Beyond - Legends A Look Into the Past - Vignette Series - 4/6 - AUTHOR'S NOTE *sigh*

That was so sad!!


Please say that her mom is Inyri, please????


That was one of the best works you've ever done Jes, (or I'm being biast coz it's Wes) and it just blows me away each time I read this because they just keep on getting better and better

Great Job!

 

That was so sweet... pride is a double-edged sword...

and an interesting way of killing off Wes...

Yeah, I can't see him "dieing peacefully in his sleep".

Good job!

 

great job!

his daughter and a prankster he he he
he died in action




me like it


Mag

 

WAAAAHH!!!

You can?t imagine how many times I heard the words, ?She?s her father?s daughter.?
These words can have so many different meanings...good and bad...I like how you elaborated on that.

 

Jes': Damn, that was brilliant...

I liked the way you caught Wes, the range from practical jokes through stupid heroics and old-fashioned warrior skill to understated and unspoken insight and human meditation...

Hmm. Yeah, "profound" is the word for this one.

You ever thought of writing Chiss, btw? I'd say you'd do them pretty damn well...

- The Imperial Ewok

 

Oh, wow, excellent series, the one about Wedge has been my favorite, but how Wes died was perfect and the source of pride thing so poignant.

 

*sits speechless and cries softly*

 

Not Wes!! Noooooo!

:Weeps:

Wonderful story, Jes. The whole series was brilliant. Any chance of you doing any more soon?

 

Sam
As I said in the note at the beginning, yes, this was Wes/Inyri

Nothing wrong with being biased in favor of Wes...I am a bit too, I confess.


Red
That was so sweet... pride is a double-edged sword...
That idea just kinda jumped into my head...I hadn't thought of it before, and didn't intend to write it like that. Just kinda happened.

and an interesting way of killing off Wes...

Yeah, I can't see him "dieing peacefully in his sleep".
Again, the idea of him being dead just kinda appeared...and I could kill him off the way I did Wedge. I thought the way I did it fit with the story


Mag
his daughter and a prankster he he he
He would have to raise his daughter that way! You know it!

he died in action
I couldn't kill him the way I killed Wedge...just couldn't do it. And I thought it worked well with what I was writing.


SweetPea
These words can have so many different meanings...good and bad...I like how you elaborated on that.
Took me forever to find a good way to bring it full circle


McEwok
I liked the way you caught Wes, the range from practical jokes through stupid heroics and old-fashioned warrior skill
This is how I really see him...THIS is what personality is, McEwok hehehe
Jag's got nothing on Wes

Yeah, "profound" is the word for this one.
Thanks! I try...


Ish
the one about Wedge has been my favorite
I loved that one too...it marked a change for me in how I wrote these, I think

how Wes died was perfect and the source of pride thing so poignant.
I have a very interesting way of looking at Wes...there's a line in one of the Wraith books that's something like:
"he could only offer one of his other skills, the skill that might make him unfit for a normal life after this war was over"
He's undoubtedly proud of helping people, but he really seems to hate what he has to do in order to help people...which is where this story stemmed from.


talkingbanana
*offers tissues* Like I said, I almost cried while writing this.


Valin_Halcyon
:Weeps:
*offers tissues*

Glad you like the stories. There are plenty more to come, and hopefully there won't be two weeks in between new ones again.


~Jes~

 

Upping this because it's already fallen to the third page and I refuse to believe that there aren't more Wes Janson fans around here.

Jes

 

*staggers in*

[dying gasp] Need...postie...[/dying gasp]

*collapses*

 

the wessie one was sooooo sad!

 

I just read all these, J_D. You are an incredible writer!

You managed to get inside the head of some of my most very favoirite characters. And you've done each one justice. Welcome to the boards, and keep writing!

 

SweetPea
At some point, there will be. I'm just wrapped up in the other two stories. Sometime soon, honest.


JagsGurl
Wasn't it, though? I was almost crying when I was writing it.


