#spitefic

A Double 5+1

Five Times Lucanis Was Stupid and One Time He Was Not

Or

Five Times Spite Got To Speak and One Time Lucanis Did

and I am upset. I have three gigantic complaints, all of them relating to the women in Rieka's life. I feel I should give a warning since I will be talking at the sexual assault mentioned in the book

•Reika's mom: this character literally has no name and it's HEAVILY implied to have been raped by Blaine (the big bad guy). By not giving her a name, the reader is meant to understand that this character doesn't matter, and we shouldn't care about her (I think that goes without saying). I don't have a problem with rape in media, but the way it's handled in this book is simply disgusting. When Rieka's parentage is discussed, Avia wonders if Blaine assaulted their mom, and no other character offers any other possible explanation. For all the characters know, the encounter could have been 100% consensual but no one even attempts to offer any other explanation. This is the author letting us know that the assault is actually what happened. I struggle to understand why Audra Winter would have the villain rape the only unnamed female character who is important to the plot. I struggle to understand what she wanted to communicate. I am BAFFLED that I haven't seen ANYONE on ANY PLATFORM talk about this.

•Avia: Avia only exists to be bullied; she will make reasonable comments ("If you had told me about this earlier, I could have done something about it") and everyone, including characters who have just met her, will ask her to shut the fuck up and to stop being such a gigantic bitch. Avia can be curt and insulting at times, but she overall reads as the voice of reason who no one wants to hear; as an older sister who genuinely cares about her younger sister but also deals with emotions she was never taught how to deal with by other means other than roughness. I honestly hope that Audra doesn't have an older sister. I'm not even joking.

•Kaia: Avia's biggest bully is Kaia. Whereas the nameless mother only exists to be source of trauma for Rieka vía her constant chastising and disappointment, Kaia only exists to be a surrogate mother to Rieka vía "comforting" and "giving permission" to Rieka to express herself... which the prose expresses as being a bitch at anything Avia says. That's the entire extend of her character. Kaia is the only person of color in the entire book, and I'm baffled at how bad her character is handled.

I first read this book while intoxicated and skipping through the boring bits, and it was fun to read like that. I wrote the first chapters of my spitefic from what I remembered on that first reading

now I'm just insulted. I have other complaints but nothing that compares to the level of disgustingness I've already commented on

now that I'm done with the book, I will keep writing my stupid spitefic because I honestly feel these characters were not done justice in the book

I can't promise these characters will be pleasant or even good people, but they will at least be realized characters. at the bare minimum, they will have a lot more going on than whatever Audra Winters gave them or I'll die trying (#AviaDidNothingWrong)

I have now exited my torture chamber, my friends, my acquaintances, my fanfic rivals (lol), and I am off to greener pastures

I will be dropping a new chapter today or tomorrow, for those who care (thank you for caring, by the way, it does mean a lot)

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Original Work, The Age of Scorpius - Audra Winter Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Rieka Spring & Avia Phelan Characters: Rieka Spring, Avia Phelan Additional Tags: Spitefic, Rewrite, Fix-It of Sorts, Science Fiction, Far Future, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Original Universe, Alien Biology, if you like Adrian Tchaikovsky you might enjoy this, Or not, the original text was unacceptable, Sisters, Sibling Love, Canon Rewrite, Worldbuilding, i can't believe i had to fix this shit Summary:

I wrote a fic. I made it a cheesy romcom that I enjoyed writing about, but she ended up liking it too (cuz she peeked like the little CHEATER she is) so now it no longer works as a spite fic since shes very excited. >:( So I wrote smth else to vent my emotions into love fics, but since she likes both (her greed sickens me) I am now left with two unfinished spite fics with no one spited except me >:((

(she got excited about me writing again. :/ , ty but still)

to all those clar fans on my sis's blog, (hi she talks abt you guys fondly, ty for being her friends)

You're an average twenty-first-century woman armed with plot spoilers

You start out reincarnated as a child slave, you're looking forward to years of abuse, forced labour, and rape at the hands of your slave owners/kidnappers

You're also going to give birth to your rapist's child with no or minimal medical treatment, hooray, at least you'll survive as per the plot spoilers

You finally escape your owner, run into the Emperor, he's your only chance to leave slavery

Congratulations! You're part of the royal court as the Emperor's mistress now ... but you're in a nest of vipers with your only resources being the Emperor's feelings for you and your knowledge of the plot spoilers

Also your owners have your firstborn child and are going to blackmail you as much as they can

You can try not to antagonise the Empress, but she's never going to like you because you're sleeping with her husband

You're probably mad at the Emperor and Empress and you have every reason to be - they're the politically powerful leaders of this horrible slave society!

Your fantasy at this point is probably a people's revolution where both Emperor and Empress get the guillotine and slavery gets outlawed, but you're a normal twenty-first-century person, you probably don't know how to organise one of those things

You might be able to use plot spoilers, recommend the Emperor do policies that counter the secret conquest plans of the neighbouring empire, except your power depends on the Emperor viewing you as brainless and compliant, so this might not go the way you hope

Since you're now the main character there's a chance the male lead, the other Emperor, will get attracted to you, but you offer him zero political benefits so he's not going to marry you

You'll give birth to your second child, the Emperor believes it's his but it's the wrong gender for what he wants in an heir

At least you'll get the best of period available midwifery this time, hope your doctor remembers to wash his hands

You're not going to have another child with the Emperor, he's infertile, so good luck organising a discreet affair with another man, it will probably get you killed if the Emperor finds out

Your best chance is probably ask the Emperor to marry you off to some rich and tolerant nobleman, this was done in RL history to royal mistresses

Now you're married and permanently free from slavery, hopefully you can pay a final ransom to your former owners to get custody of your firstborn child and send him somewhere safe

You might get really lucky and have a son with your husband that the Emperor believes is his, but probably you don't even want to go through childbirth again

Hopefully retire to a luxury life with your husband, join or create a local abolitionist society and support it with your wealth

Fifth up: beautiful scars on critical veins.

Welcome to the stage Mal! The fully-fleshed out lesbian version of the character with her trauma fully explored. While my other Descendants fics in my AU series definitely critiqued Auradon and the fucked up system that these characters live in, this one actually shows some of the efforts that the Islanders take to take on the system. Also angry magical lesbians. Best of both worlds.

Excerpt:

Mal knows the power of protection, of using everything at your disposal to save your gang.

The instance Mal gets to Auradon, she constructs wards. Her magic festers, blisters, crackles its invisible way across those she seeks to protect. It glows blue over Evie, burns gold over Jay, shines silver over Carlos. She weaves wards of protection against bloodshed, drowning out any violence and ill-intent aimed at the ones she loves.

Her magic has always hungered to be used, and in this way she gives it an outlet.

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Every fairytale has a Faery, a princess, a witch. It has True Love and True Evil, a hero and a villain. It always ends with the Faery destroyed, the witch devoured by flames, and the princess living happily-ever-after.

What happens when the Faery decides they don't want to be devoured?

Future ???