Comments | disc_fest: FIC: "The First Rescue (of the Sybil Ramkin Society)" (Sybil, Vetinari. PG.)

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FIC: "The First Rescue (of the Sybil Ramkin Society)" (Sybil, Vetinari. PG.)

Jul 30, 2012 12:11

Author: SandyQuinn
Title: The First Rescue (of the Sybil Ramkin Society)
Characters and/or Pairing(s): Sybil Ramkin, Havelock Vetinari
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1193
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Summary: Young Sybil and dance-lessons with the young gentlemen of the Assassins' Guild. Prompt ( Read more... )

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Comments 5

brutti_ma_buoni July 30 2012, 20:18:27 UTC

Eee! I love this. They aren't kindred spirits or anything, but they don't fit in and they don't wholly want to. Very nicely sketched start to a relationship of some kind.

marence July 31 2012, 20:08:56 UTC

Lovely!
It hadn't occurred to me that Vetinari would be at the Weird Kids' Table, but it makes so much sense.

therealsnape August 1 2012, 06:51:35 UTC

I love how perfectly IC they both are. This matches the glimpses we see from young Vetinari in Nightwatch so beautifully.

And Sybill! Examining their teeth! Vintage. And she's just as kind as later on.

donnaimmaculata August 3 2012, 15:47:21 UTC

I adore the clever little throwaway lines that you use to describe the background characters: Serafine, who was delicate, with glinting eyes and wide expressive mouth tells you everything about the character, as does young lord Selachii's non-existent chin wobbling. And the very dark and murderous ducklings are perfect.

Sybil is such a smart young lady. Her sudden insight that they were practising adulthood is very astute. And you did a great job with young Havelock who, I feel, is a very difficult character to write: he has to be palpably younger and more vulnerable than the adult version, and yet we mustn't know what makes him tick, as the character of Vetinari only works because of his mystique.

miserablephysic August 3 2012, 20:24:00 UTC

Adored this. I loved the characterisation here, how the pair of them are distant echoes of their future selves, but still very much children underneath. Vetinari is still slightly awkward, not completely on top of his people skills yet, but getting there, and Sibyl is just so...Sibyl. The line echoing the one from Guards!Guards!, about the unattractive ones just made me wibble. There's somethign very Pratchettian about the extended teeth-checking metaphor, too...

Also: "dark and murderous ducklings" Hee!