[FICATHON] O Du Mein Holder Abendstern

[lareinenoire]

Title: O Du Mein Holder Abendstern
Author: speak_me_fair
Play: Richard II
Recipient: highfantastical
Characters: Richard II, Henry Bolingbroke, Edward of York, mentions of Isabel, Harry Percy, Hal Monmouth, Robert de Vere, Queen Anne.
Warnings: Character death. AU. German Opera. Thoughts of suicide. Hesiod. Hunting. Slash. Het. Misquotes.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No-

Comments

[eldiablito_sf]

(Wait, are you ready? Have you put down the tea? OK...)

Owie! Why are you so CRUEL?! :'( Especially in your characterization of Aumerle (which I'm sure you can do in your sleep by now, but still - why with the heart stabbing, why??) and that whole bit with "I'm sorry. I liked him." You hurt me. You really do.

Good job!

[eldiablito_sf]

Oops, I forgot to woo you with other people's depressing works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neIMHbWhCB0

[speak_me_fair]

Yay depressing singing!!

[speak_me_fair]

I like that you say 'good job' about my hurting you! I'm not sure what that says about either of us, mind...

Also, CANON BROKE THEM FIRST!

[gileonnen]

I really cannot find enough to say about this. It felt like it had been written for me; it got past all of those silly little tropes and traits that I half-ironically describe as 'narrative kinks' and just offered me this wonderful, terrifying, uncomplicated love. (Complicated love is painful, I think, but simple love is terrifying. It all seems of a piece; there can be no qualified acceptance of it; one has to take it all at once, or none at all.) And once I'd accepted it, once I'd fallen for these characters, I couldn't turn them away when they were broken and sharp-edged and aching.

Result: I have spent the past fifteen minutes crying. Excellent.

[speak_me_fair]

I so agree with what you say about simple love being more terrifying than the complicated variety -- it bypasses reasoning, which is the most frightening thing imaginable.

I'm sort of overwhelmed by the fact this made you cry -- it's easy to feel for the characters while one writes, but there's always the niggling fear that this hasn't worked, that the same things won't be easily accessible or visible and that somehow the story will have been destroyed through manhandling and gracelessness.

Thank you so, so much for reading this and for your lovely comment (your comments are always lovely and thoughtful, but it's worth saying how much I enjoy getting them!)

[speak_me_fair]

This fandom: breaks writers, readers and fictives indiscriminately.

(and leaves me wanting to hug them all....)