Unfinished Fic Wednesday

[_samalander]

Before we get started, we're down to our last few submissions again! Please feel free to send any snippets of unfinished fic to be.compromised@gmail.com, so we can make people tell you that you're awesome!

Today's snippet is from CyberMathWitch. Take it away, Koren!

A/N: So there was a prompt during the prompt-a-thon made by Anuna_81: Sword of Truth AU anyone? Where

Comments

[angela_n_hunt]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Oh please finish! This is delightful! I love the idea of Clint being the one she can't break.

[cybermathwitch]

:D Thank you! I think in the first draft (by which I actually mean two paragraphs of brain-clearing) I had her as a Mord'Sith going after the Seeker who I meant to be Clint (thinking I'd just have these two in here, and wanting to kind of subvert the Confessor/Seeker balance into a Mord'Sith/Seeker balance... and that totally wasn't working. At. All.

And I honestly can't remember what I ran into that made me think to do it this way, but then their characters both just fell into place. :)

[angela_n_hunt]

Well, please continue. This is really wonderful.

[cybermathwitch]

:D Thanks!

[sunny_serenity]

[cybermathwitch]

Thanks! :D I think if I can get the rest of the characters balanced right, it'll be a pretty good thing.

(Though I'm still trying to work out what to do about Bruce and also the Confessors. Steve, obviously, is the Seeker.)

[_samalander]

It's too bad there are not male confessors, because the whole Bruce/Hulk thing kinda fits the confessor/blood rage thing.

[cybermathwitch]

I WAS THINKING THAT TOO! And I'm *still* not 100% sure I couldn't pull that off?

I mean, how far could I stretch the idea? What if he was a male confessor that had spent his *entire life* with a Rada'Han on? And then that gets removed? Would he have managed to learn enough compassion and ethics and how-to-be-human to offset the power hungry crazy that it normally makes them? Hmm...

[hufflepuffsneak]

I wish I knew the source material so I could give a better comment. Did a quick wiki search and agree the idea of Natasha as a Mord'Sith is perfect.

[cybermathwitch]

:D Yeah, there are SO SO SO many parallels between the Red Room and the Mord'Sith! SO MANY.

[crazy4orcas]

I'm not familiar with Sword of Truth, but this really sounds intriguing.

And I adore this line:

She’s dangerous, she’s unpleasant, and she might even be damaged beyond recognition, but true evil? That’s something else entirely.

[cybermathwitch]

Oh, yay! I love that line, too. It's like she's looking at everyone and going "no, I'm just unpleasant. You obviously don't understand what the term "evil" actually means." What they do *to* the girls to make them Mord'Sith is evil, but that doesn't mean that they themselves have to be.