Mini Nano, Day 10 snippet
Nov. 11th, 2014 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morgynleriSince there's exactly one story snippet today - most of today's words were headcanon notes for Valorum and Dooku in the seven AUs I have. One of which had not worked its way out of being just notes until today. (It's not a completely gender-swapped AU, but several of the primary characters are gender-swapped. Among them, Valorum. Which I hadn't planned until I was working on headcanon today.)
Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, at an interview, roughly a year and a half before the events of TPM:
It would be easy for her to remain silent against the whispers that say her lack of spouse or visible lover is because she is involved with a Jedi - a particular Jedi. That her choice of diplomat in the most delicate situations is colored by her affection for Qui-Gon, that she is choosing based on emotion rather than who is best for the job. They are accusations she's heard before, and not solely about her and Qui-Gon.
Equally as easy would be getting insulted, affronted, angry about those whispers, if she were inclined to do so. It would be just as damaging, and pointless. She could speak calmly and rationally about how they couldn't be true, and there are many who wouldn't believe her. Getting visibly upset just makes it worse.
It's not expected, when she's asked by a holo-news reporter, that she smiles, and chuckles, and asks if anyone has holos, because she's never seen a Jedi without his robes. A real Jedi, anyway; she has seen those awful movies and serials about heroic and virile Jedi, in all their naked glory.
"If you can't come up with something new, you might start to worry about your career. Everyone's heard the rumors about me and Master Jinn time and again, and no one's ever had any proof."
"There has to be some truth to them if they keep being brought up."
The reporter is persistent, but Valorum simply smiles, shaking her head slightly, as if disappointed. "Reporters pulling old stories out and shaking them off is just a sad remark on the moribund state of our Republic's media. There are a myriad other matters which you could report on, and all you can think of is 'we haven't harangued the Supreme Chancellor on her love life in half a year', and drag out old, tired, worn-thin rumors."
"And the speculation that you and Master Jinn are secretly married?"
"I first heard that one thirty years ago. You might want to ask the Jedi Order to clarify its rules regarding their members and marriage, as well as the recording of such. They can confirm - or deny - the status of any of their members."
Not that Valorum expects the reporter will bother looking - none of them ever do. It's too easy to find information to refute their wilder stories, and they want the most salacious and scandalous gossip to come from them first. Regardless of the veracity of their information or sources.
Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, at an interview, roughly a year and a half before the events of TPM:
It would be easy for her to remain silent against the whispers that say her lack of spouse or visible lover is because she is involved with a Jedi - a particular Jedi. That her choice of diplomat in the most delicate situations is colored by her affection for Qui-Gon, that she is choosing based on emotion rather than who is best for the job. They are accusations she's heard before, and not solely about her and Qui-Gon.
Equally as easy would be getting insulted, affronted, angry about those whispers, if she were inclined to do so. It would be just as damaging, and pointless. She could speak calmly and rationally about how they couldn't be true, and there are many who wouldn't believe her. Getting visibly upset just makes it worse.
It's not expected, when she's asked by a holo-news reporter, that she smiles, and chuckles, and asks if anyone has holos, because she's never seen a Jedi without his robes. A real Jedi, anyway; she has seen those awful movies and serials about heroic and virile Jedi, in all their naked glory.
"If you can't come up with something new, you might start to worry about your career. Everyone's heard the rumors about me and Master Jinn time and again, and no one's ever had any proof."
"There has to be some truth to them if they keep being brought up."
The reporter is persistent, but Valorum simply smiles, shaking her head slightly, as if disappointed. "Reporters pulling old stories out and shaking them off is just a sad remark on the moribund state of our Republic's media. There are a myriad other matters which you could report on, and all you can think of is 'we haven't harangued the Supreme Chancellor on her love life in half a year', and drag out old, tired, worn-thin rumors."
"And the speculation that you and Master Jinn are secretly married?"
"I first heard that one thirty years ago. You might want to ask the Jedi Order to clarify its rules regarding their members and marriage, as well as the recording of such. They can confirm - or deny - the status of any of their members."
Not that Valorum expects the reporter will bother looking - none of them ever do. It's too easy to find information to refute their wilder stories, and they want the most salacious and scandalous gossip to come from them first. Regardless of the veracity of their information or sources.
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Date: 2014-11-11 11:06 pm (UTC)I sank into this so well that when I read the last line I kept scrolling, expecting it to keep going. The voice is PERFECT.
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Date: 2014-11-11 11:48 pm (UTC)I don't know if I'll get more of this AU, but I'm fairly certain that if I do, a number of the voices will not be Jedi, and may not be the central characters of the movie-canon. And I'm glad my Valorum voice is perfect, particularly since this is the first bit of Valorum I've written. :)