Lucretia fic
May. 26th, 2014 01:56 pmThe golden tigers are still nibbling at my brain something fierce, along with a half dozen other shifter-related things because they're my faves, but until I actually get anything grown from these seedlets, here's something that I wrote while writing SUE VS SUE and then forgot to post. It's a bit of backstory from the past of Lucretia and Ruthven, back before the latter gained that name and still carried his human moniker of Richard Thorne.
The Great Inferno is a canon event in AB-verse history. Dottie has pointed out why it doesn't really make much sense history-wise in terms of "all countries in Europe totally cooperated!" and stuff, so I decided to *make* it make sense in my headcanon by explaining it as ultimately being engineered by Mr. Oliver (meaning that mind-control by his vampire agents against the people in charge of all those countries can account for them doing things they ordinarily wouldn't). Why? The same reason he wanted to make vampires illegal again in CotD---there's getting to be too many and that causes numerous problems (riff raff in the ranks, consuming resources, etc.) So what better way to purge the unworthy predators than turn their prey on them?
This isn't mentioned in the fic itself, though, which is why I'm saying it here (though I'd like to explore this sort of thing further later, since I figure it's neither the first nor last time Oliver has stepped in to kill his people in order to save them---I see that sort of as his "role" in the Council) and the focus is instead on the aftermath concerning Lucretia's reaction to it. I wanted to get into how her mind works, since she's supposed to think in very non-human ways, and that's of course difficult for me to work out, being a human myself and all. What I pretty much get is that she approves utterly of Oliver's decision, if she feels anything at all, but at the same time, humans killed her brood and therefore must also be punished for it. Both are right. Both are just. This is contradictory to us because Oliver's decision is the same thing as what she's punishing (innocent) humans for, but to her it makes sense. The predators have to be reminded to stay in their place and neither over-populate nor grow stupid, and once the prey have weeded out those that deserved it, they must too be reminded not to get outside their own place
That's what I figure, anyway. You draw your own conclusions. Also, this was inspired by "Jeannette, Isabella" by Tori Amos. Because Christmas carols somehow translate into "flaming death and baby-eating vampires" for me, I guess.
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The Great Inferno is a canon event in AB-verse history. Dottie has pointed out why it doesn't really make much sense history-wise in terms of "all countries in Europe totally cooperated!" and stuff, so I decided to *make* it make sense in my headcanon by explaining it as ultimately being engineered by Mr. Oliver (meaning that mind-control by his vampire agents against the people in charge of all those countries can account for them doing things they ordinarily wouldn't). Why? The same reason he wanted to make vampires illegal again in CotD---there's getting to be too many and that causes numerous problems (riff raff in the ranks, consuming resources, etc.) So what better way to purge the unworthy predators than turn their prey on them?
This isn't mentioned in the fic itself, though, which is why I'm saying it here (though I'd like to explore this sort of thing further later, since I figure it's neither the first nor last time Oliver has stepped in to kill his people in order to save them---I see that sort of as his "role" in the Council) and the focus is instead on the aftermath concerning Lucretia's reaction to it. I wanted to get into how her mind works, since she's supposed to think in very non-human ways, and that's of course difficult for me to work out, being a human myself and all. What I pretty much get is that she approves utterly of Oliver's decision, if she feels anything at all, but at the same time, humans killed her brood and therefore must also be punished for it. Both are right. Both are just. This is contradictory to us because Oliver's decision is the same thing as what she's punishing (innocent) humans for, but to her it makes sense. The predators have to be reminded to stay in their place and neither over-populate nor grow stupid, and once the prey have weeded out those that deserved it, they must too be reminded not to get outside their own place
That's what I figure, anyway. You draw your own conclusions. Also, this was inspired by "Jeannette, Isabella" by Tori Amos. Because Christmas carols somehow translate into "flaming death and baby-eating vampires" for me, I guess.
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