sasha_b put me on to this saga (the shameless pimp), and I love it. Like, started reading it last night and couldn't peel myself away from the computer till I was completely caught up at 2am love it. (Guess it's a good thing it's the weekend.)
I'm especially impressed that you managed to start with a plotless, crack (and highly entertaining) snippet, and turn it into this long, angsty, plotty story.
Your Lancelot is fantastic. He's complex and damaged and dangerous. And it's so clear that Arthur, though he knows him so well, really doesn't understand him. Arthur's still trying to possess him - I sense history repeating itself very soon.
I love how complicated the relationship between all the knights is. Of course if you reunited thirty people who died over a period of decades, the interpersonal dynamics are going to be difficult. Friendships shifted, power dynamics changed with each death, leaving the "younger" knights surrounded by people they know acting towards each other in a way they don't understand.
And of course Arthur's in the center of this taking their loyalty for granted.
I was in a singing group in college, and saw how much the power dynamics within the group change in just a year. We several times had a singer, who had managed to establish themselves as a leader in the group, who people listened to, go on a year abroad, and when they came back found that things had shifted so much, they'd lost the authority they once had. Quite a few people quit over this. So to see that sort of thing going on among the knights, and see the different alliances, and the scheming... Oh, it's delicious.
And you are such a tease! Stop hinting already and spill! I have my theories about what no one is telling Lancelot, but I'm just dying to see Lancelot go ballistic. And see if Arthur will ever understand that his need for the man is possession, not love.
And the dreams... I have my theories about those too.
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Date: 2006-04-30 01:49 pm (UTC)I'm especially impressed that you managed to start with a plotless, crack (and highly entertaining) snippet, and turn it into this long, angsty, plotty story.
Your Lancelot is fantastic. He's complex and damaged and dangerous. And it's so clear that Arthur, though he knows him so well, really doesn't understand him. Arthur's still trying to possess him - I sense history repeating itself very soon.
I love how complicated the relationship between all the knights is. Of course if you reunited thirty people who died over a period of decades, the interpersonal dynamics are going to be difficult. Friendships shifted, power dynamics changed with each death, leaving the "younger" knights surrounded by people they know acting towards each other in a way they don't understand.
And of course Arthur's in the center of this taking their loyalty for granted.
I was in a singing group in college, and saw how much the power dynamics within the group change in just a year. We several times had a singer, who had managed to establish themselves as a leader in the group, who people listened to, go on a year abroad, and when they came back found that things had shifted so much, they'd lost the authority they once had. Quite a few people quit over this. So to see that sort of thing going on among the knights, and see the different alliances, and the scheming... Oh, it's delicious.
And you are such a tease! Stop hinting already and spill! I have my theories about what no one is telling Lancelot, but I'm just dying to see Lancelot go ballistic. And see if Arthur will ever understand that his need for the man is possession, not love.
And the dreams... I have my theories about those too.