Trinity Blood fics: Pathway & Genesis

[narcasse]

Pathway
9689 words. PG. Süleyman’s past; the road that led to the capital.

This has actually taken me over a year to finish but now it's done I can, once that other piece is finished as well, probably shelve Süleyman’s idiosyncrasies for a little while. Unless I end up writing about another version with a wildly different take on military service and the fraternity of the soldiery.


Genesis
4101 words. PG. Isaak and William’s first meeting and the events that led up to it.

Following on from Revelation I didn’t actually mean to write this as a continuing piece, again over a year later, but there it is alongside another further piece to be finished about the beginnings of the Orden.


One thing I am noticing about both character backgrounds is that Süleyman and Isaak seem to have plenty of things happen to them entirely by accident; they both stumble into fortuitous situations that they then manage, sometimes quite obliviously, to make the most of. All of which is in complete opposition to the various versions of Dietrich that I’ve written where he decides what he’s going to do and by Hell does it regardless of what gets in his way or versions of Radu who are either complete nihilists who are simply trying to get themselves killed or absolute fanatics for their cause, even if they’re not entirely sure what that cause is anymore. Not that it should be too much of a surprise since I’m fond of the idea that the difference between the elder and younger men in this situation is that the elder pair have had longer to settle into the circumstances that didn’t quite go the way they planned where as the younger are still busy fighting against completely unpredictable chance.

Comments

[blasphemiliar.livejournal.com]

Genesis...You've written it in a way that someone who has never set foot in London still can get a feel of what it is like. Albeit in a post-Armageddon setting. And I imagine that any abandoned hospitals and asylums would provide the perfect day out for Isaak, being rather enthralling yet frightening in their own right.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

You could probably navigate from Denmark Hill to the Strand and back again with the descriptions here and if you added in the directions from the prior piece you could even make it across the Strand itself to the Grand Lodge. I’d almost be tempted to write something an urban spelunking expedition for Isaak and his friends into the Training College but considering that from the front it looks like this (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photos/00/47/004723_db4799de.jpg) he’d probably be too terrified to go in.

[blasphemiliar.livejournal.com]

I understand why entering that building is out of the question for Isaak. That large cross is somewhat ominous, and if one were to add the customary dead guy with nails through him, Isaak would probably faint in sheer terror and be requiring William's, ahem, hospitality skills...

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

If I’m ever in the mood for it I might get around to at least writing a drabble involving Isaak deliberately crucifying people on church crosses but that would require he take the carved Jesus off said cross first if he’s really going after the Catholics. If he just did that with other Christian denominations he might end up looking like a deranged Catholic after all.

[shu-maat.livejournal.com]

I've read "Pathway" so far ("Genesis", tomorrow... I cannot spoil all of this wonders in just one day. ^^). You never fail to impress me. All the effort and the time you put into this are shown, you reconstructed everything we don't know about Suleyman in a such an incisive, fascinating, captivating way. The thoughts involving the Solomon Ring are marvellous, and I had never imagined Suleyman's first contacts with the court world, but... oh, it's so fitting. You definitely opened me a new point of view onto him.
Oh, and not to mention the last paragraph of "Invention": simply put, perfect. My very best compliments!!!!!!!!!

I was wondering... have you ever written (or planned to do) something involving his first encounter with the Empress, or other things about their "relationship"? Sorry for my curiosity... ^^

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I’m glad you liked it. There’s so little that we do know about him and yet there are enough hints like his military background and governorship of Egypt that there’s just enough to build on; and of course he has to have the sort of personality that would comprise of enough good intention and arrogance to attempt a daring revolution.

Funnily enough I did have the vague notion of an idea involving her need for Methuselah blood and where she’d safely get it from which might well involve high ranked nobles like Süleyman. It’s one of those ideas that may take some time to germinate so I can’t promise it any time soon. Most of my writing about the Empress comes in the form of the deconstruction theory I post rather than fanfic really.


Actually, now that I think about it there’s passing mention of how the Empress thinks of him in Galatea, though Goddess and Šāh māt are more focused on the pair of them. Much Ado on the other hand is a very silly piece though I might at some point attempt to write a more serious version of their meeting there.