Red Summer Sun #7, Ruby #13

[shadowsong26]

Name: shadowsong26
Story: Tempted
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Red Summer Sun #7. I'm not listening when you say "goodbye", Ruby #13. poisoned apple
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Fair Day Six: Second Stage), photography, miniature, canvas, modeling clay (what beast lurks), charcoal
Word Count: 100
Rating: R
Characters: Tana
Warnings: Tana; references to date rape/drugging people with the intent of having sex with them (nothing actually occurs, but the topic is discussed); referenced one-sided incest/incestuous desires, dehumanization (in this case specifically of mages). If I missed anything, please let me know.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always.


There are ways, Tana knows, to bind a man's heart and will that look like magic, but you don't need to be a freak to do it. Herbs, and rituals, and so on. Drugging your target, or finding some other ways to interfere with his perceptions. Compelling him, while still being human.

Not that she'd actually do it, of course. Kellom is too perfect to fall for it, and besides, she wants him to want her, not just need her.

But, oh, she thinks, watching him marry that timid, mousy, nothing girl, there are times when she is tempted.

Comments

[ilthit]

It's interesting she thinks of compelling his emotion rather than punishing the bride or changing herself, or compelling him in some other way. It shows she wants to be loved, not just to possess.

[shadowsong26]

Thank you!

Weeeeell, she would definitely be willing to punish the bride, if she thought she could get away with it. It's mostly that Tana has some very specific fantasies about Kellom, and they usually involve him choosing her--plus, she idealizes him to an enormous degree, so if he was compelled, it both wouldn't mean as much from an emotional standpoint, and also he wouldn't be the man she's obsessed with, if that makes sense? His marriage is an arranged one, and he's not romantically interested in his wife (or super emotionally invested in her in general, but that's a separate conversation), which is probably part of it. If he was, though, I'm pretty sure Tana would have gone after her.

[ilthit]

Idealization, oh dear. That's a tough one. It's not good for either party usually.

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, a very human emotion, really! And, being new, I like the little world-building details slipped in here.

[shadowsong26]

Thank you!

[bookblather]

Yikes, Tana. YIKES.

I love it when you write her, she's always so evil in a kinda great way.

[shadowsong26]

Thank you!

Tana is sometimes fun to write. In a horrifying way, of course, but still.

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[bookblather]

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