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Bonus Interlude Tyranny 6.0: Spider's Loom (Patreon)

Published:
2018-06-06 03:27:28
Imported:
2023-10

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You know, I actually didn't think this one was gonna clear 3k? I thought for sure that this would be the shortest chapter I've ever written for Essence. Then, I got done with the final section at the end and was pleasantly surprised to find I was at 3300 words.

Anyway. Nothing too exciting happened, here. Some background for what the girls got up to during the weekend, and some more interaction with reasonable!Carol Dallon. 

The main thing is the introduction of Arachne. It was interesting to see what everyone was thinking on the thread, and I admit to having a bit of a chuckle when everyone thought it would be the return of spider silk costumes.

Who knows? Maybe it will be, later on. For now, though, it's just a cloak.

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Secular Reason

Maybe it's just a pet peeve so feel free to ignore it - but I always hate when characters who don't smoke suddenly are smokers. Like, I don't mind characters who smoke - but when they don't originally and then do just because? That always bugs me.

James_D_Fawkes
>>12955065

I think Amy's a smoker in canon? I've seen it a lot in fanfics, and my editor didn't correct me, so I assumed she was in canon, too. On the other hand, even if it isn't, I like the idea that she would be. Just the image it makes in my head of various nurses and orderlies who work beside Amy smuggling her cigarettes on their breaks. Which is not to say I approve of the habit, just that it kinda fits the image I have of Amy. Someone who does it not because it's cool or anything, but because it helps her deal with stress.

Secular Reason
>>12955065

Like I said it's a pet peeve and frankly a minor one. As for whether Amy smokes, I don't remember it in my readthrough of WORM; but then I didn't finish the entire thing either, stopping a bit before the breakout or release (I don't even know which it was) from the birdcage. I read up to Amy going in though. Basically it's not a problem with smoking itself, but how it gets shown? Introduced? Added to the character? I read a Buffy fanfiction once where she and Faith ended up getting together, and Faith smoked which though not shown in the show was very much in line with her character. Anyway the relationship got pretty deep, and eventually they broke up, with Faith leaving for reasons Buffy couldn't understand at the time. When Faith left, Buffy ended up picking up a pack of cigarettes Faith had left behind, and smoking them. Something she'd always tried to break Faith out of, and ended up becoming a smoker after that. Ironically enough, after a "years later" interlude when the two met again, Buffy was a constant smoker of Faith's old cigarettes, while Faith had quit the habit. It was the only story I'd ever read Buffy become a smoker in where I didn't mind it. Because it was a thing I could envision happening. It wasn't just "and she took a drag" for no other reason than the author wanting her to be a smoker, without sufficently introducing the change. Going from being a smoker to a non-smoker, or the reverse, tends to be a major change in a person's life. Well, unless it's a kid just giving in to some peer pressure. What I mean is that the change (if it is one - again I didn't completely finish WORM but up to her time in the Birdcage I don't recall Amy smoking so it's possible she picked it up after? Which would make some sense actually) seemed to lack context. It seemed arbitrary rather than in character. Not to criticize your view of the character - we all have our own internal views of them after all - it just is a personal quirk and I knew I could vent about it. And again, I may indeed be misremembering, or maybe she smoked all along and it wasn't revealed until after the Birdcage, I don't know.

James_D_Fawkes
>>12955065

As for how canon it is, I have no idea. I'm great at putting those small, subtle touches into a story, but I'm fairly lousy at noticing them in others', most of the time. In Essence, though, this was actually outright stated at one point in arc 5 and implied throughout the arc prior to Taylor narrating what was basically "some of the stuff she'd learned about Amy through their conversations." It's really subtle, though, hand movements Amy makes when she's nervous that Taylor notices but doesn't understand what they signify. It's really easy to miss, especially on your first readthrough.