Fic: Lynx Part 3 - Revelations

[vilakins]

I used the picowrimo challenge last month to write the third part of my Lynx story, also known as The Big PGP. My thanks as ever go to my excellent beta-reader, astrogirl2. The story is on my site's fiction page, with the previous two parts in the series, and I should also load it onto the Hip Deep in Heroes archive. I'll probably get round to that tomorrow.

Lynx Part 1 - Rescues
Lynx Part 2 - Recovery
Lynx Part 3 - Revelations

There are two more parts to come. Sorry I'm so slow with this; I'm just not as prolific as some of you.

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I've been looking forward to this ever since Pico. And it's very gratifying to find that it isn't at all what I expected! There's much less of Avon and hardly any of Carnell, and really, it's a love story (although a love story that happens more in the spaces in between events than in the events themselves). I predict that Soolin's sister will be recued and her memories recovered, but at the moment I'm relishing the pain of Soolin's having found her, only for her to seem more lost than ever.

I do like your Soolin. She gets some wonderful lines ("I seem to be attached to another man"). And I like the way she does nothing to let Vila know her she feels - it seems to me very in character that her utter self-reliance, her refusal to show any weakness, actually makes her life harder because it prevents her from admitting how she feels.

My favourite bit, though, was the exchange about the troopers' underwear :-) That was marvellously unexpected (although come to think of it, underwear is a sort of Vila leitmotif. I remember him speculating on what everyone wore on the Liberator, not to mention his family motto!).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The next part deals with Soolin's sister--and another mission. I pretty much had the skeleton of these stories, along with complete scenes, in my head since around 2003, as a new fan. Yes, it's been years in the making. :-P

At the end of part 2, they were both unwilling to let on how they felt in case they were rejected or hurt, or damaged their friendship. Something like this had to happen to shock admissions out of them both. I also think Soolin needs someone warm who also understands the bad stuff she's been through, and of course Vila needs someone more sensible and less impulsive than himself.

The trooper's underwear was there from the beginning, years ago. I don't know; these story sometimes just play out like internal films which I have to write down. But yes, there was a running underwear motif in Vila's E-mails, started by his mother's concern that it was clean in case he was captured.