Details (Final Fantasy VI, Locke/Celes and Leo/Celes)

[lassarina]

Title: Details
Author: Lassarina Aoibhell (lassarina / ficjournal: athyn)
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Characters/Pairings: Locke/Celes, Leo/Celes
Rating: PG
Notes: The prompt was "Sensory enhancement: Differences, as a Magitek Knight." ~2600 words. Many thanks to shanaqui and mithrigil for giving it a read-over :)
Warnings: Spoilers up to the Floating Continent.

Comments

[silver_ariane]

I love Celes here. The details she picks up are gorgeous, and there's enough of a sense of overstimulation that relief in the ending comes across so well. Also, like this line: She is the highest-ranking traitor in all Gestahl's long reign, and she sits in her cell and waits for him to kill her.

Thanks for picking this up!

[lassarina]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I had a different story written for this, and then this bunny mowed me down Friday morning at work, and I was afraid I wouldn't finish it in time :)

Thanks so much for commenting!

[astrangerenters]

Oh wow, this was wonderful. I'm a sucker for anything with Celes, and I love all the numbers and counting repetition. I also don't know why, but I love the way she refers to her companions as the Doman knight, the ninja, the gambler...and then the ones who are named...Sabin and Terra, eventually Locke. I don't even know why that affected me. It was just so unemotional and so...Celes. Really, I can't explain my reasoning.

And throughout, she cannot help but notice everything around her, but as she tries to save Leo, she is able to tune everything else out but him. Poor Leo.

So very nicely done.

[lassarina]

Thank you! This bunny totally ran me over right before the due date and I'm glad that it worked out despite being very quickly written :) And yeah, categorizing people according to what they do rather than who they are is the way Celes functions in my head. Normally I don't like epithets, at least not in large number, but it works for her in my head, so I'm glad it works for other people :)

Thanks again for the comment!

[virusq]

Very nice! All the little details really helped give the story an unexpected texture. I could feel the monotony in the cell, the humidity of Albrook and taste the sea. Excellent!

[lassarina]

Thank you! :) I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

[tectum_viridis]

It isn't quite a smell, nor a sound, nor something she can see or taste or feel.

--I loved the description in this entire paragraph, in particular. The experience of magic from the perspective of people using it, how possessing magic affects perception and mental state, is the focus of just about all of my fanfiction (albeit in a different fandom, though I'm familiar with FFVI), so I was very pleased to stumble across this.

Might I know who offered up the original prompt, since it's a pet subject of mine?

[lassarina]

I think it may have been silver_ariane based on her comment above, but if you check sk_updates, which lists the daily postings for the comm, you should find the piece and the submitter.

And I'm glad you liked the piece. Magic-meta is probably my favourite thing about Final Fantasy, hands down, and I was only too glad of an excuse to ramble and tl;dr on the topic.

[tectum_viridis]

Thank you! I'll look that up.

You're welcome; you have a very smooth and flowing writing style that's pleasing to read. I can well understand the desire to expound on the topic-- as I said, it's a pet subject of my own, too. Far too few people treat magic, even magic that is embedded in or otherwise made a fundamental part of a person, as having any subtle effect on them; they fling off a few Cure spells in battle, but otherwise they're just like anyone else. Living with magic as an integral part of you has to change you, and I like exploring the ways in which it might.

[lassarina]

I can understand how something like Materia, for example, would have less of an effect on someone, but for something like Magitek infusion, it literally changes your psyche (see also: Kefka) and that part of it fascinates me. Is Celes cold and reserved because her infusion was Ice, while Terra is a warmer, brighter personality because her innate talent is Fire? Was Kefka infused with Status magic and that's why he's so completely bananas? These things fascinate me. :D

[raisedbymoogles]

*adores this fic! Adores it lots!* *...would have more coherent comments, but needs a NAP.*

[lassarina]

General adoration is fine in lieu of coherence :D I'm glad you liked it!