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Falling in Love again

A Rurouni Kenshin Pop-Art Remake

By Oryo

Dear readers,
I would like to invite you follow me into an experiment ...

This story is based (more or less) on the main characters and the major story lines of Rurouni Kenshin, but will lead you in a (rather unorthodox) alternate universe. I call it experiment because the characters have a different biography, different family links and other social backgrounds, including the skin color. Besides, I will introduce additional characters, split some characters of the original story and mix them to create a new character. So they are rather reflections of their originals than the originals themselves.

The story is settled in New York and begins in 1965.

Last but not least, I changed the names except for one. My principal reason for this is that I wanted them to fit to the background of this story. I hope you forgive me this liberty, in my author's notes, I will explain my procedure for the creation of the characters anyway.

Disclaimer: Rurouni Kenshin belongs to Nobuhiro Watsuki.

This story will contain further more or less important influences (simple citations, parodies, ideas or story lines) from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (created by Richard O'Brien), "Velvet Goldmine" (directed by Todd Hayes), "Gohatto" (directed by Nagisa Oshima), "Batman" (directed by Tim Burton, created by Bob Kane), "Fake" (created by Sanami Matoh), "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (written by Robert Louis Stevenson), "West Side Story" (created by Leonard Bernstein), "Romeo and Juliet" (created by who-was-this-author?), "Huis Clos" (free engl. Transl. "Public excluded", written by Jean-Paul Sartre), James-Bond-movies (the novels have been written by Ian Fleming) and a mix of stories about spies, private eyes, special agents and the Mafia. I don't own any of this creations, but consider this story as a tribute to them.

The title of this story is the title of the English version of a German song "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt.", from the movie "The Blue Angel" (Der blaue Engel, 1930), performed by Marlene Dietrich. In Germany, Marlene Dietrich is one of the icons of gay culture, like Judy Garland had it been in the US in the time I settled this story.

Rating: The story is rated R for language, no graphic sex between two men, adult situations in a heterosexual relation, language and drug abuse.

I beg you not to be offended with the political opinions of my characters. They belongs to them and not all of them are mines. Besides that, I would never flame and have never flamed other authors for their political opinions.

Please, be indulgent with the rather poor language of my story, I'm still working on it! English is not my native language.

LAST WARNING BEFORE READ: As I said, this story is settled in the Sixties. This means there is no danger of Aids. And this is the reason why people - especially the men - have sex without protection. If I had settled the story in the present time, it would be different.