Pair of Ayel drabbles
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measured_words(Spoilers for the new movie. Drawing on the movie, the book, the comics, and shit I made up.)
Perspective
Sometimes Ayel thinks about his sister. Salea, an officer in the Imperial fleet, was well away from Romulus when their world died.
Sometimes he feels guilty about her survival. Unlike so many others on the Narada, he has not lost everything and everyone.
Sometimes he feels angry. Salea had often upbraided him for retiring from service at the end of his mandatory five year enlistment. How was the empire better served by his flying around looking for rocks? But the fleet had failed their people, and Imperial revenge was left in the hands of miners.
What would she say now?
Loyalty
Serving Nero isn’t easy. He’d always been driven and dedicated, but while were all devastated by the loss of Romulus, Nero seemed to feel it more deeply, take the betrayal more personally.
He’d screamed for vengeance as the Nerada had passed through the singularity. In futility, he’d fallen silent, vowing to remain so until his satisfaction was at hand. Now, Ayel found that mind-reading had become part of his job.
He wasn’t sure it was fair, or sane, but he would carry through the intent he read in those cold, angry, eyes. His friend needed him, and he would serve.
Perspective
Sometimes Ayel thinks about his sister. Salea, an officer in the Imperial fleet, was well away from Romulus when their world died.
Sometimes he feels guilty about her survival. Unlike so many others on the Narada, he has not lost everything and everyone.
Sometimes he feels angry. Salea had often upbraided him for retiring from service at the end of his mandatory five year enlistment. How was the empire better served by his flying around looking for rocks? But the fleet had failed their people, and Imperial revenge was left in the hands of miners.
What would she say now?
Loyalty
Serving Nero isn’t easy. He’d always been driven and dedicated, but while were all devastated by the loss of Romulus, Nero seemed to feel it more deeply, take the betrayal more personally.
He’d screamed for vengeance as the Nerada had passed through the singularity. In futility, he’d fallen silent, vowing to remain so until his satisfaction was at hand. Now, Ayel found that mind-reading had become part of his job.
He wasn’t sure it was fair, or sane, but he would carry through the intent he read in those cold, angry, eyes. His friend needed him, and he would serve.
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Date: 2009-05-17 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-17 02:02 am (UTC)That's exactly what I was thinking, so I took it upon myself to do a little something about it!
Also I was feeling bad for him, since someone in the theater clapped when he died when I went to see the movie again last night >_
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Date: 2009-05-17 06:06 am (UTC)i didn't even stop to think about what any of the Romulans were feeling.
thanks for bringing that perspective to me.
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Date: 2009-05-17 02:53 pm (UTC)Heh - I probably spend too much time thinking about these things ;)
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Date: 2009-05-31 04:30 pm (UTC)What would she say now?
Somehow, that line seems so strong. Can't help but start feeling bad for these guys, despite all they did in the movie. They literally lost everything. These drabbles really bring things out. Very nice stuff.
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Date: 2009-05-31 04:42 pm (UTC)The movie was great, but it focused so much on the new crew that I think the Romulan motives got a little lost. Someday, I need to make a post highlighting all the parallels between, oh...... Spock and Nero, and Nero and Khan. yes. There we go - he's like a Romulan bastard child of Spock and Khan.
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Date: 2009-05-31 05:19 pm (UTC)*head 'splodes* XD
And the focus on the new crew is understandable, with the reboot of everything. So many people not knowing anything about the originals (TOS or any of the following series). The Romulan storyline seemed pretty purely revenge-driven in the movie, but when I think about it more, 25 years is a long time to be hell-bent on anything, even revenge. You'd think cooler heads would eventually start making themselves known.