Three Trinity Blood fics & a log

[narcasse]

Mother (G. 3341 words.)
Part two of Pathway charting the time between Süleyman’s border command and his arrival in Byzantium.

Circus (PG. 2441 words.)
Süleyman takes a teenaged Radu to the Milanese opera with some rather curious results. Though not before deciding that his activities in Venice would make it a far too scandalous location to visit instead.
I ought to warn for my slinging around Italian phrases here too really.

Change (PG. 2101 words.)
Something has changed between him and his tovarăş and Ion cannot understand why.
Involving non-sexual naked Methuselahness.
With an additional challenge to alucards_bane to figure out the inspiration from real life.

And lastly a Pegasus log involving two NPCs one of whom is a tarot reader who may in fact be faux-Egyptian and the other who may or may not be Turkish.

Comments

[alucards-bane.livejournal.com]

I really, really liked that. And for some odd reason, I keep thinking 'So there's this...guy that you like?'. It reminds me of most girls going through some sort of metamorphosis when they begin dating.

Though somehow I think this is partly based on your own experiences with a shisha.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

That’s exactly it: one of them is growing up and the other isn’t. Which is a little Narnia-esque with the business with Susan in the end. She grows up, becoming interested in other things and stops believing in Narnia so she can’t go back with the others. Though if you really want to read into it here the case is that Radu grows up and stops believing in Seth’s fantasy kingdom so no longer belongs there which might be more Changeling game mechanics really.

[alucards-bane.livejournal.com]

I kind of got that feeling because it hit home just a little bit. Poor Ion, though, I just wanted to hug him. What is Changeling?

I'm sort of scared to guess again. ...someone walked in on you while you were naked and smoking, didn't they?

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

I remember my piano teacher once telling me that there generally used to be the problem with female students that they’d start growing their nails once they started dating which made playing the piano rather difficult. You’re meant to keep your nails trimmed right down.
One of the things I really did enjoy about writing Ion here was that he so very obviously just didn’t get it, there were so many clues and in the end he was even sat in the room while his naked tovarăş smoked and all that crossed his mind was that he wanted his friend back, because he was still just a child. In fact, genuinely innocent childlike Ion has to the second version of him that I actually like to write; the other version being the canny masks-as-a-face variety.

Changeling is another World of Darkness game system except this time all the players are changelings fighting against succumbing to banality and becoming human instead of vampires fighting against succumbing to the beast and becoming monsters or prometheans fighting to regain their humanity instead of just being bits and pieces of humans who have been put back together. I really need to do a little bit more reading in regards to Promethean though. In that context you could take it either way and suggest that Radu either transcends Seth’s fake changeling kingdom by recognising that it’s a lie or that if Seth rules the true dreaming then he succumbs to banality becoming human and thus has to die. I think it does work better if Seth herself has fallen into banality and is infecting everyone else though.

[alucards-bane.livejournal.com]

Yes, though I like to hear the clack of my nails on the keys, they do tend to slip and I hit the wrong note.
I think that's why I liked it so well, though for some reason I feel as if he ever figured out what was going on, he'd become bitter and jealous and then the fighting would ensue. I don't think I've read any fics of Ion as the masks-as-a-face version.

Oh, that would be why I've never heard of it. I've wanted to play those for a while but I can't find them anywhere. It sounds like something I'd enjoy playing, though. And I do like that first scenario better sounds sort of Matrix-esque.
Ha ha. And I don't blame you for that...if I could, I would.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

You’re tempting me to write subtle and obtuse Ion vs. Süleyman there. Or possibly Ion following Radu when he goes out and being horrified at what he discovers and if I do write that the temptation will be for it to all go a bit American Beauty so that Ion completely misinterprets the situation.
The other version of Ion would be the one featured in Prometheus (http://www.yaoihaven.net/sunsets/viewstory.php?sid=90) and possibly Maschere (http://www.yaoihaven.net/sunsets/viewstory.php?sid=152) and Chrysanthemum (http://www.yaoihaven.net/sunsets/viewstory.php?sid=131) too, though the latter two could just as easily be Ion after he’s bought a clue.

I never really took the time to learn all that much about Changeling but it does seem fairly intriguing. I recall attempting to work out which of the characters in Meine Liebe had slipped into banality with a friend once using that system.
You know, I wrote a whole raft of Matrix fic featuring the Agents as part of an elaborate angelic ranking system which made them the good guys back in the day. It made more sense to me that way in opposed to the rebel scum (to quote Grand Moff Tarkin there) ethos of freeing themselves so that they could live in some really appalling conditions.

[alucards-bane.livejournal.com]

Both of those sound really interesting, but my vote is going for Ion following Radu And failing at it, though Radu seems to play along anyway *coughs* Me? Tempting you? Pshaw.
Oh, goodie, more to read.

I guess that's one good reason why I never watched the other two Matrix films. Screams of them being terrible tended to steer me away. But that does sound better than their reason o.o
Oh, you can have *my* summer weather if I could give it to you. It was 91 here today, Jesus. What happened to my nice 70-somethings? Just be careful not to burn them...though I suppose better that burned than something else.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

Of course now what I really want to write about is the seedy underworld of Seth’s perfect little kingdom. Something like this perhaps:

Pulling himself up again so that he could see over the window ledge Ion almost wished he had let himself fall yet even as he thought it he found himself pressing his nose close to the latticework trying to persuade himself that he was hallucinating. Inside the room his tovarăş was now straddling the Duke of Tigris who merely lay back against the couch and let it happen.

“You old pervert.” Radu’s tone was far from accusing.
Süleyman smiled in response, raising the tip of the hose to his lips again while he slid his free arm around Radu’s waist.
“The Duchess of Moldova really wouldn’t approve.”
“Fuck Mirka.” Came the snarled reply with a sharp exhale of smoke.

If Ion thought he couldn’t have been shocked any further at that sort of language from the Duke of Tigris of all people, he was quickly disabused of that notion as he watched Radu press his mouth to Süleyman’s before drawing back, lips stained with blood.

The last Matrix film really was the nail in the coffin of the trilogy. The second one was far from fantastic but at least you could hope that the last one would resolve the issue in a better fashion… until it didn’t. I ended up with reviews where people would be quite happy about those films and were suggesting that they’d given me new material to work with: I ended up giving my Agents honourable death and walking away from the entire fandom. Harry Potter was a similar affair too. I was interested in Severus as the amoral scientist and Lucius as a borderline fanatic fighting for his cause. Of course Lucius was in the wrong but he believed in his cause with the same sort of passion that the good guys had for theirs and that I found interesting. Nobody prepared to risk life and sanity for a cause ever believes its wrong after all.

[alucards-bane.livejournal.com]

*claps* That was very good, though now I feel as if I've been teased mercilessly. This could very well be turning into a new 'project' of sorts.

Pitiful when things turn out that way, really. I still haven't read that last Harry Potter book yet, it's still sitting on my shelf. And when you're right, you're right.