fic: in the night light (we still shine bright) // brom&morzan // inheritance, pre-series

[electrumqueen]

title: in the night light (we still shine bright)
fandom: inheritance
rating: pg
pairing/characters: brom, morzan (morzan/galbatorix, unreq. brom/morzan)
warnings: brisingr spoilers, kind of incest? forsworn continuity, but i'm pretty sure no one cares.
disclaimer: inheritance & all characters belongs to chris paolini, and his thesaurus. the title comes

Comments

[vareth_is]

Hmm! I like this, too, although not as much as the other one, but I think that's largely because my personal fanon is slightly different (my Morzan is a lot less sympathetic than yours). Again with the beautiful writing.

It did feel a little awkward, though: I haven't read your other stuff but I want to know how Saphira died in your fanon, how Brom was able to even talk to Morzan afterwards without stabbing out his throat.

And I hope you don't mind that I'm poking at your fic! It's only that aside from my RL friend, gold_bluepoint, I've never met a fan/Anti/reader who has the same sort of obsession that I do. XDDD Please tell me if I'm being annoying.

[electrumqueen]

Ugh I have too much fanon for this series xD. I've been plotting this whole epic AU for like four years, so I started way back when we knew very little about Morzan, and I could fanwank him as being ridiculously adorable and having, like, a plan and you know, not being completely evil. Also, this is set before he got completely crazy; I do think that he is sometimes a bit of a dick, but hey. Again, thank you so so much! <3

[vareth_is]

I'm at work so sadly do not have time for a proper reply atm, but I just wanted to say

>>because he was totally in love with Morzan I DON'T CARE WHAT CANON SAYS ABOUT BROTHERLINESS

YES. YES AND YES. There was so NOTHING about "brotherliness" in Eldest, either, okay. I remember Oromis talking about "the depth of Brom's affection for [Morzan]" and I remember giggling my fool head off. IT WAS LOVE, DAMMIT.

Also I do feel Brom may be the biggest chunk of wasted potential. I wonder if CP ever realized how fucking awesome that backstory was? I feel like he's starting to.

ARGH longer comment later because I SO have more to say. XDDD

[vareth_is]

>>Ugh I have too much fanon for this series xD. I've been plotting this whole epic AU for like four years

Hi, Pot; my name is Kettle. I think we may have a few things in common. XD

I can sympathize with the desire to make Morzan (or any villain) a sympathetic character, one with good motives. Mine just...kind of isn't. His dragon hatched for him when he was younger than he ought to have been, and the two of them build each other up in the worst ways. He's a sociopath: he doesn't hate anyone, but he finds it very easy (and entertaining, a lot of the time) to hurt people.

ANYWAY this is totally not the place for me to blargh about my personal fanon, SO, back to yours. XDDD

>>-The reason it feels awkward is because I suck and basically wanted to shoehorn in this whole conversation that I really wanted to write, ever since we learned that the dragons forgot their names. (Because Galbatorix is pretty freaking smart, like he wouldn't figure that out before it happened!)I totally know that feeling, and it's still a good conversation, so

[electrumqueen]

[lol too much capslock for words w/e I DON'T CARE]

GOD ELDEST WAS SO SHIT BUT AT THE SAME TIME. SO MUCH GAY, OMG. EVERYONE IN THIS SERIES IS A WHORE I SWEAR TO GOD, THOSE STDs IN ALAGAESIA MUST BE FLOURISHING. [haha, my bff lyra_hime and i were walking to her place after buying the book and i was reading out the oromis conversation about brom and morzan and we kept having to stop and double over laughing

[vareth_is]

AGAIN AT WORK SO NO TIME TO REPLY PROPERLY BUT

I HAVE WRITTEN HIGH SCHOOL AU WITH BACKSTORY FOLKS, IT IS MY SECRET SHAME.

