Fic Update: "Asylum" Chapter Four
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mark_asphodelNow 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.
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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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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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Date: 2011-03-15 10:39 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-03-15 11:16 pm (UTC)Dammit now I'm picturing people dressed up like Treize in Fire Emblem.
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Date: 2011-03-15 11:19 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-03-15 11:23 pm (UTC)...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...
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Date: 2011-03-16 12:17 am (UTC)And you can thank that for my interest in FE. 8D