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Plotbunnies and fe_contest
Apr. 21st, 2010 11:27 amBack when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fe_contest first started, I had a challenge prompt all picked out in the bizarro event that I won anything. Well, I decided not to use it and submitted something else to the mods instead-- something for which I have no preconceptions and no plotbunnies kicking around. I'll probably sit this round out, anyway, unless participation is really sparse.
My weekend abroad was pretty restorative in a general sense, but it also gave me some ideas to retool and "unstick" my original novel-in-progress that has been stuck in park for a year now. That novel is very tied to a sense of place, and returning to California helped me get back into the atmosphere of it. Even the sunlight looks a little different at that latitude than it does from where I now live.
I got no actual writing done on the plane, but I did have large chunks for a new 'fic materialize in my brain and I have been feverishly jotting them down since my return home. It stars... Nyna. Yes, Nyna, my perennial punching bag. Specifically, Nyna after FE3, when she goes off to Valencia chasing "Sirius" and presumably finds Zeke instead. Now, this is dangerous territory, given that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shimizu_hitomi will finish "Through a Glass Darkly" one of these years (please?). While the second installment of her story will undoubtedly be better than my attempt, mine at least will be different. For one, I can pretty much guarantee that Hitomi won't feature Marth to the extent that mine does-- I find the whole dynamic between Nyna and Marth fascinating in terms of text, subtext, and context... far more than I ought to, I suppose.
Why the sudden interest in a character I have such issues with? Well, just because Nyna makes mistake upon mistake doesn't mean I don't feel a certain amount of sympathy for her. She's conflicted and flawed and very human, and her mistakes aren't inexplicable "idiot plot" mistakes. FE11 presents her as a woman who could have been a good queen (x-ref Horace) but who has some critical blind spots when it comes to what her duty is. Her position in society makes a fatal flaw out of her kindness.
[The FE11 ending is one of those "comedy turned tragic by context" dealies-- from the way FE3 presents it, peace begins to unravel from the moment Nyna takes it upon herself to hook up a pair of tongue-tied teenagers. And the fact that the script is sending up red flags through that scene doesn't help Nyna any.]
Nyna is, in a sense, fortunate. Governed by desire (or lack thereof), she is set free of her obligations to society to pursue that desire-- pursue it clear across the ocean. The question then becomes whether having is any better than wanting.
fe_contest first started, I had a challenge prompt all picked out in the bizarro event that I won anything. Well, I decided not to use it and submitted something else to the mods instead-- something for which I have no preconceptions and no plotbunnies kicking around. I'll probably sit this round out, anyway, unless participation is really sparse.My weekend abroad was pretty restorative in a general sense, but it also gave me some ideas to retool and "unstick" my original novel-in-progress that has been stuck in park for a year now. That novel is very tied to a sense of place, and returning to California helped me get back into the atmosphere of it. Even the sunlight looks a little different at that latitude than it does from where I now live.
I got no actual writing done on the plane, but I did have large chunks for a new 'fic materialize in my brain and I have been feverishly jotting them down since my return home. It stars... Nyna. Yes, Nyna, my perennial punching bag. Specifically, Nyna after FE3, when she goes off to Valencia chasing "Sirius" and presumably finds Zeke instead. Now, this is dangerous territory, given that
shimizu_hitomi will finish "Through a Glass Darkly" one of these years (please?). While the second installment of her story will undoubtedly be better than my attempt, mine at least will be different. For one, I can pretty much guarantee that Hitomi won't feature Marth to the extent that mine does-- I find the whole dynamic between Nyna and Marth fascinating in terms of text, subtext, and context... far more than I ought to, I suppose.Why the sudden interest in a character I have such issues with? Well, just because Nyna makes mistake upon mistake doesn't mean I don't feel a certain amount of sympathy for her. She's conflicted and flawed and very human, and her mistakes aren't inexplicable "idiot plot" mistakes. FE11 presents her as a woman who could have been a good queen (x-ref Horace) but who has some critical blind spots when it comes to what her duty is. Her position in society makes a fatal flaw out of her kindness.
[The FE11 ending is one of those "comedy turned tragic by context" dealies-- from the way FE3 presents it, peace begins to unravel from the moment Nyna takes it upon herself to hook up a pair of tongue-tied teenagers. And the fact that the script is sending up red flags through that scene doesn't help Nyna any.]
Nyna is, in a sense, fortunate. Governed by desire (or lack thereof), she is set free of her obligations to society to pursue that desire-- pursue it clear across the ocean. The question then becomes whether having is any better than wanting.
