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1. I can't believe Delenn went from 'Kill them all!' to 'We should not hurt these poor people' overnight. Her story as we see it in Atonement (which is, presumably, how she remembers things) seems like an attempt to lessen what she did. It's giving her responsibility for that one order only, and then blaming everybody else (literally - it's too late to stop things because everyone on Minbar has now gone mad with grief and rage, etc) for everything that happened afterwards.
I think she did a lot more than give that one order. (If not, then what exactly was she doing for the next two years? Standing quietly in the background while the rest of the Grey Council, including the ones who actually voted against the war, ran things?) Only in In the Beginning, it really does seem like she regrets her decision, and then the message the Vorlons give her from Dukhat would strengthen that. I don't want to outright contradict canon in my fic, but if this is the official canon version of events, it just seems confusing anyway, and... oh, I don't know.
2. I had a vague idea for Lennier's past, and why he was raised in a temple when he did have family (well, at least until the war), which would involve his family giving him to the temple as a child. There's still parts of it I can't get to make sense (how much would he have known his family? why would he have been trained as a diplomat if he was intended to stay in that temple for the rest of his life?), but I'm getting there. So I watched that scene from The Quality of Mercy again.
What he actually says is, "From birth, I was raised in the temple and studied the ways of the religious caste." From birth? It would work fine if he'd said 'from childhood' or something, but it seems strange that his family would have just handed over a newborn. Sigh. Back to the drawing board, maybe.
I think she did a lot more than give that one order. (If not, then what exactly was she doing for the next two years? Standing quietly in the background while the rest of the Grey Council, including the ones who actually voted against the war, ran things?) Only in In the Beginning, it really does seem like she regrets her decision, and then the message the Vorlons give her from Dukhat would strengthen that. I don't want to outright contradict canon in my fic, but if this is the official canon version of events, it just seems confusing anyway, and... oh, I don't know.
2. I had a vague idea for Lennier's past, and why he was raised in a temple when he did have family (well, at least until the war), which would involve his family giving him to the temple as a child. There's still parts of it I can't get to make sense (how much would he have known his family? why would he have been trained as a diplomat if he was intended to stay in that temple for the rest of his life?), but I'm getting there. So I watched that scene from The Quality of Mercy again.
What he actually says is, "From birth, I was raised in the temple and studied the ways of the religious caste." From birth? It would work fine if he'd said 'from childhood' or something, but it seems strange that his family would have just handed over a newborn. Sigh. Back to the drawing board, maybe.
