Fic: Silence Speaks (2/?)

[knifeedgefic]

Since snickfic  was kind enough to rec this, I suppose I should post a little more of it. Each "part" can, technically, be read as seperate drabbles, however, they are meant to be read in the order posted, even though it's extremely non-linear and jumps around in time quite a bit.

Title: Silence Speaks
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairings:

Comments

[snickfic]

And again, very nice. You've got a great handle on Dru's voice. The image of blood as ribbons is very nice, quite a striking image. And the little candles... Yes. Again, very much Dru.

[knifeedgefic]

Dru is a real challenge to write. She has her lucid moments, (though none of these drabbles so far have happened during them--in the first it's just after Acathla and she's a bit over the edge, same with the third, the middle one is in Prague and she's got reasons to be vague).

I think the key to Dru's thoughts is that she often thinks in metaphors, though. And time doesn't move for her the same as it does for others. It's a tricky line to walk, without feeling like I'm turning her into a caricature, but still keeping her sounding like DRU.

[snickfic]

She is a challenge. The hardest fic I've ever written was a 10-piece drabble series from her POV. I didn't find it so very hard to write something sound like her, but I had the dickens of a time making it sound like her and also tell a comprehensible story at the same time!

At any rate, you balance all those variables beautifully. :)

[sladdict]

This is beautiful.
What I like so much about fanfiction: You can do everything a bit OTT. All those larger than life feelings between Buffy and Spike and Angel and Dru... I would think them stupid in any "standard" fiction, but they are just so appropriate in a vampire/slayer AU setting. The same with the images when writing Dru. You can really go overboard without sounding pretentious. Again, what would just be wrong and very artificial in most texts is just very true to character here and transports a whole world of love and pain and loss. And I'm always a sucker for that ;-)
All your texts are just brilliant. So please keep them coming!

[rebcake]

I miss carriages and horses and the sweet scent of blood-soaked hay, all copper and gold, prickly pain.

Sometimes I think the best thing about playing in this sandbox is that we get lines like that one. All that has changed, been lost, been discovered is all right there, and they've (up 'til now) had each other to mark the passage of time with. It's so rich, and you just nailed it.

[singedbylife]

I love Dru - and I can hear her voice (and Spike's too) in every sentence you wrote for them. Thanks for alerting me to these little fics. Much appreciated.