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[Promethean] Hell Hath a Fury
Jul. 4th, 2008 09:21 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
badgersandjam.livejournal.comI've been resisting writing Widow's origin story because it was conceived of by ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rebel_wulf. But he's my ST and he said "write it," so I have. It's to fairly set parameters, those being 1. Her Creator dies as she awakens; 2. Her creator is her soulmate, and thus she loses her soul (or most of it) when he dies; 3. the incident made her call herself Widow and 4. the incident means she has devoted her life to the Stannum refinement (called "Furies," hence the title), rather than the little time most Prommies spend in that refinement.
I have entirely invented the Creator, and those who see an homage to a certain character as writ by a Somerville graduate who was later lauded for her translation of Dante (to wit, D.L.Sayers) are not imagining things, as the ending makes clear. There are one or two lines taken virtually verbatim. The epigraph is Lord Byron, who is quoted elsewhere as well; the Creator speaks Othello's epitaph with his own.
Anyhow, here it is. I will probably take it down tomorrow as I realise how drastically it needs spannering, but most of you are at zg tomorrow, and I'm frivolling, so here it is for now.
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rebel_wulf. But he's my ST and he said "write it," so I have. It's to fairly set parameters, those being 1. Her Creator dies as she awakens; 2. Her creator is her soulmate, and thus she loses her soul (or most of it) when he dies; 3. the incident made her call herself Widow and 4. the incident means she has devoted her life to the Stannum refinement (called "Furies," hence the title), rather than the little time most Prommies spend in that refinement.I have entirely invented the Creator, and those who see an homage to a certain character as writ by a Somerville graduate who was later lauded for her translation of Dante (to wit, D.L.Sayers) are not imagining things, as the ending makes clear. There are one or two lines taken virtually verbatim. The epigraph is Lord Byron, who is quoted elsewhere as well; the Creator speaks Othello's epitaph with his own.
Anyhow, here it is. I will probably take it down tomorrow as I realise how drastically it needs spannering, but most of you are at zg tomorrow, and I'm frivolling, so here it is for now.
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( Hell Hath a Fury )
