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2025-09-21
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making the obvious into riddles (I will always love you)

Summary:

Everything comes around the same again, even if it’s different. (A contemporary-ish setting poke at Anne & Diana.)

Notes:

This was originally posted in the Fan Flashworks community, and written for the prompt riddle.

I was imagining this to be similar to a reincarnation fic, or maybe something similar but but with looser vibes. Having fun in this idea sandbox! (And probably inspired by a few MDZS reincarnation/descendant fics, if you're familiar with that modern WWX energy.) The reference to the "character" is, of course, the titular "Anne" from the "Anne of Green Gables" book.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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Anne with an E, who isn’t named after that famous character but instead her mother’s favourite Japanese actor, walks out to the middle of the field, skirting cow pies and the cows themselves, their languid tails flapping away flies, and stops right in front of her best friend, whose name Diana isn’t from a book or the goddess but instead that beloved princess, dead over a decade, and says—

“Yes,” Diana interrupts, glancing up from where she’s perched on a stump and sketching.

“What—?”

“You finally riddled it out?” Diana interrupts again, laughing at Anne’s bemusement. “Yes, I like you.”

Notes:

Yes, there is a Japanese actor known by the mononym Anne: Anne Watanabe (渡辺 杏, Watanabe An. She played Yuuko in the TV series adaptation of xxxHoLiC, and popped into my head when I decided to write this story.

The title is from ALWAYS, I'VE LOVED BIG CARS by Phillip Zhuwao, and Boy with the Red Piano by Louis Armand. It was inspired by CARRYING SOMEONE ELSE’S INFANT PAST A COW IN A FIELD NEAR MARMORA, ONT. by Ken Babstock.