Erk. Firefly? I've only ever seen bits and pieces (partly because I'm still sulking from another sci-fi show that got cancelled after one season many fandoms ago), but I know the pain. *offers completely uninformed sympathies*
That is so absolutely Delenn, and even years later the arrogance of that thought utterly escapes her.
Yep. I'd rewatched Legacies before writing this, and I think that's what she does with Branmer as well - her grief condenses into this cold "that's mine!" attitude about him. It's one of the things I still find most disturbing about her character, that there isn't really any line drawn between her faith in how the universe should be and her reliance on all the people she loves being exactly what she needs them to be.
I'll forgive her, and let her go on lying and cheating and 'forgetting' to mention the most important facts of her life to the people who have the most right to know them as long as it means that Lennier can be alive and that he can keep his vow to her.
Lennier would really approve. (Well, first he'd challenge you to denn'sha for saying bad things about Delenn, but *afterwards* he'd approve ;) I can't think of any other character I'd accept this from, either, and it still baffles me that this pairing doesn't squick me beyond belief. (And that I can write the equivalent of "she does bad things because she ordered genocide in the past, so it's okay!") She's far more deceived about the reality of the situation than he ever is, and I think it would bother me a whole lot more if that was the other way round. (Although maybe not, since it doesn't here with Sheridan.) Maybe because what she needs from Lennier is so simple in a way - to be Minbari and to love her. Not that any of this would stop me finding this squicky as hell if it was any characters other than them.
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Erk. Firefly? I've only ever seen bits and pieces (partly because I'm still sulking from another sci-fi show that got cancelled after one season many fandoms ago), but I know the pain. *offers completely uninformed sympathies*
That is so absolutely Delenn, and even years later the arrogance of that thought utterly escapes her.
Yep. I'd rewatched Legacies before writing this, and I think that's what she does with Branmer as well - her grief condenses into this cold "that's mine!" attitude about him. It's one of the things I still find most disturbing about her character, that there isn't really any line drawn between her faith in how the universe should be and her reliance on all the people she loves being exactly what she needs them to be.
I'll forgive her, and let her go on lying and cheating and 'forgetting' to mention the most important facts of her life to the people who have the most right to know them as long as it means that Lennier can be alive and that he can keep his vow to her.
Lennier would really approve. (Well, first he'd challenge you to denn'sha for saying bad things about Delenn, but *afterwards* he'd approve ;) I can't think of any other character I'd accept this from, either, and it still baffles me that this pairing doesn't squick me beyond belief. (And that I can write the equivalent of "she does bad things because she ordered genocide in the past, so it's okay!") She's far more deceived about the reality of the situation than he ever is, and I think it would bother me a whole lot more if that was the other way round. (Although maybe not, since it doesn't here with Sheridan.) Maybe because what she needs from Lennier is so simple in a way - to be Minbari and to love her. Not that any of this would stop me finding this squicky as hell if it was any characters other than them.