Fic Update: "Motherland"

[mark_asphodel]

 I think I need a certain amount of external pressure to be productive.  The pressure is on now, and my brain is flowing over.

Here is an exploration of Caeda I wrote 80% of last year and have polished up for publication.  It's my attempt at depicting her between the wars, based on a curious glitch in the Archanean timeline.  It would appear that,

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[mark_asphodel]

" IMO, it is quite possible that, for that very reason, a deal for the autonomy of Talys might have been worked out."

I think it's very likely that just such an arrangement happens, and my "main" post-war stories actually do have Talys kept as a semi-autonomous region in which Caeda's authority overrides Marth's. He has the entire rest of the continent, after all, so not having Talys to micromanage gives Marth one thing fewer to worry about.

But if I were Caeda's father, I'd want to be as certain as I could possibly be that giving Caeda away in marriage doesn't equate to selling Talys out. And I might want more evidence than just the promises of a teenager with a tendency to get kicked out of his own country. ;)

[shimizu_hitomi]

Eeeeee.

Yay worldbuilding (given that one-off line about Lawrence, err Lorenz? and Mostyn's backstory, Talys as you've portrayed it is basically everything I've ever randomly thought about it solidified into a coherent vision <3) Yay Caeda, and Marth being Marth, and Caeda actually having a living mother (THANK YOU), and Mostyn actually being an effective ruler. He'd kind of have to be, but sheesh if the game (and the anime...) doesn't screw him over, as if TRYING to make it easier for Marth to become the logical choice for ruler of the known world........

Even the Red Dragon figure makes so much sense in the cultural milieu of the story. I just seriously love the details you put into this one.

[mark_asphodel]

basically everything I've ever randomly thought about it solidified into a coherent vision

Aw, thanks so much. I'm really pleased to hear that as, on the one hand, I'm basically making stuff up. Lots and lots of stuff. But it all just seemed to make sense based off the canon-crumbs I was using... and I guess trying to make sense out of, say, Sacae involves just as much imagination on the part of the writer. There may be more details, but the mechanics of a society aren't necessarily spelled out.

Caeda actually having a living mother (THANK YOU)

Yeah. Common sense just says that she does. Aging king, one young daughter... if Caeda's mom is dead, then she's either currently saddled with a stepmother or temporarily "between" them, with the prospect of a younger brother dangled ever in front of her. And that just doesn't gel with anything we actually see. Her mother was alive in the manga, IIRC.

He'd kind of have to be, but sheesh if the game (and the anime...) doesn't screw him over, as if TRYING to make it easier for Marth