[Fic: Clarity]

[arysani]

Title: Clarity
Author: arysani
Pairing: Greagoir/Wynne
Rating: K
Summary: Last chance before she goes off to be a hero.
Author's Note: So I was trying to be a good fan and since I partake of the kinkmeme, thought I'd be all participatory in filling a few. And totally misread someone's Irving/Wynne post-Broken Circle before Wynne leaves hurt/comfort

Comments

[ladyastoreth]

Beautiful. I love it. Wynne/Greagoir is one of my personal favorites.

[arysani]

Thank you :o) I never really put two and two together on my own - I didn't have the Feast Day pack or anything that would necessarily make my mind wander there, and didn't get the Wynne-Alistair convo about her son until my second playthrough. But then someone suggested G/W and then very shortly afterwards I discovered the infamous G + W = C equation and from then on I was a smitten kitten with the pairing. I always liked Greagoir - he's gruff, but you can tell he doesn't hate the mages (for example, he clearly respects Irving a great deal), so it was easy to imagine the two of them having a long-ago love affair.

Plus the idea of them figuring it out later or having this awkward affection rebuilding the Tower is just so sweet to me.

(Thanks for "letting" me rant at you, haha...)

[crisium]

*melts*

Oh, don't mind me, I'll be over here in a little puddle of goo going "AWWW" and squeeing.

That was so sweet, and so lovely. Thank you for posting it. <3

[arysani]

Hee! Thank you! :oD Means a lot coming from my favorite W+G=C author.

I just am such a SUCKER for him being all grumpy-affectionate and her being saucy. I guess I figure they'd always been like that (in some form or another), and it's only gotten worse as they got older. Plus SUBTEXT which I realize I do a lot and you know it's kind of hard to get subtext if I don't write Stephen King-esoteric descriptions of scene setting and body language. Definitely some room for improvement there. But GLAD it made you melty - I was melty writing it.

[nithu]

I loved this. They seem to know each other so well. It gave me the feeling they are both playing a game that they've played before, many times.

[arysani]

Thank you :oD

I kind of imagined that they steer pretty clear of each other or skirt each other in general but fall into familiarity fairly easily when given the chance, simply out of prolonged affection. Greagoir will always be a grump, but I think that's part of his reluctant charm, hehe. And not wanting to admit or acknowledge what's between them would definitely be an oft undiscussed topic - esp if you consider if Wynne's son is/was indeed their child, there would have to be a lot of anger and resentment there for a long time on both sides until they fall back into this THING. Then you've got the bit where she has basically died and come back, and doesn't expect to return this time, and she knows how she feels, but she wants him to admit as much on his side(why are Danny Tripp and Matt Albie reciting "say it say it" in my head? lol), just in case.

(And in my first completed playthrough, Wynne totally took down the archdemon with Spellweaver, so she's clearly BADASS and is OF COURSE coming back.)

[prisoner__24601]

I really like this. I'm a sucker for NPC's romancing each other and a double sucker for anything that features older, world wise characters so this is so full of win.

It's clear from the way they act in the story that these two have a long history together. I love the familiarity and intimacy between them - it speaks volumes about a relationship that must have been really complicated, and yet still full of affection. Nice job.

[arysani]

Thank you verra muchly :oD I too have a soft spot for those things. While I love a youthful passion for everything, I also really adore comfort borne of long-standing acquaintance and affection; people who have no illusions and no reason to faff about and pretend that if they squeeze their eyes tightly and tap their heels together 3 times that everything will be okay. They have taken responsibility for themselves and whatever degree of happiness they can afford to embrace.

I'm so glad that what I was going for is coming through - one always worries, with a new character or pairing, whether or not everyone else "gets" them in the same way.

[w0rdinista]

Oh, this was just darling. Thank you for sharing it. I wouldn't have thought these two would make such an adorable pair. In cases like these, I LOVE to be proved wrong. <3

[arysani]

Thank you! Glad I could assist in bringing more peeps over here to the adorableness that is Greagoir/Wynne. It's fun here. We also have Cullen. I just figure they've reached that respect, familiarity, and respect place that comes decades after a torrid youthful affair that broke their hearts, but now they LIKE each other. (As opposed to before when it might've been all "but we shouldn't!" and "I don't care, I love you!" and they may not have actually known and appreciated each other, if that makes sense?)

(There's also this adorable fanart over on the kmeme about the two of them post-game, going on vacay together to an Antivan beach. Cracked me up and contributed to my affection for them. Greagoir seems like such a grump, but the kind I could see a saucy young Wynne liking anyway, and the saucy older Wynne finding stupidly endearing...)