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obaona Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 7/8/05 12:15am Subject: Symmetry - L/M vignette
	Thanks for clicking. Title: Symmetry Summary: This is how they fight, this is how they love. L/M, though I forgot to actually use their names ... A/N: Okay, this has really, really got to stop. These weird vignettes. Must. Stop. thwacks Gabri as she is to blame But thanks for beta'ing. Feedback is always appreciated. This is how they fight. They fight with words and knowledge. Every strike is well positioned, guided by intelligence and the ability to simply be vicious. She tells him he is what he fears most, that he is what he is most ashamed of; he is arrogant, he is not a true Jedi, he cannot do this. He tells her he wonders if she has a soul. His fears are many; hers are few. His run deep, and hers run deep and wide. Hers are clean and open, his are tangled and lie in dark corners. She has to strike many times; he only has to strike once. They fight knowing how they fight, the origins of the battle. There is always an essential conflict between their natures. It is not that he is calm and she is not; it is that he is not perfect, and neither is she. Fury can rise and be justified. It can rise and be rationalized. Anger is easy to feel, and for the both of them, easy to control. It is an emotion both are familiar with on many levels: on the level of murder, of pain, and of fear. It is not their weapon; it is them, transformed. They can strike without shame or weakness. They are warriors, and it is easy for them to lapse to such in this. It is a trait that twines throughout everything they are, binding and tainting and, purely, a thing of survival. So, they are not unaware. But they live in the moment. They can fight because the future remains in the distance. Without the moment they have no contentment or joy, either, so they always live in the moment. The long shadows cast by years past and ahead would too deeply mark them otherwise. This is how they fight. This is how they love. They live in the moment. But they can take all the beautiful moments and remember them, and make them live again in this moment. He remembers her gentleness; she remembers his passion. The long shadows of moments before pass in the long light of the good memories. They can say that they are sorry without hesitation. They are warriors; this trait binds and holds and affects them both. They do not hesitate in anything they do. She can give in, a trait dearly learned and now a marked part of her, a thread through her for which she doesn’t hesitate; he can submit to that wisdom and follow her. There is learned symmetry. They love knowing the why of their love. It is blessed by the Force, no accident that their actions became intertwined before they themselves were. So there is a natural perfection in that, when they are touched by the Force completely. It is not that he is calm and she is not; it is that he gives when she cannot, and she gives when he doesn’t know how. It is that they are balanced. It is that that they understand how they love. He loves deeply; she loves breathlessly. His is passion; hers is peace. His was trained to flourish; hers she let flourish. In solitude, she tells him that she loves him many times; he tells her once, and that is enough. He loves simply. She loves with complexity. Her love is entwined in the little actions, brief moments here and there; his is steady, and shines once and brightly in a defined moment. He tells her that her spirit is beautiful. He tells her that she is a strong, wonderful woman; that she will be a magnificent mother one day, because she is not just loving, but wise and pragmatic, and she will understand and work through all the difficult times in a way he cannot. She tells him that she loves him, and doesn’t have the words to tell him why; she tells him that he has the purest soul she has ever known. They love with words and knowledge; meaning and grace. They love in forgiveness, in apologizing without hesitation. They love in a precisely timed kiss, a smile, and thinking of the other. This is how they love. [finis] -----signature----- MS Word is designed by sadists with masochists in mind. - teh atty my recent Atton (KOTOR2) fic: http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/30335989
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Gabri_Jade Title: Fan Fiction Archive Editor Emeritus Registered: Nov '02	Date Posted: 7/8/05 12:19am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette - Date Edited: 7/8/05 12:23am (2 edits total) Edited By: Gabri_Jade
	First post! thinks of more weird bunnies to taunt oba with You already got my feedback, and I don't feel like typing it twice. is lazy But I adore it utterly. Edit #2: raspberries YK and JadeLotus -----signature----- Evil Twin of LadyPadme This concept of "wuv" confuses and infuriates us! - Futurama All I can do is be me. Whoever that is. - Bob Dylan Serendipity (Leia-Mara vig) - http://boards.theforce.net/b/b1/30178069 !!11!1eleventy
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YodaKenobi Title: TFN EU Staff Registered: May '03	Date Posted: 7/8/05 12:21am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette - Date Edited: 7/8/05 12:51am (1 edits total) Edited By: YodaKenobi
	Second post! Edit: He tells her he wonders if she has a soul. Seems like Luke is taking it up a notch from "arrogant" Interesting insight in to Luke and Mara's relationship, and it was certainly beautifully written. Great job illustrating the contrasts between them and how they fit together to make something "symmetrical" Really enjoyed it, Obaona Gabri: raspberries YK and JadeLotus eats raspberries They taste bitter -----signature----- Supersonic gone and took my soul The Lands of the Dead: http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/28522077/p1 Blood Trail: http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/28636429/p1 "They weren't very bright, even for Imperials."— Emala
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JadeLotus Registered: Mar '05	Date Posted: 7/8/05 12:21am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette - Date Edited: 7/9/05 1:16am (2 edits total) Edited By: JadeLotus
	Damn, three seconds too late. Edit: He tells her he wonders if she has a soul I also loved this line. That they're not afraid to be brutal with each other, in their words or actions. It is not that he is calm and she is not; it is that he gives when she cannot, and she gives when he doesn’t know how. It is that they are balanced. That is one of the best, if not the best, description of Luke and Mara's relationship I have ever read. I've always thought that they complement each other beautifully, and you've shown that through a truly brilliant vignette. There's something very inspiring about your writing, obaona. Gabri: raspberries YK and JadeLotus Awww...pouts... -----signature----- You are the only thing that makes sense Just ignore all this present tense
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YodaKenobi Title: TFN EU Staff Registered: May '03	Date Posted: 7/8/05 12:50am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette - Date Edited: 7/8/05 12:50am (1 edits total) Edited By: YodaKenobi
	-----signature----- Supersonic gone and took my soul The Lands of the Dead: http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/28522077/p1 Blood Trail: http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/28636429/p1 "They weren't very bright, even for Imperials."— Emala
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Pallas-Athena Title: TFN Fan Fiction Archive Editor Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 7/8/05 1:02am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette
	Eeeeee! How beautiful, oba! Like this is just an absolutely perfect piece of writing. I know you want examples and what I thought of each thing and reasons why, but this is just so perfect. I can't think of anything to say -----signature----- Do you ever get bored and find yourself scrolling down a thread just to read the signatures?
