[Fanfics] Missing Stages and Skipped Turns

[dende-sama.livejournal.com]

I'll start by saying, Happy Birthday, Guilford!! (October 19th is his Birthday, according to my Code Geass guidebook).
As such, both of these stories are Cornelia/Guilford, and both of them center around him. I know, I said I would branch out a bit, but seeing as these are birthday, fics, I thought I would make an exception. Also this is my OTP, I'm going to write it whenever I please.

Here are the next installments in my series of stories. I'm hoping that maybe not all the attention I got last time was for the plate.

Title: Missing Stages
Pairings: Cornelia/Guilford, Suzaku/Euphy, Schneizel/Kanon, Gino/Kallen, Tohdoh/Chiba, Lelouch/Shirley, Villetta/Ohgi, and recently I have begun to consider the possibility of Milly/Nina, but I am not sure on this yet.
Rating: T (may go up)
Most Recent Entry: Stage 0.03: Promotion.
Most Recent Entry Pairings: Cornelia/Guilford.
Most Recent Entry Summary: Guilford is offered a position in the Knights of the Round, set four years before the series (2013 a.t.b.).
Link: Here.

Title: Skipped Turns
Pairings: Cornelia/Guilford, Suzaku/Euphy, Schneizel/Kanon, Gino/Kallen, Tohdoh/Chiba, Lelouch/Shirley, Jeremiah/Sayoko, Villetta/Ohgi, and recently I have begun to consider the possibility of Milly/Nina, but I am not sure on this yet.
Rating: T (may go up)
Most Recent Entry Title: Turn 0.14: Day Off.
Most Recent Entry Pairings: Cornelia/Guilford.
Most Recent Entry Summary: Guilford recalls memories of Cornelia, Darlton, and Euphy while getting dressed to pretend to enjoy his day off from work.
Link: Here.

Also, please leave reviews at ff.net (I mean you can leave them here too, but I like to have all my feedback in one place)! Thank you so much!

Comments

[deknighted.livejournal.com]

Oh my god it's guilford's birthday.
time to make a rushed sketch tonight =w=

also, I read the first fic last night. There's some quirks to it that kind of made me eh, but I loved the fic anyway <3

[dende-sama.livejournal.com]

What? Out of curiosity? I know there were some typos, if that's what you mean. I realized when I was posting the new story, I had posted the unedited version, instead of the version I got back from my Beta, so I fixed that.

If you mean in terms of content, I'd love to discuss my reasoning in hopes of making it clearer.

[deknighted.livejournal.com]

well, it's more like how you characterized them. While it's pretty good, there were moments where I personally feel they went out of character (imo). I can't do it now since I'm kind of a little busy.

[dende-sama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I know what you're talking about. But keep in mind that this story is set four years before the start of the show. I actually had a lot of issues characterizing Cornelia's reaction to what happened, but I think I can basically explain it at this. From what I've seen of her in flashbacks to when she was younger (up until even Marianne's death when she was 20) Cornelia isn't really cold or distant. This has led me to believe that she is an affectionate person, who has been forced to hide that affection for the people she's closest to for a while. The process of training oneself to do that isn't an easy one (and maybe this is where I'm bias, as I've done this as well) and I think, especially when she was younger, she would have moments where she wasn't able to control her feelings as well.

Also, her reaction wasn't really done so there could be a touching hugging scene, as I don't really write that way. I tend to think of a general situation, and then the reactions of characters in them just kind of happen as I write. I was also a bit surprised by how that ended up happening, but when I went back and started to change it, I tried to think of why it happened in the first place and it made sense to me. This is a big deal, in Britannia, personal loyalty basically doesn't exist, and she was actually overwhelmed by the idea that his loyalty was to her over even the Empire itself. Also she has a pretty hardcore obsession with loyalty, as we see over the course of the show, so I feel like that also factors into it.

That being said, you're more than entitled to see it that way, and I certainly think that, had this event happened like two years or so later, it wouldn't have played out like this, and in fact it would have been much more formal/official etc. on both sides.

[deknighted.livejournal.com]

Oh, I suppose that works as well.

and uh lol, don't mind me, I just have a different idea of what young!Cornelia should be. I should have kind of respected your characterization of her as well, since I read it just earlier and it kind of sounds fitting now given the explanation you said.

that and if I was writing I probably couldn't maintain a character's personality at one point. Tsun tsun now, then suddenly dere dere at an inappropriate time. lol

so I'm sticking to fanart > u >;;;;