A Long Time Coming (Lysander/Roxanne)

[phil_urich]

Title: A Long Time Coming
Rating: G
Pairing: Lysander/Roxanne
Prompts: Grandaddy 'Sophtware Slump',
Summary: Their daughter's growth
AN: based on a request by drcjsnider who asked for Lysander/Roxanne with a child. Written in the time it took to start and finish the Sophtware Slump album, then edited while listening to Washed Out. I do apologize for the

Comments

[drcjsnider]

Oh very nice... I do like this. Dana seems like such an interesting girl... I especially like her and Lysander's relationship. I never think about what it would be like to be a child with a deaf parent... probably rather natural... I especially liked Lysander being the over-protective father :)

[phil_urich]

Glad you liked it! I definitely wanted the relationship between Lysander and Dana to have a good relationship, despite her teenage years, so I'm happy you thought it worked.

[kayoko]

This one hit me harder than I thought it would. Perhaps it's because I've read some short stories by a deaf author and Lysander captures some of those struggles.

My favourite part was definitely the first bit where Dana is being born into the world. It's a fairly familiar scene but it's so different because of this deafness. I think it really did a god job setting the tone and atmosphere for the rest of the story.

Thanks for sharing!

[phil_urich]

I definitely wanted to throw a twist into that whole 'bringing my first child into the world' scene. Who was the author you'd read? I'd be interested in reading some of their stuff.

There was a webcomic for a while about a guy learning sign language so as to impress a girl who was deaf. It was quite different from the normal comic since there were few real speech bubbles.

[kayoko]

The author is Myrika (moreta from plagiarismhaven. She does original fiction and did a couple of one-shorts about life as a deaf girl. Unfortunately her works aren't available to the public due to previous plagarism issues so membership is required to read.