Lank_Pavail
Welcome! And thank you. I love a lot of the minor characters, and they all are so complex, so they're fun to work with. I'm glad you liked it.


~Jes~

 

Wow Jes! Just wow!

I?d find all the right words to say here but I?m kinda stumped as to what I could possible say that would do these justice.

Leia: So each time I hear my grandmother cry I try to imagine what her tears are for this time. But there are so many possibilities. There are so many wounds that will never heal, wounds that cause her such immeasurable pain that I cannot begin to fathom its intensity. So I don't think that her tears are for any one thing. I think they're for everything she's seen and done and felt, everything she hopes my brother and I and all of our generation will never be subjected to.

I would hope that all daughters and granddaughters could be as insightful about this. All of us women are strong enough to carry this burden that we do and yet we always have to cry to keep from it burdening us to the point of insanity.

I love the way you?ve put all of these in to a peaceful future. It?s good to know that all of the wars and killing is justified. Now if only we could justify what the supposedly ?for the people? government is doing to our sons and daughters and parents and friends against our will. But that?s a different tangent huh?

Tyco: He laughed bitterly. "Oh, yes. I knew too many people." His voice fell to a whisper. Then he said the words that finally drove everything home to me. "I was."

I don?t quite know what it was about this one little bit but that just put me over the edge. I guess hearing my dad tell me about what he went thru in Vietnam kinda hammered this part home for me. I guess for some reason I just don?t quite see cannon Tych as entirely human. He?s like all shiny and untouchable and nothing fazes him so when I read things like this and New Path I get jolted back to the fact that he is indeed a human and he does bleed and hurt just like the rest of us.


Mara: Mom was still sitting there where I?d left her. She had tears running down her cheeks and she looked at dad and said, ?I never dreamed it would be this hard.? He just held her hand with one of his and kept his other arm around me the whole time.

I guess you just fortold my future here. ?I never dreamed it would be this hard?. I dread the day that I have to explain things to my daughter and make it make sense to her with out hurting her and making her hate me all at once. Of course I won?t have to tell her that I killed people because some old crazy evil guy told me to but still a daunting task?


Wedge: I?d quote it but the whole thing was damn good. I can?t understand how you didn?t like this one. This one moved me the most. I got to sit with my dad just the same way right before he died and we had a talk like that too so I guess I really identified with this one. Don?t doubt yourself, it?s damn good!


Iella: ?The war. We were assigned to the same place, and he needed my help on something. To make another long story short, we nearly got killed together.?

Don?t know WHY this strikes me as terribly funny but it does!


Wes:







Yup, I?m speachless about that one?.
Again, you hit reeeeeeeealy close to home for me on this as so very many many many times I've been told that I am "my father's daughter" and it does mean so very very very much to me too.


So, outstanding job on these (not like EVERYTHING you write isn't outstanding but...) and I'm on board for the ride so keep em coming!

Ro

PS NO WAY THIS SHOULD BE ON PAGE 8!! COME ON PEOPLE!

 

Ro -
I would hope that all daughters and granddaughters could be as insightful about this. All of us women are strong enough to carry this burden that we do and yet we always have to cry to keep from it burdening us to the point of insanity.

Y'know, I'm going to tell my boyfriend that the next time I start crying for no reason
Seriously, though, that's an interesting insight you've got there yourself. I think I'll be thinking of my stepmother a different way from now on.

I love the way you?ve put all of these in to a peaceful future. It?s good to know that all of the wars and killing is justified. Now if only we could justify what the supposedly ?for the people? government is doing to our sons and daughters and parents and friends against our will. But that?s a different tangent huh?

Yes, that's a different tangent...and a dangerous one to get into. But as to the peaceful future, yes, I felt they deserved some peace, at least for their children.

I guess for some reason I just don?t quite see cannon Tych as entirely human. He?s like all shiny and untouchable and nothing fazes him so when I read things like this and New Path I get jolted back to the fact that he is indeed a human and he does bleed and hurt just like the rest of us.

