@mortsix said:
1. You're back! : ) 2. I just inhaled all the parts of this AU and it's, ugh, so good. Really like the worldbuilding (loads of great visceral detail), and the interplay between the characters is fascinating. This is such an interesting episode of Jarlaxle interacting with an alternate version of Vierna who's still fanatical but much more cunning and icily collected than she was in canon.
I'm back-ish. For a number of reasons (which mostly boil down, weirdly enough, to my mental/emotional health being pretty good) I've been having difficulty focusing on FR stuff. This kills me, because there's a handful of fantastic-looking fics out there (including yours!) that I really badly want to read but can't muster the focus for because I'm too distracted. My interests tend to be cyclical, so hopefully the cycle will bring me back to FR sooner rather than later. In the meantime, I can clean up some of my mostly-done stuff and see if it accelerates the process.
This particular fic has been about two sentences away from completion for months. ladyzwei reblogged a list of my WIPs, which reminded me about it. (WIP #3 on that list is also 99% done. I'm planning to give it another pass of edits tonight after gaming, then post that one too.) If anyone out there is wondering how to get me to write, I am highly, HIGHLY susceptible to flattery and peer pressure.
I’m so glad you like it! The space opera setting has been a lot of fun to play with. I can't remember why the drow are creepy bioengineers, so it's probably the fault of either cohabbitation or Lois McMaster Bujold. (Menzoberranzan is has a non-zero amount of overlap with Jackson’s Hole.)
Vierna fascinates me because she's one of those characters who could have been glorious if she hadn't gotten stuck in RAS' mold of female antagonists being "crazy." She's the last of her family (other than Dinin), dealing with a fall from power and a smirch on the family name, trying to regain everything she once had. She was (if we can trust Drizzt's childhood memories) the least vicious of her house, which means we can trust her to make the smart choice instead of the stupidly evil one, and she's willing to look past prejudices and assumptions to make the best use of the tools she's given, as evidenced by the fact that she's the one who sent Jarlaxle to recruit Entreri. She has a lot of potential to be a ruthlessly smart, pragmatic player in power politics, and I would love to see what would have happened if she had returned victorious from the capture mission in Legacy, because she'd be simultaneously working with/threatening Matron Baenre. (It also doesn't hurt that I crack-ship her with Sharlotta Vespers because Reasons.)
