Chapter Eighteen Notes
Ananda: Sorry for plunging everyone into yet another complicated conflict...but don't worry, this one I don't think you'll need to remember at all for future reference, so.. *g* And I was *not* trying to cop off of Laurel's test at all, I really wasn't! I mean nothing by use of different skin colours in Ananda's test, just that I'd realised all our characters so far, good and bad, were white. (Or, at least, weren't specified, really..) I personally have no issue with skin colour, not at all, and neither do any of the others (ehm, unless there's summat you guys haven't told me..). It's primarily just coincidence that all of our characters've been white, we don't mean anything by it. But in the case of R'thay, I just pictured a black woman, I don't know why, probably some unconscious Martin Luther King Jr-thing..(dude, I *did* have that abbreviated guys, but I CAN'T now..*glare*) ...and I didn't want it to be whites beating on blacks again, thus the Kn-tôc are not white. But the whole test there was kind of inspired by Gandhi, I think, we saw the movie on him in Global History sophomore year, there was a scene, I'm assuming based on an actual incident, where there's just this column of people, led by Gandhi?, shoulder to shoulder, advancing on these soldiers, who just gun them down "in cold blood".. but the people just kept coming.. incredible. Seeing the movie, I was just like, whoa, how could anyone *do* that, that amount of courage just amazes me... as does the seeming conscience-less act of the soldiers there.. I've also been reading a Salman Rushdie book again, so I'm somewhat-set in an India mindset anyway.. and I also just like deserts. (Long story there..)
Laurel: Dang, 'Nanda, just when I think my writing's gone well, you sail in and show me just how pitiful it really is. *g* I loved your descriptions of Ananda's pain, fear, etc., as twisted as that may sound--I did not even come close to doing that well in Daphne's test--I had the facts (well, the storyline), I had the Rojane psychology...but still I missed so much--I never pictured Daphne crying, as I'm sure she would have; never went into details about the actual torture--so much there could have been to tell beyond the facts... So good, 'Nanda. ...Now hurry up and get Myki's test up so I can read Zinni's chapter and start thinking about how I can test D'rai! *g*Yeah, but Laur...it was your last bit that blew me away, inspired me to try an' write something nearly as good..! But thank you. :) See, I can do the whole stream-of-conscious thing, I can do thoughts and all...I just sometimes have trouble with things like, oh, say, plot? Basic structure? And just maybe grammar? *g* (..I'm also running out of adjectives lately...the fanfic I'm working on is draining me!)