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persephone_kore

Things That Never Happened to Dooku, Unfortunately: Mourning After the Fallen

Aug 30, 2006 02:51

Title: Things That Never Happened to Dooku, Unfortunately
Authors: Persephone_Kore, Dreagoddess
Characters: Dooku, Qui-Gon
Genre: AU, drama
Summary: Several ways Dooku's life could have gone differently. Thing four: Qui-Gon visits Dooku after Komari disappears.
Notes: Komari Vosa is an obscure EU character born of the same concept art as Asajj ( Read more... )

fanfic, sw fic

Comments 12

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dreagoddess August 30 2006, 11:53:51 UTC

Aww, thank you. :) Dooku's fun to write, especially his relationship with Qui-Gon. They're both stubborn as all get-out, so they clash off each other as much as they get along!

persephone_kore September 2 2006, 21:18:29 UTC

All too typical. *rueful* Qui-Gon had better timing in this one, though, yes. Even for throwing food. ;)

(I'm glad you're enjoying them! I do write romance sometimes, but I suspect it says something that I have one story summarized as "Kanga and Tigger make a baby" -- and it's G.)

neotoma August 30 2006, 12:42:45 UTC

Qui-Gon had not been easy to intimidate or fluster when he was sixteen, or probably when he was six. He was now approaching sixty, and it was not impossible, but it was getting close.

Heee! I love it when Qui-Gon imitates an immoveable object. Dooku is just thrown off his game enough that Qui-Gon is flustering *him*.

The idea of them reconciling over their fallen padawans is nifty -- though I do wonder what kind of rot was in the Order in the last few decades before it fell, since it seems like there were a number of students that went Dark.

persephone_kore September 2 2006, 21:49:48 UTC

Heee! I love it when Qui-Gon imitates an immoveable object. Dooku is just thrown off his game enough that Qui-Gon is flustering *him*.

Glad you like the line, and yeah, Dooku is really just generally unsettled at the moment and Qui-Gon is... being Qui-Gon.

The idea of them reconciling over their fallen padawans is nifty -- though I do wonder what kind of rot was in the Order in the last few decades before it fell, since it seems like there were a number of students that went Dark.Well, I'm sure a large part of it is that the easiest place to turn for EU-writers (or amateur fanficcers) looking for a conflict to write is having somebody go Dark, or almost. ;) In-story... more complicated. I tend to wince at stories that attack some of the Order's setup ("no attachments," being tied to the Senate) without seriously considering why those choices might have been made -- well, I don't ask for a historical essay or anything, but it makes me twitch when somebody writes, say, Yoda going, "A stupid rule this is, but I'll keep enforcing it ( ... )

sannalim August 30 2006, 17:18:59 UTC

I'm really enjoying these stories, though I don't think I've commented before. I particularly love the way you write Qui-Gon. He's one of my favourite prequel characters.

persephone_kore September 2 2006, 22:08:04 UTC

Thank you! He's a lot of fun and we're glad you like them. :)

lianna_blanca August 31 2006, 02:24:54 UTC

Not knowing much about this particular part of the EU, it's hard for me to appreciate this story in full. Nonetheless, your opening summary was enough to understand and I enjoyed it. Good on you!

persephone_kore September 2 2006, 22:09:49 UTC

Thanks! I'd been prodded about providing more backstory, and I suppose it's better to work it into the fic itself, but we stuck with the note this time.

polgarawolf September 10 2007, 18:29:19 UTC

I really enjoyed this - you always manage to make Dooku seem so very human in your stories, and it adds a great deal to his character. If they ever actually write anything about him in the EU, I am firmly convinced they should hire you, m'dear!

persephone_kore September 10 2007, 19:18:21 UTC

Thanks. *grin* For a plausible choice, though, they should talk Sean Stewart (of Yoda: Dark Rendezvous into doing another. I think he'd be fantastic. And the side characters would be brilliant too.

polgarawolf September 10 2007, 20:39:56 UTC

He did go a good job with Whie and Scout. And I liked his interactions with Dooku and Asajj, though they made we want to smack Dooku for being stiff-necked enough that it made him seem rather dense. *Sigh* Sometimes it seems like there are a thousand and one places deliberately built into the canon and EU to make us all tear our hair out over what happened instead of what could have happened, and that book's got several doozies, IMHO.

Still. I love your Dooku!!!