Hi all!
Right, first and foremost, I bloody promise to finish VV. At the moment, I am in the midst of exams, and so have not found any time to write and plan. I do however, finish on the 17th, and won't have anything more to do for about three months. So, hopefully there will be relatively rapid updates after that!
But I have been going over the plot several times in my head, and it's just come to me that I may have to pull something towards the end that I never thought I'd do in an LBT fanfic.
Romance is a tricky issue that I've wondered about as I wrote this. Part of me feels I'm just too sentimental a person not to include romantic elements, but another part of me finds dino romance and little...odd...but I think I'm now firmly in the camp of 'screw it, let's have romance' and one thing that I've found out when considering the plot is that, completely unintentionally, Cera and Ruby have fallen in love. :blink:
Whilst developing their characters, everything just seemed so fitting. They've had more intimate moments, they've discussed their family, their roles in the Valley, and they just seem like perfect foils and compliments to each other.
I wasn't sure about this, until I remembered something which would just make the Cera/Ruby couple even more perfect. Ruby's species name is
Oviraptor philoceratops. That second part? Yeah, it means 'lover of ceratopsians.'
Now, originally this was a reference to the belief that Oviraptor routinely stole the eggs of Protoceratops, but you can interpret it however you like.
But what do you think about it? I think, whatever your opinions are, I'll probably just go ahead and include it. I hope this is a forum of tolerant people, who won't object simply to having a same-sex couple in this. LBT is all about diversity and tolerance.
Yes, they are different species. But so are Lini and Al, and the size differences will be considerable when older...so, over to you! What do you think?
