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solarpillar

Faun Fic for Kuruk

Dec 06, 2011 17:09

For Kuruk as fic exchange
Title: Another Make-Believe Game
Fandom: El laberinto del fauno
Characters: The Faun, Ofelia
Summary: It was just another game in the labyrinth.
Note: For kuruk22. A fic exchange. Sorry it's not beta'd.
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fanfic, exchange, el laberinto del fauno

Comments 4

kuruk22 December 7 2011, 13:29:22 UTC

Done so early? Okay, now you're making me look bad...

Well, I arrived for my first final about an hour earlier than I actually needed to so I figured that I would take some time to relax, do some last-minute reviewing, check my email...

And here I find this.

I found this piece to be quite enjoyable. I liked the way that you worked within the film's canon to make your point - there were no divergences, which allowed for your presentation of an alternate theory to be plausible. That being said, I also liked how you left room for doubt. I'm not sure if you did this intentionally or not, but the shift from calling the protagonist "Ofelia" to "Moanna" in narration pointed to the idea that perhaps Ofelia was actually Moanna. Whether intentional or not you stayed true to the feeling the film gives you at the end - you're not really sure if Ofelia was actually Moanna or not, as her arrival in the throne room of the Underworld could have been considered a vision that's akin to what those skeptical of "the white light" and the "glimpses of ( ... )

solarpillar December 7 2011, 16:32:38 UTC

You're the one who made me feel bad first by giving me a fic during our finals periods. Beside I needed to change ideas between my school assignments and studying for finals ( ... )

solarpillar December 11 2011, 02:48:22 UTC

Forgot to answer, as for the Ofelia-Moanna thing, I just wanted to show that maybe the Faun himself started to believe that she might be Moanna the deeper the game went. Yes, she might be, but there was absolutely no way to know when they just met and the Faun didn't know either, which was why the fifth paragraph began with "He made up yet another beautiful lie for the pretty visitor." One, he didn't know if she really was Moanna. Two, we are not sure if Moanna was really a princess born of the king and the moon in the literal sense or in poetic truth only. It was possible that Moanna was a girl who used to be the Faun's friend and they used to play games where they pretended she was a princess and the Faun gave her tests as part of the games. I tried to leave all these questions present and the answers ambiguous.

nobupazaya February 16 2013, 19:44:07 UTC