omg this is amazing and I love it! Ngl, when selenak pointed me to your fic I was like, umm, eye_of_the_cat needs to write this AU because it would be amazing... and then you already had! :DDDD
Also I love the plot point in your AU where Sheridan breaks up with Delenn. I could not believe that we found out Delenn started the war and then she just... never... told Sheridan... and that was okay??
“Wouldn’t you?” she says, and regrets it the instant she’s spoken, not because it insults him - although it does - but because he wouldn’t and they both know it. “I apologise,” she says. “That was unfair.”
“Yes, it was.” He looks down at his hands. “But I suppose I’ve not behaved much better. All right. In the common cause that we both share, in recognition that this must be made to work somehow even if it kills us both in the process - can we begin this conversation again?”
GOSH I love your Delenn and Neroon so much. I love how they both want this to work so much and... yet... it's just a LOT. For both of them. Totally expectedly, and they're both very strong personalities, and there's a sense in which I felt like the way JMS dealt with that in Delenn/Sheridan is by sort of papering it over by just being like, well, guess they don't really understand each other because cultural differences, or Sheridan just gives in to Delenn or vice versa without them talking through it at all. Which won't work with Delenn and Neroon because it means something in their culture.
And also I love that Neroon really wouldn't, and Delenn really does understand that.
The poems talked about wanting this to last forever. The poems were not written with her in mind.
lolololol <333333 Oh Neroon, oh Delenn. I love how baffled and pragmatic he is <3
I just love your worldbuilding and all the different rituals and how the rituals are different for the different castes, and how the warrior caste has POETRY! and how the castes really do kind of make themselves into these separate worlds. It's just great.
just so you know I am requesting Neroon and probably Branmer and maybe Delenn/Neroon for ToT
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Also I love the plot point in your AU where Sheridan breaks up with Delenn. I could not believe that we found out Delenn started the war and then she just... never... told Sheridan... and that was okay??
“Wouldn’t you?” she says, and regrets it the instant she’s spoken, not because it insults him - although it does - but because he wouldn’t and they both know it. “I apologise,” she says. “That was unfair.”
“Yes, it was.” He looks down at his hands. “But I suppose I’ve not behaved much better. All right. In the common cause that we both share, in recognition that this must be made to work somehow even if it kills us both in the process - can we begin this conversation again?”
GOSH I love your Delenn and Neroon so much. I love how they both want this to work so much and... yet... it's just a LOT. For both of them. Totally expectedly, and they're both very strong personalities, and there's a sense in which I felt like the way JMS dealt with that in Delenn/Sheridan is by sort of papering it over by just being like, well, guess they don't really understand each other because cultural differences, or Sheridan just gives in to Delenn or vice versa without them talking through it at all. Which won't work with Delenn and Neroon because it means something in their culture.
And also I love that Neroon really wouldn't, and Delenn really does understand that.
The poems talked about wanting this to last forever. The poems were not written with her in mind.
lolololol <333333 Oh Neroon, oh Delenn. I love how baffled and pragmatic he is <3
I just love your worldbuilding and all the different rituals and how the rituals are different for the different castes, and how the warrior caste has POETRY! and how the castes really do kind of make themselves into these separate worlds. It's just great.
just so you know I am requesting Neroon and probably Branmer and maybe Delenn/Neroon for ToT