The majority of this was written in July 2013. I stopped working on it at some point because I felt (and still feel) that the story is distracted and doesn't know what it wants to be about, a problem probably coming out of the fact that Ricken is central to a series of Dickensesque relationships that pull the characters together, but at the same time Ricken is largely irrelevant to all the moving action on-set. Also, some parts were heavy-handed (and when it was heavy-handed it was cringeworthy) and others were meandering and it just generally was pretty sloppily put together.
At some point a few months ago, I planned to do an overhaul, taking out the Henry/Ricken romantic aspect among other things, but never really got the motivation to start said overhaul. So, since I've run out of interest in FE13 and some people seem to still remember that this is a thing, here's what I had.
Parts that I had marked to be cut are in red. I left them in here because the story isn't coherent either way and some of them are cute in their own right.
Title: Death Isn't Sad
Summary: Henry does his best to raise a daughter in an era where little is certain. But he can't teach what he doesn't know.
( Death Isn't Sad )
At some point a few months ago, I planned to do an overhaul, taking out the Henry/Ricken romantic aspect among other things, but never really got the motivation to start said overhaul. So, since I've run out of interest in FE13 and some people seem to still remember that this is a thing, here's what I had.
Parts that I had marked to be cut are in red. I left them in here because the story isn't coherent either way and some of them are cute in their own right.
Title: Death Isn't Sad
Summary: Henry does his best to raise a daughter in an era where little is certain. But he can't teach what he doesn't know.
( Death Isn't Sad )
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