FE8 Noodling

[mark_asphodel]

 Dire Straits's Brothers In Arms is my ultimate FE8-writing music.  It just works so, so well-- especially the title track, "Ride Across the River," and "The Man's Too Strong."  Though the last could work for a number of games.

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Man, Seth/Eirika is a pairing I'm so on the fence about.  Sometimes I love it, and sometimes I just get sick of it.  I read this story and was really turned off.  I'm still trying to formulate a review for it.

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Speaking of Seth/Eirika, I picked up some books for the holidays and am back at work on "Borderline" again.  I scrapped some bits from Orson's POV and decided to use his love letters to Monica (modeled off nineteenth-century examples) as a device instead, which is some pretty twisted fun.  Little nothings like "I shall never grow tired of hearing you say you love me" just sound different when it's Orson/Monica we're talking about.  

Comments

[raphiael]

Honestly, if it had come off like unreliable-narrator Seth projecting and him being a creeper, it would have been so much better, because I can absolutely see a twisted version of him thinking ill of anyone who tries to associate with her. Instead it contradicts Eirika's personality, and somehow manages to make Lyon even more pathetic than most writers do.
Alas.

AUs are amazing, oh man.
no I'm totally not gushing, not one bit.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Honestly, if it had come off like unreliable-narrator Seth projecting and him being a creeper, it would have been so much better

Yeah, indeed.

AUs are amazing, oh man.

Uh, well, if you get bored...
Borderline (The Seth/Orson one): http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6508676/1/

Until the Sun Cries Morning (A sequel featuring Ephraim and Innes): http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6486641/1/

Transcendence (Prequel featuring Linde and Merric from FE11/12): http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6461066/1/

[raphiael]

Hrrnnnnggg yessss
*adds to growing list of stuff to read*