Fic Update: "Asylum" Chapter Four

[mark_asphodel]

Now I know I'm under too much work stress/life stress.  Have an outbreak of sores in my mouth plus my dreams have been weird.  Weird.  Last night, the dream was that my husband talked me into running for mayor of the city we live in, and I won, and then I was reading the local newspaper and seeing hate letters about myself, caricatures of myself in the cartoon section, negative comparisons to Sarah Palin in the editorials, and so on.  Ugh.  

It was so real that when I woke up I had to reassure myself that none of this actually happened.

-x-

I decided to retool part of "Asylum" following the tsunami and its aftereffects.  The trigger in Chapter Five wasn't objectively bad, just a reference to a breached levee and some flooding, but I decided it simply wasn't necessary.  Once I deleted that part and the bits that led up to it, I was able to reshape and finish Chapter Four.

This story really isn't meant as an AU.  It is intended to take place in between FE11 and FE12, and the "modern" feel of the world is, I think, justifiable in light of the bizarreness of FE12 overall.  I think of the world here as vaguely British, somewhere between "our" 1680 and 1880 except without a real Industrial Revolution.  The FE1 manga was a considerable influence here, as the look of Archanea there IMO owed a lot to France from Louis XIV to Napoleon I.  I mean, seriously, Abel was reading a newspaper in one scene!

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Comments

[hooves.livejournal.com]

I mean, seriously, Abel was reading a newspaper in one scene!

...wait seriously. :U /reevaluates all FE games' approximate "real life" time period.

Also...that is indeed a weird dream. :P Hope your mouth heals soon though-- those sores are never any fun. D:

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

...wait seriously.

A newspaper. With pictures.

And you have stemmed wineglasses, ornate chandeliers, palaces clearly modeled on Versailles, and a portrait of Nyna's father (IIRC) in full Louis Quatorze splendor. Actually, the aesthetic of the manga world is my favorite thing about it-- it's not sword-and-sorcery, it's like Alternate Earth. It has that same feel as the aristocrats in Gundam Wing, and I'm a sucker for that.

[sailorvfan10.livejournal.com]

It has that same feel as the aristocrats in Gundam Wing
Dammit now I'm picturing people dressed up like Treize in Fire Emblem.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

They ARE!

Especially Camus. Mm, manga Camus.

Also, manga Nina looks like an adult Relena. And Marth starts to resemble Heero after a point. It's truly odd.

[sailorvfan10.livejournal.com]

Dammit now I'm gonna write Gundam Wing/Fire Emblem crackfic now, like that FE/Utena piece.

...Marth resembling Heero is ironic. Very, very ironic. When I was hanging up some pictures of manga!Marth, I noticed the resemblance right away and then went, "First Crawford looks like Treize with a monocle, and now Marth looks like Heero. wtf is going on."

Also doesn't help that Aya looks like Zechs with red hair. ...I think there is a conspiracy.

I always thought Leon from Tales of Destiny looked like Marth...

[raphiael]

The resemblance between Marth and Leon - especially Marth's Smash Brother's outfit thing - is freaking eerie.
And you can thank that for my interest in FE. 8D

[xirysa.livejournal.com]

D8 Get some rest, friend. It won't do if you end up falling sick, too. (I just got over being sick for about two weeks myself, and I'm still popping the vitamin C.)

Seems like a lot of people have had trouble writing certain events after the tsunami, too.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

No rest for the stupidly overextended!

Seems like a lot of people have had trouble writing certain events after the tsunami, too.

I don't have a problem writing it. I deal with Bad Shit by writing about it-- I wrote 9/11 'fic back in the day (and kept it to myself). But I don't want to write something other people are not up to reading, especially when it could be reworked into something less upsetting.

[raphiael]

D:
Take care of yourself; no keeling over allowed.

Also, that weird fusion of historical periods is pretty much what draws me to Archanea. It doesn't feel like the typical sword-and-sorcery mashup - especially when you look at people like Camus and Nyna.
asdgfghjagjhagfaj this continues to remind me of those steampunk-FE things I was going to do.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

It doesn't feel like the typical sword-and-sorcery mashup - especially when you look at people like Camus and Nyna.

Yeah. And even Marth doesn't have the Tight White Britches of FE Lordhood. Long trousers are about as medieval as high tea, you know?

asdgfghjagjhagfaj this continues to remind me of those steampunk-FE things I was going to do.

Archanea is a good place for that, IMO.

[raphiael]

Oh yes, the Tight White Pants of Nobility XD
Yeah, I can see it working, on a literary level, best for Archanea, no doubt. It's more a character design project, because I haven't done any serious illustration work in a while (unless one counts the ill-thought foray into animu land I did a few months ago. hated that. never again. XD), but I could keep a lot of elements from the Archanea dudes without much trouble.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Merric. With goggles. Is essential.

[raphiael]

I was actually thinking of designing him a mechanical eyewear apparatus of some sort - it seems like a very "him" thing to do.
Then again, I already want to do an elaborate one-eyed thing for Canas, so.