[fic] Wedding Night

[thistlerose]

Wedding Night

Fandom: Prydain
Rating: PG
Ship: Taran/Eilonwy
Summary: He's perfectly willing to be romantic, if only she'll let him get a word in edgewise.
A/N: I included this ship in the list I made yesterday, and it got me thinking. Their love is so obvious, but we so rarely get them alone together. This is set very shortly after the end of

Comments

[thistlerose]

Thank you! :)

Oh my god, when I was twelve or thirteen, all my heroines were copies of Eilonwy. So it's kind of neat to be writing her after all these years.

[thistlerose]

I wanted to be her too. *sigh* I wanted to be a princess, but the kind that goes on cool adventures. Eilonwy was just my ideal.

[rynne]

Oh, you're awesome and this was so lovely! I especially liked the way they tease each other. :D

[thistlerose]

Thank you sweetie! I do love me some bantering couples. :)

[watergal]

Lovely! The comfortable awkwardness was so them.

I especially liked Eilonwy's unusual but perceptive insights into romance and what is important enough to be kingly. And Taran'd reactions to them.

Thank you very much for this.

[thistlerose]

Thank you so much! :)

[talk_back]

Those books were amazing. ^^ Did you ever read anything else by him? The Iron Ring or the Rope Trick, perhaps? I must admit, after reading the Prydain series, to have hunted down all the Lloyd Alexander I could find.

Which is why it's always heart-lifting to find a piece of fic for it, since no one seems to write it. *beams* I love this, the way you captured them both. Alike to his style and still very different and unique. I think you nailed Eilonwy's strange sort of logic and the type of perfect unknowledgeable wisdom Taran recieved by the end of the book. The fic gave closure, if you will, to what happened after the ships set sail, exposed the sadness at losing the magic and the realization that they may never have really needed it so long as they had love and hope on their side.

So, to wrap up this rather long-winded comment, I loved it, I'm adding it to my memories, and thank you so much for writing it. :) The world needs more Prydain-fic.

[thistlerose]

I'm so glad that you liked this! Thank you! :)

I loved Prydain. Still do. I first read it when I was about eleven, and I last read it when I was twenty-four. I really should read it again. I've read a few of his other books. I really enjoyed the Westmark trilogy, the Vesper Holly Adventures, The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian, The Fortune Tellers (a picture book, but it has the Alexander sparkle)... I forget what else. I'm pretty sure I read The Iron Ring and Gypsy Rizka, though I don't remember them that well.

Eilonwy was sort of my ideal heroine. I wanted to be her, and when I wrote original fiction, I based most of my heroines on her. Well, shamelessly copied is more like it. *g* So, it was kind of cool writing the real Eilonwy after all these years.

Anyway, I'm rambling!

Thank you again!!

[museofspeed]

...damn you're good.

You got the characters spot-on.

[thistlerose]

Thank you! :)