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A Light in the Dim Morning (FFI, PG-13), for Kundagi

Aug 15, 2009 02:27

Title: A Light in the Dim Morning
For: Kundagi/tlc010
Medium: Fic
Request(s): FF1, gender subversion is something I am very fond of, so I would like to see a reversal of the typical 'men are fighters, ladies are healers' convention.
Fandom(s): Final Fantasy 1.
Characters/Pairings: White Mage, Red Mage, Monk, Fighter, and some incidental wandering monsters.
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ff01 [char] fighter, ! [round 002] .gifts, [medium] fic, ff01 [char] monk, [tag] gen, ff01 [all] final fantasy i, ff01 [char] red mage, ! [round 002], ff01 [char] white mage

Comments 6

tlc010 August 16 2009, 22:10:16 UTC

That was fantastic! You've kept a well-worn premise but added a lot of depth, interest and flavor without twist and pulling it beyond recognition ( ... )

anima_mecanique August 19 2009, 05:12:46 UTC

XD XD XD Thanks so much! I really enjoyed writing this -- I was totally not expecting an FF1 prompt, and I was really pleasantly surprised. Quite honestly there isn't a whole lot of setting to work with in FF1 (it's really obviously just warmed-over D&D, right down to the spellcasting system), so I tried to add as much depth as possible while still making it feel like an FF setting.

I would not actually be opposed to writing more things :3 I will see what I can do.

mercuriosity August 22 2009, 07:02:53 UTC

This is fantastic! Writing fic for something as spare as FFI is a real challenge, and you completely stepped up to it! I love the gender subversion, and I love how real and well-defined your characters seem, even in this relatively short look at them. The voices really come through in the different POV sections. The battle descriptions and moments of humor are great, too.

Really, really well done!

lassarina September 11 2009, 19:59:09 UTC

This is awesome. I love the way that you made the characters very individual, and the gender inversion is super plus awesome. I especially like the ways the crystals have gone dark, and the way the monk names her forms--I know this is kind of my knowledge of our other shared fandom talking, but I can totally picture an acolyte of Mela fighting that way her first time out of the Cloister of Wisdom.

anima_mecanique September 30 2009, 21:38:05 UTC

^^; Yeah, um. Actually, truth to tell, I was drawing heavily from another RPG for that scene..."Wind Sweeping Away the Clouds" was the name of a hurricane-themed martial art wielded by a character I played in a game of Weapons of the Gods, which is similar in tone to Exalted, though the character herself was much closer to Zed than Rani. The monks being devoted to the elements DOES sound kinda similar to the Immaculate Order, though...I hadn't thought of that XD

There's my nerdy confession for the day, I guess.

And...yeah, I just can't write female white mages anymore...they always default to male.

lassarina September 30 2009, 21:43:20 UTC

I always loved that in the second LUNAR game, the white mage was a drinking, dicing, womanizing male. He was just such a refreshing change from the sweet giving female. (Then again the first LUNAR game featured a tomboy as the priestess, so.)