"How are you thinking of managing it? I had a thought - because it'll probably have to be some sort of magical object, perhaps that gift that Temeraire picks out for Laurence from among his mother's hoard? It could be a giant pearl, because Temeraire remembered that story told in canon about the human who was turned into a dragon by swallowing a pearl, only IT ACTUALLY IS THAT PEARL or something?" I was thinking a forced transformation thanks to Lien, but using the pearl would be quite nice. Maybe the hired cook that they lost.
I have not at ALL settled on a timeline. I want to start it much, much closer to England, to not be reinventing the wheel by writing the entire cross-Asian journey with an extra dragon.
"...And in this situation, of course, Temeraire could have the actual guilt of being the cause of his captain's distressful situation, and Laurence, KNOWING THIS, tries to act less miserable than he actually is, and, well, misunderstandings all around? Until someone like Jane smacks some sense into them both? (Because there are still a limited number of human beings in the world who would physically assault a dragon. Jane is one of the rare few.)"
Jane would beat a dragon into submission without breaking a sweat, easy, because she'd Look at them as she did it. Temeraire would feel terrible, and Laurence would try even harder to not show that he's at all upset, and it would take Jane AND Granby to sort it out again. (Granby hasn't been able to fix it. He takes the matter to Jane, and is quite mortified to break his captain's confidence.)
Wikis are fun, fun things to have around.
"The wiki does a good job at breaking down all of the breeds, with images, known members of the breed, etc. Be warned, though, because there will be spoilers on this site. Not on the page for this particular dragon breed, though. It only has a brief blurb on common tactics used by the French to disguise them because of their value." Fine with me, I can skim around suspicious-looking spoilers.
"The advantage of the Flamme-de-Gloire is that they are yellow (and Laurence is blond?) so there's a similarity there... and I'm sure you can just wave your hand and make his eyes blue. ;)" Laurence is quite blond, and I love him enough to put blue on a yellow dragon. (Blue and yellow are the colors of rather despised university rivals. My uni has green and white.)
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Date: 2011-02-27 11:54 pm (UTC)I have not at ALL settled on a timeline. I want to start it much, much closer to England, to not be reinventing the wheel by writing the entire cross-Asian journey with an extra dragon.
"...And in this situation, of course, Temeraire could have the actual guilt of being the cause of his captain's distressful situation, and Laurence, KNOWING THIS, tries to act less miserable than he actually is, and, well, misunderstandings all around? Until someone like Jane smacks some sense into them both? (Because there are still a limited number of human beings in the world who would physically assault a dragon. Jane is one of the rare few.)"
Jane would beat a dragon into submission without breaking a sweat, easy, because she'd Look at them as she did it. Temeraire would feel terrible, and Laurence would try even harder to not show that he's at all upset, and it would take Jane AND Granby to sort it out again. (Granby hasn't been able to fix it. He takes the matter to Jane, and is quite mortified to break his captain's confidence.)
Wikis are fun, fun things to have around.
"The wiki does a good job at breaking down all of the breeds, with images, known members of the breed, etc. Be warned, though, because there will be spoilers on this site. Not on the page for this particular dragon breed, though. It only has a brief blurb on common tactics used by the French to disguise them because of their value." Fine with me, I can skim around suspicious-looking spoilers.
"The advantage of the Flamme-de-Gloire is that they are yellow (and Laurence is blond?) so there's a similarity there... and I'm sure you can just wave your hand and make his eyes blue. ;)" Laurence is quite blond, and I love him enough to put blue on a yellow dragon. (Blue and yellow are the colors of rather despised university rivals. My uni has green and white.)