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[owlmoose]

"A Guardian's Legacy" officially makes its return from hiatus with the posting of this chapter.

It took me awhile to get back into the groove of this but I think I succeeded. We'll see how future chapters go but I think this one came out reasonably well. Onward...

Comments

I

[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

Knowledge is a dreadful thing, g-d wot. Do you think we have established the fanon by which all other fics will be measured? It was a hell of a lot of fun, wasn't it?

Re: I

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

It was. So very much.

Paine knew what she was doing when she claimed Baralai as her mate

Ah, well, it didn't exactly go down like that.

You may recall that I once told you that I've killed off Nooj in the background three times. Twice in my Confessional follow-ups, and in one other instance...

I

[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

Here? My poor dear lad.

Re: I

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I know. I'm sorry. As I've said before, I don't particularly *like* it, but it was what the backstory seemed to demand. Paine doesn't seem right without some tragedy in the background. I don't regret the decision. But I do miss having him around.

I

[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

I assume you did not go the 'hanged, drawn and quartered' route. That description almost did me in yesterday. Particularly the precise anatomical bits.

You must have taken note Ms Gabaldon is even harsher on her creations than are we.

Seriously, you are right about Paine. It is difficult to account for her attitudes without postulating some great sorrow(s) in her past. I am grateful to Square/Enix for her because I would have gone into a diabetic coma before ever meeting Nooj had P been as unrelentingly sweetly perky as Y and R. She was the only one of the trio I would bear to think about from the beginning.

Re: I

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I remember that bit vividly, and it still gives me the shudders to think about it. Gabaldon is unquestionably a harsh mistress.

Nothing that tortuous, no. To be honest, I haven't decided exactly -- I have a vague sense of what probably happened but don't have the details settled in my mind. All I can say for certain is that it was against his will.

The time between "Chasing My Past" and the AGL future may well be my next story, unless our collective muse gets ahold of me first.

Thanks for the lastest review. Your criticism re. that Tidus scene is fair, and you are not the first to make it. I've tried to come up with some way to fix it and have never gotten very far. I suppose I could cut it, but it's the only Liss scene in the chapter and it needs one.

I

[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

That sort of thing is the devil to deal with. One needs an excuse and needs it now! That was how I got stuck in the trite explanation for the DeathWish thing. It is only now, I am hacking my way through his psychological thickets to a more satisfactory (I hope) reason.

I like the way you say 'collective muse'. Heh!