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Apr. 3rd, 2014 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardI am now writing a scene that means I'm going to have to, for the first time, throw this chapter at someone else because if I keep it in, that means Gambit will tip from gen to not-gen.
Actually, the funny thing is that Gambit was never meant to be gen; I went in completely unsure whether I'd keep it gen or write the threesome in. This is one of the few times I'm hesitating over audience reaction, because I don't know if I can deal with someone seriously badmouthing Padme at me, which is...a fairly likely outcome if I end Chapter 7 on the scene in question. (I've already been told that Padme should get over herself and forgive Anakin for the events at the end of Wake. I've also been told that Anakin doesn't love Padme the way Vader does, which was...disturbing, considering the way that Vader treats Padme. FANDOM.)
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Unrelated: Gambit is kind of interesting because, like Wake, it involves sliding one story inside another one -- Wake takes place between ESB and RotJ, and Luke and Leia spend a lot of time reacting to the events of ESB or preparing for RotJ. Except, unlike Wake, I can't assume that the audience knows the world that Our Heroes have been thrust into. So while Gambit has Plot A with Padme, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Rex, Plot B is already merrily rolling along and has been for some time; they walked into a world that was already fully formed and in the middle of a story that has nothing to do with them. (You could argue that the Quartet is actually Plot B and the Civil War is Plot A, but it doesn't really matter.) And that was something I really wanted to do, to make it clear that the world the Quartet had walked into wasn't their world, it wasn't their story; all of the things that are happening are happening without input from them. Eventually they do begin to have an impact on the larger scheme of events just because of where they are, but they're never going to be the main players because it's not their universe. They're just visiting.
Now, how large an impact...we'll see. *g*
Actually, the funny thing is that Gambit was never meant to be gen; I went in completely unsure whether I'd keep it gen or write the threesome in. This is one of the few times I'm hesitating over audience reaction, because I don't know if I can deal with someone seriously badmouthing Padme at me, which is...a fairly likely outcome if I end Chapter 7 on the scene in question. (I've already been told that Padme should get over herself and forgive Anakin for the events at the end of Wake. I've also been told that Anakin doesn't love Padme the way Vader does, which was...disturbing, considering the way that Vader treats Padme. FANDOM.)
She felt his heart pounding before he started to pull away, catching her lip lightly between his teeth. His gaze was hooded, unreadable, but his hand was still in her hair.
Padmé let her hands slide down from his face to his shoulders, to his arms, feeling the corded muscle there. His skin was warm beneath her palms, a line of scar tissue jarring against her fingers.
She leaned forward to kiss him again and he said, the syllables buzzing against her mouth, “Padmé. I can’t – Anakin –”
“Shh.” She pressed her lips lightly against his, feeling him sigh, then let go of him. His hand slid free of her hair, resting against her cheek for a moment. She felt serenity spread through her, feeling calm radiate out from that point of contact.
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Unrelated: Gambit is kind of interesting because, like Wake, it involves sliding one story inside another one -- Wake takes place between ESB and RotJ, and Luke and Leia spend a lot of time reacting to the events of ESB or preparing for RotJ. Except, unlike Wake, I can't assume that the audience knows the world that Our Heroes have been thrust into. So while Gambit has Plot A with Padme, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Rex, Plot B is already merrily rolling along and has been for some time; they walked into a world that was already fully formed and in the middle of a story that has nothing to do with them. (You could argue that the Quartet is actually Plot B and the Civil War is Plot A, but it doesn't really matter.) And that was something I really wanted to do, to make it clear that the world the Quartet had walked into wasn't their world, it wasn't their story; all of the things that are happening are happening without input from them. Eventually they do begin to have an impact on the larger scheme of events just because of where they are, but they're never going to be the main players because it's not their universe. They're just visiting.
Now, how large an impact...we'll see. *g*
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Date: 2014-04-03 04:56 pm (UTC)Do not let them get you down. You are doing faboo work.
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Date: 2014-04-08 01:23 am (UTC)