Start and Tremble (Felicity/Pippa)

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Title: Start and Tremble
Pairing: Felicity/Pippa
Spoilers: post-A Great & Terrible Beauty; could fit in pretty much anywhere in Rebel Angels or The Sweet Far Thing
Word Count: 2,564
Rating: PG-13
Summary: My dust would hear her and beat, had I lain for a century dead. Felicity ponders many things, but mostly Pippa.
Author's Note: GOD, WRITING FEELS

Comments

Re: Part One

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Aughhhh, thank you, my girl, I love you! ♥ Your rambly feedback strikes highest joy and validation into my soul; screw you, Dickens, you are inferior to such important practices! (Yeah, that's right, who needs 'im. Hahaha, I remember that similar panic when I had to do David Copperfield last year. It was like, THIS STUFF IS NOT ACTUALLY ALL THAT COMPLEX, HOW CAN THERE STILL BE SO MANY CHAPTERS.)

I love what you had to say about the subtle difference in the characters re: how things would look from Gemma's perspective versus how they'd look from Felicity's, because I had so much fun examining that, even though I think I must have been doing it unconsciously because I didn't really realize it 'til you mentioned it here! I know that right away I found myself in Fee headspace, and it was really neat and unexpected, because I don't think I quite realized 'til now that I have this many thoughts about her character, and they were all suddenly just pouring out like a crazy thought rampage! What was weird about writing this was that I could not get Gemma. Like, that was odd, especially when you've had like 2,000 pages from her point of view. It's sort of like, back when I wrote Harry Potter fic, I would always have the damndest time with Harry; maybe when that character is your lens to see the world through, it's hard to get an individual sense of them?

Also, true story, I started that sentence with something like "Felicity is beautiful," and then I had to stop, think about it, and delete it, because really, Felicity is attractive, and I think part of the reason why is that she isn't technically beautiful, and that's part of what makes her appeal so powerful. And that inspired lots more fun rambling, so yay for not Pansy-Parkinson-ing her, high five, my brain! (Seriously, people get beautiful out of her? Doesn't she canonically have, like, a pug face? Oh, fanfic.)