Ovelia Wins.

[mithrigil]

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Title: To Seal the Hydra's Heads
Author: Mithrigil
Fandom: Ivalice -- 40% FFTactics, 40% Vagrant Story, 20% FFXII.
Characters: Ovelia, Orran, Delita, Valmafra, a narrator from New Valendia, discussion of Ashe.
Rating: PG
Warnings: A little blood.
Theme: AU, Canon what-if: What if Ovelia had taken a more...active role in politics?

Comments

[absentaserpis]

Sadly I'm not too familiar with Tactics or VS but this has such a majestic voice and it's very intriguing. It makes me want to get my hands on a copy of both those games.

[mithrigil]

I highly recommend both. VS is my favorite game--has been since I finally played it back in '02--and Tactics upped my standards for RPG stories even before I got into Suikoden. If you can stand an occasionally awkward translation, go ahead and grab Tactics for the PS1--the PSP version of Tactics is also good, of course, but heh, corporate bukkake. And as for VS, well, I apparently get to deliver academic papers on the subject. Hehe.

[absentaserpis]

I've got a couple friends that might lend me VS... one wants me to cosplay it so she'd owe me XD that said I've been very very interested in that one ever since Jerry showed it to me last year. The main thing keeping me from playing Tactics is well... I don't think I could be any worse at Tactic rpgs ^^;

[mithrigil]

Aww.

But woot, and who does this person want you to cosplay? We're trying to get the whole cast next year.

[tenshi_kain]

Zounds, but this walloped me upside the head (you could say it put it in Yellow status! Huh? Huuuh?). Just...yeah. Change and adaptability. It takes this story for me to realize Ovelia'd be so capable of that as a ruler. And the comparison to "Ashelia the Mad," rather than being a self-conscious attempt to differentiate the two, is so necessary. That the change Ovelia brings isn't something so instantaneous as winning back a kingdom, that she herself is of unknown blood (and that, whatever it is, she doesn't want Delita's staining it any longer), that she was so quick to accept that this meant it would never end for her- there's a whole hemisphere of difference

[mithrigil]

I think this one grew in the telling. ::smiles::

[mullenkamp]

Vweeeeeee hee heeeeee.

(The names mildly confused me at times - I really must play that new translation. I own it already, for crying out loud.)

[mithrigil]

TK was correcting my names every step I took through this thing. I keep writing it as Olan. And Glabdos.

[mullenkamp]

"Valmafra" was the one that really threw me off. The amusing thing, though, is that I totally read it as "Balmafula" first before I realized that wasn't what the letters spelled. And then I had to really look at it carefully before I was sure that actually it was.

[mithrigil]

::laughs::

Some of the changes make sense to me. Hers is not one of them.

[zombie_fetus]

Thematically it reminds me a little of ASOIAF. I continue to be curious about the roles of your women characters. Certainly, many of your characters tend to be varying shades of gray/neutral, but it feels like there's a certain something I can't quite put my finger on. But then of course there's Drace and Angel and...*ponders*

[mithrigil]

...Yeah, I can see the Martin in this. But there is FFT all over Martin, or Martin all over FFT, especially given the new translation. So it's not too perplexing that it showed up here. Hm...

[zombie_fetus]

Chicken or the egg. ;p

Given your natural proclivity to that genre, I think you'd do very well (in the future, perhaps) with something like (not as in fanfic) ASOIAF/Ivalice. This stuff is horribly abriged for me (but...what happened? I wanna know the details! *flail!*), but I see a potential for something politically epic on that level.

[mithrigil]

Hop by the_chessmen.

[mithrigil]

Joshua's been a pretty staple narrator with me...once upon a time I had a genuine epic for him planned, but it wound up not going where it was meant to...still have paper drafts of taht sitting around. I think he's rather good at it. Hehe.

Thank you~