[Seven Virtues Fic] Rainbow in the Dark
Finally got this one out of Limbo on my hard-drive.
Title: Rainbow in the Dark
Characters: Autobot females
Rating: PG-13
Summary: During the Great Shutdown, sometimes keeping to the high road means seeking out the depths.
Warnings: Death and famine.
Author's Notes: Assorted place references borrowed from Dun'verse.
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( Rainbow in the Dark )
Title: Rainbow in the Dark
Characters: Autobot females
Rating: PG-13
Summary: During the Great Shutdown, sometimes keeping to the high road means seeking out the depths.
Warnings: Death and famine.
Author's Notes: Assorted place references borrowed from Dun'verse.
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( Rainbow in the Dark )
You conveyed everything well - both what it meant for the female Autobots and Elita in particular to be in this kind of situation, having to make this kind of decisions that would amount to a "Sophie's Choice", and the hope and relief upon finding the Guardian with its fuel supply. One gets a feel for what it would have done to the female Autobots, how it changed them, yet how they still held on to being "not Decepticons" in their own way.
And Elita's brand of mercy (with Windchime)... ho boy! I think her and Steadfast would understand each other very well and have hatesmex.
What your writing about Elita makes it very understandable why her and Optimus didn't seem to much... find together again at the end of Search for Alpha Trion. I mean, in terms of her having been through things that Prime can't (or, likely, wouldn't want to) even imagine...
Of course, then there's the question of how you reconcile that with canon, where Elita, at that point, seemed like the soppy girlfriend who waved after Optimus all "Don't stay away for too long!" while he seemed to need her much less than she needed him and went back to shagging Ironhide...
Apart from chalking it up to it being an 80's cartoon where the girl had to stay the girl, if you catch my drift (and to think that "Search for..." was written by a woman! *shakes fist*), I think it might be a matter of Elita - not wanting to admit how much she'd changed? Like, knowing it would hurt Optimus to face that she was no longer the sweet girl he'd left (and hey, his abrupt goodbye could be chalked up to him not wanting to face that as much as anything else...), and - maybe at that point, she found that it was not so much Optimus she'd missed as the (relative) innocence he represented, so she clung to that for the moment?
And heh (on a different note), it's the return of Sweet-and-sticky-dessert Pax!
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I'm not sure if I'll ever get to show it in this series of fics, but the way I reconcile the ending with "The Search for Alpha Trion" with the way I write Elita is fairly simple. Optimus Prime is the love of her life, and after four million years of seperation, they've finally been reunited just long enough to realize how much has changed. But they've barely had the time to discover that their relationship is different now, due to Elita changing, and they've certainly had no time to discover if they could adapt and change to a new relationship.
But that sort of thing needs time and energy devoted by both people involved, and I suspect that over the next twenty years, they didn't get the time they needed. And then Megatron attacked Autobot City.
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'Zactly, IMO.
And then Megatron attacked Autobot City.
Grrah. Isn't that the truth. Lately I've been looking at the attack through the optics of the femmes (and others who weren't there) and seeing what kind of havoc it wrought.
anyway. I really liked this. What the femmes have had to go through is unspeakable, and they're a close-knit group because of it. I never really thought of Elita that way, though-having to do what she could to survive. You're right. Optimus had it easier; he was asleep for four million years. He still would think of her as the girl he left behind, and there wasn't really enough time for her to show him that she wasn't. He probably knew somewhere that she would have had to change, but maybe not the full breadth of that experience. I could just see her trying to tell him: "You don't know what I've had to do."
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I've got a fic planned where, just post-Movie, Roddy has to tell Chromia and Elita One what happened. *pets the poor newly-made Prime*
I tend to write a bleak Great Shutdown, so the people who survived it in my world have got some serious psychic scars that the Ark Autobots and Nemesis Decepticons probably don't understand.
I'm glad my way of doing things works, though. I've been a bit worried about how some people would take the Autobot ladies and the world they have to live in.
Thank you so much for the kind comments!
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Oooooooh, can't wait to read THAT. *is a sucker for guilty!angsty!Roddy*
I've been a bit worried about how some people would take the Autobot ladies and the world they have to live in.
To be honest, this is the first I've seen that is so 'realistic' of their situation (actually, it's one of the few I've seen talking about the G1 femmes at all), but I like it when we take them beyond what we were shown in the 80's.
And you're most welcome! I'll be looking forward to more from you in the future, I hope! ^_^
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