UM. If Jane only knew what "a lemon" meant in fandom-culture XDDD. ... bwahahahahaha. >:D
am so glad you like the humour/angst thing. I have an unfortunate addiction to making people laugh only for the OH NO taste to be nicely contrasted. mmm. >:D
The Ivan Gets A Wolf story is complete! It's not very long. It was intended as a prequel to Miles Gets A Wolf, tho, and that one I have not started yet. I don't know how to handle it. Padma Volkpatril the Third is a male though. Alas. Cordelia has a wolf! He's named Adrian, contrary to the convention of naming wolves after your patriarchs and matriarchs. Aral's wolf is Petya because that's a diminutime of Piotr. Cordelia was NOT naming both her wolf and her son Miles, tho, tyvm. >___> I think Vor women who have wolves are somewhat rare because they're not encouraged to develop the spirit that would fit a wolf, and also because if they bond they're not encouraged to be let out in public.
I think Serg didn't have a wolf, which is pretty rare for a reigning monarch. Only one in five to seven Vor have one in the general population, and no wolf wanted him. Gregor thought it was very important that he bond to signify he did have a warrior's/leader's spirit and also once he knew about his dad to prove he wasn't like him, but for the longest time he didn't bond no matter how many cubs were presented to him and he was pretty stealthy emo about it. ;____; He eventually rebonded to a middle aged queen wolf who had belonged to a count who recently died, so he gets the experienced matriarch angle more than the "young, foolish bitch in heat" somewhat bad rep. i mean it's understood that it happens to some people but for the emperor, especially since he didn't bond during his teenage years, people would have taken it as a point of gossip. whereas being chosen by a settled, mature queen means he's mature and yet will care for his people. (also his queen was from someone from the Vordarian family so it was seen as a sign of forgiveness, but really that was an accident. XDD wolves don't care about what happened twenty years ago.)
I think the only reason Alys doesn't have a wolf is that she doesn't hang around cubs much. XD I think in my 'verse her husband didn't have one, i forget what i decided, but it would have been executed with him or even *before* him, so it wouldn't try to defend him. If i had time for a massive divergence, the wolf changing the events somehow would make for a really awesome fic SO PLEASE DO THINK ABOUT WRITING IT :D :D :D :D we could brainstorm even if you don't end up writing anything, how do you see events going? (oh dear lord, Cordelia bonding during THAT book as well, holy shit. ... WHAT IF SHE GOT ALYS' HUSBAND'S WOLF. hahaha or even Vordarian... no he wouldn't forgive that. HMM. :D)
XD Dave is a jerk, but a secretly nice one really.
... :DDDDDDDDDDDDD HI. you sneaky person you. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
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... bwahahahahaha. >:D
am so glad you like the humour/angst thing. I have an unfortunate addiction to making people laugh only for the OH NO taste to be nicely contrasted. mmm. >:D
The Ivan Gets A Wolf story is complete! It's not very long. It was intended as a prequel to Miles Gets A Wolf, tho, and that one I have not started yet. I don't know how to handle it. Padma Volkpatril the Third is a male though. Alas. Cordelia has a wolf! He's named Adrian, contrary to the convention of naming wolves after your patriarchs and matriarchs. Aral's wolf is Petya because that's a diminutime of Piotr. Cordelia was NOT naming both her wolf and her son Miles, tho, tyvm. >___> I think Vor women who have wolves are somewhat rare because they're not encouraged to develop the spirit that would fit a wolf, and also because if they bond they're not encouraged to be let out in public.
I think Serg didn't have a wolf, which is pretty rare for a reigning monarch. Only one in five to seven Vor have one in the general population, and no wolf wanted him. Gregor thought it was very important that he bond to signify he did have a warrior's/leader's spirit and also once he knew about his dad to prove he wasn't like him, but for the longest time he didn't bond no matter how many cubs were presented to him and he was pretty stealthy emo about it. ;____; He eventually rebonded to a middle aged queen wolf who had belonged to a count who recently died, so he gets the experienced matriarch angle more than the "young, foolish bitch in heat" somewhat bad rep. i mean it's understood that it happens to some people but for the emperor, especially since he didn't bond during his teenage years, people would have taken it as a point of gossip. whereas being chosen by a settled, mature queen means he's mature and yet will care for his people. (also his queen was from someone from the Vordarian family so it was seen as a sign of forgiveness, but really that was an accident. XDD wolves don't care about what happened twenty years ago.)
I think the only reason Alys doesn't have a wolf is that she doesn't hang around cubs much. XD I think in my 'verse her husband didn't have one, i forget what i decided, but it would have been executed with him or even *before* him, so it wouldn't try to defend him. If i had time for a massive divergence, the wolf changing the events somehow would make for a really awesome fic SO PLEASE DO THINK ABOUT WRITING IT :D :D :D :D we could brainstorm even if you don't end up writing anything, how do you see events going? (oh dear lord, Cordelia bonding during THAT book as well, holy shit. ... WHAT IF SHE GOT ALYS' HUSBAND'S WOLF. hahaha or even Vordarian... no he wouldn't forgive that. HMM. :D)
XD Dave is a jerk, but a secretly nice one really.
... :DDDDDDDDDDDDD HI. you sneaky person you. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