"Princess in Repose"

[rissy_james]

Title: "Princess in Repose"
Author: rissy-james
Team: Tin Man
Characters: Azkadellia
Rating: 14+
Summary: It's very easy. Wake, wash, dress. She remembers this part.
Author's Note: Written for Seasonal Challenge 04 @ tm_challenge. Prompt: "paint" ( my table).

Comments

[lionille]

This was absolutely stunning. One of the best portraits of Az I've ever read. *adds to mems*

My favorite parts were this one about DG:

She isn't expected to talk as they wander the same old route through the gardens of their city spire. Everything is dead, all rusted and broken, life drained away to naught but dry dust, but it doesn't bother her and it doesn't bother her sister. This is their world of decay.

I could just see them out wandering through that landscape you describe. And Az looking at Ambrose's magic gizmos. It's very touching that it seems Ahamo is trying very hard to build the bridges.

This in the opening part was fantastic:

She's clumsy with buttons, worse with bows, but there are women who help her each morning, quiet mousy women who won't meet her eyes, women who wear her mother's crest on their aprons.

and this:

These are her thoughts as she sits, bitter and mean, eating her up a little bit at a time, but it's all right because her smile is pretty and her hands are folded in her lap just as she was shown

[ceria_taliesin]

This is gorgeous, it's almost like she's a little girl again, regressed to the child she was before being taken over.

The bits about sitting so still are chilling and beautiful.