[Deaths] Julian De'Ath

[named_by_rhyme]

Title: on the midnight tide
'Verse/characters: Deaths; Julian De'ath
Prompt: 16C "ocean"
Word Count: 802
Notes: expansion/revision of the very old sketch. I figured it was necessary. :)

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Comments

[billradish]

Very nice expansion. I love how she flows through, seen in places and not in others. It's very well described in this.

[coastal_physics]

how does she know how to disappear, but her uncle had forgotten?

[taennyn]

disappearing to humans is different than disappearing to other deaths; she's invisible to the humans around her but would be very very visible to other deaths--almost a different visual spectrum in terms of effect?

[klgaffney]

She let power spiral out as she got closer, felt tentatively around, and her next step didn't echo on the pavement.

neat.

and kind of her, to warm the captain a bit.

i like how she's known by some elements of this town (the people that would know her/need to know her), but she's hidden from/unknown to others. and i also like her reaction.

[taennyn]

I kind of like her as the sparse one--it makes the interlude where she and Azrael are the speaking force of the group that much pointier/off-balance?

In a non-narrative sense, she, like her uncle, is a stone bastard to elicit emotional reactions from. And while I can bang my head on him (and he'll likely even let me), she's a bit more difficult. She was the last of the group to start talking to me again (unsurprising, as she was the supposed primary point of contact in the ridiculous version, and was a cipher even there).

[taennyn]

Tá. I could see getting to know her better through the course of the narrative? But she's damn secretive in general--the narrative is never going to be told exactly what she's been up to, out West, for example--so trying to get a major emotional moment at this point in the narrative would be . . . difficult.

:) Thanks.