Allow me to be the first to say ARGH

[xparrot]

Should have been studying for tomorrow's Japanese final last night - I've managed to forget more kanji this semester than I'd ever learned before - but instead I was poking at fic, readying a new chapter for upload. Only to discover upon attempting to post that ff.net's doc manager is currently refusing all documents - gives me a random error message when I try to upload. Is this just me, or is everyone feeling the hate?

Anyway, on the off-chance someone from ff.net pops over to my lj, here's chapter 6 of "Legally Insane". Mokuba torture, Kaiba angst, all that good stuff. Though geeze...it was supposed to be like a 20 page story, it's now 45 pages and counting. Have I mentioned I'm having far too much fun with this fic? What can I say, unrepentant h/c'er here - the classic 'loved one gets abducted, big brother proceeds to completely lose his mind', it never gets old!

edit: Ah-hah! Works now. The old "bitch about it to others" trick, never fails!

edit the second: Next page NOW plzkthx! Presumed dead! *squeal* (Benjamin/Caprice = absolute OTP, yo!)

Comments

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yay, another MoS fan!! Heh, yeah, this just has to push Ben over. Even if they hadn't already set it up, something does...it's like Chekhov's gun, you're not allowed to have a one-time mad scientist that everyone worries about a relapse in a story, unless he actually does snap!
...and they're going on holiday break after next comic. Noooooo~~!!! I have a very bad feeling about their threatened cliffhanger...

and hee, glad you're enjoying the fic! ^__^

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can guess what the cliffhanger's going to be... *wibble*

I'm also wondering how Caprice will adjust (or not) to having her link severed. It's interesting that the one thing about her which really hampered her relationship with Benjamin has now been removed (the link) ... and now she's catatonic and Ben's about to go crazy. Is this a case of "be careful what you wish for"?

I wonder if what Haas did to her is reversible. Actually, if there's anyone who could reconnect her link, it's probably MadScientist!Ben ... but *would* he?

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Eep! It didn't even occur to me that it *could* be permanent - being Mars is so integral to who Caprice is that her possibly being cut off entirely didn't register. Can she even function autonomously? Good point, that Ben could probably rewire her... (I think that I, for whatever reasons, have been halfway assuming that by the end of the story Ben is actually going to be hooked into the Martian collective, because I can't see how they'd work out their relationship otherwise. Also because Mars is just the coolest collective consciousness I've seen in SF...who wouldn't want to be part of it? Besides anti-social ex-MSs with severe intimacy issues... ^^)

(Hey, while we're discussing great webcomics that no one's ever heard of, do you read ELG? I've been trying unsuccessfully to get anyone into that one forever...it's got lovely cute friendshipping, even!)

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

I agree about the link being integral to Caprice's identity ... it really is like losing half your brain. She seems like a very resilient person and I could see her adapting eventually (assuming she could actually survive the physical shock of a permanent separation) but she might be ... well, a *different* person. Personally I don't think it'll come to that -- I do think she'll get it back, but I don't see it being an easy thing.

The idea of Benjamin being hooked into the collective -- that one had never occurred to *me*. I dunno ... Ben is SO private that I'm not sure if he could handle it. Dealing with Caprice on both levels (individual/collective) is hard enough for him. I think I'd actually like it better if he never did, because to me it's more interesting for two characters to have to deal with each other's differences instead of making the difference go away and becoming alike -- if that makes any sense.

I do like the Martian collective, though. I've always had some trouble dealing with the idea of being hooked into a collective, personally ... because of the submerging of personal identity, and I like the way that the Martian duality of personal identity and collective identity is just not even an issue for them: they are individuals, AND members of the collective, and it's no problem. Another fairly cool, fictional collective is the "afterlife" in Spider Robinson's novel Time Pressure.

I haven't read ELG, though it's on my "to read" list and it's been recommended to me a few times, so maybe I'll sit down and read the archives sometime soon.