Notez: Behold the long-awaited sequel to Worthless. Sort of. I mean, I was long awaiting it, and I was the one writing it. This is actually, like, the seventh or so story I wrote to follow up on Worthless. It's driving me nuts. I'd start a fic, get nowhere, decide I hated it, and have to start all over again. Gack.
I hadn't actually been planning to give Relena a nervous breakdown anytime soon. The point of her angst was supposed to be that she was every bit as good at being altruistic as she thought she should be, hence being trapped. Kind of a parallel to those fics where Heeo is totally fixated on fighting the war, 'cause ya know, he's the perfect soldier (I hate that phrase almost as much as I hate 'Jester's Mask.') But the first six tries were boring, because Relena never did anything but work and have internal roiling angst, which she did already in Worthless. At some point, it occured to me that if she didn't have a nervous breakdown, i.e. the perfect excuse to force her to step down from office and go have arguments with Dorothy fraught with sexual tension (Yeah! ::yuri fans, of which it is doubtful that Lockheed has any, all cheer::), I didn't have much of a story. Voila, instant plot device: add water and stir.
In case it was unclear, I have decided to make Dorothy a Preventer, because no one says I can't. Hah! Canonical accuracy can take a flying leap. This is all past EW anyway. Maybe she got bored, or something, and she certainly seems qualified to me.
The Yeats poems are, in order of appearence: To A Young Girl, The Second Coming (brr), Sailing to Byzantium, A Prayer for My Daughter and No Second Troy.
To those who read Life, Minnaloushe and Everything, which I posted for Mikkeneko's birthday, this is the scene I mentioned. It is my belief that Relena named Duo and Heero's cat. However, that story is actually set at least a few years after this one starts, so they wouldn't have Minnaloushe yet.
Re: I call this one "HAY LOOK WHAT I FOUND ON MY HARD DRIVE!"
Date: 2006-02-21 04:44 am (UTC)I hadn't actually been planning to give Relena a nervous breakdown anytime soon. The point of her angst was supposed to be that she was every bit as good at being altruistic as she thought she should be, hence being trapped. Kind of a parallel to those fics where Heeo is totally fixated on fighting the war, 'cause ya know, he's the perfect soldier (I hate that phrase almost as much as I hate 'Jester's Mask.') But the first six tries were boring, because Relena never did anything but work and have internal roiling angst, which she did already in Worthless. At some point, it occured to me that if she didn't have a nervous breakdown, i.e. the perfect excuse to force her to step down from office and go have arguments with Dorothy fraught with sexual tension (Yeah! ::yuri fans, of which it is doubtful that Lockheed has any, all cheer::), I didn't have much of a story. Voila, instant plot device: add water and stir.
In case it was unclear, I have decided to make Dorothy a Preventer, because no one says I can't. Hah! Canonical accuracy can take a flying leap. This is all past EW anyway. Maybe she got bored, or something, and she certainly seems qualified to me.
The Yeats poems are, in order of appearence: To A Young Girl, The Second Coming (brr), Sailing to Byzantium, A Prayer for My Daughter and No Second Troy.
To those who read Life, Minnaloushe and Everything, which I posted for Mikkeneko's birthday, this is the scene I mentioned. It is my belief that Relena named Duo and Heero's cat. However, that story is actually set at least a few years after this one starts, so they wouldn't have Minnaloushe yet.