Lighthouses

[brightknightie]

Any Forever Knight fans who are also lighthouse lovers reading this?

I read an essay/article in the New York Times today about lighthouses, which reminded me of an FK flashback story idea that I had ages ago - Nick as a nineteenth-century lighthouse keeper on a particularly fog-ridden stretch of the west coast of North America - but, though I did

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[apsis]

I wouldn't call myself a light house lover but I think I've seen most of the lighthouses on the west coast from San Diego up to Point Reyes. It took tough people to do that job.

Did you ever consider it as a flashback for Jeannette? She wasn't as gung ho about dong good deeds as Nick, but I seem t recall her attempting to help some women, mostly by making them vampires, but still . . . I have no clue about the modern story you wanted to write, or the circumstances of the historical incident but if you're still thinking about the story, perhaps you should make an attempt it.

[brightknightie]

Yes, indeed, that was a hard, hard job. (I imagine Point Reyes before the steps... and the BC and Alaska lighthouses!) As you've seen that far up the coast, did you observe any particular differences between the southern and more northerly CA lighthouses?

I'm no longer imagining trying to hitch the flashback to a modern incident (though I will if one occurs to me). This many years from cancellation... I feel more free to please just myself, when I'm writing outside a ficathon, I think...

I'm afraid that Janette, as I imagine her, would not have done this particular thing. It would have meant risking her life -- at length, not at impulse -- for people she didn't know. That would be a very different story, for certain!

[greerwatson]

How about Urs? Or one of our less written-about female vampires, such as Serena or Alexandra?

[brightknightie]

Thank you very much for the kind ideas!

My particular story idea is about Nick being a lonely, brave, nineteenth-century lighthouse keeper while grappling with his quest and character development. It's not about any of FK's women characters.

I apologize for giving the wrong impression.

Lighthouse Keeper

[waltd]

Seems like a good idea to me.
Basically, you could have Nick in any sort of situation where he is afraid that he'll have to move on . . . again, and reminisce (i.e., the flashback) about the time he tried to completely isolate himself by tending a lighthouse. Ha! Of course, LC wouldn't let him be alone for long.

Re: Lighthouse Keeper

[brightknightie]

Thanks!

I've thought of setting the story after Nick's murder of Sylvaine in the flashbacks of "Love You to Death," which was a time that he would very likely have wanted to withdraw from everything for a while, but that might be too deeply emotional and fraught a period. There is also the 20-year gap between the last US Civil War flashback ("Unreality TV") and the resumption of flashbacks across the Atlantic ("Blind Faith"); that might be a promising time in Nick's history for this adventure.