Drem yol lok braan joor!
Before I get started with the next installment of this story, I feel like I must address somethings. First thing; Thank you. Thank you all for the follows, favorites, and reviews. They keep my thoughts positive about this story and keep the muse going. I cannot thank you all enough and I mean it.
Second thing; there was a comment in the reviews on how wimpy Kili is, how's she's not very dragon like if she keeps crying and such. Now I am glad this person said this, so please do not send mean comments or hate to them. They have the right to say what they think. I am not taking their words as anything but constructive criticism.
Also it gives me a reason to explain how I right.
I write with a very empathetic and sympathetic style; meaning I will mentally put myself in the character's shoes in order to make a moment in the story happen. The hard thing about writing fanfictions about a game like any Elder Scrolls game is that your character is you, or at least how you want to be. For me it's easy to see how I would react as opposed to how someone else would react.
Kili in some aspect is me, thus why she acts a certain way. Now, allow me to set up a what she has gone through, and explain why she acts a certain way.
She ran away from home at a young as, this was the only way should have survived, after losing her family. She has been alone for years, doing what she had to do in order to survive; which that could mean many things she's not prude of.(this will come into play late in the story) She makes the decision to go back to the home land she ran away from, in hopes that she can help change they way the War is going, so yes, she slightly arrogant. She is captured in an Imperial trap to capture Ulfric, is stripped of the few belongings she had, was accused of being a criminal, was not given a trial before being placed on a chopping block to be beheaded, was saved a dragon moments before decapitation, and managed to flee the chaos that followed in one day. After those events, she blindly went through an ancient tomb full of the undead and giant spiders for a golden claw and rock, which just so happened to be needed later. Goes to a city to inform the leadership that a dragon might possibly attack them soon, then goes to fight a dragon, gets hurt, and somehow finds out that she being from ancient Nord legends, which surprize! Makes her the only one that can really kill a dragon. She is summoned by a bunch of old guys that have be quiet for a least one hundred years, joins the companions wanting to better skills so she doesn't die, nearly gets one of her few friends killed by a dragon, has to work with a grouchy old barten lady who hates dragons and elves. And then FINALLY she falls in love with a man who she finds out is a werewolf…
So yes...Kili cries a lot. Most women are driven by emotions, not all I know but I am a woman and I know how I am driven. Now Kili is going to cry a lot in the many chapters to come that is how she is. If you don't like how I portray her then you do not have to read this story. There are plenty of other Skyrim fanfictions out there with better O.C.s. But Kili is mine so I will continue to write and portray her as I always have. She will slowly become more Dragon like and mature as the story happens, that's how character development works.
Now I know that the beginning of the story may have been crap and it may have not set everything up like I just talked about, that's on me and I am working to fix it. I am not the best writer out there and I will never claim to be, but I challenge you as a reader, put yourself in the characters shoes. Can you honestly say you would act a certain way?
Take that as food for thought.
With the silly rant over, I will happily inform you all that the next chapter will be up soon. And I will probably be doing a massive over all of this story during the holidays. So changes will happen, don't be too freaked out if you come back and some chapters are combined, missing or changed completely. It is just something that I have been lead to do.
Again thank you all for sticking with me this far, it means more to me than words could ever express.
Erei mu grind ontzos,
~3 Ace
