"id":1967,"date":"2019-02-11T23:04:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2019-02-11T23:04:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:04:43","slug":"the-start-of-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/the-start-of-devotion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Start of Devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Author's Note<\/strong>: This lovely Japanese movie unusually features an established couple. Here's 250 words of backstory for them. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Ootani was never quite sure what made Tachibana notice him in the beginning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ootani\n wasn't outgoing, didn't have an easy smile or friendly word for \neveryone - in fact, in almost every way, he was the opposite to the \nother boy, withdrawn to the point of sullenness, as every single female \nrelative of his liked to point out. Yet somehow, over the course of a \nschool year, they had become inseparable. Maybe it was exactly that \nOotani was so different, a calm anchor around which Tachibana could \nrevolve. And Ootani had finally found someone with whom he could laugh \nand be playful, someone who never seemed intimidated even by his \nblackest moods. Someone whose company he never got tired of, and who \nnever told him to get lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it wasn't all that surprising \nthat Ootani fell in love with him. He'd never been in love before, but \nthere was no room for doubt in his mind that that was what he felt, this\n intense emotion, taking root so deeply he was afraid of being \noverwhelmed sometimes. How could one person mean so much?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then\n Tachibana smiled at him, eyes crinkling, making all of Ootani's fears \nmelt away under his warm regard. And when, during one seemingly random \nbreak, Tachibana kissed him, tasting of their shared cigarette, Ootani \nresponded without hesitation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was never quite sure what made \nTachibana do this either, but he'd take it. He'd take anything he could \nget, for as long as Tachibana would let him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>250 words for the Japanese BL movie \"Ai no Kotodama (Words of Devotion)\", rated G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[344,345],"tags":[294,299,302],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-no-kotodama","category-shinya-ootani-miyako-tachibana","tag-audience-all","tag-genre-slash","tag-special-drabble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirasade.net\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}