Here's a short part of a story I've thought out part of.
She leaned forward and clasped he upper lip between her lips. After a fulsome kiss she pulled her head down clasped it to her chest.
"I'm sorry I tried to rape you."
"I'm not sorry I tried to kill you. I enjoyed it" she said, kissing the top of her sister's head again. "I would have let you die if that male hadn't come in."
"Am I weak?"
"No. I'm stronger. As I should be."
"Maybe one day I'll be stronger."
She didn't say the implicit 'I hope not' as they both knew what that meant.
After a moment savouring the last of the oddly fearful expression on the male's upturned face she finally pushed the contorted corpse off the bed.
Free from the prying eyes of the deceased stranger, still staring at her, frozen in the moment he died, the Elf maiden returned he attention to her familial bedfellow.
The younger girl whimpered slightly under her touch.
"Don't do that" warned her older sister in a soft tone.
She replaced her whimper with a gentle groan.
"That's better." She grasped the white haired girl, wrapping her lags around her's and stroking her back with a lazy gentle motion.
"I'll never let anyone else hurt you."
I just wrote this while I was naked in bed. I wanted to do something that reconciled a love theme with the inherent malice of the Dark Elves. A story like this would never work in 40,000, the setting and the background of the character wouldn't allow for it, it's far too stern for any major characters to have any love interest without totally breaking background. But in a Fantasy setting it could work if it was properly handled because romance and fantasy have a long history and Fantasy is far more romantic than the dark, far-future of 40,000. Romance and sci-fi seems too corny.
The problem is writing a story from the perspective of the Dark Elves with them as the main protagonists is difficult if you want you characters to have emotional range and depth. Without positive emotions they're at risk of being one dimentional, but you have to temper that with the fact that these beings are fundamentally evil which is the reason people read this story. The writers of Malus Darkblade seem to have done a good job from what I've read, albeit within the confines of a pure adventure plot. Alith Anar (also hailing from Nagarythe) has love interests in his story. To counter the insidious viciousness that's overtaken the Dark Elves this takes place quite early in their history and is inspired by the characters of Hellebron and her sister in The Shadowking (although it's nothing like this, you'll never hear about Dark Elf sisters getting down to it in something that's Black Library approved, that's why this is fan fiction and I'm not seeking any sponsors.)
More personally this is my first trial of writing genuine fiction, with a proper narrative, dialogue and characters. I mostly just wrote descriptive prose, and while this is very enjoyable I felt like I wasn't a writer of the same type or the same calibre as the ones I read. I've also thought out a few other parts of the story, which crucially hinges on dialogue not all poetic description so at last I can become a proper writer.
There I've just spent more space writing about myself and storytelling and my actual story. I'm nothing if not introspective, but that will change soon when I start being more expansive in my writing.
It's a dark and frosty night. The moon is full and I walked across a graveyard. It's time to start my blog. This is principally a place to put up all my writing about Exalted. I'll also be writing short stories, prose poetry, bitching about what I think is wrong with the world (starting with this damn template) and anything else of interest. 19/1/11
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The first section is basically my take on Exalted. Right now I'm just copying up my notes so everything's very raw while I put down my ideas. I'll work on editing everything and making it more coherent later. As a result things will contradict the in game canon and even be self contradictory especially since not all my notes are copied in chronological order. They've been typed up without editing to remain as close as possible to my original vision.
The first section is basically my take on Exalted. Right now I'm just copying up my notes so everything's very raw while I put down my ideas. I'll work on editing everything and making it more coherent later. As a result things will contradict the in game canon and even be self contradictory especially since not all my notes are copied in chronological order. They've been typed up without editing to remain as close as possible to my original vision.