I also love Varice (now that I’m an adult, that is - I was more ambivalent about her when I originally read the books as a teenager).
Would you mind explaining why you tend to steer clear of the immortals quartet? Apologies if you’ve done this at some point and I missed it at the time!
I don't mind at all! It's not some kind of deep moral reason or anything, I love the books as much as I love any of the other series in Tortall, it's just that I don't tend to write or read things based around the characters so much.
For the reading, it's that from what I've run across, the fandom and I tend to have different focuses on what we're interested in with the characters--I've not read a ton of Daine/Numair fic, but while there's nothing wrong with what I've read, it's largely simply not really to my taste. I have read and loved many Maura-based fics (thank you rain_sleet_snow for your service) and some other odd Immortals-based stories, but the larger part of that part of the fandom just isn't so much my jam.
As for writing, I just feel like I don't have the characters or the genre down! The Immortals quartet has such a big epic fantasy style scope, with world-shaking impacts, and I'm more comfortable in the lower fantasy of the Kel books or the higher-but-differently-toned Alanna books. That mixed with me feeling like I don't really have a Daine or Numair voice that works yet means that I just focus my attention on other characters.















