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mark_asphodel No, I haven't been writing at warp speed. This has been languishing for... a year? A while. I simply didn't want to put out another multi-part WIP without completing one of the ones that's already sitting out there in ffnet-land with its plot threads dangling. Now that APoB is done, I felt I could reward myself by releasing "Lesson One." Besides, having it "out there" may spur me to get the other lessons completed.
Anyway, this is another little genfic about Princess Maria of Macedon, one that I began well before the first cracky idea for "Bellflower" arose. The basic thrust of it is, how does a little kid like Maria pull off the "resurrection" of her brother Michalis? Especially given that Michalis isn't just anybody-- he's a deposed and apparently slain enemy ruler. The whole business takes more than tears and compassion-- it requires some moxie. It requires nerve. And it requires Maria to know how to pull something like that off-- apparently without assistance. (I take Minerva's surprise at seeing her brother-- "Misheil... How?"-- in Book 2 of FE3 to mean that she didn't realize he was alive. And if FE12 contradicts me, I don't care.)
So we start of with Lesson One in Maria's education-- Denial. Maria, newly liberated and in the middle of her first battle, learns a fairly harsh lesson courtesy of our mercenary buddies Caesar and Radd.
This 'fic is rated T off the bat, and it just gets progressively icky from a blood-and-guts perspective. Lesson Two (Misperception) isn't too bad, but Lesson Three (Oversight) gets pretty squicky and is a huge reason for the lack of progress I've made on this 'fic to date. And then the fourth chapter, Application, ties all Maria's lessons up in a shiny red bow.
This is not in the same continuity as "Bellflower," by the way, though it was originally in the same continuity as "To Freely Serve." It's straight-up FE11, with no taint from 12, and no constraint on how many characters I can kill off. Except for Michalis. He's funny that way.
Anyway, this is another little genfic about Princess Maria of Macedon, one that I began well before the first cracky idea for "Bellflower" arose. The basic thrust of it is, how does a little kid like Maria pull off the "resurrection" of her brother Michalis? Especially given that Michalis isn't just anybody-- he's a deposed and apparently slain enemy ruler. The whole business takes more than tears and compassion-- it requires some moxie. It requires nerve. And it requires Maria to know how to pull something like that off-- apparently without assistance. (I take Minerva's surprise at seeing her brother-- "Misheil... How?"-- in Book 2 of FE3 to mean that she didn't realize he was alive. And if FE12 contradicts me, I don't care.)
So we start of with Lesson One in Maria's education-- Denial. Maria, newly liberated and in the middle of her first battle, learns a fairly harsh lesson courtesy of our mercenary buddies Caesar and Radd.
This 'fic is rated T off the bat, and it just gets progressively icky from a blood-and-guts perspective. Lesson Two (Misperception) isn't too bad, but Lesson Three (Oversight) gets pretty squicky and is a huge reason for the lack of progress I've made on this 'fic to date. And then the fourth chapter, Application, ties all Maria's lessons up in a shiny red bow.
This is not in the same continuity as "Bellflower," by the way, though it was originally in the same continuity as "To Freely Serve." It's straight-up FE11, with no taint from 12, and no constraint on how many characters I can kill off. Except for Michalis. He's funny that way.
