Comments | the_grynne: Fic: A Little Dignitie Now (Heroes)

the_grynne

Fic: A Little Dignitie Now (Heroes)

Mar 12, 2009 00:38

This is completely the fault of patient, long-suffering so_spiffed, who wanted fic about Kensei's mother - presumably because she wanted to make my head explode. :) Sorry, Dae, it took so long.

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my fic, fic-heroes, adam monroe

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the_grynne March 11 2009, 17:04:23 UTC

Thank you. :)

I ummmmed and ahhhhed for ages about what kind of "power" I wanted to give her, one that would mean something. And in the end, I really wanted to go against how the show makes every person with the mutation manifest with a "gift", because in evolution, mutations are often harmful to the individual. Rapid aging is such an ironic "power" for her to have, considering how it manifests in her son.

vyduan March 12 2009, 18:38:15 UTC

As always, so good! *bows to greatness* I particularly liked her asides and prayers. Great stuff!

the_grynne March 13 2009, 01:16:41 UTC

Thank you! The prayer was totally my reason for writing it the way I did. I wanted it to hint at how she was going to abandon her son very soon (by dying), same as her God had abandoned her.

so_spiffed March 13 2009, 19:55:31 UTC

I love it. Her prayers, the fact that she loses everything except Adam, that she's already wearing dead-mans boots... The way in which some of the lines ("Every lamp s soaked through." "There is a flickering in the light across her face.") make me think of play directions; someone is dictating the path of their lives (other than yourself, of course).

You, chica, are awesome. Thank you!

the_grynne March 13 2009, 23:31:35 UTC

I hate disclose it, because I'd only look really bad in comparison, but I was looking at my copy of The Tempest (which I bought in Stratford-upon-Avon!) while I was writing this. So there is a bit of Prospero and Miranda, not to mention Sebastian and Viola, in Rebekka and her son.

Also, you won't believe how many different PoV's I tried and ditched - from Rebekka and Adam first person, to Eduardo the temporary father-figure's. That tells you how for a long time, I didn't know what I was writing, much less how to do it. She had to be at the centre, not Adam, but I didn't want her to be just "Adam's mother" - even thought that was the prompt - for that one portion to be the only meaningful part of her identity, and we'd judge her on whether she was a bad mother or a good one. She's a dying woman stranded on a beach with her son, who hasn't fully come to terms yet with her fact that she has to let go of even him, for his own good. Is anyone interested in reading that story, besides you and me? I'm glad you made me write it though. I don ( ... )