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mark_asphodel) wrote2012-02-02 06:14 pm
mark_asphodel) wrote2012-02-02 06:14 pm
Entry tags:
- fanfiction,
- fe4,
- fe5,
- finn,
- fire emblem,
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Fic Update: "Grains of Light"
So, I finally finished a story I first mentioned back in this post, last August.
It's the one about the period after Thracia 776 wherein Finn went MIA and was allegedly wandering the Yied Desert. Despite Fire Emblem's love for ambiguity and and uncertainty, I think that's exactly what he was doing. But why, and why'd it take him three years, and why did he decide to come back when he did?
The easy answer is he was looking for Lachesis, who was a) confirmed alive by Levin in FE5 and b) possibly/probably/was turned to stone like Eyvel and therefore technically OK as long as Manfroy's granddaughter still had her sparkly magic staff. Or she was in a refugee camp with a bunch of kids, or something. Anyway, all we know (and all he knows) is that she went into the desert and never came out, and she was alive circa 776.
Mind you, Lachesis isn't the only thing precious to Finn that was lost in the desert...
The inspiration for this came after watching Nostalgia for the Light, a poetic but flawed meditation on the beauty and brutality of the Atacama Desert. This arid, lifeless, timeless version of Yied is modeled off the Atacama, though Finn's journey isn't intended as anything close to a realistic travelogue. The mass graves and natural mummies are likewise inspired by real-life counterparts in South America, though mass graves seemed an appropriate enough fit for Jugdral, land of child hunts and massacres and sacrifices to evil cults. That was, in part, how the plotbunny involved into a Judgral story instead of the usual Archanea or Magvel.
1) The part about Cuan's, uh, aura is straight out of FE4. That's how Finn recognizes Altenna; she has the same aura that Cuan possessed.
2) The two stars on either side of the Milky Way are Vega and Altair in our world; they're the Star Festival stars-- the Weaver Princess and her lover.
3) A word about using crosses to mark graves. I don't remember if there's anything about it in canon or not, though I've seen it in fanart. All I can say about it is, well... what's the derivation of "crusader" again? Right.
It's the one about the period after Thracia 776 wherein Finn went MIA and was allegedly wandering the Yied Desert. Despite Fire Emblem's love for ambiguity and and uncertainty, I think that's exactly what he was doing. But why, and why'd it take him three years, and why did he decide to come back when he did?
The easy answer is he was looking for Lachesis, who was a) confirmed alive by Levin in FE5 and b) possibly/probably/was turned to stone like Eyvel and therefore technically OK as long as Manfroy's granddaughter still had her sparkly magic staff. Or she was in a refugee camp with a bunch of kids, or something. Anyway, all we know (and all he knows) is that she went into the desert and never came out, and she was alive circa 776.
Mind you, Lachesis isn't the only thing precious to Finn that was lost in the desert...
The inspiration for this came after watching Nostalgia for the Light, a poetic but flawed meditation on the beauty and brutality of the Atacama Desert. This arid, lifeless, timeless version of Yied is modeled off the Atacama, though Finn's journey isn't intended as anything close to a realistic travelogue. The mass graves and natural mummies are likewise inspired by real-life counterparts in South America, though mass graves seemed an appropriate enough fit for Jugdral, land of child hunts and massacres and sacrifices to evil cults. That was, in part, how the plotbunny involved into a Judgral story instead of the usual Archanea or Magvel.
1) The part about Cuan's, uh, aura is straight out of FE4. That's how Finn recognizes Altenna; she has the same aura that Cuan possessed.
2) The two stars on either side of the Milky Way are Vega and Altair in our world; they're the Star Festival stars-- the Weaver Princess and her lover.
3) A word about using crosses to mark graves. I don't remember if there's anything about it in canon or not, though I've seen it in fanart. All I can say about it is, well... what's the derivation of "crusader" again? Right.