Bra'tac walking into his shadow was one of those things that I loved So Much that I wondered if I was running into that 'kill your baby' editing thing (where you adore something, and lose perspective such that you don't realize it sucks; ergo, kill your baby.)
So you may imagine the glee it gives me to hear that you liked the phrase that much, because omg, I did too.
I originally thought this story would be all about adolescent Teal'c and Bra'tac as he becomes the father figure Teal'c feels he is, but Meh'rauc just took center stage and commanded attention and really, she told the story much more succintly than Bra'tac and Teal'c would have. Even if I, as the writer, couldn't even keep up with her sometimes.
There is an incredible untold story in how Teal'c, as the banished son of a disgraced First Prime, meets the First Prime of Apophis and together they grow to be the most rebellious, free-thinking slaves the Goa'uld will ever trust. Bra'tac has stated that *he* taught Teal'c to think for himself, that he is disappointed with Teal'c's religious fervour when he's made First Prime. Teal'c has the better reason for doubt, for all that he was only a boy, so to me, the missing link is the rather incredible woman who puts two and two together and launches her boy on a path to greatness despite great sacrifice on her part.
She must have been mesmerizing, don't you think?
I suppose she might have been broken by the loss of her husband and God. I suppose she might have accidentally been honest with her son about why his father died (lost an unwinnable battle? Exiled? Only Teal'c's mother would have had that information to give him.) It is possible that Bra'tac's interest in an exiled Jaffa from another Goa'uld is a coincidence, and I suppose his rebelliousness is also just coincident with Meh'rauc's honesty with her son...
Except no, that's just too many coincidences. I like that the First Primes know too much about their own God's fallacies, but it takes an extraordinary perspective to say, 'no, actually, they're all lying cheating bastards.'
She'd never make the history books, though, not even those written by tptb.
I'm glad you liked them; I'm doubly glad you liked their younger, less sure selves.
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Date: 2007-04-25 02:06 am (UTC)So you may imagine the glee it gives me to hear that you liked the phrase that much, because omg, I did too.
I originally thought this story would be all about adolescent Teal'c and Bra'tac as he becomes the father figure Teal'c feels he is, but Meh'rauc just took center stage and commanded attention and really, she told the story much more succintly than Bra'tac and Teal'c would have. Even if I, as the writer, couldn't even keep up with her sometimes.
There is an incredible untold story in how Teal'c, as the banished son of a disgraced First Prime, meets the First Prime of Apophis and together they grow to be the most rebellious, free-thinking slaves the Goa'uld will ever trust. Bra'tac has stated that *he* taught Teal'c to think for himself, that he is disappointed with Teal'c's religious fervour when he's made First Prime. Teal'c has the better reason for doubt, for all that he was only a boy, so to me, the missing link is the rather incredible woman who puts two and two together and launches her boy on a path to greatness despite great sacrifice on her part.
She must have been mesmerizing, don't you think?
I suppose she might have been broken by the loss of her husband and God. I suppose she might have accidentally been honest with her son about why his father died (lost an unwinnable battle? Exiled? Only Teal'c's mother would have had that information to give him.) It is possible that Bra'tac's interest in an exiled Jaffa from another Goa'uld is a coincidence, and I suppose his rebelliousness is also just coincident with Meh'rauc's honesty with her son...
Except no, that's just too many coincidences. I like that the First Primes know too much about their own God's fallacies, but it takes an extraordinary perspective to say, 'no, actually, they're all lying cheating bastards.'
She'd never make the history books, though, not even those written by tptb.
I'm glad you liked them; I'm doubly glad you liked their younger, less sure selves.