[identity profile] lilliburlero.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] trennels
I'm just about to write a post-canon Merricks' Twelfth Night party (2 years on from that in Peter's Room.), and I'm making some POV decisions. From whose viewpoint would you like to see the party, and why? Peter's been packed off to Selby's for the Christmas hols, sorry, I had to limit the cast a bit. The only definite decision so far is a staff POV (probably Mrs Bertie 'helping out', as she's much better characterised than Nellie). I can't promise everything will make it into the finished fic, but I'll try and write a ficbit for everything suggested.

Date: 2014-02-06 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thekumquat.livejournal.com
Mrs Marlow, Ann, Patrick.
Struggling to come up with better reasons than "just because" - I think because Nicola, Lawrie and Ginty's motivations and thoughts are more obvious and explored in the series. Ditto Kay and to a lesser extent Rowan. And suspect there might have been a big rift or at least awkwardness between Ann and others after the Run Away Home finale hoo-ha.

Date: 2014-02-06 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
Now I'm having a vision of Ann calmly cutting off her family as she did her guide badges. She's as ruthless as the rest of them, her sisters just don't see it because it isn't over the same things.

Hmm. Now I'm thinking about it, I think Mrs Marlowe is wrong about imagining adult Ann not having an easy life because she's sacrificing herself nursing, and instead seeing her as leading campaigns for reasonable working hours because you can only nurse effectively if you have preserved your own health first.

Date: 2014-02-06 08:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] hooloovoo_42
How about Rose and Charles? Are they old enough to be invited yet? Even if they had to go early, it would be interesting to see their take on things.

Date: 2014-02-06 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com
Miranda. (She's staying with the Marlows for part of the hols. I doubt if Nicola still fits The Disaster, but it might be amusing if she did.)

Date: 2014-02-06 09:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-redboots.livejournal.com
Are you going with the semi-canon of Ginty' s having run away to Ireland and Ann's having run away, too, to check on her, which is what we know AF had planned for them both? Is Patrick at uni, or has he decided not to go? If not, what I'd he doing with himself?

I think Rowan' s take on this would be interesting.

Date: 2014-02-06 10:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nnozomi.livejournal.com
If you have a staff viewpoint in mind, maybe Doris helping out as well as/instead of Mrs. Bertie? Closer in age to the Marlows junior, she might have interesting observations to make also...
Looking forward to the fic, anyway.

Date: 2014-02-06 11:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thekumquat.livejournal.com
I can see Ann pushing off to a friend's, but still being Good Sister and sending letters regularly, and Nicola reading excerpts wondering if Ann actually intended to sound that snippy...

Patrick - yes!
If done Right.

Date: 2014-02-07 10:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antisoppist.livejournal.com
In a family brought up in the traditions of the Service, self-immolation in the call of duty is what you are supposed to do. Karen is at it as well (in my head canon she is using Edwin and his poor motherless children as a safe excuse to run away from Oxford), not to mention poor Peter at Dartmouth, though at 13 he doesn't have much choice.

I do wonder how Rowan rationalises the bit where Giles, or their father, is going to come back and run the lot at some point. Does she see it only as a short-term stop-gap sacrifice? Though at the time, she doesn't see it as a sacrifice, she sees it as a practical solution all round and thinks she can cope with it because she is used to coping.

Date: 2014-02-07 11:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antisoppist.livejournal.com
I'd like Rose too, hating every minute (is there a Merrick library somewhere she can slope off and hide in?) and would look forward to a very cross Fob.

I was thinking about Doris POV as dressmaker to the gentry. I hope they bloody pay her extra.

Date: 2014-02-07 05:02 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coughingbear
I'm another vote for Rowan.

And I'd be curious to see inside Mrs Merrick's head some time, and how far it matches the outside.

Date: 2014-02-07 10:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] hooloovoo_42
Thank you :-)

Date: 2014-02-08 08:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charverz.livejournal.com
Library. Mightn't the Merrick house have a priest-hole? Just the place for a young lady to find accidentally and get stuck in.

The Merricks don't even give it a thought anymore

Date: 2014-02-08 09:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charverz.livejournal.com
There probably aren't many priest-holes in literature. Anthony Price's The Labyrinth Makers is one.

Michael

Date: 2014-02-09 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antisoppist.livejournal.com
My own family background is a farm. I remember my little sister worrying who was going to take it over "because one of us has got to" when she was about nine, and ours has only been in the family since 1920 rather than before Alfred.

Rowan is more confident and competent than Karen and Karen resents Rowan being better at dealing with fusses than she is but Rowan isn't academic and taking over the farm and leaving school is a way of not having to compete with Karen on that score. After which it must be particularly infuriating to have Karen chuck Oxford and turn up doing her own self-sacrificing step-mother bit on the doorstep.

Date: 2014-02-09 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antisoppist.livejournal.com
Ooh thank you!

Date: 2014-02-14 12:20 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coughingbear
Thank you! Lovely exchange with Ginty.

Poor Rose.

Date: 2014-02-16 03:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-redboots.livejournal.com
Thanks! Great excerpts.

Date: 2014-02-16 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-redboots.livejournal.com
I may write Ginty-in-Ireland; I've written some of it in my head.

Date: 2014-02-19 08:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charverz.livejournal.com
That smacks a little of Harriet Vane when Lord Peter takes her to Duke's Denver. Although I know yours will have more drama to it.

Michael

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