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With the posting of my latest story, I have officially shared over 10,000 words of fic on AO3 about Tamora Pierce's Tortall series. (I'm not even counting the snippets in the knight and mage AU tag on my Tumblr.) And, with one exception at this time, all of those stories either focus upon or reference one particular pairing.
When I started listening to the Tortall Recall podcast back in April, I thought that I was in for a sometimes nostalgic, sometimes critical look back at books that I had adored as a preteen... and I was right. What I did not expect was that a tangent about the series villain and his squire would inspire me to churn out one ficlet, let alone a full dozen to date, about their spectacularly dysfunctional relationship.
However, given my fondness for characters who have twisted relationships with authority figures, sometimes involving mind control (which Pierce never makes explicit but is strongly implied), I can't say that I was entirely surprised.
When I started listening to the Tortall Recall podcast back in April, I thought that I was in for a sometimes nostalgic, sometimes critical look back at books that I had adored as a preteen... and I was right. What I did not expect was that a tangent about the series villain and his squire would inspire me to churn out one ficlet, let alone a full dozen to date, about their spectacularly dysfunctional relationship.
However, given my fondness for characters who have twisted relationships with authority figures, sometimes involving mind control (which Pierce never makes explicit but is strongly implied), I can't say that I was entirely surprised.
