Comments | fifmeister: Fic: Atonement

fifmeister

Fic: Atonement

Oct 14, 2011 15:13

Title: Atonement
Fandom: Dragon Age
Characters/Pairing: Velanna, Nathaniel, with hints of Nathaniel/Velanna
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence, semi-graphic descriptions
Word Count: 5,034
Summary: When a routine Deep Roads mission goes awry, Velanna is forced to come face to face with her prejudices.
Notes: Written for the 2011 girlsavesboyfic ficathon.

( The first thing she registered was the silence. )

dragon age, fics, fanfiction

Comments 7

seimaisin October 15 2011, 00:46:18 UTC

I'm not sure I have enough HTML hearts to give you for this, but I'm gonna try. :)

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

I have a giant weakness for Nathaniel and Velanna (paired or gen, I don't care), and not enough people in fandom write Velanna. So this is AMAZING on a lot of levels, just for existing, and for being a genuinely awesome story besides. Your Velanna voice sounds spot-on; I totally buy her reluctantly caring about/respecting/liking Nathaniel this way. I could read about this Velanna forever. :D

Awesome story! Yay!

fifmeister October 15 2011, 17:01:10 UTC

Thank you so much! ♥ I adore both Velanna and Nathaniel (and I ship them like FedEx), so when I saw that there was virtually no fic about them, I figured I would just have to write a bunch myself. ;) I'm glad you liked it!

seimaisin October 16 2011, 22:19:40 UTC

I approve of your goals, as I would read a million fics about Nathaniel and Velanna. \o/

fifmeister October 16 2011, 23:17:38 UTC

Yay! Well, if you're interested, I've written several other stories about them which can all be found at my FFN profile. :)

fondued_jicama October 15 2011, 06:02:26 UTC

fifmeister October 15 2011, 17:03:12 UTC

Aww! I'm glad it was emotional. :) Thank you so much for reading!

(The comment has been removed)

fifmeister October 16 2011, 02:25:39 UTC

Thank you! I'm so pleased you liked it even though you don't care for Velanna. I've always felt that at least one possible reason for her fandom unpopularity is because BioWare shafted her a bit on the character development front. You can get an epilogue screen saying that she eventually changed her attitude on humans, and singlehandedly defended a human village against darkspawn, etc--but just reading a blurb after the fact has far less of an impact than actually watching it play out. So whenever I write her I try to dig a little deeper into that gradual shifting of her attitudes and behaviors toward humans.

Thanks again for the awesome comment! :D