Comments | swooping_is_bad: Seven Heavenly Virtues: Kindness

scary_lady in swooping_is_bad

Seven Heavenly Virtues: Kindness

Aug 24, 2010 01:23

Evening all

I'm the sub (again) for this one, so I used something that was already kicking around in my head. It's a taster for something I intend to write after I finish Trouble&Strife (I don't have to stamina to write two big fics at once), and therefore has some loose ends that I cannot close down in this piece alone. Apologies if that ( Read more... )

media: fic, character: alistair, challenges: seven heavenly virtues, character: zevran

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miri1984 August 24 2010, 01:12:24 UTC

Oooh, lovely idea. I'm looking forward to the full fic now! After Trouble and Strife though :)

scary_lady August 24 2010, 01:23:28 UTC

Definitely after T&S finishes. I'd go mad trying to do two at once.

I'm glad I've had the opportunity to get this beginning down on paper actually. I can now safely turn my back on it, knowing that, when the time comes, I can read this chapter and the rest will flow from there.

I hope it's not too dodgy for me to have shoe-horned this into a challenge slot.

femalegamer August 24 2010, 03:39:31 UTC

I think that the ending could easily stand fine as it is, really. It's nice to know that in your future, Alistair wasn't totally broken - it's difficult to change who you are, no matter how you try, in either direction.

Thank you again for picking up yet another story. Perhaps you have some story request that I could work on sometime for you?

scary_lady August 24 2010, 11:19:22 UTC

oooh, a pressie. for me!

Here's something interesting, and I definitely can't write it, I don't know one of the characters well enough.

What happens if Alistair and Loghain are finally forced to discuss their differences of opinion? Could be a fine argument, assuming Loghain can be brought to string more than half a dozen words together. And it is possible, seeing as (if he survives the Blight) Loghain would be Ali's father-in-law in one ending.

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little_befu August 24 2010, 05:16:10 UTC

Alistair at his core is still a big damn hero. ^_^
I look forward to seeing where this all goes.

scary_lady August 24 2010, 11:22:31 UTC

Yeah, he's our paladin, bless his weak golden heart.

It'll be some time before you see it again, I have to finish T&S first, or I'll go as crazy as a room full of Cullens.

little_befu August 24 2010, 11:28:26 UTC

I shall wait patiently.
Trying to working on two fics of the magnitude of T&S would drive you straight up bonkers. If nothing else, just trying to keep the characterizations straight in your head when switching between the two.

ladyofshalott06 August 24 2010, 05:45:42 UTC

Wow! Very interesting concept! I am intrigued.

scary_lady August 24 2010, 11:23:30 UTC

Thank you. One day, there shall be more. But not yet.

ladyofshalott06 August 24 2010, 14:49:41 UTC

I'm content to wait, considering the reason we're waiting is Trouble & Strife. :D

nithu August 24 2010, 08:14:02 UTC

What a wonderful teaser!

nithu August 24 2010, 08:14:23 UTC

And, of course, a great fill for the prompt :)

scary_lady August 24 2010, 11:26:28 UTC

Thanks! Time to mentally leave sunny Antiva now, and think about cold muddy Ferelden. brrr

rhia474 August 24 2010, 16:44:38 UTC

Hee. Alistair as a fallen paladin, huh? A great concept, and I love Venice as Antiva City here. Very vivid, I could almost smell it.

scary_lady August 24 2010, 16:56:49 UTC

Good! I'm glad about that. I've only been to Venice in the winter, for Carnivale (some of my friends held a full costume wedding there), so I had to imagine what it would be like in summer, in a time with minimum sanitation. My sense of smell was trying to shut down just thinking about it.

But oh, Venice and Crows. What an incredibly colourful world to write in :o) And having written a pretty powerful Alistair in T&S, it'll be fun to turn it around, and have a very powerful Zev leading him around by the nose.