ci5hq | Reading Room X - Crossover Stories - Bishonen Op by DVS (Reply)

Title: Bishonen Op
Author: DVS
Pairing: B/D
Link to story: at the Circuit Archive

The story is a Pros crossover with the long-running manga series Patalliro!.
I don't know nothing about manga, and I don't think that I ever watched more than five minutes when I stumbled over it on TV.
But then cloudless_9193 talked about it in her journal and I became curious. Thanks to Google I learned a bit about the background and the three main characters and started reading.

Night. There is a thrilling encounter with a mysterious stranger in a garden outside of a big estate. There is a missing Bodie, supposedly death. And Doyle is there to rescue him.

"The man was elegantly slim, well over six feet, and he was wearing blue eye-shadow. And the hair! Dead black, dead straight, and hanging down past the guy's ass, for God's sake!"

"But if it would get him in there to find Bodie, he'd follow the devil himself, and so it didn't matter."

"Continental, he looked, and fashionable, and dangerous. Very, very dangerous. Predator's eyes, and a panther's smooth walk. Doyle felt like a rather mangy wolf beside Van Colan's elegance. But the wolf had teeth."

"Van Colan whirled, his eyes glittering with excitement and laughter, and pressed Doyle up against the wall. In one motion, he had his hand under Doyle's shirt and his lips over Doyle's opening mouth."

Well. Is it only me, or is this a very nice beginning of a story? Aren't these all ingredients to make sure you want to read further?

After that Doyle and Van Colan rescue Bodie and another man. And with the help of the beautiful Maraich all our heroes have an exciting escape over the roofs of the estate.

Then there are some nice moments in the helicopter.

The second part of the story is not as spectacular as the beginning.

The author offers us the lazy life on a 'sparkling white vessel' ahead of the Greek islands.

I think our boys fit perfectly, and they take the chance to sort out their relationship – surely inspired by Van Colan and Maraich, although Bodie desperately insists: "I'm not like them! WE'RE not!"

"I thought so," Van Colan laughed into Doyle's curls. His hand drifted down from Doyle's neck to his arm, hip, and buttocks. "You'll need luck to get that one into your bed," Van Colan commented.

I think something like this is very refreshing! Most of the time the 'first time of Bodie and Doyle' is a very serious matter. And here we have another man who shows his interest in Doyle, and he is mocking Doyle a bit.

The part with Patalliro, the child-king, is not really necessary, but fortunately very short.
I could happily live without this aspect of the manga.

But all in all I like the concept of this crossover, I like the 'other couple', and therefore I enjoyed the whole story very much.

How about you?

Is this all too far-fetched for you? A MI6 agent with blue eye-shadow, and hair 'dead straight, and hanging down past the guy's ass'? And then the beautiful girly boy. And the King...

Or are you happy to read something 'weird' now and then?

And I would like to know if the confusion about Maraich's gender confuses you? The author changes permanently 'he' and 'she'.

What else do you like/dislike?

Why do I like it...?
I wonder if the fact that I'm strictly a mono fandom girl, encourages me to make colourful side trips like this? ;-)

But I hope you had fun with it! - well, are there at least a few who share my (strange?) taste?? ;-)