Hey guys hey Mith and I finished a Thing.
It is a very shiny thing.
It is the sequel to Scylla and Charybdis (and Wisely, I Say, I Am A Bachelor, which actually directly precedes it in the timeline). It took us a lot longer to write than S&C and Wisely did, because spring was the Season of Work for both of us, but it is completed.
title: A View From the Lists
this is a pretentious reference to: The Iliad! You see, the Greek Pantheon had a great big stake in the Trojan War, and Homer basically describes the gods as sitting in the grandstand, watching the mortals duke it out and sponsoring their favorite warriors with the occasional poison arrow or gust of wind or well-endowed tribute captive-priestess-turned-bed-warmer. A View From the Lists means that one of the warriors--namely, Finnick--can see the gods watching.
you can blame the pretentious Greek references on: Mith
our awesome editor: gileonnen.
almost-final wordcount, pending further tweaks: ~56k. (55892 words, specifically.) About 5k shorter than Scylla and Charybdis.
number of chapters: 9, same as Scylla and Charybdis.
rating: Pretty firm R. (heh heh firm)
spoilers: The reasons why it's R-rated.
okay, why the rating: Forced prostitution, expected THG violence and unpleasantness (including mutt and Avox abuse), language (which is mostly Johanna and Haymitch's fault), nudity, sexuality heading into steamy territory, President Snow, and one scene that deserves a noncon warning on top of what 'forced prostitution' implies.
genre: Drama-mystery with romantic elements? Conspiracy thriller? Revolutionary thriller? Something like that.
summary: The seventy-fourth Hunger Games are about to begin, and Finnick Odair is called back to mentor for the first time in years. Between that, his obligations in the Capitol, and the growing political unrest back home in District Four, he’s got more than enough to manage-and that’s not even counting this year’s fire-starting tributes from District Twelve.
so it's The Hunger Games from Finnick's point-of-view? With lots of District-and-backstage shenanigans that Katniss never gets to find out about, yes.
POV character: Finnick. (Dur.)
other prominent cast members: Annie, Mags, Cinna, Haymitch, Johanna, Chaff, Seeder, Beetee, Wiress, Cashmere, Gloss, Cecelia, Brutus, Enobaria, President Snow.
people who Finnick doesn't get to interact with directly but are nonetheless important to the story: The tributes of the 74th Hunger Games, particularly Katniss and Peeta.
rounding out the OC roster: Finnick's stylist/manager Drusus; Meadow, the female mentor from District 10; President Snow's granddaughter Diana; all twenty-three other Odairs (Finnick's mom's sister and her kids still count as Odairs even if they have a different last name, trust me) and their associates; the Capitol demimonde and their hangers-on; several really unpleasant clients.
character who we didn't get to fit into the story nearly enough, speaking of: Drusus. *sadface*
characters who have somehow become incredibly sympathetic because of non-canon tragic backstory: Cashmere and Gloss.
character you would never want as a DM: Brutus, because he follows all the rules. All of them.
character who will always be more badass than you: Mags.
most awful character we've come up with in a while: Andrea Lobotae. You'll see why. Trust us.
number of times we had to look at giant list of Roman names to pull stuff for Capitol OCs: Too fucking many.
OC with the silliest name: Pomponius.
characters who are banging more-or-less onscreen: Finnick/Annie, Finnick/Cinna, Finnick/more clients than he'd like.
characters who somehow turned a one-off joke into them apparently banging in the margins of the story: Johanna and Haymitch.
how that happened: Fuck if we know.
is it Mith's fault: Probably.
characters who are not allowed to bang and yet have evidence that they have in the past: Most of Finnick's clients. Also, Snow.
# instances of Annie in a bedsheet: 3
# times in which victors threaten grievous bodily harm unto one another: 9
# times Haymitch makes sexual innuendos that scar someone else for life: 4
# of people with ridiculous names Finnick has screwed: 6-16, depending on how you count.
# of scenes in which both Finnick and Cinna end up naked: 4 (+1 flashback)
# of scenes in which Finnick ends up naked: I stopped counting after a while.
# stealth cameos of minor characters from Mockingjay: 1
# really horrible name puns: 10
# really horrible name puns which reference other works of literature: 5
# really horrible name puns which reference Project Runway: 1
# lampshades hung on Collins' naming scheme: 1
# times Finnick misses important events because he is at 'work': 4
# times Finnick makes everything worse: fewer than in Scylla and Charybdis!
random things we researched: hemotoxins, viral myocarditis, aortic aneurysms and their causes, more pictures of diseased body parts than I ever wanted to look at (mouth sores ew ew ew), perfume science, whether there is such thing as an olfactralyzer, large birds that nest in California, restaurant basements, city block architecture, basic economic theory, overfishing patterns, what hangovers feel like oh wait personal experience, and breaking down the events of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games by day.
There's a sequel to this that tells what's happening with Finnick from the end of THG to about two-thirds of the way into CF, but that won't be ready for a while longer.
