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Fic: An Exchange of Favours

Oct 08, 2009 14:46

Title: An Exchange of Favours
Author: lareinenoire
Play: Henry VI trilogy
Characters / Pairings: The York family
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 3090
Warnings: Animal death (not explicit), references to character deaths.
Summary: Richard was fifteen years old when he realised there were things that money could not buy.
NB: Originally written for the_alchemist for Yuletide Madness ( Read more... )

author: lareinenoire, collaborative?: open for collaboration, play: 2 henry vi, au: sweet fortune's minions, era: interwar, play: 1 henry vi, romance?: gen, play: 3 henry vi, pairing: none

Comments 2

speak_me_fair October 8 2009, 21:49:54 UTC

I love this - always have - and it's the portrayal of Ned here that really gets to me. All that well-meaning kindness that's given to *precisely* the wrong person, who is bound to misinterpret it and despise it as weakness and incomprehension. Of course, it *is* incomprehension, but of a sort stemming from a nice nature rather than the more malevolent kind...

Yorkists fail. It's why we love them.

lareinenoire October 8 2009, 22:02:20 UTC

They are full of fail, but so utterly lovable for it.

And I'm so glad Ned came through that way -- it's how I see him at least in this context.

Of course, it *is* incomprehension, but of a sort stemming from a nice nature rather than the more malevolent kind...

He can't possibly understand Richard, and even though he tries, it just doesn't work at all. And it's not really his fault, even if he's not the brightest bulb in the box.