Diamond in the Rough
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ladybug_archiveThe Emil Sande project insists on existing and moving forward. I've been posting the pieces on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
31_days and also on my seldom-used AO3 account here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/482477
I am extremely proud of it so far. Emil is so much fun to write, as is his interaction with Graciela. The story largely relies on character interaction and development through dialogue as well as soliloquies. He and Graciela will begin to cultivate a very deep and beautiful friendship. And as mused, I do plan for them to become romantically involved at the very end. Only at the very end, because I want the focus on more platonic interactions, even though there's supposed to be a current of unresolved romantic tension running underneath.
I'm also thinking I want a scene similar to one in Beauty and the Beast where the Beast saves Belle from the wolves. In the fic it would be, er, human wolves (leches, not werewolves, thank you). And it would be the first time Emil has ever tried to protect someone other than himself (at least since he was a child and vainly tried to save his parents from being killed). By that point he and Graciela would already be comfortable with each other but not have been able to admit it. After the fight Graciela would tend to Emil's wounds and their friendship would greatly deepen.
Since it's so experimental, I haven't tried petitioning FF.net for an Alamo category yet. (But I have thought of it.) It's such a pain waiting for FF.net to add categories. That's about the only thing I really like on AO3---category-adding is very, very fast. Well, that, and the awesome tagging system. Other than those things, I still prefer FF.net.
Also on 31 Days is that continuing Bonanza-related project. I haven't tried putting it up anywhere else, since oneshot characters are the focus and none of the main ones are likely to appear at all. (Unless Ben comes into it, and I'm undecided on whether that would take away too much from what I'm trying to focus on.)
And now I need to write the next chapter of the Perry mystery. I must say, it's very interesting and odd, writing for four Wesley Lau characters all at once. Each one is so different.
Lieutenant Anderson - The friendly yet businesslike policeman, fully honest and upright. Quite possibly aloof, hiding behind his businesslike persona.
Amory Fallon - The modern-day businessman, also honest but easier stressed than Andy. The only one who's married.
Carl Armory - The childlike gambler and conman, dependent on his sister as the one person who has always been there for him.
Emil Sande - The aloof, snarky, and mercenary merchant, a bit shady but possibly still bearing some goodness deep down.
I am just having a blast writing for every one of them. Sometimes I think I prefer one over the others, but then I get writing for one of the others and I love that just as much.
That musing on those nutty Wild Wild West villains from The Poisonous Posey is continuing to amuse me, too. I have this urge to write a silly crossover fic with it and Perry, largely so I can do that scene of Sampson being lassoed by Pinto. I keep picturing it so strongly and giggling. The bad guys, likely along with Jim and Arte, could end up in the present-day via a time machine Dr. Loveless made. Either that or the canon time-travel device from The Night of the Lord of Limbo.
31_days and also on my seldom-used AO3 account here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/482477I am extremely proud of it so far. Emil is so much fun to write, as is his interaction with Graciela. The story largely relies on character interaction and development through dialogue as well as soliloquies. He and Graciela will begin to cultivate a very deep and beautiful friendship. And as mused, I do plan for them to become romantically involved at the very end. Only at the very end, because I want the focus on more platonic interactions, even though there's supposed to be a current of unresolved romantic tension running underneath.
I'm also thinking I want a scene similar to one in Beauty and the Beast where the Beast saves Belle from the wolves. In the fic it would be, er, human wolves (leches, not werewolves, thank you). And it would be the first time Emil has ever tried to protect someone other than himself (at least since he was a child and vainly tried to save his parents from being killed). By that point he and Graciela would already be comfortable with each other but not have been able to admit it. After the fight Graciela would tend to Emil's wounds and their friendship would greatly deepen.
Since it's so experimental, I haven't tried petitioning FF.net for an Alamo category yet. (But I have thought of it.) It's such a pain waiting for FF.net to add categories. That's about the only thing I really like on AO3---category-adding is very, very fast. Well, that, and the awesome tagging system. Other than those things, I still prefer FF.net.
Also on 31 Days is that continuing Bonanza-related project. I haven't tried putting it up anywhere else, since oneshot characters are the focus and none of the main ones are likely to appear at all. (Unless Ben comes into it, and I'm undecided on whether that would take away too much from what I'm trying to focus on.)
And now I need to write the next chapter of the Perry mystery. I must say, it's very interesting and odd, writing for four Wesley Lau characters all at once. Each one is so different.
Lieutenant Anderson - The friendly yet businesslike policeman, fully honest and upright. Quite possibly aloof, hiding behind his businesslike persona.
Amory Fallon - The modern-day businessman, also honest but easier stressed than Andy. The only one who's married.
Carl Armory - The childlike gambler and conman, dependent on his sister as the one person who has always been there for him.
Emil Sande - The aloof, snarky, and mercenary merchant, a bit shady but possibly still bearing some goodness deep down.
I am just having a blast writing for every one of them. Sometimes I think I prefer one over the others, but then I get writing for one of the others and I love that just as much.
That musing on those nutty Wild Wild West villains from The Poisonous Posey is continuing to amuse me, too. I have this urge to write a silly crossover fic with it and Perry, largely so I can do that scene of Sampson being lassoed by Pinto. I keep picturing it so strongly and giggling. The bad guys, likely along with Jim and Arte, could end up in the present-day via a time machine Dr. Loveless made. Either that or the canon time-travel device from The Night of the Lord of Limbo.
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