Tycho is so the "strong and silent" type...which is why I was drawn to writing him the way I did in "Shades of the Past." He's been through too much to be so, as you say, untoucable. He's got to crack sometime, and this was as good a time as any.

I dread the day that I have to explain things to my daughter and make it make sense to her with out hurting her and making her hate me all at once. Of course I won?t have to tell her that I killed people because some old crazy evil guy told me to but still a daunting task?

I think we all feel that way, to a certain extent

Wedge: I?d quote it but the whole thing was damn good. I can?t understand how you didn?t like this one. This one moved me the most. I got to sit with my dad just the same way right before he died and we had a talk like that too so I guess I really identified with this one. Don?t doubt yourself, it?s damn good!

It wasn't that I didn't like it. It was that it didn't turn out the way I planned on. I liked the end result, but it was so different from the others. I think that's because I was trying to get away from the others - I didn't want them to feel like carbon copies of each other, just with different names/places/events. I just didn't intend for it to be SO different. I wasn't sure how other people would like it.

laugh laugh Don?t know WHY this strikes me as terribly funny but it does!

It was intended to be...I really struggled with that one, and it was the first time I put any humor into one of these, so it was interesting.

Yup, I?m speachless about that one?. cry cry cry
Again, you hit reeeeeeeealy close to home for me on this as so very many many many times I've been told that I am "my father's daughter" and it does mean so very very very much to me too.

I really liked that one...I had tears in my eyes while I was writing it. I rewrote a whole lot of it because it kept getting away from the "father's daughter" thing. By the end of it, though, I almost set it as its own vignette, titled "My Father's Daughter."

So, outstanding job on these (not like EVERYTHING you write isn't outstanding but...) and I'm on board for the ride so keep em coming!

There will be more soon...they're getting harder as I go, so it might be a while. But when I first started them, and put them up on ff.n, after more than six months there were just the Tycho and Leia ones, so the extra four on here are doing good!


~Jes~

 

::reads:: ::cries a lot:: ::reads some more:: ::sniffles::




These were all great! And all so sad, but happy, but sad! But happy!



Lovely job. I can't even put in words really how much this touches me.

 

... whoops. How'd I miss this?

Absolutely wonderful job with Wes's vignette, Jes. Loved it! The insights into what it takes for Wes to do the job he does... just wow. I liked this line in particular,

I remembered seeing my dad, at night sometimes when I couldn?t sleep, sitting in the chair in there and just staring at all his awards.

I could see this as I was reading it. So poignant.

Beautiful work as always. I will look forward to seeing more in this series.

 

Mirax-Jade - I love stuff that makes me cry, so I'm going to take that as a very high compliment. I'm glad you like them. They get harder as they go along, which is why updates are so far between. The Wes one especially is probably my favorite, just because it made me cry when I was writing it.

K_A - I hadn't noticed that you hadn't read it. Ooops. Some of the stuff about Wes didn't even come into my mind til I was writing this...I actually think that writing that vignette has done wonders for my mental characterization of Wes. There will be more, eventually...I just need to find the time.


~Jes~

 

I just want to say that I love these stories and I can't wait to read more of them.

 

Jes, I'm speechless. Those were beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

Leia's was pretty, Tycho's was sweet, Mara's was awe-inspiring(poor Ben and Mara), Wedge's made me cry, Iella's did too(great using Syal for one, and Myri for the other), Wes' was great.

Please say that Wes was married to Inyri.

I loved that you did all of them from the point of view of the person's child(or grandchild.) you should write more of them. Really.
Myra
Still speechless.

 

Lisa - I honestly don't know when there will be more, but if there are, chances are that they won't be posted here. By all means, though, please PM me for the link to the site where my fics are being moved to.

Myra - Glad I made you cry As usual. Yes, Wes was married to Inyri

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