Dramatic question

[kenaz]

So.... is it better to kill off the completely inconvenient wife who is only evident in canon because her son wasn't hatched from an egg, or have her Go West, somewhat petulantly? Trying to not to entirely demonizing a non-character, while also not wanting to be overly sympathetic, and leave slashy husband some leeway for technical infidelity without making him a total cad.

Talk amongst yourselves.

File under: #fanficproblems; #loomingdeadlines; #ohshitnotdoneyet

Comments

[ysilme]

because everyone would just be frolicking away with their partner behind closed doors while publicly being appropriately married!)
*g*

I also prefer to leave canon couples as they are, or write a relationship into another time, like before or after the actual or supposed canon relationship. My personal solution might look like the easy way out, which is a same-sex relationship being also morally well possible despite a het marriage or relationship (could be also threesome or poly, but not necessarily so, particularly not when the het partner is not present for whatever reason), provided the first partner is consensual. Since this leans toward my personal preferences, it's not an easy way out for me, although I well understand it might be for other people.
For your couple, I see the desire to make the wife less sympathetic; I would feel the same. I also think this would work in this situation. Like if he was kind of left behind deliberately, and probably needs to fear that their marriage might not just easily be rekindled once they meet again in the West, who would begrudge him some comfort and company until then?

(On a side note, I find the concept rather difficult to wrap my mind around, that an elf whose partner has left for the West, for whatever rightful reason, might be expected to be alone for yéni until they meet again. Sounds as illogical and impossible to live through to me as the whole part about elven sex in That Document.... ;o) )

[kenazfiction.livejournal.com]

LOL! I have always regarded LaCE as an anthropological study by the grad student Aelfwine about a race he didn't understand, and he misinterpreted a lot of what they told him, but he needed to finish his thesis, so he just handed it in and faked the footnotes. ;)

[ysilme]

Haha, perfect solution! :D

[aglarien1.livejournal.com]

Ha! Love it.