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If you were new to the series and saw Delenn and Lennier in Meditations on the Abyss or Darkness Ascending, and you knew that one of them was supposed to be unrequitedly in love with the other, I don't think you'd guess Lennier.
Great way to put it. And it'd be a fun experiment to try sometime with a newbie.
But Lennier has always known who he is. He's who Delenn needs.
See, that (as you know from my fic) I can't agree with. He goes off in OaR saying he needs to find out who and what he is, because he's defined himself only in relation to Delenn. But I think he doesn't know who and what he is partly because Minbar doesn't know who and what it is.
And for both Sheridan and Delenn, Lennier needs to come back to make it happen. So maybe three is sacred after all.
And I hope it will go this way in your epic. It's really a challenge to write D/L in a way that respects J/D, and even more so to write it with all three of them together. You're very optimistic about Sheridan's abilities to accept Lennier, so it might be possible.
A few quick thoughts
If you were new to the series and saw Delenn and Lennier in Meditations on the Abyss or Darkness Ascending, and you knew that one of them was supposed to be unrequitedly in love with the other, I don't think you'd guess Lennier.
Great way to put it. And it'd be a fun experiment to try sometime with a newbie.
But Lennier has always known who he is. He's who Delenn needs.
See, that (as you know from my fic) I can't agree with. He goes off in OaR saying he needs to find out who and what he is, because he's defined himself only in relation to Delenn. But I think he doesn't know who and what he is partly because Minbar doesn't know who and what it is.
And for both Sheridan and Delenn, Lennier needs to come back to make it happen. So maybe three is sacred after all.
And I hope it will go this way in your epic. It's really a challenge to write D/L in a way that respects J/D, and even more so to write it with all three of them together. You're very optimistic about Sheridan's abilities to accept Lennier, so it might be possible.