Three Dragon Age fics (including one for Origins) about Isabela
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Contains three fic and some rambles about why I wrote them.
I adore Isabela, but I always assumed I wouldn't be able to write her POV (or any story featuring her in a major way) since a lot of her character is about having lots of unselfconscious meaningless sex, and that's just not something I can write very convincingly or comfortably. And then thanks to various conversations (specifically with jakia) I became taken with the idea of an Isabela/Fenris story which subverted the implications of canon and had them at most holding hands. Thus:
Title: That Night
Author:
alias_sqbr
Wordcount: 1847
Rating: Teen
Pairing(s): Isabela/Fenris, some background/past m!Hawke/Fenris and m!Hawke/Anders
Summary: Fenris and Isabela spend an evening together. There is a long walk in the moonlight, hand holding, and talking about feelings (well, not so much of that last part, don't want to rush into things here)
Links: AO3 and Fanfic.net
And then I discovered that writing Isabela is heaps of fun, and I started thinking about other stories I could write which were interesting and didn't hit my squicks.
Which got me thinking about the relationship between reality and writing as it relates to sex, which led to my first story with an explicitly asexual character, inspired by the many asexual people I know who are WAY more comfortable talking about and writing sexual stuff than me :)
Title: A Bottle of Wine and a Good Book
Author:
alias_sqbr
Wordcount: 1012
Rating: Teen
Characters: Varric and Isabela
Summary: In which Isabela decisively fails to seduce Varric but decides not to take it personally.
Links: AO3 and Fanfic.net
And THEN I got thinking about Isabela's past, and her issues with control and trust and power (and how for her sex, love and marriage are three very different things), and now I have lots of vague plot bunnies about her and Zevran and Fenris that refuse to coalesce and which, sadly, probably aren't going to go anywhere, and the best I could do was crank out this unsatisfying attempt at exploring any of them:
Title: The Wife and the Crow
Author:
alias_sqbr
Wordcount: 2000
Rating: Teen
Characters: Isabela and Zevran (past Isabela/Zevran)
Summary: The last meeting between Zevran and Isabela in Rivain, back when he was a crow and she was a smuggler's wife. No spoilers past Origins.
Links: AO3 and Fanfic.net
And NOW I am going to try to stop worrying at these ideas and prepare for the con I'm going to in a day and a bit.
This entry was originally posted at http://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/393576.html. There are
comments.
Contains three fic and some rambles about why I wrote them.
I adore Isabela, but I always assumed I wouldn't be able to write her POV (or any story featuring her in a major way) since a lot of her character is about having lots of unselfconscious meaningless sex, and that's just not something I can write very convincingly or comfortably. And then thanks to various conversations (specifically with jakia) I became taken with the idea of an Isabela/Fenris story which subverted the implications of canon and had them at most holding hands. Thus:
Title: That Night
Author:
alias_sqbr
Wordcount: 1847
Rating: Teen
Pairing(s): Isabela/Fenris, some background/past m!Hawke/Fenris and m!Hawke/Anders
Summary: Fenris and Isabela spend an evening together. There is a long walk in the moonlight, hand holding, and talking about feelings (well, not so much of that last part, don't want to rush into things here)
Links: AO3 and Fanfic.net
And then I discovered that writing Isabela is heaps of fun, and I started thinking about other stories I could write which were interesting and didn't hit my squicks.
Which got me thinking about the relationship between reality and writing as it relates to sex, which led to my first story with an explicitly asexual character, inspired by the many asexual people I know who are WAY more comfortable talking about and writing sexual stuff than me :)
Title: A Bottle of Wine and a Good Book
Author:
alias_sqbr
Wordcount: 1012
Rating: Teen
Characters: Varric and Isabela
Summary: In which Isabela decisively fails to seduce Varric but decides not to take it personally.
Links: AO3 and Fanfic.net
And THEN I got thinking about Isabela's past, and her issues with control and trust and power (and how for her sex, love and marriage are three very different things), and now I have lots of vague plot bunnies about her and Zevran and Fenris that refuse to coalesce and which, sadly, probably aren't going to go anywhere, and the best I could do was crank out this unsatisfying attempt at exploring any of them:
Title: The Wife and the Crow
Author:
alias_sqbr
Wordcount: 2000
Rating: Teen
Characters: Isabela and Zevran (past Isabela/Zevran)
Summary: The last meeting between Zevran and Isabela in Rivain, back when he was a crow and she was a smuggler's wife. No spoilers past Origins.
Links: AO3 and Fanfic.net
And NOW I am going to try to stop worrying at these ideas and prepare for the con I'm going to in a day and a bit.
This entry was originally posted at http://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/393576.html. There are
comments.