Don't Cry For Me, Lycia

[mark_asphodel]

I had some deep musings on family and home and stuff, but I'm too tired right now.

But I now have my grandmother's beloved copy of the full Evita movie soundtrack (the Madonna/Antonio Banderas one).  I'm not saying it's good music, but it's deeply ingrained into my mind and I do respond to a lot of it on a few levels... and roll my eyes at the rest of it.

So now I want to write some awesome Serra story where she's the marchioness of Ostia and all hell breaks loose as a consequence.

Also, I broke my favorite plate today.  I feel bad, because it was a darling little Bavarian saucer painted with cornflowers, but at the same time... I guess it's better to use stuff and potentially lose it than to stick it up on a high shelf and forget about it.  People are just going to throw it in the trash when you die, anyway.

Comments

[myaru.livejournal.com]

That sounds like it might be an interesting take on Serra. There are so few of those. :/ I never got to see Evita, but that song has always been in my head. All you had to do is mention it; it's on mental repeat as I comment. :P

I'm sorry to hear about the plate. You're probably right about using such things instead of stashing them away, but the hoarding instinct can be difficult to overcome when you're looking at stuff with sentimental value.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

There are so few of those

I dunno. Maybe I'm just weird, but part of the reason I like Serra (she's one of my favorite FE7 characters) is that mixture of grasping need and not-completely-hidden vulnerability. She's very satisfyingly complex, which of course means that she's often written as a one-dimension bi-atch or written as this super-hypercompetent sympathetic person that just doesn't fee like Serra to me.

but that song has always been in my head

I don't actually care for that aria, but songs like "Oh, What A Circus" and "High Flying, Adored" have resonated with me for a decade now. They definitely get the wheels spinning, and Serra is one of the few characters in FE that could plausibly fit the Evita archetype-- the background she's ashamed of and lies about, the need for validation and things, the whole "holy woman" angle, and the potential to really jack up the country.

L'Arachel? Not the same. Nope. She's kind of... defanged, by comparison. Serra has BITE.

but the hoarding instinct can be difficult to overcome when you're looking at stuff with sentimental value.

The last week was like immersion therapy for hoarding re: sentimental value. See these things that mean so much to you, that you cherish? When you die, they will gather dust, be trampled on, and be hauled out to the trash by the cartful.

:(