written by Jessie, aka the Ice Cream Assassin
READERS: THIS CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE FIC AND REFERS TO MAJOR PLOTS TWISTS. DO NOT READ THIS PAGE UNLESS YOU HAVE READ THE ENTIRTY OF THE FIC!
The fic got it's name after something I once read in a book. I was on chapter 10 I believe, when I went to see 'The Lord of the Rings', and realized that I had taken the name from Bilbo's book without remembering it. I've felt a little weird about it ever since, Tolkien being a God and all, but it was completly unintentional. Really! I hadn't read 'The Hobbit' since 5th grade, after all.
Anyway, on to the actual fic. Deseray Sequoia from the House of Rosemary is my Jedi, who was originally thought up after the movie 'Star Wars: Episode One' came out. Me and my dear friend Jaymz imagined a duo who were kind of like rebel Jedi at Luke's Jedi Academy. This changed when I saw the movie again, though, because I wanted them to know Ani and Kenobi. So that's how this fic got started... Just me planning the history of my Jedi, Deseray. Jaymz' charater is, of course, Tori Miller from the House of Zoicite.
I made up Dätura because I needed someone to shake Deseray. This is, of course, rather hard to do. I modeled her after what I originally wanted Deseary to be like. But after I changed Deseray to a quick-tounged spice smuggler whose smile lasted as long as her list of swears, I was open to placing those charateristics on someone else. I chose Dätura for Deseray's short-termed lover, and eventually the subject of Deseray's torment, because she seemed to fill a gap inside of her that she was missing since her loss of Tori. And it is only fitting that the two major women is Dez's life never meet. After all, as is explained in chapter 11, Deseray's passion never comes fully to touch Tori because it would destroy them both in the end. As you can see, I've put was too much thought into this for it to be healthy! ^-^;;
Sorry if Erin and Corban didn't get as much play as you might have liked. Erin is my friend Erin's charater (duh) and Corban is my friend Jupiter's. We planned them out a bit, and I decided to give them a small semi-cameo. As for Tori's short appearence, she is such a complicated charater, it's hard to write her doing things. Writing someone talking about her is easier, and Dez thinks about her a lot, so yeah. Heh. Also, when Dez dreamed of the girl laughing, that was Tori.
As you can imagine, if Dez had taken up the power of the Dark Side to find Tori, she would have found her right away, and also would have gotten her memories back before chapter 6. As it is, Dez resists it until all hope seems lost. Under normal circumstanes, Tori would have killed anyone she found dabbing in the Dark Powers, but since she saw the love between Dez and Dai, she resisted this one time. Dez is only partly healed when she leaves the Academy once more with Tori to take up their previous life. I was thinking about taking it farther, but that's not what I wished to do. That would call for a sequel, or something from Tori's POV. *ahem* Enter, Jaymz! :D
Special thanks to Jaymz-sama, Maria and Erin-sama who kept me writing. I would have stopped this long ago if I knew nobody was reading/enjoying. Thanks for all your feedback. I'm expecting some from all you people out there who I don't know, also! This is my first long finished fic, so yeah ^-^;; That includes you too, Andy-man! :P
Thank you everyone! I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I did writing!