But even so I feel like her actually starting the war is not something he'd suspect, and really something he needs to know about at least before they get married!
RIGHT! How... do you marry someone with a secret that large, that affects both of you, hanging over your heads?? After watching "Atonement," I was sure that it would come out at some point, and was shocked and dismayed when selenak told me it didn't. (I also was semi-spoiled at, hmm, the beginning of S4 or so that Lennier was going to Do Something at some point, and I was sure after Atonement that what he was going to do was tell Sheridan about Delenn starting the war, but was told that was not the case.) (While I kinda wish I hadn't got the Lennier semi-spoiler -- although it's hard to avoid them all when watching with a bunch of people who are rewatching, so it's of course fine -- the kind of spoiler where it's like "that ball was dropped" is okay, because I want to know when I shouldn't be expecting the narrative logic to work out!)
And it sometimes comes across like "ah well but the main thing is they're so much in love that none of the rest of this matters past the odd comedy misunderstanding!", which I get is supposed to be sweet but, er, is not really how people work. So in this AU I did like playing around with the idea of what would happen if you were trying to negotiate a very ritualised approach to marriage where you did actually have to negotiate as if it really mattered
YES! THIS! Love does not actually (by itself) conquer deep cultural differences, as it turns out! And I really like that in this AU they do have to negotiate and actually talk through their differences. (I will admit my headcanon was not that they'd have different rituals -- I sort of got the idea that the Religious Caste handled all that stuff, and while as another caste you might be agnostic to whether you really "needed" to do all those rituals, you sort of had that shared ritual background (like, in teh US, an individual non-religious couple might choose not to have a church wedding, but everyone kind of knows how it goes and a lot of people do have a church wedding anyway if they're not actively atheistic... that would be interesting too, thinking about Minbari atheists... but I digress). But I really dig your society with the way you've come up with ways they've diverged and there's a richness to it that I love a lot, and of course the great thing is that there are lots of ways to imagine Minbari society.)
ahhhhhh what is this how do I sign up?
:DD It's the Trick or Treat exchange, a fic exchange that runs around Halloween, allows any nominations (doesn't have to be rare fandoms like Yuletide -- which is why I'm taking advantage of it to ask for B5), 300-words minimum so a low commitment. Yes please come play!! :D If you sign up I'll definitely request Neroon/Delenn, and I may have talked selenak into requesting them also. (Though, uh. I will just warn you that if you request Neroon/Delenn and I end up writing for you, it's not going to be nearly as good and worldbuilding-y as your writing.)
Nominations actually have ended, but I've nominated a bunch of characters/ships from B5, including Neroon/Delenn, Neroon, Branmer (this is 100% your fault for writing about him so interestingly, I wouldn't have thought of it before reading your fic), Lennier/Delenn, and Lennier/Delenn/Sheridan. And some non-Minbari too -- Vir, Londo, Bester, Ivanova, in various combinations. And if you don't sign up you can treat, I'm just saying ;) (B5 isn't showing up in the tag set yet because mods haven't gotten to them.) Signups start on the 11th!
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RIGHT! How... do you marry someone with a secret that large, that affects both of you, hanging over your heads?? After watching "Atonement," I was sure that it would come out at some point, and was shocked and dismayed when
And it sometimes comes across like "ah well but the main thing is they're so much in love that none of the rest of this matters past the odd comedy misunderstanding!", which I get is supposed to be sweet but, er, is not really how people work. So in this AU I did like playing around with the idea of what would happen if you were trying to negotiate a very ritualised approach to marriage where you did actually have to negotiate as if it really mattered
YES! THIS! Love does not actually (by itself) conquer deep cultural differences, as it turns out! And I really like that in this AU they do have to negotiate and actually talk through their differences. (I will admit my headcanon was not that they'd have different rituals -- I sort of got the idea that the Religious Caste handled all that stuff, and while as another caste you might be agnostic to whether you really "needed" to do all those rituals, you sort of had that shared ritual background (like, in teh US, an individual non-religious couple might choose not to have a church wedding, but everyone kind of knows how it goes and a lot of people do have a church wedding anyway if they're not actively atheistic... that would be interesting too, thinking about Minbari atheists... but I digress). But I really dig your society with the way you've come up with ways they've diverged and there's a richness to it that I love a lot, and of course the great thing is that there are lots of ways to imagine Minbari society.)
ahhhhhh what is this how do I sign up?
:DD It's the Trick or Treat exchange, a fic exchange that runs around Halloween, allows any nominations (doesn't have to be rare fandoms like Yuletide -- which is why I'm taking advantage of it to ask for B5), 300-words minimum so a low commitment. Yes please come play!! :D If you sign up I'll definitely request Neroon/Delenn, and I may have talked
Nominations actually have ended, but I've nominated a bunch of characters/ships from B5, including Neroon/Delenn, Neroon, Branmer (this is 100% your fault for writing about him so interestingly, I wouldn't have thought of it before reading your fic), Lennier/Delenn, and Lennier/Delenn/Sheridan. And some non-Minbari too -- Vir, Londo, Bester, Ivanova, in various combinations. And if you don't sign up you can treat, I'm just saying ;) (B5 isn't showing up in the tag set yet because mods haven't gotten to them.) Signups start on the 11th!