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dolorosa_12Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Presh (Galax Arena, Gillian Rubinstein)
I first read Galax Arena when I was ten years old, and I think I've been writing personal canon for Presh in my head ever since. I know where she comes from in China, I know how and why she was taken by Project Genesis 5 into the Arena, I know why she chose to stay silent and close her eyes to the cruelty taking place around her, I know what strategy she developed in order to survive as long as possible (make no friends, give nothing of herself away, trust no one, practice her acrobatics forever, never fall), and I know all her complicated feelings about Allyman. Although it was mostly jossed by Terra Farma, I also worked out what happened to Presh after the last page of Galax Arena, and remain adamant that it was a better conclusion to her story than what we saw in Rubinstein's sequel. (I also maintain that Leeward, Liane, Mariam, Allyman or Presh would have made much more interesting narrators and protagonists than Joella.)
I suppose you could say that the character has fascinated me for nearly twenty years. At this point, the character as she exists to me is probably 50 per cent Gillian Rubinstein's creation and 50 per cent my own invention, but that doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Day Twenty-Eight: Favourite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!
Presh (Galax Arena, Gillian Rubinstein)
I first read Galax Arena when I was ten years old, and I think I've been writing personal canon for Presh in my head ever since. I know where she comes from in China, I know how and why she was taken by Project Genesis 5 into the Arena, I know why she chose to stay silent and close her eyes to the cruelty taking place around her, I know what strategy she developed in order to survive as long as possible (make no friends, give nothing of herself away, trust no one, practice her acrobatics forever, never fall), and I know all her complicated feelings about Allyman. Although it was mostly jossed by Terra Farma, I also worked out what happened to Presh after the last page of Galax Arena, and remain adamant that it was a better conclusion to her story than what we saw in Rubinstein's sequel. (I also maintain that Leeward, Liane, Mariam, Allyman or Presh would have made much more interesting narrators and protagonists than Joella.)
I suppose you could say that the character has fascinated me for nearly twenty years. At this point, the character as she exists to me is probably 50 per cent Gillian Rubinstein's creation and 50 per cent my own invention, but that doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Day Twenty-Eight: Favourite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!
