I have trouble envisioning a good Ruroni Kenshin version of this, simply because Kenshin's blood-soaked history and stone-cold-killer instincts are such an important part of the character, even if they are submerged and hidden most of the time. Making him a modern former black-op agent in the modern day would preserve this but wouldn't be a mundane AU fic of the sort being discussed. Making him a former gangmember for a High School fic just doesn't cut it in my opinion, and word fail me on any fic that throws his violent past away entirely.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.