Okay, I say "my love" in rl. I confess. Usually not every other sentence though, unless I am being sarcastic. I can see Carth saying it. Malak...totally would say it. Canderous...no.
Point taken. Between you and Deej, I'm going to have to amend the "my love" rule to characters don't get to call each other "my love" every five seconds... You damn people... challanging my assumptions...sheesh! LOL :P
Re: sex and the romance. I dunno...I really do have this belief that sex, while great, is not the end-all be all culminating thnigie. There's no rule that says every culture in the Star Wars galaxy has hang ups about it either. Many may not. I picture the Fleet as kinda like Starship Troopers, or Peacekeepers in Farscape. People have sex. It passes the time. I suspect half the Padawans in the Jedi Temple were making out in the bushes in the Meditation Garden...they just didn't talk about it, because it was against the rules. Much like boarding school or summer camp.
Okay, now you need to write that, because I find the idea of the padawans making out in the meditation gardens so damn amusing, that someone needs to write it.
And I agree, sex doesn't have to be the culmination of two people's love for one another in a romance, or that every time they have sex, it should become the focal point of the story. Focusing too much on sex irritates me as well *cough*Laurell Hamilton*cough.* I've actually read romance novels where there is so much shagging going on that I get bored and start to skip past those parts.
I kind of figure it's going on between two lovers unless the author tells me otherwise. And if the author is telling me otherwise, when the two people are consenting adults with no real reason not to be doing the dirty, there better be a damn good reason.
You know, a bad cheating Morgana could be good. I thought about having them have an imperfect marriage, only to create a Morgana that would be in contrast to Pris's, who's pretty much canon. Decided against it though because I didn't want to suggest that moral fabrication that Revan is better than Morgana was. Because whatever Morgana did, obviously she didn't sack worlds.
I could see Morgana cheating on Carth, or a less than happy, rather bitchy version of her. I doubt that their marriage was perfect. Hell I know their marriage wasn't perfect, because nobody’s marriage is perfect. It's just that if people are going to try to attempt doing that, they need to be really careful not to pull the whole "Morgana was such a bitch, omg Revan is Carth's one true love" bit, and that would be really hard for most authors to do.
However, I think you could get away with doing the bitchy version of Morgana in your fic, because your version of Revan is hardly saintly herself, so I don't think that it would come across as Morgana wasn't worthy of Carth, but Revan is. Besides, you have a real knack for taking ideas that I would never try to make work, and making them work fantastically well, so I'm sure that it would come off the way you intend.
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Date: 2005-05-27 12:40 pm (UTC)Point taken. Between you and Deej, I'm going to have to amend the "my love" rule to characters don't get to call each other "my love" every five seconds... You damn people... challanging my assumptions...sheesh! LOL :P
Re: sex and the romance. I dunno...I really do have this belief that sex, while great, is not the end-all be all culminating thnigie. There's no rule that says every culture in the Star Wars galaxy has hang ups about it either. Many may not. I picture the Fleet as kinda like Starship Troopers, or Peacekeepers in Farscape. People have sex. It passes the time. I suspect half the Padawans in the Jedi Temple were making out in the bushes in the Meditation Garden...they just didn't talk about it, because it was against the rules. Much like boarding school or summer camp.
Okay, now you need to write that, because I find the idea of the padawans making out in the meditation gardens so damn amusing, that someone needs to write it.
And I agree, sex doesn't have to be the culmination of two people's love for one another in a romance, or that every time they have sex, it should become the focal point of the story. Focusing too much on sex irritates me as well *cough*Laurell Hamilton*cough.* I've actually read romance novels where there is so much shagging going on that I get bored and start to skip past those parts.
I kind of figure it's going on between two lovers unless the author tells me otherwise. And if the author is telling me otherwise, when the two people are consenting adults with no real reason not to be doing the dirty, there better be a damn good reason.
You know, a bad cheating Morgana could be good. I thought about having them have an imperfect marriage, only to create a Morgana that would be in contrast to Pris's, who's pretty much canon. Decided against it though because I didn't want to suggest that moral fabrication that Revan is better than Morgana was. Because whatever Morgana did, obviously she didn't sack worlds.
I could see Morgana cheating on Carth, or a less than happy, rather bitchy version of her. I doubt that their marriage was perfect. Hell I know their marriage wasn't perfect, because nobody’s marriage is perfect. It's just that if people are going to try to attempt doing that, they need to be really careful not to pull the whole "Morgana was such a bitch, omg Revan is Carth's one true love" bit, and that would be really hard for most authors to do.
However, I think you could get away with doing the bitchy version of Morgana in your fic, because your version of Revan is hardly saintly herself, so I don't think that it would come across as Morgana wasn't worthy of Carth, but Revan is. Besides, you have a real knack for taking ideas that I would never try to make work, and making them work fantastically well, so I'm sure that it would come off the way you intend.