i just finished re-reading the hunters initiative trilogy as a complete piece (lovely long read on a french beach), and it's still so good. i have some questions if you're up for it, about what Mogar did when he destroyed the Bifrost (or tried?) and what Narvaroth's motivations were when having sex with Captain America. Wanted to say anyway, i love it a lot still.
Oh god, I'm glad it still stands up. I always get worried when I go back to look at OFN. I don't think the quality differential is too high, but it always worries me, nonetheless. Like, why the fuck did I write OFN in present tense? WHY.
The Bifrost thing is explained when you put Narvaroth and Michael's stories together. Basically, Mogar's job was to defeat any invaders into the realm. He was NOT allowed to venture outside the realm because his powers were so great, they were considered the amaranthine equivalent of the nuclear option. But Narvaroth cajoled Mogar into going and meeting an amassing attack force on the enemy's end of the Bifrost so they could take them out before they were ready to strike. They went through and started hammering on the Bifrost gate on that side, which would strand the enemy there. And the Burning King felt that happening and that's how Mogar got banished. For reckless short-sightedness.
The Narvaroth-Ryan thing is complicated. Narvaroth is disgusted by humans in general, but Ryan is... yanno, Ryan. If he wasn't so easily led astray, he would have been a good partner in crime for Narvaroth. So if there is any human that Narvaroth "likes" (too strong of a word), it's Ryan.
What Narvaroth was trying to do in that chapter was deal with his suffocating envy of Michael and Gavin. He was trying to egg up Ryan. It didn't work, though, because as Michael said: he (and by extension Narvaroth) are pretty young by amaranthine standards. They shouldn't be able to produce eggs. Michael was able to because he's adapted to Earth willingly and thus the sympathetic biology effect has sped up his metabolism/lifespan to more closely match Gavin's.
The entire point of that scene was to show that Narvaroth was still a fucking child. He wasn't able to do what Michael did because he's not grown up, he refuses to adapt to his new planet, and so he's not advanced to the stage Michael has.
I hope that explains that!
