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Fic: Thursday's Child

Apr 28, 2009 16:09

Title: Thursday's Child
Author: aella_irene
Rating: About the same as the books
Fandom: Vorkosigan
Disclaimer: The characters and world belong to Lois Mc Master Bujold, not me.
Summary: Eudokia Vorbarra has her life changed. Forever
Author's Notes: Thanks to clanwilliam for beta reading.

( Eudokia Vorbarra had never liked Vorbarr Sultana. )

Comments 25

rymenhild April 28 2009, 16:02:18 UTC

Now, that's true Vor.

I really like the way you set up Eudokia's marriage of politics with the references to A Civil Contract.

aella_irene April 28 2009, 20:59:19 UTC

Thank you!

Yes, true Vor. The Cetagandan Invasion ran from when she was 13 to when she was 33, and she learnt to be ruthless by example. And Olivia Vorkosigan was only a few years younger than she was.

Its a book I'm very fond of, and it felt right.

phoenixgfawkes April 28 2009, 16:24:58 UTC

Fascinating missing scene. You've managed to paint a portrait of Eudokia from tiny details - her dislike for Vorbarr Sultana and big cities, her love for romance books, her cats - and make her a believable character, forced to make a difficult choice in desperate times.

Have you written other fanfic in this fandom? I'd very much like to read it.

aella_irene April 28 2009, 21:20:11 UTC

Thank you!

I haven't. But there will probably be more. I'm toying with a Christmas Carol like story in which Cordelia, shortly after the end of the Pretendership, is visited by three ghosts: Kareen, Olivia, and Eudokia.

phoenixgfawkes April 29 2009, 02:21:42 UTC

It sounds creepy... and utterly fascinating. I wonder what those three Vor women, all of whom suffered such tragic deaths (well, I'm assuming with Eudokia here), have to tell the new, Betan Lady Vorkosigan. And I'd love to see ever-rational Cordelia's reaction to the ghosts.

aella_irene April 29 2009, 16:37:59 UTC

Yes, Eudokia's was tragic. Ezar needed a second son, you see, and she was in her early forties, by that point, so her doctors were giving her fertility drugs. So it was twins, and they were big, and it didn't end well.

They tell her to fight. To keep fighting. Never to give up. Its mostly ideas at the moment, that, and the visual of Eudokia, floating before Cordelia in a blood drenched nightgown, belly still swollen with the child that died when she did.

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aella_irene April 28 2009, 21:15:11 UTC

Thank you.

ankaret April 28 2009, 17:32:28 UTC

I love the assassins getting lost.

nineveh_uk April 28 2009, 17:48:20 UTC

Me too! A very Bujold touch.

aella_irene April 28 2009, 21:01:29 UTC

I was trying to think why she escaped. It seemed unlikely that it was because she was in her late thirties and unmarried, with the descriptions of Yuri's overwhelming paranoia. And that just sort of...suggested itself.

aella_irene April 28 2009, 21:02:42 UTC

They weren't precisely the cream of the crop.

(And, in typical style, I now have family trees. At least, I will once I've worked out who all her sisters were married to.)

tree_and_leaf April 28 2009, 18:03:51 UTC

Lovely. Especially the lost assassins (which, as well as being Bujoldian, is the sort of thing that actually does happen). I like Eudokia - she really comes alive.

And Heyer! Hee!

aella_irene April 28 2009, 21:16:46 UTC

Well, the South Continent is very big, and the natives notoriously unhelpful...

I like Eudokia. I just wish I don't know what happens to her, though at least she dies before anyone knows what Serg has become. Being as he is three.