IT is a truth universally acknowledged...

[lowkey]

... that any fic written while watching Pride and Prejudice MUST be better for it.

AMIRITE

Long story, short version: I want to write a Lightning/Hope scene for my time-traveling fixit fic*, and I have the 2005 version of P&P on my computer. CLEARLY THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE

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[lowkey]

* Given how often I reference this story -- officially entitled "Hope, or l'Optimisme" -- I really need to come up with some sort of shorthand way to talk about it.

Also, that awesome title is all danchekker's doing.

[mako_lies]

:D :D Pride and Prejudiced is AWESOME. :D

And that plus Light/Hope? Too much awesome for one post, methinks. :D

♥

[lowkey]

What if I told you that it's a timeline where Lightning is a journalist?!

(I know that doesn't sound really cool, but I really wanted to do something with Light that let her be an amazing and awesome character separate from her overt use of violence.)

[mako_lies]

:D :D I've actually imagined her as a journalist before. (Although she was a journalist in the Lois Lane model, with Snow in a superman role and Hope in the assistant role, XD)

Great minds...?

[lowkey]

Arrrggghhhh, Hope as Jimmy Olsen. That's so sad.

[mako_lies]

...But fitting? Y/N?

[lowkey]

My mind says "yes", but my heart says "that is so terribly sad."

Lightning as Lois Lane -- well, as Lois Lane should always be written: smart and sassy and a fantastic journalist and did I mention smart? -- is a fantastic fit, I'll give you that one.

[mako_lies]

Aha, yes, it is kind of sad. But maybe I'm just mean?

[lowkey]

We've established that you and I throw our characters into terrible situations. The difference is that I try to get them out, and you don't.

[mako_lies]

:D Hey, I recently let Lightning escape from a horrible situation and she gets home. All in one piece.

(Although, she finds out not long after she recovers that she's a L'Cie again, but y'know. Details.)

[lowkey]

You... you make a positively evil deity figure for these poor characters/

[mako_lies]

:D Well, okay, so she's not really a L'Cie. But she thinks she is. And so does everyone else.

[lowkey]

THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T DRINK AND GET TATOOS