Fic Update: "Perfect World"
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mark_asphodel OK, so I managed to finish the entry for Challenge 007 before taking off for the land of No Internet.
Basically, it's all my ideas, crack and otherwise, for a certain FE12 (dis)continuity, which is still clearly a sore point with me. So, no. I didn't make up the part about the pendant, or the part about Minerva letting her pegasus loose in the woods. Those both come from Minerva's support convos as translated by the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shimizu_hitomi . As for the rest of it...
#1-- Est go bye-bye. Canon.
#2-- Catria skips off to the mainland. With Minerva abdicating any authority and Michalis being a dick, I think the peg sisters are left with a sorry set of options. Catria's loyalties in FE12 do appear to be divided to the point where she thinks it'd be an A-OK world with Marth in charge.
#3-- Michalis attacks Valencia. Because it's easier to write than future!Judgral, and because I want Alm and Cellica to kick his ass. Bows have crazy range in FE2, after all-- dracoknights would be toast.
#4-- Palla defects to Valencia. Only way to get out of that situation with any dignity or honor.
#5-- Maria. The stuff I've read about her in FE12 creeps me out and I'm still not convinced that the priestesses came through that mess unscathed. I think Julian, given that he lives with Lena, would be kind of an expert in post-traumatic priestess syndrome by that point.
#6-- Yes, that's Rody at the end. I shoehorn in my favorite characters. Because I can.
I was pretty happy... maybe relieved is a better word... with this when I finished it, but the more I read over it the more I don't like it. I feel like it came quickly because I've essentially written this story before, in bits and pieces deployed elsewhere. Even worse, I'm again getting the feeling that I've read sections of this before. Maybe in my own original 'fic, maybe in professional works, I dunno. But nothing ruins your day like looking over a paragraph and saying, "now where the hell did that actually come from?"
When I get back to the world of 'Net access, I think I'm going to attempt an essay (essay an essay, hah) about what happens when writers get too comfortable with their own versions of characters. It's been bugging me for sometime, and after working on this, it REALLY bugs me.
Basically, it's all my ideas, crack and otherwise, for a certain FE12 (dis)continuity, which is still clearly a sore point with me. So, no. I didn't make up the part about the pendant, or the part about Minerva letting her pegasus loose in the woods. Those both come from Minerva's support convos as translated by the lovely
shimizu_hitomi . As for the rest of it... #1-- Est go bye-bye. Canon.
#2-- Catria skips off to the mainland. With Minerva abdicating any authority and Michalis being a dick, I think the peg sisters are left with a sorry set of options. Catria's loyalties in FE12 do appear to be divided to the point where she thinks it'd be an A-OK world with Marth in charge.
#3-- Michalis attacks Valencia. Because it's easier to write than future!Judgral, and because I want Alm and Cellica to kick his ass. Bows have crazy range in FE2, after all-- dracoknights would be toast.
#4-- Palla defects to Valencia. Only way to get out of that situation with any dignity or honor.
#5-- Maria. The stuff I've read about her in FE12 creeps me out and I'm still not convinced that the priestesses came through that mess unscathed. I think Julian, given that he lives with Lena, would be kind of an expert in post-traumatic priestess syndrome by that point.
#6-- Yes, that's Rody at the end. I shoehorn in my favorite characters. Because I can.
I was pretty happy... maybe relieved is a better word... with this when I finished it, but the more I read over it the more I don't like it. I feel like it came quickly because I've essentially written this story before, in bits and pieces deployed elsewhere. Even worse, I'm again getting the feeling that I've read sections of this before. Maybe in my own original 'fic, maybe in professional works, I dunno. But nothing ruins your day like looking over a paragraph and saying, "now where the hell did that actually come from?"
When I get back to the world of 'Net access, I think I'm going to attempt an essay (essay an essay, hah) about what happens when writers get too comfortable with their own versions of characters. It's been bugging me for sometime, and after working on this, it REALLY bugs me.
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Date: 2010-08-09 06:45 pm (UTC)As for my own versions of characters, I do think that would be a good discussion to have. :-)