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rosenritterOops, the second more-than-a-month update! I had pretty bad luck in July and there was a roughly 2 week period where my writing ground to an absolute halt. Which is a shame, because I actually had a pretty productive start to July, cranking out a silly little 5k fic for Good Omens and getting a lot of progress done on chapter 9. August is looking like it's actually going to be fairly stressful as well, so here's hoping the stressful stuff will actually pace itself and not just hit me all at once like it did in July.
On to the notes!
There's some stuff in this chapter that I could comment on, but I'm actually going to be holding off on it until they come more into play in later chapters. As it stands, we've just got a couple of daemons to explain!
On Specific Daemons
Freddie Lounds/Arsène - Freddie Lounds's daemon is a ferret. I chose this form because it seems to fit well with a lot of Freddie's traits: sneaky, slinky, and stinky. Mostly kidding on the last part, but in canon Hannibal DID realize that Will had lied to him about Freddie being dead because he smelled her on him! The name comes from the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, picked because Freddie is something of a thief herself when it comes to obtaining information about ongoing crimes.
Bella Crawford/Atlas - Bella's daemon is a Luzon bleeding-heart dove. Atlas comes from the mythological Titan who was tasked with carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. Because Bella's diagnosis of lung cancer strikes me as a heavy burden to bear, and also because Jack's daemon is named after a Titaness, I chose Atlas for her daemon's namesake. The Luzon bleeding-heart, meanwhile, has very distinct plumage on the chest that makes it look like it's been mortally wounded.
On to the notes!
There's some stuff in this chapter that I could comment on, but I'm actually going to be holding off on it until they come more into play in later chapters. As it stands, we've just got a couple of daemons to explain!
On Specific Daemons
Freddie Lounds/Arsène - Freddie Lounds's daemon is a ferret. I chose this form because it seems to fit well with a lot of Freddie's traits: sneaky, slinky, and stinky. Mostly kidding on the last part, but in canon Hannibal DID realize that Will had lied to him about Freddie being dead because he smelled her on him! The name comes from the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, picked because Freddie is something of a thief herself when it comes to obtaining information about ongoing crimes.
Bella Crawford/Atlas - Bella's daemon is a Luzon bleeding-heart dove. Atlas comes from the mythological Titan who was tasked with carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. Because Bella's diagnosis of lung cancer strikes me as a heavy burden to bear, and also because Jack's daemon is named after a Titaness, I chose Atlas for her daemon's namesake. The Luzon bleeding-heart, meanwhile, has very distinct plumage on the chest that makes it look like it's been mortally wounded.
