Fic: A Little Dignitie Now (Heroes)

[the_grynne]

This is completely the fault of patient, long-suffering so_spiffed, who wanted fic about Kensei's mother - presumably because she wanted to make my head explode. :) Sorry, Dae, it took so long.

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[the_grynne]

I hate disclose it, because I'd only look really bad in comparison, but I was looking at my copy of The Tempest (which I bought in Stratford-upon-Avon!) while I was writing this. So there is a bit of Prospero and Miranda, not to mention Sebastian and Viola, in Rebekka and her son.

Also, you won't believe how many different PoV's I tried and ditched - from Rebekka and Adam first person, to Eduardo the temporary father-figure's. That tells you how for a long time, I didn't know what I was writing, much less how to do it. She had to be at the centre, not Adam, but I didn't want her to be just "Adam's mother" - even thought that was the prompt - for that one portion to be the only meaningful part of her identity, and we'd judge her on whether she was a bad mother or a good one. She's a dying woman stranded on a beach with her son, who hasn't fully come to terms yet with her fact that she has to let go of even him, for his own good. Is anyone interested in reading that story, besides you and me? I'm glad you made me write it though. I don't write about female characters enough.