WE NEED TO CONVERSE RE: THIS, FOR IT IS EPIC, ahahahahahahaha I am a horrible person. XDDDD

[electrumqueen]

ABOUT TO GO TO SCHOOL BUT.

OMGOMGOMGOMG I TOTALLY NEED THIS IN MY LIFE LIKE FOR SERIOUS! THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH CAPSLOCK IN THE WOOORLD TO PROPERLY DEPICT HOW MUCH I WANT THIS.

[vareth_is]

EMBRACE THE CAPSLOCK, FOR IT IS WELL-DESERVED.

>>THOSE STDs IN ALAGAESIA MUST BE FLOURISHING.

I consider it 100% canon that Oromis has AIDS. XDDDDD Seriously, Eldest, all that got me THROUGH Eldest was making NON. STOP. GAY JOKES. Between the super-gay backstory, the really CREEPILY sexual descriptions of Oromis (not even just the hairless groin, k), the Agaeti Blodhran (WTF FREAKY SEX PARTY), and the Murtagh-stuff that just read as SO slashy to me? IT WAS A PRETTY EASY READ ONCE HE GOT TO ELFLAND.

>>WELL MY ERAGON IS A SOCIOPATH INSTEAD. SO MAYBE IT'S GENETIC. ...there should be a verse where everyone except, like, galbatorix is absolutely fucking crazy. (or possibly that's canon?)

I mean, if you really look at these characters objectively, between the codependent dragons and the teenagers who are totally okay with killing LOTS and LOTS of people, Galby IS sane by comparison.

>>See, the problem with my Morzan is that he's like, stereotypical uke. Freaking CLAMP.

AHAHAHA PERFECT. YOURS IS SUBARU. MINE IS SEISHIROU. THEY SHOULD

[electrumqueen]

-I consider it 100% canon that Oromis has AIDS.

...ME TOO. THANK YOU FOR THAT. ;)

-IT WAS A PRETTY EASY READ ONCE HE GOT TO ELFLAND.

IDEK BUT I LOLD. (WHO WANTS TO BET WHERE ARYA WAS CONCEIVED?)

I kind of want Galbatorix to end up being the Best Thing Ever for Murtagh? Like, IDEK, it would be hilarious if the "torture" that Murtagh was complaining about was, like, "NO YOU CANNOT GET DRUNK ON A SCHOOL NIGHT GO TO BED AT A REASONABLE HOUR", and "NO MURTAGH, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO KILL THESE PEOPLE (maybe later)" and Thorn was normal-growing! Saphira was just stunted, because Eragon is a loser!

-YOURS IS SUBARU. MINE IS SEISHIROU.

HAHA OMG THAT SEEMS SO WEIRD TO ME! BECAUSE MY GALBATORIX IS SEISHIROU AND slkjfdslkjf HOW WEIRD/COOL IS THAT. [dude, your morzan and my galbatorix would be epic and hi~larious.]

-And...fuck, I write about the dragons all the time.

OKAY WHAT. WHERE. NOW PLZ. (haha, i keep searching desperately for fic in this fandom and i tell you, it is hard work. SAVE ME

[vareth_is]

>>I kind of want Galbatorix to end up being the Best Thing Ever for Murtagh? Like, IDEK, it would be hilarious if the "torture" that Murtagh was complaining about was, like, "NO YOU CANNOT GET DRUNK ON A SCHOOL NIGHT GO TO BED AT A REASONABLE HOUR", and "NO MURTAGH, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO KILL THESE PEOPLE (maybe later)" and Thorn was normal-growing! Saphira was just stunted, because Eragon is a loser!

THIS IS THE BEST VERSION OF CANON EVER. I WANT TO FIC THIS. DEAR GOD, MOTHER!GALBY. THIS MUST BE DONE.

