Comments | dizzy_whore: Sybil/Branson: Politics and Tea

dizzy_whore

Sybil/Branson: Politics and Tea

Oct 21, 2011 20:38

Title: Politics and Tea
Rating: G
Pairings: Sybil/Branson
Warnings: Potentially fluffy?
Notes: Set some time after their first meeting but before Ripon.

She twirled the pamphlet between her gloved hands and enjoyed the crunch of the gravel beneath her feet.

Everything was different here; very spartan and unfussy; yet these were the arteries of the house ( Read more... )

one-shot, sybil/branson, downton abbey

Comments 11

drphungus October 21 2011, 20:31:23 UTC

Beautiful! I love this moment captured so early on. You capture the shyness and the tentativeness so well, and their voices are so spot on! I'd love to see more scenes of this, if you ever choose to write a number of small vignettes of their friendship/budding relationship/attraction.

dizzy_whore October 21 2011, 21:12:40 UTC

DUDE I have like, four in the pipeline. I'm just in the process of making up a lot of headcanon because we don't see enough of these two :(

frostyblossom October 22 2011, 00:09:48 UTC

Don't even get me started...

I'm already wondering if I will have to completely rewrite them for series 2. Looking forward to more from you!

rubyscarlett October 21 2011, 20:54:29 UTC

I love the last few lines, though the whole thing's wonderfully built. Thanks for sharing this piece with us. I hadn't read any fanfiction in over a year after a period of reading some every day and you brought back the spark :)

dizzy_whore October 21 2011, 21:11:34 UTC

Wow, what a compliment. Thank you :)

ciachick711 October 21 2011, 21:26:21 UTC

Aw, this is a lovely little view of them in the beginning. I like Sybil being so uneasy about entering his space, but acknowledging its sort of her (her father's) space, too. And I like her being curious about why Branson supports women's rights. Beautiful.

dizzy_whore October 21 2011, 22:11:46 UTC

Thank you :) Yes, I was trying to do an (admittedly clumsy) metaphor for empire, considering the time period, as well as Branson being (arguably) a colonial subject, and the unequal power relationship between the two...

AKA I overthink things. Glad you enjoyed it!

atlantis_babe34 October 21 2011, 23:44:15 UTC

What a lovely little ditty! Thank you so much for posting this. Fantastic read :D

frostyblossom October 22 2011, 00:07:52 UTC

Lovely :) I think you really captured how their early friendship might have been.