Pic: An Oni Hanami: SGA Style by Gnine [Fairy tale Challenge]

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Title: An Oni Hanami: SGA Style
Artist: Gnine
Characters: oni!John, oni!Rodney
Rating: G
Spoilers: None (except for the story it goes with, see Artist's Note below)
Artist's Note: This is yet another pic done to accompany one of my sister, xparrot's, flashfics. In this case, Kuro To Ao. It'll make no sense at all without the story, so I'd probably suggest reading that first (it's also a ridiculously cute fic, so, really, I suggest reading it regardless! ^_-)

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( An Oni Hanami )

Kuro to Ao by X-parrot (Fairy Tale challenge)

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Title: Kuro To Ao (~8,400 words)
Author: xparrot
Pairing: John/Rodney(-ish; it shuffles all over the slash-gen line)
Rating: PG
Notes: When I said I wanted to rework a Japanese fairy tale, gnine immediately suggested this one. It's stretching the challenge a bit - the inspiration isn't a traditional folktale but a children's story from the 1930s, "Naita Aka Oni" (The Red Ogre Who Cried). The original story is a short, sweet, heartbreaking tale of friendship. This is longer, and rather sillier. (Oni are Japanese ogres, and that's all the knowledge of Japanese folklore you should need.)
Summary: (AU) A tale of two unlikely friends. (And even more unlikely oni.)

( Once upon a time there was a black oni, who after wandering far and wide picked a nice lonely mountaintop to settle upon... )