Snaring Light, by Elleth

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge:
067: AU Card: Identify a cultural artifact associated with a people you're interested in - how might a different history change its significance?, Femslash: Women of the House of Finwë
Format: Fic
Genre: Drabble, AU, Femslash
Rating: G
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Indis, Míriel, Fëanor
Pairings: Indis/Míriel(/Finwë), hinted
Summary: Young Fëanor requests a gift off his mothers. (Inspired by indy1776's A Kind of Poetry, but probably an AU to her AU.)


Snaring Light

Laughing, Indis looked into Fëanáro's bright, expectant eyes.

"Some hair from both our heads, love? That is no hardship." She snatched Míriel's silver scissors from the tangled workbox and saw her wife (the thought still gave her such delightful thrills) nod assent without ever looking up from her swiftly-moving needles.

The gold and silver strands clutched firmly in his hand, Fëanáro forestalled the inevitable questions, dashing away. Míriel briefly rested her embroidery, smiling after her son. "I heard him boast to Finwë this morning that the Mingling would see him snare the light. We seem to be part of it."

Comments

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

A prequel of sorts, as well as a reason for his later thrice repeated request to Artanis for a hair of hers?

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Of sorts! He has gold and silver hair available here, so perhaps he won't have to ask Artanis later. I've left this deliberately open-ended, who knows how the scenario might play out? :)

[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

It's so... odd... to see Fëanor without his neuroses. The Míriel-Indis partnership has really shifted the ground that will build up Fëanor, and the consequences of that are potentially vast. I hope you'll be able to write more in this universe - I would love to see you or Indy redo Fëanor's whole history, with both Míriel and Indis as active, positive forces in his development.

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

The Míriel-Indis partnership has really shifted the ground that will build up Fëanor, and the consequences of that are potentially vast.

They are. It was quite odd to imagine him as a happy, contented child while writing, and if you consider the many variables to the original story here, you get more than just one of the proverbial butterflies beating its wings... but I do like to think that the future will play out in a far brighter way, and who knows - there must be some prompts that will still lend themselves to the idea. :)

[independence1776]

I'm glad you want more! The fic I want to focus on in the last half of the month is the "triad-is-revealed" story, but I haven't decided how the Darkening and the events leading up to it are handled. (I need to talk to Elleth about that!) But they'll be brighter. A lot brighter.

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

*high-pitched squeeing!* :D

(You need to talk to me about that? It's still your 'verse, Indy, you don't have to ask me anything - I only wrote this in the first place because you'd given me the OK for playing in it... *adds some flail to the squee* - unless it's in terms of betaing/sounding board, in which case, of course. I didn't mean to imply that I'd wanted to hijack anything.)

[independence1776]

Yes, a sounding board… and maybe as a co-author if you're up to it. No need to worry about hijacking anything; I pretty much gave you free rein! :D

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

*squeak!* Not sure I'm up to it, but I'd like to try!

My morning? Made. :D

[independence1776]

:D

[engarian.livejournal.com]

I love seeing Feanor as a craftsperson who is simply content, not driven.

- Erulisse (one L)

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

I'm glad. :) Although I can still see him being driven even when content - just by different impulses.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Well, we are all driven by these prompts, yet there is driven and there is DRIVEN. - LOL.

- Erulisse (one L)

[independence1776]

*flails* This is what I get for avoiding the comm for a couple of days, missing this wonderful, gorgeous fic.

AU? Nah. This fits perfectly. I love it. Absolutely love it.

*flails some more*

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

*flails, likewise!* As I said to Pande earlier, there's no need to rush. The stories aren't going anywhere. :)

Even though my Míriel has silver hair and yours seems to be dark-haired? Hence the AU to yours, for the most part, even though I'm glad it fits your vision! ^^

[independence1776]

I was tagging, and this pretty much derailed that. :D

Even though my Míriel has silver hair and yours seems to be dark-haired?

I was actually going to change that (eventually)! Somewhere in Oshun's bio is a description that her hair is silver.

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

I was tagging, and this pretty much derailed that. :D
I'm sorry. XD

Silver hair and dark eyes, I think the description says. It's in the Later Quenta somewhere. :)