Fic: To Take is Not to Give (2/?)

[lareinenoire]

Title: To Take is Not to Give (Part II of ?)
Author: lareinenoire
Play: 3 Henry VI / Richard III
Characters / Pairings: The York family, the Neville family, eventual Richard/Anne, Edward/Elizabeth
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 3040 (Part II only)
Warnings: Violence (mostly offstage), character deaths, profanity.
Summary: Richard York and Anne Warwick are far more

Comments

[kerrypolka]

ILU ILU ILU

This is my favorite thing ever and you are my favorite person

[lareinenoire]

::grin:: Thank you! I promise more Margaret in later instalments, but I couldn't resist giving her (in angevin2's words) a DRAMATIC CHORD entrance.

[speak_me_fair]

This is so wonderful and rich and detailed and I love love LOVE this verse.

And naturally, the black is Chanel *G*

I love how just seeing Margaret engenders the desire to run away before she even speaks. Excellent! :-) (which it is odd that I should like that, due to truly loving her historically, but I'm a fickle soul and prefer description and gleeful shivering to anything!)

I also love the echoes of Elizabeth whenever Anne hears of Wallis Simpson on the radio, and how she almost but doesn't quite hear the warning whisper of yes but Ned is far cannier than that.

Just gorgeous, all the way through!

[lareinenoire]

(which it is odd that I should like that, due to truly loving her historically, but I'm a fickle soul and prefer description and gleeful shivering to anything!)

Oh, I love Margaret too, and I'm hoping to do more with her later on, but it really is too much fun to make her bone-chillingly terrifying.

And, yes, to Elizabeth. I read an article a few years ago that described her as 'the medieval Wallis Simpson', and even though I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment, I like it all the same.

So glad you're enjoying it!

[angevin2]

I kind of see Margaret as one of those characters who is much scarier when you're seeing her from someone else's POV than she would be in her own (in stark contrast to, say, Richard III). Richard II is a little bit like that, only not as scary -- just creepy, maybe. (Certainly that is how he comes off when I write him as a child and he's not the POV character.) Hal I go back and forth about -- I think it depends on who's writing him.

[17catherines]

Oh, this is wonderful! I can't wait to read the next instalment.

[gileonnen]

THAT LAST LINE. Margaret, the mafia striga, the noir queen--oh, my.

I also find that I adore Anne and Bel, and indeed adore them more together--how is it that you're so good at writing siblings? They're lovely.

[lareinenoire]

Hee, I love writing siblings -- you can explore all kinds of interesting facets to people's familial relationships that way. Plus, they argue and they get irritated with one another for no reason whatsoever (that happened to me all the time with my brother and sister), and they just provide a fun way to get to know a character without resorting to plain exposition.

And I've had Mafia!Margaret in my head for years. I'm so happy to finally get to write her!

[assimbya]

I love the way the connections between the women work out in your modernization - that was what struck me in this section most of all. They are made very tangible, explicit where in the play they are implicit, and that's very interesting to watch. Oh, and I'm really enjoying the handling of the Anne and Isabel relationship. I am very interested where you're going with your Anne characterization.

[lareinenoire]

Thank you so much! You know me and my obsession with emphasizin wimminz. ;) I am so very certain that there are these connections, relationships, and interactions between the women in the first tetralogy (at least in part because they become so explicit in Richard III), so I really enjoy playing aroun with them.