Snippet - Take up your arms

Fandom: The Dark Is Rising
For: Loyalty chapter five
Quality: Barely checked, will be tweaked
Characters: Bran, Barney, John, Will, Simon

( Take up your arms )

Musing: games - Final Fantasy III, gay undertones?

So you have the four warriors of light: Luneth, Arc, Refia and Ingus.
And so far there have been several companions -- notably: Sara, Desch, Aria and Alus.

(There have been others -- I'm thinking of Cid, can't remember anyone else -- but ignore that for the purposes of this.)

Ingus was particularly attached to Sara, what with being given essentially free access to her room and weepy goodbyes and so on. Desch seemed most attached to Refia. Luneth got really really upset about what happened to Aria. And now Arc's getting all touchy-feely with Alus (Refia: "What's up with Arc? Why is he so eager to help this prince?").

So, call that all romance, and what do we have? Semi-canonical gayness. And I'm going to put Arc/Alus on the to do list.

Note: Of course, all this can equally be put down to friendship. But I'm a slasher at heart.

Musing: tv - Robin Hood BBC, a traitor?

Yesterday someone on robinhoodbbc posted this, with news that one of the characters is going to be a traitor next season. This makes me pout, because I love them all and love the dynamics they've got doing. If the BBC gets it wrong, there will be hell to pay. Um. Sort of. I will hate them with all the hate not already concentrated on the movie-that-doesn't-really-exist.

Anyway, I've been reading other people's reactions and me and Lisa talked about it quite a lot yesterday, so I'm sort of ready to put my thoughts together on the subject.

( Who would work with Gisborne against Robin? )

I'm worried about what the next series will bring, with this, though. Is it going to be an overarching plot? The last season wasn't terribly good with that: most of the plots were self-contained, apart from the romantic subplots. And the idea of having a traitor in the midst is rather serious for a relatively light hearted series. I'm hoping the writers learn to tread lightly with this one and build up to it, rather than bludgeon us with it in one single episode.