We will, however, start posting A View from the Lists tomorrow.
:D
.
It is the sequel to Scylla and Charybdis (and Wisely, I Say, I Am A Bachelor, which actually directly precedes it in the timeline). It took us a lot longer to write than S&C and Wisely did, because spring was the Season of Work for both of us, but it is completed.
title: A View From the Lists
this is a pretentious reference to: The Iliad! You see, the Greek Pantheon had a great big stake in the Trojan War, and Homer basically describes the gods as sitting in the grandstand, watching the mortals duke it out and sponsoring their favorite warriors with the occasional poison arrow or gust of wind or well-endowed tribute captive-priestess-turned-bed-warmer. A View From the Lists means that one of the warriors--namely, Finnick--can see the gods watching.
you can blame the pretentious Greek references on: Mith
our awesome editor: gileonnen.
almost-final wordcount, pending further tweaks: ~56k. (55892 words, specifically.) About 5k shorter than Scylla and Charybdis.
number of chapters: 9, same as Scylla and Charybdis.
rating: Pretty firm R. (heh heh firm)
spoilers: The reasons why it's R-rated.
okay, why the rating: Forced prostitution, expected THG violence and unpleasantness (including mutt and Avox abuse), language (which is mostly Johanna and Haymitch's fault), nudity, sexuality heading into steamy territory, President Snow, and one scene that deserves a noncon warning on top of what 'forced prostitution' implies.
genre: Drama-mystery with romantic elements? Conspiracy thriller? Revolutionary thriller? Something like that.
summary: The seventy-fourth Hunger Games are about to begin, and Finnick Odair is called back to mentor for the first time in years. Between that, his obligations in the Capitol, and the growing political unrest back home in District Four, he’s got more than enough to manage-and that’s not even counting this year’s fire-starting tributes from District Twelve.
so it's The Hunger Games from Finnick's point-of-view? With lots of District-and-backstage shenanigans that Katniss never gets to find out about, yes.
POV character: Finnick. (Dur.)
other prominent cast members: Annie, Mags, Cinna, Haymitch, Johanna, Chaff, Seeder, Beetee, Wiress, Cashmere, Gloss, Cecelia, Brutus, Enobaria, President Snow.
people who Finnick doesn't get to interact with directly but are nonetheless important to the story: The tributes of the 74th Hunger Games, particularly Katniss and Peeta.
rounding out the OC roster: Finnick's stylist/manager Drusus; Meadow, the female mentor from District 10; President Snow's granddaughter Diana; all twenty-three other Odairs (Finnick's mom's sister and her kids still count as Odairs even if they have a different last name, trust me) and their associates; the Capitol demimonde and their hangers-on; several really unpleasant clients.
character who we didn't get to fit into the story nearly enough, speaking of: Drusus. *sadface*
characters who have somehow become incredibly sympathetic because of non-canon tragic backstory: Cashmere and Gloss.
character you would never want as a DM: Brutus, because he follows all the rules. All of them.
character who will always be more badass than you: Mags.
most awful character we've come up with in a while: Andrea Lobotae. You'll see why. Trust us.
number of times we had to look at giant list of Roman names to pull stuff for Capitol OCs: Too fucking many.
OC with the silliest name: Pomponius.
characters who are banging more-or-less onscreen: Finnick/Annie, Finnick/Cinna, Finnick/more clients than he'd like.
characters who somehow turned a one-off joke into them apparently banging in the margins of the story: Johanna and Haymitch.
how that happened: Fuck if we know.
is it Mith's fault: Probably.
characters who are not allowed to bang and yet have evidence that they have in the past: Most of Finnick's clients. Also, Snow.
# instances of Annie in a bedsheet: 3
# times in which victors threaten grievous bodily harm unto one another: 9
# times Haymitch makes sexual innuendos that scar someone else for life: 4
# of people with ridiculous names Finnick has screwed: 6-16, depending on how you count.
# of scenes in which both Finnick and Cinna end up naked: 4 (+1 flashback)
# of scenes in which Finnick ends up naked: I stopped counting after a while.
# stealth cameos of minor characters from Mockingjay: 1
# really horrible name puns: 10
# really horrible name puns which reference other works of literature: 5
# really horrible name puns which reference Project Runway: 1
# lampshades hung on Collins' naming scheme: 1
# times Finnick misses important events because he is at 'work': 4
# times Finnick makes everything worse: fewer than in Scylla and Charybdis!
random things we researched: hemotoxins, viral myocarditis, aortic aneurysms and their causes, more pictures of diseased body parts than I ever wanted to look at (mouth sores ew ew ew), perfume science, whether there is such thing as an olfactralyzer, large birds that nest in California, restaurant basements, city block architecture, basic economic theory, overfishing patterns, what hangovers feel like oh wait personal experience, and breaking down the events of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games by day.
There's a sequel to this that tells what's happening with Finnick from the end of THG to about two-thirds of the way into CF, but that won't be ready for a while longer.
We will, however, start posting A View from the Lists tomorrow.
:D
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