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Here is the the result of many months of scribbling, reworking, and redacting. "No Saint to Follow" is a fairly open-ended series of sequential one-shots about the "bad girl" of FE3, Lena's apprentice Malliesia, aka Melissa. This is the first installment.
( Some Mother's Son )
Anyway, though my original conception of Grust was as a "Prussian" militaristic state, there is a real-life Grust in southern France, so there is a bit of Gascon flavor added to my depiction of the place here. Gavarnie is what I call the village where Lena's grandfather gives Marth the Hammerne staff in Chapter 20 of FEDS. Arnaldus is, of course, Lena's grandfather.
My conception of Melissa in this is of a girl with something of a runaway imagination, which she has inherited from her grandmother. She's pretty cunning and manipulative, but not really cynical, which makes her a departure from my usual FE3/11 stable of minor characters.
I render her name as "Melissa" because it means "balm," which I find amusing-- it's appropriate to a healer, and inappropriate to her persona.
Cute young dead guy inspired by Franz of FE8. Title comes from the song "Some Mother's Son" by the Kinks.
( Some Mother's Son )
Anyway, though my original conception of Grust was as a "Prussian" militaristic state, there is a real-life Grust in southern France, so there is a bit of Gascon flavor added to my depiction of the place here. Gavarnie is what I call the village where Lena's grandfather gives Marth the Hammerne staff in Chapter 20 of FEDS. Arnaldus is, of course, Lena's grandfather.
My conception of Melissa in this is of a girl with something of a runaway imagination, which she has inherited from her grandmother. She's pretty cunning and manipulative, but not really cynical, which makes her a departure from my usual FE3/11 stable of minor characters.
I render her name as "Melissa" because it means "balm," which I find amusing-- it's appropriate to a healer, and inappropriate to her persona.
Cute young dead guy inspired by Franz of FE8. Title comes from the song "Some Mother's Son" by the Kinks.
