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vr_trakowski ([personal profile] vr_trakowski) wrote2011-03-31 12:32 am

The Elephant Gambit

The first chapter of The Elephant Gambit has been posted.  This is Inception, Arthur/Ariadne, and PG-13, last year's NaNo in more compact form.  Production notes and [livejournal.com profile] cincoflex's splendiferous banner are below the cut! 







As I said in the introduction, I really do have a thing for this kind of plotline, starting with Prey all those years ago (eleven! wow).  And, as I also said, two of them were canon, starting with Prey.  I don’t know why the affinity, except perhaps that it’s fun to distill the emotions involved.  

For an Inception fic, this doesn’t have a lot of Dreaming, at least at first.  I suppose that’s odd, but the movie creates a set of relationships that’s interesting to explore even outside of the Dream context.  Though we’ll get to that, too, eventually.  

Arthur’s realization may seem a bit airy, but it’s his job to make connections, and I’m sure his instincts are sharp.  He’d know.  

It could even be a mistake.  Heh.  :P