Comments | taennyn: Wild Roses fic prompt 041 "Shapes"

taennyn

Wild Roses fic prompt 041 "Shapes"

Jun 17, 2006 20:02

Title: Just Pieces
’Verse/characters: Wild Roses, Etienne Sabaey
Prompt: 041 “Shapes”
Word Count: 268
Rating: PG for offscreen deaths and an unflattering word.
Notes: First war.

( He had to change )

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Comments 4

billradish June 18 2006, 03:52:35 UTC

*headtilt* So what holds him to Brant? Why couldn't he say what Brant wanted, then gather together family and insist that they listen? Donnel and Joveta, either of the not!kings.

What hold does Brant have? Why would it be more dangerous to tell the family?

This doesn't sound like willing compliance, on Etienne's part.

taennyn June 18 2006, 04:30:34 UTC

Combination of a lot of things--if nothing else, this bit is a moment of doubt, of guilt. It strikes him as Probably Very Wrong that he can do that, reduce his family to game pieces and move them around. And the power trip he gets from doing that is definitely mixed with guilt ( ... )

celeloriel June 18 2006, 04:23:43 UTC

Etienne is a grey eminence without a strong throne, and it looks like Brant took sharp advantage of that.

This is very, very well done.

taennyn June 18 2006, 04:33:51 UTC

Thank you, I think. Is very definitely one of the sharper moments-of-doubt, on his part. Usually it shows up as hesitations, and subconscious mishandlings of the pieces.

I expect him to be the main POV piece for that side of the first war. He's easier to get inside than his brother, or Isabeau--he's just as cracked, but somehow more . . human?