Ficlet: Surety (Ashe, Fran, Penelo; PG)

[sister_coyote]

Ficlet. It was meant to be Ashe/Fran, but it refused to go there, or anywhere except small and gen.

Other things continue by bits and bobs. Trying to put my scattered brain back together....

Surety
Ashe, Fran and becoming.
FFXII, Ashe, Fran, Penelo. Gen. Mild spoilers. 400 words.
Worksafe.

Comments

[mithrigil]

Mmm. ::smiles:: Almost ironically gentle. Definitely the kind of thing that actually happened at some point in the shadows of the canon.

[sister_coyote]

Thank you. :)

[lassarina]

....♥

Eeeee.

(I am sad that I can rarely give substantial feedback on your writing, because I am usually just full of glee.)

[sister_coyote]

♥

Thank you!

[cadence_zero]

Ooh. This is interesting.

I guess a lot of the time thinking about FF12 I don't think about there being a barrier to strong women, because we have our three characters, and Drace... but really, they're the only examples. And, yeah, Ashe is following her captains, and if I remember, Penelo was trained to fight in an "oh, isn't that cute" way by her older brothers? So yes. Fran = good role model for them. Except possibly in the fashion sense.

And Fran definitely does placid like that last line well. ^^

[sister_coyote]

To be honest, I'm not sure why I want to play with gender roles and so on so much in the FFXII-verse. It might be because we see the primaries + Drace as active women with their own agency, but not a lot of background characters. It might just be that I like that frission in the narrative, so I play with it. ;)

(Goodness, yes. O Fran, you're so awesome, could you possibly find some clothes, kthx?)

[cadence_zero]

Yeah, no, you're right. The background women are by far stuck in much more traditional gender roles. So it's there to play with, for sure. (And now that I think about it, the desire to do something with the fact that Vayne and Larsa are in a family of four brothers and no apparent women is one of the things currently interfering with my fluffy genderswap fic. Tangentally.)

And yes. While clothes are not strictly required for awesome, they generally are for. You know. Battle.

[pyrasaur]

S'true, clothes help. I usually manage to forgive Fran's fashion sense in a "viera are kickass like that" way, but miniskirt-clad Ashe defeating fully-armoured guards? WHAT.

And keep on rockin' that gender role exploration thing, you two. *thumbsup* :3

[laylah]

Oh, awesome. I love that Ashe thinks so much about the gender issues (and I am certain she would, as the first princess who stands to inherit after 700 years of princes), and I love that Fran doesn't.

[sister_coyote]

Thank you. One of the reasons writing Fran is difficult for me is that she comes from such an alien cultural mindset -- and the gender is all tied in with that.

[laylah]

*nodnod* She's a really strange character that way -- she walks around looking like a centerfold waiting to happen, but she acts like she isn't aware of it at all.

tangentially, very tangentially, related -- I wish so bad that I could flail about the het challenge story i'm working on right now. omg.

[sister_coyote]

now I'm all kinds of curious! (the one I'm working on just started really clicking, yay.)

[jpegasus]

♥ ♥

[sister_coyote]

:)