Oh, am I loving this -- Merlin, Guin, the scheming, the backstory about the time afterward -- melodrama and all.
I really love how you're structuring this 'verse around Lance, making him the fulcrum of the story, and showing how he's really the man holding everything together, now as before. It's hard to write something so character-driven when there are players a plenty, and you've acquitted yourself well. I can feel Lance's passion, how he yearns and seethes inside, and his unwavering devotion to the well-being of the knights and Arthur. I also get a sense of that prescience that Merlin alluded to, that somehow, Lance knows that his fate hangs on very tenuous string -- he's always under siege -- and that he will have to remain vigilante for him to have any chance of a life with Arthur in this incarnation. I also feel that Lance knows that he might have the upperhand on Merlin this time around.
He was an obstacle Merlin had not planned for. Great foreshadowing detail there. I think it also strengthens the point of Lance being the wild card in all of this, from Merlin's plans, to Arthur's heart.
I think I'm getting a sense of what role my boy, Mr. D'Aubigny, will play in all of this. Am seriously chuffed. The name did end up being perfect for the character, now. **squeee!** I love it when stuff like that just jumps out at you without a thought. Leighton D'aubigny is my boy indeed. Take care of him, now, the nebbish little toff.
And great use of the Comme des Garcons collection. Yeah, prissy Gally pretty in pink. I'm loving it. Poor conflicted pup!
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I really love how you're structuring this 'verse around Lance, making him the fulcrum of the story, and showing how he's really the man holding everything together, now as before. It's hard to write something so character-driven when there are players a plenty, and you've acquitted yourself well. I can feel Lance's passion, how he yearns and seethes inside, and his unwavering devotion to the well-being of the knights and Arthur. I also get a sense of that prescience that Merlin alluded to, that somehow, Lance knows that his fate hangs on very tenuous string -- he's always under siege -- and that he will have to remain vigilante for him to have any chance of a life with Arthur in this incarnation. I also feel that Lance knows that he might have the upperhand on Merlin this time around.
He was an obstacle Merlin had not planned for. Great foreshadowing detail there. I think it also strengthens the point of Lance being the wild card in all of this, from Merlin's plans, to Arthur's heart.
I think I'm getting a sense of what role my boy, Mr. D'Aubigny, will play in all of this. Am seriously chuffed. The name did end up being perfect for the character, now. **squeee!** I love it when stuff like that just jumps out at you without a thought. Leighton D'aubigny is my boy indeed. Take care of him, now, the nebbish little toff.
And great use of the Comme des Garcons collection. Yeah, prissy Gally pretty in pink. I'm loving it. Poor conflicted pup!