>>HAHA OMG THAT SEEMS SO WEIRD TO ME! BECAUSE MY GALBATORIX IS SEISHIROU AND slkjfdslkjf HOW WEIRD/COOL IS THAT. [dude, your morzan and my galbatorix would be epic and hi~larious.]I feel like my Galby is not that far off from yours? Probably a bit crazier. ...And less than fixated on Morzan. Okay, possibly very far off from yours. XDDDDD I feel like my Morzan would have a very similar dynamic, though, with both your Galby and mine

[electrumqueen]

-THIS IS THE BEST VERSION OF CANON EVER. I WANT TO FIC THIS. DEAR GOD, MOTHER!GALBY. THIS MUST BE DONE.

IT IS A VOID THAT MUST BE FILLED, OMG.

-EXCEPT THEN BROM HAPPENED

...goddamn you, Brom. [By which I mean: ILU LOTS BE MY BFF?] STILL THO. DO NOT MESS WITH GALBATORIX'S CAREFULLY LAID PLANS. (it will stop you getting laid.)

-IF YOU THINK SHURTYFIC IS WORTH IT I WILL GIVE IT A SHOT.

SHURTYFIC IS ABSOLUTELY NOT WORTH IT. It used to be okay? Like, there was either less dumb people or I was dumb enough not to care? But all/most of the intelligent people have migrated away, and the only people left are... not particularly good fandom participants.

ALSO: IT WILL SUCK YOUR SOUL.

-But I will totally give you context if you'd like. 'Cause like. I want to share crazy fanon of win.I WOULD LIKE VERY MUCH. God, I love your crazy fanon! (The only fic worth reading in this fandom is disturbing. Almost as a rule, anything that is not creepy as all hell, and warned as such, is really really shit.) CANNIBAL DRAGON FTW

[vareth_is]

>>GALBY IS SMRT! HE TOOK OVER ALAGAESIA WITHIN LIKE, FIVE YEARS, WITH ONLY HIS WITS & SEX APPEAL AND ALL THE ATTRACTIVE TEENAGERS HE SEDUCED TO THE DARK SIDE. (WHAT UNTIL WE HAVE ACTUAL CANON I'M GOING TO ASSUME THE FORSWORN WERE ALL HOT TEENAGERS/YOUNG ADULTS K?)

AHAHAHA in my fanon Morzan is older than him XDDDD but not by much AND I AM TTLY WITH YOU ON THE REST. O GALBY. &hearts

>>...PLUS HE KICKED VRAEL IN THE CROTCH C'MON THAT'S AWESOME. (idk what Vrael has canonically done to make me hate him so much, but in my fanon he is a complete asshole, and I laugh gleefully when Galbatorix >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> him.)

I AGREE. VRAEL IS AN ASS IN MY FANON TOO AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHY, tho if there's any truth to the riders being all corrupt and shit before they went, IT MAKES SENSE. I mean.

Also that was the first thing I loved about the books, back when I was first reading them; Galby kicked him IN THE FORK OF THE LEGS and I was like "WHAT THE DRAGONRIDERS DON'T THINK TO WEAR CUPS?!" and I died laughing and then I was in love. Galbatorix

[electrumqueen]

-Morzan is older than him

THAT TOTALLY EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCE IN DYNAMIC. (well, some of it.)

GALBY HAS HIS PRIORITIES STRAIGHT. Taking over the world, check. Surrounded by hot people, check. ♥

-VRAEL IS AN ASS IN MY FANON TOO

I THINK HE JUST HAS AN AIR OF ASS AROUND HIM. (he is my morzan's father! and my brom's father! i'm into that whole cyclical nature of things xD) I sincerely hope we find out that the Riders were douchebags pre-Galby; it's hinted at, right?

I LOVE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE. Galbatorix is intelligent. Vrael is not. ;)

I LOVE ARYA SO MUCH OMG. SHE'S SUCH A BITCH. SHE HATES LIKE EVERYONE. SHE HITS SO MANY OF MY KINKS ESPECIALLY NOW THAT ERAGON HAS STOPPED DESCRIBING HER HAIR SO MUCH.