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A new chapter of AGL is up. I'm mostly happy with it, although there is one thing that I think is kind of questionable -- I get cryptic where it isn't really warranted, just to preserve a surprise for later. Fair? Foul? I'm not sure. The scene wanted me to reveal the information, or at least be a little less vague about it, but I have much bigger plans for that piece of the puzzle. (Yes, a key fact is missing, deliberately. Dix didn't come up with an idiot plan just for the sake of advancing the plot. All will be explained, although I'm not sure how far away that is yet.) It's one of the weird things about writing a story that takes place partly in its own future. Does it lessen the impact when Auron learns things if the reader already knows about them? I tend to say yes, but I also don't want to cheat the Liss half of the story. It's a balancing act; hopefully I get it right most of the time.
Chapter 20 is about half-written, I think.
I also put up a ficlet about Baralai and Paine, a riff off a line in the conversation between Baralai and Liss in Chapter 17. It came out so ambiguously, though, that you could also read it as a Baralai/Yuna pairing, given the assumption that Tidus doesn't come back after FFX-2 -- I only had to make a few tweaks to the first draft to preserve that interpretation. That was a funny thing. I often write parts of scenes in my head long before committing them to fixed form on the computer, and that Ch. 17 scene was one of them. Not the whole thing, but most of the dialog. Sometimes I'll also think through scenes from another character's point of view before writing them -- I almost never write them down, although that's where the short Kera POV chapter came from -- and that's what I was doing when I came up with this ficlet. I was compelled to set it down, and it came out basically in its final form that evening. The catch was, I hadn't actually gotten to a point in the story where it made sense for Baralai and Liss to have that conversation. So I technically wrote the ficlet several weeks before writing the scene that inspired it.
Personally, I prefer the Paine/Nooj 'ship to Paine/Baralai, and I think Yuna/Baralai has fascinating possibilities (I wish more people would write it), but somehow a Paine who is with Baralai seems to fit AGL better than a Paine who is with Nooj, and there was no question that Tidus would be in the story. So that's the direction I went, and I'm happy with it.
Chapter 20 is about half-written, I think.
I also put up a ficlet about Baralai and Paine, a riff off a line in the conversation between Baralai and Liss in Chapter 17. It came out so ambiguously, though, that you could also read it as a Baralai/Yuna pairing, given the assumption that Tidus doesn't come back after FFX-2 -- I only had to make a few tweaks to the first draft to preserve that interpretation. That was a funny thing. I often write parts of scenes in my head long before committing them to fixed form on the computer, and that Ch. 17 scene was one of them. Not the whole thing, but most of the dialog. Sometimes I'll also think through scenes from another character's point of view before writing them -- I almost never write them down, although that's where the short Kera POV chapter came from -- and that's what I was doing when I came up with this ficlet. I was compelled to set it down, and it came out basically in its final form that evening. The catch was, I hadn't actually gotten to a point in the story where it made sense for Baralai and Liss to have that conversation. So I technically wrote the ficlet several weeks before writing the scene that inspired it.
Personally, I prefer the Paine/Nooj 'ship to Paine/Baralai, and I think Yuna/Baralai has fascinating possibilities (I wish more people would write it), but somehow a Paine who is with Baralai seems to fit AGL better than a Paine who is with Nooj, and there was no question that Tidus would be in the story. So that's the direction I went, and I'm happy with it.