Sasuke and Black Jewels

[edenfalling]

Last night, between marathon sessions of reading the Black Jewels trilogy (which... still bugs me with weird plot and characterization issues, despite its overall coolness), I tried to exorcise the vicious plotbunny askerian dumped on me, via a Sasuke POV continuation of 'Tension, Before.'

Sasuke is tricky to write.

And the drama of the Black Jewels seems to have crept in at some point, because he's not quite acting right, though I think Sakura and Naruto are reasonable.

Must figure out an ending of sorts, and then go fix Sasuke's silent analysis/commentary this evening.

...

Will now stop spamming LJ and get back to work.

Comments

[edenfalling]

Not martial arts -- it was a book on biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world. Things like poisoning arrows or wells, dumping burning crude oil on attackers during seiges, throwing scorpions at your enemies, Greek Fire... all sorts of dirty tricks people tend to overlook when they complain about how modern warfare isn't 'clean' and 'fair' the way things used to be. War has never been clean and fair.

Since my novel involves a multiple-front war, which is undeclared for most of the book, I thought it would be a good idea to know about underhanded tactics. Also, dirty tricks are often a cost-effective strategy when you don't have a lot of soldiers and are facing a more numerous enemy.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

ah thank you. very good.
hmph, still not the field I'd enjoy writing myself lol.