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Only one SSSS fic that I'm actively working on at the moment, and that was prompted by the shipping thread - Sigrun is hurt, Tuuri acts on her crush and kisses her. Things go a little pear-shaped, although so far the focus is on team/character dynamics rather than shipping. I just started chapter three, from Reynir's POV, although I'm having trouble pinning his voice down. Opinions?

"I can't believe I did that! I can't believe she said - !"

In unhappy moments, Reynir thought, Tuuri resembled her cousin more than she was aware, or would be happy to admit, and blurting it out now wouldn't help her either. She wouldn't appreciate it, not when she was so despondent, crouched in the driver's seat and her hands on the wheel like driving away would solve anything. Worse, she'd think he was a terrible person for coming up with inane comparisons. Or not so inane ones. That only made it even more terrible.

Tuuri carried on, looking at him plaintively, and her voice rising into the same urgent, upset pitch she'd used with Lalli when he'd led them to run into that snowdrift, although of course Reynir hadn't understood a word, then. She was using Icelandic now, so she had to be talking to him. "I'm smart! Why didn't I wait? I meant to wait until we weren't in the field any longer! There's time!"

"I thought I was so smart, too, when I hid in that crate. And then it landed me here! I mean -" he could feel his thoughts faltering when she gave him another look, and now she definitely thought he was being stupid. He'd met good people, and Tuuri was one of them! At least she was usually nice to him!

" - I mean, it's not so bad now that I'm here, and I would have liked meeting you, but - in different circumstances. On Bornholm! That would have been nice!"

Hmmm! This fic sounds relevant to my interests. :D

Anyway. Reynir sounds pretty good to me - both sure and unsure of himself, thinking that other people will think he's said something stupid (and then putting his foot in his mouth some more) and so on.

I find writing him really tricky too. D: Good luck!

I'll try and continue it quickly! Don't want to post it yet because I have a terrible habit of abandoning WIPs or at least being glacially slow in updating them because there is so much else to write in the meantime, but if I finish it and all it takes is a beta and time to stick the chapters online, then maybe it'll actually get posted at some point. :)

Anyway, thank you! I think you just hit on a character trait that I seem to have picked up on without verbalizing it to myself, namely him being more sure of negativity... makes me wonder if there is more reason to his self-deprecation than just being the non-immune accident who's stuck at home with well-meaning but manipulative parents, or if that's something like a defense mechanism to stop them from actively babying him without having to be assertive in a positive way.

Time for another Reynir-centric reread, methinks! It's such fun writing in a canon with substantial characterization.

Edited 2016-03-23 02:22 (UTC)

makes me wonder if there is more reason to his self-deprecation than just being the non-immune accident who's stuck at home with well-meaning but manipulative parents, or if that's something like a defense mechanism to stop them from actively babying him without having to be assertive in a positive way.

You know, I never considered that, but now that you mention it... Hmm. Hmm. I might need to think about/explore this myself. Would say that I hope we'll some day receive an answer to this question, but I'm not entirely sure that we will.

I think he sounds alright! I guess, one thing that might help is putting in a bit of his motivation to tie his idea of help and his actual comment together? It'd be interesting to see the thought process that gets him to his....unique Reynir-style support. I'd be curious to know if he's trying to commiserate, or trying to assuage her worrying! Especially relative to how much deeper he can dig that hole he's got started!

That's a good idea! The chapter isn't very far done, but motives being obvious can't hurt, especially not with someone like Reynir who wears his heart on his sleeve. It's commiseration for the moment ~~because puppy mage has a crush on someone's brother and everything is terribly awkward~~... so, thank you! :)

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