ext_61530 ([identity profile] eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] eye_of_a_cat 2005-09-19 02:43 pm (UTC)

Thank you! This was the story whose ending I couldn't work out - I wanted it to end without her finding him, but with some kind of conclusion. (The happy alternative, of course, would have been for that to be Lennier in the last scene, and them for him to turn out to be alive. But that wouldn't work so well with the rest of the fic.)

It's this chain of destruction going on from teacher to student. Delenn didn't begin it, and she can't end it.

I'm really glad that part worked. It seems to be B5 fanon that Dukhat's relationship with Delenn was ideal, so it's Lennier's fault things went wrong the second time around, and, um, really? I can't imagine Vir starting a genocidal war if someone killed Londo.

I don't think I know where Lennier is either. (In an earlier draft Vir gave the impression that he might do, but on reflection I think Delenn would have seen that and got it out of him somehow.) Hopefully not trying to get himself killed... It's the same kind of problem as with the happy resolution, that it's difficult to see any way it could be conclusive whether they were apart or together. I think you'd need to be as good at revisionism as Delenn is to make it work either way.

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