an overdose of fate (dark chocolate 5/30)

[cofmanynames]

Author: C
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 662
Story / World: ifupdown ( index)
Title: though he'd never admit to it
Counts for the Summer Challenge? Yes.
Prompts: Dark Chocolate #7: supplication.
Characters: Iall, some mention of Zane and gods.
Toppings / Extras / Other: Butterscotch + Hot Fudge. Malt: Prompts From a Hat [7: supplication // Iall: even in the

Comments

[smoothiegarten]

ARE you spinning Iall as halfway sympathetic? Because I feel sympathy for him. Then again, I don't know a lot of his backstory. I still kind of like him, though. It's totally normal to have doubts and to feel like those doubts are stupid, which paints him in a sympathetic light here, anyway.

Valencia's bit was INTENSE. It must be so scary not to be able to feel your own existence like that. Hoo.

[cofmanynames]

Well -- he has his interactions with Terry to make him look sympathetic, in the main story, but that gets subverted, and on the one hand he's very much bad but on the other hand so's everybody. How's this: I didn't intend to originally, but I think I am? (And the doubts thing is around when I stared liking him! Although I'd imagine it gets even worse when doubting is heresy punishable by a literal fate worse than death. Er.)

She eventually learned to find it comforting, which I think might creep me out more. *-$0.02*

Thank you for reading!

[bookblather]

Damn, Valencia's bit was intense. I guess that's what happens when your mother is a goddess...? Anyway, wonderful job on the descriptions in that one. I swear I could feel what she was feeling for a little bit there. And Iall's was a little bit heartbreaking. Poor guy.

[cofmanynames]

The Issues that these gods tend to have (the Rain Lady is a lot like Valencia, or the character Delirium in The Sandman: she's easy to deal with because most of the time she's far enough out of her mind, basically, that she can't be bothered by everything she should be; when that's not the case hiding under something is advisable) do seem to be genetic, yes :) (That attempt at a joke/reference/explanation aside, yes, the extreme intensity does tend to be part and parcel for this.)

Thank you very much, on both counts <3

[lady_macbeth_19]

I loved the second piece. It was intense and amazing and I especially liked the ending. ♥
XxLil

[cofmanynames]

Thank you!

(Lovely icon, by the way <3)