Trinity Blood fics: Trespasses & Circe

[narcasse]

In a bid to break myself of playing Bob of Arabia obsessively and equally because I’ve not yet mastered that leaping off the wall attack to use on pikemen I was going to finish up some old half-written fics that have been sitting around since March.

At least in once case another short Caterina piece is actually posted, though I’m still not entirely sure what I’m delving into with her general mindset. I do suspect there that it’s a case of my disinterest in Abel that’s the problem there since it’s virtually impossible to understand Caterina without at least taking a passing look at her relationship with Abel. Perhaps I’ll get over that at a later date, perhaps not. Though in comparison, Mirka is actually an awful lot easier to write various versions of somehow. Possibly because digging holes in Imperial policy is like shooting fish in a barrel; a small barrel, filled with neocons, who float. All of which makes Mirka all the easier to understand or rather makes me more willing to trouble myself with figuring her out rather than looking at Caterina instead.

The other piece that’s done is an obsessive William piece that seems to go well with Philip Glass’ soundtrack for The Hours and has a distinctly surreal feel to it. It would certainly make the case for Havel’s lost of faith if all the members of AX are actually there for entirely the wrong reasons. Not to say that the RCO are any better since they’re simply allowed to believe whatever justification they’d like to fabricate but somehow the Inquisition’s point of view does rather make sense if the Vatican itself is peopled by individuals using it as a vehicle for their own ambitions. But then, other than a handful; how many would really aim for a spot in the College of Cardinals without having any ambitions to drive them? Still, I do feel that if given long enough there may actually be Paula fic at some point to elaborate on that point.

Of course I do need to get back to finishing the older pieces at some point but right now the only two that stand out are Geppetto and Delilah, the former of which has been sitting on my desktop since April.

Comments

[7veilsphaedra.livejournal.com]

Lovely contrast between the two stories. William's voice is as florid and PreRaphaelite as Catherine's is thin and spare without a pinch of comfort. It's an effective means of conveying what you want to say about their hearts. I enjoyed reading them, as always.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I still don’t quite have a grasp of what, if anything, I want to say about Caterina overall but William on the other hand at least seems to balance out Isaak in his obsessions. Which is probably quite the contrast considering that Caterina is meant to be obsessed with Abel anyway.

[7veilsphaedra.livejournal.com]

Given the one-sided nature of her obsession, and the icy, rational (that isn't to say well-rationalized) approach she takes to her decisions, it's bound to have a pinched, miserly feeling about it. "This is all the love she can spare because there isn't any coming back" I suppose. That's the impression I was left with, anyway. Still, an interesting character and one that feels difficult to --- parse? She strikes me as someone who's syntax is always a little offkilter, from trying to juggle so many compromises that the sense of self has not so much disappeared, as warped.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

She’s certainly one for underhanded manoeuvring as far as the novels seem to suggest and she seems to be overtly pleased with her own cleverness at times too but I suspect that you’re right about her internal take on things since as you say, it may be that she’s so focused on judging whatever she says and does by way of ‘appropriate’ responses to given circumstances that she’s somehow stunted her own internal coherency. Still, as head of AX she’s probably found the one places where that lack of consistency on her part would be useful since she’d need to judge matters on individual merit rather than as part of an absolute whole. She might well be one of those individuals who’d like to look at the big picture but realises that she needs to consider details and has somehow in the process managed to strike an unhappy medium between the two.