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[Jan. 23] [Suikoden III] Dreamer
Title: Dreamer
Day/Theme: Jan. 23, 2014 "dance parties set to symphonies of social grace"
Series: Suikoden III
Character/Pairing: Sarah, Luc
Rating: G
For all the things that happened to Sarah in her homeland that she wished she could forget forever (but couldn't, alas, no matter how many better memories she acquired and tried to apply over the old trauma like so much whitewash to the Temple walls), there were a few that stuck that she didn't really mind. They were childish things really, foolish bits of stories she'd been told, all fairy stories and romantic fluff, but she clung to them anyway.
...the only disappointing part was she didn't feel she could comfortably share them with Master Luc. Maybe there wasn't anything all that innately Harmonian about pretty stories focused on balls and gowns and princesses (there weren't any princesses in Harmonia, nor had there ever been, for instance), but to Master Luc, everything from that land was tainted. Things had happened to him there that he still would not discuss. Sarah didn't press those points. She understood.
She wasn't sure about speaking about it outright to Lady Leknaat either, but obliquely the topic was broached, in the form of prettier dresses and shoes that were just as good for daily work around the tower, but just enough more reminiscent of dancing slippers to sate a young girl's imagination.
Eventually, Master Luc had to also be aware of her proclivities toward polished manners and refined events- aside from those related to her magic training, she preferred books that hewed in such a direction- but he never commented on it in more than a neutral manner.
(further on, the skills she cultivated through this reading would serve a greater purpose)
Day/Theme: Jan. 23, 2014 "dance parties set to symphonies of social grace"
Series: Suikoden III
Character/Pairing: Sarah, Luc
Rating: G
For all the things that happened to Sarah in her homeland that she wished she could forget forever (but couldn't, alas, no matter how many better memories she acquired and tried to apply over the old trauma like so much whitewash to the Temple walls), there were a few that stuck that she didn't really mind. They were childish things really, foolish bits of stories she'd been told, all fairy stories and romantic fluff, but she clung to them anyway.
...the only disappointing part was she didn't feel she could comfortably share them with Master Luc. Maybe there wasn't anything all that innately Harmonian about pretty stories focused on balls and gowns and princesses (there weren't any princesses in Harmonia, nor had there ever been, for instance), but to Master Luc, everything from that land was tainted. Things had happened to him there that he still would not discuss. Sarah didn't press those points. She understood.
She wasn't sure about speaking about it outright to Lady Leknaat either, but obliquely the topic was broached, in the form of prettier dresses and shoes that were just as good for daily work around the tower, but just enough more reminiscent of dancing slippers to sate a young girl's imagination.
Eventually, Master Luc had to also be aware of her proclivities toward polished manners and refined events- aside from those related to her magic training, she preferred books that hewed in such a direction- but he never commented on it in more than a neutral manner.
(further on, the skills she cultivated through this reading would serve a greater purpose)