"...That idea you have for Jane and Laurence. ;_; TRAGIC. Gah. Please write it." I really wish I could draw it. She's out there with him for hours on end and neither has said a word, and finally she asks if it would be wrong to suggest that they can fly together. Excidium has already promised to not be jealous, and she'd rather not deal with the rest of the covert for a while. This story is turning LONG, but if I really wanted drama, then Jane is rather unexpectedly pregnant. (Again.) She would have told him if she'd stopped the herbs, but it seems that the last batch the aviator women bought up was ineffective. I'm not sure if that would be too much of a distraction, but it would take Jane out of the picture for a while in a way that battles alone couldn't. (Their kid eventually would end up on Temeraire, I think, quite happy to be Flight Officer or whatever title they like-- in charge of the men aboard the dragon and yelling the signals.)
Laurence sketches out adaptations to the battle plans with his claws in soft earth. His suggestions are MUCH better now that he can see for himself where the weak points develop.
"Oh yes. I imagine he has some dragony instincts but still thinks a LOT like the human he used to be and so sometimes the two sets of instincts don't really combine well. ;)" Oh yes. It takes half of forever for him to work out the dragon instincts for attraction--Temeraire is the only dragon he could ever feel that way about, and he wastes a few minutes fussing over ethics before realizing that Tem has NEVER had an issue with knowing what he wants.
"Also, now they HAVE to bring a Chinese cook along because there's NO WAY that Laurence will eat raw meat." I think it becomes necessary, at least once. It's harder than almost anything else--harder than missing thumbs, not as hard as losing Jane utterly. Granby would wipe him down personally, hang anybody that tried to help, and promise that Laurence is the most unnaturally neat dragon he's ever met. (At that point, all are quite used to Tem entirely curling around Laurence at night, and no one ventures close enough to eavesdrop when Tem's up at least two hours talking like Laurence used to do.) The crew is rather terrible cooks, but several manage to learn so that they can occasionally convince the Chinese fellow to cook for one so that Laurence can have a proper English meal.
It might even happen in China, just for the full "what do we do now?" effect, maybe as they're leaving. Lien could swing it, I think, and she's exactly the type of character to think that's a reasonable option to "the emperor adopted that creature? I'll show THEM."
"The only other fic I've read with dragon!Laurence (which was, admittedly, a dream sequence) had Laurence as a Flamme-de-Gloire because of his French ancestry. (In this one scribbled fic outline I wrote which involved dragon!Laurence I made him a Flamme-de-Gloire, too, because that involved additional misunderstandings in people thinking he was on the other side. Oh wait, come to think of it... I actually wrote out quite a bit of that one! ... Unfortunately, I can't send it to you yet because it contains spoilers of books three through five. >_> ) But yeah, I think that it would make more sense to have him be some sort of French or British dragon if you want his new body to reflect the old."
Any details I should know about Flamme-de-Gloire? I need to read through a second time for details, there's a whole lot to remember in this series. I'd like a midweight, definitely, and it would be nice if I had a shot at keeping Laurence's eyes and maybe a lighter tone--there's not much dark on or in the man.
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Date: 2011-02-27 11:05 pm (UTC)Laurence sketches out adaptations to the battle plans with his claws in soft earth. His suggestions are MUCH better now that he can see for himself where the weak points develop.
"Oh yes. I imagine he has some dragony instincts but still thinks a LOT like the human he used to be and so sometimes the two sets of instincts don't really combine well. ;)" Oh yes. It takes half of forever for him to work out the dragon instincts for attraction--Temeraire is the only dragon he could ever feel that way about, and he wastes a few minutes fussing over ethics before realizing that Tem has NEVER had an issue with knowing what he wants.
"Also, now they HAVE to bring a Chinese cook along because there's NO WAY that Laurence will eat raw meat." I think it becomes necessary, at least once. It's harder than almost anything else--harder than missing thumbs, not as hard as losing Jane utterly. Granby would wipe him down personally, hang anybody that tried to help, and promise that Laurence is the most unnaturally neat dragon he's ever met. (At that point, all are quite used to Tem entirely curling around Laurence at night, and no one ventures close enough to eavesdrop when Tem's up at least two hours talking like Laurence used to do.) The crew is rather terrible cooks, but several manage to learn so that they can occasionally convince the Chinese fellow to cook for one so that Laurence can have a proper English meal.
It might even happen in China, just for the full "what do we do now?" effect, maybe as they're leaving. Lien could swing it, I think, and she's exactly the type of character to think that's a reasonable option to "the emperor adopted that creature? I'll show THEM."
"The only other fic I've read with dragon!Laurence (which was, admittedly, a dream sequence) had Laurence as a Flamme-de-Gloire because of his French ancestry. (In this one scribbled fic outline I wrote which involved dragon!Laurence I made him a Flamme-de-Gloire, too, because that involved additional misunderstandings in people thinking he was on the other side. Oh wait, come to think of it... I actually wrote out quite a bit of that one! ... Unfortunately, I can't send it to you yet because it contains spoilers of books three through five. >_> ) But yeah, I think that it would make more sense to have him be some sort of French or British dragon if you want his new body to reflect the old."
Any details I should know about Flamme-de-Gloire? I need to read through a second time for details, there's a whole lot to remember in this series. I'd like a midweight, definitely, and it would be nice if I had a shot at keeping Laurence's eyes and maybe a lighter tone--there's not much dark on or in the man.