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RedGold Registered: Nov '04	Date Posted: 7/8/05 1:31am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette
	Love and Hate... same thing... Great little Vig! You're so good at them! -----signature----- Legend... Recluse... Forgotten... Will one day return... http://www.starwarsfanfic.com
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J_M_Bulldog Registered: Apr '03	Date Posted: 7/8/05 2:28am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette
	See? Told ya it was a masterpiece. -----signature----- BA(bad attitude), aka Thwack, of TKL's Lomin Ale Wraiths I am never down. I am either up or I am getting up, but I am never down. Stop telling God how big your storm is; instead tell the storm how big your God is.
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Healer_Leona Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jul '00	Date Posted: 7/8/05 4:35am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette
	Oh my.. that was beautiful.... so incredibly touching I find myself in tears over it... just wow! [:D} -----signature----- Break away from everybody Break away from everthing If you can't stand the way this place is Take yourself to higher places
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ginchy Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 7/8/05 6:02am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette
	Oh, I love it! Is it odd that I enjoy stories where L/M fight? I just love the symmetry (LOL) between the scenes and the thin line that divides love from hate. You've done an excellent job! I'm all for you writing more "weird" vignettes! The more, the better! -----signature----- Something wonderful has happened... EDD: April 25, 2010
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Jedi-2B Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 7/8/05 6:17am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette
	Another gem, even if I don't like thinking of L&M fighting in quite that ugly of a fashion. -----signature----- It was on her fifteenth day in the darkness of the Nirauan cave when Mara Jade awoke to discover a rescuer had finally arrived. It was not, however, any of the potential rescuers she would have expected. It was Luke. ~~And the rest is history~~
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RebelMom Title: TFF Secretary Registered: Apr '00	Date Posted: 7/8/05 6:54am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette
	I knew if I blinked there'd be another viggie. You described them perfectly -----signature----- Short Story: Pressure Point http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/26961243/p1/?7 Jacen Solo and Anakin Skywalker - as it should have been. TFF: Cheryl
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ThePariah Registered: Jan '03	Date Posted: 7/8/05 7:42am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette - Date Edited: 7/8/05 7:44am (1 edits total) Edited By: ThePariah
	starts counting down to next supercalifragilisicexpialadocious Oba vig I liked all the references to Mara actually being peaceful. And it's not an oxymoron, it makes sense. -----signature----- Eternal Groveler to rhonderoo, VaderLVR64, Knight_Aragorn, Oba, & the SJRS crew Has a postcard from the Dark Side. "I suspect that most if not all the world's ills could be cured by humour transplants."--Karen Traviss TEMPORARY SET-UP!!!
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DarthIshtar Title: Former CR Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 7/8/05 7:50am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette
	Very nice. I like telling that you love someone many times versus once. -----signature----- "I feel like a more down-to-earth Pink 5 when I'm writing Leah. Same attitude, less lip gloss." ~Me on how to get in the right mindset for Twilight fanfic.
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Jedi_Liz Title: Former CR Lincoln NE, USA Registered: Apr '00	Date Posted: 7/8/05 7:55am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette
	very interesting any chance for a fic longer than one post? -----signature----- Current Fic: Lightswords of Fury: Special Edition - L/M Romance http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/24270936/ Chapter 19 posted on 7/21/08 Coming SOON: Mara Jade of Chandrila Grove Coming SOON to SAGA Fanfic
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jdavidchadwick Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 7/8/05 7:55am Subject: RE: Symmetry - L/M vignette
	Awwww, that's almost adorable. Good work, I liked it -----signature----- http://www.sugarraydodge.com/
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