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Post by boosette on Apr 13, 2009 0:55:42 GMT 10
Title: Conté Blue Rating: G/K Prompt: #1, Color Summary: Lianokami hates being exoticized. Kindly let me know I if I'm being a racially insensitive twerp so I can change my behavior/delivery in the future.* Lianokami looks like her mother. She is gold in a pallid sea of faces, her eyes like writing charcoal where they should be Conté blue. They should share the tone of her Gift, like her father and cousins. "You're such a pretty thing, like a doll," her nursemaid says, eyes hazel and hair blonde and skin tanned. Tan is fashionable in the Eastern lands now. She asks for a new maid but doesn't say why, feeling silly. Lianokami is ten when she goes to Carthak and meets Empress Kalasin's children, brown skin and brown eyes. Conté blue Gift, like her. *
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anilaurel
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Post by anilaurel on Apr 13, 2009 2:34:32 GMT 10
That is so sweet, it's wierd not looking like her family (maybe she looks like the milkman ) If I write a fic about that I'm dead. Again that was really good, I like how her nieces and nephews look like her.
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Post by Lisa on Apr 13, 2009 5:03:33 GMT 10
My god, this is the kind of drabble that needed to be written. I love that she's an outsider and finds herself with other outsiders with the same common inside thread. I love it!!
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opalgirl
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Post by opalgirl on Apr 13, 2009 9:27:20 GMT 10
Insensitive?
That's pretty much what a child (when they're of an age to be aware) would think - "I'm different from everybody else."
Poor kid. You've really captured the sweet/sad line.
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Post by Katty on Apr 14, 2009 14:34:10 GMT 10
I love this so much It really makes me feel for Lianokami!
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Post by k4writer02 on Apr 15, 2009 12:09:53 GMT 10
I like the hint at the relationship between Lianokami and her Carthaki cousins, that moment of commonality. You did a good job portraying the strange feeling of being exoticized and how uncomfortable that is for shy Roald's little girl.
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Post by Mirage on Apr 16, 2009 12:28:38 GMT 10
"Tan is fashionable in the Eastern lands now."
Hard to put into words how much I love this line [the word screaming out at me is ironic, but my mind has to find a concrete reason why...]
Lovely drabble~
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