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I gave in to my desires. And my desires gave me this. Apparently I sometimes have more of a fetish for emotional trauma than actual vore. So have this little vignette with the young Don and her father, written in a scribbled rush after I watched the same thing they've just watched. Do enjoy, even if there's no wet gurgling noirses for once.
By coincidence, the main character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's excellent opera is also named Christine. Although she is somewhat less of a mass-murdering sociopath than our lovely Italian friend and hence, nowhere near as sexy. Come here and make some real music of the night, Adorato.
Contains: Fox Foxtaur Nonvore Flash Fiction Christine Theatre Opera
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Posted by Kaoru 8 years ago Report
I sat back at the end of this and I let a couple of tears roll down my face.
That's it. That's all I have to say about this.
Out loud.
But it's good. It's the good kind of hurt.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Posted by Stalbon 8 years ago Report
This is lovely, without a doubt! Great to see one of these pieces where it's just character, and depth-of-character being built.
Posted by Avios 8 years ago Report
Ahh, glad you like it. It's just fun to think about what turned Christine into the amoral sociopath she is today. She's a product of what made her, as are we all.
Posted by wolfSnack 4 years ago Report
Damn, I re-read this after the most recent vignette you wrote, and just... you really are a masterful writer. Even beyond the scorchingly-hawt smut, you know exactly how to tug the heart strings. I really love Christine as a character, amoral sociopathy and all.
...I wonder what happened to her father. I hope the two of them didn't come in conflict. Don Riccardo really did care for his daughter and want the best for her. I hope the two of them stayed close even as Christine developed into the... lovable monster she is now. Or at least that Christine didn't inherit her position by patricide. That would break my heart.
Posted by Avios 4 years ago Report
Thank you so much. As much as I love writing, there is a greedy part of me which does it all for this: to know that others have been affected by it. I love Christine's character too, she's honestly one of the ones I'm most proud of in any of my work, vorish and non-vorish alike.
As for her father's fate, well... their relationship was complicated. I don't want to confirm or deny anything until I write it out, but he is one of the three people in Christine's life, along with Dr Yiang and of course Penny, who she values as more than tools to her pleasure. Conflicts aside, she cares for him too.
Posted by wolfSnack 4 years ago Report
Some conflict must be expected, between a mafioso and his daughter who's inherited his position. But I'm glad that an element of care still exists there :)
Posted by Avios 4 years ago Report
Mmmmm... let's just say that "inherited" isn't exactly the word for how she attained the top spot. It wasn't what he intended for her. And as this mentions, she was his third child. Was. The making of a Courtesan-level predator does inevitably have some collateral damage.
Posted by wolfSnack 4 years ago Report
Is Riccardo still alive in the present?
Posted by Avios 4 years ago Report
Welllll. Nothing is definite canon until I write it down for sure, but in my current plans... I'm afraid he is not.
Christine's rise to power, which began when she was sixteen and took eight years of subterfuge, intrigue and gluttony, culminated in a final meeting between them. On some level, Christine had known this was coming for most of her life. She did care for her father, and yet she could not own him like she could Penny. Her insatiable desire for power and control, itself stemming from her deep fear of losing that power and control, could not allow her to have such a weakness. Riccardo was someone who knew her, and far worse, had known her before she became the towering brilliant monster she was then, and so he was an emotional vulnerability which Christine had to amputate from herself, in order to finally become the perfect monster she wanted to be. It was what you might consider her apotheosis moment, her final ascension to pure one hundred percent predator.
It still hurt, though. For what it's worth, it's the only time in her adult life she has ever cried.
So yeah. I am sorry. The Court don't really do happy endings for anyone. And I have a really bad tendency towards tragedy in anything. >>
Posted by wolfSnack 4 years ago Report
Oh no >.< I’m always a fan of characters who are objectively monstrous but have a single thing that grounds them. Is there no way I can change your mind? Haha. I feel like it would make her a deeper character if she had a last shred of humanity (or vulpinity) under all that monstrous, sexy dominance.
Also, did she eat him? Or have him killed another way?
Posted by Avios 4 years ago Report
I absolutely agree with that. Flat-out monsters are fairly boring a lot of the time, on only really work as antagonists, whereas Christine is definitely a protagonist. I would say that she does still possess that last shred of vulpinity, myself... but, and this is integral to her very being, <i>only</i> in a way which cannot possibly hurt her. It is the very foundation of her lust for power. And Don Riccardo, despite being the best father he could (though he was absent for much of her childhood), was still a brilliant, ruthless, and very well-connected mafia Don.
Christine does have outlets of kindness, but only in ways she considers invulnerable. Dr Yiang, for example, is still alive, despite being quite aware at this point of what Christine does. She's now retired, and they still manage to have a... somewhat friendly relationship, (though Jennifer knows that in return for this, the foxtaur has her constantly watched, and will make her regret any secret she tells a hundred times over - this might be another story in future). Christine also privately donates several million dollars every year to charities which help disabled children and those suffering from birth defects, and has a personally hunted down more than one child abuser in her own time. Finally, of course, there is Penny, for whom Christine has to date taken bullets for on three separate occasions, and who has full access to all her resources and command over all her forces - and has made use of them on a few occasions, too. In all these cases, though, the key is that Christine is confident that she cannot be hurt in any way by them. I just can't quite see her having the same certainty with Riccardo. That, combined with the symbolism of her devouring the last remnant of her family in order to become this monster who has effectively birthed herself, through training, surgery, and sheer will, means that it's pretty unlikely I'll change my mind. Sorry.
And yes, she did eat him. Though Christine has killed people in other ways, she doesn't have much stomach for it (har har har). Eating someone is to her the most intimate thing she can share with them, and she wanted to feel her father to the end.
Posted by wolfSnack 3 years ago Report
I shared this with a friend of mine, as an example of absolutely top-tier characterization. And rereading it I just want to express (once again) how utterly masterful of a writer you are. You give your characters -- even a monster like Christine -- immense emotional depth, in a way I can only envy as a fellow writer. Have you ever considered doing any further flash-fiction vignettes of Christine's history?