#LOVED the movies -- I think they bring a groundedness and nuance to the story - treating it fully as a drama and historical

[earl-of-221b]

i watched rurouni kenshin origins just now (with zero previous context for the series) and was on ao3 poking around for saito fic. i only found a couple that looked interesting so i went to tumblr. thought to myself 'hm i don't remember where any of the rurouni kenshin stuff on my dash has ever come from. i'll try earl-of-221b?' LO AND BEHOLD YOU WROTE THE SAITO FIC I READ.

At one point I was a Saito historian flipping through Shinsengumi material to learn about this freak for RK fic - such an interesting character and amazing foil to Kenshin! Everyone talks about Battousai almost in a mythical light -- in walks this man who actually knew Battousai personally. All of Kenshin's cohort from war died, except this guy, who was on the opposite side. And now 11 years have passed and the government has changed and through no effort at all on their parts they're on the same side now. How would you deal with that??? Absolutely adore what Yosuke Eguchi did for Saito in the movies -- and you're definitely in for a treat for the next instalments in the series. He plays huge parts in Kyoto Inferno and The Legends Ends!